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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-24
POLICE COURT.
Edgar Pleads Guilty-The Liquor
Cases-MinOr Offenders.


John Edgar, who rashly attempted to
rob a till at Margett's saloon on Satur-
day night and was hooked almost while
in the act by Patrolman De Young, was
given a trial in the city Justices court
yesterday. Edgar admitted his guilt but
made warm plea for lenlency on the
ground that he was a novice at till
tapping and intended in the future to
give such methods the cold shake. APP
parently the judge was not convinced of
his sincerity or the recentness of his in
itfation into the way of the transgTessor,
as he gave him thirty days of bread and
water fare and pick and shovel practice,
as well as fine of $40. AS Edgar's ex-
chequer suddenly shrank when his
brothers ill-gotten gains were taken
from him, he will do penance for his
law breaking escapade by spending fifty
days on the highways shoveiling rocks.
The gang captured with Edgar were
also dealt with after the fashion of the
police court grind. Joe Raymond, VINO
had been given till sunset on Saturday
to bow himself out of Zion, was given
of the order and for his being a first
class vagabond.
Thomas Morris Jared the same as his
comrade in crime, and will spend the
liar home the bug house. Rob Morton,
the remaining ex-convict, had his trial
for vagrancy postponed until today;
j. P. CULLEN, bartender for Hogle
Bros, did not appear In ponce court 10
make a defense yesterday, and the SO
left as bond the day before was de-
clared forfeited.
w. R. Stratford. who served drinks for
the New Resort, made a contest en- the
case of selling liquor on Sunday, which
resulted in his discharge. A very slim
case was made out against them and
dismissal was moved by Prosecutor
James.
George A Dahlstad, through his at
torney Judge Mckay filed his undertake
ing on appeal and appeal bond with Clerk
James yesterday.
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will be gladdened today by the an
nouncement of a special dividend in
addition to the regular quarterly one
which had already been declared. The
board Of directors of the company
were in session yesterday. and after
hearing the reports for the years
business. decided that the showing
justified special dividend of 1 per
cent TO the stockholders. This will
make a total of 212 per cent on the
capital Of a quarter of a million, which
the stockholders will receive on the
91st. and will bring the years divi-
dends up to ~ per cent. In addition
a substantial amount viii be carried
to the company's reserve fund. Such
a result is particularly gratifying to
the company, especially in view Of the
fact that the year 1895 has been so
disastrous generally to fire insurance
companies. and it speaks well for the
conservative management of the
Home besides evincing the support ac-
corded by the public to purely local
institution
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-24
We Would Win.

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 25.-Irving M.
Scott, president of the iron works who
built the Olympia and several other Of
the best American warships, says that in
the event of war between England and
America, this country would come out
on top There is no question of Eng
lands great strength on the water said
Mr.. Scott, ''but it is not always the
strongest navy that gets away with a
battle A lucky shot will turn the tide
of the fight when the danger seems the
at first, but in the end we would whip
her.
1--WE have this advantage over her. She
BY the time her battleships crossed the
Atlantic they would be short of fuel, and
it world he necessary for them to reload.
The English warships would make for
cept them The first great naval battle
would take place off the mouth of the st.
Lawrence river. Our people would cross
into Canada and force the British to send
no doubt attempt to lay seige to Buffalo,
Milwaukee, Chicago and the other lake
cities. They would send their small ships
into the lakes and attack our cities. their
object being to keep up their frontier by
compelling us to stay at home and pro-
teot the harbors Then our objective
point would be the Welland canal. With
the canal DESTROYED connection with the
ish feet shut out.
Get Into Canada.
I'm my judgment, If war is declared,
every effort would be made on the rart
of our armies to get into Canada before
sufficient force could be gathered there
to stop their progress. Canada is a vul-
nerahe place to us, and England would
be obliged to bring troops over to defend
it. The transportation of troops from
England to America would be no easy
task. The transports will have to be con-
veyed by cruisers and battlesbips and the
speed would be that of the slowest ship
in the fleet.
1.-The president would find no trouble in
raising an army. One million men would
volunteer as fast as they could be organ
lied. 1t would be a very different PROMO
sition from the war between the north
and south. The whole country would be
invited to. give battle to England, and as
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-24
Nebraska Patriots.

LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 23.-Rumors of
warfare have caused considerable spec
ulation in the number of men Nebraska
might he able to furnish if called upon
by the general government. Governor
Holcomb has been called upon by the
eastern press and other sources for
similar information.
Governor Holcomb has given out the
following:
Conferred with special aide, Major
E. C. BECKETT, Sixth cavalry, U. S. A,
and gave out the following information:
1.-TWO Regiments, one troop of caval-
ry and one battery of artillery, with a.
total numerical strength of not less
than 1,400 could be placed in the field
instantly should the occasion require.
The regiments are we'll armed and
eol1ipped''
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PRESIDENT BRUBAck RETURNS.
He Has Been to EngIand-ToId OF
the Venezuela Question.

the Venezuela Question.
Mr. Theodore Bruback. president
and general manager of the Sanpete
Valley railroad and of the Marion Gold
Mining and Milling company in
camp Floyd, is back in Salt Lake from
an extended trip to England where
he has been engaged in financial mat
tiers concerning the railroad projects
he now has in hand. He left London
before President Cleveland's message
on the Venezuelan question was issued
so ne was unable to assume the char
acter OF barometer indicating the
prospective fluctuations of British
temperature on war or American
finance, but when he left there every
thing looked favorable to the floating
of plenty of English money in Ameri-
can enterprises.
Mr.. Burback was of the opinion that
had it not been for the war scare
which he considers merely a scare
there would have been plenty of Euro
pean capital put into American rail-
roads and mines in 1896, and he is
sanguine that such will yet be the
case. His own scheme of broad
guaging the Sanpete Valley railroad
and extending it to Salt Lake so that
the output of the Sterling coal mines
may find a market, he considers as be-
ing in fair way of reaching fruition.
Just how the road will come into Salt
Lake-whether it will build it's own
line or enter into a trackage agree
ment with the Union Pacific, is not
stated, but it is assured that while it
will put out every effort to come into
Salt Lake, it will also look after it's
interests in the other direction, and will
probably run a race with the Rio
Grande Western in the extensions to-
ward Richfield and Marysvale. and
ultimately through Iron county and to
the coast.
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Y. M, C. A,
Reception Given By the White Di-
vision Last Eyeninr.

The warmth of the membership contest
between the white and blue committees
of the Young Mems Christian association
resulted in a white reception by that
committee in the association room last
night. Each member of the 'whifes''
was allowed to invite two friends to par
ticipate, and sixty or seventy men gath
cred in the large parlor, after an hour
at the games and in general amusement
to pop corn and dispose of two boxes of
apples. The eating was interspersed with
instrumental music by Mrs. e. C. Carson
on the piano and Messrs. Price and
Throckmorton on violins; war stories by
DR.. Tiff in his entertaining manner; sto-
ries of college incidents and accidents by
Prof Tibbals; anecdotes by Mr. Scott
Anderson, and interesting "Reminiscences
and incidents by Mr.: 2. G: Rognon.
The piano and violin trio closed the
evenings programme, with a number
which was SO well received they were
obliged to respond to an encore The en-
thusiasm created last night is expected
to develop a large growth in membership
before white" night occurs, and to keen
the whites in the lead in the contest, as,
despite the earnest efforts of the ''blues''
for the. past few days, they still led last
night by the following score: Whites,
50: blues. IS.
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cLERGY,1EN's COMMENT.
One Man Who Believes We Could
Whip England.

NhiD EnS1hnUs
CHICAGO, Dec. 2S.-Many clergymen IN
Chicago commented on President Cleve-
lands message on Venezuela in their SER
mons yesterday. DR.. H. W. Thomas, al
ways one of the foremost among clergy
men in patriotic movements, spoke in the
morning at the Peoples church before a
crowded house upon the theLne Fr0gres5
sive Solution of Great Problems" and
during the delivery of the sermon he was
interrupted several times by applause
After introducing his theme by the re-
thoroughly understood at the. time they
are spoken or happen, and their complete
significance in years later, he said:
''In the administration OF national al
fairs President Monroe sought to lay
down the general principle that torelgn
nations should not encroaeh upon the
rights of this land; that America should
be governed by Americans es S;,o II Is thds
sists upon, and the Americans are ready
and bound in honor to defend II Presi-
dent Monroe does not, as stated. IN ms
time. cover all the points involved in the
present issue the principle laid down
does: and it is upon that that the presi-
dent insists in his demand upon Great
Britain for arbitration and in his messag e
to Congress. The larger Interpretation
and application of the principle may come
fo he known as 1.-The Cleveland doctrine
and III has received the unanimous en-,
dorsenlent of the mouse anu Selldte anu
viii be just as unanimously maintained
by the people of the United states S. +,,,,o
I'm the great world moyement the tlme
has come when the new world must be
free free from the domination of the old world
In this are asserting no arbitrary tS or
B Been guided in the past, though alto
Seem to some like a small affair for our
government to interfere in the little mat
Fen, of a. dispute about a boundary line
away on the eastern shores of South
America, but the way to protect the
rights Of this continent against foreign
a ggressiveness is to begin at the borders,
and ali we have asked is that the matter
in DISPUTE be submitted to arbitration.
And this demand must be insisted upon
at whatever cost.
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Arsenais on the Islands.

DAVENPORT. Ia, Dec 2S.-Now
THAT speculation is being INDUCED in
as to the showing that the United
States could make upon short notice.
in case of war with Great Britain. the
resources of the government arsenals
located on the islands that divide the
Mississippi at this point should not be
overlooked. The Rock Island arsenal
at present employs 400 men in con-
nection with its work of making gun
carriages, canteens, saddles and all
the other essentials entering into the
equipment Of the artillery infantry
and cavalry soldiery, with the excep-
ton only Of arms. It's great empty
shops. however, that were built solely
with the view of allowing the capa-
city of the arsenal Ito be multiplied
many times in case of war, need only
the introduction of the necessary force
to make this centrally-located gov
ernmental post of industry from
which it is estimated that an army of
10000 could be equipped in the course
of a wear
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Salt Lake & Hot Springs

Simon Bamberger, general manager
of the Great Salt Lake & Hot Springs
railway, stated yesterday that his COM
pany expected to finish UP today the
new ice pond that has been under com
struction at Pennington for the past
month. When completed the pond will
have an area of six and one-half acres,
which will be fed with pure mountain
water from Pennington canyon, and it
is the intention of the railway company
to cut ice for it's own consumption and
for the Salt Lake market.
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WHAT WOULD HAPPEN.
A Militia Officer Who Airs His Ideas
on War.

NEW YORK, Dec. pa special to
the World from Montreal says:
Why. what would happen were war
between Great Britain and the United
States to be decl5 ed next week?
was asked a militia officer, who has
devoted considerable attention to the
question of national defense.
THE first results" he replied,
would be the mobilization of the
Canadian militia, the dispatching of
imperial troops and military stores
across the Atlantic and the placing of
the state national guards in the
United States on a war footing.
Some years ago. the imperial govern
ment had very careful surveys of the
frontier made and the plans of defense
have been based upon them. All of
the plans so far published anticipate
an assault in force on Montreal as the
first great effort Of the invaders and
prepare for resisting it by force in an
entrenched position somewhere between
Lake Champlain and the st. Lawrence.
There should be no trouble in as
sembling in Montreal in three days TO-
900 fairly drilled and disciplined men
ready for a dash across the line.
With the numerous lines of railway to
its base and the Richelieu river hold
ing Lake Champlain open for the
smaller class of gun boats of the royal
navy, a British force once established
in the vicinity of Plattsburg, would be
just as well able to maintain their posi-
ton there as if it were closer to its
base. Such move as that suggested
would cause delay to Americans-a
most desirable thing. The scene of
operations would be fixed on Ameri-
can instead Of Canandian soil In the
event of defeat, the line of the Can
adams would be directly back of, or
eventually Montreal. Bridges and
railways would be destroyed during the
retirement and every mile the Ameri-
cans advanced they would be moving
further and further from their base
and their supplies. A small naval ex-
petition, or flying column would eff
fectibly dispose of the Central YER
mont railway as a military route
along the east shore Of Lake Cham
plain.
EVEN If the militia had bad luck.
they would be able to keep the in
vaders back from the st. Lawrence un-
til the arrival of achievements from
Great Britain. Once a strong force of
say sc. 600 men Of the British army were
established on the south side of the
st. Lawrence, it would take 200. 900 such
American troops as fought during the
war of rebellion to fight their way
through Montreal, and long before
they could succeed the guns of the
royal navy would have dictated the
terms OF peace of Boston, New York.
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Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit,
Chicago and Milwaukee,
ON OUR SIDE.
A Russian Who Says We Are All
Wrong.

Wrong.
NEW YORK, Dec. ga dispatch TO
the Herald says:
In the course of am interview with
Prof. Lammasch, the leading authority
IN austria ON international law, ne
said: The entire wrong is, in my opin-
ION ON the side Of the Americans. In
the first place word about that cur
louS motto America for Americans,
from which Americans now deduce the
conclusions that no European state can
intervene in American affairs in gener-
al. This theory does not appear to me
to be sustained from amy point of
view.
1T recalls a similar motto-that Of
the eastern empire in which all Euro
peans were called collectively Francs,
because France was then, in the
twelfth century, the principal power of
the west. 1t goes Without saying that
| circumstances would not now give
France the slightest right to assert
a protectorate over all the Franks of
the Levant
Such a case, however, would be just
as valid as that of the United States.
The fact that it is now the custom to
speak of the United States collectively
as America gives it no right to set it
self up as a protecting power over
all the states of the North, Central
and South America.
Furthermore, the Interpretation that
the Washington government now gives
the Monroe doctrine does not at all
agree with the text of the address of
Monroe on December II, 1923, when he
expressly states that the existing colo
MES or independencies of any Europ-
can power shall not be interfered with
Besides the Monroe doctrine is not
dogma of international law, but only
a political programme. The United
States has interpreted it as it pleased
sometimes more and sometimes less
vigorously. I have merely to recall the
treaty regarding the Pan-American ca
nal; also it's attitude in it's Mexican
question in 1863. Only in 1865 did the
United States at last find the strength
and occasion to remember about the
Monroe doctrine. The Monroe doctrine
contracts, fixes the principles of the
'non-inIterveution if it looks upon
every intervention in every American
affair as an act against the United
States. President Monroe has even de-
clared that the United States ought not
to mix itself up in the affairs of exist
ing European colonies.
1T derives no advantage from doing
so, but ON the contrary, incurs serious
prejudice, for ON this very basis it
might be rendered responsible by the
European powers if any American state
failed to fulfill it obligations"
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South American conferences.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-The Herald's
correspondent at Rio de Janeiro, Bra
zil, telegraphs that the Brazilian for
eign Office has been in correspondence
with Minister Mendonca in relation to
a South American conference in which
all the Pan-American republics shall
take part. The subject for discussion
will be the Monroe doctrine and the
general matters affecting it, raised by
the new issue on the Venezuela bound
airy dispute. 1t is understood that Bra
I'll will take the initiative in the call
ing of the conference.
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LONDON, Dec 24-The discussion of
the Venezuelan question continues with
undated vigor in all quarters. The Times
this morning prints columns of CORE
spondence on the subject. Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie writes tot hat paper in favor of
arbitration, with a price fixed upon such
territory as has been settled by the Brit
ish should their title be found defective.
Colonel Colquehoun, who recently Wis
tied America in connection with an in
yestigation of the Nicaragua canal pro-
ject and who has, since his return to
England, made various addresses ON that
subject, writes to the Times offering MS
testimony that the Monroe doctrine is AN
abiding sentiment with Americans and
must be considered.
The Vienna correspondent of the Times
says the Neuefreie Presse ridicules the
idea that Russian fleet would assist the
United States against England.
The Times editorial says: There was a
tacit but significant vote of want of con-
fidence in the refusal of congress to adj
journ except over Christmas day.
The Standard, which is regarded as the
Conservative organ, remarks edltor1aliy
that although Lord Salisbury declines to
respond to the invitation of the New
York World to express his sentiments ON
the question. his refusal was kindly In
tone.
Past History.
The Daily News says in an editorial:
The war message already seems a piece
of past history and the president has
probably lost the effect of eight years OF
the most diSinterested labor for the public
good on the currency question. Our New
York correspondent says his raShnesS has
threatened the United States with bank
ruptcy, but it is impossible to believe that
of a country which both potentially and
actually is about the richest in the world.
At a meeting of the executive staff of
the London Nome onformdSt council, Dr.
Clifford presiding it was decided to tele-
graph a greeting to the Chrlstlan
churches of America, with sympathy In
their efforts to preserve the peace, and
the hope that they would be cToWned Win
success, and thus enable England ANA
America to cooperate ON behalf of suf-
fering Armenia
The Chronicle Oibera.D considers that If
the proposed commission be composed OF
men like Edward j. Phelps, Andrew d.
White and George F. Edmunds, it must
command respect and that some further
proposal from Lord Salisbury would be-
come expedient and necessary.
at seems to u.s." says the Chronicle,
that he might offer to discuss the limits
of the application of the Monroe doctrine
and perhaps even to submit the boundary
question to arbitration"
The New York correspondent or the
Times writes at length of the prospects
for tariff and financial legislation by con-
gress and argues that normal party INES
nave largely reappeared and the Repub-
licans In congress have largely recnded
their endorsement of the Venezuelan mes
sage of the president He also comments
upOn the call for peace from the pulplts
OF the country as indicating the suosl-
dence of the war spirit
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Have Been Under Fire.

ST. PAUL. Mimi. Dec. 23-Captain J..
A. Kennedy, of this city, speaking for
the northwestern centre of the Fenian
brotherhood, has sent a message to
President Cleveland, rendering the SER
vices of 10000 men who have been under
fire before" in case of war with Great
Britain. st. Paul has been a Fenian CEN
ire for twenty-five years and a large
number of the men now anxious to fight
England abetted LOUIS Riel in his two
rebellions in the Canadian northwest.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-24

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THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
Will Pay Dividend to Southern
Pacific Stockholders.

NEW YORK. Dec. 23.-The announce
ment was made in Wall street today that
the Southern Pacific railroad will paw
on January to the stockholders of the
Central Pacific railroad, as under agree
half of 1 per cent.
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Nine Regiments.

Military men who have studied the
question believe that one company could
be raised in each of the ninety cou1l-
ties in the state on short notice.
That would be nine regiments.
Then it is estimated that the city of
Lincoln could furnish at least two or
three regiments. Omaha and South
Omaha five regiments, and with other
cities to draw from, at least fifteen or
twenty regiments could be in readiness
in short order. Probably 10000 volun-
teers would be available from the state
of Nebraska.
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On to Mexico.

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 23.-The di-
rectors of the Kansas City, Prttsburg
& Gulf railway today voted unan-
imously to increase the capital stock
from s10,o00.000 to s2O.0OO.OO This in
sures the completion OF the Pittsburg
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-24
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