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Show V ,, ,1 hjuV i. f L mUw! UlAtf, DECEMBER , GUARDIANSHIP AND NOTICES. PROBATE . : - , : I r Ooniult County Clerk or tho Respective Signers, For Further Information By W. L. ALDEN. ' fCopyrlght. Notlos to Creditor. Estat of James Browa, Deceased. Creditor will pretent claim with Toucher to the undenigned at her residence In be Cache County, Stale of Ctah. on or " H9 for the7th day of January, r ' Executrix of the Jam ell-Til- l. A..SHOWN, dabuMNS will, and testament of Brown, deceased iniit Sitate of Andrew Christensen. ' ceased. Notice. ' O- - De- -. The petition of Cbrlswsu U Chrw-ti ilstntor rf the estate of audrew tiaen, deceased, prayiny for an order to sell tne lollow n d ended personal property of said decedent, to wit: t aeamleaa sacks, 125 Chrlat-tiTerae- iii o twis luctru hay. 1 waann, S I ulnar I mu ic machine, 2 furniture, baa 'Ore,Mrt for hea.-ln-lacj h.HiHciioM on baturday the isrd day been 1899. oclock a. in, U ten at , of Dooember, a. at the County Court House. in the Court Room of said Court in Lagan City, Cache County, Utah, by the District Courtof of the Utah, First Judicial Dlstrctof me Slate bu'heta wheat, 8 hive tr. eos, I ail of cacht. Dated Nor. 19, 1898. xtorgnt J. Mathfws, Clerk. J3EAL) 1 BfOHirW. Own, Deputy Clerk. - Notice to Creditors. -- Estate of Moroni N. Hansen, deceased, Crealtor will present claims with vouenera to the undeislgned at the office of Zeph Thomas, Logan, Utah, on or before tb 29tli dsTOfMarcn, A, D. 1899. Date of drat publication, Not. 29th, A. D, 1898. Hans C. Hamxkm Jr, Adraialstrator of the Estate of Moroni N. lianten, Deceased, Notice to Creditors. Estate of William L. Seeholzer, Deceased, Creditors will present claims with Touchar to the undersigned at his residence In Logau City, Cache County, Utah, on or before the 2ttn day of March, A. D 1899. Thbopobb M. Ssiholzir, Administrator with the will annexed of the estate of William L. Seeholzer, Deceased. LOGAN MAIL OAHD. CLOSING or MAILS. East And North , p. .9 p.m, -- 11:20 a. m. Preston branch Providence, Millville, Hyrum and Paradise. 12:50 m. Benson, Wednesday and Sat 3 p.m. .. unlays -3 p.m. SalrtakeTOedenlincl South College, Wtsanesdav and Sat 10 :3t) uidav. ............. - ARRIVAL OF MAILS 8outb and West North and Fast. Preston branch . a.m. a.m. 3:40 p.m. 11:50 7 Providence; Millville,' Hyrufn and Paradise Benson, Wednesday and Saturday by the Author. It was along buck in the year 1881, aid the American embassador, that I was appointed American minister to Torrizonia, .wich, as yon probably know, was at that time an independent Central American republic, though since then it has been annexed by one of its neighbors. There was only one town in Torrizonia of any size, and that was the capital and principal seaport. The government sent me ont in a frigate, and when we arrived at Porto Nnevo and I was on the point of going ashore tbs captain, who was a particularly good fellow, said hed lie at anchor for a few days, so As to be ready in case .I should need any protection. Yon see, there was most generally a revolution in progress in Torrizonia, and the captain, being a thoughtful man, calculated that in casa I should be accidentally shot he oonld bombard the town and make a big reputation at home for energy and patriotism. . i I was put pliore in one of the frigates boats, .and after I had convinced on. Indian custom house officer who didnt wear shoes and who couldnt read my passport that I wasn't dangerous I gave my trunks to a couple of porters and walked up to tho hotel. There was only one hotel in . the place, and that was kept by a man who had been a waiter at a San Francisco hotel and spoke English pretty near as well as I or yon. It was a small hotel, and I had it all to myself except' for the barroom, where part of the Torrizonian army was always drinking itself crazy. I had a fairish sort of dinner, and after I had started in to smoke the landlord camo in and talked with me in a sociable sort of way, though he was very careful not to sit down in the presence of a great man like myself. I told him I was the new American minister, and I asked him if the president was in town, for I wanted to present myself to the president as soon as possible eq os to get to work, providing there should be any work for a minister to da President Almonte is here. the landlord, but the other presidents are in different parts of the country. How many presidents does this country require? said L The United States is a middling big country, but we contrive to get along with one president at a time. irrTIiere are four of them just cpw, sir, r replied the landlord, but of course 1899. 12 :30 m. 3 IV)S r t m W. W . high office. I thought over the situation that night, and when morning came I called on the doctor who was at the head of the hospital and told him that I wanted to seo the differences between Jhc four presidents amicably settled. In a place like Porto Naevo the head of the hospital is always the most influential man in town, with the exception of the president and the chief of police. You see that whenever a revolution breaks ont and the parties to it begin to shoot the hospital fills up pretty, rapidly, and the wonhded men are mighty anxions to be on good terms with the doctor, so that he wont try any carving experiments its on them. This particular doctor was the most level headed man in Torrizonia, and when he and I had talked things over wo agreed that the best thing to d J wonld be forme to arrange an interview with the fonr presidents and indues them to compromise their differences. The doctor Baid that they would .agree to anything, provided tho consideration was large enough, aud be thought that if tho fonr presidents were ta form a syndicate and govern the country in be would a it partnership satisfactory arrangement all round. I went back to the hotel and wrote an invitation to each of the presidents to dine with me on the next day but one, the United States minister had said and that he was quits ready to play the other three gentlemen for the presidency. The other three didnt seem very anxious to play, but- - first one of then and then another said that wbilo he had perfect confidence in tho justice cL-bclaim he. would adopt-m- y proposal, feeliug certain that the Blessed Virgin would tee him through all right. Tbs upshot was that they all 'Bat down" t some unearthly sort of game that I never pretended to understand and presently they were playing as quietly us you atpl I would play if we had a little game of draw on hand with unlimited stakes and a straight . flush barred. I sat at the end of the table smoking a cigar aud saying to myself that I war a born diplomat and had made a splendid beginning as minister to Torrizonia. Say what you will of tho presidents, tbey were gentlemen so far os their manners went, and nobody could Lave I been more polite than they wero to one another. j By and by old Almonte smiled Garcia and remarked that, to sweetly j inasmuch as Garcia hud revoked or done something equivalent -- to revoking,-b- e consider himself , was beaten and must out of the game. I never iu all uy life saw a, man pnll his gun quicker than Garcia pulled bis, but, quick as ho was, he had got in only ouo shot when all the other three on their feet and blazing away promiscuously at ouo another, ia theyll be thinned out considerably p,m. when thcy-g- et taffghting." Theres "College, Wednesday and SatPresideht Almonte, whose term expired 10 . a.m. urday General delivery window open from 8 six months ago, bet who is holding on to office till he can collect some more a.m. until 6 p.m. taxes. Hes got 600 men and all the Sunday, general delivery window open from 12 m. to 1 p.m. artillery in the grounds of the presidenMoney order window open from 9 a.m. tial mansion, and hell make a good fight to 5 p.m. for it before hes turned out. Orson Smith, P. M. Then theres General Garcia, who . was elected president at tho last elecNaturally I dropped under th( table. tion, but has never been able to get into send pn escort of United to the presidential mansion. Hes got promising States marines to bring each president to about 1,500 men with him, and hes in the hotel and to soo him safq back to his ' -camp about five miles from here. Then I went aboard the frigate camp. Then theres President Alvarez, and with the captain tor the arranged who was vice president under Almonte nse of four detachments of marines, aud considers that ho ought to have of fonr men each. I got the consisting been elected in place of Garcia. He is oorrect addressee; of, tho fonr presidents to havo 1,000 mcu,.iu his and started each detachment supposed The ONLY in time to Agricultural HEWSpaper. camp, which issay, ten miles north of reach its and to bring guest particular . here. . him to the hotel at 6 oclock sharp. Presideut Del Valle has about the ordered the best dinner that the landINDIRPEXBABLE TO sntue number of men with him, and lord could get up, and I borrowed a ALI. COUNTRY RESIDENTS hes somewhere to the south of us, dozen of champugue from the captain of though 1 cant say precisely where. He the frigate, having sampled it on my WHO WISH TO was the senior officer of the army, and from the United States aud know way he set up as president becanvi he laid KEEP UP WITH THE TIMES. that it was first class in every that neither of tho three other presi- ing XaturinifT'droppcdnJerthe table, lor dents jnnrjtthfrfled liU starting revoiu Of coarse I wasnt so foolish as to it would bavo been contrary to diplo-- ; tionij and that it was his duty as a. pa- let one Single Subscription, $2; presideut kuow that I had invit- matic etiquette for me to take a hand triot to punish them. I Most people here ed of his rivals. Each man sup- in the shooting. All the same I hated any Two Subscriptions, $3.50; think that old Almonte, having all the posed, that he was the only guei-- t aud vto lm out of.it, for.it .wasime of --the F'ou r Subscription s,$( L artillery with him, has (he best , right naturally came tnr tbo conclusion" that 1 livelie-- t difficulties I ever (.track. It to the presidency, but nobody kuows meant to recognize him as the only law- didnt last over fonr or five minutes, how the thing will end when onco the ful president This made it reasonably add Ly tho end of that time all four of SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO T.AIS- lighting gets fairly started. certain that every one of the four would the six "shoot era "WCTo empty, "aud "all ees of clubs. Now;' this news didnt Bait "me at come to and I calculated when ' four presidents wero lying on the floor. all. Yon see, I hail to present my creden- I had dinuer, Write lor Particulars on this Point. got them comfortably full of tho Then I got up and called the landlord, tials to the presideht of Torrizonia bechampagne they would bo aud after we had found that nobody was captains fore I oonld act as minister and eanr my listen killed though every man bad from two to tt, reasou. ready Free UU Jan. 1 to New Subscribsalary. Bat bow was I to know "Which For tho first time in the histoi7 of to five bullets iu him I called up the of the four rascals was the genuine and Central America ers for 1S99- my invited guerts ar- marlmv, and they carried the presidents only president? Moreover, it was a rived promptly at the hoar specified. to the hospital in u sort of procession. business for me to select a president This wasnt their It will be seen that the difference befault, for if they My iittleplan for settling tho presitween the cost of the Country Gentle- and stick to him. , By so doing I recog- oonld have had their way they would dential dispute hadnt panned out quite nized his governineut and became, so to have man and that of other agricultural weekstruggled iu ut all hours from 6 as I expected, but it wasnt my fault. I lies inone of which even attempts to speak, responsible for him. to 10. But the that were saw Dr, Moreno after ho hud examined At first I was inclined to recognize in command of midshipmen cove? the agricultural hew of the day escort the wounded men, and he told mo that the different may readily be reduced,1 .by making up Almonte, who was within handy reach, knew their buKiucs.'f and,' Udng ordered they would ull recover, though they a small Club, to and who had certainly been president to deliver the presidents to me at 10 would probably have to remain, in the to the tiuioof tho last election, 'what- minutes before up hud them on hand at hospital for several weeks. IIo said that 0; a Less a than Cent Week! ever might be the legality of his pres. . T thd precise moment. How they did this the government. would be carried ou in ' Does such a difference as that justify ent position.. But tbeu, in case I called I never inquired. One of the presidents the name of President Almonte, t bo cbsp you in contenting yourself with some on Almonte and presented my papers I I it was Garcia coniidained who hod occupied the think manother paper instead of having the best? should be treating the chap who had that it was contrary to the law of na- sion, until such timepresidential as all the four been elected president with gross injustions for American marines to prod claimants were discharged from the tice. There would have been no nee in Central American SEND FOR SPECIMEN COPIES. i dents in the , hospital , t , , to Washington for instructions, back with bayonets, pm writing I didnt take bnt I shall take the best of , enre of . hich will be mailed Free, and compare for .the mail for the Uuitfrd States left any notice of what he paidknowing them and maintain u strict neutrality, them with any other rural weekly; it Torrizonia iu two mouths, that it wonld bo onto only; take-lonwill not impossible t convince Said tho doctor, and Fshall recommend to see the difference. aud It had left tin day before I arrived. American of thevalne of you to do the same hereafter. Youve 'Central j Address . 1 saw I should have to act on my own punctuality. tried to arrange things without blood-sheLUTHER TUCKER &SON, tespousibility. aud 1 dknt like it at When the four presidents met, they and youve failotl, and now your all. ; , herg consideblj surnrised, and there test plan is - to let those four, fellows Alb..) K. Y, 6 Spanish-America- n ! 'the1:" 1899 Country Gentleman 1831 -- ! 'I . e . large ! s i i ; tic-klii- ; di ' t . .( . J ..) . wouitTwery likely nave been a difficulty then and there if I hadnt made them a little speech and ' begged them to observe tho hiws of hospitality und to abstain from shooting on the premises. They saw the force of what I said aud concluded to keep the peace. .Each man gave the other a dignified salute,' but not a word would one of them speak to another until dinner was about half over. They then gradually began to ask one another to paas the salt or to circulate the bottle, auj iu a little while they were all talking together as fast as t so many monkeys. When tho coffee wa9 brought innnd we were all as sociable as if none of us had ever heard of politics, I got up and said: Gentlemen, I have asked yon to meet together in order . to settle your differences aud enable 'me to find out which presideut my government ought ta recognize. You cunt help seeing that this corutry is too small to furnish a decent living for four prtbidenis. Youll have to go on fighting till theres only one of yon left, and its a mere matter of chance which one that will be. You are playing a game in which you stake onr lives against the presidency, and, though I cant- - say what you value your lives at, my opinion that the- - stakes are far too high. Now, I propose that you settle this business by a friendly game of cards. 1 dout kuow yonr Spanish' games, bnt you can easily cbooso some game in which each man that is beaten goes out and leayes the others to play. The man who finally wins is to take tho presidency, and thir otbers are tor ngreo to support him for, say, two years, ut the end of which they shall be at liberty to start a resolution if tncy feel so die posed. You will arrive at the same sett of result by j'sying a game of cards that you will by fighting and raising Cain for the next year or two, and the men who ,loso will only lose their expectations of being president, instead of losing both their expectations and their lives. Now, gentlemen, here are the cards. Will you take my advico and settle your difference like Christians or will you fight like barbarians? The presidents listened to my speech in a very respectful way, and when it was ended old Almonte, who, os I afterward learned, was the biggest "card sharp in Torrizonia, said that he oor- - Yon see that 1 couldn't afford to spend three or four months waiting for the presidents to thin one another out, for my salary didnt become dne until I had been regularly received by the lawful president. ,Of course, being a practical man, ! knew that any one ot the presidents would be mighty glad to be recognized by me and that if I should set them bidding against one another and agree to recognize the highest bidder I could . make a handsome thing bat of it Bat that wouldnt have been honorablo considering that I was j in the diplomatic service. Id always been an active politician, and I had always held that a politician is worthy of Ills' hire, as the psalmist soys, but a diplomatic officer is different' He la bound to obey the regulations, and 1 considered then, as I do now, that a diplomatic officer who should go in for making money would not be acting in a way worthy of his fe4 vm , d, ngnt their quarrel our according to ts laws and customs of Torrizonia. The four presidents lay in tho hospital exactly 6ix weeks. None of them was severely wounded, and they mighc all have been discharged after ten days or a fortnight, but the'ditor said that not a man should stir until hi wouud had entirely healed. I went to see the presidents every day and got to be quite friendlV with the whole gang of thqrn. I found out by their own confessions thrt each man was bribing the doctor to keep) the others iu the'bospi tal. You see that if one of the presidents could have got out of tbo hospital a day or two iu' advanco of the others he weald have had a free field aud could have seized the presidency without any op- 1 - position. According to their account, .those , four men must have paid tho doctor on averago of 1,000 each in bribes, and each one thought that ho was getting his money's worth aud stealing a march on his rivals The doctor, being a practical man, took all the money that was offered him afid earned It honestly by keeping the men in tbo hospital. Whenever one of the presidents ' complained that he was being kept iq longer than was necessary tho doctor would tell him that there were certain complications in his case that made it necessary for him to. remain in bed a short time longer, but at the same time he promised that under no circumstances wonld he allow any one of his rivals to luive the hospital in advance of him. f Being Spanish American. wi'Ji a native talent for lying in bed, and f. cling suro that the doctor would keep hi word about not letting any of the other men out of hospital too early, ( ich M. V -- president was middling well sati Jed with the way things shaped themselves. They wero all so sure of the presidency that they constantly bothered me to' recognize them then and there, but I always put them off by saying that I had written home for instructions and felt sure that my government wcnld direct me to recognize the best .man.. Every one iff the four told me confident- ly that he was to be discharged three dayp before any of the others aud that he Expected to seize the presidency aud shoot his rivals the moment they come ont of the hospital ' About six weeks after my dinner party I was waked up one morning by! the sound of riflesi I heard what was clearly a volley fired somewhere near the hotel, followed by three or four single shots. Then I heard the noise of n shutters being closed in a hurry, aud 1 knew that a revolution or a rioi had broken out. I got up and was going ont tu see what was to bo seni,but 1 found the front ' door loekM and Imrred aud was obliged to bunt up the landlord and ask him for infornmtima Ho hadnt much to tell me, except that there had been a revolution and thnt Dr. Moreno bad install himself in the presidential mansion and hud placarded the town with proclamation saying that be'bad resolved to put an cud to the era of revolutions fci Torrizonia and to give the people pence and security. .The landlord said that the revoln-tio- u had opened at precisely 11 oclock in the evening and that tnera lmd beeu-uresistance to Moreno, who had, already received the submission of all l .'j troops belonging to tho fonr presides . I was a little astonished : to hear i u j news, for tho doctor was tho last man in Tor r i zon i n .whom I would have sos- pected of taking port in politics. However,, ho was a very popular man, and I was, on the whole, glad to remember that bo had all hi rivals safe in tho hospital and could threaten them with amputation of tho legs if, they didnt submit to him and withdraw their, claims to tho presidency. Jt heavy-woode- and-drese- o S y IIave"yoriheard, landlord, whether tho new presiden has made any. arrangements with tba presidents id the hospital? i Certainly ho has, said' 'the landlord Didnt you hear the rifle shots while ago? t Of conrso I did, said L but what had that to do with the four presidents? Only this, replied tho landlord. President Moreno discharged them from, tbo hospital at ,7 oclock "stood them np against wall and hadthem ehot five inin. utes after they were discharged. Vow can trust the good doctor to make clean jobcf anything ho undertakes. He is a great man, and he will mak the best presideut wo have overbad. I called on President Moreno that morning and congratulated him. Ho was far and away tho cleverest man I ever met in Central. America, and ho held on to his office for nearly beforo be was assasMmUed.by in chief, of I was sorry when he was killed, for like a man who understands practical politics, and, while I dont deny that he mnst havo disappointed tho fonr. president considerably, ho did what was tho only thing for a practical politician to da . this-morning- , the-fron- t . eight--year- s the-genera- l the-arm- y, i ' - THE KXD. ' , , The retort conrtoous sometimes sists in net vW-CL- iai News. . fcjina - 'I . con- L.,x -- - ' |