The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-19
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Another Colonial Scandal Near Elk
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Another Colonial Scandal Near Elk
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BERLIN, July 1S.-(Copyrighted 1885,
by the Associated Press -Another CO.
lonial scandal is on the point of ex-
ploding. Herr Won Puttkamer, gov
ernor of the German Cameroons is ac-
cused of having committed many acts
of inhumanity and cruelty similar to
those alleged against Whelan and Liest,
and for which those officials were or
dered to be dismissed from the colon
ial service.
Won Puttkamer's accusers are Won
Strettin, late vice-governor, and Gose-
brecht, the same British journalist who
exposed the abuses in the Cameroons
under Whelan and LieSt. A large num-
Der of afiidavits of eye witnesses and
victims of Won Puttkamers brutality
with the strongest of corroborative evil
dence, are now in possession of a Ger
man paper and will soon be published
The evidence is SO strong that it will
be impossible to avoid an official inves-
tigation Won Puttmaker, who was ap-
pointed to his office only eleven months
ago, is accused of having committed
the most horrible atrocities upon both
male and female natives of the Cam
eroons, of vile excuses and of financial
speculation of a shady character. Ru-
mors of this kind have been current in
colonial circles for some time. Addi-
tional evidence against the governor
is in the hands of two members of the
left, and it will be before the reichstag
when that body reassembles, in the
form of an Interpolation of the gov
eminent. The rejection of the oleomar-
garine bill by the federal council has
| deeply angered the whole agrarian
party.
The Deutsche lager Zeitung, the or
gan of the federation of husbandry,
bitterly reproaches the government for
its failure to support suffering Agrar-
ians with either big means or little
means.
bill was introduced in the diet to
increase the salaries of all govern
ment employees in Prussia. This
marks to start with. A similar bill
will be introduced in the bundesrath
and the reichstag to increase the sal
aries Of imperial officials and likewise
those of any army officers from the
grade of first lieutenant upward.
A cavalry captain named Baron Won
Ehrhardt, and First Lieutenant Won
Kanlptz of the garrison at Dusseldorf,
have been dismissed from the army
because they refused to accept a chal-
lenge to fight a duel with pistols which
was sent to them by a notorious scoun-
drel. Both officers published the facts
as an advertisement in Dusseldorf
newspaper.
Empress Augusta and six of the i'm
perial princes may be seen daily BIZ
cycle riding in the park. This is a
new sport for the empress, but under
the tuition OF her two oldest sons she
is making rapid progress. Mrs. Evans,
the wife of Captain r. K. Evans, the
military attache of the United States
legation, made bicycle trip to Her
ringdorf and back, a distance of 400
miles, this week
During the intensely hot weather of
the past week the manouvres, drills
and marches of the army in various
parts of Germany were attended with
many fatal cases of sunstroke. At
Mayence the long distance march of
the Thirty-seventh and Eighty-Eighth
regiments was marked by forty-eight
cases of sunstroke. of which sixteen
were Immediately fatal In the ma
nouvres at Caputh, thirteen soldiers
fell dead. Similar cases are reported
from south Germany.
The Reichsanzeiger publishes a, state
ment of the fiscal operations of the
government for the year 1886, show
ing an excess in the ordinary revenues
of the empire amounting to 26,227, 1857
marks over the estimate of which sum
], 357, 796 marks will be used to cover
increased expenditures and 13, 600 600
marks applied to reducing the imperial
debt.