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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
THE CUBAN SITUATION.

If the latest news from Havana is
to be relied upon, it looks as though
the Cuban insurgents were about to
invest that city and secure the triumph
of all their hopes. With so many
troops in the island, troops supplied
with all the modern implements and
munitions of war, it is astonishing that
General Campos has been able to do
so little towards putting down the re-
bellion; but such is the case. The peo-
pie Of the island must sympathise with
the insurgents far more than has gen
orally been known to the world or ac-
knowledged by the Spanish. To BELT
tie the efforts of the insurgents in be-
half of independence, it has been
charged against them that they were
ragged, without any great discipline
and very indifferently armed. This is
very likely the case, but in the face of
such disadvantages it makes their sue
cesses all the greater. 1t shows that if
they We're given anywhere niar the
same advantages in the matter of
equipment that the troops sent against
them have, they would very soon
achieve their independence. To so long
keep the field against the flower of
Spain's army with such odds against
them proves their fighting qualities and
devotion to their cause. They appear
to have earned the right of recognition
as belligerents, and if they have it
should be accorded them. The senti-
ment Of this country would more than
Justify the administration in granting
it. With belligerent rights the Cuban
insurgents would not be long in throw
ing off Spanish rule and setting UP a
Cuban republic. The mother country
no doubt recognizes this fact and will
bend all her energies to prevent such
recognition. To grant it means to her
the loss of Cuba.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
STATEHOOD FOR ARIZONA.

A copy of the annual report of the
Governor of Arizona, L. G. Hughes, to
the Secretary of the Interior, has Just
been received. The document is a most
exhaustive treatise on the material re-
sources of Arizona and all the indus
trial activities Of her people, together
with a statement of the present condi-
ton of the public institutions of the
territory, and the moral, religious,
business and political status of the
people. Governor Hughes is to be con-
graduated on the report he has made.
In the performance of his duty in
making his report he has rendered a
great public service to the country by
presenting it with a fine collection of
facts concerning that very interesting
territory. Among the many worthy
recommendations which Governor
Hughes makes is one in respect to
statehood. The people Of Arizona"
the Governor remarks. ARE almost a
unit for statehood This. of all others,
is the most important issue with US.
We have earned this right by the
conquest and civilization of this re-
gion. We have every condition neces-
sary to self-goYernment. Population,
wealth. resources and commercial, in
dustrial. educational. moral, social and
religious institutions are all well es-
tabiished. The progress of last year
and present conditions all confirm Ari-
zona's qualifications for assuming the
responsibilities of a sovereign state"
After presenting a number of other
very cogent reasons why the territory
should be admitted into the Union.
Governor Hughes concludes: What
more can we do? We ask but simple
justice-the inalienable right of self
government; and in, granting this it
will be only recognition of a deserving
people who have planted their future
hope in Arizona"
Governor Hughes is right. With a
population of 1900 progressive people,
strongly imbued with American
IDEAS" and whose output of exports
from their mines, ranges and farms
last year aggregated $14.902, 251-an av-
erage of more than s1s6 per capita of
the popuiation-are both worthy of
statehood and are able to support it.
Utah says to Arizona: Come into the
Union; you are worthy and shall be
welcome. Utah is willing to yield to
you the distinction she now enjoys;
namely. being the youngest member
of the sisterhood Of states
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
CoNv1Crs AND FOLLOWERS.

The penitentiary has passed into the
hands of the officials of the state of
Utah In the past, owing to the fact
that the institution belonged to the
United States and we were a territory,
it had been customary to send men
awaiting trial to the penitentiary for
safe keeping 1t is a most pernlcious
custom, and so soon as possible every
man confined within its walls who is
not serving a sentence should be taken
out and placed in a county JAM. It
is an outrage upon any man who is
being held for trial to be incarcerated
in the same prison with conyicts. They
are subjected to the same rules and
regulations that convicts are and this
is unavoidable, and absolutely neces-
sary for the discipline and safety of
the prison Now 1T will be an easy mat
ter to remedy all this. No man should
be sent to the penitentiary until after
trial and conviction, while men charged
with crime and waiting trial should be
held, when not out on bonds, in the
jail of the county where the crime
wit witch tn ~ stand cha ged was ccnn-
mitted. They will now be tried there.
and to send them out of the county
win be to incur unnecessary expense
Moreover. as the crimes committed in
each county will be pro-ec ted by IN ait
torney Of the same it is proper that the
accused should remain there and that
that county should bear the expense of
his keep. So long as they are kept TN
the state prison under the present ar
rangement the expense falls upon the
state and not upon the counties where
it belongs. Even were the counties
willing to make an arrangement where
by their prisoners should be held in
the state penitentiary, they to bear all
the expense, sttM the arrangements
should not be permitted The associ-
ating of convicts and hold-overs cannot
be justified
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

publicans. but who those Republicans
shall be no one can say. The Demo-
Gratis, in their territorial convention,
named those whom they wished to
represent Utah in the United States
Senate, and had they been successful
in carrying the Legislature everyone
would today know who the senators
would be. The Republican party did
not adopt this course and the conse-
quence is that no one can say who the
senators from Utah will be. 1t seems
to be anybody's fight and the grand
talk heard during the campaign about
the sacred right Of the Legislature to
nominate and elect the senators seems
to have been lost sight of entirely, and
those who INDUCED in it are not fol-
lowing the advice they gave. 1t is Que
them to say that no one thought they
would.
There is another phase of the ques-
ton. It is said that the Republican
members of the Legislature were prac-
tically pledged at the time of their
nomination to certain candidates.
Whether this is SO or not is a matter
Of small moment now. Assuming that
such is the case. would it not have
been much better in every respect for
our Republican friends to have done
as the Democrats did and have nomi-
mated senatorial candidates in conven-
ton? If the public pledge were i'm
proper, as the Republicans held, was
not the secret D1edge much worse
Might it not almost be called a trea-
son to every man in the party who had
senatorial ambitions? To pirate about
leaving the Legislature untrammelled
and all the while to seek to commit
legislative candidates to certain sena-
torial candidates was at least under
handed A secret pledge is one made
in the dark and those to whom it is
given need not be surprised if it is not
kept.
To avoid the very condition of things
that is now being witnessed in the Re-
publican party was one of the strong
est arguments urged in favor of the
Democratic plan of nominating candi-
dates for the Senate in convention. 1t
does away with the possibility of COM
binations and trades in the Legisla-
ture. There will be far more heart
burnings among the disappointed Re
publican senatorial candidates than
there would have been had the party
made convention nominations. Now
everything is possible, nothing is GER
tain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
Russia. Friendshin.

1t is a little singular that Russia
should remain such a steadfast friend
the freedom with which her method of
government is criticised in this country
"a freedom most vigorously repressed
at home: but the acts and expressions of
both the government and press of Rus
sia are constant evidences that the
friendship is genuine. Diplomatic rela-
tons may have something to do with
this peculiar attitude of the most des-
ocratic one, as England is, in some
sense. the natural enemy of both; but
Is that enough to quite account for it,
in so many others ''extrernes meet ?''
Whatever the explanation, it is crafty
ing to. know that, in case of trouble.
RussIa's moral influence, at least, will
be ezerted on our philadelphia
Ledger.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

In order to determine and properly re-
oognize the important historical fact
as to who were the first son and
daughter OF Utah born under
statehood, The Herald will pre-
sent with it's best wishes for the long
life and prosperity of the recipients, a
sterling silver cup, gold lined in the just
and equitable ratio C. is parts of silver
to / Of gold), to each, the first boy
and the first girl born within the boun-
DIARIES Of Utah, after s:0S o'clock OF the
morning of that suspicious day. Janu-
airy 4, 1886, that being the hour and
minute by local standard time that the
proclamation Of admission was signed.
Each cup viii be appropriately en-
graved and viii be worth $50.
The award will not be iAade until
all the counties shall be heard from.
Let each applicant state the name of
the parents, place of birth, full name of
child and the minute of birth with the
names of witnesses.
The child must be living at the time
that the fact of precedence is deter
mined.
Realizing that questions difficult Of
adjustment may arise. The Herald re-
serves the right TO appoint a committee
to examine into the proofs and determine
the order of precedence.
Carry the news to those of your neigh
bors who do not read The Herald, If
any such there be.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
Abraaed Coins arc Legal Tender

The supreme court of the United States
has decided chat silver coins are legal
how much defaced or abraded, so long
as they can be recognized as coins. A
man was. put off Jersey City street car
because he offered a badly abraded 10
cent piece to pay his fare which the
conductor refused. The passenger sued
for damages, and the state courts gave
MIN $515. The company took the case
to the United States supreme court on
affirmed the verdict of the state courts.
Springfield Republican.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
On the Band Wagon.

Governor Bradley is the latest to climb
increasing company of presidential aspi-
rants. Only a few months ago Mr..
Bradley's admirers were satisfied to con-
meet his name with the vice presidential
prompted by the idea that If they aim
high they will have better chances of
hitting at least one of the marks.-Oma-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
Gambling Dead i'm New York.

John Daily. the veteran gambler, who
has for years been the leading manager
Of gambling resorts of New York and
its vicinity, pays the reform administra-
ton of that city the tribute of saying
That this is a sincere utterance is at
tested by the fact that the man is about
to give up any attempt to carry on his
business in that city. and will go abroad
to live.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

Emperor Williams peremptory in
structions ITO the German ambassador
in London to ascertain Immediately
what the invasion Of the Transvaal by
DR.. Jameson meant. sounded very much
like an ultimatum. And John Bull did
nos Ike the sound Perhaps John will
learn after while that other people
do act like the eound either.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
A National Disgrace.

Lynching is a disgrace to the ma
ton. and there should be an organized
movement for its repression. There
should be medal of honor for the
sheriff or jailer who, at the risk Of his
life, and in the face of an infamed
community. defends his prison against
the mob. The man who loathes the
guilty and covering wretch in his
custody, and yet dies to defend him
from a mob because the law makes it
his duty to keep him and to present
him before the lawful tribunal, is
worthy of a. monument. There could
be no higher test of the loyalty of a
soul to duty.-San Francisco Chronicle
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

Dunraven processes to love the
American people. If he does. he is
wasting his sweetness on the desert
air. for the American people neither
love him nor profess to.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

At the last meeting of TIE british Medf-
cal association hut one the Discussion on
neurssthenia and its treatm-rt was intro
duced by DR.. Savage IN the follnw'ng
words: What IS neurathenia? There
was once a professor who. being asked
what he knew unon a certain subject
re~lied Nethirr. 7 have not even lee
tured on it. Lancet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

A cup Of muddy coffee is not whole
some. neither is q bottle of muddy
medicine One way to know a reliable
and skillfully- prepared blood purifier
is by its freedom from sediment. Ay-
er's Sarsaparilla is always bright and
sparkling. because it is an extract and
not q decoction.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

Utah is state. but the Uintah and
Uncompahgre reservations are still In
dian preserves closed to white settlers.
Secretary Hoke Smith should get a
move on himself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
The senate's Responsibilities.

If the Senate refuses to pass either of
the House bills, it gives the president a
pretext for the issue of all the per
make up the deficiency of the treasury
and also to furnish exporters with the
gold they need.-Indianapolis Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

Senator Chandler must make war.on
somebody or something. so he is turn
ing his attention to the arrnor plates
for our naval vessels and is making
some terrible charges.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
COMMENTS OF THE Press.
Reed In n Hole.

The hole into which Mr. Thomas
Bracket Reed, of Maine is retiring has
ample accommodations for his boom if
he wishes to pull it in after him.-New
York World.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

To find a. substitute for coal is a
question the papers discuss more or
less in the winter time. The dealers
partially solve it by running in slate
as coal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

To Judge from the number of dark
horses mentioned in connection with
the senatorial race. the horse business
was never in a more flourishing con-
dition.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

Davis county justices have a. soft
spot in their hearts for thieving
tramps, to judge by the sentence i'm
posed on the three hig'hwaymen cap
tured by Mrs Nichols.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

What a relief it is to know that the
Venezuelan commission viii not rob Chi
cago OF that brilliant gas jet of its So
Chicago News.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

Observation-Disclosures can't say that
you were always respectful. Rr'deet; still
will put i in the recommendation.
Rridget-Thanl YOU. ma'ar An I'll
say the same thing US you.-Truth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

The county attorney does not keep
an intelligence Office. but he is pre-
pared to furnish informations on ap-
plication.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

John L. Sullivan has been knocked
out by a goat. Johns explanation of
how it happened is perfectly clear
only there are too many butts in it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
Another Tammany rrick.

Mr.. Roosevelt will doubtless exnIain
that New. York's big diamond robbery is
but trick of Tammany to discredit
the Observation-Disclosures Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

People everywhere throughout the
Union looking for a home cannot DO
better than to locate in Utah. 1t is
the most promising state in the Union.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

Yvette Guilbert says she win not go
to Chicago She will not go to any
town where the people cannot be
shocked.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

From ali the applicants for the fed
era1 district judgeship the President has
1t N his power to make a frst-class
annointment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

is going to drop the Jones and call
himself Henry Arthur. One Jones
more or less won't be a drop in The
Jones bucket.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
JOSEPH HODGES cHoATE,

lawyer, Was born in Salem, Mass,
January "a, 1882. He was graduated
at Harvard in 1852. and at Dane law
school in 1854. He was admitted to
the New York bar in '56, and has
since practiced in New York City. He
mas been counsel in a great many
important cases, among them being the
FltZ-John Porter Investigation and In
come Tax Case, in both of which he
was successful
Mr.. Choate has declined several high
judicial appointments. He has very
lucrative practice, and just now is
prominent before the people as counsel
Tor the committee which is investigat-
ing the charges of Lord Dunraven
against the Defender syndicate.
Mrs. LaGgtry's daughter attracts much
attention at the Niagara, London's new,
and fashionable Skating rink, where she is
frequently seen. Her skill on the ice is
more than ordinary and her beauty rivals
mat possessed by her mother in the days
vented.
The new French minister of foreign af-
fairs. NJ Berthelot, first among the
french ~ sayants experimented in the
chemical manufacture of diamonds and
other precious stones. His work in this
HELD occupied him some years, and was
a5andoned only when he was outdistanc-
ed by NJ. Moissan. the actual inventor of
a process by which natural diamonds
can be artiicially produced.
:, Georgia has the prize colored man. AL
though aged. and a native of the United
states, ne never drew the breath of free
dom until a few days ago. A slave, and
convict under life sentence when lincoln
promulgated the, emancipation proclama-
ton, ne has just been pardoned by Gov
Atkinson
ably the last negro to secure his freedom
under that famous instrument.
Prince Perdo of Coburg. the grandson
OF the late Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil,
is now hopelessly insane. About three
years ago he was suddenly attacked with
insanity, end could be removed from the
Copurg palace to a private insane asylum
brigade. He now imagines that he sue
ceeded TO his grandfather's throne, and
treats his attendants accordingly. The
unfortunate prince is about 80 years old
book on THE Contagion Of Crime us Used
as an example notorious family sprung
from criminal parents who died in the
century, nearly all of whose members
have records in the criminal law renorts
A respectable grandchild Of the crirninai
couple recently sued the doctor for DAM
ages and obtained them-the court hold
ing thai scientific research Is no excuse
for causing pain and discomfort to an in
nocent person by defaming his grand
father.
Parne1l's creditors get all the 500 ono left
In proper-ty in New York. and tl1are is
nothing for his mother and widow. It
was thought that ParnelI had left con-
siderable pronertv above his ohIioat ions
He had left personal propertv in England
and in th's country. and some rea1 estate
in ireland. IT was soon found however.
that his liabilities IN Great Britain vvere
more than the entire estate and would
eat IN all his nropertV over thare &C we'll
as here. IF what was in this country
could be got at.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

General Miles is maintaining a dis
Greet silence. Tt was the secretary of
war who furnished the discretion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

Everybody is anxious to know what
Governor Wells will say and recon-
mend in his first message They won't
have long to wait
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

The venezuelans feel very grateful
to the President for his message. The
Utonians are no less pleased with his
statehood proclamation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

While Campos could not overtake
the Cuban insurgents he has succeeded
IN overreaching himself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

wiling to Wake TTp-''waFe up, little
girl.' said a Bellefield mamma n her
small daughter. The latter opened her
eyes SLOWLY, and then repiied: ''weN1
suppose I might as well. There's nothing
ver-v interesting going on in dreamland'
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

''Is this a fast tramp asked the trav.
cling man of the porter.
"Of course It is,'' was the reply.
II thought so. Would you mind my
getting out to see what 1t is fast top
Tit-Bits.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
ELECTION OF SENATOR'S.

The election OF two United States
Senators is the most interesting ques-
ton before the people Of Utah today.
Whoever they may be they will be Re
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

The dark horses" are keeping their
eouine-imity better than was to have
been expected. all thil gs considered
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

Some seem to think that the sena-
toriai race will be started out Of a bar
rel instead Of the regular chute.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

Bachelor am told that a married man
can live on half the income that single
man requires.
Married Man-Yes, he has to.-Town and
Country Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

In no place in the world is it so easy
for man to smile and smile"
again and be a villain still as in Ken
tuclsy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06
lIcKinIey Apnrowes.

Governor Mckinley approves the tenn
porary tariff bill las far as 1t goes
Nothing short of the sky-scraping rates
will suit him.-Boston Herald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

To the BOY and Girl First Born
After the Signing of the Proc
Iamation Admitting Utah TO
Statehood.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

Dr. Jameson having been captured
by the Beers. the thought Of the fact
VIII always bore him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

BY means of the Venezuelan bound
airy dispute Salisbury discovered the
limits Of Uncle Sans patience.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

New York wants the Democratic ma
tional convention in the interests of
Greater New York.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

"John, did you find anw eggs in the old
hens nest this morning."
mo, sir: if she laid any, she mislaid
them" -Tit-Bits.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-06

How ungrateful. how ungallant for
William to quarrel with his grand
mother.