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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-17
A Raisin Trust.

New York, Feb. 1.-THE World says:
Another trust was born yesterday
not a very big or vigorous one as yet,
for it is only an infant. but it promises
to grow. This new combine is the
raisin trust.
The capital stock was subscribed
yesterday in Wall street-Only 100000
as starter. and the name has net
even been selected: but the object is
in plain sight j is simply to control
the entire raisin industry of the coU1-
try. Practically all the native raisins
come from the grape region of Cali
fornia. and the town of Fresno is the
center of the business. The new trust
will make its headquarters there and
build a large factory, which is expected
TO absorb all others. The process OF
cleansing and preparing raisins for the
market is an old one. but the new
company has control of a novel device
for taking the seeds out of grapes,
and this is designed to give great adj
vantage over their concerns.
Alfred Nichols is TO be president of
the new trust. While declining to give
any details Of the organization, he said.
yesterday: We think this is a most
opportune time TO embark in the en-
terprise. The demand for raisins has
grown TO such proportions that it is
impossible to respond to the require
ments Of the trade except by an in
vestment Of a large sum of money at a
point where the fruit can be had at the
least expense. The men forming the
company are principally New York
erS -
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CUBAN MEMORIAL.
Ringing One Passed by the Wash
ington Legislature.


Olympia, Wash, Feb. 1.-THE Cuban
memorial passed by the house yester-
day, after its title. reads:
Your memorialists. the legislature of
the state of Washington, respectively
represent, that, whereas, there exists
in the island of Cuba, in the conduct
of barbarities and atrocities that are
being daily committed repugnant to
the customs and usages of civilization.
and contrary to well-settled laws of
civilized warfare. and
Whereas. The commission of such
outrages is not only revolving to hui
mainly but destructive of the personal
and property rights of citizens of Cuba
and of many of our own citizens, and
Whereas, We deeply deplore the
existence of these conditions and de-
sire to express our sympathy with
patriotic Cubans in their determined
effort for liberty and freedom; be it,
therefore
Resolved, That we, your memorial
lists, hereby instruct our representa-
tives in the United States congress and
request our representatives in the
house of representatives to exercise
every honorable effort to the end that
your honorable bodies recognize the
fact that a state of war exists in Cuba.
and that you enact such measures as
will secure to the Cubans their indie
pendence"
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cal with those of yesterday. The prac-
tice was then discontinued until
O'Clock, when it was once more re-
sumed, this time with the four and six
inch guns. During the afternoon, the
formation of the fleet was materially
changed. The Indiana replaced the
Columbia at the southern end of the
line and the other five of the fleet were
collected about the flagship, almost due
east of the jetties and about five miles
seaward. At night there was some
exercising with the Coston signal, but
no movement of general interest.
The Vesuvius lay off the coast with
the fleet last night, but came into the
harbor early today and still lies off the
custom house. The transport of the
squadron made her usual trip TO the
city, and coming up once more in the
evening, is now lying in the Cooper
river
Up to a late hour the fleet had been
Joined by none of the boats recently
ordered here. The Terror, Puritan,
Katahdin, and Ericsson have bsen ex-
pected off the coast all day. but none
of them has put in an appearance. The
battleship Maine will sail for Port
Royal tomorrow night or Thursday
morning.
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RECORD BROKEN.
Remarkable Time Made in a Run
From Chicago to Denver.

Denver Feb. 16.-Starting from Chicago
at 10 a. m yesterday, a special train over
the Chicago Burlington & Quincy and
the Burlington & Missouri railroads,
bearing Henry ]. Mayham, of this. city. to
the bedside of his dying son, arrived here
this morning at 1852 o'clock. The run
of 026 miles was made in Is hours and
81 minutes. This journey did not ac-
complish the object prayed for by the
bereaved father, who arrived after his
son had passed away. but il served to
make a new record for long distance
travelling against time. The feat of the
Burlington system lowered the World
fair record of 964 miles made over the
Lake Shore and New York Central rail
roads from New York to Chicago in l9
hours and 81 minutes. That was
the officials of the Chicago. Burlington q
quincy in Chicago had only half an hour
notice from Mr.. Mayhem to prepare for
the run the first engine at the companys
DISPOSAL was used and tie train left Chi
cago in binding SnowStorm. The Bur-
lington officials agred to caryr MIR. May
ham to Denver in "a hours, and the best
time that was expected to be made was
u hours On straight stretches of track
the FLYER, locomotive and Pullman
sleeper, covered more than 60 miles an
hour The mountain run of us miles,
from Akron Colo. to Denver. was made
in l24 minutes and most of this dstance
was run ut d mile minute gait. At
Lincoln. Neb., Travelling Engineer Dixon,
of the Burlington, entered the cab of the
engine and remained with each engineer
as he came on until the tram reached
Denver VIII Mayham was dead when
the train entered Colorado. but his father
continued TO send kilograms to him until
Z mis- civ was sighted.
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OUIDA TO OLNEY.
Novelist Writes the Secretary Re-
garding the immigration Bill.

Washington. Feb. 16.-Under date OF
Jan 30. Louise De La Rance the novelist.
better known under her nom de plume of
Ouida. addressed the following letter 10
Secretary Olney relative TO the immigra-
ton bill. the conference report on which
measure will come before the senate to-
morrow for final action:
Sir:-Will you pardon my addressing
YOU concerning the bill which I see is
immigrants who cannot read If you ex-
clude Italians who cannot read. you will
lose the best and most laborious part of
the population and you will admit the
trash of cities. 1t is not a test which
can be properly applied to Italians or in
deed to any populace. Why should you
suppose the power to spell out the crimes
recorded in cheap newspapers is any
guarantee for either virtue or intelligence
In Italy the peasantry are almost en-
tlrely illiterate;i yet they are the only
value l have had many men in my en-
ploy; | have invariably found those who
could not read ten times more Industrious.
temperate. intelligent and honest than
those corrupted by the trumpery "educa-
cation of schools. / have had for 20
years an old man (who has been what is
called the odd man in England) and he
can be sent with 80 commissions to pur-
chase objects, detailed him orally and he
will execute these commissions with no
single error either of oblivion or of pay
your shores, whilst you would receive the
youth corrupted. emasculate, diseased
through cheap journalism. bad tobacco
and the enforced physical idleness of the
schools. | beg you TO allow me TO re-
main, obediently yours. OUIDA-
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Short Bits of Fun.

London Tit-Bits: How came you here?"
said the visitor to prisoner in the peni-
Tertiary.
II was brought here by my conyic-
TONS was the firmly spoken reply
@ o g
Boston Courier: Mrs. Pigment-Is not
the frostwork on the panes beautiful this
morning, James?
Mrs. P.-Ohi Art can never reach such
perfection.
Mr.. P.-Never.
Mrs. P.-Considered from one artistic
call that?
Mr. Pr should call it frieze.
% 90 (.
Detroit Journal: Ten Minutes Ahead
''Yes?''
II know how 1 can get ahead of her.
the mean thing Eli make mine 4:5O
o'clock tea"
There are the triumphs of the tented
field, and the triumphs of statecraft; also
social triumphs-
London Tit-Bits:- Wife-Be sure to adj
vertise for Fido in the morning news
Next day the wife read as follows in the
newspaper:
Zen shillings Reward.-Lost. NANCY
lap dog, with one eye and no tail: too fat
to walk. Responds to the name of Fido.
Smells like a monkey-house. If returned
stuffed 20 shillings reward
Detroit Free Press: How is it that
Watley has so many new suits? He gets
:. small salary"
''Oh. he is an electrician. and his clothes
@-e all charged
1. % o
Cleveland World: She-You know, dear
we won't get any of fathers money while
he lives.
Hell know, but he's going to reside
with us. and you're to do the cooking
Let's hope for the best.
6,
Cleveland Leader: Miss Burlinsame-
what is this Seeley affair that every
body is talking about?
Mr.. DunkIey-Why, haven't you read
It?
Miss Burlingame-Not a word.
Mr.. Dunkley-Will you be my wife?
- o @
Cincinnati Enquirer. Miss Browning
lust think, Brother Will has won
prize of $50 for a poem M sl5 -
beef extract?
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Proclamation to Cretans.

London, Feb. ia dispatch from
Athens to the Evening News says that
Greek troops have landed on the Bay
of Kolymhari.
Colonel Vassos, the commander of the
Greek forces in Crete, has issued the
following proclamation:
"Cretans-You are suffering from the
present state of anarchy and are ex-
posed to the excuses of a fanatical
populace, which have awakened the ma
tional sentiment and have deeply
stirred the Hellenic people. This
lamentable situation of people of the
same race and same religion, having
common destinies with ourselves,
could not any longer be allowed to
exist. The king of the Hellenes has
resolved to end this state of things by
proclaiming a Greek occupation of the
island.
In making this proclamation
promise in the name of King George to
protect the lives. honor and property
of the inhabitants. without distinction
of religion or nationality. and TO re-
spect the religious convictions of the
inhabitants, while bringing to them
peace and law"
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STILL IN HIS ROOM.
President-Elect Mckinley Does Not
See Any Callers

Canton, O., Feb. 1e-Ex- Senator War
ner Miller of New York, after waiting
the physicians verdict, was compelled
to forego the pleasure of seeing
the president-elect. There are va
rious reasons assigned for Mr.
most generally is credited is that
he proposes to make some statement
regarding the chances of a New York
man being proffered cabinet portfolio.
In conversation with friends, it is said,
he stated the empire state would prob
ably be without representative in the
presidents official family. To the press
representatives he declined to discuss
the cabinet situation.
Another view, and it appears a very
sensible one, is that Mr.. Miller intended
to urge Major Mckinley to recommend
the passage of the Nicaragua canal
bill in his message to congress at the
special session. Whatever his inten-
ton was, he was unsuccessful in his
mission.
Hon. Henry White, who for ten years
was secretary of the London legation,
was also unsuccessful in an effort to
see Mr.. Mckinley. His mission is I'M
known.
The president-elect remained in his
room all day and was seen by no one
except Mother Mckinley and the men,
bers of his own household. He will
not go to Cleveland on Wednesday, and
his visit may be postponed until the
last of the week.
Word has been received here that
Dr.. John Grant of Texas is en- route to
Canton to see Major Mckinley as soon
as the latter is able to be about. DR..
Grant has been recommended for a
cabinet portfolio. 1t appears. however
that federal patronage in Texas will
be the topic of conversation.
DR.. Grant is an original Mckinley
man." and an old friend of the presi-
dent-elect.
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New York Feb. 16.-A World special
from Key West, Fla, says: The
dynamite gun General Maceo thought
so much of, has been doing remark
able work again. Letters from Can
delaria, Pinar del Rio, report that it
could not be used lately, as the am
munition was out, but an expedition
has just provided a new supply.
A detachment of 700 Spaniards
under Colonel Sanchez attacked one of
General Moranos' camps last week, hop
ing to capture the gun. 1t was known
TO be slowed there and the Spaniards
had heard there was no ammunition
on for it. The insurgents were well
protected by entertainments and knew
the enemy's plans. When the Spanish
troops advanced, the insurgents met
them with rapid fire of musketry and
then retreated, as if in disorder, up a
narrow gorge into a second set of
works.
The Spaniards, thinking victory was
within their grasp, rushed forward.
despite the orders of their officers, who
expected a trap. No sooner had they
fairly entered the cul de sac than the
dynamite gun opened on them The
first shell killed dozens in the front
rank. a second shot did still more
damage and then a third and fourth.
By this time the troops had managed
to get out, and the insurgent charge
completed the rout.
More than 300 Spaniards are said to
have been killed, wounded or cap
tured, five officers being killed. The
Cubans lost 10 men.
The Spanish prisoners were sent to
the Spanish camp at Candelaria- with
a note from the insurgent commander
asking the Spanish officer to deal as
humanely with insurgents who fell
into his hands.
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Keane,s Fasv Place.

Archbishop Keane has been appointed
by the pope canon of st. John Lateran in
Rome. THE appointment as canon"
says the Baltimore Sun. lis one of the
most lucrative in Rome in the power Of
the pope. 1t is in the nature of a sine
cure. at least as long as one remains in
Rome. for the canons put in an appear
ance at their church when they please
and as they please. As canon of St. John
Lateran. Archbishop Keane will be re-
quired to say office both morning and
evening. For this he will receive some
thing over 400 francs a month. Accord
ing to the number of times - assists at
the Offices his recOmpense will be in
creased. the money being divided in what
are known as distributions. As each
canon enters his stan at the beginning
or end of each recitation of the divine
Office his name is taken by clerk sitting
I'm the lowest bench of the choir. The
appointment of Archbishop Keane as
canon is believed to be the first instance
of an American prelate or priest receiv-
ing this honor. There are several for
eigners canons at Rome. and among
them is one Englishman. but no Ameri-
cans
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New York and St. Petersburg.

The island of the Manhattoes sent
beaverskins to Europe soon after
Queen Elizabeth died. In 1926, one year
after the death of the first King James,
a permanent town was Established
upon it. And the first great chapter in
the story of this town was closed in
1864, only four. years after the second
Charles picked up his fathers battered
crown. Then New Amsterdam passed
from Dutch into English hands and
was rechristened for the duke Of York
p years before he began to govern it
as the second James. Thus the silver
tankard owned by the Schuyler family
and given to their ancestor by Queen
Anne when he took five Mohawk chiefs
to visit her In 1710. is by no means.
relic of early New York. Who thinks
of st. Petersburg as a typically mod
ern town? Yet in ITO St. Petersburg
had been founded only half dozen
years.-s.Places in New York. by Mrs.
Schuyler Van Rensselaer,. in the Feb
ruary Century.
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It is Popular in italy.

Rome, Feb. 16.-The bold action in
Greece in attempting to solve the
Cretan question with the sword has
excited popular admiration every
where in Italy, and a great philo-
Crete agitation is being carried on
throughout the country Sympathies
for the people are entirely with the
Cretan Christians, in their struggle to
throw off the yoke of moslem rule and
this sympathy is taking practical form.
Enthusiastic mass meetings have been
held in several cities at which the
speakers have traced the whole his
tory of Turkish misrule in Crete and
have dwelt upon the promises of the
porte, broken time and again, TO in
augurate reforms in the island. At
these meetings subscription lists were
opened for the benefit of the struggling
islanders and goodly sums have been
realized.
Many young men whose enthusiasm
has been aroused by the herosm of
the Cretan Christians and the bold
defiance of Turkey by the Greeks have
volunteered to serve with the Chris
tians and numbers of them have al
ready started for Crete
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Simply an Outrage.

Havana, Feb. 16.-Much adverse COM
ment has been excited, even among Span
iards here, by the fact that the house of
refuge is the only place in the city in
which women prisoners are kept The
Diario De LIE Marina today denounces the
ulace and declares it an outrage that
women of high social standing who are
arrested on suspicion of having rebel
s.mpathies should be compelled to as
sociate with the class of women for which
the prison is intended. There are only
90 cells in the place and yet "a women
are confined there.
1t is reported that some of the mer-
chants here contemplate the establish
ment, of a line of steamers to compete
with the New York and Cuba Mail Steam
ship company (the Ward line)
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Athens. Feb. 16.-The first definite
news of a Greek victory in Crete was
received this evening and the widest
enthusiasm followed the intelligence.
The Greeks, it is said, attacked and
captured Fort Aghai, taking 400
Musslemans prisoners. Among the
number are 100 Turkish troops, the re-
mainder of the prisoners being Mos
lens. who took refuge in the fort.
Details of the engagement are lack
ing. One report states that no fight
ing occurred, the garrison surrender
ing upon the demand of the Greek com
mander. AS no mention of any losses
is made in any of the dispatches, 1t is
surmised that this report is true.
Notwithstanding the reports that the
powers would take concerted action 10
prevent Greece from taking further
hostile action in Crete, warlike prepar-
atoms are being made with all posi-
BILE dispatch.
In addition to the corps of occupa-
ton" already on the island, which
numbers 1900 men of all arms, one
other regiment embarked upon trans
port and sailed for Crete tonight. An
other regiment will sail thence tomor-
row.
The government is preparing for
every possible contingency and has
summoned two classes of the naval re-
serve for active service.
The people are in frenzy of excite
ment and demand that the Cretan
question be settled now for all time.
1t is popularity thought that when the
powers find the annexation of the
island which Greece has in view an
accomplished fact, they will readily ac-.
quiesce in this spoliatiOn of the Turk.
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"Re-Ianded" LIQUORS.

Washington. Feb. 16.-Attorney-
General Harmon has been asked by
the treasury department TO construe a
recent opinion of Judge Wallace of the
United States circuit court for the
southern district of New York, who
recently decided that liquors made in
the United States and exported cannot
be "re-landed." The question turns on
the word ''relanded" as contained in
the law. 1t has been the uniform Gus
tom Of the trade TO permit liquors ex-
por' I'd to be re-imported at will. There
are now, it is said stored about 200
gallons of American whisky which
were sent out of this country when
the tax was 80 cents a gallon. instead
of S1.10 as now, and which il was the
intention of the owners to re-import
Should Judge ,Wallace's decision be
held to be good law it will necessitate
reversal of the former policy of the
trade, and it is claimed it will work
hardship to many owners who have
liquor now stored abroad.
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National Editorial Association.

Galveston. Feb. 16.-The twelfth an
nual convention of the National Edi-
torial association was opened this
afternoon. Over 500 delegates were
present when President Thomas called
the meeting TO order. Mayor Ely, on
behalf of the city. extended to the
delegates cordial welcome and Mr.
B. B. Herbert. founder and first presi-
dent of the National Editorial associa-
ton. supplemented the mayors greet
ing.
ing committee on credentials: James
G. Gibbs, of Ohio; Ernest F. Pierce,
Mimi; II. A. London, North Carolina:
Charles A. Gardner. California. and
R. E. Purcell, Indiana During the
absence of the committee on creden-
tials, Secretary Page gave a lengthy
explanation of the proposed itinerary
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LIFE UNDERWRITERS.
Tenth Annual Dinner Is Given at
the Hotel Waldorf.

New York. Feb. 1.-THE tenth an
nual dinner of the Life Underwriters
association of New York was held to-
night at the Waldorf Hotel
The principal speaker was Hon. Jas.
H Eckels, comptroller of the currency
of the United States. After referring
to the close relationship existing be-
tween life insurance interests and
banking interests, Mr.. Eckels said that
banking interests were liable to politi-
cal attacks and personal and corporate
jealousy; but life insurance, which rep
resented capital saved for widows and
orphans. was free from, and should be-
from attacks. IF the same thing could
apply TO our financial system in legis-
lative halls, we would not see any laws
enacted that would be against the pub
lie good and we would not see the at
tempt to establish a currency having
for its object the securing of electoral
votes.
Let no business man fiatter him
self" he said. that financial heresy
was killed last November. 1t was
bruised and hampered, but it was not
crushed and that financial heresy still
exists.