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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
MANTLE OF SNOW.
It Covers Almost the Entire State of
Colorado.

DENVER, Sept. 22.-Nearly the en-
tire state Of Colorado is covered by a
mantle of snow. although today's
bright sunshine made great inroads
upon it on the plains and in the val
leys. The storm was a record breaker,
such a depth of snow never having
before fallen so early in the season.
AT Greeley, fifty miles north Of Den
yer. the snow was fourteen inches
deep, while in Denver nearly eight
inches fell In the mountains it eX-
ceeded a foot in many places.
The southern limit of snow was Pu-
eblo, $50 miles south of Denver, al
though in the mountains in the south
western corner of the state it extended
nearly or quite to the New Mexico line.
In Denver, Boulder, Greeley and
other cities immense damage was
done 70 shade and fruit trees. The
foliage had not been touched by frosts
and the great weight of snow was
more than the limbs could resist, the
people being kept awake by the crash
ing of branches torn from the trees
Hardly a single shade tree in this por-
Eon Of the state escaped damage more
4 or less severe and many thousands are
utterly ruined. Sidewalks were COM
pIetely blocked by the broken branch
es Much loss was also sustained by
the telephone and electric light wires.
Grand Junction, Montrose and Canon
City the best fruit growing regions
of the state, escaped serious damage
from the snow, although tonight's
sharp frost may create great havoc
In the mountain valleys much late
grain was ready for the harvest. 1t
was nearly all ruined.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23

known four-masted steel ship with
which the British ship Prince Oscar
collided July 18th last in lat. So south.
long. 1920 west. sinking her with all
hands, is the Lord Downshlre, of Bel
fast, which is commanded by Captain
]. G. McMuray, we'll known at this
port. This ship was known to have
been in the locality of the collision at
the time, nomeward bound from Ca
leta Buno, from which port she sailed
in May for Hamburg, loaded with nj
trate. So positive, are the underwrft-
ers Of this. owing to her tallying to
such an extent with the ship. which
Captain Henderson, of the Prince Os-
car, describes, that a premium of so
to 50 guineas is now being paid for her
insurance The Lord Downshire is
owned by what is known as the Irish
Shipowners' association of Belfast, of
which association Mr.. Thomas Dixon
and sons are managers. The Lord
Downshire carried crew of about for
ty men. .l........ :
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rspecial to The Herald

BUTTE, Mont. Sept. pa statement
that may be considered official was given
out today. as 10 the facts of me alleged
negotiation for the sale of the great An
aconda properties to an Aaglo-Ameriran
syndicate, organized by the Rothchilds
for the purpose of combining the inter
ests of European and American copper
producers.
3 In the first place it is said there is no
Thing in the report of an outright sale,
and the present owners of the Anaconda
properties have nc idea of selling even
controlling interest in the great mines
What is contemplated. however, is TO put
or the market big block of stock, and it
is for the purchase of this that the syn
dicate is negotiating. The new syndicate
SIS said II have a capital stock of S3,O00,O0o.
which would not buy more than a fourth
interest in the properties, but probably
represents the amount of stock that will
soon be placed on the market. Recently
the old Anaconda company was reorgan-
ICED into two new companies, each with
capital stock of S30, Goa.
Besides these there are a dozen smaller
companies belonging to the Anaconda
with a million of additional capital. Dur
ing the past two years the company has
acquired millions of dollars worth of
new copper properties and are building
nav smelters.
THE assessed ret profits of the company
last year were $S.5o0,0OC, and it is stated
that the real profits were very much
more The Anaconda Standard, the COM
panys newspaper, in an editorial this
morning ridicules the report of the al
legged sale, and says the Rothchilds can
not raise enough money TO buy out the
Anaconda people. Hamilton Smith, repre-
senting the alleged syndicate, is in the
q city and will inspect all other copper
h properties of the district as well as the
! Anaconda. He says he knows nothing of
the alleged scheme to buy the Anaconda
properties. From Bltte he will return to
Colorado, to complete an examination Of
some mines there Another important
and apparently authentic report is that a
scheme is on foot to consolidate under one
management the Butte and Boston and
Montana companies.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
"THE FINEST"
LONDON'S TRIBUTE TO THE AMERI-
CAN ATHLETES.
EngIishmen Even Admit That the
Americans Won on Their Merits
Beating without Parallel.

LONDON, Sept 23.-In commenting
upon the contest in New York on Sat
urday between the teams of the Lon
don Athletic club and the New York
Athletic club, the Standard says:
It is imposs lie II : receive of any
thing more disastrous than the expert
ence of English athletes. 1t would be
preposterous to attempt to explain
away such a defeat Even if all our
best men had been sent and in the
finest condition, they would have stood
little chance against opponents who
showed such unquestionable superior
ity. The Americans have the finest
team of athletes the world has ever
seen. Any true sportsman will not be-
grudge them the unqualified praise to
which they are justly entitled.
The Daily News says: 1t is COM
fort to feel that one has been beaten
fairly. The victory of the New York
club was no chance victory. The more
we have of these contests the better
Who knows that Bunker Hill may not
be wiped out by this high jump.
The Daily Telegraph comments as
follows: The New Workers won on
their merits without a shadow of a
doubt, but the London Athletic club
may justly feel that in this instance
their reputation was hazarded in a
highly unsatisfactory manner, owing
to the absence Of some of their best
men
The Chronicle The unequal condi-
tons owing to the climate is the only
consolation that can be extracted. The
beating is certainly without a parallel
in the history of international sport.
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THROWN OUT.
Brutal Treatment of an American
and His Family i'm Hawaii.


/ TAMPA, Fla, Sept. 22.-John Repko,
Nor fifteen years proprietor of the Ro-
ma Grand Continental hotel at Ha-
vana. arrived here tonight. He is
Hungarian by birth, but became an
American citizen ten years ago. The
kitchen and warehouse connected with
his hotel were built on a government
lot, for which he paid them rental. On
July 10 at midnight he and his family,
consisting of his wife and six children,
the Oldest but years, were forcibly
elected from their property. Mrs.
Rep1o was Frustrated with nervous
ness. She was sent direct to New
York the following day. The eject
ment continued until morning, when
the boarders were forced to leave the
breakfast table. The furniture was
removed and the entire property con-
fiscated All this was occasioned by a
debt Of $500 which Repko owed the
government for rent. Repko was
then taken sick and remained so for
:. several weeks. He has placed his case
under the management of F. r. Swift,
editor of the Bridgeport Comm Her
aid, to whom all papers have been
forwarded. The damages claimed are
$50 000
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
LANKY BOB.
HE LEAVES NEW YORK FOR HIS
TRAINING GROUND.
Four Crates of Chickens Accompany
Him on His JOurney-Referee
Question Has Been Settled.

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Bob F'itzsi1n-
mons left this afternoon on a special
train of three cars over the Pennsylvania
railroad. He was accompanied by Mrs
Fitzsimmons. Martin Julian. his manager,
Mrs. Julian, Charles White; the pugi-
lists trainer. and Emil Roeher, the
German wrestler.
Nero" the fighting lion, was one of
the party also, together with four crates
OF live chickens which will constitute
Fitzsimmons' chief article of food on the
Journey.
Fitzsimmons will go to Corpus Christi.
to Dallas to fight. The first stop will be
made at Lynchburg, Va, where -Fitz-
simmons will give, an exhibition. From
there the party will go to Corpus Christi,
making short stay at San Antonio.
Fitzs.mmons has rented cottage at
Corpus Christi. near the race track,
where daily exhibitions will be given
during the season he will train there.
Speaking of the referee to be selected
for the fight with Corbett, FitZsimnonS
said:
1.-The difficulty in relation to the ref
cree has ben amicably settled. The names
of SIX men have been given by each side,
and these six men will select one from
their number who will be the referee"
Fitzsimmons would have nothing to
say as to what he thought would be the
outcome Of the fight, except II shall do
my best"
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at some points did considerable minor
damage. In northern Wisconsin the
wind was accompanied by very hea-
w rain, some points reporting a fall
of from half an inch to an inch in less
than an hour Telegraph.c commune
cation with the northwest was seri-
ously crippled by the storm, and at a
late hour tonight the wires are still
in bad condition.
The southwest gale which started in
at daylight this morning blew furi-
ously on all the upper lakes. On lakes
Michigan and Huron the wind was
from the southwest and lake Superior,
southerly, and on lake Erie southeast
erly. Strong southerly winds have pre-
vailed for so long that it is not thought
by marine men that any schooners
were out in this heavy blow. They
were forced to seek shelter at the
lower end of the lake and there has
since been no weather in which it
would be worth while to venture out
and fight their way against strong
headwind. On this account it is pro-
bable that few disasters will be re-
ported on the lakes from the gale.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23

state laws to govern them. The
demand for a. change in the e2-
else law, so far as Sunday is con-
cerned, comes entirely from cities OF
the first class, three Ill number-New
York. Brooklyn and Buffalo. 1t is be-
lieved if local option plank is inserted
in the platform it should call upon the
legislature to pass laws allowing the
question of local option to be voted
upon by people living in cities of the
first class. If there is any demand
later on by cities of the second and
third class, that can be attended to
later, but the demand now is entirely
from cities of the first class and so the
platform should attend to their wants
only People of the other cities are
even dissatisfied with the enforce
ment of the present law"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
MEXICAN MATTERS.
CUBANs COME NEARLY CREATING
A ROW.
Surveys For an Electric Railway
Big Drop i'm Another Dividend
Paying Mine-MeXicans Object to
Second Class Pullman Coaches.

CITY OF MEXICO, Sept. 22.-1nter-
national susceptibilities are being
harshly ruffled these days. Some Mex
leans and Cubans hired a coach, put
hand organ by the side of the driver,
and went about crying, Viva Cuba
librer' and Death to Spaniardsw
creating disturbances.
Cores Espano, the organ of the resi-
dent Spanish colony, asked the govern
ment to prevent any further insults to
Spain and intimates that demonstra-
tons on the part of the populace
against Spain might end in rupture
of the present cordial relations of the
two countries.
A Frenchman, hearing the report
that Bismarck was dead, which has
been current here, drank toasts, in
which he insulted the German people
and the eX-chancellor, and he was
roughly handled by the Germans.
The American minister Mr.. Ran
som, and Consul Crittenden request
the Protestant missionaries not to
issue daily paper attacking the
adorat ton of the virgin of Guadalupe,
it having been the intention of the
missionaries to circulate a. paper broad
cast during the coming coronation of
the virgin festivities.
The United States authorities here
fear the popular outbreak against the
missionaries and say that in such
event the United States would be
placed in an awkward position, as
missionaries would be guilty of hav-
ing aroused the popular passions
against them. The missionaries have
or
threatening them with death.
The wife of President Diaz has COM
pletely recovered from her recent in
disposition.
Surveys for an electric railway from
Jalapa Cordova, passing through the
coffee region, have been commenced.
This line is called the Coffee Railway
and will likely prove a remunerative
venture, as it unites the inter-oceanic
and Vera Cruz railways. Congress
has been asked to increase the ap-
preparation for Vera Cruz harbor
works for the fiscal year from 1884,
900 to $9S4.OO0 and it will probably be
granted. This is done to expedite the
work which is in charge OF English
contractors.
There has been drop in another
dividend paying mine, shares in Since
Sonores having fallen suddenly.
Manuel Iturbe, the Mexican minister
to Germany, has returned on leave OF
absence.
The condition of the inter-oceanie
railway continues to attract the at
tention of the public as derailments
are frequent. The press is generally
attacking the line and it is reported
that efforts will be made by the Eng
lish officers to put 1t in better shape
Greatly reduced time to the United
States, via the Mexican Central and
International railways will begin in
October and it is reported that the
Central will place four first-class
Pullman cars in service between here
and Tampico which is rapidly be.
coming a business port.
Complaint is made that the Pullman
company sends their back number
cars to Mexico and the Mexican peo-
pie have begun to criticize this policy
of discrimination They want the
best.
yellow fever is rampant at Acapulco
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
WHISKY TRAIN BLOWS Up.

PEORIA. Ill. Sept. 22.-The Big -Four
whisky train for the east met with a
serious accident last night. When near
Leroy, a car of spirits. coupled behind
the caboose, was discovered to be on
fire and a fast 1un was made to the
next water tank, where Conductor
Murphy and Brakeman John Muldoon
made an effort to e2tinguish the
flames.
Suddenly there was terrific exp1o-
sion and the car was blown to atoms.
it being impossible afterwards to find
a stick of timber six inches long. The
men were hurled some distance from
the wreck. both being terribly burned
Muldoon was the most seriously in
jured, and there is small hope of his
recovery. Murphy's case is also criti-
cal. They were taken on to Indianap-
oils and placed in the hospital there.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
BY A TORPEDO.
REAL CAUSE OF THE LOSS OF THE
SPANISH CRUISER.
The Deadly Missile Was Launched
BY an Adventurous Party of Gu
bans, Who Did Not Seem to Know
it Was Loaded.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22.-An en-
tirely different deer ption of the sink
ing of the Spanish cruiser Barsategui
and the loss of forty-six lives in the
harbor of Havana, on last Wednesday,
is made in letters received in this city
today by a distinguished member OF
the revolutionary party
According to the news telegraphed
from Havana the day after, the catas-
trophe was due to the collision be-
tween The cruiser and a merchant
steamer. 1t is now stated as an abso-
lutte fact that the cruiser was sunk by
a floating torpedo launched by an ad-
venturous party of Cubans. The Gu
ban leader VINO received the letter
said:
1.-The Spanish government knows full
we'll what sunk their best cruiser and
sent to their deaths Admiral DeIgado
Perejo, in command of the Spanish
navy in Cuban waters, seven officers
and thirty-four men. We know here
that before the dispatch relating to the
accident was sent, it was carefully ed
tied by the press censor.
'eThe advices which l have received
say that on Monday night a party Of
ten Cubans under command of Cap
tam Carlos Enrique, LETT Guantanamo
in a steam launch which was the re:
cent invention of an American. It was
an ingenious device so constructed
that it could be launched some dis
lance away from the object aimed to
be destroyed, and then by a piece of
clock work explode in about fifteen
minutes after it is sent out. The little
party on the steam launch had re-
ceN ed these torpedo launches only a
we k before Captain Enrique selected
a point about 200 yards from the wharf
from which to launch the torpedo. 1t
was slipped out and as soon as it was
gone Captain Enrique gave orders to
steam away as rapidly as possible The
work of the torpedo was even more
speedy than anticipated. Not five min
utes elapsed before it exploded with a
report that was heard several miles
away. From what those on the boat
say it must have gone off about fifty
feet away from the cruiser and struck
her in the starboard side. 1t is true
the merchant steamer Mortera was
near the vessel at the time and that
she too suffered damage, but it was not
serious by any means, and if the men
on board of her had kept their heads
they might have saved some, of the
lives of those on board the Spanish
cruiser"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
The FORD WILL

PARIS, Sept. 22.-Relative TO a dispatch
from San Francisco, dated June %, con-
corning the will OF James A Ford Mrs
Ford and her son Edward, have called or
Vice-Consul General Shropshire and have
made an emphatic denial of the accusa-
tions advanced. Ihe widow says that the
statements are outrs geoUsly false in
every respect and declares that she is de-
termined to contest the will and fight for
her rights. When these are established
she proposes to give her son the whole
of the fortune. Edward Ford supports
his mother ard declares he will aid in
setting her right in the eyes of her family
and the world.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
THE WHITE SQUADRON.

NEW YORK, Sept 22.-The five
ships of the white squadron Of the
North Atlantic will sail for Hampton
Roads tomorrow.
The squadron will be Joined at
Hampton Roads by the battleship
Texas, lately commissioned at the Nor
folk navy yard, and the double-tur-
reted monitor Amphitrite. The ar
mored cruiser Maine, just commits
stoned at the New York yards, will
not take part in the sea drills in Oc-
tober. The squadron will, by the adj
dition of these vessels, take rank as a
fleet the most formidable ever gath
cred under the flags, according to ma
val experts.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
Races TnhnY.

OYSTER BAY. L. l., Sept. 22-Sprucs
". has been towed over to Cold Spring
harbor, where she was hauled up on the
ways and treated to a thorough clear
ing, preparatory to tomorrOW's races.
Ethelwynne remained in the bay. Messrs.
Brand and Fisher. the respective own
ers, spent a good part of today together
in the club house. Mr.. Brand had no
complaint to make. He said that it had
been printed that he flew the signal of
the Minima yacht club at mis- masthead,
whereas it was his own private signal.
A copy of the design of the 500 cup
that the wanhaka-Corinthian Yacht
club has offered for the match between
the little contestants came down here
from Tiffanys and was placed an exhibit
ton in the reception room of the clubhouse
this afternoon. It is a beautiful work OF
art, showing on one side the scene Of
stream. standing in the canoe with eyes
shaded by the hand. On the reverse side
is the inscription: '-Seawanhaka Inter
national Challenge Cup for Small Yachts.
offered by the Seawanhaka-CoTtn4h Ia, an
Yacht Club of New York, A. D., 1895,
for a perpetual challenge cup, open to
competition of yachts OF foreign ma
tons"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
GREAT BR1TA1x's GRAB.
Reaching Out For Every Available
Site For a Seaport.


Site For a Seaport.
SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 22.-The state
ment published in the Post-Intelligencer
some time ago that the official maps pre-
pared by the provisional government of
British Columbia would show the truth Of
every charge that has been made in this
paper, to the effect that Great Britain
intended to do her utmost to grab al
most every available site for a se@Sort,
is fully confirmed by the published copies
of the map, cf which several have been
received in this city. The map bears the
Columbia, compiled by direction of the
Hon. G. B.. Martin, chief commissioner
of lands and works, Victoria, 3. c., 1895"
The Canadian map shows the British
boundary claim in a clearly defined bro
ken black line Starting from the south
it touches Cape chacon, the southern
most point of Prince of Wales Island,
and runs up Benin channel, turning east
erly to point in Borough bay. Thence
it runs northwesterly along the summit
Of an alleged range Of mountains paral-
but which the American surveyors say
does not exist. Opposite the head of
Holkhak bay it leaves this mountain
range to the east and cuts across Tracy
Arm, leaving the head of that inlet in
British territory. 1t makes a similar cut
across the head of Speel River Astuary
1t also cuts across Taku inlet midway of
it's length, leaving the mouth of Taku
river which is the only available site for
a sea port, in British territory, while it
gives the United States the mountainous
shores toward the ocean. it then cuts
across to the point south of Berners'
bay in Lynn canal. 1t cuts across that
large inlet then veers to the southwark
and crosses Glacier bay near its mouth
then runs northwesterly over the sum
mits of the great peaks to Mount ST.
Elias. BY cutting across Lynn canal
this line gives to Great Britain Berners'
bay, whera valuable goida mines are be-
ing developed by American capital and it
leaves the Chilkoot :nlet. the Sheep Creek
Mines which have recently been diScov-
cred by Americans, and the Chilkoot
pass. which is the only practicable route
TO the Yukon mines, in British territory
1t also gives 10 Great Britain the Muir
Glacier. Alasha's greatest scenic attrac-
ton for tourists. Generally speaking it
claims for Great Britain the heads of the
three greatest lnlets in Alaskan territory
The strongest denial of Great Britain 8
claim have come from the Metlakahtla
Indians, who some years ago moved from
Port Simpson near the mouth of Work
Channel in British Columbia, to Annette
Island for the express purpose of becom-
ing subjects Of the American government,
which had granted the island to them.
This island lies to the east of Benin
Channel and is thus claimed by Great
Britain, while all the previous definitions
of the boundary have hsown it to be un-
disputed American territory
The boundary line is drawn in conform
ity with the British INTERPRETATION of the
treaty between Great Britain and Russia
made in 1875.
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But Little Hope.

LONDON. Sept. 22.-The secretary Of
the Royal Yacht squadron writes to
the banking firm of Laycock. Good
fellow & Bell that he has cabled their
offer of Fl 600 for a race between De-
fender and Valkyrie III in other than
American waters to the New York
Yacht club. but that he fears that it
is too late in the season to arrange the
match. The same firm sends to the
Sportsman a check for EOS as a. prize
for the best design for a. gold cup TO be
given by them for a contest in 1895 in
America, England or Australia between
yachts which do not exceed ninety
tons.