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for one man and one good lusty Arab can carry my baggage.
 The first and second-class compartments are comfortable. l am travelling first class and l sometimes have a compart- ment for myself and son. The cars are divided into little box-lilSe rooms by par thions which run across from one side to the other. They are usually entered from the sides, and it is not posside to go through a whole train, as in our country. The seats are well cushioned, and as the sides are walled with windows the oppor- tunities for seeing are good. The second and third-class cars are divided up in the same way. and the second-class Is almost as good as the first,
 The third-class seats are bare board benehs, and they are usually filled with Arabs, Moors and Kabyles, with a sprink- ling of private soldiers. The latter re- ceive wages of only about 1 cent per day and hence eanont travel in luxury.
 Eating Arrangements.
 Within the past year or so dining cars have been put on some of these Algerian trains. Others stop at the stations for luncheon and dinner. and at every sta ton there Is a lunch room, called a buvette.
 The usual rate for dinner is about 40 cents, and for that sum one gets an ex- cellent meal with a quart bottle of white or red wine thrown in. Luncheons are often put up and brought to the cars at a cost of about 50 cents each. For that one gets two slices of roast beef or a half chicken, several boiled eggs, and also cheese, sweet cakes and fruit. There is always a quart bottle of wine put in The wine Is good and the food is excellent
 have not the railroad wages at hand but they must be exceedingly low. Every station has large number of officers and soldiers. A crossroads depot which in our country would hardly be thought worthy of an agent requires a half dozen guards and the large stations proportonately more. There is always a chief deport man ager, a baggage master, telegraph oper- ator, ticket seller and a number of porters. It takes a half dozen men to start a train The engineer whistles, one of the guards rings a bell and others run from car to car and shut the doors while they cry Get on gentlemen, if you please" On the cars themselves there are many employees. There are engineers, firemcn and brakesmen galore. Every train has its mail clerk and It's baggage
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lS0RS AlShAr AJVft ny T eAhN Nfs @1aA ICAANSAsf
 At Biskra-
 Tn the Desert of Sahara. HSHE railroad is bound to revolutionize
 the African continent Already the E iron horse. whose breath is smoke and whose eye is fire, is beginning to light up the darker spots of these blaekest re- eions on the globe The work is rapidly going on in Eastern Africa, where they are building line from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo. This has been extended from the Mediterranean southward for a distance as great as from the Atlantic to far beyond the Mississippi, and the extension from Cape Town to the north Is greater still. The Rhodesia railway system reached the Zembesi river in 1905. During the past year it was extended beyond that point at the rate of almost one mile per day, and it is now at the Broken Hill mines within less than 5O miles of Lake Tanganyil1a. I expect to go along the greater part of this route before leave Africa, and will be able to describe the various stages.
 From the coasts of both east and west Africa, railroads are being built into the interior, which will give access to the teentraI and southern parts of the contl- inent. Here in the north the French col onies have an extensive railway system; jEgypt is gridironed with tracks, and trunk lines are being surveyed in the Soudan land in the Congo valley
 In fact, railroad building is now going on in Africa about as fast as in any other part of the world. The continent is in- creasing its mileage at the rate of over 90 per cent per year, and while it has yet the fewest lines of any of the grand divi- sions of the globe, it's means of com municaton are rapidly growing.
 At present the chief railroad continent is North America It has between 250,0OO and 3OOOO0 miles of iron tracks. Next comes Europe with less than 100000 miles, and after that Asia with something like 5000. Australia has 16,000 miles of rail
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Get Ready.
Lcinnati Inquirer.

From the Cincinnati Inquirer.
 9Th merry, merry picnic time" said Uncle Josh this morning, lis a-drawin' nign. ag'in--th' thine wen y go aout to tn lovely greenwood shades. sit down on CT ants dwellin'. git up in a hurry by grabbin a golblamed or briar an git stung by tew skeetrs simultaneously an severely an go home madder'n . wet hen. b jinks.'
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to be far richer than either Algeria or Tunisia. Excepting the French regions of the Desert of Sahara, Morocco is all most as large as those two countries put together, and it has no roads nor any highways of communication except bridle paths. It has some large cities, such as Fez, Marakeeh, and Mekinez and eight or more coastal ports. The country is such that railroads could be easily built through it, and I am told that the natural resources would event ually make the roads pay.
 One of the first lines to be constructed
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Most of the natives carry their belong ings in bags not unlike coffee bags and much of the checked luggage is of that nature. At the depots the poorer Arabs throw these bags over their shoulders and march off with them.
 hirst and second-class passengers take numerous valises and bundles into the cars I am now travelling with nine pack ages. and they all go into the car. At every stop and start the porters take all my stuff in and out for me, and the rates are so lew that the cost of handling Is little Four cents Is a big enough free
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Probably Catching.
Harner,s Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
 A young matron of Baltimore. upon entering her nursery, found her young est in tears.
 "Why, what's the matter with Harryr she asked the nurse.
 He's mad, num-" explained nurse. ..because l wouldn't let him go to tho simmonses' across the strate."
 And why wouldn't you let him so. Norah?'
 Because, mum. they're havin' char ades, so he said an I wasn't sure whether. he'd had thim or not"
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road lines, and Africa q little over 15,OO0 Of all the countries of the world the United States leads in its iron highways We have more tracks than all Europe and three times as many as all the con tinents outside ours.
 Here in Africa the principal railroads may be grouped into three systems. The first embraces the Tunisian-Algerian roads of the Atlas mountains, the sec ond the Egyptian lines. and the third the South African roads, which have a greater mileage than those of the other two systems combined.
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The railroads of Algeria and Tunisia at present have a length of almost 3000 miles.
 The new lines projected number many thousand miles more and in the near fu- ture the railroad system of this part of the world will probably be several times what it is now. One of the most remark able of the new schemes is fathered by the young khedive of Egypt. His majes- ty is rich and he has trouble investing
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and on these estimates the roads might pay. The cost of the fuel, however, is such that the running expenses are prob ably greatly underestimated and the same is true of the cost of building the roads. The average cost per mile of railroad construction in Europe is almost $f00,- GOO, and the average cost per mile for the rest of the world is almost s60,000 It is difficult to see how a trunk line through the Desert of Sahara could be constructed at less cost than the aver age rate for the fest of the world
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New RaIIrOads for North AfrIea.

man, and often an express messenger
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-26
INJUNCTION REFUSED.
New York Pressmen Can Strike if
They Feel So. Inclined.

New York. Nov. 25.-Justice Mccall
in the supreme court today denied the
application of G. Lawrence Fell, presi-
dent OF the United TypOthetae of
America for the continuance of an eX
parte injunction restraining the Inter
national Printing Pressmen and Assist
ants union of North America and other
allied printers unions from refusing to
carry out an agreement made last jan
uary with the TypOthetae.
Former Justice SteckleT, who recently
appeared for several of the printers
unions, contended in his argument be-
fore the court some time ago that the
court had no jurisdiction to grant such
an injunction, and that the issuance or
such an injunction was Illegal. Mr..
Steckler declared that men could not
be forced to do work when they did
not want to. Mr.. Fell argued that the
unions had violated their agreements.
Justice Mccall, in denying the motion
for a continuance of the injunction.
said today that he had serious doubts
in reference to the validity or binding
force of the contract to warrant the
granting of the injunction.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-26
TO
KILL HIMSELF
Young Spaniard Attached to
Cuban Mission at Washing
ton Turned on the Gas.

Washington, Nov. 25.-R. NJ. Bombalier,
acting chancellor of the Cuban legation
here, was tonight found in his apartments
with the gas turned on. He was removed
to a hospital, where his condition was
said to be serious. He left two notes, one
OF which was addressed TO the public, and
read: Goodbye, everybody. l am go
ing to leave this world because 1 have
not the courage to endure it."
The second note was addressed to Senior
Don Arturo PadrO, charge daffairs of
known
Senior Bombalier resided at the Douglas
apartments, but before taking up his res
idence a few days ago he occupied apart
ments at the home of DR.. ID. +. Pyle
About week ago senior BOmbalier is said
to have incurred the displeasure of DIT.
Pyle by an act of indiscretion which re-
suited in his being requested to quit the
house. Senior Padro called on DR.. Pyle
justed. DR.. Pyle relented so far as 70
shake hands with the young diplomat. but
refused to allow Senior BOmbalier to enter
mis- house or occupy his former apartment.
Senior BOmbaiier was depressed by the af-
fair il is stated, and though assured by
Senior PadrO that the incident was closed,
continued to brood over it. No one sus-
pected, however, that the young diplomat
contemplated suicide. This evening at s
an entrance being forced into his apart
ment. and he was found unconscious on
his bed with the gas flowing from four
Jets. Hope is entertained for his recovery.
Senior BOmbalier is a Spaniard and is
about % years old.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-26
DRY GOODS STORE ABLAzE
One Person Killed, Two Injured and
Heavy Property Loss Suffered
BY Cincinnati Firm.

Cincinnati, Nov. 25.-One person was
killed, two injured, five rescued with
slight injuries, and a heavy property
loss was caused by a fire in the six
story retail dry goods house at Twelfth
and Main streets of the William Wind
horst company, a retail dry goods firm.
Located in a crowded retail section, the
fire caused much excitement, the lCnOwl-
edge that more than 100 employees and
an indefinite number of customers were
in the building spreading throughout the
city in remarkably quick time. An cleo
trician had been working in one of the
show windows, and the flames are be-
ieVed to have started during the noon
hour from crosses wires. Shooting up
the inner walls, the fire burst out flu
riously on the third floor. and within lit
tie more than haif an hour the entire
building was ablaze. Fifteen clerks are
usually on the third floor, and several
Of these leaped from the windows at
once. One saleswoman, Alberta Dussler,
was so badly injured that she died with
in short time. while others on that
floor suffered seriously
Julia HagedOrn suffered a fracture Of
the skull In the panicky crowd it was
almost impossible to find who escaped,
and reports Of many dead were current.
but it is believed that no other bodies
are in the building.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-26
OIL GUSHING COAL.
British Admiralty Sends Tank Steam
er TO Port Arthur. Tex. for Cargo.

London. Nov. 25.-The sailing of the
acknowledgement tank steamer Petro-
leum. for Port Arthur, Tex, marks d
new departure in the British navy, as
it is the first time that the admiralty
has tried the experiment of importing
a cargo of oil in its own ships. 1t is
anticipated that the Petroleum is only
the forerunner of a small fleet of ad-
miralty-OWned tank ships which will
be continually employed in meeting the
increasing requirements Of the British
navy for fuel oil.
oil is quite ousting coal from the
furnaces Of the British mosquito fleet,
and a plan to dot the cOastltne Of the
British Isles with oil depOts where tor
pedo boats may replenish their tanks
has been decided upon by the admiral
ty. A fleet of naval tank steamers
which Will bring the fuel direct from
the oil shipping ports is considered to
be the cheapest and most satisfactory
method of keeping these depoJs sup
piled.
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BEFORE COURT MARTIAL.
Lieutenant Accused of Perjury and
Accepting Gifts.

San Francisco, Nov. 25.-"Perjury'' and
accepting a gift OF a horse and buggy
from a contractor" are the charges
brought today against Lieutenant Thomas
A. Jones, u. S. A. who is to be tried be-
fore a cOurt-maTtial at the Preside next
Tuesday.
There are several other charges Of a
lesser nature. Captain Solomon Avery, IT.
will act as Judge advocate.
Lieutenant Jones is an officer of the
SiXty-first company, coast artillery, and
quartermaster at Fort Baker. He entered
the army as a private in the Thirty-first
coast artillery December 30 1899, and was
promoted to lieutenant February . 1901
He has been stationed at Fort Baker FOR
two wears.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-26
MATTER OF PROBATION.
Extra Supply of Coal to Be Sent to
Honolulu and Manila.

Washington, Nov. 25.-It was stated
at the navy department today that an
extra supply of coal would be sent to
Honolulu and to Manila for use in the
event that any or all of the vessels of
the battleship fleet should come home
by way of Asia and the Suez canal
after their trip to San Francisco. ANY
additional supplies needed to fill the
ships bunkers can be purchased en-
route. If the vessels return the way
they go TO the Pacific coast contracts
will be entered into for all the coal
needed for delivery at various points
en- route, as has been provided for on
the outward trip. No decision has been
reached as to what route will be taken
and none is expected for some time.
The extra supplies sent to Honolulu
and Manila are taken merely as a mat
ter of pTecaution.
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shewdness in making investments, De
came d very rich man. At his death,
his fortune passed into the control of
Mrs. Mclaughlin. Left with only a
daughter TO care for, Mrs. Mclaughlin
Travelled much. making q number Of
long trips to Europe During one Of
these journeys, she mes DR.. McEnery
and married him. Last July, Mrs. Nc
Laughlin died in san Francisco. 1t
was her desire that DR.. McEnery and
Professor Mclaughlin act as joint
guardians Of her daughter.
This arrangement did not suit Miss
McLaughlin's relatives. They began to
cast about for means OF removing the
Girl from the control of the doctor,
and at last found Miss Evans in salt
Lake.
DR. McEnery must have been I'M
aware of this until he cav the young
English woman in the train at Ogden
with Mr.. Young and Mrs. Bird.
In her suit for breach of promise,
based upon the story as told to Il Her
aid reporter, Miss Evans viii be rep
resented by Powers & MarioneauX.
Or. McEnery's Statement.
DR.. McEnery said last evening, with
reference to Miss Evans silt:
I never promised ut any time 10
marry Miss Evans. l knew her Il num-
her of years ago in England. Since
that time I have had no relations Of
any sort with her. The charges, which
l understand she IS making, are false,
as will be abundanIly demonstrated
when the case comes up for trial.
Professor Mclaughlin will start for
san Francisco at as early a date as
possible to find Miss Mclaughlin and
arrange plans for the Suture EEich viii
meet with the approval Of the young
heiress.
Besides Professor Mclaughlin, Miss
Mclaughlin is abundantly supplied
with relatives other than her step
father Mrs. Minnie Wallace and Mrs.
Pearl Bird of Salt Lake are aunts; and
Fred Young. William >. Young, Will
liam Mclaughlin of H0ughton, Mich,
and James Mclaughlin of Muskegon,
Mich, are uncles.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-26
BAIL FIXED AT $4,000.
Next Trial of Steve Adams Will DC.
cur at Telluride, Colo.

Spokane, Nov. 25.-Steve Adams was
admitted to bail in the district court at
Rathdrum this morning in the sum of
$40 600. Attorney DarrOw, for the de-
PENDANT, announced the bond would be
provided within a few days. 1t is ex-
pected that as soon as Adams is re-
leased on this bond he will be rearrest-
ed on a warrant charging him with the
murder of Arthur Collins at Telluride,
Colo, in 1902.
Attorneys Darrow and HaWley leave
at once for Boise to appear in the Pet
tibone case.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-26
BANK ROBBED BY
DESPERATE MEN
Cashier, Assistant Cashier and
Bookkeeper Locked in Vault
Escape of Bandits.

Bloomington, H.. Nov. 25.-The State
bank at Clinton was held up and robbed
of $4,000 in coin shortly before 5 o'clock
this afternoon by two men who made
their escape.
1t was just few minutes after clos
ing time when the men appeared in the
bank and with drawn revolVers forced
Assistant Cashier William Argo, Cash
Ter Murphy and Bookkeeper John
Young to enter the big vault, which
they locked. The bulk of the money
had already been placed in the cur
rency safe and the time lock set but
$4,000 in gold and silver remained on
the counter. This the robbers shOveled
into bag and took with them to the
Hotel HeniOn, where they had previous
ly engaged a room. They had arranged
the money in rolls so that it could be
easily carried, and were just about to
leave the hotel when officers learned of
their presence and attempted to break
in the door.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-26
LAW is "OBS0LETE."
Remarkable Request Made by the
Chicago City Council.

Chicago, Nov. 25.-The city council to-
night by a unanimous vote asked the Chi
cago Law and Order league to abandon
its campaign against Sunday saloons and
let the question be submitted to a vote
of citizens at the next election. In the
same resolution the aldermen asserted
that the Sunday closing law now on the
statute books is obsolete" The resolu-
ton was adopted without debate and by a
viva vOce vote
Officials of the league spent today clas-
styling the evidence secured by their vol
unteer detectives yesterday and preparing
warrants against 40 saloonkeepers. Ar
rests are not expected before Wednesday.
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ROBBED A MILLIONAIRE.
CoIored Crook and White Woman
Arrested in Chicago.

Chicago, Nov. 25.-James Edwards,
colored and a white woman, who gave
her name as Clara Edwards, but whose
real name Is believed to be Rose Cohn,
left Chicago last night in charge of de-
tectives to answer in New York the ac-
cusation of having robbed a millionaire
of diamonds and money to the amount
of $4,000. According to the Chicago
police, a man who said he was Robert
H. Brown of Atlanta. Ga. complained
TO the New York police that while he
was in the company of the woman her
colored accomplice rifled his baggage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-26
TAFT IN WRECK.

Krasnoyarsk. Siberia. Nov. 25.-It
was learned here today that the train
on which Secretary Taft and his party
are travelling over the Erans-Siberian
railroad from VladivOstok to Moscow
had a narrow escape from being
wrecked yesterday at Chita. A switch
in front of the Taft train became open
when it should have been shut, but
an employee discovered this one minute
before the train came along, closed the
switch and kept it on the proper rails.
Had the train been thrown into the sid
ing it would have crashed into a num-
her of freight cars
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-26
OKLAHOMA CORPORATION COMMISSION
WILL REQUIRE STATE-LINE STATIONS

Guthrie. Ok. Nov. 25.-An order win
be issued tomorrow requiring all Okla
homa railroads doing an interstate
business to build stations on the state
line at points intersected by the var
ious routes, is the announcement of
the corporation commission tonight.
The importance of the departure IS
obvious Under the present schedule
the interstate passenger rate is three
cents, in spite of The fact that in many
of he states traversed the maximum
rate is the same as In Oklahoma, two
cents. Unable 10 change the schedule,
the corporation commissioners resorted
to the state line depot plan as the only
solution of the proposition.
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At these intersections the order re-
quires the erection of a substantial de-
pot, where passengers shall be allowed
to buy tickets at the local. rates aid
re-check their baggage AS Ii is under
the present regime, a passenger from
Oklahoma to Kansas, Arkansas or Tex
as points must pay the old rate, de-
spite the existence of the reduced
schedule in each of the four states.
Tourists have been buying tickets to
the town nearest the state line and
then paying fare on the train to their
destination in the adjoining state
where the Legislature has provided for
the tWo-cent basis. 1t is expected the
ruling of the department will do away
with this procedure
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-26
D0LLIVER TAKES THE
STUMP FOR ALLISON

Council Bluffs, Ia. Nov. Ex-senator ].
P. Dolliver spoke before the Pottawatto-
ME county Allison club tonight in the new
theatre in this city. opening the campaign
for the reelection of Senator William B.
Allison.
Senator Dolliver gave much of his ad-
dress 10 an eulogy of Senator Allison
Senator Deliver spoke of what he char
acterized as attempts TO bring Senator
Allison into the fractional turmoil of the
party in Iowa, intimating that Governor
Cummins had broken faith with AllisOa
and asking people to take up the gaunt-
let of their veteran leader and return him
to the United States senate
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Mrs. wInslow's Soothing Syrup.

Has been used for YEARS by MILLIONS
OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN
WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT
SUCCESS It SOOTHES the CHILD.
SOFTENS the GUNS, ALLAYS all
PAIN; CURES WIND COLO, and is the
hest remedy for DIARRHOEA Sold by
Druggists in every part of the world. Be
sure and ask for Mrs Winslow's Sooth-
ing Syrup" and take no other kind
Twenty-Five cents bottle GUARAN-
TEED UNDER THE FOOD AND
DRUG ACT, JUNE 30, 1906. SERIAL
NUMBER 1923.
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Lett Silver Behind.

Before they succeeded, however, the
robbers jumped from the window on to
an adjoining roof, taking only the 500
in gold and leaving 800 in silver in
the room. 1t was dark when the men
escaped from the hotel and all trace
Of them was lost. A posse was or
ganized and went in pursuit.
Before the highwaymen left the bank
building they called up the telephone
operator and requested her to send
someone to the bank to release the
three bank officials imprisoned in the
vault. Charles Parker, collector for the
bank, was the only person who knew
the combination to the vault, and after
a short search he was found and hur-
ried to the assistance of the imprisoned
men. When Parker opened the vault
door the men were almost suffocated.
Bloomington. Ill, Nov. 25.-The two men
suspected of being Clinton bank robbers
were arrested at 1880 this morning. One
at Kenney and the other at SFaulding.
They are now en- route to Clinton.