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Show ;gf ..od ODD GAMBLING GAMER BLADE. Brery Saturday" at STREET "OTL.?yALL PASS AWAY DULL UTAH. i BROKERS EfftfO?"1' It count. thing"; The Electric Fan Game Pool. formed on Number of monds Iirldor the Wormaer Will Wea Jumping Dean GameWin- nlnar Blcyclea. West. Richard. . Merritt. It would seem"that thftmAn WKni Geo. Bartch. TT TTInep XXJm make and lose f 6rtunes In a day on the New York stock exchange would jtjnr Attorney NjiL J Brlbam. have all the gambling that their conJ,TUI iiarna, stitutions could T- - B- stand.; They, do, for LW!a-- ten in-- : months the year, but in the UTAH COMMISSION.' I' and other two-Ju- ly August the Tbtiir.--- 7 fccrt lambs have gone elsewherej and Wall JYtiIaiUy! Lake City. L6or,;''' City. street is comparatively a dull, place. . Lake City. But the gambling appetite must be ; V. fed. When the brokers are" not losing DIRECTORY PnrTY Fred W. or winning thousands with Ohappaii other peoom KJharles Foote ple's money, they risk their own, but Hugo Deprezin on a much smaller scale. They don't A- - Li. jacsman .2. SnlJlvan go against the stock market, for long D. W. Cazler ii-n'IV " has them that there experience taught Reorder .Vrt tna KtSifMjim Burton. Thomaa Wlrrn is a certain percentage against the Edward Pltae T. C. Hanford player. They gamble 'among, themWilliam Ockey selves ,for smaller stakes, where every njr"r Enstloe man has an equal chance of winning John Ioote and 51cjwa.".": losing........ ; , cou-r- r Common, do games ordinary ynXABD directory. the broker in his idle moments. There must be a novelty to get them , John uameaStyler. uaraner. Interested, and to satisfy this craving O. C. Holbrook. some mighty ingenious games have . .Alma Greenwood. been devised. There are "a few old '" . A. Hlnckler ....A. Thos. O. Calllater. sbandbys, like matching pennies for .Jno. M. Hanson. $5 notes, which have stood the test of .Wlllard Rogers. .Joseph D. Smith time, but the newest game is 'always ..Sidney Teeplea. the most popular . . i .D. C. CaOlster A ceitain Wall street light went to Washington not long ago and there discovered a game which has since irritate bank in Tacoma "busted" been introduced on the street with greart success. There is plenty of exutveek, with $380,000 liabilities and citement In playing it, and it is absoiacasli. Just flgire out how much it creditors will get if they ar real lutely honest. The electric fan is the means by which the game" is "played. Some of the fans have only, four blades, others de-tif. Hr. Wilson of Terre Haute have five and six blades. The six- he will not recognize a wom- - blade fans are the most even And stilly the Terre wbren there are only fourpopular "j Ja bloomer3. players. 'cu ladles are wearing" them They i that he did not have on during the that seems Mr. Wormser keeps quite a stack of diamonds in ,a drawer in the office safe, soprivate that he can readily Increase or diminish the number of his gems. This the1 clever man did- not know. He acknowledges now that to beat the Wormser diamond game is almost an impossibility. The bean 'Is a" .'nice' game as exciting as horse racing; that Is.jumping In facti it is --more soy as there- is absolutely no means of getting a line - : : ; ; - . 1.0 ." v r ,rr- Salt EAsSrn..Salt J wv . : . 'li'Jll dont care. U ntaj figure sitting '37, with ai him, -- (((w smoke of battle gradually the public discerns that the the 13 war clustered that of Matt Quay. they have After ':a7lefl the people in Pontlac, Mich., Ictaally gone mad on the Sunday craze. They even went try to keep the postoffice Id stories. (Toaen are no better Mrs. Almy, than men" la addressing ..the parliament at Point of Woods -- 7. This is not true. Women itta- than men. ( There la no man i Ma salt who doesn't believe bo. 'za axe the elect of the earth, II 7 did not supplyj men with , Ideals, them, with objects for, devotion,. - "- -i ' tiaa lessons inj unselfishness,. the structure of !clvilization' would, a Sewn like a card house. No man made suci a statement, .. -- i fcave l Alay for -2rs cf owes an apology to her i attacking the'foremost tieir social creed." XLoulsTille ar- -, ; - prints sHonal article about the Czar of mistreating (his wife, in the of which it pays: "Three times . IT?2 burst into tears at the table and hurried away, leaY- despot of Russia to think how ! te vas Uming her,"' This is Injustice to the Czarina, who Is iAa of spirit. as a matter of fact I??28 PePle ,?iave had but one '7. One Monday the Czar made remarks about "a washday and the Czarina informed him could eat down town or hire a Ajtat as he choose. Since that he tad a capUpus word to utter. -- ii bnlll a good road ii a very the people of a taunEJectjto that la Just becoming fully wthe importance of malntain-- r astern of x,. public highways, b00k Gen- Stone, spe-- f 10 'a?nf tbe Road : nItei States Depart-- ; Inquiry, says that the ! road3. ls a dry smooth for -,-reason that such a --7fre eaSy norSB vehicle, 21 Ja,r and noise- - He ad-xll- T I8 af i, roi3s beside the fwihe8t?ne reason that in wet or ;J - ry v iwoup are oneu im- dirt road in good condl- - 13 l a ivTiace oi stone iHt. and Reeling purposes and ij'':s -- ve mucIj wear on the latter uVr6 more: expensive of the two. :.;C7;;r vf cose this general sug- - A ; tut on.tha whoi r.pn rt, made after the examina- reiui suryey and study of t roads in all parts of the a safe and scientific guide for J: .'."'c::resing Its surprl : t,Ucil sanies as Dinlc Botts, ;7r:;; lioke Smith, etc., have among their fellow ';iJieace 3 to tave lost sight of the y. Cuttoa Gwinnett signed Cf independence. L' - '- -x that "'--- en ST. CAPITAL SURPLUS . toi-V- Counting the Diamonds. , on which .way the bean will Jump. The players of this game enter their beans, just as horse-owne- a do for rs i liiori Paid S50.000 S37.500 --:- 1." RAILWAY. ,ySiiiOI(V . , i The bean is the little South 'American affair with a tiny worm inside. .The squirming of- the worm makes the bean one way or the other. The beanjump with the liveCure for Bloomers. liest worm stands the best chance of To the Great Rivers and Atlantlt cure ror the bloomer craze has a as it fiover most the Ocean. 'Elegant and thoroughly goes winning, C. M. been found at last. is It the invention ground. modern Equipment and The game Is played in this way: A of a shrewd Vermonter, and in the sev Manufacturer and Repairer of circle about an inch in' diameter Is eral instances in which it has been tried drawn in the center of a large sheet it has worked1 almost as magically as Reclining Chair Cars of white paper. Another circle, 6 magic.; The inventor had a wife who BOOTS Inches away from the other, is drawn rode a bicycle, and who insisted upon In which the seats, are free to holders'lhe big outside circle is then the wearing bloomers every time, she went of regular train tickets, All kinds of shoes made to order. starting line 'and the little cirolft la out for a spin. Neither protests nor Becond none. to Workmanship the finish. The bean that lands inside First door 6puth of Tabernacle, nor Could threats appeals induce to her tne small circle first is the winner. wear another costume. So one day the MAIN STREET, NEPHI, Call on or address It costs $2 to enter a bean in this race nnu a. Jjaticii.ce ilj.at WOUlU but when two beans are' making about Job. to open his eyes, sat equal headway for the small circle big have caused V. DARRAH, arid made a pair of bloomers for oets are often made as to which will down win. If the bean jumps the wrong every hen in the poultry1 yard, and COMMERCIAL way and insists upon going in an drawing them' on the hens, called his GENERAL MERCHANDISE FREIGHT AND opposite direction to the small circle. wife to look at them. They looked Just the owner can lift him back to the like she did, he said, when she was on PASSENGER AfiD PRODUCE no line. ' can Bilt bean be starting Room 21 Morlan Block,. touched after It has once started In the wheel In costume. A 'little more a!Dad' not but ,. .M graceful, THE . perhaps, AT '.r reprothe right direction. Lake City, - Utahfc There were some sharp Another form of pool .gambling duction. ..j;-which is the favorite system 'among words for a moment, but 'the woman DESERET CASH STORE. worn hasn't bloomers since. the Wall street men, as there Is a What's change of a big winning for a small more, she now declares that she never Goods at bottom prices far investment, is on the number of will wear them again., spot cash. v shares that will be dealt in during the day. Each' chance costs a dollar, and General Passenger & Ticket Ag8nt JIIO. DEVSIIUP, MCR. sometimes there is as much as $300 & v OCKEY, Sast Main Street, in the pot. The- winner of this feels St. Louis, Wo. DE3CHET. that he has done a pretty good day's business. Wholesale and Retail Since the advent of the bicycle Complete Line of Builders' Suppliei. Mill Work a Specialty. craze many : of the brokers have taken to riding the wheel, and now they buy their wheels on the gambling plan,' This scheme is not confined to Wall GRACE BROTHERS' street alone, but.it has attained the height of its popularity there. This is the way they do it. BEEP PORK A cloth bag ' is filled with slips of from 1 to 150. A man MUTTON paper numbered VEAL in his hand and pulls out a thrusts If the "number Is 1, he pays ?cumber."; Into the fund. If be be unfortuALSOnate and pulls but the 150 number, he chips in,$1.50. ..When all the numbers have been pulled out, the bag is again filled with slips numbered In the same way. A number is then drawn out, and the man who holds the duplicate Manufacturers of and Dealers in . . . wins the total, which . is big enough OOKEY, I Doors; Windows, Mouldings, to buy a first-clawheel. The chance ' Mixed Paints, Hardware, Coal, of winning; Is rather remote, being 1 NEPHI CITY, UTAH. Pickets--, Coffins, Caskets, . Combination WireFence. ete. Free delivery to any part of the city. Special attention given to mail orders and the Southern Trade. By ordering from us you save the freight from Salt Lake City to thi sweep-stake- s. - , Vice-Preside- nt - JProrr Utetlq . - , J. - OSTLER, ; v 4 AND SHOES. Salt The Electric Fan Game. A number Is pasted upon each blade and then the players chip In a dollar eftch. A lever at the back of the fan sets the blades whirling around at lightning speed, and then"the current is shut off. The fan whirls slower and slower until it gradually comes to a stop. The winning blade Is the one which stops nearest to the wire at the bottom of the fan, and the, holder of the duplicate number to that on the blade scoops in the pot The usual stake is $1 on each blade, the game, can he played,; without limit.-- Some. highflyers play it as high cm $20 a blade, and with $120 In each pet the amount that can be lost or won 1ft half ah hour is so big that checks have to be given to liquidate debts. The ordinary pocket "roll" of the Wall street man.: is not big enough for the purpose. One lucky chap won $1,800 Ld an afternoon's play at the game, but this was an unusually large sum. flTive men played the fan one whole afternoon and none of them quit more than $10 ahead or to the bad. Each took a number and stuck to It all through the play. The sixth blado was a left blank, and whenever It won ' was stakes the made, being jackpot doubled. The advantage ;of the game Li that there Is no kitty to be fed, no room rent to pay and the players are absolutely certain of an honest deal. Isldor Wormser and 'his diamonds offer a fruitful field for the men who Uke to gamble. Mr. Wormser has a collection of diamonds second to' none in the street. The headlights he wears In hl3 shirt front have been, the subweird tales. It is asject of many can walk "along a dark sorted that he street at night time and read a news paper with ease by " the light of his sparklers. Sometimes Mr. Wormser comes down town with only ten .diamonds on his person. Again he appears with sixty. Oa the latter occasion his Jewels are oft the cluster variety. Pools are often formed on the number of diamonds the banker will wear. It costs $5 to buy a chance In this pooL and the man number pockwho comes nearest the ' ets the pool. One man thought he would put up a clever job on his friends, ' and get a sure thing on the pool. He walked over to the "L" station at which Mr. Wormser boards the down town train, and rode down with him. While chatthe clever ting about business matters man made a careful count of all the Wormser diamonds, and secure with this information prepared for a grand coup; For the sake of enlarging the pool and drawing others in, he bought three of numbers, one representing In was count. There $175 actual his the pot that morning, and the schemer hugged himself with Joy. Visions of doing the same thing every morning and reaping untold wealth passed before tim. He felt as If he had discovered a gold mine. appeared on Wen Mr. Wormser 'Ch5nge there was the usual rush to pec the official count of the gems. Tm clever man almost fainted whenu be saw the banker. On the third 0f each hand was a cluster ring -- bt HilTOWHSEND, ers, CURED " LumberYard : -- - - the-tot- al fln-g- 111 OSTLER & ss ? . ! : , point R. E L. COLLIER; O. E; : Land and Irrigation Work a Specialty. Engineer for Central Land and Irrigatloi Land NEPHI CITY, and Irrigation Co Co., Clear IsVe Fillmore Larxl.' 'd Irrigation Co. and Whiti Mountain Lti.u and Irrigation Co. .Office : ? Grace Broth ere, Engineering in all its Branches, , . Pi Butter, Lard, Sausage . . or OSTLER - , Courier-Journ- al " , -- 1 - ; so far j closed, 4 thea Postmaster Pi erson informed a leaders that he would see that 7'oae of them were Indicted in the 2 States court if they didn't, let :iey wiaely concluded to allow Uncle a to continue to accommodate the .'e. There are a great many people jiPtatfee with wheels concealed, tp " ABIT. bought material they have no - -- See of : , 8. dres3 sleeves i tietr wmm, . , Lozls & MoNALLY & LUNT, : - papers are discussing the VJoa why women will not treat one rea-- i ?a. They have a first-rat- e I : i . on the top of the the spoils of Choiee Fresh Meats v : CeflS- - - At , o - , , York has just gained a signal victory in the courts or, Virginia and ha$ received an abA perfect fit guaranteed. Repairing In all solute and complete vindication after along It branches. attention called ts and exhaustive trial by special jury in the his new style. Special Universal feed sewing maCircuit court of this city. The Pilot news- chine does all its work Inside of the shoe. Mutton, Veal, Chipped Beef paper of this city, upon the awarding of Two doors north of Union, Main St., JfephL and- - Bologna." . the contract for school books to the American Book company, printed, a long .article Your patronage solicited. ' written and prepared by R. E. Byrd, an and agent attorney, for Ginn & Cp., of New York, in.. which : it was charged that the state superinteud.eht, hai been bribed by the American 3.004-- company. The Pilot w as immediately sued for libel, If you are going to and, after weeks' trial, which created a five iman mense amount of. interest throughout the state, a verdict for . cunitive dAimim wab CHICAGO recently awarded, and the. Jury found that ' the statements made were false and a ,v'...fi;...!CarefuUy compounded. deliberate" libel. Not only so, but the Mall or express orders promptly attened ta company; upoa unimpeachable evidence, j Large Stsck at Salt Lake prlceg. was proved to havedealt honorably and upKANSAS in rightlywith every particular in their negotiations the state officials. It was furth- SOUTHERN TRADE SOLICITED. er proved at the trial that no better terms had been made with any other state for M'NALLY & LUNT, school books. In fact, the attorney-generOR of Virginia stated that the American Book NEPHI.I LOUIS, UTAH. seemed-i;throw open their whole company business to us,' and after full and complete Be sure and ask for a ticket that read examination of ali the original contracts made with the various states he expressed himself as absolutely satisfied that the First National Bank prices were the fame in all cases and that no discrimination whatever had been made against the state of Virginia. Furthermore NEPHI, UTAH. he mentioned that none of the statements of the American Book company had been accepted until every one of them had been. aDsomteiy verified by direct reference to I ....A'' '!! the STOVernOrS of Knmo fifteen Btntae . whom contracts had been made. This proved conclusively that the representations . of the American 'Book company were cor-i ecu in wwu. lr.is ceieorated case nas thus ended in a complete triumph in every reBANKING , :, spect for the American Book comnanv. and GENERAL has shown in clear contrast the clean and Dusiness-nk- e No tiresome layovers. methods in which they carry In All Its Branches. on their great industry as compared . with Uiose connections in union depots, mo oiiouipiwi use 01, poiiucai puus ana Geo. C. Whitmoee, r J. H. EricksoiJ, the routa And quickest positively iuist.i.aLt3meais Dy 1;tneir opponents." Chi President. ... cago Tribune'. W. W. Armstrong, Cashier. al . : . HAG-TJE- CITY, ! not-do-for- dispatch from Norfolk, Va., .says: iJt "Th? American Book company of New -- r . A. V. HARDY, Boot and Sloe Hote -E G-EORG- by " , TV. K-- j DAMAGES FOR LIBEL. chances into smithereens, 'as it sent A Virginia Paper Brought to Terms the total twenty-fou- r the American Rook Company. above his "sur IIOUIVS. . I Court House, Fillmore, Utah, UTAH. OSTL ER & ALL E N I f 1 Dealers in and Manufacturers of THE DESERET DAIRY GO. ' US HAS FOR SALE HARNESS, FULL CREAM CHEESE : Beserettis noted for the fine quality of its Milk, Butter and Cheese. Girt a trial. 0 ur Race of the Jomplnir Beans. in 150, ' but there -- is the additional chance of winning a fat sum" at the cost of a cent or two. ",v . , I ..' SUPT. The American Climate. "Why don't I like America?" said an Englishman, who was drinking a cocktail in a Broadway hotel yesterday. "Why," for many reasons. I haven't " j found anything, here that I like. Take for athletic instance. your sport, It's E.' bogus. What is your representative sport? Base ball, is it not? Well, that simply, represents the work of hired men. It Isn't really sport. Besides, I 3 can't understand your newspaper acfir llliniiQ HEH. Headparten counts of it. They are very mysterl-- ; ous. Walter, another cocktail. Your CSty and eountr Newspapers from all cat climate Is bad, and your politicians are been I have disappointed all jingoes. Ore specimens from Detroit cs4 dr around, and, in everything save one'. i : and that is your cocktails. I drank six vLtre. ' ' last night before going to bed. I have Erery thing RESPECTABLE. suffered from your cli mate ' THE DESERET HOUS . ; HOPPLES, ; N. S. BISHOP, ; Al I BRIDLES, NOSE SACKS, ETC. We also carry u fall line of f i SADDLES ' ; Horse Purrushing Goods ; Sheep Men's . anil Cowboys' Outfits. 1 : t 5 t M f ;iiEMlllBAEE . tiBfa.ction , ? , to-day- New York Sun. ." ; j' Alleged Lyneliera. ' 21. THE PCliESTWATBR ON FlARTiH. Ca fei Premise a. This Water Is a CUAS3 Ellensburg, Wash.. Aug. Eight VANTEED OUSIS foir.cil are under arrest here under a j .persons charge! of being implicated in the recent lynching of the Vinsons, father Diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder and son. They are Mike Lander, yatimoalla on Application. William Bussey, Ubelocker, Frankf ' ' MRS. X P. GIBBS, Frank? Fiegel. Hobert Tinkel, Frank Prop. Schuller and Henry Dewescourt. They DESERET, UTAH. had a preliminary trial : ,: ; to-da- y. tVZArJHQQD restored;: firreatVecetable tton of a famous French physician, will quickly cure you 0 all ner, '1 voua or diseases of the generative organa, such as Lost Manhood Insomnlatl'aicsln the Back, Seminal Emissions, Nervous Debility, Varicocele and Pimples, unfitness to Marry, Exhausting-or Drains, Prevents losses by day qaick- night Constipation. It stops all not checked leads to Spermatorrhoea and Xiess 01 discharge, which if 1 cleanses tne nver, tue the horrors of Impotency CCTlliKJ npfoRP innArrPR kidney and the nrinarvorsrans of aUlXOporities. . are because ninety with The Teason sufferers are not cured by Doctors is to sow testimonicure withou ;an orration. tropbled CDPIDENE is the onjy known remedy Proatfttltta. als, A written guarantee given and money returned if six tox&fV? eect a permanent eur$ . fl.00 a box, six for $5.00, by mall. Send for latins circular and Address DAVOl JFXEJDICiarB t'OP. O. Box 2078, San iTanclsco, Cal. IbrBaleby FOR SALE BY McNALLY & IUNT, DTJaaiST3, NUPIILr - - Icen : |