The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-04-02

New York.-A will left by Jake Wood
a Staten Island hermit, who died re-
Gently, worth 100000, may be upset be.
cause of Woods reluctance to spend az
extra % cents for a notary's fee. AL
/ the requests are to charitable institu-
lions.
Wood wrote the will himself with per
and ink Folding the document so that
the witnesses could not see a single line
of it, he took 1t to notary and had the
signatures attested, paying the legal fee
of 20 cents.
Later on he desired to add a new
clause and pasted this over a clause
which he Cancelled, thereby avoiding an
extra fee of % cents. The eontesting
relative asserts that this invalidates the
entire document
Port Arthur, Tex.-John w. Gates,
who has returned here from a trip to
the Pacific coast, says he has estab-
lished his Texas citizenship and will
vote here this fall
Il don't know how it will seem to
vote in state where the politics is all
one way" he said, for it don't give a
fellow chance to bet on the result. I
have laid wagers on a good many things
In my lifetime" he continued. "One bet
in particular that 1 made years ago,
kept me interested. l was not as strong
looking in my younger days as l am
now. l was what life Insurance COM
panies call a bad risk: 1 think it was
back in 1877 that friend of mine, who
was a life insurance agent, began wor-
rying me about taking out life insur-
ance policy. | stood him off for while,
but he finally induced me to take out a
policy. He sent me to the company's
physician to have an examination made
OF my physical condition. This doctor
was young-looking, hearty fellow. He
went over me pretty thoroughly and
made report pronouncing me a bad
risk. l knew my condition better than
he did, at any rate was willing to lay
a wager about my length of life.
See here, l said to the young doc
tor, when he turned me down. i've got
enough confidence in this shell of mine
to back it up with a bet
What shall it be?' asked saw
bones, who had a streak of sporting
blood himself
" I'll bet you I live long enough to
plant daisies on your grave. He
laughed and replied:
" All right, it's a CO.
Il kept cases on him, and inside of
five years he had turned up his toes and
1 went to Chicago and fulfilled my part
of the bet by planting daisies upon the
mound Of earth. l got my second wind.
speaking, soon after that bet
was made, and my health has been up
to the usual standard ever since.'
Brussels.-King Albert is one of the
hardest workers in his realm. He rises
at and is quickly at work. There is
a church near the palace, which he at
tends every morning, going without os-
tentation, passing unnoticed by the
people. At 1880 he breakfasts with the
queen. At s the little princes come to
wish their parents good morning, and
TO play with them. For the kings work
az 9 and continues until II, !
when he rides with the queen or motors |
with her; unless. indeed, the queen is |
Kept at home by some of her work for
he poor. The luncheon of the king and |
queen is light, and after luncheon the |
whole day is given up to work within |
ioors and out of doors. At the royal |
oabies are put to bed in a room next to |
heir parents. At 8 the king dimes. The !
aides and gentlemen in attendance dine !
It the royal table, and the dinner is per-
orce ceremonial affair. But the king
s back to his work as soon as he can
cave the table with courtesy.
Paris.-Two police dogs were suffi-
lent to put to flight a number of dis
urbers of the peace at Vincennes and
o secure the capture of eight others the
ther day. A shopkeeper in the district
vas being boycotted for some time, and
atterly he received threats that his shop
would be demolished or burnt down.
NhN ho 70 hn IN, |
0 keep the disturbers away, and when
uiet seemed to be restored they retired.
But Immediately afterward gangs of
MISUNDERSTANDING individuals again ap-
cared, and finally some fifteen of them
ssembled and were going to pillage the
hop.
A telephone call informed the police of
hat was happening and two police
len, with their dogs, were at once dis
atched to the scene. Seven of the men
lok flight but the rest remained and
ltended to put up a good fight against
vo policemen and two dogs, who, they
bought, were no match for them.
The policemen simply let their dogs
rose, and in a few minutes it was all
yer. The rebels capitulated amid yells I
nd groans, as they were being bitten ]
in the calves of their legs
I'LL OlItI ODNlOU0 Dcti 10 VI lllSll DOulSS'
he dogs had made short work of their
and the eight men marched ]
umbly off to the police station, where J
ley were kept in custody
Trinidad, Colo.-Workmen in the main |
rimrise mine Saturday removed the
1dy of the seventy third victim of the [
lplosion of January q, in which sew S
lty-siX miners were killed. The body E
as identified as that of Samuel Wyno e
oh, a Slav driver.
tantfnople-Though the govern a
ent denies the story, it is persistently
Imored here that Abdul Hamid has
me mad, and it is for this reason that
e princes and princesses of his fam
:, exiled to Salonica with the deposed d
Titan, have been allowed to return to l
e capital. Abdul Hamid, the rumor
ms, is unmanageable. 1t is also stated
at he has attempted suicide several
mes. a
st. Petersburg.-Tr the famous po- y
e dog, was taken to Voronesh from
oscow and successfully tracked down =
e murderer of one of the employees on ,
e property of Prince Vasiltchikoff, in
e borough of Pavlovsky. On the train 4
which Tref Travelled passenger was g
bbed of a pocketbook containing over h
30. The services of the ''four-footed n
erlock Holmes" as he is called in the q,
pers, were at once called into requisi- "
N, and after smelling all the passen- a
RS, Tref went for one of them as he 81