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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-29
THE FIGHT IN WYOMING.

The senatorial fight in Wyoming
promises to become as warm as it will
be possible to make the contest in Utah.
Senator Clark will want to succeed
himself, of course, and he will be in
the race against the field. From pres
ent indications he will lead at the start
with nineteen votes.
Ex-senator Carey will begin with the
Laramie county delegation, nine in
number, in all probability. His candi
dacy is favored by the national organ
ization, it is said, on account of the
courage and persistency with which he
advocated gold recommendation in 1894.
when most of his competitors, who be-
lieVed in it as firmly as he did and as
all Republicans do, were swimming
with the tide of popular sentiment.
Governor Richards, he of the frozen
face and the glad hand, is in the hands
of his friends. If they succeed in get
ting him thawed out in time to be
measured for toga, a strong effort
will be made to induce him to wear it.
Then there is Banker Davis of Rawlins,
whose financial views coincide perfect
ly with those of Wall street. He with
drew in favor of Clark four years ago,
and has no inclination to repeat the
indiscretion.
Colonel Jay L. Torrey, the Roosevelt
of Wyoming. is going to give the rough
riders and weary walkers of his state
a chance to show their patriotism and
appreciation of a hero who braved the
indescribable dangers of an Alger pest
camp, by electing him to the senate.
The colonel has national reputation
already as a lawmaker, having served
with distinction as a lobbyist several
years ago while championing a bank
ruptcy measure, the foundation of the
law enacted.
Among the other aspirants are two
or three horses of smaller stature and
darker hue. Ex-State Treasurer Otto
Gramm of Laramie, Secretary of State
Burdick and Hon. NJ. c. Brown answer
this description. There is quite an as
sortment to select from, but the odds
are on Clark.
Senator Warren, who controls the
machine. has reasons for wanting the
senator chosen this winter to hail from
the western part of the state. And a
great many people who would prefer
Carey to Clark are anxious to have
Carey wait until the expiration of War
ren's term in the interest of poetic ret
ribution.
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Iowa Will Send Him to Annapolis.

(NeW ork JOurnal.)
Osborne w. Deignan of Stewart, Ia,
was one of those who helped Hobson
to sink the Merrimac in the entrance
to Santiago harbor. Iowa is going to
send Deignan to Annapolis and make
an admiral of him. He has been dined,
Wined, fattered and kissed ever since
that little affair at Santiago and yet
he is as simple and unassuming as
when he was a plain sailor on the flag
ship New York. He reported for duty
on Saturday night to Captain Giles
Eaton of the auxiliary cruiser Resolute,
which is now lying at the Brooklyn
navy yard. AS an additional recogni-
ton of his gallant conduct on the Mer-
rimac he received an extra leave of
thirty days, beginning last Wednesday.
Saturday he arrived in New York to
visit friends.
rs it really true" he was asked,
that you were kissed by 200 girls with
out any let-up when you reached your
home in Stewart, LAP
YES" said he. 81 guess there were
200 of them or more. 1t was trife
embarrassing at first, but. after the
first half dozen kisses, began to take
an interest in my work, and after that
I'd have kissed all the pretty girls in
Iowa, if necessary"
Did you know most of the girls?'
We'll, yes; and you see that made it
easier. 1 had played copenhagen and
pillow and keys with a good many of
them when I was a boy, and it was like
renewing old acquaintance to kiss them
again.
Deignan was promoted to be chief
boatswain's mate in recognition of his
gallantry in the Merrimac affair, but,
of course, he can't attain a much higher
grade under present conditions. For
this reason the people of his native
state propose to raise $1,000 to send him
to the naval academy at Annapolis. In
the event of his successful graduation
there will be nothing to prevent his be-
coming an admiral.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-29
ADJUSTMENTS.

The renowned magician, Kellar, was
greeted by fair turnout at the Theatre
last night. Necromancy, or by what
ever other mystical name his art may
be called has not drawn heavily in Salt
Lake of late years, either because we
had SO clever an exponent of it in Ella
son, or because that it was made too
familiar, or because the public taste
has grown away from that sort of en-
tertainment. But whatever there is left
in it to puzzle. mystify and exasperate,
Kellar has surely grouped together.
Nothing so complete and clever as his
various acts has ever been seen here.
and certainly nothing more wonderful
than his cabinets could be conceived by
the human mind. His various illusions,
such as separating a head from the
body and causing a body to fade away
into air and then reappear from incor-
pereal air, had something of the I'M
canny about it. There is nothing hack
neyed or commonplace about Kellar's
entertainments; everything is startling
and interesting, and the chatty, matter
of fact way in which he discourses is
one of the pleasing parts OF it. The
engagement closes this evening, and is
one in every way worth seeing. He
was aided by a charming little lady
two of them, we fancy-and by any
number of clever assistants, visible and
invisible.
Packed houses are becoming so much
the rule at the Grand that it is becom-
ing monotonous to record them. There
was another big crowd out last night
to see .'Ole Olson companion picture
to Gus Heege's lyon Yonson." As may
be surmised, it is a story written with
a CORY pen, and with frequent inter-
ruptions of the, variety character. Writ
ten strictly for ye gallery haoitue, that
parsonage yelled himself black in the
, face, while the more prosaic occupant
of the stalls gave vent to a yawn. Mr..
Hamler's Olson, while it lacked the
pure Castilian accent of an Ole Pehr-
son, was vociferously applauded, and
Miss Hussey's Irish Lady, while of the
very rough variety, found equal favor
with those who like that sort of thing
Mr.. Mulvey has limited Mr.. Olson
stay to three nights, and we opine he
will find them ample. Hi Henry re-
turns on Thursday
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foreign capital the encouragement of a
large trade and the introduction of labor
saving machinery and of improved pro-
cesses. Neither the Philippines nor the
West India islands compete with us ex-
cept in sugar, and we are protected
against that competition by the present
tariff. There is, therefore, no industry in
any of the new colonies which, in the
presidents opinion, needs immediate pro-
lection, and the door may remain wide
open indefinitely without injury to the
interests of the islands. 1t is also
deemed good policy to admit other ma
tons on equal terms in the commerce of
the Philippines, because if we do we can
demand similar concessions for ourselves
in the contiguous markets of China, Corea
and Japan, which are even more valuable.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-29
ELATgRITE AND JoBBERY.

The Mckinley administration will
long be remembered by the people Of
Utah and the west for the gilsonite
scandal which came to head when the
reservation leases, Illegally made by in
competent persons, We're approved by
the secretary of the interior.
1t is an outrageous job from begin
ming to end, conceived in cupidity and
clinehed by fraud. If it were lawful
for Indians to convey a title they do
not possess, which is exactly the case
in point, the settlers of eastern Utah
and western Colorado were certainly
entitled to some consideration. They
should have had an equal opportunity
with the syndicate, but when Mark
Hanna was included in the organiza-
ton and made a party to the deal,
every chance of the settler vanished,
and it became a foregone conclusion
that the Job would go through.
At the last session Of congress an eff
fort was made-by the men behind this
syndicate to get bill passed authoriz-
ing the secretary of the interior to vail
date Indian leases, Notwithstanding the
law and The well established policy of
our government, which make of these
Indians only tenants for life on the
reservations. But congress voted the
measure down; and it is in the face of
this record, in defiance of congress,
that Secretary Bliss has approved the
leases.
The Denver Post says that "a strong
protest should go up from the people of
this state and Utah against the lease
of the gilsonite beds on the Uintah
reservation to an eastern syndicate
Protests are being prepared in Colo
rzsdo, says the Post, to be forwarded to
washington; and, further: There
seems 10 be quite a number of people
who have known for a long time of the
waited patiently for an opportunity to
put this knowledge to practical use.
Now that the time has come, all of
these find themselves shut out COM
pletely."
The Rocky Mountain News takes the
matter UP, holding that the action of
the interior department. means that
IN into the hands of the monopolistic
syndicates which control asphaltum
products. The lands will not be thrown
open to settlement. Outsiders Will be
given 70 chance to take them up and
develop them. They viii go to swell
the riches of the asphaltum trust
The people and the resources of the
state of Utah are looked upon, appar-
entity as The, rightful prey of the po-
litical wultures roostings on the admin
istration tree. It was significant that
nonresident commissioners were
chosen by the president to Investigate
the reservation matters. It leads one
to doubt if any protest sent from Colo
RADIO or Utah can save the people from
being victimized in this infamous
scheme Nothing should be left IN
done. however, and the people of Utah
should join with those of Colorado in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-29
New Hotel Idea.
kansas City StarN


A detective was formerly paid a good
salary by the keeper of a big hotel in
Hot Springs, Ark, simply to lounge
in the lobby and listen to the COM
plants and criticism of guests. There
is always feeling of friendliness and
comradeship between guests at a hotel,
and this detective made it his business
to become acquainted with all the ViSi-
tors. They thought he was a fellow
guest. The detective would lead the
conversation to the merits or dement's
of the hotel, and if q. man complained
of the service or his accommodations
the complaint was promptly reported
to the landlord.
For instance, if a guest complained
that he liked to sleep late in the morn
ing and he could not do it because he
had a room with an east exposure, so
that the sun came in and awakened
him. the detective would report to the
landlord. In little while the landlord
would say to the guest:
Il was thinking this morning about
you in that east room. Do you like to
sleep late in the morning.
The guest would say that he did.
We'll" the landlord would say, 81
was thinking that you did, and in that
case the sun must disturb you. l will
give you a better room on the north
side of the house"
That made the guest friend of the
house for life. A man never forgets a
landlord who takes an interest in him.
This detective found out what par
ticular dishes the guests enjoyed and
all their hobbies and notions and likes
and dislikes, and the landlord acted on
this information. 1t paid so well that
the house was full all the time and the
landlords salary was raised. His praises
were sung so widely and his fame as
a successful landlord spread so that a
big hotel in Minneapolis hired him at
an enormous salary. The detective who
did this work was known to the at
taches of the hotel as ''the kick
hunter"
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EXIT FROM THIS CONTINENT

Spain has yielded. 1t is no surprise.
There was no alternative. Her buster
at the end was like her bluff at the
beginning-'fu of sound and fury,
signifying nothing
The American people understand
this better now than they did six
months ago. 1t would be hard for
phantom fleets to terrorize Boston or
invisible armadas to agitate the secre-
tary Of the navy again.
It was an awful mistake for Spain
to go to war. She has probably learned
that by this time 1t has been her mis-
fortune to learn nothing from observa-
ton or the experience of others. Too
ignorant TO reason and too proud to
take advice Spain has paid the penalty
of her folly.
Every where the yellow flag was
shaken in defiance it has been taken
down. Every cannon that Numbered
the rage of Spain has been captured.
Every ship that sailed against the
American navy has been disabled or
destroyed. Her boosted fleets have
been swept from the seas. Her armies
have been defeated or sent home in
disgrace. All her colonies that we
chose TO take are Spain's no more
Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines,
the Ladrones, and such of the Carolines
as this republic fancied are no longer
Spanish colonies.
From such humiliation she is now
compelled to turn and face a revolution.
Her statesmen are discouraged and her
queen is ready to resign. The pre-
tender, with a band of rebels at his
back. is ready to seize the crown.
When he wrests it from the royal
family in whose possession it has been
for years what will he get? A bank
rupt power. ruined financially, crippled
in resources, and almost dead to hope.
Were it not for the record of crime,
cruelty, treachery, and infamy, which
Spain has written with the blood of
helpless human beings upon the pages
Of history, she might be pitied in the
hour of her extremity
With the end of peace negotiations
yesterday Spain withdrew forever from
the continent she only entered to
piIlage and destroy. 1t was lust, love
Of adventure, q passion for glory, a
sort of quixotic sentiment that in
duced the Spanish soldiers to pene-
trate the forests of the new world. It
was avarice that inspired the leaders.
1t was not for the purpose of ex-
tending civilization. Spain looked upon
America with the greedy eyes of a
despoiler; not with the fostering gaze
Of a mother. Cortez and Pizarro came,
not for colonization but for conquest;
not to enlighten but to loot.
Yesterday the monster wrote fins
at the end of bloody story.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-29
The Story of Ponce.

(Waverly Magazine)
Ponce is an old story today In its
history is a fairy tale which has the
merit of being true. In the years when
time went slower a page lounged
through the leisures of Ferdinand's
court. He was young, impudent and
abominably good looking. princess
smiled and beckoned. That was enough.
There and then ne was sent to an
other world, to a better one, to the
tropics which Columbus had founded.
He landed at Boriquen, assisted with
easy gallantry in eliminating the ma
tives, assisted also in gathering the
gold which they left. Meanwhile Bori-
quen had been christened Puerto Rico.
Incidentally the page had grown old
Whether he regretted the princess is
problematic. That he missed his good
looks is clear. In an effort to recover
them he took a trip. The story of Ell
Dorado has not yet been told. But
another story, equally if not more Sc
ductive, was current then 1t was to
the effect that somewhere near by were
the fountains of eternal youth In
search of those waters he sailed. The
land which he reached was so rich in
flowers that he called it Florida. But
of the waters not a trace. And vet,
may it not be that the legend of them
typified fame? For it was that which
he did find. His name was Ponce de
Leon, and it was he who founded Ponce.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-29
The MOnen Door,

CIV. e. Curtis in Chicago Record)
The "open door referred to in the
terms of peace means that there is no
intention on the part of the president to
preserve monopoly of trade in the
Philippine islands for the United States.
1t means that customs duties will be
imposed upon merchandise from all coun-
tries alike. that the tariH VIII ne no
sufficient revenue to support the govern
ment and pay for such public works as
are essential to the welfare and prosper
ity of the people. The president, how
ever, can control this only so long as the
islands remain under military govern
ment which will probably be year or
more, perhaps two years for it is not
likely that CONGRESS, will provide form
of government for the colonies until the
next session. Then the spresidents power
ends. He retains only the right of recon-
mendation. He believes. however, that
the industrial and commercial conditions
OF the Philippines. and of Cuba and
Puerto Rico as well. demand low duties,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-29
SOME GOOD, SHORT STORIES
He Saved the Wrong Man.
Detroit Free Press.)

IT always take a pride in the bust
ness" said the jealous life insurance
agent, land never fail to take a step
that will rebound to the interests of
my company. / think the company APP
preciates my efforts in it's behalf, as
a steady increase in salary has been
my fortune ever since l began working
for it. But 1 once had an experience
that somewhat damped my ardor and
showed me that there is a limit in look
ing out for your company's interests.
[ insured a man for $1,000. He was a
splendid risk, sound as a dollar and bid
fair to die of old age. l felt sure that
the company would win out on the
risk, SO 1 was feeling pretty good. One
day soon afterward 1 was going down
the river on a boat to get a breath of
fresh air. Looking the passengers over.
l noticed that the party l had insured
was on board, sitting on the railing in
a very careless position. 1t made me
nervous to sit there and watch that fell
low taking so many chances. ] don't
know why it is, but as soon as a man
gets his life insured he seems to think
that he can fiirt with death like a
yellow fever immune.
AT last the expected happened. He
lost his balance and fell overheard. 1
rushed to the railing and saw at once
that the fellow could not SWIM I am
pretty good swimmer myself and the
party in the water represented $4,000.
couldn't afford to see the company lose
that money right before my eyes so I
plunged in after him. L had a deuce
of time with him before help arrived
and at one time 1 thought it was up
with both Of US. But help arrived at
last and we were pulled out. Then 1
found that L was not yet out of the
woods The party was unconscious
and it was a question whether he would
live or die. L got him ashore and hired
every doctor l could get to work over
him, regardless of expense
They succeeded in bringing him
around at last and 1 was in the act of
sending a glowing account to my COM
pany, together with pretty stiff bill,
when l made the discovery that he
wasn't the fellow [ had insured, only
man that looked like him. Worse
than that, he was insured for $25, 900
in a rival cOnpanv"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-29
MALIeNING THE WEST.

That rabid Republican organ, the
New York Press, is unusually bitter in
its denunciation of 'the rotten
boroughs of the west that encourage
prize fighting and produce free silver
cranks." The Press treats the evolu-
ton of a. western state in this fashion:
''The territorial delegate devotes his
whole official life to the elevation of
his constituency to the rank of state
hood. He knows no other purpose, and
for its fulfillment he knows no politi-
cal principle and no political scruple.
He is at the service of the leaders of
both parties knowing that some day
his services will be required by one or
the other, and caring little which it
it. When the pinch of party exigency
comes his ambition is realized. His
vote as one of the first senators of the
new state is at the disposal of the
party which creates the state. Then
his rotten pocket borough becomes an
indestructible part of an indissoluble
union"
Then, with platoons of prizefghters
marching and countermarching under
its very nose, with it's columns choked
with long accounts of the Sharkey
Corbet fiasco, with heavy headed
articles on Cornish Bob, and Tom
O'Rourke, Tommy Ryan, Tommyrot,
and all the other ffst-fighters of the
world who gather at the sporting
Mecca where the Press is published, it
says Of the admission of western
states:
"A generation after, as was the case
of Nevada, with the Populist Jones
holding the balance of power in the
finance committee, 100000 people
groan under the yoke of a broken
down community of $4,000 gathered
around abandoned mining camps and
exercising no other function of state
hood except the sale of the cloak of
legality to the out-lawed pastime of
prize-fghting. But we indicate the
case of Nevada as we might, with al
most equal force, those of Idaho. Mon
tana and Wyoming. and, with quite
parallel pertinency, that of Utah.
principally as an example of the
method by which the Kanaka state will
find her way into the SJnion."
The Press holds that nothing but
evil has ever resulted from the grant
ing Of statehood to these western
states. 1t apparently overlooks the
fact that Wyoming Republicans de-
clared for the gold standard this year
and elected their ticket. Surely this
entities that state to be made an OK
ception in the periodical screeds which
appear in the Republican press of the
east against every thing western.
Prejudice is very strong indeed to cause
the Press to ignore the self abasement
of Wyoming.
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COLONEL TED.
Detroit Post.)

Detroit Post)
Obi you made gallant fight,
Colonel Ted
Knocked EN- higher than kite,
Killed EN- dead
Put the rowels to Van Wyck,
Made YOUR enemies look sick,
Gave EN- all a painful crick
In the headl
Once they had you on the ropes,
Colonel Ted,
And they thought they'd put your hopes
But you rallied with the whoop
That in war inspired your troop,
And you plunged them in the soup
Heels and head
There is woe in Tam-ma-nee,
Colonel Ted,
Ger the tiger which they see
Lying dead
Twas the beast they'd loved for years.
Breathed to it their hopes and fears,
Now their eyes with scalding tears
All are red
Oh! you ripped it up the back,
Colonel Ted
AS your bronco long the track
Oh! YOU clipped the tigers claws,
Snickered at its swapping jaws,
While the air with wild applause
Flickered redi
Don't you hear the cowboys yell,
Colonel Ted,
Don't you hear EN- raisin-CWell,
Best unsaid)
Don't you hear their jolly strains
Rise in echoing refrains
AS they paint the hills and plains
Rather red?
When you led them in the fight,
Colonel Ted.
They could always see you right
At the head.
Now they're on royal tear
Ger your victory back there,
And their yells alright the air
Overhead!
Colonel Teddy Rough and Ready.
Rough and Ready. Colonel Teddy,
Though our silver crown may never
deck your head
Though your party hollers ''Shamev'
And would block our silver game,
You're a daisy. just the same,
Colonel Ted.
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formulating and forwarding remon-
strances to congress at once, that some
action may be taken Immediately upon
its reassembling and before the Hanna
jobbers have a chance to block inter
ranfioD
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V.
He
to
L business
Mr. Wheeler has sought Office accepted
his constituents his
mining
the speeches.
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An announcement of the death of
William E. Bond, which occurred at
Oakland, Cal, has been received. Mr..
Bond was business manager of the
Anaconda Standard at the time of his
death, which was primarily caused by
overwork. The newspaper fraternity
generally will regret to hear of this,
their loss, and The Herald extends it's
sympathy to it's Anaconda contempo-
rary
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-29
GUAM.
(Clevelan.

cleveland Plain Dealer.)
There was no discordant hum
When the Spaniards gave up Guam
Outhwardly they all seemed calm
AS they handed over Guam.
Carefully they'd read their doom
Where the protocol says Guam;
And the proof in torrents came
When they murmured, Here's yC
Guam"
Let US then be thankful to EN-
Cause they up and gave us Guam.