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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20
EXTREME MODEsTY.

WHO Is the srnartest boy IN your class Frsddisr'
asked the visitor.
'Td like to give you the desired information"
replied Freddie. ''but papa says must not boast"
Home Notes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Dear Editor: Thank you very much for the
fountain pen received from you as prize for an
original drawing of New Years greeting. This
is the second prize have won. and am going to
try 70 win many more. Your faithful reader,
FRANK LUTZ.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Dear Editor: received the interesting book
Tuesday and was very much pleased with it.
will try TO win another prize. Thanking YOU I
remain your constant reader.
CHARLES SIITLIFF
Box 1s1, South Amboy N J.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20
Things 10 Think AbOuf.
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.
ANAGRA1fS.
I. Much Ado About Nothing.
2 Romeo and juliet.
s. Macbeth
4 Merchant OF Venice.
g. As You Like 10.
CHARADE
Snowfall
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Mr. Clarke has just spotted clerk staring Int
vacancy, with his hands In his pockets.
Mr. Clarke-Well, Mr.. Brown.
Mr.. Brown-Ies; thank you, srs-Tft-BtA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20
HOPES TO GET EVEN.

'"Ths dav isn't far distant when tho man IN tns
rvine machine will look down upon the automobl-
fst' said the prophetic youth.
land let US hope, too" replied the weary old pa
destrian that he'll fall down hin.'-Chums.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

The principal occupation Of some boys seems u
DO explaining that It was rot their fault-ChuElA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

The Throne.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
Ogden News
Office. e4e+ Washington Ave
Ogden, Friday, Dec. II.
AGREE ON A FRANCHISE
City, Railroad and Street Car Com.
'pany Get Together on I'm
portant Proposition.

A compromise between thee city, the
railroad and street car companies, with
reference to the Twentyfourth street
yiaduct, has been practically effected and
the chances that a franchise, that will
prove acceptable to all concerned, will
be passed at tonights session of the
council are exceptionally good. While the
details of the compromise are not given
out, it is understood that it provides for
the perpetual maintenance of the struc-
tural portion by the railroad company,
and the maintenance of the roadway by
the city until such time as a street car
or interurban company is given the right
to lay its tracks across the viaduct.
At the special session of the council this
evening 1t is expected that a substitute
section for section No. will be submit
ted. 1t is claimed that this section has
been agreed upon by all parties and that
its provisions are In effect as given
above. The conditions that Will be at
taehed to the proposition are that no To-
connective or train shall exceed 1900
pounds per lneal foot of weight and tina t
no single axle load shall exceed 15.C00
pounds. Also that any excess shall work
a cancellation of liability for all resulting
damages.
1t is asserted that the only possibility
of hitch in the plans for the passing
of the franchise will come from the street
car company, which claims a prior right
to the use of Twenty-fOurth street and
on this account they may ask that as
ted to construct and operate its line over
Ii. 1t is also set out that the street car
company has been DESTROYS of extending
its lines across the railroad yards at this
point, but the network of tracks prevent
ed 1t from doing so, andathat with the
completion of the Yiaduct 1t will be ready
to build the line.
The estimated cost of the proposed via
duct is given as s150,OO0 and should it be
decided to extend it across Weber river
1t will cost an additional $4,000.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
.COLORED SOLDIERS AGAIN.
Discharge by President Roosevelt to
Be Tested in Court.

New York, Dec. 26.-Papers in case
to test the legality of the discharge of
the privates of companies B, c, and D
of the Twenty-fifth United States in
fantry (cOlOred), following the disor-
der in the streets of Brownsville year
ago, have been prepared by law firm
of this city.
The lawyers do not make public the
names of the persons by whom they
have been retained, simply saying they
live in New England and believe that
the discharge of the men from the SER
vice of the United States in the, alb
sence of any decision by a. court-martial
or a civil court that any one of their
number participated in this disturbance
is wholly unjustified and violates the
rights secured to these men by both
the constitution and the laws of the
United States"
Oscar w. Reid, who was a private IN
company c prior to his discharge with
ont honor" has been selected as the
plaintiff in the action. The suit has
heen brought to recover $l22.l6, the
amount to which Reds pay would
come from the time of his discharge
Nov. Is. 1906, to July Is, 1907, when the
terms of his enlistment would nave eA-
pired. -. =,
Reid was one of the men arrested Dy
the civil authorities in Brownsville AZ
ter the trouble, but was discharged -Ds
the coroner. His case also was heAIo
by the grand jury, which refused u
hold him. He now lives IN TINS CITY,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
.EDICT AGAINST AGITATORS.
Chinese Government Soon to Settle
Che Kiang Loan Matter.

Pekin, Dec. 26.-Judging from the indi
cations, the government is on the point
of deciding as to its policy in the mat
ter of the local agitation arising from
the conflict of British and Chinese inter-
eSts, especially regarding the proposed
loan in che Kiang and Kiang Su prov
inces.
Yesterday the throne issued its third
edict aimed at the agitatOrs. 1t sets
forth that students in the provinces ig-
more their local officials and telegraph
direct to the ministers here. They even
threaten the ministers in daring Ian
guage, and their course is encouraging
the lower classes to Clamorous activity
In conclusion it orders the appointment
of school inspectors qualified to inspect
such students and the directors and in
structors responsible for their agitation
The foreign board, which is causing to
be published in the native press an ac-
count of the Che Kiang loan trouble for
the purpose of enlightening the agita-
tors. has begun the examination of the
officials who are implicated in the il
legal annulling of the British loan con-
cesSion and the regranting thereof to
Chinese. The results of these eXamina-
tions are expected to determine the flu
ture position of Yuan She Kai in the
central government and to put an end to
the present deadlock.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27

a petition for letters of administration of
the estate. The petition is a fOrerunner
for the filing of an action for damages
against the Utah Construction company.
In addition to this claim for damages the
estate is valued at $l4, alleged to be due
from the construction people.
MRS MILLER DIES.-Mrs. Rhoda
Ellen Miller died at her home, 473 Thirty
first street, shortly after o'clock yester-
day afternoon, from kidney trouble and
paralysis. She was Al years of age and
had been ailing for some time. Funeral
services will be held at the First ward
meeting house at , clock tomorrow aft
ernoon,l after which the body will be
shipped TO Logan for burial.
SHOT IN THE LEG.-Will Clark, d
section foreman living at \ the Hot
Springs, ten miles north of here, while
passing between a string of cars near
that place yesterday was shot in the leg
by a small boy who was careleSsly firing
a 22-calibre rifle The bullet passed
through the calf of his leg, inflicting u
painful wound. The injured man was at
tended by DR.. z. E. Rich of this city,
who says that the injury is not serious
one.
HELD BY POLICE.-Charles Farr was
picked up by the police yesterday and
locked up at headquarters in connection
with a horse deal. A few days ago FAIR
sold a horse to Mark Murphy of Ogden
for a small amount. He claimed to have
purchased the animal from man named
Smeed living near Roy. 1t is now
claimed that FAIR came into possession
of the animal illegally and he is being
held until his story can be Investigated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
WILL STUDY AUTOMOBILE
Young Mems Christian Association
to Teach Tricks Of the
Red Devil"

PreDiIiuarv announcement of the OPEN
ing of the automobile school on Jan. IA
has just been made by the Young men
Christian associations edueatlonal de-
partments This is the second season OF
the school, the Salt Lake assocla9oI nav
ing been one of half a hundred y M =;
A IS in North America Whlch cohuucteu
this work last year.
The course of instruction for the COM
ing season has been built upon the ~
perience of last year. J. G. Whlte, inc
educational director of the local asSocid-
ton. was sent east during last summer
to study the methods of various schools
and to incorporate the pest features III
this seasons curriculum.
Shop work and the actual handling OF
machines and machine parts Will be the
important feature of TINS year WORK
The students will tear down and reas-
semble the various parts of an autoIne,
bile and will trace and remedy trouble,
Machines will be purposely 'queered' In
order to test the ability of the students.
Tuesday night will be lecture night an0
Thursday and Friday nights will be given
over TO shop work The lectures Will be
in the rooms and the demonstrations al
545 South State street.
The advisors and lecturers for the
course are: James F. Dunn, superintend-
ent of motive power and machinery, o.
S. L. R R.; Alfred E. Egan, s. II. Shar'
man, A. F. Savage, Tom Botter1ll and l.
c. Snow.
instruction will be under the general
supervision of Professor E. II. Beckstranc
of the University of Utah. He Will be as
sisted in delivering the lectures, of course
by local and important automobile eX-
perts. A. o. Whitmore will direct instruc-
ton in the electric machines.
The lecture and shop courses VIII beglr
Jan. a. and will continue two months
At the conclusion of this, preparatory
student having charge of a car Tor slA
or more lessons.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
RAILROADS CHANGE TINE
New Schedules to Be Put in Opera
ton on Oregon Short Line
and Southern Pacific.

A number of changes will be made in
the operation of trains on the Oregon
Short Line and Southern Pacific east of
Sparks, effective the 18th. The principal
change on the Southern Pacific will be
the operation of train No. >, out of Ogden
about two hours later than the present
schedule, which will be 6:25 in the morn
ing. The principal change on the Short
Line will be the discontinuance of yell
lowstone SPecial-IdahO Express trains Is
and 3 and and Is (Which have been OPP
Grated between Salt Lake, Pocatello and
Huntington, leaving Salt Lake at z D.
M, and the addition of a new train be-
tween McCammon and Montpelier, Idaho,
to connect with train leaving Salt Lake
at p. m TheeSalt Lake-Boise standard
sleeper which has been operated on the
Yellowstone special will now be carried
in train out of Salt Lake, leaving at
11:45 p. m; returning it will arrive in
Salt Lake on No. s, at Sis a. m This
train will also bring down the eastern
connection which was heretofore brought
in on the Yellowstone special Passengers
for Ketchum branch points should take
train leaving Salt Lake at 11:45 D. m
under the new schedule.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
Ogden Briefs.

HOME FROM WEDDING TOURING.
and Mrs. w. V. Cassidy have returned
from their wedding trip and have taken
apartments with Mrs Hollingsworth on
Monroe avenue.
COMMITTED FOR INSANITY-Mrs
Mary Mack, who suddenly became in
sane on Christmas, was examined as to
her sanity yesterday and committed to
the state mental hospital, where she will
be taken today
LEAVE FOR THE EAST-Mrs z. c.
Fulkerson and her brother L. II. Peery
leave today for the east. Mrs. Fulkerson
is returning home to Chicago and Mr.
Peery is going to Germany on a mis-
sion.
DESIRES TO BE GUARDIAN-Mrs
Maggie Burk filed a petition in the dis
trict court yesterday asking that she be
appointed guardian of the estate of her
13-year-old daughter. The estate is val
ued at s. 2l4.@.
THIEF GETS HIS CLOTHES-Fred
SchGneman, a Southern Pacific fireman
reported to the police yesterday that he
had been robbed of a pair of new boots
an OveTcoat and other wearing apparel
The police have as yet failed to get any
clue to the thief.
BUILDING OF THE YEAR-A report
recently compiled by the city engineer
shows an average of approximately s94. 900
a month, during the year, having been
expended in the structural upbuilding of
the city. Permits were issued for 2i5
IHC lOldl SSllIldleU1 cost Is
S405 795.
WISH TO SETTLE ESTATE-W. H
Costley filed a petition in the district
court yesterday asking that he and his
mother, Mrs NJ. II. CoStley, be appointed
administrators of the estate of D. J.
Costley who died at Harrisville Dec L.
The estate consists of real and personal
property valued at s16.933.S2
WEST TRAINS LATE-Trains from
the west were quite late yesterday on
account of the burning of the depot at
Cisco on the Sacramento division. Sew
eral lengths of snoWsheds are also re-
ported to have been burned. The fire is
said to have been so hot that the rails
warped. which prevented trains from
passing until repairs were made.
WHY JOY LEFT TOWN.. w Joy
became short of funds on Christmas and
forged a check for 80. which he passed
at a Twenty-fifth street restaurant. With
the money he received from the worthless
check and s. he is alleged to have stolen
from another man, Joy left ogden and is
supposed to have gone to Salt Lake. The
police are trying to locate the fellow.
PREPARE FOR DAMAGE SUITE
the probate division of the district court
Yesterday Elizabeth ]. Carter. widow of
Edward Crompton Carter. deceased, filed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
HOTEL UNDER QUARANTINE
Fifty Guests of Elko House Have I'm
pleasant Experience as Result OF
Discovery Of Smallpox.

The EIko hotel, on South Main street,
was Guaranteed yesterday on account OF
the discovery of case of smallpox. Fifty
guests were quarantined all night in she
place and the hotel entrances in front
and rear were Guarded all night by po-
licemen. The place will be released from
quarantine today.
c. F. Mogle. a telegraph OPERATOR was
the victim of the disease. He was re
moved to the pest house yesterday morn
ing The disease began with the Illness
of Mr. and Mrs. Hanson, who occupied
room adjoining that of Mogle They
came to Salt Lake from Seattle five weeks
ago Ten days later Mrs. Hanson was
taken i'll with smallpox. The husband
contracted the disease from his wife and
both were taken to the pesthouse.
On the discovery of the third case in
the hotel, yesterday morning, Police Sur
geOn Samuel g. Paul vaccindted every
one in the hotel who had not already been
vaccinated and officials from the health
department fumigated the entire hotel
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
READY MONEY,

Duncan Smith in Nashville American.
A dollar gives you confidence,
Five makes you walk on air,
A ten spot let's you face the world
Without a thought of care.
With fifty large ones right away
You feel your own true worth,
But get a hundred dollar bill
All, well, you own the earth.
Just let a fellow walk about
Without a lonely dime,
He feels as though for sure he must
Be guilty of a crime
And when a copper floats around
He doesn't want to stay,
Before the shadow of the blue
He quickly fades away.
Without plentitude of dough
A fellow isn't one, two three,
In fact, he only reaches up
Just halfway to a cTicket'S knee.
But let him stir himself about
And fall heir to a little dot
Of several thousand, more or less;
Then he's some pumpkins, maybe not.
A dollar gives you confidence
And several other things. For why?
Because you know that what you need
You readily may go forth and buy,
Five then, and twenty makes things hum
One hundred gives you quite a thrill
Where would a man get off if he
Possessed a thousand dollar bill?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
(The Circle.)

tine C1rCi6.)
Then you went to sleep at last, to
dream. First, Sanity got the hobs stuck
in the chimney and your father had to
go up on the roof and poke them down
with a cIothespole. When you finally
pulled them out and wiped the SCOT
off, they turned into wooIly COW,
which began to eat the tidy on your
mothers rocking chair, and then-it
was sort of gray and spooky when you
woke up, and mighty cold. 1t was a
minute or so before you realized that
it was Christmas at last.
MA" you called, lis il time to get
up yet?'' and your mother just num-
bled something that didn't sound like
anything at all. You waited pretty
nearly an hour, it seemed, and then
you simply couldn't wait any longer.
rs it time YETI"
Finally your mother gave up. "All
right, I s'pose you'll die if I don't let
you get up right away. Bring your
clothes in here and I'll button you up. IS
Clothes, Was there ever such an
other nuisance? Your arms and legs
simply wouldn't go into the right holes
in spite of all you did You would have
given anything if you had only been a
wild Indian and could just wrap a
blanket around you and skim down and
see
''Oh, MAJ you ran back to the stairs
to scream; "he did. He brought emf
well, wasn't that nice in him?" she
said. Now don't go and break them
the first thing" As If you could.
After a while your father came down
stairs, rubbing his eyes and yawning
and when he saw the hobs. he had to
grin. by jingo!" he said, but they re
handles. S'pose they would hold me p
90 course they would" you contend
ed. Look a. those runners That's
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
LENIENCY is URGED.
Prominent Americans Desire Pardon
for Russian ReVoIutonists.

Nav York Dec. 26.-Prominent Ameri-
cans have united in a cable petition to
Premier Stolypin of Russia, urging leni-
ency in the cases of Nicholas Tchaikovs-
ky and Nine. Catherine BreshkOvskaya,
recently arrested IN St. Petersburg for
alleged completely in the revolutionary
movement. The petition is headed with
the names of ex-Mayor Low of New
York, Mayor BusSe of Chicago Bishop
Greer, Mark Twain, George Foster Pea
body and Morgan j. O'Brien. It is SINH
lar. to that recently forwarded to Baron
Rosen, the Russian ambassador at Wash
ington. 1t sets forth the sympathy in
the United States for TchaikoVsky and
Nine. BreshkOvskaya, owing to the trav-
els of the former in this country and the
reputation of Nine Breshkovskaya in
philanthropic and charitable work, and
adds that the release of the two prison.
ers will be interpreted as "an act of
friendship by a host of American citi-
zens who are warm friends and we'll
wishers for the welfare of Russia"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
LEAKY SHIP SAVED.
Brought to Port After Terrific Battle
With Sea

San Francisco, Dec. 26.-Leaking at the
rate of eighteen inches a day and with
her men exhausted after a long battle at
the pumps TO keep. the vessel afloat the
American ship Brskine NJ. Phelps, bound
from Seattle for Karlui sought refuge
from the storm off this port this morn
ing and arrived in the harbor shortly be-
fore noon. So desperate was the struggle
waged by the members of the ships crew
to make San Francisco lest their vessel
founder at sea that all arriving this
morning were on the verge of collapse.
The Phelps left Seattle many days ago,
bound for Karlui, in ballast, in com
mand of Captain Graham. While off
Cape FIattery nine days ago the vessel
sDr1Ink a leak
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
THOUGHT HE HAD SULLIVAN
Dick Sullivan Hastens to Springville
to Find Hobo in Need
of Dental Work.

The police last night once again narrow
ly escaped capturing Sullivan. Although
Sullivan wasn't really caught. a man
whom the marshal of Springville thought
looked like him was picked up at that
place. He was locked up in the village
Jail at Springville and the alarm sent into
police headquarters at Salt Lake.
Sullivan caught" was the laconic
message The information was elected
from the marshal that he answered the
description even to the teeth. Detective
Dick Shannon, who took the first train
for SpTingville after the message reached
Salt Lake, said that the man arrested
there answered the description only as
to the teeth Both Sullivan and the suS-
pect had bad teeth. Shannon will return
to Salt Lake carly this morning and the
unfortunate traveller with the poor teeth
will be driven from Springville.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
BURGLARS RICH HAUL.
Loot Department Store Safe of More
Than $1,000 in Fresno.

Fresno. Cal, Dec. 26-Perhaps the most
daring safe-cracking job ever attempted
in Fresno county was brought TO sue
cessful termination last night, when bur
glars. with the aid of drills, smashed the
combination lock on the inside of the big
vault in E. Gottschalk's dry goods store,
on the corner of Tulane and ] streets,
and made away with upwards of 5000 in
several checks. The cracksmen entered
the premises through the big iron doors
in the rear of the building by using a
Jimmy, proceeded to an inner door fast
ened with an iron latch, broke this open,
and from there proceeded Immediately to
the vault.
No clue whatever has been obtained TO
the robbers up to noon today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
MANY ART F0RGERIES.
Movement for National Law to Glass
Them as Crimes.

New York, Dec. 26.-That America is as
good a field for the art forger as is any
country of Europe is the statement made
by Charles E. Goodman, who advocates
the passage of lawsby congress to make
the forging of an artists name after his
death a crime. Art forgers, Mr.. Cook
man says, are carrying on an extensive
business in New York. Chicago and St
Louis. where thousands of forgeries are
turned out, which find a ready market
among buyers in America who are not
well enough versed in art to detect the
forgeries.
Goodman says, are induced sometimes
by actual want to do this sort of work.
and dealers reap the benefit from the
deception.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
Ready to Withdraw the "Scrip."

will withdraw the clearing house certifi-
Gates from circulation. While conditions
will have been materially improved by
enable the banks 10 redeem all of the
scrip" at once. However, as the certifi-
canes become worn they will be taken
from circulation and real" money sub
stituted. The gradual redeeming of these
certificates will come after all of the
large pay days have passed and when
the demand for money will not be as
great as at present. During the week the
railroad checks have been taken care of
without there being any complaint, which
in itself is taken as a good indication of
the confidence held by the people in the
local banking houses
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
TWO OF A KIND.


An automobilist telling of a trip through
Manitoba said he stopped at a little inn
near the town Of Hargrave-
Il found in the inn the landlord and
another man. They sat side by side on a
bench They were both very old
g Excuse me, landlord l said, but
can you tell me how far it is to Bran
DOM
''The old man jumped up and hobbIed
behind the bar.
Brandy he said in a thin quaver.
Yes indeed, sir, and very fine brandy it
is
II asked you 1 said more loudly, how
far it is to Brandon.
f" The best brandy. of course, sir he
answered. I don't keep nothing but the
best
''In despair I turned from this deaf
veteran to the other man on the bench
a. Look here, 1 said, can you tell me
how far it is to Brandon
THE other old man, with d grateful
look rose and limped hastily up to the
bar
- Thanks, he said, 4 don't care If
do. -