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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-31
BRITISH ARE BUYING FLOUR.
Government is Preparing for an Emergency in
jamaica.


Kingston, Jamaica, May Si.-l0;3O n.
m.--The British government has pur-
chased in the United States for deliv-
cry here 10000 barrels of -four for the
army and navy stores. The order was
placed with the Consolidated Milling
company OF Minneapolis. The trans
action is significant as showing British
preparation for an emergency.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-31

London. May 3l.-Frederick Hall, a
crate maker living at Burstem. the
principal town In the district called
1.-THE Potteries' In Staffordsnire. this
morning murdered his wife and five
mltted suicide by cutting his throat. II
is supposed that the man had suddeni,
became insane.
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favor Of Spain in the present war.
They have gone out OF their way to
assist her. At the instance of the
Spanish consul here, they sent back
Spanish deserters who had entered
Portuguese territory. and are now send
ing troops to the frontier to prevent the
entrance of any more. They exercise
great caution in transmitting kilograms
and letters for English and for the con-
tinent generally, assuming that there
must be something important in every
telegram sent to London.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-31

st. Thomas. ID. w. l.. May Sl.-The
German newspaper correspondent, Mr.
Emerssohn, who was arrested in Porto
Rico, and who subsequently escaped
and was declared II spy by the alcalde
of Sagua, who placed price on his
head. Is reported to have reached Santa
Cruz. the Danish island near here, In
safety
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waiting had brass band and well
coined the new Corners with national
airs. The work OF unloading the cargo
OF the Florida was promptly begun by
the 1872 men composing the expedition.
There was nothing in the nature OF in
terruption until the work was finished
on Friday.
While the cargo was being unloaded
the Osceola an auxiliary gunboat with
her guns ready for action, secuted
about in the vicinity, looking for
an enemy, but the Spaniards apparent
ly had no suspicion of what WIS taking
place. So easily was the dangerous
mission accomplished that while some
members OF the party were getting the
supplies ashore others were providing
thmselves with fruit, sugar and other
products of the landing place, large
rtock Of which were brought back to
Key West, for friends.
Nevertheless no precautionary mea-
sures were neglected, and the moment
the work was concluded the Florida
and the Osceola slipped away leaving
the insurgents to convey their rein b
forcements into the interior, which was
done without any casualty.
The returning members Of the Flor
ida party brought with them several
hundred private letters. which. II ia
understood. give n complete insight In
to the present conditions prevailing in
the blockaded island.
The local colony is elated over the
astonishing success of the expedition
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-31
CHASED A british BArrLEsnIp.
Supposed American Cruiser Found Out the
Mani Wars Nationality.

New York. May 3i.-A special to the
World from Halifax. N. s.. says:
The British battleship Renown has
Just arrived here from Bermuda with
Il story of chase at sea by n strange
steamer.
She left Bermuda Saturday at 1880
pm. and steamed fast. Yesterday at
1880 the smoke of a steamer was seen
several miles astern. The vessel gradu-
ally gained upon the battleship until the
stranger could he seen plainly outlined
on the horizon. She was apparently
pursuing the battleship.
The latter was blowing along ut =
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SPAIN TAl K.Nu PEACE.

Former Rabid Anti-American journal Sees
the Inevitable.
Madrid, May 31.-The Epoca says:
There are two parties In Spain. one
Is seeking for peace, the other for war.
and both are inspired by the same idea,
which IL the benefit of Spain.
THE former says the only palliative
OF our Ills Is peace. In prolonging the
war there Is no possibility OF II favor
able issue for us. Let us practically
give up ideals. Let us look at the reality
and not attempt impossibilities. for 1t
is impossible that we can break u
mathematical and logical law which
demonstrates, without romance, that
one Is less than ten"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-31
u. 5. DISTRICT COURTS.
Have No Jurisdiction In Equity Cases I'm
der civil Service.

washington. ID. c., May 81
The United States Supreme court
today decided that the United States
district court for West Virginia had
no Jurisdiction to sit as court Of
equity In the matter OF dismlssals I'M
der the civil service law and reversed
The decree that the court which sus-
tanned the collector OF internal revenue
from removing certain gaugers. store
keeners etc,
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New York. May 3l-The disabled
cruiser Columbia probably will not be
able to leave the dry dock at the navy
yard for ten days at least. More than
q hundred mechanics are at work on
the vessel, ripping off the injured armor
plates and sponsor. The steel protect
ed decks do not seem to be materially
injured.
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Dewey WIN Allow No TrIokery.

London, May Si.-The owners of the
british ship Genista, which has been
loading at Manila, have received a
cable dispatch dated May "a saying
Rear Admiral Dewey has ordered the
vessel To leave the port, from which
IL Is conjectured that the American
commander conjectured some action.
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st. Louis, May S1.-A special to the
Post Dispatch from Camp Mckinley.
Dos Mones, Iowa, says:
III. d. Russell. nephew Of Secretary
of War Aiger, has been married to Miss
Gretchen Kruger. Russell Is a private
In Company II, Fifty-lrst Iowa volun-
teers and will leave for the front in a
few dnYsn
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-31

London, May 3l.-Ther is much inter-
est In the silver market owing to the
run on the Bank of Spain. where
sem-panic is said to prevail. Large or
ders are expected, as the mint Is re-
ported to be turning out half u million
pesetas daily,
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of Hawaii should be made part of
this bill.
at is just ms much a war measure as
the subjugntion of Spanish feet in San
tinEo hnN." he said.
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Withdrew His naui,iIan Resolution.

washington. y. C., May 81
Senator Lodge has decided not to for
mnlly offer his Hawaiian annexation
proposition as an amendment to the
war revenue bill, but he thinks that the
final adjournment Of Congress can be
delayed in order to allow the Hawaiian
question 10 be disposed OF this season.
Senator Morgan said today that II
was his purpose to press the measure
providing n form OF government for ter
ritory acquired In the present war. as
an amendment to the war revenue bill
He also expressed the opinion that the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-31

Gibraltar. May S1.--Advices received
here from Cadiz say that all the guns
of both the batteries and the forts are
being replaced by heavier guns. 1t is
reported that the departure of Admir-
al Camara's fleet has been delayed by
defects In the torpedo boats.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-31
Three Vessels Attempt to Steal Out Of Santiago de Cuba, and
Save Themselves by Running Back.
Important Move of Scey Fleet Expected Soon-Peny Dis
patches Pass Between the Commodore and the Navy
Authorities at Washington, via Kingston, Jamaica

o n
to Careful essd
l.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-31

Falmouth. Eng, May 31.-The Brit
ish steamer Remembrance has JUST
sailed for Colon with Spanish govern
ment packages and n cargo of coal. I'M
derstood to be destined for the Span
ish feet.
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THE EVENING PAPER is THE
PAPER OF TODAY. THE NORM
ING PAPER is THE PAPER OF
YESTERDAY.
The herald., 1898-02-10
DE LOME'S BAD BREAK

The sensation of the day is the letter
written by De LONE, the Spanish minis
ter at Washington, to his friend Can
elejos, a Spanish editor at Madrid, who
visited Cuba last September as the per-
sonal representative of Premier Sagasta.
The letter severely criticises President
Mckinley in very offensive terms refer
ring to him as "a low politician, who de-
sires to stand we'll with the jingoes of
his party" and as catering to the
rebels"
The authenticity Of the letter was at
first denied but this mornings dispatches
affirm its genuineness. OF course Mr..
De LONE Is persona non grata at Wash
ington, and his return to Spain is a ques-
ton of but few days. His letter was
an international discourtesy and grave
breach of official decorum.
While the incident of the De LONE let
ter, coming as it does at time when the
relations between Spain and the United
States are very strained, adds to the
STdNlty VI IlC SlludtlOiii anu VIII uii-
doubtedly increase the unofficial war
like feeling, it Is by no means cause for
war. Much will depend upon the at
titude of the Spanish government. There
will undoubtedly be much bitter talk on
both sides. President Mckinley can
hardly feel that his pacific and too toll
Grant course has been appreciated by
the Spaniards.
Whatever is thought about the incident
in this country, it must be remembered
that the insult was the work of an in
dividual, the unofficial act of an official.
The Cuban junta will endeavor to make
the most of it, as it Is natural that they
should: and the Cubans will undoubtedly
reap some ultimate profit from the fool
ish utterance. But there is no cause for
War-yet,
The herald., 1898-02-10
ZOLA'S DILEMMA

| Nobody is ever greatly surprised at
anything coming from Paris, and yet
the strangest of things are all the time
happening there. The whole course and
present attitude of the government and
the people touching the Dreyfus affair
is an enigma quite beyond satisfactory
solution Such a condition could not
obtain in this, or perhaps in any other,
country.
Was 1t not remarkable beyond prece-
dent that former president of the re-
public, summoned as witness in the
Zola trial. should decline to take the
oath? Pardon me-" said M. Casimir-
Perier, 81 cannot swear to tell the
truth, because cannot do so. 1t is my
duty not to tell it."
This statement, as we'll 1t might,
caused a commotion. But what fol-
lowed? NJ Casimir-Perier proceeded
to take the oath, and his examination
began.
What was the significance of this char
acteristically French incident? Was the
declaration of the witness. prior to quail
flying, in the nature of a mental reser-
walton, and was his subsequent testi-
mony to be taken for only what it was
worth, coming from man of high char
acter, of noble lineage, of unblemished
repute and blameless private record. and
yet one who could not swear to tell the
truth, because he could not, because he
did not deem it his duty to tell it, but
rather the contrary?
Surely an ex-president should be privi
legged in such an emergency to aver, or
excused altogether, if his telling Of the
truth is calculated to disclose important
state secrets coming to his knowledge
while acting in the capacity of chief ex-
ecutive.
But in view of the incident and
others not less remarkable, that preceded
and followed it, the possibility of
NJ. Zola being able to vindicate himself
and secure the liberty of Dreyfus is not
reassuring.
The herald., 1898-02-10

the company that acquired the property
took it out of the hands of the city with.
out securing any appreciable compensa.
tion to the people.
Thus there are many of the prin-
ciples of socialism that would be OF
great benefit to the people; but they
must be honestly applied. Bad men will
make a failure of the best system OF
government. How, then, are we to
strike the keynote? Upon what basis
may all good citizens work together?
1t is clear that mutual ground must
be had. There are some reforms that
must be accomplished outside political
parties. Political parties are indis-
pensable; we would not do away with
them if we could. But there are some
things that cannot be done within their
lines. Socialism here offers common
ground for the people of all parties,
of all religious beliefs and Of all classes
to work on.
Public sentiment is not always aroused
to the necessities of the occasion. The
public conscience sometimes sleeps.
There is often need of a John the Baptist
to awaken the people, and of Moses
to lead them. If the advocates of So
cialism thus point the way they are
doing great public service. Instead of
leading toward anarchy, they are help
ing to bring about conditions that will
prevent anarchy.
The herald., 1898-02-10
WILL THEY wAITe

1t is estimated that within the next six
months three hundred thousand people
will attempt to break into the KIondike,
availing themselves of every open gate
way. Supplies for their maintenance
will go in with or follow them. 1t is
highly desirable, inasmuch as the United
States is to furnish the men, that our
people should enjoy the largest possible
share of the traffic Alaskaward, both
passenger and freight But, unfortu-
nately, we are not pepared to accommo-
date it, being trifle short on bottoms.
A resort to the foreign vessels in the
trade is, of course, not to be thought of.
Fortunately at this juncture, when a
satisfactory solution of the problem
seemed quite beyond reach. our es-
teemed twilight contemporary, the Ex-
press. comes up with the suggestion that
the Klondike pilgrims delay their jour-
ney until sufficient number of Ameri-
can vessels can be made in the idle
American shipyards to safely transport
them to the promised land. This is fea-
sible and timely. and we cheerfully ac-
cept it as a satisfactory settlement of
the whole difficulty, providing the stam-
pede is called off at once and some guar
antees are given that the bloody Brit
ishers will not in the meantime rush in
by way of Vancouver and gobble up all
the gold.
The herald., 1898-02-10
Upon the Slide

The butchers boy had made slide in the
middle of the road;
1t was the very longest slide that ever
mortal slode.
The bakers boy espied 1t, and observed,
"Now this is good;
I'll have q go at that there slide," and
subsequently slood
The village patriarch upon the slippery
surface trod;
Most inadvertently and unintentionally he
slod.
The Misses Smith, though middle-aged,
felt youthful tastes renewed,
Glanced round-saw no one coming-and
started off and slowed.
The curate, passing down the street, re-
membered that he had
Some skill in sliding as boy, and elegantly
slad.
The doctir followed boldly with the cry of
"Whos afraid?"
And suffered much from somersaults; in
agony he slade.
The constable remarked it. "Well," he
said, II never did!
shall be sldin' next myself" which hav-
ing said he slid.
At the END Of the slide they all came down
on a heap of frozen mud,
had ever Stud,
And did not love the boy who made in the
middle of the road
The slide that was the longest that ever
mortal slode. London Figaro.
The herald., 1898-02-10
TopAY,S SCHOOL ELECTION

The people of the Seventh ward Will
hold an election today to choose sue
cessor to ]. F. Adams in the board of
education. There is but one nominee
formally in the field, Mr.. A. M. Bragg,
the Democratic candidate. Mr.. Bragg
is an old-time resident of Los Angeles, a
man of intelligence and ability, and a
citizen who has the respect and con-
fidence of all who know him. He should
be given, and doubtless will receive,
practically the unanimous vote of the
ward.
1t is to be hoped that the voters of the
Seventh ward will display proper de-
gree of interest in this election. A very
large vote will be taken as an indication
that the people generally throughout
the city are deeply interested in the re-
form work that has been done in the
board of education, and that they are
determined to have, so far as they can
control matters, honest, efficient gov
ernment in the school system of the city.
To cast his ballot for school director to-
day is a duty that every voter in the
Seventh ward owes to himself and to the
community.
The herald., 1898-02-10
WHITTIER SOCIALISM LEADS

It is to be feared that the Express
has not kept pace with the development
of thought and the progress of the age.
The word socialism is a bugaboo in its
ears, term that evolves the dread
figure of anarchy in its brooding
mind, although the great majority of
intelligent and well-informed people
hold it to be something widely differ
ent And yet the Express is, unwit-
tingly, perhaps, itself an earnest and
sincere advocate Of one or more phases
of socialism.
Our contemporary, for instance, is in
favor of the municipal ownership of
the city water works, which is directly
in line with the principles of socialism;
yet it would not contend that the mu-
nicipal ownership of water works paves
the way to anarchy.
n-partisanship and good govern
other feature of the social economy that
is in accord with the principles of true
socialism. The efforts that have been
made to purge the board Of education
were community efforts. All classes of
good citizens, all shades of political
opinion, were represented in the organ
ization that undertook the herculean
labor. The Express here took part as
form, and never dreamed that anarchy
was near.
But socialistic theories and socialistic
practices are not in themselves a cure
all. Society itself must contribute, and
the individual, who makes up society,
must do his share. Socialism in the
hands of corrupt individuals or organ
izations may make for evil. Take, for
instance, that form of socialism known
as the municipal ownership of water
works. The city of Philadelphia owned
and operated its own water works for
many years at great loss and giving
poor service. The system was recently
leased to a private corporation for
long term of years. The deal by which
the transfer was made has been cor
rectly characterized as the greatest
steal ever perpetrated in the ring
ridden city of Philadelphia. 1t
involved millions. 1t is charged.
and the assertion has never been sue
cessfully controverted, that the official
municipal ring in Philadelphia delib-
erately mismanaged the water DEPART
ment, allowed the plant to run down
year after year, and then, by corrupt
bargain, profitable only to itself and
The herald., 1898-02-10
A PERNICIOUS PRACTICE

Everywhere is noticeable a growing
conviction of the fallacy of providing
bounties and subsidies for the encour-
agement of special industries, which, in
whatever shape it is presented, involves
the pernicious doctrine of the right OF
government to tax the many for the ben
eft of the few.
Germany, for example, in order to
stimulate sugar manufacture, gives a
bounty to the surplus exported, and the
United States. to protect the infant in
dustries" in this country. levies a dis
criminative duty upon sugar imported
from bounty-giving countries.
Additional restrictions of trade by one
country are met with retaliative meas
ures upon the part of another and thus
are commercial conditions constantly
in danger of arrangement by the pro-
mitigation of new orders and reguia-
The herald., 1898-02-10
NOTES OF THE DAY

A squad of cyclists is now attached to
every corps of cavalry in the German
army.
New Orleans newspapers are now per-
sistently and seriously styling their town
"the delightful city,
A famous English beauty has startled old
London this season by appearing in public
in coat of white sheepskin.
Meteors rush through space at the rate
of twenty-six miles a second. They are
not usually larger than a pebble, and on
striking the earth's atmosphere they Inn
mediately dissolve into gas.
George Sailing has loaned to the Brit
ish museum reliquary of gold cont aiming,
according to tradition, a thorn from tle>
crown of thorns. 1t has been placed h
the gold ornament room.
The Minnesota grand lodge OF Masons
has declared that all insurance companies
operating under Masonic titles in the state
of Minnesota are un-Masonic and that Ma
sons must not insure in them.
Father, mother and children in one fam
lily of dozen at Lincoln Center Kan. are
all in school, the parents and two elder
children being in the same class. The
father is an ambitious minister, As wears
old. :,
An order has been given that the cur
few law shall be read at least twice n
week In every public school in Denver, COL,
and that its provisions are strictly en-
forced hereafter, that boys and girls may
be kept Off the streets in the evening"
Only three of the seventeen mayors re-
Gently elected in Massachusetts are law
yers. Two are physicians and one civil
engineer. Among the others are market
man. pork dealer, a druggist, a fis1,
dealer and a shoemaker. Most Of them
were born outside of the state.
In the new Polychrome Bible the name of
the Deity is given as Jhvh, this vowelless
form being as near the original Hebrew
as the English alphabet can express It.
The British war office is inquiring into
the fact that the uniform of the Salvation
Army is very similar to that OF the Cold
stream and Grenadier guards.
Imprisonment for debt-against which
Whittier wrote one OF his most earnest
lyrics-seems to have been revived in New
York city by agents who sell on the "in-
stallment plan" and induce the ignorant
to bind themselves in such a way as to be
exposed 10 arrest and Imprisonment. An
effort is to be made in the New York state
legislature to abolish this new form of an
old evil.
The herald., 1898-02-10
Hard Blow to Augusta

The only thing that makes an Atlant,
man mad is the abbreviated Ga" after
the name of the Gate City. We have heard
of London assurance but it isn't marker
to the Atlanta brand. New York can get
up pretty good "biggest-on- earth" howl
but she can't approach the capital oil
Georgia, sub! BARRIERS will talk. President
Jim jackson Of the Augusta Southern rail.
way was entertained by one yesterday ir
the course of a shave. and he must hare
said word or two himself. for something
called forth the remark: "I can tell that
you're from the south. sir. You have the
accent of southern gentleman" Complai.
sanity President Jim replied: You're
right; I'm from Georgia." The artist oi
the razor smiled. II felt sure / WASN'T
wrong. sir" he said. i've heard of Geor.
gia before. It's somewhere in Atlanta
Amt it?'
1t was a hard blow to a man from Au-
gusta.-New York Press.
The herald., 1898-02-10
Unprevaricated Proverbs

About one-half OF what even the wisesi
man knows his Wife told him.
Betting $40 never yet proved how far a
frog could jump. but 1t has proved who
is fool.
The man who lives within his income is
generally provided by fate with female
relative who spends the margin.
The better q man understands himself
the more curiosity he will feel regarding
his outwardly respectable ancestors.
The bride who thinks more of her we'd
ding gown than of her husbands heart is
bound % be happy wife-for gowns are
easy TO keep or to renew.
Love Is like a spoiled child-apt to be
found in the very place where it should
not be-
Hope costs as lite as despair and pays
much larger interest,-Boston Home Jour-
nal.