Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-24

~,ec, and u Will be war 70 INC DEAN
M h harl for one who has not seen she
chilean peon 20 understand nun. re
n a. s,tiah a. knot, and he can en-
a.. III enrts OF hardshlps. He can
ei'a,, ~ .he ground for weeks at a
sir.sch ami can live for months on
rationa ~ a handful or 50 OF toasted
,ienr ~ his meals He comes Of the
hest eastman blood crossed with that
OF She bravesi Indians OF ms copl-
nent. and he will stick 60 his COM
mandcr until he falls ne ,.s 10
and viii as the most foolish things
risher than be thought coward. one
dav bat week two peons were drinking
toT,ther with a crowd OF thelr Fellows,
when one said % the other that no
Thought him a coward. you 40 was
the reply. well. ! viii show you that
I am MT. Would a coward " thlsl'
And thcreupon he pulled out MS kniie
and plunged u into MS boWes sehn
and again. II will show you thai !
alsi am no, coward" reloined me
other. and he began to stab himsalf
The ewu men would have soon commit.
ted suicide had not young priest
rushed In and torn the knives from
their hands ard called In thn police 10
take them TO she hospital Inc above
story was t1ii me by a man gh9 saw
the whole affair. and ne said shat no
one else but a priest could have stopped
che cutting.
THE NAVIEs OF THE TWO coUN-
TRIES.
II IL believed that II war occurs 4,
will be largely naval In order q pre-.
vent war u was suggested by some OF
she stafesmtn here al The flme ina.
the United states was buying up ves-
sells for our ngh; with spain, tina; b0th
chile and fhe Argentine give up their
ships 90 me United States for some
thing like their cost on She understand
Ing tia. the United statN would aid
them In case OF foreign complications
This was also proposed as % she chill
can navy alone, but I. never got fur
ihrr than the presidents council cham
Der. At this cline the United Seiecs
made proposition 10 chile 90 buy her
me arm1rcl cruiser oHlgrins, which
has ius, been finished IN England. but
on account u the danger from the Ar
Fsnilne. Chile din not dare % sell. AZ
prCsen. Chile has an excellent fleet. ana
one which h believed here 90 BE- Ear SUI
perlor TO ihsg ~ The Argentine. u con-
slsts Of Ave arn1r cAds. nve cruisers.
eleven gunb1ats and nineteen torpedo
boats II has four Destroyer, which
were launched IN 1880 and an % which
have n speed OF moro chan thirty knots.
Inc thllthna are HNrrlleW sailors, una
Thcy have IN addition 10 their navy a
commercial feet of over 100 vessels OF
more shan 100 tons each. They have
twenty-five steamers. and they have IN
English steamship line the paclnc
Steam Navigation company. which
they subsldlzo. n there y a war there
may be q naval engagement near the
strait u Magellan. but here she chile
ans Will have the advantage % thor
ough knowledge % the waters Their
navy has sailed abous there Cor years.
aud within the last two years careful
surveys have been made o. che seas
about TIE Horn by the chilean naval
officers Chile will there have the adj
vintage o. her town Of Punta ARENA
~ coallng and supply station. tho
lita eNprrased by some influential pes
pc here. however. Il that ID Will be
much better fur the chilean Meet 10 no
a. once 70 the river Platte and 10 cen-
ger IT. forces on the taking OF Huenoa
Ayres. This they believe would mean
the snd Of the war a. Buenos Ayr1s I.
a. much the Argentine as Paris 4,
France.
WHAT PERU. BOLIVIA AND BRA
I'll WOULD 10.