Show CONTRACT TO B U I 1 L iv 20 2 0 COTTAGES contafi ES C J HUMPHRIES FORCE OF carpenters AT DEVILS SLIDE cottages which will be thoroughly modem modern must be completed within sixty day days charles humphries the local contractor and builder has secured the contract for the erection of twenty cottages at the site of tho the union portland cement comp companas compan anys yB plant at devils slide utah on the line of the union Paci pacific the contract calls for the completion of the cottages within a period of 60 lays days each cottage wilt will have five rooms will be built with itono stono foundation and wilt will bo 8 substantial structure with modem plumbing plum baug this th Us of course means that a cottage will bo be built every three daya dap mr humphries now haa twenty iva men working ion the bouses houses california LIFE OP OF MARK TWAIN marksville marysville Marys ville appeal wo we note an item in the sacramento union that al albert bert B paine la Is in that city securing data lor for an authorized I 1 life I 1 fe of nl ar k twain I 1 n we lve doubt if it he found any one in sacramento who know much of the per oon son allty of samuel L clemens though it was on the union of that city olty that he received his hiet start to fame true it wag was on the virginia papers in the flush comstock days among the others othera of brilliancy who were employed upon them ho lie gained much of notoriety there was at that nat time and later a close relationship between tho the union of sacramento and the Enter enterprise of virginia acty joe goodwins Good paper when the nevada men passed down to san Fram laco they made their stopping headquarters at the union office and clemens was a frequent visitor there the proprietors etora of tho the paper recognized bis his merit and proposed that ho he make a trip to ho the sandwich islands and write a series of descriptive letters lett cra mark twain had not then the weighting of sevc seventy years ho he was and dt did not hesitate to accept tho the commission this was in tho the cerly spring of 1866 he lie was well staked with money by the nion peo plo 10 lo and got p as far as san Pran francisco cisco V few days after the hawaiian steamship had left paul ll morrill orrill one of tho the proprietors of the union was in san francisco andean and ran across clement clemens he was in a sorry plight and had evidently bumped up against the real hang thing As he lie would put it he was bean lefta legs tho the union proprietors again staked stalked him and the series of letters ho he wrote from tho the islands corn com banded universal attention and brought abrought him into prominence in fact they were the making of mark twain a iq aa he be now Is an enduring factor in the literature Iter liter aturo of the world tho the first it t of these letters appeared in the anion union april 16 1866 and they were contin ned serially junell february of tho the year so far as we know they have never appeared in book form much as their merit deserves their rescue from tho the oblivion of newspaper flips flies and a permanent place on library shelves clemens when ha he used to visit the union office was a curious cb character ater and hie his drawl Is remembered by those now living who met him there since hla his life has ha ben been but all the same that which Is 13 called tho the weight of years re rests ats lightly on his shoulders and be he Is as buoyant over ever TAFT GOES TO cincinnati 1 washington april 26 secretary tatt left tor for cincinnati where he will address a meeting of the western federation of yale cluba club tomorrow night he HO also will make an address at the dedication of the young mens christian as association building at dayton ohio sunday afternoon and on oa evening irin will address a of the business slen clubs of cincinnati |