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Show r DAILY WINNEPEG GREAT WORK OF NEW TRACK WHICH WAS DURING 1903. TO THE GULF BY RAIL $. P. 11 LAID FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS SPENT WORK IN IMPROVEMENTS. THE NEW LINE 8O0N COMMENCE. ON TO Most Important Utah Ranks Wall Up in ths List With Two Hundred Milos of New Track Has Will Bs Ons of ths in ths Railroad Work in ths Laid 8tsts Been Systims 120.52 Milas to Its Is Country. Near Completion. C rad it. The preliminary statement published annually by the Railway Age, relating In railway mileage, to the shows that 5.723.43 miles of track were laid in the United States during the year ending December 81, 1903. This total does not Include the many hun dred miles of second track and sidings also constructed during the year. While the aggregate mileage herein recorded does not represent complete returns, It Is believed that the few railroads yet to be heard from will not materially Increase It. Oklahoma territory shows the greatest increase In railroad mileage, having 653 miles to her credit. Louisiana is second with 446 miles; Texas third, with 370 miles, and Indian Territory fourth, with 319 miles. The total increase in these four states and territories, which taken together form an unbroken region tributary to the Gulf of Mexico, amounts to nearly one-thiof the total increase of the country, iiu-reas- rd tl is Interesting to note in this connection that the exports of grain via the gulf ports have been very heavy during the past year. Of the wheat exported from the ports of Boston, New York, Philadelphia. Baltimore, Norfolk. Newport News, New Orleans and Galveston, over 63 per cent passed through New Orleans and Gulveston. The detailed figures showing the increase in railroad mileage in the different states and territories are given In the following table: . From a reliable source it has been learned that since reconstruction work on the Southern Pacific railroad in Nevada started December 28, 1902, the company has expended 850,000,000 in this state alone, Buys the Reno Journal. The work is now almost completed and when the final plans are completed a saving of eight hours time will be made in the trip between Ogden and San Francisco. Though It cannot be definitely learned It is figured that at the present rate the work on the railroad will be fin lshed within the next two months. In all about 200 miles of new track have been laid, Innumerable bridges constructed and a number of new placed. In all this work the company has saved about twenty miles in this state. However, the great saving has been in the grades and curves The dangerous turns and twists that marked the route between Reno and Wadsworth a few months ago have been overcome, the steep grades have been reduced to a minimum and now the road runs almost In a straight line and on slight grade from one end of the state to the other. A number of towns have suffered and will suffer as a result of the reconstruction work, it Is true. But other places will be benefited, and in the long run the stale will receive the greatest benefit. During the time this work has been in progress through Nevada, the Southern Pacific on an average has had an extra force of 2,500 men steadily employed and drawing wages. The greater portion of the money paid these men has been spent In this state. Though the work in East Reno is well under way, it will be some time yet before it is entirely completed. In fact, it is stated that it will be two years after the division is established there before the company's plans are To date it is estimated completed. that $2,500,000 has been expended in this portion of the work alone. This amount will be doubled before everysld-nl- thing is finally finished. ROUND DANCES ARE TABOOED. gs OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 22. It Is said that work will begin in Nebraska within the next few weeks on the Winnipeg, Yankton ft Gulf railroad, which is to run from a point near Lake Winnipeg, down the Mississippi valley to a port on the Gulf of Mexico. Surveys from Yankton north will be made, to be followed by a survey to the gulf- - This is designed to be one of the largest systems in North America. Although the route of the road has not been definitely decided upon, it is probable that its northern terminus It will pass will be st Winnipeg. through the eastern parts of South Dakota and Nebraska. How It will thence proceed to the gulf is a matter of uncertainty, though it is believed that Galveston will be selected for a terminus. FLORIDA NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Jan. 22. The advance guard of delegates has arrived for the sixth annual convention of the Interstate National Guard association, which is to be held in this city during the first three days of next week. It is expected this meeting will be the largest and most representative gathering of the national guard officers ever held. There are many matters in connection with the militia legislation now pending which will occupy the attention of the guardsmen, and it is believed that some Important changes in the new national militia law will be suggested. The association numbers among its members the leading spirits in national guard circles throughout the country, and it has played a prominent part in securing the numerous reforms which have been effected in the militia system during the past two or three years. INVESTIGATING TYPHOID EPIDEMIC AT LEADVILLE DENVER, Jan. 22. Claude E. Cooper. secretary of the state board of health, has returned from Lead vi lie, where he has been investigating the President Joseph F. 8mith Makes 8ome typhoid situation there. Pertinent Remarks on the He said there was no question of Pastime. the diagnosis of the epidemic and that the situation was serious not only bePresident Joseph F. Smith, at a re- cause of the rapid spread of the disception given by the stake board of ease in Leadville, but from the fact Mutual Improvement associations In that there is danger of the waters of Salt Lake on Wednesday night, made the Arkansas river becoming contamsome reference to restricting round inated, which would jeopardise the dances at church socials. health of the towns along the borders. In the course of his address he said Secretary Cooper said there were GOO he had enjoyed himself very much min- cases of typhoid in Leadville now and friends expressed the belief that within the gling with many of his and acquaintances, some of whom he next week or two the number would had not had the privilege of conversing be greatly Increased. While the cause with for a good while. The president of the epidemic has not been detersnld he had not come to preach a mor- mined, Secretary Cooper inclines to al lesson or to announce any restric- the opinion that the water supply of tions on the freedom of youth: but he Leadville has become impure. thought he might be pardoned for say (ng that round dancing was very dis- FAMILY REUNION8 AT tasteful to President Brigham Toung. THE WORLD'8 FAIR It was alao distasteful to President John Taylor, who formulated and pub ST. LOUIS, Jan. 22. The committee llshed to the authorities of the church on ceremonies at the World's fair has advice and counsel that they prohibit assigned September 7th to the Brigham round dancing as much as possible. families for a reunion. The Tyler famTotal in 43 states and I believe." said President Smith, the ily, which Is closely related to the Brig880 6.723.45 territories inhibition was intended to be complete, hams, is to have August 31st. W. J. but after Its publication letters began Tyler Brigham writes from Phoenix, WILL RADIUM TURN THE BLACK MAN WHITE? to pour in to President Taylor stating Arlxona, that he thinks a room seating that the rules governing dancing were 800 persons will be large enough for SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 22. A series too rigid for the young people to live, each family. The Smiths of Peapnck of experiments with radium, startling and that there would have to be some are yet to be heard from In their scoie, have been undertaken modification In this respect The result was that President Taylor sug- CELEBRATE ACCESSION at the University of California. OF ENGLAND'S KING The proiiertles of the new mineral gested to the bishops that they allow nr one two round dances that the will be fully investigated and an atLONDON, Jan. 22. In honor of King tempt will probably be made to turn young people might be held under Edward's accession on January 22, wholesome I restraint understand the skin of a negro white. 1901, royal salutes were fired today In this has been to mean testa that interpreted have been undertaken by The Robert A. Roos. a senior In the college the gentleman and lady must dance at St. James' park and at all the other saof chemistry, under the direction of the least twice apiece, one with the other, luting stations at home and abroad. in this fashion, and that it has grown All commissioned ships in Portsmouth professors in his department. The is to be used in conjunction with to be entirely round dancing In some harbor were dressed, and similar demthe radium in the experiments and the quarters. Rome say the round dance onstrations were mnde at Gibraltar effect of the combined rays of the two I the poetry of motion, but excessive and other ports. on the coloring cells of the body both round dancing Is to be deprecated. Cured After Suffering 10 Year. in the hand and the skin wil be deter' There can be no harm in a mnn and B. F. Hare, supL Miami Cycle ft Mfg. his wife dancing the round dance, but mined if possible. after all give me the good, old square Co., Middletown, O., suffered for ten He spent years with dyspepsia. dance." HERRERA AND NEARY AGAIN. hundreds of dollars for medicine and with doctors without receiving any SIMS TO BOX MOORE. MILWAUKEE. Jan. 22. The Mil permanent benefit He says: "One waukee Boxing club has arranged an HURLEY. Wls., Jan. 22. Art Sims, night while feeling exceptionally bad I was about to throw down the evening excellent card for Its show tonight. The the Akron lightweight, and Billy Moore paper when I saw an item in the paper star event will bring together Aurello of Syracuse are to finish the wind-u- p regarding the merits of Kodol DyspepHerrera, the Mexican, and Charlie of the boxing show arranged to take sia Cure. I concluded to try it and Nenry of Milwaukee, who met here re Place here tonight. The articles call while I had no faith in it I felt better after the second dose. After using two cenlly and put up a lively contest for fifteen rounds at 133 pounds. Sims bottles I am stronger and better than I have been in years, and I recommend Eddie Santry and Maurice Sayers are will. If he wins over Moore, challenge Kodol Dyspepsia Cure to my friends scheduled to come together In the the winner of tlic and acquaintances suffering from coining Corbel event stomach trouble." Bold by Geo. F. fight. Cave, Wallace Drug Co., and Wm. Gld- old-ti- X-r- ay semi-fin- al FRIDAY, UTAH STATE JOURNAL, JANUARY 1904. 22, Rodents in Virginia J City Broke Up Ail Drove Away : the Rats I How Virginia City, Nevada, was rid of rodents is a tale as strange, novel and unique as is that of the Pied Piper who undertook the same task for Ham-eli- n City for a thousand guilder. John T. Washington, superintendent of the Andes mine at Virginia City, ia responsible for the story. Mr. Washington is a lineal descendant of President George Washington's nephew. Judge Bushrod Washington, of Westmoreland county, Virginia. He is famed for his strict adherence to the traditional characteristic of his distinguished kinsman, and he can face a whole showcase full of little hatchets without blushing. "Two years ago," said Mr. Washington, "Virginia City became so overrun with these noxious pests that the Inhabitants took to sleeping in hammocks, and a dependable cat was quoted at about the price of fifty shares of gilt-edmining stock. In addition to the common black rat, which swarmed in Incredible numbers, every Rocky mountain trade rat within a radius of five miles suddenly moved into town, bringing his family with him, and just as we had settled down to a grim and grisly war against the invader, convinced that we had the visible supply of rodents cornered to the ultimate squeak, one morning the town awoke to find the streets alive with wood rata husky patriarchs of the Comstock gulches, as large as toy terriers and boasting whiskers which would adorn the president of a building and loan society. It was an awful visitation, and its worst feature was that notwithstanding the fact that we were importing our rat poison by barrels and that every family owned and operated at least five traps, the rats kept steadily gaining on us. Speaking merely as an everyday observer, I would say that 'race suicide' is apparently as yet an unmooted subject in rat communities. I'll swear it was in ours. Of the three varieties which combined to devastate our thriving little city the big gray ood rat was by long odds the most rapacious and sanguinary. Within a week after their arrival, they had every dog In town terrorised, and at an earlier stage of the proceedings the entire feline population betook Itself to the ridge poles, awning posts, flag staffs and other elevated ge structures as permanent abodes. For a time I thought it excruciatingly funny to watch our best citizens of either sex mounted on stepladders feeding the household pet from the end of a twelve-fofishpole, but when my own cat treed for keeps the humor of the situation decame daily less apparent The depredations of the trade rats, too, were a source of constant annoyance. If one laid any small but valuable article even for an instant, in the wink of an eyelid it would be seised t and borne away and some worthless trifle substituted. I caught a trade rat one night making off with my alarm clock, and a gang of these dusky miscreants burglarized the principal barber shop, leaving buckeyes where they had found shaving mugs and sticks for razors. "But vexatious as the situation undoubtedly was, viewed from a masculine standpoint, this rodentlal ram-p- a ncy if I may be allowed the phrase furnished the ladies with a veritable carnival of terror. The Society of Civic Improvement adjourned sine die, with a hop, skip and jump, when Mme. Secretary discovered a large black rat in the upholstered seat of the piano stool. As for the Ibsen Reading circle, this band of hardy enthusiasts convened but once, and after vainly endeavoring to enjoy the dramatists masterpiece from the backs of chairs and the tops of desks, bookcases and cabinet, sorrowfully decided that Ibsen and rats wouldn't run in double bar ot ness. "When our ratty cataclysm raged its the hour of our deliverance was at hand. It seems that little Johnny Costa kept a cage of white rats in a cellar beneath his fathers restaurant. While playing there one day he broke the cage door and the white rats, escaped. Nobody except Johnny paid any Attention to this incident for a few additional rats, even if they had been crushed strawberry color or baby blue, Instead of white, would scarce have been considered factors In the sum of our discomfort. Yet these white rats saved the city. It was per hups four months after the accidental liberation of the first family of white rats that we began to notice an un precedented commotion among the everyday black ones. Droves of black rats would suddenly dart from their burrows and race headlong down hill In the direction of some abandoned shaft or mining tunnel. Maniacal chattering blent with the shrill squeaks of conflict reg an apparently sounded night and day from the rat holes. Black rats, bleeding from fiercest, Home Bakery ghastly wounds, staggered groggily across the board walks, and the dead and dying littered our gutters. It was of course apparent to even the most casual observer that something was ll with our rats, raising the but the precise nature of the destroying agent fight have remained a mystery had not one of our prominent citizens witnessed in broad daylight a battle between a diminutive white rat and a gigantic whlslterado from the backwoods. After circling warily around his huge adversary, the little white champion sprang two feet into the air and alighted on the wood rats back. An Instant later his needle-lik- e teeth met in the wood rats spinal vertebrae, and although the latter strove earnestly and courageously to dislodge his insignificant adversary, in less than twenty seconds he was a dead wood rat As soon as this Incident was reported we took up a collection and wired to a San Francisco animal dealer to ship us all the white rats in the market. "The subsequent proceedings were characterised by a grewsome, though salutary, sameness which scarcely invites narration in detail. Suffice it to say, that from the first shake out of the box, so to speak, our imported white rats made themselves at home. Processions of trade rata, led by paterfamilias bearing the most cherished d'art of his collection between his clenched teeth, heading for the gulches, became a dally spectacle in our streets. Today, black rats, wood rats and trade rats are as rare as Comstock dividends. Per contra, white rata abound in Virginia City and the entire population feeds them, as the Venetians do their pigeons. These white rats commit no depredations, but partake of such food as may be provided for them in the same friendly spirit that animates the donors. They are in all respects orderly and well disposed rodents." deuce-and-a- ob-J- et TEXAS BANKER8 MEET. FORT WORTH, Tex, Jan. 22. The Texas Bankers association of the Seventh district held a meeting at Fort Worth today, J. A. Kemp presiding. Some of the speakers and their topics were as follows: J. W. Butler, Clifton, Mercantile Collections; R. E. Huff. Wichita Falls, To What Extent Should Bankers Participate in Politics W. G. Newby, Fort Worth, The Importance of and Organised Efforts on the Part of the Banking Fraternity. well-attend- and Grocery. - 0r r t f11 I Hakerjllnodi. 1 SMJeBeisou Aveuiie. 2 J. C. SCHWARTZ, Prop. j SCHWARTZ BROS. Bakery and Restaurant. : AAA A JlvERfjDCMi fatiNBOT TIME CARD, In offset Nov. 22, 190, DEPART. No. 8 No. 8 Atlantic Mall for Salt Lake City. Provo and m ,.aU P!?1 PMt No. 12 To Salt Lake City 7:15a. and Inter mediate points, dally 8:10s.m No. 2 Atlantic Limited for Balt Lake City, Provo, Leadville, Pueblo, Denver and all points east, dally 2:15 ml No. 4 Atlantic Express for Sait Lake City, Pueblo, Denver and all points east, dally 7:00 p.m. ARRIVE. Pacific Express from Denver, Pueblo, Provo, Salt Lake City and all 1:05a.m. pointa east, dally No. 5 Pacific Limited from Sait Lake City, Provo, Denver and all points 11:45 am east, dally No. 1 Pacific Mall from Denver, Pueblo, Leadville, Salt Lake City and all points east dally 2:40 pm No. 9 Local from Sanpete 7:00 p.m. Valley Through Bleeping ran to Omaha, Kauw City, Chicago and St. Louis. .New York and Baton. I. A. BENTON, General Agent PuMngerDt partment, Salt Lake City. C. a. HEN BY, Ticket Agent, Ogden. 0. B. GILSON, Agent, Ogden. ed r TIME CARD in Effcet Nov. 22, 19 South of Ogden. DEPART. Salt Lake, Provo and 2.05 p m Broke Into Hie House. all points south No. 12 Salt Lake and Tintlc.l0:45a.m No. 8 Salt Lake and interS. Le Quinn of Cavendish, Vt, was mediate polnta 7:80pm. robbed of his customary health by in- No. 10 Salt Lake and inter1:55 pm. vasion of Chronic Constipation. When No. 4mediate points 8:10a.m. Dr. King's New Life Pills broke into North of Ogden 7:15 p.m. his house hli trouble was arrested and No. 11 Cache Valley 11 :55a.m. 7 Portland. No. and Butte tow hes entirely cured. They're No. 9 Pocatello, Montpelier 1:25a.m. to cure. 25c. at Jesse J. Dri-eand Butte of 8outh store. Ogdon drug No. 2 Fair. No. No. 1 guar-vnte- ed rs ARRIVE. Three More Trips to the A Coupon With Every Worlds 1 Purchase. "BUILT 42 H North of Ogden. 10:30 a.m. No. IS Cache Valley No. 8 Portland and Butte. 7:00a.m. No. 10 Butte and Pocatello. 6:30 pm. Trains south of Juab run dally, " in red and lrtdtmirk Label the Union are on every pair ol Hansens UNION MADE cept Sunday. Ticket office at Union Depot C. A. HENRY G. H. CORSE Freight and Pass. Agt Ticket Alt OGDEN, UTAH. D. E. BURLEY General Pasenger and Ticket Agent Salt Lake City. Utah. - Gloves and Gauntlets WJNIONjb FOE ENGINEERS Those (loves are specially adapt IJPAcmcT ed lor online principles ol construction, thorough workmanship and - high-sramaterials insure perfect protection and long service, Bocause ol a special laaning process. they are always pliant and flexible, in spite of steam, heat, oil and moisture. They are the longest. wearing, besf.filling and most comfortable .loves thil money cat make. The HUB Is agent for the Ilansen glove as well as many other standard gloves. Hansen's gloves are sold at one low standard price. But w have about 300 pairs of Calhoraehlds ifornia buck and gloves mainly $1.50 qualities, these will go at $1 a pair. Thousands of other articles throughout the house at unusual cut prices. The never-endin- 2449 2:00p.m. Salt Lake and inter7:00 a.m. mediate points No. 7 Sait Lake and Mil11:10 sm. ford No. 9 Butte and Pocatello 18:45 Express No. 11 Salt Lake and Tln- 6:65pm. tic 8 lb HAND The " Diamond Salt Lake HUB Washington Avs, PI PlCTO' TIME CARD, No. No. 6 8 No. 4 In effect Nov. 22, 1903 DEPART. 7:10 Mall and Express... tor Limited Oveland Omaha. Council Bluff. Denver, Kansas clty1.40B. and East, dally Atlantic Express tor Denver, Omaha, Council Bluffs, Kansas City and all points east, 1,1 dally m. ARRIVE. No. 8 No. 1 Pacific Express from Council Bluffs, Omans. Denver, Kansas City and east daily Oveland Wmltedfrom Omaha. Council Bluffs. Kansas City, and ail points ess. :0p.ib. No. 101 f.49 Fast Mail C. A. HENRY O. H. CORSE. Pa Traveling pm nt "(gfijNE Pasn Ant |