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Show TRUTH. 4 . 5s and the inspiring overture from Rienze. As a music to miss Helds lover you can't afford : .s concert tomororw evening. HARRY LB GRANDE. V. '3 SDanish Dances AMONG THE Vs r? r,M Kx o . ft I V RAILROADS. While so much is being said every future railroads day about Salt Lakes and what they will do for this city it should not be overlooked that Ogden is strictly in the swim and if the out its Oregon Short Line carries enpresent intention the good times joyed by the Junction City merchants will be continued for a long time to Limited of the future will go speeding along. From now on the work of timbering, track-layin- g and filling in will be pushed and it will not be long jefore the public can view one of the great railroad engineering feats of the worthless mass for all that was good had been shunted to the Southern Pacific. Quinlan stood high with tho old Fourth and Townsend streets crowd, but he quit railroading many years ago and he found mighty few of his day. old pals in Ogden. Those who did see it JX him, however, were glad to renew old The Rio Grande Western friendship. ts old board on Monday. J & & The Rio Grande trains are now The St. Anthony railroad passing through Layton cut and the ts old board on Wednesday. It is saving can be recognized at a glance. also understood that preliminary arrangements for extending the line in The San Pedro sign appears under Yellowstone National Park were the Harriman legends on tho windows made. of 201 Main stret. re-elect- ed re-elect- ed Popular George Green, who former- It is queer that nothing has ly presided at Helper hotel, has gone been said of the Short Line plans for with Mr. Lobdel to the Short Line, and when the work is once commenced it is now manager of the Pacific hotel at Ogden. Mr. Green is very popular will go on for at least a couple of with the traveling public and has a years and this will mean much to that host of Salt Lake friends. come. thriving city. As everyone knows, the Oregon Short Line, at present, has to make quite a turn to get into Ogden, and when there has to back down to the Union station, causing a delay and proving quite troublesome. The company has long wanted to obviate this and has had surveys completed for a new line. This would give the Short Line a straight track from a point near Hooper, to Ogden, entering at that part of the yard now used by the Union Pacific. It will mean the longest cut in the western country, through the sand ridge between Ogden and Hooper, but as it will be almost entirely steam shovel work, it will not mean an unheard expenditure in the days of great line changes. The survey leaves the present main line between Hooper and Kaysville and immediately attacks the slope of the sand ridge to secure grade and reach the point where the big cut will be made. It will mean a day and night job with the steam shovel for two seasons as many millions of cubic yards of material will have to be moved. Once through the ridge, however, the Short Line will be cheek by jowl with the Union Pacific and both will enter Ogden union station at the same point which will be of immense benefit to both roads in the transfer and switching of trains to say nothing of the saving to the Short Line in distance which II will eventually allow it to advertise 45 ; minute trains to Salt Lake. Jl And it is. mighty interesting, when in Ogden, to see the walls of the mam moth Southern Pacific machine shop, rising above the old buildings. It is going to give employment to hundreds of men and will be one of the finest railroad shops west of the river, a credit to the railroads and a source of perpetual pride to Ogden. J8 jt Superintendent W. L. Park, General Attorney LeGrand Young, and others of the Union Pacific, with Dr. McGil lecuddy, the expert of the Mutual Life, were at the big $20,000 damage suit in Ogden this week. It was a mixed up affair. The defunct, for whose death the widow claimed damages, had, it seemed, been thrifty. After an accident on the road, he secured life insurance and passed a sound physical examination. Now if the damages may be awarded the insurance company will most likely get out of paying the Insurance and vice versa. Some of these suits against railroads are wonders. While no public ceremonial took place, yet the last pile in the trestle of the Ogden-Luci- n cut-of- f was driven Tuesday and a bit of champagne was poured over it and allowed to mingle with the waters of the Great Salt Lake over whose depths the Overland . 13 While in Ogden during the week I met Harry Quinlan, who is now owner of a good farm in Nebraska, but who, years ago, was one of the train dispatchers for the Southern Pacific. It was in the days of the old wooden station, the days when fried Utah chicken and hot rolls, made the supper at Ogden station famous all over the west; but thats another story. Quinlan was reminiscent and we talked of old times. When I asked him if he remembered the rush equipment order of the past he smiled and pointed to an outfit car on a siding. It was old and worn, with dinky little windows and no Empire decks, just the sort of cars the old Central Pacific ran in early days. It was a forcible reminder of the equipment order already mentioned, and Quinlans connection thereto. The public may recall that the United States government alleged at a certain time, the Southern Pacific was built out of the earnings of the bond aided C. P. and it will also be recalled that Uncle Sam got angry at the late Uncle Collis and some years back wanted to take hold of the Central Pacific. Those were turbulent times and persons in authority all along the line had their instructions. Well, one night there came to headquarters at Ogden from San Francisco, a rush telegram to send all good equipment to the coast. Quinlan was on hand that night, and for some reason was in charge, and the work fell to him. He got the crews of the Salt Lake division wound up and they worked like a clock. In two days the division was bereft of every piece of first class or modern equipment and in lieu thereof the old cars of 69 and later were placed In commission. Had the government taken control the equipment lettered C. P. would have been a yond cavil that his approach is certain and that all the interval between the present and his approach is to bo nothing but pain, why forbid the touch of his kindly hand? Of course it Is a terrible thought to entertain; the idea of putting a fellow being to death, but in instances where the use of narcotics would be but a preparation for a peaceful ending, what harm would there be? It however would bo a very dangerous license to give. Physicians are not always above wrongdoing in the line of their profession. In a case where the death of an individual would inure to tho benefit of others the physician might be tempted to administer fatal o drugs when the patient was not by WOULD IT BE MURDER? any means in a hopeless condition and who would bo the arbiter? No, it Eastern society has received a wouldnt do. It would be too danger- ,:.ii shock at the hands of a minister of ous ii i lj o the Unitarian denomination, who suggests that in certain cases, where it FUNERAL DIRECTOR. is evident that a patient cannot survive, and where the remaining hours Eber W. Hall, successor to A. B. on earth are sure to be fraught with Watson; 110 West Second Bo. TeL pain, the physician attending be jus- 1019. tified in administering drugs which will produce a painless death. It is not the first time this method has been advocated, but the shock to the sensitive nerves of some of the leading members of. the social class appears to have been a severe one. But viewing the entire case in a candid manner, what is there so terrible about it after all? Is there not often a condition which would justify the means suggested? As human beings we take pride in being merciful. TWENTY-FIV- E YEAR8 Are there not hundreds of cases THE BEFORE rePUBLIC where death would be a pleasant lief. For instance: Several years ago, on the Lehigh Valley railroad, there was a fearful wreck. Among other fatalities was that of the engineer, who was pinned under the enormous weight of his engine, and in such a position that a stream of scalding are sole agents for the following water poured onto his abdomen. All well known efforts to rescue him were futile; all efforts to check the water were usePIANOS less, and the man died in agony, pleading with members of the train crew to kill him. Would not a death by the Stock use of stupefying drugs be a kindness in that case? A few months ago Voso & Sons a young man in this city died of a Crown tumorous growth in the stomach, which gnawed at his intestines and Richmond vital parts for weeks. During the time he suffered as few men ever sufRoyal fered. He was in pain constantly. Schutz The physicians kept him alive as knowllong as possible, with the full Blasius edge that he was bound to die. Would it not have been a mercy to him to have shortened the agony, Inasmuch BOTTOM PRICES. as he desired it? Is there not a time EASY PAYMENTS. when death should be bidden welcome, instead of keeping him at. a distance? Death is the only certain thing in creation. He comes to all sooner or later. When It is seen be Young Bros. Go. 38 MAIN ST. |