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Show ijC tcue go STAND1NU OniTMtl Mob tbs 1 DEMAND DYNAMITERS $50,000 FROM NORTHERN PACIFIC. WIXOM, Proprietor. Tarai ! KMttoai RAILWAY BLACKMAIL IM tdruoi.,m.HM Declare That a Refusal to Pay Down Thi Sum Will Result in Wholesale Destruction of Property. ot Brif hm City os IklM o5 S6 Pool OAoo tiUrid mTOi oooood sioss notvsr. Bilim ITANDIltO. Editor. iMtmdlM Is I tons of Mm oooosrp. Ma CorrospoadsBts. ort solid tod from oU pom of Writs opto Ml sldo of tbs poptr only. WrlM propor oswso ploioty. Is snUr is pmssl too oublisbsr from Impositions frooi IrrospoostMS psrssos, ths full Asms of tbs author saooM bo aicosd wail eon CSiioidoitoos. Tbs rasoUtf of oorrospoadsois srtli bo withhold wbsMTor dsairod. PUBLISHED IVIRY THURSDAY. UTAH STATE NEWS. Smallpox has broken out at Sallna, the mission Bcliools'have been closed. Mrs. Mary Snow of Thurber City baa been appointed cook at the Fort Apache Indian agency. William Burrows has been appointed regular and A. Spencer Iree delivery carrier at Sandy. The county fair at Parowan proved to be a remarkably successful affair, the exhibits being flue and the attendance good. There seems to be no check In the typhoid epidemic in Salt Lake City, there being 100 cases At the closing of the week. ' The Socialists of Salt Lake City .have placed a ticket In the field to be voted on at the forthcoming municipal election. A dispatch from San Francisco says that Isaac Russell, a Salt Laker, has - been selected as toastmaster for the Stanford Press club. The convention of the State Teachers association has been changed from October 6th, 7th and 8th to October 6th, bth and 7th. Mrs. Elizabeth Rausch of Salt Lake City sustained a severe shock and bad scalp wound by stepping oft backward from a moving car. It is claimed that a company Is being formed In Buffalo, N. Y., to extract that rare metal, radium, from the uranium beds of Oraud county. And now the powers that be have bedded that there are no typhoid germs In the milk sold to Salt Lake CUy consumers, but that the milk Contains too much water. And sub-rur- - , The recent fire in Price will probably result in the erection of a system t of waterworks, the business men having finally decided that suitable waterworks are an absolute necessity. A crusade against tobacco dealers , , Who sell cigarettes to minors was begun In Salt Lake City last week, when two dealers were arrested charged ,wlth selling cigarettes t6 lxys. The level of Great Salt Lake is said fallen nearly three feet during the past summer. It now stands at a point that Is several feet lower than It baa ever been known to be to have before. ,t While hunting near Park City, Willie Irvine accidentally shot James Dunsmore with a rifle, the ball striking Dunsmore lnte the stomach, inflicting a very dangerous wound. Word has been received of the death In the east of Arthur Van Meter. Mr. Van Meter will be remembered as the man who fasted for forty days In Salt lake City In an endeavor to cure dropsy. On the 22nd the colored population of Salt Lake City celebrated emancipation day, at the meeting in the Methodist church building a num- ber of prominent colored men delivering addresses. Mary N. Collins, about 20 years of age, whose home Is In Bench, Idaho, aulclded at the Cullen hotel in Salt Lake City by taking strychnine. It is thought the girl had become crazed over religious matters. An abstract of reports from the national banks of Utah st close of business on September 9th, shows the lawful money reserve has Increased since June 9th from 1284,718 to $331,-00The Individual deposits throughout the state have increased 8559,863 aince last June. A "rogues gallery" of shoplifters will probably be established In Salt Lake City by several of, the prominent dry goods houses as a result of the crusade inaugurated by them against this kind of theft. Joseph Bragg has been arrested in Ogden, charged with passing counterfeit money. It is believed that somewhere in the vicinity of Ogden is a counterfeiters den where the coin is and that others are manufactured, Implicated. The money passed by Bragg was silver dollars. Allen Powson. employed on a steam launch at the Lucin fainted and fell under a large bis skull being crushed and death being Instantaneous. Powson was affected with heart disease and subject to fainting spells. It is said that last week 300 Greek laborers on the Lethbridge line of the Great Northern at Great Falls. Mont., quit work and started for Salt Lake to work on the Salt Lake route. The management had meant to displace I them with Japanese, and learning of this, they quit in a body. E. C, Schuster, a Salt Lake messenger boy, turned a corner sharply on his wheel In the usual manner of messenger boys, and struck Mrs. F. H. King, who had a child in her arms, which was thrown to Pavement and bruised. - -Schuster was landed inbadly Jail. 6. cut-of- f, ' It has developed that the reeent attempts to dynamite the bridges and track on the line of the Northern Pacific between Llving9ton and Missoula are In furtherance of a plot to force the railway company to pay $50,000 for Immunity from the outrages. reIn August last the company ceived a letter demanding $25,000, and It was threatened If the terms proposed were not agreed to, dynamite would be used on the line. No attention was paid to the demand and shortly after the railroad was partially bridge at Livingston wrecked by dynamite, and a few nights later another stick of dynamite was exploded near Bozeman under a passing train. Othor letters followed, and the dynamiters proposed that the company pay $50,000, and If it acceded to the demand it was to carry a white flag on engines hauling trains, and Sept. 22 was to run a light engine from Butte to Missoula and at a point on the road it was to stop on a signal and an agent of the company was to pay over the money. The company, hoping to catch the men, put out the white flags and on the night agreed upon ran the light engine. Behind It followed another engine, pulling two cars. One was filled with armed sheriffs and deputies, and the other contained horses and bloodhounds. The run was made from Butto to Missoula, but there was no signal, and It was thought the men had been seared off. Shortly after the letters began to arrive again from the dynamiters, making the same demand and telling the railroad If it agreed to the tprms to put the flags on the engines. This the railroad company has not done, and In the past two weeks there have been four attempts to damage the line by the use of dynamite. flAVED BY PLAYMATES.' ROBBERS ARE FOILED KEFFER EXECUTED. Murderer Walked Calmly to the Gal-- , lows and Made a Speech. James Keffer was banged In the court house yard at Lander, Wyo., Friday morning. The trap was sprung at 10:15 and Keffers neck was broken. His body wag cut down eight minutes later and an autopsy held. The brain of the murderer was found to be perfectly normal, thus disproving the claim of Keffer and his friends that he was insane. Keffer had been on the verge of collapse for several days, but be braced up the night before the execution. He slept well and ate a hearty breakfast. He bade his fellow prisoners farewell and while Sheriff Stough was preparing him for the execution Keffer told Stough to not get excited. Keffer walked calmly to the gallows and while the black cap and noose were being adjusted he made a short speech in which be said the jury that convicted him had made a mistake and would realize It some day. The crime committed by Keffer was one of the most brutal and affairs In the history of the state. Keffer was employed by Stage Station Tender Warren. Warren was In the bablt of keeping a considerable sum of money in the house, and this fact coming to the knowledge of Keffer he determined to secure the money. Arming himself with a shotgun one night Keffer went to Warrens cabin, and while the old man was asleep In hls bed, blew out bis brains. d FOILED TRAIN ROBBERS. Engineer on New York Road Disappoints Holdups. Because the trained eye of Engineer George W. Boss recognized in the awkward swing of a lantern the work of a novice, be pulled the throttle wide open and drove hls train swiftly by a danger signal set dead against him and frustrated what he believed to have been an attempt to hold up the boat train at Plummers ledge, a to Governor of Child Attempt Kidnap lonesome spot a mile north of Whit-In-s of Nebraska Failed. station, R. I., on the New York, as made Saturday An attempt New Haven & Hartford railroad, last girl of night to kidnap the Governor Mickey of Nebraska. While night Four cars full of passengers, four of the governors children were unconscious of peril met and avoided, were landed safely In Providence. playing In front of the mansion an unknown man rame along and tried to Thirty-fou- r Sailors Drowned. carry the oldest girl away. The other The United States weather bureau children clung to her clothes and screamed. The man was so badly at Norfolk, VtL, on Friday night refrightened when ho saw neighbors ceived Information from the Curltuck coming that he dropped the child and life saving station that the stern of a ran. steamer bearing the name, "Beatrice, Governor Mickey says that the New York, was pounding bottom up warden of the penitentiary, Mr. reported to him twice that a in the breakers of Caffeys Inlet life Is The wreckage kidnaping attempt had been prophe- saving station. sied by the convicts. One convict thought to be from the fishing' steamsaid some time ago that such a plan had been formed as a way of getting er Beatrice, which was caught in the revenge upon the governor for his recent hurricane when south of Delrefusal to Interfere when William aware breakwater, September 16. She Rhea was banged last summer for carried a crew of thirty-fivmen and murder. was loaded with 400 barrels of cod' Trade of the fish. Philippines. The returns of Philippine commerce Hair In His Appendix. for May, 1903, show the foreign trade J. J. Snyder, a clgarmaker, of Sioux of the islands aggregated for the City, Iowa, has had an attack of apmonth $6,872,982, exclusive of governdue to biting off hls muspendicitis, be-ment supplies and gold and silver, ; tache and swallowing the hair. Snyder lng even greater than that reported was removed to a hospital and an for April of the present year, the The surgeons operation performed. value of which exceeded that for any found In the appendix a number of single month since American occupahairs which matched the patients tion. mustache, hut were different from the Importations amounted to $3,391,-65being considerable In excess of hairs on hls head. These were prothe monthly average, as a result of nounced the direct cause of the attack. heavy purchases of foodstuffs. The outgoing trade included shipments of After recovering consciousness Snyder acknowledged he had a habit of Philippine products to the value of For eleven months ended continually biting the ends of hls musMay 31, 1903, the total trade amount- tache. ed to $60,576,245, while for the corNordlca at ths Tabernacle. responding period of 1902 the value was $50,824,090. An event of unusual Importance Is the appearance In the tabernacle, Balt Child Whipped In Court. By order of Recorder Lazarus, sit- Lake City, October 14th, of the great ting at Bayonne, N. J., Katie Kanter, diva, Nordlca, the Metropolitan Opera 9 years old, has been publicly whipped House Symphony of New York, MaIn court by her father. The latter laid dame Fisk, contralto, and Franko, the his offspring across his knees and ap- celebrated violinist Arrangements have 'just been made by George D. plied fifty lashes with a while an audience which Includ- Pyper, manager of the Salt Lake Theed fifty women, looked on. atre, for the appearance of this comThe victim confessed to having bination, and music lovers all through stolen eggs from the grocers and Utah .should not lose the chance of taught her playmates to help them- being present selves In the Bayonne stores to all sorts of trinkets. Jett Sentenced to be Hung. Curtis Jett was brought Into court Mother Saw Babo Drowned. Word has been received of the at Cyntblana, Ky., on Friday, when drowning of the youngest child of Judge Osborne decided that he be Charles Thexl In a dam at Otter, a hanged "between sunrise and aunaet, Cock-rismalj stock town near Miles City, December 18, for killing Jamea at Jackson, Ky., July 21, 1902." Mont. The child was playing on the edge of the water when It fell in. The When Judge Osborne said he would mother witnessed the accident and send the prisoner to another jail, Jett fearlessly plunged Into the water and pleaded earnestly not to be returned searched frantically for the babe, but to Lexington, Ky. Judge Blanton the little one failed to come to the filed papers giving his grounds for a surface. Five hours later the body new trial preparatory to carrying the was recovereu. It appears that when the child went down it caught among case to the court of appeals at Franksome snags and was held fast fort Warning From Bulgarians. Judge Advocate General Decides Soldier May Become Postmasters. Sensational rumors are current at Judge Advocate General Davis of Sofia that Bulgaria has sent an ultithe army has rendered an opinion matum to Turkey, announcing that that there Is no legal objection to the unless satisfactory assurances are at once that the Ottoman acceptance cf an enlisted man of the army of an office under the federal troops will be withdrawn Immediately government, the duties of which are from the frontier, Bulgaria will forthnot incompatible with his military du- with mobilize her whole army. The ties. The question arose In the case reports, however, are categorically deof the appointment of an ordnance ser- nied by the foreign office at Sofia, which declares that no such ultimageant stationed nt Fort Fremont, S. tum has been sent The officials add C.. for the posliiou of United States that the situation is unchanged. postmaster at that place, Canal May Prevent Famine. Berlin Public Scandal. The government has decided to Coiruption in the public service was build a canal from Lake Taal, P. L, to shown up at the trial of Herman the sea at an expense of $200,000, out secretary of the prosecuting at- of the congressional relief fund. This one of of two Berlins criminal torney will give Batangas province an outcourts, who was accused of selling inUs products. Governor Taft formation to Indicted persons. There let for has received additional just reports of were five specifications. Including one distress among the natives of Batanthe former Involving emperors Negroes. Tayabas and Cebu, the banker, Edward Sandman, director of gas, result of failure of the crops owing the Prussian Mortgage bank, who s to the ravages of locusts. The govsentenced In July, 19u2, to six years' ernment Is now distributing $350,000 Imprisonment, and to pav a fine of worth of rice among the afflicted. $3 750 for falsifying balance sheets. t Bee-me- r, e ll TO LOOT A ON O. R. & N. ATTEMPTED TRAIN Express Messenger Shoots and Kills While the One of the Bandits, Rest of the Gang Fled Without Securing Any Booty. The Atlantic express on the Ore- gon Railroad & Navigation line which left Portland at 8:15 p. m., Wednes- OF METHODS KEEPING Is a Lead Pencil Worth More Than a Pen? The supervision of every store bould extend to the books. is always the best The simplest method of expression. Why use a pen, penholder, ink and erasers, when a pencil with a rubber on the end will supply all demands better, cheaper and witn less labor. Is there any good reason why a retail merchant should not keep his books in lead pencil? One of Chicago's largest wholesale houses does. Ii pencil is used then the books can be of cheaper paper and less expensive. There-!- f re, I think a retail merchant's books should be kept with a hard lead or Indelible pencil. It Is easier, cleaner, takes less time and makes the correction of errors quicker and easier. Ink is no safeguard against errors or dishonesty. A man can falsify and steal as easily through Ink as through pencil. Bookkeeping is only memorandum work anyhow. Make it as simple and tasy as possible. Dont waste profit in ink. It Is the little leaks that eat up the profits. Unnecessary labor is a leak. Expensive paper in books Is wasteful. I believe In cheap paper and pencils, bright boys and girls who can add and subtract, and good common sense business judgment to tell them how to put the figures down so they will add up something to show the movement of the business. Victor Robertson in Credit Alans Bulletin. day. was held up by four masktd men at 9:30 near Corbett station, twenty-onmiles east of Portland. One of the robbers was shot and Fred killed by Express Messenger Kornor, and Engineer Ollie Barrett was seriously woundod by tbe same bullet. After the shooting the robbers fled, without securing any booty. ' Two of the highwaymen boarded the train at Troutaale, and after the train had got under way they crawled over to the tender and, covering the engineer and fireman with revolvers, told them to stop at mile post 21, which Is near Corbett station. When the train slowed down two more men appeared. Two of the robbers compelled the engineer to get out of the cab and accompanying them to the express the car, while the others watched several fireman. The men carried sticks of dynamite, and when they WAS GOING TOO FAR. came to the baggage car, thinking it was the express car, threw a stick Mail Carrier Thought Advertising at the door. Was Being Carried to Excess. Express Messenger Kornor heard Yes, said the rural mail carrier, I believe that advertising pays, and the explosion and Immediately secured hls rifle and opened fire. The all that; but some people overindulge bullet pierced the heart of one of the In it Now there is a Mr. Whooper, robbers and went through bis body, the rich city man, who owns the new house calls it hls country residence entering tbe left breast of Engineer down the Brownsville road. Its on Barrett, who was just behind him. my route, you know. Mr. Whooper Barretts wound Is above the heart made hls money selling a corn salve and is not necessarily fatal. he invented; and hes got a nice place After the shooting the other three out there. Ill say that certainly, ' robbers fled without securing any but Its spoiled for me. Whats matter with the it? asked took and It is booty, supposed they to a boat which they had moored at the postmaster. Well, you know I had mail to dethe bank of the river. liver there this morning, the first mail since the Whoopers arrived yesterBOLLES IN THE TOILS. day. And what do you think? On a big rug at the front door there was Is Identified as the Slayer of a the world salve in letters a foot long. Denver Boy. Advertising corn cure, and on a foot Russell Bolles, arersted at Vanwiper In front of his own door, too! murcouver, B. C.,'on the charge of Im disgusted. Oh, dering Harold Fridborn, aged 14, and you pronounce the word in wrong, said the postmaster. It has assaulting hls sister Florence, Denver, Colo., In 1901, has been con- two syllables, and Is Latin, and sal-vAt a fronted by Miss Florence, who de- sounds something like clares he Is the man who committed portal it means welcome. I donT care. It's too suggestive, the crime. Bolles enters a strenuous thats what it is. asserted the cardenial. The children were skating rier, as he turned to the ice water when the man made Improper propos- tank. New York Times. als to the girl. The boy defended A Marvelous Watch. his sister and was killed by the fiend, A marvelous watch Is that of which after which he assaulted the girl. Bolles declares he has a complete a gentleman in Berlin is the proud owner. It Is less than a quarter of alibi. an Inch In diameter, the face being about the size of the head of a small to Go Africa. Battleships May drawing-pin- . The case is of gold, In case the condition of affairs In and the whole watch weighs under will withdrawal the Turkey two grains (the two hundred and forjustify of thje cruisers Brooklyn and San tieth part of an ounce, troy). The works and hands are of the finest Francisco from Beirut and the gunboat Machlas from Port Said, where tempered steel, and the jewels consist of minute fragments of diamond. they have been for the past few But even this does not exhaust its weeks. It Is probable that all those marvels. It actually has a tiny dial vessels, comprising the present Eu- to mark the seconds, just as so many ropean squadron, will be sent to Ji- large watches have. The hand of buti, the port on the east side of this dial Is less than of Africa. The purpose of this cruise an Inch long. It Is a keyless watch Is to show the Interest taken by the of the latest pattern, and the owner United States In the establishment would not sell it for five hundred of Intimate commercial relations with pounds. Probably there is no tinier timepiece In the world. Its marvels the government of Abyssinia. of workmanship can only be properly appreciated with the aid of a microLiquor Men 8upport Tammany. scope. Cassell's Saturday Journal The state convention of New e Fourteen-- Year-Old e. the York Wine, Liquor and association. In session at Schenectady, became a partisan organization. President Dolan advised all members Beer-Deale- We Parted In Silence. We parted In silence, we parted by night, On the banks of that lonely river. Where the fragrant limes their boughs unite. We met and we parted forever. The night-bir- d sang, and the stars above Told many a touching story Of friends long passed to the kingdom of love. Where the soul wears its mantle of glory. to array themselves against the administration of Governor Odell, and the convention adopted resolutions protesting against the license legislation enacted by the last legislature and calling for an organization In Wo parted in silence our cheeks were wet every county and city in the state With the tears that were past controlwhich will use every endeavor to ling: elect Democratic candidates for the We vowed we would never, no, never forlegislature. get. CHANGE BOOKS. And those vows at the time were conGermans Use Much Booze. soling; those lips that echoed the sounds of But The statistics of the Imperial mine Are as cold as that lonely river; health office show that the total spent that eye, that beautiful on alcoholic liquors in 1902 through- And shrine. spirits out the German empire was about Has shrouded its fires forever. $625,000,000, an average per head for And now on the midnight sky I look. persons over 15 years of age of $65. And my heart grows full of weeping; Each star is to me a sealed book. The health office has Issued a pamSome tale of that loved one keeping. In not while which, advocating We parted in silence, we parted in tears phlet On the banks of that lonely river; total abstinence, it says total abstinence Is not any disadvantage to But the odor and bloom of those bygone years Shall hang oer its waters forever. health, and does not destroy the . Mrs. Julia Crawford. working ability. A mass of material Is arranged for popular understandThe Turtles Eighty-OnLives. ing, showing the injurious effects of The way cats cling to their proveralcohol. bial nine lives is well known, but the 13 LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. average turtle will make a tougher 8ald Pasha Anxious to Declare War stand than nine ordinary cats. Perhaps boiling will kill a turtle at once, Against Bulgaria. hut any other method seems hopeless! The relations between Turkey and The severed head of a snapping Bulgaria are dally becoming more turtle will bite for an hour after sepastrained. Rumors are current of a ration from the body. But more woncrisis at Ylldlz Kiosk and that the derful is the indifference of the green grand viziershlp has been offered to turtle of the West Indies to mutilaSaid Pasha, who was unceremoni- tion. A party of naturalists lately reously dismissed last year, but that turned give an account of an experihe declines io take over again the ment which proves beyond doubt that office unless he Is authoMzed to de- the green turtles Intelligence does clare war on Bulgaria, which the sul- not lie In Its head. tan hesitates to do. A green turtle, found on the beach turned and made for the water. One Colonel Escapes Imprisonment. of the party severed its head with Colonel E11 R. Sutton, former reg- an axe and turned the body around. ent of the state university and promi- The headless turtle ran. then stopped nent In Michigan Republican politics and turned towards the water again. during Governor Plngrees adminUnerring Childhood. istrations, who returned from Mexico The child is so often right. It has to plead guilty to the charge of connot the miscellaneous knowledge of spiracy to defraud the state by means person who reads newsof the notorious military clothing the grown-uIn Lansing, deal, arrived Mich., papers and keeps a tame Encyclopeand entered hls plea of guilty. Judge dia Britannica in a carefully devised West gave Colonel Sutton a severe cage. But the childish mind has an scoring and then imposed a fine of unerring logical faculty, not in any which Suttn- - immediately way confused by superfluity of $2,000, paid. IN THE LANGUAGE. New Words for Old Things Continually Cropping Up. "Our American language changes Indiso fast that one vidual can hardly keep up with It, says a man who has recently returned to Washington after a year In the far south, says the Washington Post. New words for old things come into use so rapidly that a man needs a dictionary to understand what people say if he happens to have been out of the world for a year or two. When was last in Washington we had no other slang word for negro but coon, and, as to the origin of the term, I have never been able to learn anything. I saw thousands of negroes in the south, and I heard them called coons. When I came back here a newsboy had a new word ready for me. I saw a crowd a little way up the street, and asked him what it meant. Oh, said he, it's only the hurry-u- p wagon for a couple o shakes that was fighting. " Shakes, said I. What on earth are shakes? Aw, gwan, said the newsboy; 'you know what shakes shakers are. Theyre coons. I dons know how generally used the word is. but it seems to have come from the west, so far as I can find out, and a St. Louis man says that shaker Is a corrupt derivation of chocolate. Anyway, its a new slang word for negro, and it is brand new, for one never heard of it in Washington a year ago. single-hande- d RELICS OF OTHER DAYS. Stocks and the Pillory Still Stand ln English Country Places. In addition to its cheese, Cheshire England, is famous for black and white houses, and old market crosses the latter as often as not are to be seen In conjunction with ths stocks. One of the most perfect speck mens of this ancient form of punishment is to be seen in the marketplace of the little town of Lymm, together with the old market-crosstanding on a foundation of sandstone rock, which breaks through the pavement of cobblestones. A few years ago the remains of the pithe stocks, but llory stood beside through neglect they fell to pieces .and no longer strike terror into the DINNERS TO BUSINESS MEN. heart of the evildoer. Prestbury, one of the prettiest vll- Heads of Departments Remembered lages in Cheshire. Is near Macclesfield, e and is particularly rich in in This Way by Employers. Twenty years ago the president of relics. One of the most interesting a big company, the owner of a big of these is the Priests House, which, business or industry, would as soon as its name implies, was once the residence of the parish parson. It is one have thought of asking his subordinate heads of departments to spend of the most perfect specimens of the summer at his country home as black and white ln the country, and of giving them a formal dinner once also possesses the distinction of beor twice a year. Now the formal ing one of the few remaining oil? dinner-givinpractice is so common that it is almost taken for granted. The big corporations of the country give annual dinners to heads of departments which cost thousands of dollars. Even mercantile firms, small in comparison, are in the habit of meeting their chief employes around the dining board. There are several reasons for this Interesting development. In the first place, Americans are learning to enjoy the formal dinner, with Its elaborate menu, Its wine and its speeches. Then the capitalist has come more and more to realize how much of his success is due to his heads of departments. Oftentimes he gives them an interest in the concern or corporation, and immediately they begin to work for the concern as well as the comWISS7P fJOOSZ pany. Anything that will bind them closer to the employers interests is clergy houses. The gallery connectnot overlooked, and a dinner once in ing the two wings was formerly used a while Is one of these. as an outside pulpit. s old-tim- PSTMW Taming a Terror. Dick Deadeye was a bandit bold, a bandit fierce was he, who hold up stages, trains, and things here in the west , countree. He'd lie In waiting In a place where chaparral grew thick, and when the stage came on apace would turn hls little trick. gurgling gore. The many men that rumor said h downed in gun disputes would fil graveyard to the brim with stiffs in their boots. The cash and treasure he had got ft tourists as a loan was heap tii more than was required to ransom len Stone. "Hands up! he yelled one day; the n who drove chewed not the rag-kneDeadeye would him ten i centum of the swag. give Climb down an git In line! unto passengers he yelled. They ou obeyed as tourists do when they upward held. From out the sage a female came. D Deadeye quaked with fear, as n him drew the ancient dame and sei him by the ear! "You wretch!" she cri ' you relic of the past, Ive sought ' ear, and li yu Ive.8?ught you at laet! Im all Impatient now to hear what st KklV11:" An I1611 he pul ear into the chaparral! 2 Again the wheeJs began to bum, di er scratched hta head. That the mus COme from yar heWiaV68 How He Got Her. Some New England swains find Courting easy. Tomkins, said the head of the firm, you are a perymal friend of Mr. Robertsons, I understand. account from him. Nobody else and its a long time overdue." Tomkins agreed to try, but the morning his face wore a some curious expression. Well, said the bead, any li "I I dont know, said Ton "You see, I called there last i and saw the old man. Mr. R( son, I said to him, Ive called b you If And then he caugh up. That? all right, my boy, he; you can have her. I hope'-bhappy! Then he told me I si find Amanda downstairs, and ths door on me. HALE AND HAPPY AT 101. Old Lady Insists She Grows Stronger as She Grows Older. Mrs. Thyrza Beckwith Gray has lived 101 years. She celebrated her birthday at Oswego, N. Y., recently, by giving a family party at her home at Tallman and West Seventh streets and by sitting for a photograph with her daughter, Mrs. Mary Case, and her son, William Gray. Mrs. Gray Is in good health and says she grow stronger as she grows older. Her sight Is falling, but otherwise her senses are perfect. She is s famous cook and declares that there is nothing she enjoys better than making a batch of mince pies, unless It Is eating one. She was ten years old when ths war of 1812 broke out, and she remembers many incidents of that period. Oswego was then only a trading post During the past year Mrs. Gray has spun the flax and woven several tablecloths and sets of table napkins for her daughter, just as she used to do when Mrs. Gray first commenced housekeeping. Beachy Head Falla Away. Beachy Head, with Its seven white cliffs of varying height, called the Seven Sisters, says the London Times, headIs a prominent and land on the south coast, the highest point being 550 feet above the level the of high water. Unfortunately, cliff in front of the lighthouse of late years has shown signs of Insecurity, which ln 1893 culminated ln a heavy fall, amounting, it is estimated, to no less than 85,000 tons of chalk. Again In 1896 another dislodgement occurred of an estimated quantity of 89,000 tons. By these serious downfalls the distance be well-know- n e p -- So this is 'J vv the place senators eat their epicui is It? asked a lady with lets and a determined ca tenance. Yes, maam, the guar Precisely at that mome gave an order for the ti from Michigan, who were gether. He said: "Senator Bur an apple and a glass of ml ator Alger wants a dish pudding. Saturday Even Can't Understand It. After a man has tried for of an hour to light a with cry kindling wood, it is hard fire for him to see how a fire insurance comever lose a cent New York pany can ' Press. -- three-quarte- Oldest Military Company. The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company" of Boston, Mass was organized in 1S37. It Is. the oldest military company in the United States and the second oldest in the world. tween the lighthouse tower and the cliff edge was reduced from 100 to 70 feet, and there are not wanting sign that further disintegration of the cliff may sooner or later take place. Thus has arisen the necessity for a taw lighthouse, on a more stable and enduring site. Engineer Earned Money. When Engineer Warboy took tbs special train chartered by Mr. Low to take.him to his daughters bedside, the latter. In hls anxiety to complete his wonderful Journey, offered $50 for every minute gained by the engineer over the schedule. The run from San Bernardino to Los Angeles Is 60 miles, and Warboy covered the distance In C2 minutes, nine minutes ahead of the' schedule. A great part of the run was at the rate of a mile for every 50 seconds. |
