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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
BY ALLEN sANGREE.

Take away all the good qualities of
the Spaniard, which can be very read
lily DONE" naiveiy states an old geog-
raphy, and you have the Portuguese"
This has come to be an adage among
the English who live in Portuguese
countries, and the rule is emphasized
by at least one striking exception.
This is in the person OF Old Nan Ma
deiTa, as he is popularity known, who
lives in the town of Mendalo, on the
island Of st. Vincent, Cape Verde
group, and is the patriarch of that far
away habitation, both in wisdom and
worldly goods.
Sitting in the shady quadrangle of his
storehouses, with a monkey on his
knee, this cdd man watches year in and
year out the great merchant ships creep
through the narrow passage between
Bird rock and the huge precipice OPP
posite. which is capped by a little Por-
tuguese fort. Though unable to distin-
guish his own name in writing, Men
dalo Gomez Madeira can figure almost
in the CLINT of an eye how much cargo
any OF those ships can carry, and what
is more TO the point, about how much
water and provender may be required.
Before the ship has slipped her cable
the Old Mans nephew has boarded her
and taken the order, for Madeira is a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
LEAVE CAMP MEADE.
Two Engineer Companies Depart To-
day, Followed By Signal Corps.

Camp Meade, Middletown. Pa, Oct. 3d.
The first of the troops to leave here for
the new camp of the Second corps, at Au-
gusta, Ga. will be the two engineer COM
panies. They will start tomorrow morn
ing. and will be followed later in the day
by the signal corps and a wagon train. \
detachment of carpenters and mechanics
from each of the three divisions will leave
Tuesday for Sumnerville, Greenville and
Columbia. TO prepare the division camps.
The Pennsylvania regiments will not start
south until after the election. Commits
sioners will be appointed tomorrow by
Governor Hastings to take their votes
Major General Graham is anxious 10 get
his corps away from here as early as
possible and expects TO have all the
troops in the south by the middle of No
vember He will send hospital car with
every train of soldiers. Pavilion hospitals
are being built in the proposed camps.
and detachments from the hospital corps
will leave Tuesday 10 get them in shape. Is
The Red Cross hospital here will be
abandoned tomorrow and the most eff
cient nurses win be employed by the gov
erEment to take charge of the wards in
the hospitals at the new camps. The sick
in the hospitals here viii be shipped to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
BIG MEETING AT SAN JUAN.
Needs of Island Considered For Use
of Delegates to Washington.

San Juan de Puerto Rico, Oct. 3d.
The principal theatre of the city was
taxed to its utmost capacity this after
noon on the occasion of public meet
ing of delegates from the chief towns
of the island to consider and draft re-
Communications regarding the necessi-
ties of the island, for the use of the
special commissioners who Will be
selected later to represent Puerto Rico
at Washington, when the time comes
for settling the administrative sys-
tenn The assembly was fairly repre-
sentative and although the proceedings
gave undue prominence to unimport-
ant details there was abundant evil
dence of intelligent reflection on the
part of the delegates and of a determi-
nation not to tolerate partisan politics
at this crisis in the islands affairs.
Carefully prepared reports were sub
mitted by the political, social and
economical committees. The meeting
received with enthusiasm the resolu-
tons demanding territorial rights, the
cessation of the present military rule
and the installation of regular civil
government. Other resolutions were
adopted asking an eight-hour day for
the laboring man and severely de-
nouncing the present corrupt system OF
registering deeds of land. 1t was
obvious that the delegates proceeded
upon the assumption that the United
States would grant Puerto Rico terri
fOrial rights
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

Verde Islands was a great trickster
then, and is still, in a modified way.
Il made up my mind to set even with
this fiashy young lieutenant" tells the
old man, for he was always complain
ing. So on a Sunday 1 forgot to cook
dessert for the officers mess. Another
day l would put no yeast in the bread
and again surprise them by putting
curry in rice pudding.
when Kelly found out that he was
the butt of the whole ship he ordered
me to apologize. I refused and was put
in the sweatbox On the old frigate
this was an upright coffin before the
orlop deck amidships. 1 was kept in
there "a hours and taken out almost
dead. 1 could not stand up until the
vessel reached port at New York. But
] never apolOgiZed. and when this same
Kelly tried to smooth things over by
handing me $3.50 locked pay, 1 threw
it in his face and left the navy yard"
A STURDY AMERICAN.
Notwithstanding this unpleasant ex-
perience Madeira left America with
fondest regards for it, and the country
has no more sturdy supporter abroad
than this Portuguese Croesus. All the
time that the Spanish fleet lay in the
harbor this spring Cervera had to face
an American flag Haunting from the
old mans window. Another reminder
of America in that island is q remark
able profile of George Washington,
made by the undulations of the noun
tain which encloses the bay.
He has little sympathy for his own
countrymen, whose incidence and dis
honesty he openly condemns. There's
only one thing I'd rather be than Por-
tuguese customs officer he told Serpa
Pinta, the governor of the Cape Verde
islands, and that is a professional
thief
He played a rather amusing trick on
this governor few months ago, when
the latter was hunting on st. Vincent.
In the course of the day Serpa Pinta
accidentally shot his favorite bullock.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
SENSATION AT OMAHA.
Department Manager of Exposition
Charged With Forgery.

Chicago, Oct. 3O.-An Omaha (Neb.)
special to the Times-Herald says: A
sensation has developed in the depart
ment of exhibits at the trans Missis-
sippi exposition growing out of the
arrest of II. B. Hardt, assistant man
ager of that department, on two war
rants charging him with forgery. He
will be arraigned tomorrow. Hardt-
denies the charges and in turn de-
clares he will make some counter
charges that will cause more of a sem
sation than his arrest.
The warrants for Hardt's arrest
were sworn to by II. II. Cochron,
representing Schofield, Schumer &,
Teagle and H. a. Searle of the Mon
arch Manufacturing company. Both
compliments allege that Hardt ex-
changed the awards of the judges and
that the medals and certificates of
merit which should have gone to the
firms mentioned went to some other
firms
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
INFORMAL CABINET SESSION.
Peace Negotiations May Be Conclud-
ed Sooner Than Expected.

Washington, Oct. SO.-An informal ses-
sion of the cabinet was held at the White
House today. The president embraced the
opportunity presented by the presence of
several members of the cabinet to discuss
with them their forthcoming annual re-
ports.
The members of the cabinet present
We're Secretaries Alser. Long, Bliss and
Wilson and Postmaster General Smith;
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Allen;
Adjutant General Corbin and Surgeon
General Sternberg were with the president
during part of the evening.
The peace negotiations at Paris were
referred to, but were not seriously con-
sidered. it is understood. This statement
is borne out by the fact that Secretary of
State Hay was not a party TO the confer
ence. 1t is authoritatively stated that no
new DEVELOPMENTS in the Paris situation
have arisen during the past So hours. The
president is said to believe that the nego-
tiations will be brought TO a satisfactory
conclusion sooner, perhaps than is gen.
orally expected.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
himself up. and speaking calmly.

himself up. and speaking calmly.
shall report you 10 God"
Far and wide through the islands of
the eastern Atlantic this remarkable
character is known, and every seafar-
ing man who goes ashore at Mendalo
makes ii a point to shake hands with
Old Man Madeira, who rose from the
position of galley boy on a Yankee
clipper to the ranks of the multi-mn-
lionaires. And any American who Wis
its there may be sure of warm well
come He viii extend him the hospi-
tally of his house and table. He will
open his oldest bottle of wine. and the
stranger will be lulled to sleep in the
strains of many soft-toned mandolins,
to the music of which dark-eyed senior
itas dance the Contra" the alluring
fascination of which surely has no
equal in dance movements.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
EXCITEMENT AT PONCE.
Dynamite Found In Handbags of
Arrivals From Spanish Main.

Ponce, Puerto Rico, Oct. 3o.-A sensa-
ton was caused here yesterday on the
arrival of the Red D line steamer Phil
adelphia from the Spanish main, by the
discovery in the handbags of two pas
sengers of a number of explosive cart
ridges containing dynamite. The dis
covery was made by the customs Off
Gals and the passengers We're arrested
on the superstition that they are an
archists. The police, who fear that 9TH
ers belonging to the gang have escaped,
are making a strict search.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
This suicide Had But a Penny.

Detroit. Mich, Oct. SO--A man VINO
registered at the Michigan EXCHANGE
hotel as ]. H GranfIl, killed himself
this afternoon just as the police ofiieers
were trying to prevent the act Inc
stranger had not quilted his room All
day, and through the transom was
seen to be pacing about fiourishing re-
volver. The officers burst in the door,
but Granfill shot himself just as a de-
tective grasped his arm. The suicide
had previously taken morphine from q
bottle labeled by a London (Ont-) drug
gist. Only one cent was found on his
person.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

Philadelphia every day under the direc-
ton of the national relief commission.
which has arranged with the city hospi-
ernor Hastings has appointed Alfred Gil
rard, who served with the rough riders in
Cuba. first lieutenant of one of the
Pennsylvania regiments. Girard is a son
of Colonel Girard, chief surgeon of the
Second corpS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
Tie U. S. Govt Reports
show Royal Baking Powder
crosrio~ I'm III ofEarc
Ipsr7oT 10 ~ OILERS.
Gratitu1e.- az Lsast.

indianapolis Journal: DO you think
she really loved him.
..She ought to be grateful to him, at
least. Since she won her breach of
promise suit she has been the most
popular young woman in town."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

The transport Zealandia, with the First
and Second battaliOns of the First Ten
nessee regiment. comprising $50 men, sail
ed yesterday for Manila
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
OLD MAN MADEIRA
Old Character Known to Seamen
the World Over.
IS AS RICH AS CROESUS
MULTI-MILLIoNAIRE WHO CAN
NOT WRITE HIS NAME.

Was Given a Tip By Commander
Ssmmes of the Alabama and Now
Owns the Entire Water Supply of
St. Vincent Island, and Sells It
For Cash.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
WOODS TASK IN CUBA
Insurgents Quick to Catch On to
Republican Methods.
THEY ALL WANT OFFICE
REFUSE TO DISARM AND De
CLINE TO WORK.

Rios and Rabi Factions In Mama
milo Cannot Harmonic and Gen
eral Wood Consequently Hamper
ed-Puerto Ricans Hold Immense
Public Meeting.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
GENERAL LEES TROOPS.
Sailing For Cuba Dependent Upon
Spanish Evacuation

Washington, Oct SO.-No definite de-
termination has been reached as to the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

concluded that the latter was making
a fool of him So one day he went up
on the hills where the engineer was as
sassihating time and ordered him TO
quit the job
;'Oh, but you're not me master" con-
tended the Britisher. ''Tl stay here,
doncher know, until me company or
ders me home
"Oh, but you won't" insisted the
Portuguese, as he made a rush at the
Englishman. With the aid of 20 cool
les he tied the engineer to an OK cart
and sent him ripping down over the
hills into town and the next steamer
carried him back to England
WATER FOR CASH.
Madeira then engineered the job him
self and finished it in two months The
water, pure as crystal, comes down
through a three-inch pipe and empties
into a reservoir ten feet long and five
feet broad. This is the toYn supply.
One pays a cent for as much as he
can carry away, and it is an interest
ing sight TO watch the St Vincent
women, dressed in garish colors, pa
rade to the tank with a large tub. ill
it at the spigot and, with the aid of a
neighbor, lift it to the head and march
away.
Madeira always has a number Of
iron tanks nlled so that tney can De
toWed out to a steamer and the water
pumped in through canvas hose Less
than so tons he sells at $1.50 per ton.
Above that, up to 100, he makes re-
duction of 25 cents. Any amount over
100 tons he sells at the rate of 81 Some
vessels take on 800 tons of water, and
the shippers always pay in good Eng
lish gold. Mr.. Madeira has made a
large fortune out of this enterprise
alone.
MADEIRA AS A NAVY.
This man has all the characteristics
of a Portuguese and the shrewdness of
Yankee. He was born Jan. 16, 1885,
on the island of Madeira, and at the
age of started out to make his for
tune When the United States frigate
Susquehanna stopped at Madeira on
her way to Japan, the lad ran away
from home and shipped as galley boy.
He served on the cambridge, Congress
and Mississippi finally becoming chief
steward on the latter vessel, and in this
capacity received an honorable dis
charge from the navy.
His last voyage was made memoir
able by a contest with one Lieutenant
Kelly on the Mississippi. who under
took to criticise Madeira's cooking, as
the vessel was returning from the ORR
ent. The future nabob of the Cape de
, 1898-05-18

CANEGATA as members Of the
Board of Health for Christiansted
for a period of respectively 4 and z
years and MesSrs. W. B. WOODS
and w. II. BROWN as members Of
the Board Of Health for Frederlk-
sted for respectively 4 and 2 years,
and that Government has appoint
ed Messrs. G. HEYN and A. X.
STAKEMANN Members Of the first
mentioned Board for respectively 4
and 2 years and Messrs S. W.
STEPHENS and E. FORD mem
bers Of the last named Board for
respectively 4 and 2 years.
Government Secretary's Office, St. Croix,
the l7rh May 1898.
LTMPRICHT.
, 1898-05-18

III. NHVIA OIAIION.
New York, May 18th London news re-
ports that at a private dinner given by the
Bankers Association, but at which no lepor-
ters were present, Lord Salisbury spoke very
pessimistically about matters not publicly
discussed. particularly emphasizing tile ne.
cessity that responsible authorities should be
prepared to discharge Important duties which
events might impose upon them. This is
being unders ood rs referring to the Anglo.
French African dispute.
Sir Charles Dixie says that though a con.
ference on the matter might disagree he con.
siders war to he unnecessary.
Other London news reports that the Rus.
sian Government has bought Mr.. j. Gnbbin's
celebrated race horse "Galtee More for the
, 1898-05-18

Cabanas. According to a gazetteer at hand
Cabanas, where a telegram published yester-
day states an American military force to
have been landed, is "a port or harbour 38
miles S.W. uf Havana. 1t is a fine deep
bay, having its entrance between two extern
sive reefs. Within there is room for several
hundred sail of ships. 1t is protected 10y a
battery of five guns"
Bahia Honda is IL small port 60 miles
S. w. of Havana.
, 1898-05-18
Translation.
Publication.

RT is hereby made known, that
. cases Of small pox having ap-
peared in Valencia, a quarantine Of
Is days has been established against
arrivals from said place.
Government 8ecretuy's Office, St. Crolx,
the 10th May 1898.
, 1898-05-18
ion.
Publication.

Sol is hereby made known, that
- in meeting held on the 10th inst.
the Colonial Council has elected
Messvs. w A. CREAGH and J. @.
, 1898-05-18
LIMPRICHT.
Acknowledgements ,

@M EFT bekendtgores herved, at
80 Kolonialraadet i sit den lode
dis. afholdte Mode har valgt D'Herrer
Bankbestyrer w. A. CREAGH og
K0bmand J. c. CANEGATA til
Medlemmer af Christiansteds Sund-
hedskommission for ct Tidslum af
henholdsvis 4 og 2 Aar og D'1Ierrer
KGbmand w. B. WOODS og K0b-
mand w. Ii. BROWN til Medlem-
mer at Frederiksteds SundheGskom-
mission for hsnholdsvis 4 Og 2 Aar,
SAINT at Gouvernementet har I'D
nmvnt D'Herrer offentlig L@ge G.
HEYN og Underretspr"kurator A.
E. STAKEMANN til Medlemmer
af f0rstn@vntc Kommission for hem
holdsvis 4 og 2 Aar og D'Helrer
cand. pharm. S. W. STEPHENS og
Forretning sf6rer +. FORD til Med
lemmer af sidstn@vnte KOmmission
for henholdsyis 4 og 2 Aar.
Gouvernemenis Sekretarialet, St. Croix, den
Tide Mi 1898.
LIMPRICHT.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-12-29

President Mckinley said that he sees
the long-deferred contamination of
his hearts desire-"one country for
ever"
Edward Johnson, of GAINESVILLE. O..
is dead. He patented process for
pearling the barley, which enabled him
to control the market in the United
States, and he became known as the
barley king.
CT. w. j. Bryan has accepted an
invitation to speak at a banquet to be
given in Washington by the Virginia
democratic association on Washing
tons birthday, Feb. %. Altgeld will
| be there.
A successful test of wireless teleg-
raphy has been made at San Fran
cisco, where Prof. Albert Van der
Nailen has invented an apparatus by
which messages can be sent through
solid brick walls without the use of
wires
Colonel Isaac Clement, formerly
warden OF the southern Illinois peni-
Tertiary, and recently governor of the
Soldiers Orphan Home in Normal, has
been appointed governor of the Dan
Vile Soldiers Home for Disabled Vet
Grams.
An Official estimate made pubic
contemplates the expenditure of $40,-
100000 of extensive public improve
ments for greater New York during
the next year, including big amounts
for schools, municipal edifices, bridges
and parks.
Croker says the $50,000,00O tunnel
for rapid transit the full length OF
Manhattan island will be built by
private capital with every encourage
Tammany hall, but not built by the
city itself.
Rev. p. T.. ]ernegan, the man who
pretended to extract gold from sea
water and fled to Europe, leaving his
company in the lurch, has sent $780,
600 to the company's directors as Il
peace offering preliminary to his re-
turn to America.
Witten Mcdonald, manager of the
Old Fruit Farm In Howell county, Mo,
and formerly banker in Kansas City
and former owner Of the Kansas City
Times, has filed a petition of bank.
ruptcy. He alleges that most of his
assets are worthless, and places his
liabilities ut $l6S,158.
Preliminary plans have been laid at
Philadelphia for the formation of
powerful combine to control the street
lighting business, now in the hands
Of private companies, all over tnat
part of the United States east of the
Mississippi river. George w. Elikns is
to be president Of the company, which
will have capital of $12,000,000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-12-29

bled with politics as Parnellite sym
pathiZer in Dublin, and In word he
has seen life in many lands and under
such varied viciSsitudes as to make
him general favorite and an all
round interesting type Of American
youth, illustrating Pope's line: Worth
makes the man and want Of 1t the fell
low"
Mr.. Chanler is the grandson of both
the late William B, Aston and of the
famous Sam Ward. His father served
as a member of three congresses from
New York city and left the son enough
money to indulge in any reasonable
fancy But all the young mans invest
ments were as prudent as his ambi-
tions seems TO be laudable and patri-
otto. He is large souled, virile, clean
cut and fullIblooded American gentle
man who Is blazing the way for type
of serious young men who are the hope
of the future, which this country Is
rapidly developing and which she sad
ly needs particularly In the large CEN
tiers of the east, and of whom William
c. Whitney is probably the best exam
pie in the matured life of today. Young
Chanler is democrat and 1t cost him
$4,000 to beat Lemuel Quigg, Platt's
lieutenant, in metropolitan district,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-12-29
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN AS MON
EY-MAKERS.

A London letter to the New York
world says: Fifteen million dollars
have been paid by playgoers to see the
Gilbert and Sullivan operas since they
first appeared twenty-one years ago. So
said Mrs. D'Oyley Carte, who since her
husbands illness, has taken over the
complete management of his enter
prises. The coming OF age Of the Gill
bert-Sullivan operas was celebrated at
the Savoy theater recently before a
brilliant audience, but their work has
now lost its vogue, and Gilbert is said
to be so embittered that he is reluctant
to take up his pen again. He is en-
tirely unsatisfied with the large share
OF the fifteen millions that has gone
into his pocket Successful comic OPP
era writing Is scarcely more paying
than successful novel writing. Mrs.
Humphrey Ward has received $4,000
from Smith, Elder 4 Co. for her last
book, Helbeck OF Bannlsdale, and is
now under contract with the same firm
to write another story for $4,000.