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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
philadelphia Press.)

NEullduelpllld IINSS-}
Everybody knows the meaning of
log rolling in political parlance, In
plain language, it means, You tickle
me and I'll tickle you," or You vote
for my bill and I'll vote for yours. -
The original meaning may not be SO
well known to city readers The word
came from the plantation. 1t is now al
most obsolete, because the thing it rep
resents has passed away. The men,
ory of the writer runs back sixty
years, when a log rolling was an an
nusl affair on every big plantation.
The practice then was to clear new
ground every year for tobacco. FEELING
the forest trees and preparing the
ground for cultivation was no small I'M
dertaking. First the underground was
cleared away. and then the big trees
were attacked by the ak brigade, con-
sisting, on our plantation, of ten or
twelve men. ] well remember the scene.
1t impressed me in my boyhood as real
work, and it was hard work. A dozen
axes, welded by strong arms, rang con-
tinualIy, and ever and anon great
tree the growth of a century, fell TO
the earth with a tremendous crash The
new ground was about twenty acres IN
extent. or, as 1t was usually spoken OF
by planters, a hundred thousand tobac-
CO hills, allowing 5000 hills to the acre.
When the trees were felled the WORK
was not half done. The branches mad
to be cut off and prepared for fuei,
and the great trunks had to be cut into
manageable lengths.
The log rolling was invested with all
the interest that attaches to an attn
letic game and festival as we'll A big
dinner was prepared for the occasion,
and plenty of whisky was provided.
The latter was seldom sighted by any
of the men. The hands from the ad-
joining plantations were invited and
there was always friendly rivalry be-
tween the crews of the several pianta
lions and between the men on the same
plantation. The big logs furnished ex-
eelIent means of testing the manhood
of The contestants in a trial which
taxed their muscular powers. HAND
sticks were placed under the log, and
as many as were assigned TO the log
as its weight required. Couples We're
chosen nearly equal in strength Then
e a man QUILTED his fellow at the
other end, for as the phrase was
pulled him down." he was proclaimed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
WHEN THE SHADOWS FELL.
Milwaukee Sentinel. }

did not know nor understand
Until. when twilight shadows fell.
What meant the pressure OF her hand,
Nor did / know how sweet the spell
When /, world-wearied, racked with pain,
Felt fingers weave about my brain.
ii.
Her songs-I dare not dream them
hushed--
But yesterday heard them sung;
Bleak the path where roses blushed
And tender morning giories hung
did not know her rainbow world
Until the shadows were unfurled.
III.
did not know the arching skies
Could be so dreary and defiled-
[ did not know her tender eyes
Poured forth such sunlight when they
smiled.
These things-her Whims--so sweet TO tell
All came too late-when shadows fell
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
NO PLEASING HIM.

(The Catholic Standard and TimesD
Mother-Tommy, what's your little bro
Their crying about?
Tommy,Cause I'm eating my cake an
won't give him any,
Mother-Is his own cake finished2
Tommy-Yes' an he cried while was
Pafin' that too.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
HIS MODEST REQUEST.
(Chicago News.D

Judge-The jury having found you gull
ty. it is my painful duty to sentence you
to ten years Imprisonment at hard labor.
Prisoner-Excuse me. your honor. but
won't YOU oblige me by making il life
sentence instead?
Judge (astonished)-Why do you prefer
life sentence2
Prisoner-Well, my physician says I'll
probably not live more than a year, and
If l don't it will save me nine years. See?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25

The Taft boom has been launched in
Ohio. Strangely enough, Senator For
aker was rot present at the launching.
He was probably too busy defending
the discharged negro soldiers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
LOOKING AHEAD.
(Philadelphia Press

Il tell you" said Vann, ''movings sx-
pensive. 1t cost me $50 TO move out TO
Swamphurst."
That's not so bad" remarked Mann,
sixty dollars altogether. eh?'
How do you mean sixty dollars alto
gether?'
.'of course, you'll be moving back, I'm
counting that"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
Maybe the Ice Was Thin
QIiIwaukee sentinel.)

Now they are pitching into Rockefeller
because he would not let the children
skate on his ice" But perhaps the ice
was thin.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
CLEVER PARAGRAPHS.
Better Begin to Hedge.
(Phlladelphia Telegranh.l

Once more has President Roosevelt said
that he doesn't want third term, and
one of these days Teddy will wake up and
find that he has carried the joke too far
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25

A Colorado weather prophet killed
himself the other day because his pre-
dictions were not verified. Here's hop
ing our own DOC" Hyatt won't take d
leaf out of that fellows book. We need
the doctor here.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
ANCIENT HISTORY.
BrooklYn TIC

What is q competitor. grandpaY' in
quired the little boy
"A competitor said the trust uaagnate
musingly- Let me see I think I ourht
to know-it strikes me we used TO have
'em in our business, but, really. it's 50
long ago. that I don't exactly remem-
Der now"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
No ohioan Is Satisfied With One
NeM Orleans Time.
Iimes-D emocrat.l

tNew Orleans Times Democrat)
An Ohio prisoner, who has Just com.
pleted term in the penitentiary, is beg
gins to be allowed to return.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
UNAPPEEcIATIvE.
tChieago News.)

Mrs Homer (reading)-An ordinary
piano contains about a mile of wire
Homer-Huh, The one next door sounds
like it contained a wagon load OF tin
ware
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
Madrid Has Known That for Year,

(hansas City Starr
Justice Brewer says that the Snanis1,
war was unnecessary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
SAGE ADVICE.

washington Herald)
BE sure you're ahead
'Well7's
sThen Jump the game"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
We Had the Last Lauah.

New York Evening SUM
Swettenham had his fun with rs but as
he has paid for it. and that dearly. we car
afford TO forget him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
Did Any Ever See Up
buffalo TimesA

They. can't find the Chicago sub,reas-
u s, tnieI- sun they believe that Si73.ooo
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-25
ADJUSTMENTS TODAY.

salt Lake-"The Bonnie Brier Bush
Orpheum-NaudeVille
Grand-Murray & Mack.
LyriC-NaudeVilie
WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE.
Cloudy and Cool
The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-20
Killed Over a Bunch Of kexs.

Cheyenne Wyo.-Emil Cossi was
shot by Herbert H. Harper and died an
hour and half later
Harper was arrested by a witness to
the shooting and is now in the county
jail. He refuses to make statement.
A week ago Cossi and Harper, both
OF whom are employed by the North
ern Colorado Power Company, quar-
relied regarding some keys, and several
times later the quarrel was renewed
On two occasions, it is said, Harper
threatened Cossi with gun. The men
boarded at the same place and they
met on the porch of the house and
fought.
They were separated and Harper
got a revolver Returning he found
Cossi standing on the sidewalk. A few
words passed between them and Har-
per opened fire, sending three bullets
into Cossi's body. A dozen people wit
messed the shooting.
Cossi was unmarried and came to
Cheyenne from Denver four months
ago.
Nothing regarding his family connec-
tions is known here.
A brother of Cossi is employed by
the Denver Gas and Electric Company
In Denver as switchboard tender at
the West Side station.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-20
Child Burned to Death.

Montrose, Colo.-After hours of
agony Juanita Streeter, the two-year-
cid daughter of Mr. and Mrs. l.. A.
S.reeter. died as result of burns
caused by tipping over a two-gallon
can of boiling soup. The baby was
burned from its hips down, and, it is
said, she did not die SO much from the
stoppage of the pores, caused by the
burns, as from the shock.
The mother was cooking the two gal
Ions of soup and the child, while play
ing near the stove, took hold of the pot,
i. is supposed, and tipped it over. The
contents were boiling and the child's
limbs were cooked almost Immediately.
The mother had stepped into the
back yard. Attracted by the screams
she found the baby lying on her back
in pool of the scalding soup and
badly burned her own hands in remov-
ing the little one. A doctor was sum-
moned at once and efforts were made
to relieve the pain.
At first it was not thought that the
burns would prove fatal, but the girl
suffered extreme agony and went into
commissions a short time before death
az a result of the scare, together with
the pain. The mother is Frustrated.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-20
Denver May Have Bio Fair.

Denver.-Not state fair, but an in.
terstate feir. is planned for Denver
next fall. G. A. Wahlgreen, general
manager of the Denver-Overland Rae
Ing Association and owner of Overland
park, is the chief promoter Work is
already begun In the execution of we'll
laid rlans.
The fair will embrace all kinds Of
exhibits from Colorado, Wyoming,
Utah, New Mexico, Kansas end Ne
braska. Agricultural, live stock and
mineral productions will be displayed
and prizes will be offered for the best
displays.
Tie assistance of the railroads, the
chamber of commerce, the real estate
exchange and other Colorado organ
izations will be secured and an effort
made to give Denver an interstate fair
Which will be second to none in the.
country.
For several years there has been
much talk of an annual state fair, and
Overland park has been repeatedly
spoken of as the most desirable place
for holding it. Last year a committee
of representative business men was ap-
pointed and after many meetings and
ar endeavor to raise a sum of $4,000
the committeeman gave up, recon-
meIding that the plan for state or
Interstate fair be not abandoned
There will be all kinds of amuse-
ments to feature the event, and if pos
sible the Festival of Mountain and
Plain will be revived. There will be
the other usual features, such as bal
loor ascensions, athletic events, COM
oetitivc drills and race horses.
1t is planned to have harness races
hen and not have them during the
summer meeting at Overland. because
Of the friction of long existence be-
tween the followers of the harness
horses and the gallopers.
Tie promoters of the fair, including
some of the best known men of Den
YER, are optimistic over the outlook for
q successful interstate gathering of
large proportions. and believe they will
be able to work out their present plans
TO meet the approval of the Colorado
reople and the populace of the sur
rounding states.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-20
SAW FATHER DIE.
STRANGE VISION OF MINISTER
WHO CAN'T EXPLAIN
MYSTERY.
SPIRITS MEET AT DEATHBED
Though Three Thousand Miles Away
the Son Sees His Sire Fall
Back Dead Upon Bed.

New York-Although 5000 miles
separated father and son at the time,
the Rev. Henry Rollings, student in
the New York Homeopathic Medical
College, claims to have witnessed in
a vision every detail of the scene at
his fathers deathbed in England at
exactly the same time that his parent
passed away.
Two weeks after he had the vision.
declares the Rev. Mr.. Rollings, he re-
ceived letter announcing his fathers
demise and corroborating the Incl
dents of his remarkable psychical ex-
perience.
Rollings' father was Godfrey Rol-
lings of Bedfordshire, England.
In relating his experience, Rev. Mr..
Rollings states that after a particu-
larly arduous day he returned to his
lodgings and threw himself upon his
bed exhaused. He fell into a deep
sleep, from which he was awakened to
behold a vivid picture, in which he
says he saw his father as distinctly
as he ever saw him in life and heard
his parent call: my boy, my boy, l
am dying"
His father, the young minister re-
lates, was lying in bed in a room with
which he was not familiar, but which
he knew from the furnishings to be
English He saw all of his relatives
there except his sister and he won
dered in his vision why she was alb
sent. He saw his father sink back on
the bed and he knew for a certainty.
he says, although it was not an act
of sens.bility he was performing, that
his father was dead
The letter from England, received
fortnight afterward, said that the elder
Rollings died on the exact day and at
the exact hour that the younger Rol-
lings had had the death pictured to him.
The letter said also that the elder Rol-
lings exclaimed just before he passed
away that he could see his son stand
Ing by his bedside. The strange room
in the vision was explained by the
statement that the family had moved
from the old homestead to another
house in Bedfordshire. The absence
of the sister from the room was ex-
planned by the fact that she was i'll at
the time of her fathers decease.
Rev. Mr.. Rollings received his theo-
logical education in England and was
ordained in the Established Church. He
came to America and for a time was
curate of st. Andrews parish of Roch-
ester, New York, of which the Rev. AL
gernon S. Crapsey was then rector
Rev. Mr.. Rollings and his father were
much attached to each other and kept
In close touch by letter before the
elders death.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-20
Dudes Are showed In.

Yellowstone Lake, Wyo.-Seventeer
dudes" are lost in a snowstorm ten
miles west of Sylvan pass, and If TEX"
Holm, the head of the Yellowstone
Camping Company. wasn't along, seri-
Gus anxiety would be felt for their
safety. AS it is it is believed TEX"
will pull them through. He generally
does.
Dude" is the generic name through
the park for the average eastern ten
terfoot who goes there. This special
party of dudes has been here for d
few days. and were bent on having the
best time the park affords. Their hopes
we're realized II they were looking for
novelty. for they have run into the only
teavy snowstorm the park has seen a.
this time OF the summer for years.
Snow began to fall July 18th and con-
t:nucd all night. the storm increasing
as the night passed. BY morning 1t was
heapsd up in huge drifts.
Just when the dudes" will get out
is uncertain. They hove provisions,
and maybe they are all right Anyway,
TEX" is with them. and that lool;s
hopeful.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-20
Makes a Rhyme and Dies.

Florence, Colo.-Much mystery sur
rounds the suicide of Willard H. Craig,
owner of the boarding house at Port
land, in this county, who blew out his
brains. He left two notes, but neither
gave any clew as to the motive for the
act. There are >rumors to the effect
that jealousy over his wife might have
caused the suicide, but this has not
been confirmed
The notes were addressed to no one
in particular, and were written in a
hand hardly legible. They follow:
Here is to the one that turned me
around. Good-by. l will soon be un-
der the ground"
The other read: mo one should
move or make any bother l am dy-
ing to get out of my bother"
The only explanation given for Ell
ther of them is that at noon yester-
day Craig had words with his wife re-
garding the payment of the ice bill.
The iceman called as dinner was about
to be served and was told to call the
next day for his money, for Mrs. Craig
is alleged to have said: 81 haven't
time to bother with it now" This
seemed to worry Craig and is believed
to be what he refers to in the second
note.
He did not intimate to any one, how
ever, that he intended to end his life.
Just before supper he came into the
house, and, going into the room of one
of the boarders, took the latter's 49,
caliber revolver and then rushing into
the washroom, sent bullet through
his head.
The colored servant girl was the
only witness. According to her story
Craig held the notes in the left hand
and looked at them as he fired the IA
tai shot.
Two weeks ago Craig attended the
funeral of Leonard Prentiss of Mama
nola and the sight of the dead man
seemed to affect him greatly. Prentiss
had been sick for months and his body
was badly emaciated.
Craig was 55 years old, member
of the Woodmen and Masonic lodges,
and is survived by his wife and three
daughters.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-20
Express Companies Fight Cut.

The express companies operating
into Denver from the East are fighting
law recently passed in Nebraska re-
ducing rates which will affect express
rates in the same manner that the 2
cent per mile legislation will affect
through tickets between Denver and
the East. The Nebraska Railway Com
mission has ordered a reduction of
twenty-five per cent. in the schedules
now in effect by the Adams, the Wells
Fargo, the American, the Pacific and
the United States Express companies
In Nebraska, and has instructed these
companies to publish new schedule.
The various express companies have
refused to publish the schedule and
are subject to a fine of $1,000 each. In
stead they applied to the United States
District Court for an injunction to pre-
vent the railway commission from
seeking to establish a new schedule.
Judge Munger, before whom the appli-
cation was made, denied the injunc-
ton and decided against the express
companies. He has, however, allowed
the commission to appear and show
why the injunction should not be
granted. This will come up in Omaha.
The reduction of twenty-five per
cent. ordered by the Nebraska commits
sion on all express schedules in effect
in that state. if put into effect, will also
reduce the through charges on express
matter from Colorado to Chicago, st.
Louis and the East on the same basis
that the railroads are being forced to
give Colorado a reduction in fares be-
cause of legislation in states traversed
en- route
The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-20
Poor Widow Made soapesoat.

Fort Collins, Colo.-In the County
Court ,1ere, Mrs. Mary Payne, widow
with two children, was convicted on
one charge and plead guilty to three
more charges of selling liquor Illegally,
and was sentenced to 260 days in the
county jail.
Mrs. Payne said a representative of
the Tivoli Brewing Company of Denver
told her how easy money could be
made by selling his beer and that he
started her in business. An officer of
the Humane Society is expected here
to take charge of the Payne children.
Mrs. Payne lived with her two chill
dren in one room, and had a stock Of
liquor in another, which she sold from
a nearby tent.
THE agents of wholesale liquor
houses or breweries who come into
this community and induce people to
violate the law regulating the sale of
liquor will be liable to prosecution in
my court" said Judge G. A. Nixon.
after hearing the woman.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-20
Stranded on Mountain and Freezing

Geneva.-A party of twenty-five gyp-
sizes. men. women and children. are
stranded at the top of the great St
Bernard pass owing to curious circum-
stances. On being expelled from Italy
they ascended the pass, intending to
go to Switzerland. but when thew
reached the top they were refused ad-
mission to Swiss territory by Swiss
gendarmes. Unable to return to Italy,
rs italian gendarmes followed them TO
nee them across the frontier, they are
now encamped at an elevation of S,10O
feet. unable to proceed. They may
freeze to death unless either Italy Or
Switzerland relents. The monks of
ST. Bernard are feeding them and lend
Ing them warm clothing, but they eau
not be sheltered in the hospice because
1t IL In Swiss territory.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-20
Speed Madness Did IL.

Washington.-According to report
received at the Navy Department,
speed madness in striving for the
quicK-flring record is blamed on the
battleship Georgia for the explosion
which killed nine sailors and wounded
sixteen.
Tie accident occurred during target
practice, which developed great rivalry
among the gun crews of the different
ships, and in the haste of loading and
firing it is thought precautions wera
neglected.
Boston.-The naval board of inquiry
TO investigate the cause of the explo-
sion on the battleship Georgia last
Monday, visited the United States
laval station at Chelsea, to take thu
depositions of the injured men.
The board of inquiry is composed of
Captain Seaton Shredder of the battle
ship Virginia, Captain w. W. Kimball
of the battleship New Jersey, Lieuten-
ant Commander Mark Bristol, chief or
dinance officer of the fleet, and Lieu
tenant Kenneth Castleman, attached
to the flagship Virginia.
The board carefully inspected the
turret i'll which the explosion occurred
and took the evidence of such officers
and men as were familiar with the con-
ditions on board the turret at the time
end witnesses of the affair.
Owing to the critical condition Of
the men in the hospitals, four of whom
It was feared might not survive the
night, the surgeons in charge of the
hospital would permit the board of in
quiry TO examine only three men.
1t is understood that the investiga-
ton of the board is practically COM
plete and that its findings will be tran
rcribed and forwarded to Washington
through Admiral Thomas.
1t is known that the crew of the
after-superimposed turret had an in
tense zeal to become the crack crew of
the fleet, and it is thought that over
zeaiousness and disregard of precau-
ton i'll such rapid handling of the guns
might have caused the tragedy, the ex-
plosion being due, possibly to unburned
grains of powder from the breech ig.
hitting the powder.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-20
Always Staunch
And True

The Denver Republican has al
ways avoided the fallacies and
knaveries of yellow journalism,
and its steadily increasing Circula-
ton proves conclusively that its
policy of telling the plain Truth
without exaggeration or misrepre-
sentation, standing fast for the
Right, is heartily approved with
growing force by the intelligent
Public to which it appeals.
To read it is liberal Education,
and the citizen who goes without
it does positive harm to himself,
to his family, and to the commu-
nifty.
In no other way can the invest
ment of ~ cents per day
for that is all The Republican
costs any subscriber-bring such
rich results in that knowledge
which is both Power and Pleasure.
Information, instruction and en-
tertainment fill its columns and it
leaves a good taste in the mouth
of the reader.
1t stands for Law and Order in
the State-for Peace, Prosperity
and Happiness in the Home.
If you are not already enrolled
amoug its splendid list OF Patron.
send on your subscription and Civ.
it a fair trial at rs cents per montl
for Daily and Sunday.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-20
Distribution of School Funds.

The semi-annual distribution of the
school fund has been completed by
Miss Catherine l.. Craig, state superin-
tendent of public instruction. The dis
tribution divides s119,173.74 between
the various counties of the state as