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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

as they have no feeling in their feet.
This may give you a slight idea Of
the atmospheric conditions in this red
hot district. It is pink on the map, it
should be a brighter color.
A brief description of our outfit
know will interest you. We have 100
porters. These citizens are to leg it,
bandy-leg it and knock-knee IT, over
the scenery with our luggage. One
hundred and ten of them will carry my
guns and ammunition and the others
will carry the grub and other unimpor-
tant stuff. We are taking along a few
luxuries, four wash boilers of cup Gus
tard-I am very fond of cup custard-
six large tubs of the best table butter
i do like butter-two steamer trunks
of Brie cheese-this will help US to de-
termine which way the wind blows. a
very important item when hunting big
game. Our rifles will furnish all the
sweet meats, including calves foot jelly,
that we may care for. Omelets may be
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

The weeks slipped by rapidly in The
Seymour family. The house was in up
heaval for the approaching wedding
The library was full Of paperhangers'
tools. the sewing room was a flJffy
heap Of disorder. In the kitchen Mrs.
Seymour struggled with old -fasniOned
wedding cake. Katy answered the TEL
ephone twenty times an hour. Helena
and Ere trntted miles on never th0-
Ing crrands
Helena" commanded her l1u,l e.
l 'oking up from al much-th'rmbe Gi-
rectory, before you start f1r .srn 'ay
school 80 look in the tele n Iae bcc
a"'i Ina the Ssucunl's new address
''FOUr-forty-twO Emerson" called
Helena obediently.
And the Anderson's," added her
mother.
There was no answer this time. Mrs.
Seymour looked down the stra.st at
the retreating figure of her daughter
with a sigh.
THAI skirts too short" she thought
critically; bless the baby's heart, I
have neglected her lately"
IN hour later Fred bobbed in the
doorway.
Where's Helena? ?" he demanded.
Father and grandmother had Joined
the family council by this time and ne
had to ask three times before he was
heard.
Gone to Sunday school," said his
mother shortly; don't bother u.s.
'She did not" contradicted the boy.
Il went and forgot my money and went
over TO her class for some. and Miss
Orchard said she hadn't been there"
The telephone rang, and Mrs. Sey-
mour hurried out.
It's Katy's day out" she said a bit
| GROSSLY, and you all know Mary won't
touch the phone. I do think some Of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

d really satisfactory drink like that.
It's a novel tasty combination"
Helena glOwed mOdestly.
You know I just happened to do it, I"
she suggested, 1T was just because I
changed my mind after you started it.
He sifteG a bit of coca powder on
top the cups he had just finished and
pushed one toward her.
TRY that" he begged anxiOusly, "see
if that adds anything"
Helena tasted critically.
We'll I don't honestly know" she
confessed its awfully good either
way"
We'll. it's 'peachy H. S.. for mine
every time I drink he said CALAMITY
q don't want anything else. It's just
as sweet as you" he sighed.
Y get two hours off every Sunday af-
ternoon," he limited. 7 often see you
and your friends in the park"
I'VE come back that way from Sun
day school," murmured Helena.
do you go to that big brown
the corner from there; I might happen
along next week. and you and your
friend could walk down here and let
her try this"
You are ever so good" stammered
Helena, but I think mother would
rather I went straight home"
He drew an aluminium pad from his
pocket and neatly detached a per-
fOrated card.
That's my card" he asserted proud
~ and tucked it gracefully into the
pages Of her French book. 'T think I
didn't give you one before
He took the parcel from the waiting
prescription man and sauntered toward
the door with her. He held the screen
politely and murmured, Good day,
Miss Seymour"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

Gracious me, but I'm getting tired Of
this writing. I want to do this thing
on the run, but I meet opposition on all
sides We have got TO go slowly, just
think Of it, me going slowly. 1 know
just how it win be. I'll reach camp two
hours ahead Of the bunch every time
and then III have to sit down and wait
I've just been presented with NANCY
specimen of an African bird dog. He's
of no use whatever, he's only fit to kick
-ha, I have 1t! I'll keep him and call
him Congress.
A most remarkable thing happened
this morning. and then, on second
thought not so very remarkable, in
fact, as I now see it, quite the reverse.
As / tripped it to the abode Of the gov
ernor of this district I passed several
most peculiar looking plants. they
turned and seemed almost human in
their attitude as they stretched their
long ungainly limbs after me. I asked
a native what sort Of plant it was and
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sensitiveness. It viii tuck you uD as
soon as you are under the covers, and
at the slightest approach of danger II
quietly folds up. and hardly utters a
sound. OF course the position you as
sumo is not an enjoyable one, that of
standing on your head. but then. dur
ing the last seven years of my public
life. I have assumed the position more
than once, so my Wall street friends
tell me. As soon as the danger has
passed, this marvellous bed quietly I'M
folds, so as not to awaken the sleeper.
At rising time il shoots you suddenly
into your clothes and makes itself up
for the day. The scheme was suggest
ed to me by President Grabali of the
Consolidated railroad, his idea being
that a reversed on-communicative po-
sition, especially at night, was often
beneficial.
I have with me two typewriting ma
chimes. one is of the ordinary hand
humping species, and the other is of an
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

sundry handbooks on What not to do
when het up" Two thousand. words
before breakfast at one dollar per-am
l going sOme2
Had my first experience with an At
rican poached egg this morning. When
the colOred lady that swerves things
around our table said, aigs, 1 said eggs,
but, by lingo, I didn't look for an egg
the size of a door mat, and there were
two of them, yOlked together. ! man
aged to get away with one, the other I
have had put away for me until start
home. I can use il as a steamer rug,
it ought to get stale in nine months
time. They didn't tell me hens, in these
parts, are sometimes Ostriches. These
eggs when pOached can be used for
various purposes and are very decOTa-
tive. They serve as sofa pillows, tides,
bed spreads and foot rugs among the
more advanced natives-an idea-why
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

raining too hard outside When IL
rains here, it rains both ways, up and
dOwn-sO that you really get twice as
wet as you would If it were raining
only one way. AS soon as the rain
ceases, the sun pops out and before you
can scramble for a bit OF shade, YOU
are enveloped in a cloud Of steam and
your flesh turns the color OF a frank
furter.
I stepped out just at the tail end OF
the shower and it fixed me all right.
was almost cooked to death. Hermes
referred 10 me as being paT-bOiled1-
very good for Hermes, I think. Hermes,
you know, is a uear-Harvard graduate.
You can always tell a Harvard grad
uate-but not much-this is a Yale Joke
but rather CleveT-fOT Yale. Ny next
letter will be after this one. We leave
tomorrow for the front, or middle,
am not certain which T. r.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30
SOcIETY-DRAMATlC
No. l
Mombazazza. Africa

are all ready for the start, that is,
chose confounded porters don't
an, 70 know what the word strenuous
seen have asked several Of their
means. men and 1 get only a semi
Dr. Dr. III the eyebaH and a convulsive
ec- - ~ thick, ffabby lip for an an
gun, - what am to do with such fell
ioT M d7 they call this the dark con-
10 DARK. rats! It's the lightest
l,li.l- I've ever seen, barring the SEN
l..'-s Vbv. there IS a three-ply brand
az, -,,rrfg6t here that not only reduces
o. o. ,-ee6bole part of your outlook q
l u'5, ,sep talking shOp) TO the size Of
ND.,-- W. but settles on your face and
l-l+El7 one hours times gives you the
,.+eiiieent cast of feature assumed by
! nj 5cf water bag at food time. I am
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MlNlNG-FlNANClAL
Edited by E. w. Kemble

not take along a bevy Of ostriches, so
that we could have our eggs on the hoof
as it were-a walking hennery. by CAD,
we must do it,
After dinner. I ran around the sit
ting room table for an hour and a half
must have my daily exercise. Il was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30
Che Ceddy letters From Hfriea

swing my Indian clubs for forty min
utes, my dumbells for thirty minutes,
then ] get up and take my shower.
dash into my clothes-then seat myself
at my pedal typewriter, and, while I am
reeling off articles by the foot on Al
rica as 1 will see It" l skim through
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

shot on the wing in the egg districts,
50 they tell me here. but I fear they
are JOshing me. I have had a very
unique camp bed made for me. It is a
folding bed. Placed upon any slope of
ground it retains its level. but its most
wonderful characteristic is its extreme
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

the open-the soles Of your feet viii
positively begin to bubble and crack,
and unless you change your position
constantly you are liable to succumb
quickly to a serious attack of fried
feet, common only 20 the tenderfoot.
the natives are never troubled with it,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

going to call IL the light continent
thank heavens. congress can't take
any action on thaD and hot, ye gods,
HOT-if you have type a foot long and
can print IT in the brightest red ink
you'll just about strike it. Standing a
few moment in the altogether mean
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

he answered-Rubber. 1 give you this
as it actually happened, I have not
stretched it a particle. II simply shows
how interested every growing thing is
in my welfare, since left America
But what a glorious rest I am having
am awake every morning at 4.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-08
Obituary

Died, at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. M. E. Davis, in Kendrick, Jan.
5th., at four O'Clock in the morning,
Mrs. Franklin Andrews, elizabeth
Guthrie.)
Mrs. Andrews was born near Roch
ester, New York, May %, 1895, reacl !.
ing the advanced age of SO years and
8 months. When - years of age she
was married to Franklin andrews at
Galena, H.. who died in 1851. The
last ten years of her life she has made
her home with her daughter, Mrs.
Davis, of Kendrirk. Surviving her are
Franklin Andrews of Cheney. WASH,
and Mrs. M. E. Davis.
Mrs, And -ews was favored with a
superior education and was home
maker and home lover aud was help
full and useful up to the last week of
her life. She was stricken with lymp
hangitls and after short suffering she
become unconsc ious and in the early
morning quietly breathed her last on
this earth, to awaken in the fields of
paradise. She lived long useful and
consistent Christian lite and was ready
for the home going.
The funeral services were held from
the home of Mrs. Davis and interment
was in Kendrick Cemetery, Jan 6, Rev
A. Durrie, pastor of the Presbyterian
church. officiating.
"In the hope of a glorious recur
raction -
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-08
LOCAL.

Learn shorthand. typewriting and
Office filing at the Moscow Business
College.
Gertrude Armstrong Of Juliaetta
vas . visitor in Kendrick the FIRST of
the week.
Miss May Alexander of Lewiston
visited her sister, Mrs. F.. s. Beckwith,
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Poole visited
the County seat Tuesday. and are
much pleased with the town.
Dr.. w. Thompson, Scataboe Blk,
Moscow, gives special attention to Eye,
Ear, Nose and Throat diseases. ID
Learn bookkeeping, commercial
ari thmetfe and commercial law at
the Moscow Business College.
1 Your attention is called to the ad
Of M. D. Taylor of Lewiston, who is
prepared to do all kinds OF machine
work.
Chas. Schill, former business man
ri eendrirks wtrursnow has a timber
claim en- the North Ford nf the Clear.
water, about eight miles from Dent. is
( spending few days here, renewing
old acquaintance.
AT the last meeting of the K. of P.
installation was postponed until next
Monday. A very pleasant evening was
" joyed by the members and their
/ ladies'. The program for next Monday
eveningis the postponed installation
J. and work in the third degree. All
me '.hbers ars requested to be present.
MA young man named ]. E.
tAcC ready, who has been employed in
}f4own for two or three weeks has. ap.
parently got himself into quite mess.
He's was arrested Tuesday by Con.
staHA Sterling, on the charge Of sell.
I ing liquor to Indians and taken to
Moscow, where he was bound over till
n the sitting of the Federal court in
June. AS this is penitentiary offense,
4 it would seem as if it would be more
difficult to find anyone foolish enough
Y to monkey with the U. S. government
regulations in this matter. But some
people refuse to learn wisdom from
Y others and must be taught by the
sharp contact OF *. erience.
Learn Business English, Business
correspondence and Business pen
manship at the Moscow Business
College.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-08
Church Services
METHODIST

Southwick: Sunday School at 10 a.
m. Preaching At IL n. m. from the
text "What must do to he saved"
Closing with volunteer prayer service
Kendrick: League at the usual
hour. Topic: For us who a re losr. u
Followed by preaching from theme
Overcoming" The service to close
with testimony.
We are helped by your presence
JAMES S. TAYLOR, Pastor
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-08
Stomach Trouble Cured

fyou have any trouble with your
stomachs you should take Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
Mr.. J P. klote Of Edna, Mo-, says:
Il have used great mary different
medicines for stomach trouble, but
find Chamberlain Stomach and
Liver Tablets more beneficial than
any other remedy ever used" For
sale by Albert Moskop, Druggist.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-08

RORN-To Mr.. and Mrs. D. T. A,
Macintosh, a son, Saturday, Jan. 2.
Both mothe. and boy are doing we'll
Boise that Dan has been Obliged to
get new coat several inches larger
around the chest. A box Of cigars
was put out at Lauterbacb's, but he
don't need to thing that he will get
away as cheap as that.
Some older, some larger, but none
better than the Moscow Business
College.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-08
PRESBYTERIAN

10 an, SUM .ay School.
ii NJ. Ne W Year Communion SER
vice. Opportunity for baptism OF
and reception OF members
by lett .r.
6.49 pm, Christian eudeav or. First
OF a series of Pilgrelns Progress:
" Leaving the city of destruction"
All welcomed to any and all services
> ARCHIBALD DURRIE, Pastor
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-24
INSURANCE IN MEN EAT.
Banquet Given at Alta Club in Honor
or Haley F'isltc.

u &. y / ! d i. b u
Haley Fiske, first vice president and
superintendent of agencies of the
metropolitan Life Insurance company of
New York, who is here on a tour of in
spectior, was the guest at a banquet
given by the insurance men last night
at the Alta club. In addition to MI.
Fiske and Joseph Meltzer, who is in
charge OF the agency here. there We're
present w. G. Farrell, Penn Mutual
Z Life. j. v. Smith, D. II. Livingston
and II. l.. Nelson. New York Life: f.
f.. Francisco. West Coast Life; George
w. Peck, Fidelity & Casualty: John
James, Travellers z. w. Taylor; Act
ma Life: A, c. Shaw, Home Life of
New York: and Willard Done of the
state insurance commissioners office.
General insurance business was dis
cussed by those present and reminis-
cences in the field were told Mr.. Fiske
expressed himself as being pleased
with the condition and general outlook
of the west.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-24

hearts Of the big audience which great
ed them At first their dancing seems
quite ordinary enough. then comes the
whirlwind dance. their own creation. 1t
requires the full stage and savors Of
Paris and Vienna 1t is d dancing
diversion in a class nf Its own. Herr
Londe and F1aulein Tilly are gym
nasls far away from the ordinary sort.
lneir ladder of evolution Is a thriller,
AND is q distinct achievement In acro4
tics. The entire act is one OF skill
and is 50 different from other gym
llastic acts as TO present Il real fea-
5sure Harry Armstrong and Billy
clark are back again with some OF
their old tricks polished up, aud some
new ones added. They are song writ
ers and song singers. and as often as
they come they will be welcome
ltancon. Lucicr and company with
Theodore DAILY. in a Fools Errand,"
a1nuse with Wholesome fun and frolic.
and though their act has been seen be-
lore. II Will bear seeing twice. Lew.
i3ioom appears on the bill as THE great
tramp originator and eminent portray
or Of tramp character studies ia funny
songs and stories. Why he is thus
described is an unsolved riddle, for
truth compels the statement thar the
bill would be improved If his act was
eliminated. The interchangeable by |
George Hillman andihis "Redpath Nap |
aIees. follows as q pleasant relief: to |
pilfer Theodore Daly's vocabulary, this
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sample Of :American''' Methods
Which Credit is Taken
Cor Future Work.
MAJORITY PUTs ! II. THROUGH
fity Engineer Kelsey Tells What a
Botch 81 d Job the Intercept
Ing Sewer Is.

There slipped through the city coun
III last evening another Illustration Of
,ta methods by which the present self
; sty,cd american adninistratin Is at
tenpting to pile, up Il showing Of pub
liz improvements regardless of the
future The contract for paving eN-S
tcnsion 54son West8T Temple street from
FIFTH to Ninth South and Fifth South
RON Main to First West streets
awarded to p. Moran came up; for
confr,nation. The total cost43of this
work is 800, 81 and the cost OF the,
ctr's portion S2f.T 4S.95. There Is, no,
nroyision for this in the budget and 1T
,ranspiled that it had been arranged
thai it should be paid for next yeitt.
arhis method OF saddling the next adj
minjstration with VI expenses, in the
nrderjng of which itscan have no share,
While another takes the credit for the
6,n,proyement,s met With55vigornus pro-
lest form a. number Of the council
men. 1t had been passed "a week ago
INIT al motion to rec consider Was moved
by Councilman q olan II Hey and. warm M
IL supported by Coitnai ilien Fernstrom
and Hall. Mir. tiail argued that
courtesy at least should debar the adj
iSnjinistration from thus hamreringa the
incoming administration Thn motion
IN re-considcr was lost, however, by
\ seven to five as follows.
To re-consideI.--IF ernstfOn, Holley,
Hodgsen, Hall and Murdoch
Against Black, Ublsburn, Martin,
Raybould, Redali, Mood and Davis.
MORAN gADMONISH1aD. (
resolution, introduced by Council
nan. &. Il. Hall, WAS passed calling
upon P. u Moran to complete cast
First South street paving and direct
ing the board of works to notify him
that the forfeiture clause in his con-
tract wlrShe, strictly enforced against
him. Mr.. Hall pointed out that but
small strip remained and that Moran
had too much time already given him.
He claimed that Mr.. Moran's time for
conlpIeaio of the work oXpired Al
days ago. # S5s
This Is the strip lin which Rev. E. T.,
Goshen is Interested and would come
tG.llo agreement to accept anything but
Utah asphalt. To punish him for not
taking what he could get Moran has
left q portion Of the paving In front
of this property unpaved all summers.
II was stated by Councilman Mark Y
Reedhall that Moran was now maxi
ing an effort to obtain Utah asphalt
and do this work, 1t is the general (
opinion Of the officials and councilmen
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49,.

them. who assert their wolnanly inde-
pendence and start out to make a
career fol, themselves without the as
8sistance of man. They findSNew York
city big and the world hard. But in the 4
end their resolves ali come Ia faught,
and their club of "rnanhaters" is m
vaded by the opposite sex who carry
them off despite their solemn oath on
crossed hatpins. and their Gnational''&
hymn. NO Wedding Bells for Me-
Eleanor Bnrrell portrays the pretty
and stubborn Pamela Gordon. (theparG
III which Laura Nelson Hall was the
New York Originally the leader OF the
triumvirate against the opposite sex,
in q charming manner. She Is the last
to stand by her guns. but is tanned
with u little coaXing and attention in
the easiest sort of q way. #
* In Kate West a free lance writer,
Ethel Strickland reads her lines WE'LL
She becomes stage struck and carries
it into the studio Of man faters'
much to the delight of the audience.
Eliva Bates was full of grlish wit
and giggled her part aceoptably.
Edgar Holt. dashlng young attor-
ney. is played by William Hayward
Claire in clever fashion, and the other
members of the company were equally
good. The play continues tonight, to-
tnorrownight With a Wednesday mat
inec
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-24
LONG CAREER OF CRIME.

maxwell came from the east to Wyo-
ming Is years ago. 1t is said that his
parents We're We'll TODD people in, Bos-
ton and that he came west after be-
coming involved in a saloon brawl
which ended In the shooting OF his COM
panion, who died. He Immediately en-
tered upon a career of crime. and be-
came identified with a gang OF cattle
thieves, who rode the ranges driving off
cattle, and gambled on the side.
He followed. this life until the gang
WAS broken up in 1892 and some Of It's
members killed. Soon afterwards he
was convicted of grand larceny IN
five years in the st.lte prison. He began
his sentence on July b, 1898. but was res
leased about three years later by the
board OF pardonS. Then he came 70
Utah, where he lived on the uintah
reservation. While in that county lie
married Ada Shaw OF Vernal and they
had daughter. who is now married
to /. soldier stationed at TT. Douglas
During the coal miners strike in Car
bon county, some years ago Maxwell
was a special deputy sheriff and acted
as bodyguard of Attorney Mark Brat
fet, attorney and agent for the Utah
Fuel company. He was fond of the
sport of intimidatng the strikers and
running people out of the mining
l
attempted bank robbery at Springville
in the summer of, 1898, when an EN-
ploye of the bank was killed. The rob-
bers were pursued into the hills and
both were wounded, one of them dying
and Maxwell being captured and SEN
fenced to is years in the state prison.
Five years later he assiSted the prison
guards in defeating a jail delivery and
was awarded for his action with
pardon
Since that time Maxwell had been.
implicated in q number of hold ups and
rohberies: he has to his credit one
stage hod-up and he has passed hund-
reds of dollars worth of bogus checks.
He escaped prosecution in nearly every
case and was never convicted.
spy AT GoLDFIELD.
Three years ago he went to Gold
field, where he was employed by the
mine owners as a spy against the
strikers there. He Joined the union,
worked in the mines, attended the
meetings Of the union and then made
While he was there he was mixed up in
the murder Of Joseph Smith, a restaur-
ant Keeper and was indicted. He
turned states evidence in the case and
was not prosecuted, Shortly afterward
+ he returned to Carbon county. He cell
ebrated his return by shooting up the
town of Helper. In July. 1907. he at
tackled T.. G.. Reidel, q railroad man,
fugitive from Justice and together
men were seriously wounded but re-
covered. Maxwell was discharged after
hearing and nothing more was done
in the case.