The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-12
NO LACK OF WORRIES
Four Cabinet Councils Held in
One Short Week.
DISASTER ONLY IN INDIA
The Campaign for the Year Over ard
Nothing Accomplishments
Peary Given Rousing Well
come in England.
Copyright 1897 by Associated Press.

Copyright 1897 by Associated Press.
London, Dec. 11.--Four cabinet eoun-
ellis in a week are calculated to arouse
comment. but IL must be admitted that
the Marquis of Salisbury and his coll
leagues have a multiplicity of matters
more or less urgently calling for a set
Element. With France trying to fitch
slices of African territory which Great
Britain is in the habit of calling her
own, and Germany loosening the
''cinch" Albion has always claimed TO
have in China. while Great Britain her
self is trying To grab little more coun-
try at various other points and with the
preparation of the legislative pro-
gramme, the ministry has no lack of
worries.
Tho announcement which the St
James Gazette made on Wednesday
last, 'authortatively," that the British
government does not expect any fur
Their trouble with France regarding the
upper Nile regions, France agreeing to
accept the situation, is unconfirmed and
probably unfounded, as there is no lack
of evidence that France is deliberately
pursuing the task of seizing the upper
waters Of the Nile above Khartoum,
thus cutting the British line of commu-
nication between Capetown and Suez,
and the powerful colonial party in
France threatens to upset the Meline
cabinet should ii recede from this en-
terprise. All the forces of Gen. Sir
William Lockhart, the British com
mander on the Indian frontier have
been Withdrawn TO the Bara valley for
the winter Thus the largest and best
equipped force ever assembled in India
has tailed and the whole work will have
TO be repeated in the spring. About
1,4oO officers and men either killed or
wounded and 5000. 900 of rupees spent
and british nr1<ttua lxana1 ha
frontier, are the debts against which
Few mud hutS and sangers blown up
and probably several thousand natives
Killed are the only apparent credits.
Rumors, too precise to be guess work,
are current 10 the effect that the Earl
of Elgin. early next year, will retire
from the viceroyalty of India and be
succeeded by Lord George Hamilton
whose Indian secretaryship will be
filled by Lord Lansdowne, the present
secretary of state for war. This will be
a good party move, as it would enable
the Marquis of Salisbury to place at the
head OF the war office a skilled man of
The bourgeois who would satisfy the
taxpayers as we'll as the army mate
rally and smooth the path for the in
tended populace demand for military
reform 1t is intimated that Joseph
Chamberlain may be transferred from
the colonial TO the war office. his place
being given as sop TO the Marquis OF
Londonderry, whose kicking quail
ties are not appreciated by the minis
try.
Lieutenant Peary, the American ex-
plorer. has taken the town by storm,
though he arrived here unheralded
The newspapers, geographers and sci
entists are at his disposal. As a lead
ing geographer said to the representa-
tive of the associated press: "Lieuten-
ant Peary has won all our hearts by his
modesty, courtesy and learning. We
put him on the same plane as DIR. Nan
sen and have the utmost confidence in
his plans. On Thursday Lieutenant
and Mrs. Peary dined at the HARMS
worths, and on Wednesday. the United
States ambassador Col John Hay. and
Mrs. Hay gave a dinner in their honor
The lieutenant lectured at the Castle
on Tuesday. and on Friday he lecturcd
at Edinburgh. There he met with an
enthusiastic reception from the Royal
Scottish Geographical society. and was
presented with its medal. Sir Clement
Markham, president of the Royal Geo
graphical society, will give a banquet
an Lieutenant Peary's honor Dec IA.
The Saturday Review says: There
is tinge Of hero worship in the recep-
ton accorded to Lieutenant Peary which
surpasses the reception of Nansen.
This is as 1t should be. peary is of our
race and speaks our tongue. and il Is
only fitting that we should feel more
w army lpi MN IMAM lbl al 1pIelEIPT.
Moreover, the courage shown by Lieu
tenant Peary is almost unparalleled in
the splendid story of Arctic eXplora-
tion."
c. J. ID. Gold of Cambridge, who
rowed for Leander in the race for the
grand challenge cup at the Henley re-
gatta this year. and w. j. Fernie. who
was stroke for Trinity Hail. Cambridge.
sailed for New York to-day on board
the Cunard line steamer Lucania. 1t
rs rumored they are going to look into
rowing matters at Yale and perhaps
train the Yale crew.
Colonel Hay has done a great deal
more here than people think. said one
of his friends recently. He has de-
clined over so invitations to make pub
lie speeches since he arrived in Eng
land. Judging from the praise Law
fshed on his purely literary speech at
the Omar khayam club on Wednesday.