The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27

L hear there's an American arrested
here" he said, walking up very close
to the consular agent, and taking no
pains to conceal his clenched fist,
gnarled like hickory knot. well, you
know I'm an American, and l just
want to see fair play. Are we going to
see it, captain?" turning to his COM
panion.
The latter stood about six feet three
inches in height and was a superb ami
NAL. A loose flannel shirt open at the
breast disclosed, a pair of pictorGr
muscles that seemed ready to burst,
and his shoulders shut off a consider
able slice of landscape. A tawny mus
tache dropped at either corner of his
mouth, fair curly hair covered his head.
and pair of very blue eyes showed al
ternate mirth and sternness. He was
one whom a man would envy, an enemy
fear and a woman love.
To the others questions he simply
folded his arms, drew himself up an
inch or so, and looking around with a
light, sarcastic smile. said with an un-
mistakable English drawl: Il fancy
that will not be a difficult job
4 don't know enough about law
said the American, addressing me, Ito
understand your case, but Captain
Foraker will just step across the way
and get Senior FigUeira to join this
indaaba.'
The senior was the only lawyer in
Beira, and after short drill in calls
themes ne convinced the commissaire,
the police and the audience that had
/ been Illegally arrested, declared it an
! outrage, and insisted on bringing a suit
I fer damages against some one.
/ HOSPITALITY IN BEIRA.
/ My newly-made friends led the way
! hack IN the. Reach bo+aI rt-l,o,.a +l,o
American introduced himself as Billy
/ Reeder, the manager, formerly of
! Butte, Mont; state champion throWer
OF the hammer and middleWeight boxer
This is Captain Foraker" he said,
/ introducing the other giant, late OF
I her majesty's heavy dragons, soldier
/ and sailor, niger chief, lumber expert,
and the best tighter in Beira. Ceptle-
( men. steO to the bar and have a SEN
sation." Half a dozen men in Khaki
! suits who were draoed over Madeira
chairs on the verandah woke up hastily
at this and answered the invitation,
all drinking to my release.
You must not mind being arrested, >"
said the superintendent of the Beira
railway, who was Swallowed at all
times by a huge darkey called Promised
/ Land, utilized for tagging trains when
! by any mischarge one happened to keep
on the track long enough to reach
Beira.
Nearly everyone gets arrested here
sooner or later. You see, it's this way.
/ Portugal is practically mortgaged to
England, and we're going to have this
/ country some time. We must get Della
! goa bay and Beira. We need then in
/ our business. Well the colonial office
wants to soft soap the Portuguese and
make the deal in a gentle way, so it
does not come down on them when an
Itch,
! consequence that a white man cannot
look sidewise at one of these puppet po-
licemen without being stuck like a pig
The British consul says his hands are
tied, and it's a shame how we're treat
ed
BEIRA A NECESSARY DOORWAY
This is the secret of the friction twixt
populace and Soldiery in Beira. The
town itself is not worth two cannon
/ balls to the English, but it is the key
to south central Africa, and England
needs it. If you glance at the map OF
South Africa, you will see that with the
exception OF Cape Colony, Natal and
the little shore OF Zululand, Great Brit
ain owns absolutely no seacoast. Ger
many and Portugal are supreme, both
on the east and west. The Transvaal
is blocked off high and dry, and will
! remain so, for Portugal dare not sell
her Delagoa Bay.
The situation of Bera makes it valu-
able. II lies $500 miles north of Cape
Town, GOO miles south of Zanzibar, and
a fast steamer makes the run across TO
Madagascar in twenty-four hours Elk
cepting Delagoa Bay, it furnishes the
only good harbor in a stretch OF 1000
miles. One is the natural outlet to the
Trapsvaal; The other FOR Rhodesia.
They are both becoming busy ports.
South African passenger traffic, which
formerly was carried almost entirely
by the English lines from Southampton
to Cape Town and Durham, by way OF
Madeira and st. Helena has been
switched off to some extent now, and
the favorite passage is by way Of the
German East African line This takes
one through the Mediterranean aea, the
Suez canal, and down the east coast,
touching at Zanzibar, Oar I-SalaaIn,
Chinde, Beira, Inhambane, Delagoa
Bay and Durham. a French line goes
over nearly the same route, taking in
Madagascar and Mauritius.
In addition TO these shi0s. the long