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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01
APPLE BELT OF SOUTHERN
IDAHO

Is in the Snake River valley under
the great Twin Falls canal system.
15O, 900 acres on the warm, south slope
of the valley, will be open to entry
oct. 1, 1907. The cost is low and pay
ments extend over a period of ten
years. Write today for details.
TWIN FALLS NORTH SIDE LAND
& WATER CO, Miner, Ida.
Extraordinary attractions for Labor
day at Wandamere.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01
TERRoRIsTs EXECUTED.

Warsaw, Poland. Aug 31.-Five terror
lists were executed in Cadet during the
past week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01
ONLY $1.1o
To Ooden and Return

0 Oqdeh dnu EetuFh'
Via O. S. L. for Labor day, Sept. 2.
Any train. Special train returning
will leave ogden IL p. m.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01
coNTRAcTURAL DEBTS.
American Delegates at The Hague
Have Drawn Up New Proposition.

The Hague Aug. SL-In answer to the
inquiry Of President Nelidoff, the author
tiles at St Petersburg have cabled him
that though Emperor Nicholas, on the
occasion of the last conference, offered
to give up the prerogative of calling and
organizing peace conferences, which was
not accepted, says he will not repeat the
same offer. but that the Russian delega-
ton is to support any proposition con
corning meetings of the conference on the
lines OF the American proposition. name
ly, that the conference meet every seven
years.
The Americans have drawn up new
proposal with respect to the collection of
contractual debts, differing in the first
proposition only in form. 1t is princi-
paIiv intended to do away with the nu-
merous reservations made when the first
proposal was put to vote. The text
is as follows:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01

Splendid card horse races. Wanda.
mere, Labor day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01
OGDEN EXCURSION
4 Labor Day, Sept I'd.

Round trip. $1.10, via Oregon Short
Line. Take any train. Returning, use
regular trains or special at IL p. m.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01

Farewell to the flowers at Lagoon.
They are out in all their glory.
Last Sunday of the season.
Don't miss this chance.
Afternoon trains. 2, 3. 4, 5, s. anc
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01
Not Always Applicable.

with the view of preventing armed
conflicts of pecuniary origin between
nations. arising from the demands OF the
government of one country for payment
by the government of another country
of contractual debts due to persons of its
nationality, the signatory powers have
agreed not to have recourse to armed
force for the recovery of such contrac-
tual debts. This stipulation is not appli-
cable. however, when the debtor state re-
fuses or leaves unanswered an offer OF
arbitration or in cases of its acceptance
makes a conclusion or compromise i'm
possible, or after arbitration fails to con-
form to the award.
sIt is further agreed that the arbitra-
ton of a question shall. as regards pro-
ced1re be in conformity with section
three of the convention for the pacific
regulation of international conflicts
adopted at The Hague and that 1t SHAH
,ieterrnine the price and amount of the
debt and the time and method OF It's set
Element"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23
MADE BY PRISONERS
ouTTA PERCHA BUTTONS HAD
SAD HISTORY.
Whitfield by Southern soidlers.in Cap
tivity and Worn by Southern Girls
Evidently Had Memories for
Old Lady.

Grandma, just look at those funny
rings in that window" said a young
lady on Sixth street the other day as
she and lady much older passed the
window OF small store whose nature
was advertised by three large gilt
balls overhead.
They are black. I never saw back
rings before. And look at that one.
It's fat aud set with silver stars. And
there's another with a little gold
plate. Are they mourning rings?"
No said the old lady, they are
not mourning rings. They are re-
minders of that awful war"
why, what did they have to do
with the war;" asked the girl in as.
constituent
Rings like those were made by
the confederate prisoners right here in
st. Louis" said the old lady.
There were many prisoners, hun
dreds at time. locked up in the old
Mcdowell college at Eighth and Ora
tiot, and in the old Lynch prison for
slaves, at Broadway and Clark ave-
huCs iOhl WIS III NC
Dowell's college, and the habits of
the inmates became pretty familiar to
him before he got out. Most of the
prisoners were captured in the field,
with nothing in the world but the
clothes they had on, and those were
often very ragged. The government
supplied clothes for such as needed
them, and benevolent people in the
city, both Northern and Southern sym.
pathizers, sent great bundles of cloth
Ing to the prison. but some of those
poor fellows were so proud that they
wouldn't wear the governments
clothes, and said they'd die in their
rags before they'd wear charity gar.
ments. So they made rings.
THE guards were permitted to buy
gutta percha buttons for them, and
they were allowed, by special permit,
little pocketknives that were gathered
up by the guards every night and is.
sued again in the morning, and all
day long they would sit and white
tough black buttons, making rings like
those, and rounding them and polish.
ing them by rubbing them against the
walls and on the floor.
1T sometimes took a man two or
three days to make ring. Then the
union soldiers would sell them for
the prisoners, and there was a good
sale for them at a dollar apiece. Some
OF those with silver sets were made
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23
Tnei. Dire Predicament.

A bit of real life of the North sea
fishfolk is exhibited in letter sent
to the editor of a London paper. The
letter runs as follows:
| was talking to the vicar of Gorles.
ton the Other day in his study, from
which one catches glimpse of the
dim and dreary North sea just out
side.
Suddenly fisherman was shown
into the room-a typical east coast
sea-dog.
Touching his forelock in response
to his wears hearty greeting, he
said: Look ere, vicar we're in a
reg'lar quandary aboard our smack,
and KNOWN as you know all there is
to know about the law. | thought I'd
come and ask your advice
Last December we chaps on board
our smack-the skipper, the mate, me
and two other men, and the boy
clubs together and buys a accordion.
Well on Christmas eve the skipper
and the mate goes ashore and goes
up to the Three jolly Dogs to make a
night of 1t, and the skipper, e goes
and busts the blarsted thing a-playin'
'Erald Angels and that amt the
wust part of 1t. E says we've got to
pay for mendin' it,"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23
Speed indicator for Trains.

A correspondent of the London
Times calls attention to the need of
IN automatic recording speed indica.
Tor for railway trains. Both Of the
most recent important fatal railway
casualties in England wore undoubte.
~ caused by excessive speed at points
where the regulations required a slow
ing down. Engipe-drivers become
reckless and disregard rules, safely at
irst, but ultimately meet with dlsas.
ter II the record of speed during
each trip were to be submitted to in.
spection, there would be less disobedl.
ence, and greater safety. Possibly tho
recording speed indicator has been in.
vented, but it appears not to be in use
anywhere.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23
Lowest Temperature Reached.

The lowest temperature yet record.
ed is that reached by X. Oszewski In
an attempt to liquefy helium. BY the
aid of solid hydrogen he cooled gas to
--259 degrees G. under 1870 atmo-
spheres pressure; then. suddenly re-
leasing the pressure to that of the at
mosphere, a degree of cold was ere.
ated which, by calculation from La
place and Poisson's formula, amounted
to --271.3 degrees G. Helium, how
ever, did not liquefy, and lie accord
ingly assumes that its boiling point
must be below -271, and that there
is little prospect of reducing 1t to a
liquid.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23

out OF dimes tnet the prisoners ham.
mered until they were as thin as pa.
per. sup 5se that gold set may
have come.fiom a bit CT watch chain
or something like that.
"The Southern girls all wore them
for a while"
The two went on. A day or two
after the young lady was passing the
store window with companion and
thought of the rings and the story.
Lets go in and buy one for keep
sake she said. But the rings were
not In the window. The two went into
the shop.
I'D like to look at some black rings
you had In your window"
They're gone" said the proprietor.
An old lady came in and bought the
whole lot."--St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23
Made Famous By Accident.

On March l, I'LL, appeared the first
number of the Spectator of Steele and
Addison. The story of No. II, which
contains THE Epistle of the Enamored
Footman in the Country to His Mis-
tress,' and signed James" is interest.
ing. This footman by mistake had
given to his master the letter he had
written to his sweetheart. Discover
ing the error, he returned for the let
ter. The master, who had read it,
said: mo, James; you shall be great
man; this letter shall appear in the
Spectator" 1t was given to Sir Rich
ard Steele and published in James
own words, Dear Betty" etc.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23
Real Meaning of "TaIesman.v

"Talesman" is word that has
been to the front a good deal recently.
Strictly tales should be pronounced
as two syllables, since 1t has nothing
to do with stories, but is the Latin
plural "tales"-such. A "talesman,"
according to English law, is n Juror
summoned to I'LL gap, and, formerly,
at any rate. this was often done by
taking any suitable person who was
present in court Tales de circum-
stantibus of the bystanders"
were the first words of the order di.
recting the process.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23
Coy, But Not Too Gov.

II. c. Frick described at a directors
meeting the amalgamation of two rail.
roads.
AT FIRST" he said. "the XYZ people
were coy. Yet they were not too coy.
They were like Pat and Blddy.
'Biddy, says Pat. tlmidly, did We
liver think o. marryin'T
"'Shure now, says Biddy, looking
demurely at her shoe, 'shure, now, the
subject has niver entered me mind at
at, at ALL
Its sorry OF am says Pat, and he
TUNED away.
IVAN minute, Pat said Biddy soft.
ly. we've SET me thlnkin'.'"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23
Postal Cards Aid Science.

The postal cards that have been
distributed by the German meteoro.
logical bureaus since last June have
proved successful aids to science On
these cards information of interest is
sent from all points of Germany to the
meteorological bureaus of Aix-la-C Cha.
pelle, Berlin, Hamburg, Koenigsberg,
Magdeburg, etc. The cards are exempt
from postage.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23
With Charity for All.

When there Is so much imperfect
vision, we can hardly be sure that
our own eyes are absolutely reliable.
SO we must learn to express our opin-
ions humbly, and with due respect for
those of others; above all, having
charity. A voice that habitually
'sharps" or flats" will spoil choir;
so an intolerant spirit will ruin the
harmony of household. F. VIII.
ing.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23
Youthful Chesterfield.

pupil near Sabetha had been
naughty all day, and the teacher sent
him a note ordering him to stay after
school.
The boy wrote an answer on his
slate, saying: "Dere techef: Except
the oner with pleasure Always keep
mi engagements with the ladies'. VIII
be at the tristiag place at four p. NJ
Sabetha Herald
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23
Sire moth of aeveraaes.

Wine of medium strength contains
Sh to 10 per cent of alcohol; port
wine. 15 per cent; sherry, from Is to
81 per cent; champagne, to o per
cent; beer averages from Q to per
cent; whiskey, about IS per cent;
brandy. about so per cent.-Automo.
bile Magazine.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23
Charon.

Charon, the boatman of the Styx,
was thought by many to be Of Irish
blood. For invariably. as he was cast
ing off from the hither shore. he would
call out to his cargo Of souls:
Now, then. look alive!"
This was doubtless as near an ap.
proach to an Irish bull as the then
state of civilization permitted Of
Puck
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-23
Appropriate Conveyance.

"She walks so badly. Don't you
think beautiful woman ought to have
an appropriate carriage?"
"She had, when saw her. She was
riding in hanson cab"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-17
BAIEMAN LOSES SUIT.
Jury Holds St. Marys Man Was Guilty
of Negligence.

1t took the jury in the United States
circuit court yesterday afternoon just
twenty minutes to decide against M.
De L. Bateman in his personal injury
suit of $7,055 against the Union Pa
cific.
Bateman, who is a farmer residing
mar ST. Marys, was injured on the 1stn
of December, 1906, while crossing the
tracks of the Union Pacific in the
town of st. Marys. He had unloaded
a wagon load of corn at the elevator
and while driving across the tracks a
freight engine which was backing
three cars up the track ran into him.
smashing the wagon and throwing
Bateman on to a fiat car. He sustain
ed injuries to his leg which he claim
ed has incapacitated him from fur
Their hard work. 1t was claimed by
the defense that Bateman was guilty
of contributory negligence and this is
what held against him when the jury
returned a verdice. 1t Is possible that
the case may be appealed to a higher
court. 45
The jury was dismissed following
the conclusion of this trial and no
more jury trials will be had at this
term of court. which will probably
come to an end this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-17
LAW MAY Be BAD.
Validity of Land Sales by Probate
Court Questioned.

The somewhat celebrated law suit
of Alderman VS.. Trey was UP today in
the United States circuit court on a
motion of Judge r. H. Towne, of Os-
borne. attorney for the plaintiffs, to
set the case for hearing at the next
term of court
In this case Eliza Alderman and her
sisters are trying to recover a farm
worth $1,000 which was sold by the
pro bate judge of Osborne county to
his brother-in-law, o. E. Trey, while
the Alderman girls were children, and
under the care of the probate court. 1t
is claimed by the attorneys for the
Ackerman's, who are now young
ladies, that the sale of the property
was not properly advertised by the
probate judge.
In making their fight ror the prop
erty, the plaintiffs will contend that
the law of Kansas relating to the
sale of property by probate courts is
contrary to the federal constitution,
and should be invalidated. If the
United States court hold for the
AckermaRs, it means tnat hundred of
real estate titles in Kansas will be
vitiated, and nearly every piece of
property which has at any time been
sold by a probate court will revert to
the person who last owned the prop
erty prior to the sale. Consequently
the case is being watched with the
greatest interest by lawyers through
out the state who are familiar with the
issues at stake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-17
RAW FROM FEET
TO SHOULDERS
With Eczema-When Indoors, Itch
ing Was Fearful : Prescription
Did No Good Followed Friends
Advice and Found Speedy Relief.
A PERFECT CURE BY USE
OF CUTICURA REMEDIES

"I was raw from my shoulders down
to my feet. AS soon as I went into a
warm room could not stand the itch
ing sensation. / tried several remedies
with no relief, and consulted a doctor
who told me that I had eczema and
gave me a box of ointment. used it
about two weeks and got no benefit.
then tried another ointment with the
same result. Then I was advised to
try the Cuticura Remedies. I got
cake Of Cuticura Soap, box OF Cuti-
cura Ointment and bottle Of Cuticura
Resolvent and commenced to use them.
By the time I had used about half Of
each Of them I could see an improve
ment. After that 1 continued to use
them until had used four cakes Of
Soap, three large boxes of Ointment,
and two large bottles Of Resolvent in
four or five weeks time. At the end
of this period, my skin was as clear as
it could be. 1t is now three OF four
years since / used them and l wish to
state that the Cuticura Remedies are
the greatest in the world not only for
eczema but for female trouble, from
which my wife has been sufferer for
years. Cuticura Remedies, used in
connection with one of the Cuticura
syringes have done wonders for her.
Fred E. Baker, IA Grotto St., Water.
viet, N. Y, Nov. 80, 'o6. and Jan. 20, 'o7."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-17
THEY STAND BY BUsCHow.
Isaac Purcell Says People Are III
censed at Assault by Topeka Paper.

Isaac Purcell, of Wa-Keeney, a prom
inent western Kansas lawyer, was in
Topeka Monday. Mr.. Purcell is consid-
erably wrought up over attacks which
have recently been made on Senator
Charles Buschow in a Topeka newspa-
per.
Il am utterly at loss to understand
the animus Of the attack on Senator
Buschow" he said. "Mr. Buschow is q
good citizen and I believe has fairly
represented the people of his district
in the state senate. 1t may be that he
has done the bidding Of a Topeka paper
and advocated the things that paper
advocated. If he did it seems especially
cruel and inhuman that he should now
receive a kick from the same source
especially since he has decided not to
be a candidate for reelection and that
no good can come of the attack.
Many of Mr.. Buschow's friends are
indignant and can not understand
what has called forth this severe ar
raiRnment."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-17
ANSWERS IN FIRE SUITS.
John Dawson Files Fifty for the
Attorney General.

John S. Dawson, assistant at
torney general, yesterday afternoon
filed in the Shawnee county district
lawsuits there pending. These suits
about fifty in number. were started by
the state to compel the fire insurance
companies to cease using the Eldridge
rating books as a basis for their in
surance premiums.
Since filing the suits, a number of
them have been dismissed against
small companies which it was found
did not use the Eldridge system. One
other company came into court and
confessed judgment, and Charles
Barnes, insurance commissioner. late
Monday afternoon. cancelled the Ii
censes of two others which were try
ing to dodge" in the pending law
suits. The two companies disbarred
from doing business in Kansas are the
Commonwealth fire of Texas and the
German Fire of Indiana, both small
companies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-17
NOT MANY LEFT.
KRnsans' Representation in Govern
ment Service Is Low.

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE departure
of Thomas Ryan from Washington
some time since to assume his new du
ties of special assistant secretary of
the interior at Muskogee, OklahOma,
left but few good places to the credit
of Kansas at the capital.
1t is this point made by the solid and
unanimous work of the Kansas dele
cation, that finally landed Judge ]. Q.
Thompson of Pratt as assistant attor-
ney general, and is being used effective
" in another instance.
1t was only a few years ago that
Kansas was well represented at Wash
ington, and at other places in the gov
eminent service. ]. L. Bristow was
fourth assistant postmaster general. E.
F. Ware was commissioner of pensions.
Thomas Ryan was first assistant secre-
tary of the interior, and much of the
time was acting secretary. For some
time former Governor w. E. Stanley
was a commissioner to the five tribes
in Indian Territory. most important
position. There were other and minor
positions among them that occupied by
Ward Burlingame, referred to in the
papers recently, who was chief clerk of
the dead letter office of the postoffice
department.
There are not very many of these
positions now held by Kansas. DR.. w.
T. Vernon has one of the best of them
register of the treasury.
Mr. Ryan is still in office, and an
important one, too. though it removed
a Kansan from one OF the usually good
places here in Washington.
Judge Thompson will have an excel
lent position, full of responsibility and
chance to make good, His position has
to do with practically all the claim
work of the government, so far as it
relates to the department of Justice
Burlingames resignation last summer
left but one good place in the postoffice
department held by a Kansan, and that
is superintendent of the division of
rural delivery, held by William R. Spill
man of Manhattan, who, a few years
ago, was a stenographer in the bureau
in which he now fills so important a
place.
Colonel S. r. Burch of Olathe, who
has been in Washington nearly twenty
years, is chief clerk of the department
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-17
AUTO THIEF is CAUGHT.
G. j. Myers Confesses to Stealing a
Car in Topeka.

Kansas City, Dec. 17.-One motor car,
three typewriters, 16 overcoats.
c. J. Myers, arrested early yesterday
morning, the police say. admitted yes
terday that he had stolen the foregoing
articles in the last month. Myers was
arrested at o'clock yesterday morning
by J. D. Brown. a patrolman, in the
Office of the j. w. Merrill Lumber COM
pany at Twenty-fourth and Summit
streets. Myers was formerly employed
as a laborer by the Ringing Brothers
circus.
when my job was gone last fall, I
didn't have anything else to do so be-
gan to steal" He told Captain Walter
Whitsett at police headquarters yester-
day He told Captain Whitsett that he
stole motor car in Topeka about a
month ago. He started towards Kan
sas City in it and left it by the road
when the gasoline ran out. On Decem-
Der A, the police say. he admitted steal
ing a typewriter from the White Iron
works, 521 West Fifth street, and later
several overcoats.
The automobile in Topeka was taken
from the Kansas Auto & Supply COM
pany on Quincy street, and was found
near Big Springs stuck in the mud.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-17

of agriculture He has earned this by
hard work all these years in that de-
partment.
o. ]. Field of Topeka is chief clerk of
the department of justice, and has risen
similarly to Colonel Burch. His posi-
ton, however, and that of Colonel
Burch are not political in any way;
not presidential appointments; merely
the result of faithful clerical and other
work in departments, and filled by de-
partment heads in the way of promo
ton.
In the consular and diplomatic ser
vice, Kansas is not especially high. w.
r. Bigham some years ago was consul
at Capetown, South Africa a good posi-
ton. He was superseded however and
the state has nothing good in that line
now. George A. Bucklin, jr., or Med1-
cine Lodge is consul at Glauchau, Ger
many and may be promoted shortly to
better place, but has just recently en-
tered the service and had start, under
the new rules governing consularships,
at the bottom of the ladder.
George w. Ellis, a Lawrence negro,
is secretary of legation and practically
minister, at Monrovia, Liberia, Africa
He has held this place some years.
c. c. Eberhardt of Salina is consul at
Ensenada, the principal city in Lower
California, Mexico. having left the
Mexican embassy to take the place.
There are a few minor consulships
held by Kansas in Central America
This closes the chapter, so far as d1plo-
matte and consular matters are con-
cerned.
This fact, this dearth of Kansans in
good offices, is being pounded into the
administration on every hand and at
every moment by the Kansas delega-
ton, collectively and individually, and
it will not be surprising if the state
does not. by fighting for it, land some
good, respectable, dignified places, in
the next few years.