The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-07

tn9 meXiCtu IOrQ6r-ar rapidly pass.
Ing away II MT aIIeaoy gone. One OF
the few has been stopping in this city
for some time looking after claim he
has before Congress. When the Texan
r'public was making her struggle for
freedom an event occurred. II was
the heroic defense which ended in
the massacre of the Alamo. "fhe1-
mopyl@ had her survivor; the Alamo
hal nome" is the inscription on the
battle monument which marks the
place where the gallant Gusts, Bowie
and Crockett fell. There was survi-
yor. A boy escaped, by some miracle,
the universal slaughter. 1t was Viii
liam James Cannon, the child of the
Alamo" and he it is who is now asking
the government to give him the lands
Z 200 acres-which are his. He is now
an old man with long white hair, which
falls around IA, &c remarkably like thai
of the late Secretary Seward, though
scanned and roaghened by frontier
life. His existence has been a most
eyentful one, and the incidents therein
would furnish the foundations of Lien
lurid dime novels. He speaks fluent
ly Spa aish and dozen Lnuian tongues
He followed Crook into the Meschlero
retreat in the Sierra Mares and was
one of the most active m embers of that
expedition. At the hotel where he is
stopping he is the centre of u small
crowd at almost every period of the
cay while at night he is invariably
coaxed into telling the crowd the story
of the Alamo or else he relates some of
the many adventures that have maj ked
epochs in his later life.
MAN FROM UTAH
has just been interviewed in this city
and [ send you what he told Post re-
porter but day or so ago. The gentle
man referred to is Hon. William NJ.
Ferry, of PARK City, Utah, and brother
to ES Senator Ferry, of Michigan.
This is what the paper has to
say to him and his conversation:
"a gentleman has been staying at the
back the thoughts of observers to past
regime, when Senator Ferry. of Mich
igau, presided over the Senate, after the
death OF Vice President Wilson. This
gentlemen is a brother of the eX-Sena
tor, Hon. William M. Ferry, of Park
City, Utah, and a member of the
National Democratic Committee. Uu-
like his brother politically, though
much like him in appearance, Mr..
Ferry is stsunch Lepocrat and has
been for years. He was q gallant
soldier, and at one time regent of the
university at Ann Arbor. i came
across the country hurredly,' said Mr..
Ferry, and can give no opinion on the
political o0tlook worth quoting. Affairs
IL Utah continue about the same The
Mormon question is still at the front.
There is little doubt that polygamous
marriages are still being contracted.
Reports TO the contrary are for eastern
consumption, and excite only ridi-
cule in Utah. The case of eX-
Delegate George Q Cannon who
was sentenced to Two months i'm
prisonment for violating the Edmunds
act the other day, seems to create ad-
verse criticism against Judge Sanford,
who was recently appointed by Presl-
dent Cleveland. This is wrong. Judge
SaDdford is man of high character. II
should be remembered that Cannon had
been for two years in hiding, and had
forfeited bail to the extent of S45 Coo.
The object of the Edmunds act is not so
much to punish for past otfepses as to
guard against new ones.
"Of course. Statehood is out of the
question for Utah for many years yet.
L ne IuakSS IL I'LL
possible. Criminals who believe in their
crime as religious tenet will never en-
force punishment against that crime.
Immigration is restricted almost en-
tirely to foreign converts to Mormon
ISM The hope of the Territory lives in
the opposition of the younger, Ameri-
canizsd element to plural marriages.
AS the country around fills up it will
be come more and more difficult to pre-
serve the Mormon policy intact. "
HON. TIN CAMPBELL,
of New York, had little lunch at Cam
berlain's the other night aad there was
much fun thereat. The last toast was
proposed by the genial member from
the Eighth Distr.cs aud he did it
grandly. Rising to his feet, he held
cham payne glass daintily poised be-
tween the thumb and index finger OF
his right hand, while his left rested
costly in the bosom Of his Prince Albert.
Mr.. Blaine" CALCULATED Mr.. Camp
bell, calmly but firmly.
There was no response, but several of
Mr. Campbell's friends wondered what
the -mischief MIR. Campbell was
up to.
"Mr. Blainel" repeated Timothy j.,
THE sectional jimmy, with which. the
Re oublioan parry proposes to break
into the White House,