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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08
A SMASHING or PENSION IDOLS.

The congressional investigation into the
manner OF conducting the pension business
OF the government was not begun too early.
In the examination last Friday OF General
BUssEY, who 10 one Of RAUM's lieutenants,
1t was developed that only the day before,
through ruling, he had added $4,000 men
to the list of possible pensioners, by hold
ing that members of the Pennsylvania
militia were edtltled to be considered SOL
diers Of the United States, as well as any
others. These militismen were called into
service for two months during the invasion
of Pennsylvania by General LEES army in
1863. They were never mustered into the
volunteer service, were under arms but
sixty days and fired not gun. Quay and
CAMERON, with some of the Pennsylvania
members of the House. have been trying
for years 10 have these troops made PEN
sionaole, and their success now is simply a
political move to strengthen them among
their constituents
The examination has already shown a
great amount of favoritism by the interior
department through the pension bureau to
certain pension agents who have grown
enormously rich. 1t is stated that of the
$4,000 Pennsylvania militiamen just let in
by the action Of BUssEY, one attorney has
Lad prepared, ready for filing, 10000
claims. MIR. ENLoE, chairman of the
House committee looking into RAUM's
methods, has expressed himself as salts
fed that the preparation of the cases would
not have been undertaken without some
az II. f, \ oF 10
department.
BUssEY was at one time cotton specu-
lator in New Orleans, but turned up in
Washington about the time of HARRISON
inauguration, and NOZZLE gave him a job as
assistant secretary of the interior, as
signed to lhe examination and ruling
10 pension cases. In his statement before
Mr.. ENLoE's committee he acknowledged
that some thirty five pension office en-
ployees rerated their own pensions, in
creasing the total amount to SCI, 900 per
annum. That the readers Of TIE HERALD
may see what a small matter this was con
sldered 10 be, we quote from Genera
BussEY's testimony given last Friday. He
had admitted the charge that thirty five
employees had rerated themselves, an aver
age OF s, 800 each, when the following col
loquy took place:
HAS any part of this money ever been re-
turned:" was asked.
No said Mr.. BUssEY
ut was fraudulent, was it not!'
Yes. l suppose So"
Then why were the recipients not compelled
to pay 1t back:''
1t took great deal to get an answer TO thi
question from Mr.. BUsSEY. He finally said
1t was not paid back because the attorney
general decided that none OF it could be recov
cred upon the ground that whatever wroni
may have been done was by the commissions
Of pensions who authorized the issuance of tn
certificates
Heretofore the pension business has beef
deemed too sacred to be peered into, Their
being kind of halo around it to pierc
which was almost sacreligious; but now tn
image smashing has begun, and the air vii
probably be full CT curious fragments.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08
AN ADVERTISING PROPO ,ITION

The chamber of commerce has issued a
circular letter requesting fifty men 10 con-
tribute 500 each, thus producing fund Of
$1,000 with which to do some special sdver-
Using of Salt Lake. That the advertising
should be done all will coucede. Industries
are dropping, the development of resources
is delayed and business is stagnant Some
thing should be done to inaugurate a re-
vival. Attention should be directed hither.
We ought to induce he coming and invest
ment of capital. The natural gas which
has been discovered should be put to better
and more profitable use than show illumi-
mating for the curious. A railroad to the
west is needed and it should be impressed
upon capitalists that in building such
road much money can be male. True,
Salt Lake will continue to grow without
outside assistance. We can move ahead
and will do SO, but the progress will be
slow unless we can enlist capital, and that
can be done only by calling the attention of
capitalists to the opportunities for invest
ment, and showing them that by helping
US they will help themselves more.
1t seems to US it ought to be an easy mat,
ter to find fifty men here who will cheer
fully contribute s10O each for the purpose
indicated. 1t shouldn't require more than
an hours time to find the number and ge;
the money, for every one of our wealthy
and well-to- do men knows that s., 200 judi
ciously extended for advertising will re
turn mighty big interest and that he will
get his full share of the dividends. 1t will
be shameif this scheme shall fail. Bu
it will not fail The money will be forth
coming and in little while those who con-
tribute it viii be getting the return!
through revival of business and activity
in the trades and industries.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

THE MOST valuable privilege in Yellow
stone park is that of transporting the
tourists. Several months ago this was
taken out of the hands of the association
and given to one HARTLEY, a pet of RUSSELL
HARRIsoN's. There are over 121 miles OF
road in the park, ffty-six of which have
just been completed by the government at
q cost Of $4,000. This government prop
erty is great snap for favorites, and there
is in consequence big rush for privileges.
The matter will bear careful watching on
the part of Congress, which is being be.
eiged for valuable longtime leases.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

EDMUNDs, the ex Senator from Vermont,
whose hostility in times past to the institu-
tions of Utah is notorious, is now urging
amnesty to the authorities OF the Mormon
church, as we learn from the Tribune. So
he regards the question of polygamy az
finally settled, believes in the honesty,
sincerity and loyalty of the former
"saints, and wishes them to be enfran-
chised and admitted to all the privileges
and immunities of citizenship May we
again ask our morning contemporary what
it is that it pretends TO be fighting fora
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08
FACETIOUS FANCIES.

A miss is not as good as a mile in pedestrian
race, and one lap is enough for any miss.-Pic-
ayune.
Spot cash: The nickel the telescope man gets
for letting you peep" at the sun.-LOwel
Courier.
"All there is needed for this business" said
the auctioneer, lis plenty of wind and SALE"
Washington star.
You can't help feeling sorry for the pretty girl
who married another fellow while you were still
Columbus Post.
Doctor-Wel, how do you feel to-day? Pa
tient-1 feel as if Ihad been dead week Doc
tor-Hot, eh?- Christian Register.
Every tree is known by its fruit, but some OF
the fruitage OF the family tree does not greatly
tiatter the parent stem.-Boston Transcript.
Prisoner, who has just been successfully de-
Tended by his attorney on charge of burglary,
eagerly: You'll defend me next time, too. won't
you?-FHegende Batter
Mrs. Cobwigger-Is the women's reading-room
the same as the mems? Cobwigger-Exactly,
except that they had to take down the sign Of
mo Talking Allowed ''-NeU York Sun.
The Doctor-Have you called on the Buffers
since the failure? Miss Newgold-No think
| shall have to scratch th5m off. Poor Mrs. But
Ter is so sensitive that hesitate to intrude upor
her in her trals.-Brookly1 Life.
Popularity called the king of medicine Hoods
| SarSaparilla II cOnQuers scrOfula salt rheuu
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

In KANSAS the question Of fusion be-
tween the Democrats. and the Alliance
men for the coming election, is attracting
much attention. The Democratic party
there has, of Itself, practically 10 organl-
cation, and the state committee is said to
be ready to combine on almost any terms
that may be proposed by or be acceptable
to the Peoples party. At the worst the
Democrats will put no electoral ticket in
the field, but support the Peoples.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

IN THE recent political meetings held in
Indiana to send delegates to the Mime
spolis convention we miss the familiar
name Of w. w. DUDLEY, the blocks-of-five
man. Was this cone as prudential meas
ure, or was Dun simply sat down onl
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

is universally popular in the Paris and
Lamar county portions of the state, but
even there it is commended that MILLS has
prior claims. Chiffon. whowas appointed
in REAGAN's vacancy, is said not to be sin
it," so far as the real contest is concerned.
Reports from different parts Of the state
say that MILLS is in the lead.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

THE CRISIS of the fight between the Ala
bama and Pennsylvania iron product ap-
pears to have arrived. The market has
gone to pieces and the Alabama furnaces
at Birmingham have $4,000 tons in their
yards. The railroads have been called up
on to reduce their freight rates, and re-
duction of 10 per cent N wages has been
decided on. The furnaces, however, con-
tinue in full operation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

Up TO now about $50 suits have been
brought against Pittsburg newsdealers by
the law and order league for violation OF
the Sunday law. In almost every case the
defendant has been fined SIS and costs.
All the cases have been appealed, and mex,
Saturday, the 18th, has been fixed for the
final hearings. A great deal of interest
surrounds these "blue-law'i cases.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

Ex-SEsAroR BLANCHE K. BRUCE, of
Mississippi, who is called BLANCHE because
he Is black, is,recorder of deeds in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and in two years has
raked in almost s24, 900 as fees. The House
has cut the appropriation down to So 500
per year, payable as salary. An enormous
kick from the Republicans is result.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

IT Is said that $4,000 cases appealed by
importers TO the supreme court from the
rulings of custom officials will now be
withdrawn, in view of the recent decision
on the MCKINLEY act. But the importers
haven't changed their opinions about the
law just the same.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

A FRENCH inventor has devised a Wit
riol-throwing gun which will shoot
stream of that horrible stuff 200 feet. 1t
is proposed to use 1t against savages who
viii not respect the ordinary usages of
warfare. Perhaps we shall hereafter
hear Of soldiers going to war with BAB-
COCK fire extinguishers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

GOVERNOR FUTILE, of New Hampshire,
is the boldest man in the United States.
BE says BLAINE's Presidential boom has
something in it. We didn't suppose it had
q iot or little of foundation; but it appears
it has tattle ana FUTILE.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

SPEAKING, as Governor PECK, of Wiscon-
sin, does, about certain person "breaRing
into the White house with jimmy it is
another kind of a JIMMY MIR. BLAINE is
using to keep himself out.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08
SILVER AND LEAD.

Bar silver was quoted in New York yes
terday at 9O5s.
Lead, 4l5
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

GENERAL BUTLER has been suing the
National Home for Disabled Veterans in
Washington, and at the trial was his own
counsel What is it they say about that
kind of a laWyer2
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

SENATOR INGALLS, wants to play the
prOdigal son and return to his fathers
house. The st. Louis Globe Democrat says:
LET him wait while: veal is too high
nown
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08
sAIrLAKr. December 10. 1891.
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

The indications furnished by the United
States agricultural department through
MIR. Kerksm in San Francisco
For UtGh-Fdir 1Uedther; ludrmer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

New YoRK's census takers have eyi
IDENTITY used the visible quorum system il
counting.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

THE TEXAS senatorship question is inter
esting the politicians, not only of that
state but of the country. Mr.. CULBERsoN,
who has been in Congress eighteen years,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

TRUST Is bust' is the governments
motto with regard to the Peoria whiskey
combination.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

The SIGNAL service man pressed the fine
weather button yesterday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08

THE DOUBLE candidate racket will proba
bly, knock Illinois ont, too.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08
FAITH AND LOYALTY.
normons and the Government Authoriti'

Mormons and the Government Authorities.
We believe there are no where In the Union a
more loyal people than the Latter-day Saints.
They know no other country except this. They
expect 10 live and die on this soil.
To be At peace with the government and in
harmony with their fellow-citizens who are not
OF their faith, and TO share in the confidence OF
the government and people, our people have
voluntarily put aside something which all their
lives they haYe believed to be q sacred prinoi-
pie. AS shepherds OF a patient and
suffering people, we ask amnesty for them, and
pledge our Faith and honor for their future.
WMFORD WOODRUFF, h. J. GRANT.
GEORGE @. CANNON, JOHN HENRY SMITH,
JOSEPH +. SMITH, JoHEW. TAYLOR
LORENZO Snow. NJ. w. MERRILL,
MOSES THATCHER, ANTHoN b. LUND,
FRANCIS b. LYMAN. ABRAHAM II. CANNON
FRANKLIN D. RICHARDS.
SALT LAKE, December l9, 1891.
To the President:
We have the honor TO forward herewith a pc
tition signed by the president and most infiuen
tial members Of the Mormon church. We hav,
40 doubt Of Us sincerity and no doubt that it il
intended in absolute good faith. The signers in
clude some who were most determined in adher
ing TO their religious faith while polygamy
either mandatory or permissive. was one of it
ienets, and they are men who mould not ltght
pledge TIER rdjth and honor 10 the government
or subscribe to such docu ment without having
fully resolved to make thei words good in let
ter and spirit.
Signed by A. L, THOMAS governor; CHARLIE
s. ZANE chief justice; Commissioners GOD
FREY, SAUNDERS and ROBERTSON, and Judge
MINER BLACKBURN and ANDERSON.
SAT- LAKE.. December2 2. 1891
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08
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Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-22
ADJUSTMENTS.

The Carleton company last evening at
the opera house played Dorothy to a
very large audience.
The score contains many attractive
airs, and the book is bright, but the
opera is wanting in the sprightiness
and surprises which is usually looked
for in like compositions. 1t is not ex-
actly comic opera nor romantic
opera.
After writing of Mr.. Carleton's work
for three or four nights one becomes
short of terms Of praise and OF the right
sort of adjectives. He played and sang
Geoffrey Wilder as ne does all his roles !;
to say more would be redundant.
Mr.. Fitzgerald got out OF his usual
low comedy line in his part OF Wilder's
chum, Harry Sherwood, and showed
himself as fully at home in its more
disniied requirements as he is in the
monkey shines of Ali Baba.
The Dorothy of Clara Lane is very
pretty conception of the role. The
dainty little artistic acted the part most
bewitchingly and sang the quaint airs
most sweetly. Her voice has some re-
markable crystalline tones about it, and
is always true.
Miss Vincent's Lydia Hawthorne was
most delightful. In the duet scene she
showed herself possessed OF rare comedy
qualities, and was most fascinating in
appearance.
Mr.. Bigelow was funny throughout as
Lurcher, but suffered bit in compare
son with Drew.in the same part by those
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-22

Mr.. ALI Ellinghouse, the talented
San Francisco theatrical manager, writes
that he is in Fresno arranging tug of
war contest to last four days.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-22
OEDING'S AFFIDAVIT.
He Knows Nothing Against Mrs. HoI-
combs Chastity.

y
combs Chastity.
1t may be remembered that the we'll
known divorce lawyer, w. w. HoIcomb,
was arrested some days ago on com
plant OF his wife, and made the state
ment in court that he knew that Mrs.
Holcomb had maintained illicit rela-
tions with one F. H. Oeding. Mrs. Hoi-
comb yesterday lett a copy of an affida-
Wit, made by Oeding yesterday, before
Notary Lindenfeld. as follows
F. H. Oeding, of lawful age, first be-
ing duly sworn, on his oath says that,
whereas, one w. w. Holcomb, of the
city and county of Los Angeles, said
state, was recently arrested on the com
plant of his wife and at said trial said
Holcomb did represent that this affiant
would corroborate said Holcomb in his
assertions against the chastity of his
wife, now the undersigned desires TO
state under oath that he would not cor
roborate said w. w. Holcomb in his
said statements against his wife, but on
the contrary, he knows nothing what
ever against the chastity or good char
acter Of said wife, and that this afiant
never had any improper relations with
said wife under any circumstances or at
any time or place, either in the past or
present.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-22

A PETITION to the council is being very
numerously signed by our most substan-
tial citizens, recommending the pur-
chase of new site for the pest house.
The location proposed is in the hills at
the northernmost boundary of the city,
remote from residences and outside the
line OF improvement. We understand
that the tract consists of forty acres, and
that there is no travelled thoroughfare
Nithin safe distance OF it. 1t will be
sold to the city, we. are informed, at a
very reasonable figure. The present To-
cation of the pest house has been a
source of constant protest from the peo-
pie who live near it. 1t is in the midst
of quite settlement, and is a constant
menace to the health of the neighbor-
hood. If an epidemic of smallpox or
other contagious disease should make
Ats appearance, the attempt to use it
would create riot. The council should
take all the circumstances into consider
alton and provide for pesthouse in an
isolated locality like the one offered.
Nov is the time to do 80. If we wait
for the time when such provision for
she contagious sick is urgently required
It will be impossible to do anything
effective. Every city requires such an
establishment, and it should be 80 To-
Gated that it would not prove menace
TO any inhabited neigbborhood. In this
connection we may state curious fact.
The petition alluded to is signed by
seven ex-mayorS of the city. We can
only recall nine ex-mayors who are now
living, namely: Forster, Nichols, Mas
carel, Beandry, Tober nan, Spence,
Thorn, Workman, Bryson. We ought
perhape to add Senor Coronel to these,
for he Was, In ante-American times,
chief Of the ayuntamiento. The only
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-22
REcEpnon OF The PRESS LEAGUE.

1t is greatly to be regretted that the
members of the International Press
aeague will make their stay here soshort
that our people will not be enabled to
give them as elaborate awelcome as
they are entitled to. They will reach
here on the morning train from San
Francisco, but their cars will be switched
of and taken to Pasadena, from which
place they will return to this city at
noon, when the reception committee
will receive them. They will then be
taken in carriages to Judge Silent's
beautiful place, where luncheon al fresco
will be served. This will be followed by
drive about town, when they will re-
turn to their train and proceed to Re-
dondo, where the formal reception
banquet will be gwen. Tomorrow morn
ing they will start for San Diego.
Short, however, as their stay amongst
us will be, they will have an opportu.
nifty TO see that Los Angeles is a city Of
commercial importance and of beautiful
homes. One feature of our section they
will certainly appreciate, and that is
the matchless winter weather we have
In Southern California. They will also
be enabled to realize the fact that we
are in the center of one of the richest
valleys on the continent, where the cit
rus fruits grow to the highest perfection,
and where horticulture and agriculture
flourish to a degree unsurpassed any
where. When they are informed that
it will take between five and six thol-
sand cars to carry our oranges alone to
the eastern markets, and that it will
reqnire an equal number of cars to con-
Eey to the transmontane cities our dried
fruits, our raisins, our walnuts, our
wines and our potatoes, they will be in
d aposition TO appreciate the possibilities
of q section which has only entered up
on the threshold of it's industrial devel-
opnent.
1t will perhaps be news to our visit
oxs that within radius of thirty miles
of Los Angeles we not only produce the
richest crops of the farm, the orchard
and the vineyard, but that we also have
exhaustless reservoirs of coal oil, i'm.
mense petroleum and asphalt beds,
mines that are rich in gold and silver
ores, aurilerous placers, great deposits
of tin and q wide range of minerals
But these are facts that it will be well
for our guests to note when they come
to sum up the natural resources
NJ a eornfrv which ia hlassad With a
climate which surpasses in its salubrity
and in its hygienic endowments, that OF
the famed Riviera or OF the fabulous val
ley where Rasselas spent the happy
years of his youth.
The HERALD extends most cordial
greeting to the distinguished visitors,
and assures them that they are warmly
welcomed to the hospitalities of our
people and our locality.