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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-10-09
What Governor Jones Saws

I will state that the people of this state
are not satisfied with the treatment accord
ed our soldiers by the federal authorities
They feel and know that they have been
subjected to hardships since their enlist
ment which were altogether unnecessary.
and that the fault was not with the field
and line officers which went out with the
regiments. but that it was the result of
Encouragement or criminal negligence on
the part of somebody higher in authority
In the war department. They know that
the treatment accorded the sick while at
Chtckamaugo, where they have been ever
since mustered In, in May last, was such as
to be disgrace to the nation, and was
largely the result Of the failure Of some
one in the war department to furnish the
necessary hospital supplies.
What steps, If any, have taken look
ing toward the betterment Of the soldiers
condition? visited the camp on July 4th,
and on July Sth addressed a letter to the
secretary of war calling the attention of the
war department to the conditions there,
and urging that steps be taken for their
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-10-09

and ashes was three-quarters OF q mile
in width, and the ashes covered the
streets of Naples to a depth Of several
inches.
OF the ancient outbreaks at Vesuvius
the one great historic eruption that
buried Herculaneum. Pompeii, Stabiae
and Castellamare, so that these cities
were lost sight Of for ages was the
most damaging.
After burying these ancient cities,
Vesuvus slept again, and remained
quiet for so long that people forgot its
existence. Villages sprung up where
blackened ruins had been, and the coun-
try was a smiling landscape again, when
the next outburst, on December 16, 1881.
startled the whole world. The great
eruptions continued until February,
1882 Tore Annunziata, Tore del
Greco, Resina and Portia were nearly
buried under the awful flow of lava, and
5000 lives were lost
Again the fiery fiend was quiet for
awhile, but in 1894 it burst forth again.
Tore del Greco was again destroyed by
lava, which flowed down in a fiery
stream nearly a quarter of mile wide
at it's base and fifteen feet thick.
1922, lasted nearly a month, rupturing
the top Of the cone and making a crater
three miles in circumference and 1000
feet deep. From that time Vesuvius
has never been wholly quiet.
The unquiet mountain is eight miles
from Naples, whose bay 1t overlooks, at
the eastern extremity of a chain extend
ing to the island of Ischia. 1t is be-
lieved that the whole Gulf of Naples was
once an immense crater. the northern
end of great rent in the earth's crust
Aetna being the southern end, and
Stromboli about the middle.
At It's base Vesuvius is thirty miles ir
circumference. Its height varies after
its eruptions, but the average is abou
1000 feet. Its great crater is some 5000
feet in diameter and about 500 feet deep
1t consists of two distinct parts. The
| north side is lofty, semi-circular cliff
called Monte Somma, which has a pre-
historic crater 1t is separated from the
active volcano by a deep valley severa
| hundred feet wide.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-10-09
HOTELS IN NEW YORK ANDHERE
The Difference Between the Hostelries
of the Two Cities

Here are some new facts IN regard to
hotel life One of the leading New York
napers short time ago made the humble
confession that Chicago had surpassed
the proud eastern metropolis in hotel popu-
laton-that Is, people who make public
caravansar.es their permanent abode the
year round. Well Informed hotel men in
Chicago are at loss to understand New
Works confession in this matter, for it is
undoubtedly the American city having the
Greatest number of hotels and hotel resi-
dents. The admission is accounted for an
the hypothesis that New York, by the alb
sorption of Brooklyn, Staten Island and
ether territory, gained tremendously n
population, but lost, relatively speaking,
in hotel prestige. Brooklyn IS a city of
homes; it has few hotels. Thus New York,
in increasing fts, population by annexat on
from 1,SO0,000 to 3,3O9. 900, increased the
number Of its bona flde hotels only from
24o to 300, so that its hotel population was
diminished relatively in consequence. w
IF Chcago's hotel population exceeds
that Of New York" said E. Willis Rice,
publisher Of the National Hotel Reporter
sit is only as to the ratio of inhabitants in
the two cities. That is matter have
never figured out. The fact remains that
New York has more hotels-good bad and
mathematician any ether American city.
Here. are two statements, however, which
can be made without fear of successful con-
tradiction: First, New York gets 20 to 81 %
out Of every hotel guest, permanent or
transient, where Chicago gets 81; secondly
the business traveller or the pleasure seek
sag tourist. who almost Invariably sets up
vigorous kick and howl over question Of
So in hotel charges IN Chicago, goes to New
York and pays So for accommodations no
better without a murmur. The man who
has reached the honor and distinction of
arriving at a New York hotel and Of hav-
ing that fact duly chronicled in the papers
feels an Importance that causes his hotel
bill to dwindle into ins.ghi ficance"-
cago Chronicle.
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down the front. This makes me appear
about three feet wide down my legs. as IL
were square-rigged and carried all sail
set; but IS that my fault? If prefer white
duck to yellow flannel, the sin be on Dork-
ing's head We take four morning papers
and two in the evening, and the scandal is
abroad that our ladies read them! News
papers are for men only in Dorking, but
the cook is already begu.led and talks Of
the war like any American. She has
learned. too, to make coffee with coffee IN
1t; but by her reproachful glance we stand
convicted Of topping a hdeous brown de-
coction, very strong and very expensive.
Every morning Celestine and 1 go a.
shopping for the days rations. We spent
one morning running to earth a rumor of
fourpenny tins Of tomatoes. We d.scov-
cred, at last, where to buy oornmeal. The
chandler wot not of this barbarous prov
ender; the grocer, the fishmonger, the
mercer and the drysalter did not-had
never been enlightened To understand
our dilemma, you must know that the
very trade names Of these merchants had to
be learned by us very carefully out Of
dictionary; we are much simpler with our
commerce in America, and sometimes, in
N>NN' Wv YAH poy PoAh anu DeeI at the
same shop! At last we found 1t, disguised
as maize meal" at a seed merchants. In
England this delicious cereal Is eaten only
by the gamekeepers pheasants. But how
infinitely too hsome those broiled phea SAINTS
must be with their maize meal still In
them!
On our walks through Dork.ng we en-
counter by ones and by twos the members
OF company of strolling players who give
nightly performances In a wooden tent en-
the Dene. Now one might think it remark
able to meet Lady Audley and her Secret
upon the street; Conn the Shaughran and
the Maniac Lover at the next crossing; the
Beggar farther on Che whose Petition was
30 cynically denied by the Woman in Red
on friday, all in their stage costumes, al
most, for the players wardrobe Is meagerly
supplied, and the Heirs frock coat needs
but a trick with lace at the collar and
sleeves when he appears on the stage. You
would think that these artists would at
tract some attention upon the streets #
the little town Of Dorking; but what ara
they to sight Of us mad Americans, whom
even an actor can stare down? They have
seen us, indeed, exploding with laughter
and drenched with tears of compa ssion at
their Pavilion Of Varieties, where we hold
the front row Of shilling seats; we are
marked with eccentrict.es as they are
spotted with tinsel and lace. They are the
saner, with all their ranted hyperboles and
tropes; we are Objects Of Interest.
AS VIC enter the postoffice, Celestine and
(. the clerks sit up, awaiting a sensation
1t is cruel not to satisfy Their expect lions.
and am as mad an American as the oc-
casion warrants spend nine shillings for
cablegram, and we watch the empress
Of the telegraph key as she spells out the
mysterious message: "Inveterate. Instill.
Graphing Bungler Complimentary. Ar
tichoke." I have outwitted her with my
code, but she looks at me with sentimental
eye; for last night she dispatched curly
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-10-09
Some Mad Americans In Dorkino

(Mr. Gelett Burgess is staying IN Dork-
ing, England, with Mrs. r. L. Stevenson
and her family.)
Why Dorking? "'Why not| said the
March Hare" There is no other reason In
the world why We should be here. We do
not quarrel with fate, but float cheerfully
upon the tide Of circumstance that bears
us where 1t will. For me and for Celest.ne
Dorking consists of a beautiful olu-fash-
Toned garden, set q la mode with a may
tree, row of sunflowers, hollyhocks and
phloY. To these, a little arbor Of purple
ciematis. There are rose bushes, Of course,
and shrubs in pots; but the lawns the
thing, the sward laid like a stage for a
theater Of day-dreams. All, what do they
know Of Dorking who only Dork.ng know!'
But this Is all secluded from the High
street. and Celestine and l are as remote
from the world in our garden as ever Adam
and Eve in theirs, with the advantage over
Eden Of having no animals except a whtn-
ing puppy next door, who disturbs us wher
the moon Is full. But can Guido him my
self with slxpenny bagpipe that bought
on the Strand that awful Thursday when
/ went TO town.
But though we know not Dorking Dork-
Ing knows us: we are the mad Amerlca ans.
While We are not shocking the community
by Margaret's appearance on High street,
wheeling her own baby's perambulator
Dorking peeps at us through our front
door, 1t Is very exciting to Dorking for
though the knocks come often the door ia
never opened by the same person. We keep
-FOUR servants, but usually the housemaid
mas toothache. the lady's maid Is helping
COOK IN the kitchen and the nurse maid DIS
dams mental service All her spare time ia
spent In complaining of the butter We sit
In suspense till the third time of knocking;
then our curiosity becomes .ntolerable, and
one OF the family rushes to the door, BY
this time the windows opposite are full;
neighbors nod and glggle Americans are
SO eccentric!
we are camping out at best and our
idiosyncras.es are exaggerated, know. by
the tales the nonresident housematd car
ries home. She is willing, but she is not in
telligent; she has not learned the Ameri-
can manner Of joking with straight face.
1t was only yesterday that the postmon
levied toll Of threepence upon a for
warded breakfast. We were att brea kfas t
and the eggs were disappointing. ASK the
pcstman ii he won't take an egg instead
Of threepence?" said the head Of the table.
Because he did not grin from ear TO ear "a
he spoke the hcusemaid obeyed to the let.
ter. The postman sent reply that cha
didn't care for eggs and wanted his three
pence" and the story Of our insanity went
with him up High street to the uttermost
parts Of town.
My white canvas trousers come homo
from the laundry folded down the sides
instead Of with an American dead crease,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-10-09

weeks ago. The water supply there has
been impure from the beginning and the
discontinuance Of regimental hospitals
and establishment of division hospi-
tails, which were until about three
weeks ago without adequate facilities for
caring for the sick, have been the cause of
untold suffering and a number Of deaths
in our regiments. The condition of the
hospital of the Second division Of the Third
corps, with which was most familiar, was
for sixty or seventy days SO abominable
and deplorable that 1 am not surprised that
the people Of the nation are prone to be-
lieve that the reports are greatly exag-
gerated.
Judging from the treatment of the SOL
diers at Chickamauga, and similar COM
plants from most Of the, other camps, and
from Santiago, in my opinion 1t would be
almst impossible to raise another volun-
teer army should it become necessary in
the near future.
l regret 1t as most unfortunate, not only
for the soldiers in the army, but for the
nation. DAN'L w. JONES,
Governor of Arkansas.
Governor Smiths Criticism
Our people are of op:no.n that the gov
eminent should have provided more whole
some food and better medical and hospital
facilities for our soldier boys In the
various parts of the state where the sew
eral companies were raised, the people
contributed considerable sums of money
which were sent to the companies for use
as company funds. Aside from this, no
other action was taken for the betterment
of the condition of the troops furnished by
this state. ROBERT B. SMITH,
+ IA Governor of Montana.
Only One Case of Complaint
I think the people of Alabama are salts
fed with the treatment of the soldiers
from. this state with one exception. While
at MAN. there was great deal of sickness
in the First and Second regiments, which
was attributed to the water supply. Their
dissatisfaction was made plainly audible
and the boys were removed.
a.. JOSH. . JOHNSTON,
Governor of Alabama.
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eral on my staff. DR.. J. M. Keller of Hot
Springs, to inspect our regiments at Camp
Thomas and to report to me the health
conditions there and the facilities for car
Ing for the sick. Dr. Keller Is an old army
surgeon. having been a surgeon general IN
the Confederate army, and man of high
standing in his profession. He made me
an exhaustive report.
l continued to demand of the war de-
partment better hospital service and the re-
moval Of our boys from Chtckamauga,
which had become fever infected and gen.
orally unhealthy, but the regiments were
not removed from the camp until a few
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-10-09

correction. This letter seems simply to
nave been referred to. the medical depart
ment, then down to the surgeon in charge
OF the division hospital where our sick were
treated; In fact, practically ignored.
On July 21st I went to Washington and
IN person protested to Secretary Alger and
surgeon General Sternberg against the
treatment Of the sick at these hospitals,
ana urging return to the system of reg.-
mental hospitals, but apparently to no
purpose. The conditions at Chickamauga
remaining practically unchanged, and sick
ness rapidly increasing among our boys,
on August 10th ordered the surgeon gen.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-10-09

(Mr. Gelett Burgess Is staying IN Dork-
ing, England, with Mrs. r. l.. Stevenson
and her famly.)
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-10-09

Herewith, in facsimile, is reproduced
In part the only written and signed
statement by the secretary Of war
yet published.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-10-09
No Novice at Matrimonv

all?
Bower'-No; I had a narrow escape; Just
before the time fixed for the wedding
learned that my intended was a widow
New York Vim.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-10-09

Birthdays Celebrated in Egypt
The custom of keeping birthdays is manv
thousand years old. Pharaoh's birthday
festivitiesAre mentioned in the Pentateuch
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-19

General Mcfarland and Selector
Taylor appeared before the local
land Office last Friday and tried to
relocate the state lands which are
now in controversy and involved
in appeal TO the commission.
This application was rejected by
the register and receiver upon the
grounds of conflict with filings
already of record. This procedure
is unprecedented in any tribunal.
While contending for a right to
the lands by virtue of an old filing
these agents of the state undertake
to make protection play of hav-
ing an application to relocate on
record. Under rules of legal pro-
cedure party to suit cannot
affirm ownership and deny owner
ship in the same case before the
same court. The state in the
present contest case is on both
sides of the question. The agents
make defense against the home
steaders on the ground that the
state owns the land in controversy
and again these same agents in
augurate another suit in which
they, in effect deny ownership OF
the same land. The attorney gen.
eralis by virtue of his Office the
legal adviser of the state. He
should have learned this fuuda-
mental principle of law long ago,
This block of I6, 900 acres of pine
lands has cost the state $50, 900
The states title is plainly invali-
dated by an illegal location. Tha,
fact is fully determined by ques-
tions that have been fully estab
lished. The states agents admit
the fact virtually by the offer tr
relocate the same land. They no,
only stultify themselves but they
put the case before the tribunal in
form that stultifes the defense
of the states interests. The state
institutes no rights by the applica
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-19

The statement made last week
by the Teller to the effect that
the governors gang directed their
hottest fire upon Mr.. Reid, and
for the purpose of depriving Mr..
Morris of that earnest and eloquent
gentleman influence in the state
convention came from a purely
democratic source. There are
physical facts apparent that the
fight was made and there is good
democratic authority for the mo-
tive Of effort. 1t would be well
for the Tribune to rest the case
upon the evidence disclosed rather
than stir up a smoldering family
row again.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-19

The Boise Statesman, after
resume of the assessment rolls of
the state points out many self-evi-
dent falacies. The revenue laws
of the state are regarded with COM
mon interest and reform measures
of assessment and taxation are
generally demanded by the public.
All civilized governments have
been in turn called upon to con-
slider the question ofequitable tax
alton, but the science of economy
affords no inflexible rule for uni
versal revenue laws. The highest
courts as we'll as individuals have
been puzzled over methods of tax
alton. 1t is recognized fact that
the present legal assessments and
loans are legal farces. AS an ex-
ample the facts are cited that in
one county the total valuation OF
farm lands is given figure lower
than the real value of the real
estate holdings of one individual
in that county. Another case III
point is the fact that the wool crop
of the state for the year is assessed
at 60, COO pounds while the number
Of sheep is placed at 100000. In
one county the merchandise is
placed at a value less than the
value of one mans stock of goods
i'll that county.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-19
Notice Of Application for Ferry License

Notice is hereby given that the uudersgn|
will make application to the Honorable Board
County Commissioners of Nez Perez Count
State of Idaho, at their regular meeting at Il
Court House in Lewiston in said Nez Pcr
County on the I2th day of September, 1895, OF
soon thereafter as said application can be head
take toll OIL public ferry on the Clearwater riJ
in said Nez Perez county; the south land
whereof to be al point and place four rods w
ofthe section line running north and south 4
tween and dividing sections No. 81 and s.
township 81, II OF T ), W BIN, same being
Indian allotment No. 1910 on the nw4 OF d
nwA sec IS, township 81 of 5, W b m. II
northwest or north landing being situated on
No. 1. being the neH of the mex oil sec "a. ton
ship ~, n Of r g. west of the Boise MT idian, 81
latter landing being on unoccupied governme
land.
Dated July 10Th, 1898. WM 7 ScorT,
Applicant
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-19

ton TO relocate the lands upon
which they already maintain a
record Of a filing in the land office.
This last offer is the most stupid
of all work of the stupid agents of
the land board. 1t gave a tip to
the individual contestants and in
vites them to make applications to
file on the land in controversy.
The state of all others does not
establish or maintain a right that
will hold in the case of an adverse
decision in the pending contest
cases. The state could withdraw
from the contest and relocate, but
the state cannot plead in the same
court that it owns the land and
that it does not own the land in
question. However this conten-
ton may blind the public who will
doubtless ask some questions
about that $50, 900 which was APP
propria'ed for the purpose of per-
fecting title to these pine lands.
The money is gone and the land is
in an a fair way to become a part
of the Bitter Root government
timber reserve. In that case this
immediate vicinity will be robbed
of one Of our greatest resources for
many years to come. The stupid.
ity Of tie present state adrninistra-
ton surpasseth all understanding
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-19

A movement is on foot to en-
courage the building of a railroad
down Snake river from Hunting.
ton to connect with the 0. K. & n d.
system on the Columbia thus af-
fording a down grade to Portland
aud the Sound cities 1t is argued
that the wheat trade alone justifies
this railroad extension. Twice
over does the mining industry
Justify this road. D. H. Stearns
in an interview published in the
Oregonian, says the great Snake
river basin will find an outlet by
this route in the near future. The
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-19

Since the local democrats, at
their primaries, refused TO en-
dorse the governor and his gang,
the Tribune has been continually
crying or scolding. The publica-
ton, last week by the TELLER as
a matter of news, of the facts and
circumstances of ubordination
in the ranks, called forth from the
Tribune an outburst Of epithets
and a display of bad temper. The
editor of the Tribune is as iracible
as a peevish child and as tickle as
an old maid. He has kicked his
best friends and courted political
miscegenations in his changing
moods. The TELLER would not
pulposeiy aggravate his histeria.
He should retire with other demo
cratic politicians to the shade OF
that pine timber that cost the
Stuenenberg administration $50,
600. The shade is all that is lief,
to the state. 1t should have the
effect of sedative in such cases
Of political hys' elia.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-19
CONTEST NOTICE.

July goth, 1893.
sufficient contest affidavit having been file
in this Office by Sol 5. Caldwell Contestant
against Isaac Naming, entry No. 4o3S, made De-
grid, 1895, for Lots TO- 20, 81, 81, 49, 50, Il and
section 7. township IS, n, Range ,, w by Isaa
Naming contestee, in which it is alleged tina
said Isaac Naming has wholly abandoned sal
tract, and changed his residence therelrom f
more than six months since making said entr
and next prior to the date herein that said ira
is not settled upon and cultivated BY said part
as required by law. Said parties are hereby not
fed to appear respond and Offer evidence touc
ing said allegation at 10 O'Clock a. III. OH Sep 81
1898, before the Register and Receiver at u
United States Land Office i'll Lewiston Idaho
J b. WEST, Register.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-19

After the close of the war will
come a reorganization of the
United States army. 1t is the be-
lief in military circles that the
standard Of strength will be raised
to 100, 900 men. This force will
be extended to the acquisition of
Spanish territory under the terms
of peace This government has
acquired duties as we'll as honors
by virtue Of victory. The acquisi-
ton Of territory may not result in
the return of revenue TO the ma
tioual Golfers but the new posses
sions will result in trade expan.
Sion. The increased army and
improved navy with the war bonds
and the war tax are the price OF
the lesson of victory repeated in
the defense of human liberty, and
none will count the cost of liberty