Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-06-23


Rumora como thick and fast Some
times they evolve from their condition
" ilaucfaction and nnaily rolidlfy. but
oftoner they volntillEc ana pass Into
the realms of things that are not and
never were. This war has been a
prolific rumnr.hrcrdor, and the proper
ton ~ the product that has crystallzcd
into fact ~ about the same aH that *
lsting between prospects and mines!
one mining man N prominence fxcs
this at 10000 10 one. but this u a gross
and even rroteaduc cxaFEcrailon
About 100 90 one would come much
nearer the exact condition In either
ease. Anyway. the news that dies be-
for II II born represents ON over
wholmlng propondcrance OF tho total
quantity that comes along.
The now celebrated fleet ~ Admiral
Camavn has been the tporhaps) inno-
cont cause of more than ~ share ~
slnrnn-hucd reports coming frum Doe
You'd the shores 81 the United states. II
has been In more different places at
tho Same time ana has oftcncr started
out somewhere and never started nt nll
than an other fleets combined. and thli
f. saying a grrat deal. II s.. accord
Ing IN all accounts little moro power
fui than that ~ Corveru IL ur that ~
Montelo was. n contains the terror
inspiring pclnyo tho only really nrHi.
class hntticHhlp in the entire spanish
navy. a few cruisers entitled probably
10 rank a. nrHt-clara and three or four
torpedo boats Possibly thIa entire 1r-
ray might stand against tho oregon
and the Indiana. and -rphahly DO mlFht
not. for the pelayo h. not equal 90
either, hut Htlu on the whole. DO Dr. nn
aggregation 90 bo watched ana mot un-
dorcatimatcd That ~ one renson why
Il II watched. ana the only reason, per-
hans. why every time one Of tho craft
In the fleet changes ltH mnurInw the
cntcrprlslng ncwH manufacturer
hns,cna 10 let an anxious world
know that "tho Cndla ncct has sailed,
destination unknown" n seems that u
II now nnont-of course u IL always
nfioat In one aonso-hut 70 ~ now in
that position In lls more expansive
sense. that II. u r. tsnii % bc) not at
Chdlz but somewhere else aud "
course upon the main
There would be- nothing dIHquIc,ng
In this. even n Il should not be thr
case that the fleet returns within day
or 10, but Tor another rumor that a.
GRAND II Mother 10 the Philippines
nor cuba. but 20 tho waters which lave
the western coast ~ tho United states
In this conjunction c0mes another
rurnor that Spain has purchased al
enormous expense largo quantity uI
coal nom chile. n thin latter
should prove 10 bc true, 70 would
be "a foundation Or H1m
little apprehension as Fiv'ng color O.
tho other. but there arc rela0n1 IN
believing II untrue. IN the ilrat pl1c.
the United states has made coal ID
contraband NJ war, and while Sp1lr
has not formally done Ho, % filll rr
mains that chile Is a friendly power
and under strict construction M nou
trallty laws would scarcely Doe iustno,
"a letting a nation with which we are
nt war have any kinds of materials fu
hostile purposes against u.s. I'm th
next place. the last whipping Spain gD
on the water was hy Chile and only
comparatively short time ago-towlr,
the close % our olyn war-ond th
memories of that episode cannot have
entirely faded; go that, while Chua al
commercial power uul1ubtedl
wants 90 scu everything she has fo
s.lo and is no, presumed 90 prefer cus
toners. II sim remains that 40 wuul,
scarcely ohllre her r0cont unmrouls
ot the price of ,ho uufHunl'u.n 0
not resentment % % nation with whicl
she has never been at war
The Pacific coast nf the UnteD
States IL az this time an but dlsman
tied So fnr as hghtng craft are con
cerncd. WHOM It had the oregon an.
the Monterey there was mo- DANCE
now II has neither Indeed, with th
Monterey alone and the ouSuIar
boats stun remaining II could have go
along very well, Now. tho latter am
the fortiheailons are all We have 10 r.