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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
RUSSlA'S GREAT RAILWAY

Count Cassini, the Russian ambassa-
dor at Washington, is quoted as saying
in reference to Lord Beresford's open
door policy:
so far as Russia is concerned, it is
to her interest to have free trade in the
far east. 1t is necessary in view of
the construction OF the Siberian
railroad, that there shall be an extern
sion OF commercial relations in order
that the road can be operated on a pay
ing basis. 1t has been declared that the
construction of the road was due to the
strategic advantage which Russia
would gain by these operations, but
road OF 10000 versts in length cannot be
built for strategic purposes only. The
policy of Russia in the extreme Orient
has always favored the introduction of
foreign commerce on an equal footing.
Vladivostock has been and is main
tanned as free port
Russian energy is certainly conferred
in that gigantic railway scheme at
present and, if peace can only be main
tanned, or peace negotiations prolonged,
until the completion of the Trans Sibe-
rian railway, the dogs of war may
again be unclaimed, SO far as his car
ship is concerned. At least such is the
inference which may be drawn from
the activity of his navy and army and
the establishment of military posts
along the China frontier
This is one of the most important en-
terprises Russia ever undertook. 1t be-
gins at the town of Cheliabinsk, about
$50 miles east of the frontier line of
Russia in Europe. and about 2,S40 kilo-
metres east of st. Petersburg. From
Cheliabinsk to Vladivostock, on the
original survey, is 4,740 miles, and of
that distance the line is complete to
Irkutsk, a distance of about 1000 miles.
About 500 miles of that have already
been opened and rails are being laid
at the rate of about four miles per day.
The track is laid on the standard guage,
the same as that of the Russian rail
ways, and it is evident that it is des-
tined to play an important part in
as well as in commercial opera
lions.
From Lake Baikal, according to an
EllSliSA NIlltI WIN lONCllliS Iho0C Il
tour of investigation over the proposed
route, the grading has been completed
as far as Strelinsk, 500 miles east of
Baikal. Recently. however, there has
been change in the plans owing to the
acquisition of Port Arthur and Talien-
wan, and running rights have been OBJ
tanned through Manchuria. The earli-
est objective of the line is no longer
Vladivostock-it is Port Arthur.
This new route is being surveyed and |
the line is being pushed as rapidly as
possible in the wake of the surveyors. !
That this means something more than
a saving in distance may be inferred !
from the remarks of the Russian am |
bassador as reported recently.
AppaI emily the railway is promoting |
the economic projects of the Russian |
government no less efficiently than it |
serves its military plans. And, while /
the ambassador denies that the main |
object in building the road is to secure !
advantages. it is very clear
that this is one of the chief purposes
of his government in pushing it
through.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25

Currency reform is being neglected in
the rush and hurry. of other measures
during the closing days of congress.
Nor are the gold standard politicians
agreed upon a plan. They are quarrel
ing among themselves more than they
ever quarreled with their political enc
mics, and call each other all sorts of
things. The committee on banking and
currency is so badly demoralized and
the jealousies among the members are
so acute that the speaker will have to
reconstruct it entirely if he wants any
legislation reported in the next con-
gress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
should re-eIect him he would be able 10

should re-elect him ne would be able to
recover his seat.
When the roll of members is called
at the opening of the next session, and
they step forward as usual to take the
oath of allegiance somebody will object
TO the admission of Mr.. Roberts, and
the speaker will order him TO stand
aside. This is frequently done when an
election is contested. Then, when all
the rest of the members are sworn in,
the case of Mr.. Roberts will be taken
up, and there will be a debate, but the
clerk of the house, who will be in the
chair until a speaker is elected, will
decide, as he always has decided, that
a certificate of election is prima facie
evidence that the man who holds it is
entitled to his seat He will therefore
rule that Mr. Roberts must be admit
ted and that his credentials can be sent
to the committee on elections, with the
petitions against his admission and
other papers relating to the case.
After being admitted to membership
motion to expel Mr.. Roberts will be
made and put. He will demand the rea-
son. It will probably be said that he is
a violator of the law. He will doubt
less deny that he is under indictment
or conviction for any crime.
Then a committee will be appointed
for the purpose of conducting an in
vestigation, and il Mr.. Roberts has not
been convicted of practicing polygomy
it is very doubtful whether it will re-
commend his expulsion. The house of
is not a grand jury, and
it is not criminal court. 1t cannot
try its members for a violation of law,
but if they have been convicted by
regular judicial proceedings it can take
cognizance of the fact and act accord
ingly.
The house can try a man only for
the violation of its rules or for some
act in connection with its pro-
ceedings or in relation to the business
transacted before it.
The only way for these schemers, who
are so anxious to prevent the state OF
Utah from being represented in either
branch of congress, except by one man
in the upper house, to defeat the will
of the people is to proceed against him
in the courts of Utah for violating the
law. Men hold that if a pre-
cedent is established in this case it will
be very troublesome hereafter; that if
the house undertakes to expel a men,
Der for violating one law it will be
to expel others for violating
other laws. The representative from
the Wilmington n. c. district, for
example, might be accused of compile
ty in the murder of the colored men
who were killed in the riots there.
Senator Quay is under indictment in
Senator Kenney is under
Indictment in Delaware, and if the |
house of representatives should sit as
L court of justice it is probable that |
charges would be. brought against a
number of members. Spite is a two
edged sword and cuts both ways.
If the moral status of members of /
congress is to be investigated it will !
'equire the peculiar ability of the Salt |
lake police department with their |
oeep-hole appliances to make the in
7estigation thorough and sensational.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25

leterious influences of the fog and cold
on the respiratory tubes.
But these are merely the opinions of
leading chemists and physicians of the
world. They are not cited for the pur-
pose of influencing the present legisla-
sture in its treatment of the anti-smok-
ing bill before it. For this measure is
intended TO prohibit boys and girls from
smoking and contracting in their youth
habit which may lead to excessive in
diligence later on. And tobacco is
harmful when used to excess. There is
no question about that. 1t is particu-
larry harmful in a high altitude like
this.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
Music and Madness.
(St. Louis Republican,

DR.. William j. O'SulIivan, whose
name does not indicate he is of Teuton
extraction, though he has the reputa-
ton of being an insanity. expert, con-
tributes an article to the New York
Verdict, in which he debates learnedly
the question: WAS Wagner a Musical
Lunatic?" Wagnerians all over the
country will naturally feed interested in
some of the views advanced by Dr.
Sullivan-himself of a meiodiouS race
although these views may reflect upon
their favOrite composers sanity and in
cidentally on their own. He takes the
bread ground that there are all the
characteristics of an unbalanced men
tality in the Wagner music-that ii is
not only crazy itself. but tends to make
lunatics of all who listen to it.
The expert points out that many per
sons who profess TO interpret and adj
mire Wagner assume lofty airs Of
musical superiority He inferS that this
of insanity. He says that. Whereas
there is a brigade of musicians detained
in German Warehouses, every last man
of them, when questioned on that point,
protested himself a loyal adherent and
admirer of Wagner"
1t would be unnatural to expect mem
bers of the Wagner cult to agree with
DR.. O'Sullivan. 1t will not be disappoint-
ing if many of them fly into sucn print
as may be accessible and denounce him
and his structures in harsh language
and with heated epithets. Those uncul-
tured folk. however. who lack the quail
ity of mind that enables them to under
stand the music of the "Nibelungen-
lied" and "Gotterdammerung' may not
go to the length of declaring openly
that Wagner was crazy. and that the
people who admire him are electioneer-
ing for straitjackets. but they will smile
broadly and approvingly at the doctors
contention To them it comes as a vim
dication and a species of sweet re-
yenPe
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
Cincinnati's Way.

-
At the banquet of a certain benevolent
organization of this state, whose annual
convention was held in Columbus some
time ago. a number of Cleveanders
touched hands and elbows with members
from all over the state. One of the local
representatives, Delegate P. w. Ward
happened to sit close 10 well-known
Cincinnatian, and the latter was disposed
to poke little fun at the Forest city,
after the manner OF most Cincinnatians.
II believe you are from Cleveland?" he
said TO Mr.. Ward. He knew well enough
where Mr.. Ward came FROM but this was
his way of opening up his reservoir of
Il am proud to admit that am" said
Mr.. Ward.
Very commendable on your part said
tainly produced some very able men,
She has" said Mr.. Ward.
Men who are well and favorably known
far beyond the banks OF the raging Cuya-
hoga."
''She has" said Mr. Ward
Il was in Cleveland lately. said the
Gincinnatian. with a sly wink at the
listeners about him.
7 congratulate you" said Mr. Ward.
Yes. of course. Cleveland is a beauti-
full town. But what I wanted particu-
for them, l asked for them. Then L dis
covered they were all in your cemeteries
beautiful cemeteries, too"
OF course everybody laughed, the Gin
cinnati man leading the hilarity.
Mr.. Ward was nettled.
Yes" he slowly said. when he could
make himself heard, that is way we
have in Cleveland. When one of our lead
ing citizens dies We bury him. His work
is ended and all that IS left is his gra-
ciOus memory. They don't do it in that
way in Cincinnati. 1t wouldn't be char
acteristic of the town."
Mr.. Ward paused.
How do they do it in CINCINNATI"
called out Toledo man;
why, in CINCINNATI said Mr.. Ward.
when leading citizen dies they don't
bury him. They let him keep right on
walking around, imagining he's doing bus
mess"
And the shout that greeted the sally
proved to Mr.. Ward that the thrust at
the old Queen city was fully appreciated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
DREAMLAND.
Is. Weir Mitchen.)

Is. Weir Mitchell)
PIP anchors Up anchors
Set sail and away.
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.
Yo, heave no.
Aloft and allow
Elf sailors are singing,
Yo, heave no.
The breeze that is blowing
So sturdily strong
Shall fill thy sail
With the breath of a song.
A fay at the masthead
Keeps watch DER the sea;
Blown amber of tresseS
Thy banner shall be;
Thy freight the lost laughter
That sad souls have missed,
Thy cargo the kisses
That never were kissed.
And no, for a fay maid
Born merry, in June,
OF dainty red roses
Beneath a red moon.
The star-pears that midnight
Casts down on the sea,
Dark gold of the sunset
Her fortune shall be.
And ever she whispers,
More tenderly sweet.
Love am /, love only,
Love perfect. complete,
The world is my lOrdship,
The heart is my slave;
] mock at the ages.
| laugh az the grave;
Wilt sail with me over
A dream-haunted sea.
Whose whispering waters
Shall murmur TO thee
The love-haunted lyrics
Dear poets have made :
Ere life had a fetter.
Ere love was afraid
Then uD with the ancaGri
Set sail and away
The ventures of loveland 4
Are thine for day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Observations at the Lo-
cal Office of the Weather Bureau.

Salt Lake City. Utah, Feb. q. 1899.
Maximum temperature. 46 degrees; min
imum temperature. sc degrees: mean tenn
perature. IS degrees which is 2 degrees
above the normal; accumulated def
cheney OF temperature since first Of the
month. 81 degrees; accumulated excess of
temperature since Jan. l, POI degrees;
total precipitation from p. m. to p. m.
10 inch; accumulated excess of precipi-
tation since first Of month. 1.22 degrees:
accumulated excess of precipitation since
Jan. l, 81 inch.
The following is the local forecast of
the weather for today: Fair: stationary
temperature. l.. II. MURDOCH,
Section Director Weather Bureau.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
NJ. Rostand's Defense.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer.)

The French gentleman who claims to
have written "Cyrano de Bergerac,' NJ.
Rostand. has been up before the proper
" delegated American official in Paris
and questioned concerning the POSSIBLE
itv that the man from Chicago might
have furnished the principal character
and other details of that somewhat
widely-advertised play. NJ. ROstand,
il was speedily discovered. does not
agree with the Chicago people on this
subject He doesn't appear, in fact, to
have changed his earlier views regard
ing the authorship. Just what he said
on this particular occasion ism at
hand. but it probably ran something
like this:
Question-You persist in cherishing
the delusion that you and you alone
wrote this production?
Answer-Yes, sare, 1 wrote heem.
Odd you have any assistance?
Ayes, sare.
Q.-Ahal You had assistance?
Ayes, sare.
O.-What assistance did you have?
A.-Seex vermouth, tree absinthe, Won
Americana cocktail.
Q.-Do you know any Chicago peo-
pie?
A.-No, sare.
O.-Ever been in Chicago?
A.-No. sare.
Q.-Ever smell the stockyards?
A.-No, sare.
Q.-Then where did you get your in
formation?
A.-Inspiratione? All, yes. see. Haf
we not CatulIe Mendes an re gr-r-reat
sewers?
O.@Then you insist that the nose idea
was not derived in any way from the
stockyard suggestion?
Al inseest.
Q-You claim the nose was original
with you?
A.-No, sare.
oh? You don't? You confess
then? With whom was it original?
A-With Monsieur Adam.
Q.-Adam?
Ayes, sare. Monsieur Adam of zee
celebrated gar-r-den-ny esteemed an
cestore.
Q.-And you deliberately set up the
extraordinary claim that the Cadets of
Gascony were not suggested by the
North Side high school drill corps?
Ayes. sare, set up zee claim. And
wiz your permissiene ! will also set up
zee light liquid refreshment. Vat ees
yours. m'sieur? Aha, zee same? Gar
con. two of zee same. Here's looking
at you, m'sieur.
The examination closes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
When 1t Thaws.

tCIICdbU INCLUfU.J
1t is good to be alive when the thaw sets
in
The cutters gurgle freely and the ice gets
thin:
When mud is over shoetops and the
stones shine bare.
The sunlight sparkles gayly in the bright
blue air.
The man turns up his trousers. and tho
small boys wade:
All girls go on their tiptoes. of the slush
afraid.
Cold weather is forsotten-we pardon
winters sin
For it's good to be alive when the thaw
sets in.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
GIVE THE BOYS
A CHANCE

To pick out heir own footwear. Is
will make them more independent
and self-reliant. We have the
finest line of boys and youths
shoes in town. and they are all
good wearing shoes. If you are
not satisfied with their selection.
bring them back and exchange or
get your money back.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
HAS A NEW NOSE.
Sergeant Freeman Lost His Natural
One at Omdurman.

tLOndOn PuDIlc OplnlOn.J
an interesting fact has just come to
light which strikingly exemplifies the
wonderful strides of modern science. It
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
A Verbal Melee.

cleveland Plain Dealer.)
Going up on a Cedar avenue car the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25

OFFICE. THE HERALD block, corner
West Temple and First South streets.
Salt Lake City.
The oasis., 1899-07-29
MORALES NOTES.
ssterestiua Items Gathered Aroaad the
 Liae Cities

The Laundry solicits your patron age
 Judge Black, from Tubac, was ID town Monday.
 wuruished rooms to rent. Apply at TIE OASIS office.
 Drink Lemp's St. Louis beer For sale across all bars
 Wednesday Mike Maloney was ln from Peiia Blanca
 Do you want imported Swiss cneeses at the Jimmie Fruit Go.
 Star | Laundry collects and delivers all washing Give us trial.
 Monday Mir. Joseph Thompson went to La Colorado on business.
 Star < Laundry. The only first class white laundry in Nogales.
 Monday morning MT. F. Titcomb went tO Prietas ou business.
 Take your washing to the Star < Laundry. All work guaranteed.
 Mir and Mrs. l.. 0. C0wan were re- gistered at the Montezuma this week Lemp's St. Louis beer-botsied or in the wood flor sale by A. M. Conard Sunday Mir. Stuart P Johnson, the engineer. came in from the Cananeas. Tuesday Messrs. John Smith and A. l.. White of Crittenden, were visitors at Nogales.
 Saturday of last week MT. R. Ruiz, the Hermosillo banker, came up from the Sonora capital.
 This week Miss Maggie Craven has been in from PeiIa Blanca, the guest of Mrs J. K. Nolan.
 Mrs. k. J. Pellegrin has been very i'll since Tuesday evening, and is still in critical condition.
 Thursday evening Mir. Carmen Or tega of Hermosillo, passed Nogales eh route to San Francisco
 Three furnished rooms for rent, suitable for light housekeeping. Alp ply at THE OASIS office
 Tuesday evening MT P. Hannah and family came up from La Colorado, and are stopping at Nogales.
 Last Saturday evening Mir. A. II. Moore, the mining operator, returned from the Bonancita region.
 Sunday MT. George Watt went over to Washington Camp, remaining there until Monday evening.
 Thursday Mr. Hugo ] Donau ol Tucson, manager for l.. Zeckendorf X O., was a visitor at Nogales.
 Wednesday Mir. Geo. w. Grove, superintendent of the Holland mine was in from Washington Camp.
 Mir. J W. Brown of El Paso, com mercial agent for the Santa Fc com pany, was in Nogales last Saturday.
 Yesterday Mir. Jonathan Gordon who has been in Nogales couple ol weeks, returned to Washington Camp
 Wednesday MT Rosario Brena, the Tucson merchant, accompanied by his son, were registered at the Monte znma.
 For table lse Lemp's St Louis beer is he best In quart CT pint bottles Delivered by A. NJ Conard Leave orders.
The oasis., 1899-07-29
SONORA SETTINGS.
coIiection of Happeninas in the State
 Over the Line.

MT. J. J. Pompa of Altar, has re gently sold gold property in tho vicinity of that place for SIT, ,0O0.
 The Ame rican "dulceria" and ict cream parlor at Hermoslllo, OBrier & Monteverde. proprietors, seems tt have filled long felt want" and i' doing a fine business.
 Mir. l.. o. Cowan is reported as hay tDg negotiated the sale of his golt property at La Calera, thirty-seyer miles southeast of Magdalena. Int price is stated at S6O,000.
 In the Ahogado mine vein of yer. rich silver ore twelve feet wide ha been recently cut. MT. J. D McGil vray. the superintendent, and thu lucky owners, are greatly elated owe the find
 Don Manuel Tamborel of the Sierri Pinta mines, in the Altar district has gone to Guaymas to attend ship ping up the coast consignment 0 machinery. The mine is about clever leagues from the coast.
 About three weeks ago Mrs. Waite O'Brien. wife of MT. O'Brien of tn firm of O'Brien & Mcnteverde, pro prietors of the American candy fac tory at Hermosillo, arrived from Sal Francisco to join her husband.
 MT. Sid Kempton, formerly super intendent Of El Urbabo mine, wit MT. T. Moore, has located in tn vicinity of Imrris, and the two gen tlemen are handling very haudsom mining property on their own account
 MT. c. w. Hayes and associates, wh are operating properties northeas from Imuris, have en route from Der yer carload of machinery. They ar building a wagon road from Casit station and will tranship at tha station.
 To keep pace with the demands tn Hermosillo brewery is putting in new and very large boiler. whic weighs seventeen tons. It was pu in place last week, and Monday of tn present week work began upon tn brick work.
 It is credibly reported that MT. Ia hot has sold La Cuchilla, very prC ductive gold mine located about thre leagues from Altar The purchase i is a Mr. Weir of Shasta county, Cal fornia, and the price is stated to b S30, GOO, gold.
 In moving heavy piece of mi chinery, a short time ago, MT. . l Schedule of the Hermosillo brewer, had two fingers of his left hand ser ously lacerated. The hurts are no getting we'll and he will soon agai have use of his hand.
 At Hermosill, this week, Mir. F'. K Monteverde, the accomplished ele l trican of the electric lighting con pany, has been engaged in lnstalir and adjusting an N-ray apparatus f i Doctor Canale, the well known su geon and scientist, who will use tt apparatus ia his extensive practice.
 The travelling public who apprecia good fare will always find the be- meal set at any railway eating hou' in Mexico, at the Depot Hotel ; Garstsec, For For t!!ioss3 'IayiHe 'coasiot
 stay a. the place well furnished eso fortabe rooms are to oe aiwaye S cured prsiae bctn ways stop a meais