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Show n III. VOL. EUREKA, JUAB Editok Miner No dpubt you will, give space to "our side of the Louse". after, you jiad your say for the last two weeks. It. is true that the Mayor and Cify Council agreed tcTserve without pay, when incorporation,' of this'city was first pro posed for the purpose of trying the .experiment of incorporation This, meant, to, attend to the regular routine of business,.' but if a .mem her, of the Council would have to sere on committees, thereby hav, , time taken up during tne ing and in many cases' compelling day, him, to substitute someone else to attend" to- his business in his abd citizen will sence, no bhune-hiif he charges actual ex pejjsqp, foir such tinie, and I doubt ! if any one would be. found who would have been as conservative and modest in their charges as the present City Council, has been, in helping themselves, as you style it, "at the public crib." Had you not misrepresented several things in your paper, I would not have foued it worth while to reply, but in quoting figures, you have quoted them; entirely' wrong, the total of poll tax collected only amounting tq $8'40.OQ and not as you state, to $2,325.' The official report of the street 'Wpervsor, an De P0 ax receipt book showing this fact conclusively. The report of the street was not "drawn up and supervisor ' signed by the Mayor" as 'you claim, but by himself and was submitted to the council, "appended" to to the Mayor's report. On May 1st, the. expenditures on account of working poll tax were $122.50 forbears,' $81 for supervisor's salary 'fold $14.50 for lumber, and this has chiefly been the reason why, after that, date, I personally supervised; the expenditure of the poll lax ani directed the work, for the purpose of curtailing expenses and the ordinance, in accordance-witwhich provides .that the Mayor shall have .supervision of all city officers and in compliance with the' sense of the meeting of the city .council held that time. For tius work from May 1st to August 31st I charged the" extravagant amount of $16. "This may seem exorbitant in your estimation, but in mine it h"is - right-minde- m h was not hall enough for the time devoted from my business and the benefit accomplished. Regarding , ypur statement, that I charge you von with "trvins? to down me no- litically," I wish to say, that you , again misrepresent, I only having used those words to you "I consider this whole business a campaign dodge," and as so far ho primaries or .conventions have been held and no ticket nominated, and I, in my twelve ycar residence here have not appeared before the citizens of Eureka in the capacity of a chronic office seeker, and not having taken 3'ou igto my confidence about run-- k ning for office again 1 don't see why any article of yours could or would "down me politically." In conclusion allow me to say, that you, have been courteously invited, when you first came here, to attend the city council mcetiogtf in the interest f your paper, which invitation has several times been repeated. The city council meetings are public property, but the books of the city are not, according to my interpretation of the ordinances, with the exception of a slate kept by the' city marshal, and as you .misrepresented figures, which are on record in the city recorder's office, I desired the recorder to re4 . - fuse you Hccess to those books, as ample opportunity is offered you 1o get all matters direct from the Public City f.un'.ain head,' to-wi- t: Council Meeting. Your appellation of "Czar of Eureka" I dis claim in all its entirety, being only one of Eureka,s miners, but more proud of the title than of yours, but In am built that way, that I don't propose to be misrepresented by anyone, always doing what I think is right, without fear or fa vor. This will end the controver ;y on my side, no matter how many more items yow propose to print on the subject. Respectfully, COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, SEPTEM2EB L. Green, representing the Symns Grocery Co., of Salt Lake, registered at the Hatfield House "W. Monday. J. W. O'Brien, of Scranton, Pa. , is visiting his brother, P. J. 2nd examining some mining property in which he is interested. Bishop Leonard, of Salt Lake, came down Saturday evening, and held morning and evening service at the Episcopal Church Sunday. Another prodigal,, in the person of Elmer Young, returned Tuesday night. He reports the Capitol dull, and will remain in Eureka awhile. J. L. Maginnis, foreman for R. M. Jones, the Salt Lake electrician, and Larry Kemper, came down on the U. P. Wednesday and will put in the Dew electrical shaft indicator at the Centennial-Eureka. Neither the mayor nor any member of the city council have explained the contradiction of their committee work appropriation by that section of the city ordinances which provides that they shall have interest in any work done for the city, "except as pertains to actual against Tue' Mixer? expenses while serving on commitThe mayor should bear in mind tees." that he is a servant, not a ruler of A party, composed of City Treas- the people, and as such will be urer Blue, City Recorder Blue, called to account for his mistakes Councilor Fullride, Attorney C. L. while acting in that capacity. The Mixer is not criticising him as a Brown, D. McMurphy and "Shor-ty- " man, but as a public officer. Sullivan drove to Goshen Tues A little boy oi ilrs. McDonald's, livday afternoon, to bo on hand at the ing near here, fell against a red hot expiration of the closed season for stove and was fearfully burned. The ducks and geese: They returned pain was terrible, and it was though the burn was so severe- as to scar the yesterday, bringing about fifty child for life. I sold the lady a bottle with them. They killed several( ?) of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. which, greasing the sore, she applied. hundred, but the most of them fell after soon removed the tire and cased the It so far out in the lake as to be be- pain, and in ten days the boy was well, no trace of the scar remaining. J. D. yond reach. McLaren, Keysport, Clinton county, 111. For sale by Eureka Drug Store. Apropos of the mayor's order to ST. L.OUIS IS IX IT. the recorder to allow no represenExceedingly cheap rates to St. Louis tative of The Miner to inspect are now in effect. The Union Pacific the records, we publish the follow- and Missouri Pacific il'ys are running daily Pullman Palace Sleeper from ing from vol. 1, 1741, s. 12 of aSalt Lake City, Cheyenne and Denver the compiled laws of Utah. "In to St. Louis without change. PullDenver to Kansas case the mayor or any municipal man Dining Cars See J. D. Stack, agent U. P. City. officer shall, at any time, wilfully System, Eureka, for detailed informaomit the performance of any duty, tion. A Good Thing to Keep at Hand. or wilfully and corruptly be guilty Troy, (Kas.) Chief. malof oppresssion, malconduct or Some years ago we were very much feasance in the discharge of his of- subject to severe spells of cholera morof the fice, ho shall be liable to indict- bus; and now when we feel any that symptoms that usually precede ment, and on conviction thereof, ailment, such as sickness at the stomfined in a sum not exceeding one ach, diarrhoea, etc., we become scary. We have found Chamberlain's Colic, thousand dollars, and the court un- Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy the best thing to straighten one out der which such conviction shall be very in such cases, and always keep it about. had, shall enter an order removing "We are not writing this as a pay testimonial, but to let our readers know such officer from duty." what is a good thing to keep handy in the home. Tor sale by Eureka Elsewhere in this issue we pub- Drug Store. lish a letter from Mayor Dcprezin. The Vibration of Strainer. As far as that letter relates to his Tho discomfort of the excessive vibraofficial acts, we have no comment tion on board the fast sailing ocean steam-er- a has increased so much with the into make. The readers of The Micrease in tho speed of travel that investiner are familiar with the issues and gations have been made into the subject U is for them to acceptor reject with a view of modifying tho inconventho explanation he oilers for his ience caused to passengers. Tho usual idea is that this vibration is due to the conduct. of tho powerful engines. Thin is action ' As to his charge that The Mi- apparently erroneous, for it is now found ner has misquoted his figures to the that the cause .consists solely in tho uni between the unmkr of revolutions expenditure of poll tax, we cannot son of the engines and the nninhnr of vi'ura- well correct this mistake, if it lias tions of the ship. The smaller the length been made, until the mayor re- of the the gnoter is .the number scinds his arbitrary order of Mon per unit ship of its vibrations. aid the longer day nhrht to the recorder, forbid the steamer tlv. greater is the correspondcling ;um to allow hie ,uinekuc-rojrf- i ing time of its vibration. Kcw York to the record. If we have Itleyrutp. completely cut off from communication with the upper waters as we are from the inhabitants of other planets, we can only vaguely speculate on their habits STRANGE CREATURES OF THE DEEP and judge their manners of life from BR0U4HT TO LIGHT. thoir somewhat remote analogies to tho surface species nearest akin to them. A nJ in ill life That Fall to Pieces AVlien tht Plant life is entirely absent from their ' Pressure of tha Water No Longer Holdl place of abode, and although they doubtIt Together The Bottom of the Sea, less prey upon "each othcir soma original sources of food supply mus f course be What It U Like. to exist. Cosmuolitan. conjectured The new submarine worM now exA Well Filled Postal Card. plored and mapped out presents a very different picture from that painted for At tha "Dusaeldorf exhibition a few tis by the poet?, Eat a short time haa years ago a gentleman showed a postal elapsed since the bottom of the ocean card upon which the whole of the first was supposed to be the counterpart of three books of the Odyssey were written, the face of the earth above water with the remaining space being filled with the hills and valleys, with precipitous moun- transcript of a long "debate which had tains lifting toward the surface and pro- taken place in the German parliament a found gorges sinking to unfathomable short time before. The whole card condepths. The ocean floor is far less di- tained 83)60 words. Boston versified than the land. Here and there, to be sure, islands in Earthquake Phenomena. midocean are the summits of, enormous The wild, untamed earthquake Is a mountains, rising more or less abruptly from a generally level surface, and the terrible tiling to encounter. The "qtiak-iug,- " the rending of the earth's surface sea lying over a narrow, depressed reand the other incidental axomiinimenta Pacific northwestern in the reaches gion its greatest depth. But this is excep- usually described are only a tithe of the tional. In its general character the real terrors of a seismic Bhock. To some ocean bottom consists, of vast fiat or the noise which precedes the teal shock slightly undulating plains., An. extraor- is more terror inspiring , than the dinary circumstance that has been no- "quake" itself. Father Kircher describes ticed with interest and that always cre- these subterranean rumblings as "a horates surprise when first learned is the rid Bound resembling that of an infinite entire absence of foreign matter in the number of chariots driven fiercely forward, mingled with the noise of crackdeeper part of the ocean's floor. Of all the vessels lost in midocean; of ing whips, neighing of horses and the all the human beings that have been cries of victory and despair on the part drowned; of all the marine animate that of the charioteers." I no sounds wnlcn preceded the great have perished; of all the clay, sand and Lisbon of. earthquake are said to have relet fall gravel by dissolving icebergs; sembled "the rumbling of empty omniall the various substances drifted from chariots and barrels, the noise in- - . buses, shore not a currents, by shifting every volume in until it equaled the trace remains, but ia their place water creasing from 1,000 to 2,500 fathoms in depth roar of a thousand cannons." Another covers the uniform deposit cf thick, blu- peculiarity ia the gyratory motion that ish, tenacious 6lime called globigerina is frequently imparted to sections of ooze. A bit of this under a powerful earth of greater or lesser area. At in 1755 several stone houses in the lfns is a revelation of beauty not readily lower is ooze almost The quarters of the city were turned composed forgotten. Around. thiR. too. 'without romnletfllv of the daintiest, most delicately entirely rendering them uninhabitable, St, beautiful shells imaginable. At depths greater than 2,500 fathoms Louis Republic. the bottom of the sea consists mainly of Whore Frank Ii. Stockton Lives. products arising from exposure, for alFollow the Morristown road, past one most incalculable periods, to the .client ical action o sea water, of prvrnice audi country seat after another, for a quarter, other volcanic matters. This finally re- of a mile, and you come to Kitchell ave- -' sults in tho formation of the red clay de- nue. You are in Morristown now, but to posits that are considered characteristic in reality nearer Madison, Turn the of the profoundest depths of the ocean. left, and the first place you come to is Carbonate of lime, which in the form of surrounded by a low stone wall. Through tha shells of foraioinif era, makes up so iron gates a graveled roadway leisurely passing beneath huge everlarge a part of the globigerina ooze, is turns, and greens reaches a yellow and white frame here almost entirely absent. Sea water is very nearly a universal house, with a veranda in front and a solvent, and before any shell, large or tower at the farther end. Opposite the small, reaches the bottom of these tre- doorway, beneath the great trees, is a mendous abysms it is chemically eaten rustic seat and a rustic table.' Between two of the trees is swung up, literally dissolved a result which a hammock, and in pleasant weather must water of tha enormous pressure the R. Stockton lies in the hammock Frank the fathoms hasten. At 1,000 materially his fanciful tales to his wife, dictating weight of the water pressing on all sides of an object immersed to that depth is who sits on the rustic settee. It is an an author, situated upon very nearly one ton to the square inch, ideal home for or more than 100 times that sustained at an eminence commanding miles of counand the sea level, and at the greatest depths try, removed from the main road Adver-tiseNewark a surrounded by grove. would is so increased it that the pressure seem nothing could withstand it. In fact, heavy metal cylinders let down with A New Crater In the Moon. the sounding apparatus are sometimes, In a bulletin of the, Astronomical sobeing drawn up again to the surface, ciety of the Pacific Professor Weinek, found bent and collapsed; strongly made director of the observatory of Prague, glass vessels which the metal enclosed who is a specialist in the study of the are shattered into fragments.. moon and to whom have been sent In the profoundost abysms of the eea copies of the Lick negatives of the moon, are strange forms of life that never, save has discovered in pne of the Lick phowhen broughtup by the trawl, see the upa crater which is not to bo tographs per light. The work carried on by means found on Schmidt's This object, of the United States fish commission ves- which is estimated to map. be about a quarter sel, tho Albatross, has established the of a mile in diameter,, is of sufficient size fact that forms of sea life inhabiting up- to have been seen by Schmidt, and it is per waters may descend to about 1,200 difficult to imagine that the distinguished feet from the surface, but that below seleuographer overlooked it. this, to a depth of 800 or 280 fathoms, a barren zone intervenes where marine Quick Action. life seems absent. Put still deeper, "Center line sent a story to a magazine strange to say, has been discovered an the.other and got back a queer r abundant and varied fauna, new to sci- ply. Theyday said the story "lacked rapidence, living under conditions of tremen- ity in movement.'" dous pressure and paucity of the life "Well, where's the qneemess of that?" sustaining clement of oxygen that in"You see, he sent the M3. one day and duced an eminent zoologist to say quite got it back the next, and he considered recently, "What we know of tho great- that rapid movement." Kate est ocean depths forbids us to expect to Field'spretty Washington. find them inhabited by living organisms." Hera indeed survive forms of IiouUJy InolUd. lifo the like of which no inhabitant of Biblelot Tiens, canaille! What do tho upper world, not oven tho sun him- you mean by' writing to my wife and self, has looked upon before tho dredges calling her your "belle Warier" of tho Challenger, the Albatross, the Fipelot Mille pardons, m'sienr. I I Blake and similarly equipped vessels thought the lady was your daughter. dragged up laarino creatures from conBibelot Sacre bleu! Word still-Vogenial cold and dark. It might reasonably bo scppoFed that When you make a mistake, don't look these denizens c f creat sea depths would be built more firmly nd strongly than back at it long, Take the reason of the surface animals to resist the pressure of thing into your mind and then look fortho element i:i which they live, but it is ward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. past cannot Iw changed. The futurs just the contrary. The most universal The is in your power. Kngh Vhit. is yet the thesa creatures of characteristic looseness and flabbiness of texture thoy The first military order Wned by Genexhibit. Indeed they seem to neel the d eral Giant, dated July 2. excessive pressure f tho water alwut E. T. ll.iwsou 'Joluuel quarterthem to keep their porta together, for Illinois, is in when they aro brought to the surface master of the Tventy-fir?- t who is of (.'olouel Dawson, nshcfston they aro ready to fall to pieces. It is a j it. for ii.iiCu have to sid tL-of some problem, to strangely nrt farmed, how they can move from place The last words of Jofcr. Locke were. to place. Wfro they not entirely below "1 have lived long enough, and I tin the ditturbiug clement of wave action, Intve m joyed a happy life. thankful they would, to nil eppearance s. be mi nftr all hx.k on this life as notlj- . - . . Co-lar- es ; , i r. , . 0 i 22. IN OCEAN'S DEPTHS. misquoted him, it has been unintentional on our part, and we will cheerfully make correction by publishing the report verbatim. As to the appellation of the title of "Czar of Eureka," if not before applicable, the mayor certainly made it so by his action at the the council meeting Monday night, when, after the council had debated as to their authority in debarring The Mixer from the privileges accorded every elector, he said, "1 take it on my own responsibility to refuse The Mixer access to those books;' this by authority of the city ordinance which declares that the mayor b the chief executive of the city and shall have charge of all city officers." If this is not the spirit of a "Dictator," in the name of common sense what is it? The mayor says, "The city council meetings are public property, but the books of the city are not, according to my interpretation of the ordinances. " We would like to know of His Honor if the city or dinances prohibit any elector from examining those records? If so, they are in conflict with the Utah statutes, which designate the duties of the. recorder in Salt Lake, Ogden, Logan and all other cities incorporated under those statutes, as follows: "It shall be the duty of the recorder to make and keep accurate records of all ordinances made by the city council, and all their proceedings in a corporate capacity; which record shall at. all times be open to the inspection of the electors of the city "and all other parties interested." By what right does the mayor arrogat jo to himself the power to discriminate Hugo Depeezm. 22, IS93. . gue. j ref-;Hi- m 1 help-lot'- v tfetbalitir.;j thjeso jbriMsil trtcss,.1" .l |