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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07
THE CLOSING on THE oNTAR1o


The edict has gone forth and the
I great Ontario mine is to be closed.
Every citizen of Utah from Logan to
ST George will regret exceedingly to
hear this, because for twenty-five years
they have all pointed with pride to
this great producer of mineral wealth.
Not only has it been the main
stay and almost the life blood to the
business interests of Park City, but the
people of Summit, Morgan, Wasatch
and Utah counties have received many
thousands of dollars every year from
the sale of lumber and produce sold to
the Ontario mine and miners. The
closing Of the Daily mine was a severe
blow to the business interests OF Park
City and surrounding country, but that
incident was nothing to be compared
to the closing of the Ontario.
During The past 25 years this mine
has produced nearly half a hundred
million dollars, and has paid in divi-
dends $19, S35. 900, and this vast sum has
been wrested from the rock-ribbed hills
in the face of almost overwhelming
difficulties. No one connected with this
great mine will feel SO keenly the clos
ing down as Superintendent Chambers
He exported and purchased it in the
early '70s, and for a quarter of a cen
fury he has watched over it. He has
seen it grow from an insignificant pros
pect hole in the mountain side until it
became one of the noted mines, not
only of the United States, but of the
world. And now that circumstances
over which he has no control forces the
closing of the mine, his regret will not
be occasioned because of its effect
upon him personally or his pecuniary
interest in the ENTERPRISE, but because
OF the effect upon the men who earned
living for themselves and families by
working in and about the mine.
The continued decline in the price of
silver and the slight Prospect for a.
change for the better in the near flu
ture has caused the closing down of
this mine. The people of Utah, and
especially those Immediately affected
by it, must not lose heart, because all
is not lost, nor will the wheels If prog
ress be turned backward, though the
onward movement may be checked
momentarily. It is no fault of those
directly interested in the conduct of
the mine; it is the direct result of the
pursuit of governmental policy which
has worked ruin for the time being to
the silver industry. In the economy of
nature wrongs are usually righted, and
if the reinforcement of silver is being.
as we believe, brought about by ar
tificial means in the interest of ag-
grandized wealth, a readjustment in
the interest of right and justice is
bound to come. It may be somewhat
uncharitable to draw consolation from
the misfortunes of others, but it is a
fact that with all the depression caused
by the decline of silver here in the
west, the same cause is working great
er havoc in the east. and with all our
troubles, the laboring people of the
west are hundred times better off in
every way than their brothers in the
east, and in the months to come our
own i'll fortune will be forgotten in our
sympathy for them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

To hold out the hope or counsel men
and women to support the Republican
party on the theory that there ever will
come time when justice will be done
to the cause Of silver from that source
is to lead them into the camp of the
enemy, and there surrounded by the
enemies of the cause to them most dear,
prevent them from rendering aid and
comfort with voice and vote to the Sill
yer Cause.
With regard to the election of Mr..
Cannon to the senate by the Democracy
OF Utah, if there were no able men in
the Democratic party in this state
whose silver record could compare with
Mr.. Cannon's, or if no other man could
accomplish as much for the cause as
Mr.. Cannon, then his candidacy might
have some claim on the Democracy,
but no such condition confronts the
party in this state
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07
STRIKERS RIGHTS.

The reply which Governor Atkinson
of West Virginia made to the labor
leaders regarding the miners strike is
fair from every standpoint. 1t came in
response to a desire from the labor
leaders to have the executive of The
state define his views on their right
to hold public meetings and discuss
matters concerning the strike. Partic-
ularly were these leaders anxious to
know what stand the governor would
take concerning an injunction issued by
the court of Marion county against
them.
SO far as the injunction is concerned
it is matter that properly belongs to
the judicial and not to the executive
branch of the state, but the governors
action commends him to the considera-
ton Of all fair minded men. He
promptly requested the attorney gen
eral to appear in the matter in order
that an early adjudication by the SUI
preme court be made possible. Neither
miner nor mine owner could ask bet
ter than this.
But he speaks as a true American
when he declares that the right of free
speech and public assembly should in
no wise be abridged; that labor and
capital had the inherent right to or
ganize; that it is improper and unlaw-
full to use threats, force or intimida-
ton to induce men to connect them
selves with organized bodies of labor
ers or capitalists, and equally unlawful
for any body of men to trespass upon
the property or premises of the citizen.
So long as the workingmen Of the state
conduct their cause in a lawful and
peaceful manner, he will protect them,
but if they interfere with the vested
rights of others he will bring to his
aid the most effective means to vindi-
cate the majesty Of the law.
When the magnitude of this strike is
considered, the very few infractions of
law and disturbance accompanied by
violence which have occurred so far
speak we'll for the unemployed of our
country 1t enlists TO the side of the
strikers substantial public sympathy,
and makes the way easy for a settle
ment of differences by the only way.
possible to adjust the grievances of Ia
Dor. That way is through arbitration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

The straw hat for this summer is a
beauty. It is distinctive in style and
appearance. It sets off manly looks
to great advantage. Tt is the acme
Of hats made up in straw.
We have an immense stock of
Mems and Boys Straw Hats, alto
gether too many, to receive your help
to close the stock out at once, we
have cut the price SO low you cannot
afford to go without straw hat or
wear one that is getting seedy.
The rs cent ones reduced to 20
cents, 40 cent ones to IS cents, so
cent ones to 35 cents, rs cent ones to
go cents, $1.OO ones to rs cents,
S1.25 to so cents, $1.5O to S1.OO,
Sl.75 to S1.25, $500 to $3.50, SO. SO
to S1.75, $500 to s2.25, $500 to
$500. These are up-to-date hats,
and the first prices on them were low.
We must have the room, and you
cannot afford to do without a new
hat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

Lucky" Baldwin's luck has turned
and his fortune is melting. He made a
loan the other day that swells his in
debtedness to the Hibernia bank of
san Francisco to s2.5Oo.OOO, and the
chances are this bank will eventually
absorb all of his vast estates. The
great ranch in San Anita has been a
white elephant for Lucky" It is a
great thing as show, as swater is
brought w TO every tree, but every
orange on the tree costs money. The
old man now talks Of going to the
Klondybe to retrieve his fortunes, and
If his oidtime luck stays with him he
may live to snap his fingers at the Hi
hernia bank
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

The London Field. which is described
as the leading sporting paper of Eng
land. is OF the opinion that the recent
regatta at Henley was spoiled by the
presence of Ten Eyck of Worcester,
Mass, whom it describes as merely a
common laborer, who mended boats.
and totally unfit to associate with gen.
tlemaniy amateurs. such as are sup
posed TO attend such functions. The
Field IS very severe on the regatta
committee, and says there is no doubt
but that amateur rowing in England
has received a heavy blow. Ten Eyck
may be a common laborer, but he is
very far from being as common a scrub
as the man who would pen such stuff
and hold such sentiments as appeared
IN the Field.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

Not many months ago Paul Dunbar,
a colored boy, was running an eleva-
Tor at Dayton, o., nowise different in
appearance and speech from the aver
age elevator boy. But all the time he
was running up and down the elevator
he was thinking out verses, and once
he sent them to a Chicago paper. They
attracted the attention of Bob Inger-
soil. who recognized in the author q
real poet, and in his own way he en-
Outraged the boy. Today Paul Dunbar
is in London, the protege of such a
man, as ". D. Howells and recognized
both by the press and society.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

Mrs, Mary Ellen Lease. who win be
green of the coming festival in Kan
sas, viii wear crown worth $4,000 for
q week. She is said to have expressed
her belief to friend that Mrs. Bradley
Martins tiara isn't in it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07
Sam Francisco E,xanniner. Ianan

San Francisco Examiner: japan takes
a queer way OF manifesting the wrath
with which she is stated on various au-
tnorItieS to be seethng. A. Hawaii her
in this harbor officers and crew of a
japanese nan-of-war came ashore and
marched in q Fourth of July procession.
But all this may be deceptive. for there
is no denying that a lot of American
bluejackets who thought they could run
things with a whoop alons the water
front of another nation were officially
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

Bright fellow though he may be, Nc
Kinley cannot please all his admirers.
There was man who wanted to be
sent north. but has received an ap-
pointment to the island of Trinidad. In
response to congratulations from
friends, he said: IF the government
had any diplomatic relations with hell,
think would have been selected for
the consulshiD there. Trinidad seems
to have nothing but blazing skies above
the boiling pitch beneath. It is the an
teroom of hell"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

That is an altogether an improb-
able story which is telegraphed from
Berlin regarding the plot against the
car. Those who plot against Mich
olas are nihilists, and their conspir-
acy is not directed against the dynasty
Of the car so much as it is directed
against autocratic government repre-
scented in his person What would it
avail the dowager czarina to have her
son removed? She could not. change
the condition of Russia thereby She
could not even rule as regent. And the
character of the cars mother IS not a
reproach in Europe or we should know
il long ago. The story is altogether
too inhuman to be believed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

nearly ali of Newport and Bar Harbor,
she best part of Washington, all OF Fifth
avenue and outlying districts on Long
Island and up the Hudson. Over this an
nexed territory the British rule is su-
preme. Moreover. the British have an
nexed scores and hundreds of the loveliest
American heiresses TO replenish the de-
Pleted bank accounts and the exhausted
blood of their boosted aristocracy.'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

The first washerwoman out of Klon-
dyke brought 100000 with her, and
this causes the s,sze of the Chicago
Dispatch to remark: IF cleanliness
is next to goodness. what must god
illness cost at Klondyke?"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

VERY nice" the New York Sun re-
ports one woman as saying of another.
but limited. She's bounded on the
north by servants, on the south by chill
dren, on the east by ailments, and on
the west by clothes"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

From some of the reports received
from Klondyke, one is justified in as
Stunning that if he has enough money to
go to Klondyke, stay a year and re-
turn, there is no reason why he should
hunt the yellow stuff at ali.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

Sacramento Bee: The louisiana su-
preme court has revoked a valuable wa
ter front franchise given 70 a railroad on
the ground that the city had no right TO
grant for the private profit of corpora
ton that which belonged 10 the whole
pie. 1t is TO be hoped that it will stand,
but it is very doubtful. for the supreme
court of the United States is quite sensi-
tive concerning the aggressions of the
Dorations.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

According to Judge Simkins of Texas,
who goes about lecturing on the mil
lenium, that event will begin between
next September and Easter of 1885, The
advance agent of prosperity must hurry
up if he is to be included with the
crowd
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

General John B. Gordon of Georgia is
evidently a gentleman of the old school,
Some of his friends, whom he has re-
ferred to as well meaning, but i'll ad-
vised." have been booming him for the
next governor. Gordon. however, Will
not have it. He has had enough of
the bitterness and strife of politics, he
says, and proposes to put in the bal
ance of his years on earth in endeavor-
ing to teach the people Of the north
and south to love each other.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07
STATE PRESS COMMENTS.

Provo Utonian: During the campaign
for the coming city election there may
be differences of opinion but one thing
we all agree on is Provo must be built up
and improved, and only by united effort
can this be accomplished.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

Governor Tanner is hated SO intensely
in Chicago that when Methodist min
lister denounces him in the pulpit the
congregation clap their hands in ap-
nrOVal
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

Cleveland Leader: Hell understand
Miss Derwent is quite a composer
She-Yes, she composes the greater part
OF what you see of her every morning.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

Frederick Miller. who is SO years of
age. is 2 retired messenger boy, and
makes his boast that he can go err
rands just as fast as he used to so
years ago. There viii be few people
found to question the old mans YER
api+v
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

The sheep and cattle industry of
Wyoming, the principal industry of the
state. is valued at S5,OOOOOO more this
year than last.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.


Kansas City Times: The senate very
properly refused TO become party to the
infamous bargain between Mark Hama
and Il. .Powderly. IN spite of the refu-
sal to confirm Powderly's appointment as
per contract, President Mckinley may
manage TO keep llim in Office during the
congressional recess. but ii win be eX-
pensive in the end.
5 New York Mail and Express: Represen-
tative HilDcrn of California predicts that
the Klondyke discoveries will ultimately
compel the government to demonetize
gold. In other words, he evidently be-
lieves that the country will soon get so
rich that It will stop making money mere
~ in order to save expenses.
Oakland (Cal.) Tribune: A Brltlsher
whose patriotism has suggested to the
London Daily Mail that in the event of
e war between England and the United
States, Great Britain should "rectify the
frontier by anDexing Maine, Vermont.
New Hampshire, a part of the state of
New York, Alaska and the Sandwich
Islands, In commenting upon this. the
New York World says: England has al
ready annexed Boston and it's suburbs,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

Ogden Press: Bryans silk nightshirt
is the subjec. of considerable discussion
nowadays. He has a perfect right to
wear whatever in the nightshirt line that
suits his fancy or discard it altogether
if he likes, and we do not see why the
pubic should give themselves so much
concern over the matter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Have you seer
Mauds rainy day costume? It's too sweet
Tor any USE.
why doesn't she wear it today?"
1t looks so much like rain
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

Atchison Globe: The great trouble with
acquiring knowledge is that the things a
man longs most to know are none of his
business.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

Veneznelaus are rapidly becoming
civilized. Z is now proposed to give
monopoly to a distillery in that coun-
try
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07
THE JOKE MACHINE.

Judge: Racket hear that you have
lost your standing in the church?
Tremlow-Yes. but I'm all right so far
as my standing in the street car is con-
cerned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

LIE Moned Comique: NJ. Calno-Listenl
Here is very good proposal for our
daughters young man, rich, honest. I'M
selfish, good looking: only-there is an
only-he is g foundling-without name.
NJ. Calino with a start)-Without a
name, Then l shall have a son-.n-law
who will write only anonymous letters?
Never in the world
Brooklyn Life: Widowhood makes a
woman unselfish."
Why SOP"
Because she ceases to look out for
Number One and begins to look out for
Number Two
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07
W. F. Mcmillan, General Agent,
II Walker Block. Salt Lake City.
THE COLORADO MIDLAND r. r.

WU Through IIdlllS Daily
Between Salt Lake City, Ogden and Lead
vtlle Cripple Creek, Colorado Springs
Denver and all points east Only line
running THROUGH CHAIR CARS
Through sieepers on both morning and
evening trains. This line. in connection
with the Rio Grande Western, reaches
Denver earlier than any other line via
Colorado Springs. No change of cars or
delayed trains Take the Colorado Mid
land and save time and enjoy the finest
ride and grandest scenery in Colorado.
For full Information call on any r. @.
w Ry agent, or
W. +. BAILEY. o. A BROWN.
c. p. A. Gen. Agent.
Dsnver Colo Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07

Logan Journal: Several cases have oc-
CURED recently in various parts of the
STATE, where the majesty of the law has
not been upheld and malefactors have
been allowed to escape, simply because
the county courts in the counties from
which the cases have been reported have
been so shortsigbted and penurious as to
refuse to pay the expenses of the sheriff
in cases where pursuit has been fruitless.
Cases of this kind nave been reported re-
Gently from Sewer and Carbon counties.
Public safety demands the diScontinuance
of such a foolish policy.
Box Elder News: Springville is to have
a sugar factory. SO the great beet sugar
Industry is spreading over the southern
portion of the state. The farmers see the
prosperity of their brethren near the Lehi
factory; they see that it is much more
profitable to raise beets than wheat or
hay, and so they are bound to have the
industry established near their land. The
refinery part of the great factory at Lehi
can run only a few months in the year,
because they cannot get the syrup to re-
fine. Now, would il not be possible ana
feasible to establish a. satisfactory in this
county, raise the beets here, extract the
saccharine LIQUID and ship ii in casks to
the refinery at Lehi to be there trans
formed into granulated sweetness. The
refinery a Lehi has a capacity for about
six times what it has done, if kept at
work all the time. The machinery for
grinding beets to pulp and the watts for
extracting their sweetness are not so very
costly. 1t is the refinery part of the fac
tory that costs. We are informed that
the satisfactory plan is used to good adj
vantage in other states
Sick headache can be quickly and
completely overcome by using those IA
nous little pills known as de Wits
Little Early Risers" A. c. Smith &
c. D. Swift. 142 Main.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-01-22

THE PREVAILING MANIA.-It is not
at the State capitol, and in the Legis-
lature alone, that an unseemly scram-
BILE for place is going on. The dis
gushing spectacle of men and women
jostling each other with all the earn
estness of pack of street gamins
scrambling for penny thrown by the
hand of charity seems to be of unus-
ual prevalence. At Walla Walla, a
few days ago, the County Auditor,
Allen II. Croker, suddenly died, and
before the general public had been
made aware of his demise, and before
the life-blOod had fairly cooled in the
nerves farthest from the heart, several
persons had taken steps for securing
an appointment as his successor. Be-
fore the corpse was buried, this contest
had developed into a bitter conflict
between raging factions. 1t is to be
regretted that human nature at times
portrays so much of the brutal instinct
as to show that the spiritual attribute
is, if it exists, is a mere spark that can
be extinguishcd by breath of conten-
ton.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-01-22

HANNA, the Republican boss, is
said to have positive information that
the $4,000 sent to this State to be
used for party purposes, or a large
portion of it, went into the pockets of
the party managers here, who did not
see any use in wasting good money.
1t is charged that what was spent
went for the advancement of the inter-
ests of P. c. Sullivan for Governor, in
stead of for the whole State ticket, as
was contemplated by the goldbug con-
tributors. 1t is quite probable that
an investigation will be ordered.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-01-22

THE atrocities practiced by the
Spaniards in Cuba fairly surpass be-
lief. A schOol-boy, ten years of age,
was killed by the Spanish patrol, "A
few days ago, because he did not hur-
rah for Spain, when commanded to do
SO. He smiled when the soldiers COM
manded him to hurrah, not compre-
hending what was required, when with
curses they murdered him on the
street. In the fields surrounding the
town are many human bodies, and
dogs have been eating human flesh
and gnawing human bones. Guiana
bacoa is village about four miles
east OF Havana, chiefly noted for being
q fashionable resort for sea-bathing.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-01-22

REPUBLICAN statesmen do not seem
to be stumbling over each other to
secure cabinet positions under the
Hanna-McKinley administration, and
the reason is apparent. The sue
ceeding dynasty will not be one which
may receive hallelujahs from the peo-
pie, and the average politician, what
ever may be his party creed, has an
overweaning fondness for being on
the popular side. The gold standard
never can be popular, and the nom
fulfillment of the promised prosper
ity is already moving the finger on
the wall that will write the epitaph of
the Republican party.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-01-22

1T seems probable that John Sher-
man will be Secretary of State, under
the Hanna-McKinley administration.
1t is likewise said that the Pacific
coast will have representation in the
national counsels by the appointment
of Judge McKenna, of California, to
the place on the Supreme bench now
filled by Justice Field, who is sure to
retire before the expiration of McKin-
ey's term. He is likewise named for
Secretary of the Interior.