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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-11
sharp Fighting Probable.

Looking at the complicated nature
of matters. il is almost useless TO spec
ulafe at the present stage, but sharp
fighting is likely to occur at Mafeking,
where Colonel Baden Powell is pluck
lily holding his exposed position AS
the generals have decided not to at
tempt to hold the country north of
Dundee the Beers viii doubtless occupy
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-11

Forecast for Salt Lake Today Is:
Rain; Stationary Temperature.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
vs.. RUSSIA,

The health of the car of Russia has
long been delicate, that he is temporarily
fncapacitated for government, as some
puts it, and that he comes from a family
which has had members who have been
queer as old-fashioned people call it.
These charges are met by official denials
from st. Petersburg. But let these pass.
1t may be said, however, that the czar
has never enjoyed the reputation of hav-
ing a strong mind, being somewhat
dreamy, if not eccentric. Laboring under
this impression, or belief, Europe has
halted in accepting his disarmament pro-
posal which he submitted some time ago.
Of course, all the European govern
ments gave an official approval of the
cars proposal, as far as their words of
appreciation may have gone, but they
kept right on with their plans of military
development. This is noticeable in Ger
many. That nation has embarked upon
a project for a gradual increase of her
army, which in the space of five years,
will give it a peace footing forty thousand
men stronger than it is at present. The
upshot of the matter will be, that if the
czar's proposal become a law it will find
Germany with, practically, her whole
adult male population drilled to soldier
ship.
In a recent debate on the army bill in
the reichstag it was said that something
over 800, 900 men present themselves in
Germany, annually. for military service,
and all are found to be fit for service. Of
this number about 222, 900 are actually en-
listed, n a large percentage of the re-
mainder is held liable to service. Thus
it may be seen that at this rate it will
not take long to teach the available male
adults of Germany with the drill and dis
cipline which will cause her to be a nation
in arms. From these facts the inference
may be drawn that Germany is acquiring
a huge army while Russia is pressing her
disarmament proposition.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
WHAT INDIANS MAY DO.

Nearly all the people of the New Eng
land states have rather exalted ideas of
what Indians may do upon civilized lines.
They seem to think that, with very little
training. Indians may become very cred
table citizens. They base their belief,
not upon what the savages of the west
and northwest have accomplished, but
upon the progress the Indians nearer
their homes have made.
They point with pride to the condi-
ton of the Penobscots, who occupy an
island on the river by that name in
Maine. These Indians still maintain THEM
tribal relations, elect their own chief,
their own council and make their own
laws. Their village is composedeof at
tractively and comfortably built houses,
some of them two-story dwellings of
modern American type, with par1or, dim
ing room and kitchen on the first floor.
They also have a church, school house,
and public hall. They lack some conven-
fences, but on the whole they are getting
on finely and fairly evidence what an In
dian may dc under favorable conditions.
Many people in the east, outside of
New England, think out western Indians
should be as comfortably fixed as the
Penobscots. or at least should be treated
with the same degree of consideration ex-
tended to thai tribe But they seemingly
lose sight of the fact that our north
western Indians have not yet been
weaned from their savage ways, and that
their war paints have scarcely dried and
scaled from their faces. The Penobscots
have been trained two hundred years or
more to the ways and habits of the white
many of them, are still costumed in the
breech-clouts of their fathers.
1t is true the PenObscots may evidence
what p~ersevering patience and intelli-
gently directed reform measures may do
to lift a people from the domain Of saw
agedom, blu it must be remembered that
something like a half dozen generations
have come and gone since the training
Of the Penobscots begun, while many of
the braves of the western tribes are still
suffering from unhealed wounds received
in deadly combat with the whites. Good
Indians are made only in a moment, or
by years of patient training.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
CHOATE IN ENGLAND,

Ambassador Choate has quite recently
arrived in England and made a speech to
a British audience, as about every minis
ter to the court of st. James is expected
to make the first thing he does. This
time the first speech was made in re-
Spouse to the welcome of the mayor of
Southampton. his place of landing upon
British soil. 1t was a characteristic eff
fort, replete with happy references and
we'll rounded periods.
Mr.. Choate will fill his position with
credit to himself and honor to the coun-
try tina sent him. He is the kind of man
that takes with the English people, an
excellent after dinner speaker, of high
social standing, and an agreeable and in
teresting conversationaiist. Mr.. Choate
is not rich in diplomatic experience, but
as a master in international law he
stands pre-eminent, and is fully able to
give our English cousins pointers in the
conduct of an international controversy.
The appointment of Mr.. Choate was an
eminently fitting one.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
CRIME FINDS FEW BARRIERS.

The Rev. Frederick C. Lee, D. D., re-
Gently preached in a San Francisco
church a. most interesting and instructive
sermon, the subject being Murder" The
doctor largely drew from the domain of
statistics, and deduced conclusions and
facts from them as startling as true. 1t
is a sad commentary on the "justice" Of
the present day and generation that,
while this country has more murders
and homicides annually committed, in
proportion to it's population, than any
judicial executions have been less han 2
per cent of the number. Why it is so,
upon whom the responsibility rests, n
to what this condition of things is lead
ing, the doctor Interestingly treats. He
said in part:
1t is a notorious fact that in proper
ton to population there are more muir
oSlo Gin III hiiN oiIilbo 10
than in any other nation on the globe.
For the years 1928 the murders have
been in the neighborhood of 10000 per an
mum, while the legal executions have
been less than 2 per cent of this number,
only two murderers in every 100 being
hanged.
While 1 cannot deal with all the causes
that lead to this awful slaughter, I can
pause long enough to express my con-
tempt for and lay a large share of the
responsibility upon the criminal law
YER" very properly so-called, for oftimes
he is as much of a criminal as the muir
derer he defends. When a man is taken
red-handed, with his crime patent to all,
and his legitimate punishment clearly
defined, then these legal (heaven spare
the mark) sharps and crooks set to work
to annul the statutes, broW-beat or bride
witnesses, insult the intelligence of judge
and Jury, ignore public sentiment, out
rage common decency and trample under
foot every principle of right and justice.
If John Smith is arrested for crime COM
mitted, and the indictment spells his
name with ''y'' in place of an a. the
difference between "T' and "y' is sufti-
cient ground for his discharge. If a nan
is found guilty of beating out the brains
of his wife with a hickory club, and just
before the day of execution it is discov-
cred that the club was not hickory, but
oak, a stay of proceedings is obtained
and a new trial granted. The fight is
hardly ever made on a question of fact,
but upon technicalities which these Shy
locks themselves have raised.
How many times the plea of insanity
opens the way for hundreds of murderers
to escape the gallows. And in 80 cases
out of every 100 the plea could and ought
to have been thrown out of the court as
worthless. A criminal ma have sense
enough 70 Dlan the most li3 bOIipal crime.
take every precaution to conceal his deed
and cover up his tracks, act like a sane
man years before and months after the
crime, but he must not be executed be-
cause one expert testified recently in
behalf of a murderer that ''he was suf-
fering from invalidity of intellectual in
tegrity." Far be 1t from me, a Christian
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
NO NATIVE VOLUNTEERS.
disarmament proposition.

The government has decided not to ac-
cept volunteers for army service among
the Cubans, Porto Ricans and Filipinos.
1t has come to this conclusion for the fol-
lowing reasons: There are but few male
Cubans fit for army duty between 90 and
So years of age, the large majority of them
being lads or past the prime of life. Porto
Ricans are averse to war and prefer not
to enlist in the army. They would much
rather engage in the peaceful pursuits of
an agricultural or trading people.
The Filipinos would not make trusted
soldiers They cannot agreeably assimi-
late at all places with each other, one por-
ton of them entertaining unpleasant feel
ings against another. In their present
mood it would be positively dangerous to
accept them as volunteers. The time may
come when the bitterness of their disap-
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
Democracy and Silver.

The Standard is one Of the
newspapers that have felt that
an exact statement Of the ratio
is not a vital factor in silver's
restoration, The ratio is a mat
ter of law; it has varied slightly
in our own currency; Our ratio
has also varied slightly from the
one that has ruled in some other
countries. The worlds ex-
changes practically fix the ra-
tio-Anaconda Standard, Janu-
airy 9, 1899.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

The New York Tribune thinks there is
no indication that Great Britain will cele-
brate with vociferous hilarity the centen-
NAL Of the income tax which became law
in 1899 under Pitts ministry. At that time
the rate was fixed at two shillings on the
pound, and it brought into the treasury a
quarter of a million pounds for every
penny. Last year the ratio was only a
third as great, but it brought in more
thar two and a quarter millions for
every penny. The Tribune thinks that
is a splendid proof of the increase of
wealth, but the taxpayers would just as
gladly have the fact shown in some
other manner.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

America is several hundred years
younger than England, still in nearly all
the states the Sunday closing of bust
ness houses of many kinds is imperative.
According to a Cornwall paper the mat
ter of closing public houses on Sunday is
now favored by an overwhelming major
ity of the people of Cornwall and other
near counties. Blu the paper thinks no
Sunday closing act will be passed by the
present parliament. Verify, England is
far behind this country in the Sunday
closing movement. 1t offers a fine field
for missionary work of the latter day
hro nj
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

Cecil Rhodes, he of South Africa no.
toriety, is an ~expansion:st Of the most
pronounced type. He recommended that
the United States shall absorb Mexico,
South America and all of Central Amer
lea. This country has not yet evidenced
a gluttonous appetite of such consuming
proportions. But what can be said of
the country if it demand, as a prominent
member of the diplomatic corps says it
may, the cession Of the province of
Pechil1, in China, with Picking the capt.
tai. This is going the 'whole hog.' If
America can control the emperor of
China 1t will be in a position to thwart
the designs of the car of Russia and, if
conditions require it, may instruct the
Son of Heaven to order him out of those
parts of China.he particularly delights to
possess-Manchuria for instance. But
Rhodes n the diplomat are giving us a
pipe dream.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
brand.

fallen heir to a new job worth $4,000 a
year. through Governor Smith approving
the bill abolishing the office of supreme
court reporter and providing that the
members of the court shall be paid 81 500
each to perform the work of reporting the
proceedings.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

pointed hopes and ambitions may be dis
sipated or softened to the minimum and
they can be relied upon. But until then
they must learn the alphabet and some of
In the meantime it may be
we'll enough to put none but American
soldiers on guard.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

minister, preaching the gospel of good
will and peace, to advocate the death
penalty from motives of revenge. But 1
do advocate it as a just punishment for
the crime of murder, as the very best
kind of warning and deterrent to others,
VINO, from motives of revenge or robbery,
are willing to take the life of a fellow
being. I am in favor of capital punish
ment for these reasons:
flrst-A man or woman who, while in
the full possession of their senses. takes
the life of an innocent party, ~forfeits all
lain upon society for the protection of
their own.
Second-It puts a dangerous man out
of the way of doing more harm.
Third-Weh have between 50. 900 and S.
900 criminals at the present time in the
jails and p~enitentiaries of the United
States, who are fed and clothed, and
whose care involves the government in
an expenditure of $50, 900, 900 per annum.
This comes out Of the pockets of the tax
payers, and we cannot afford to keep
| adding to the number.
Fourth-1t does not allow the labor Of
the murderer to come into competition
with the labor of the honest mechanic,
perhaps with the labor of the widow or
the children of the man so brutally muir
dered, thus allowing the murderer not
only to rob wife and children of their
protector and bread-winner, but also to
rob them Of food and shelter, by putting
the product of prison labor Upon the
market to compete with the labor Of
every man or woman honest enough to
keep out of Jail.
Fifth-Because if every murderer was
! speedily punished, and it became a law
as fixed as the law of gravitation that
just so sure as a man took the life Of an
other wilfully, just SO sure would he for
felt his own, just so sure would the num-
Der of murders grow less. But just as
long as there are only two chances in a
undred of a man hanging, just SO long
as the murderers can by the aid of the
criminal lawyer spend two or three years
in fighting his case, putting the state to
| an expense of tens of thousands of dol
lars, just so long will there be bloodshed
and violence, murders and lynchings in
the land.
Sixth-Because the divine law has
never been repealed or amended-"Life
for life; whose sheddeth mans blood by
i man shall his blood be shed"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
A VETO NOT APPROVED.

Governor Smith has excited the indig-
nation and the ire of man physicians in
the state by vetoing what is known as the
medical bill. The object of the bill was
to take from a jury the passing upon the
qualifications of a candidate for a medi-
cal certificate denied to him by the state
board of medical examiners. This is a
matter which has two pretty we'll defined
sides. We I'VE a law authorizing the ex-
istence of a state board of medical EXAM
iners. The duty of this board is to ex-
anime and pass upon the fitness of a man
the state. The examinations are supposed
to be made to protect sick people from
incompetent men who call themselves
physicians. That is about as plain as a
layman can put it.
Now there are physicians and physi-
q l. III SUM-. oplllC DClu GIN SoIiiS III
different. A physician is measured by his
successes and his failures, but patients
will die under the care of the best of
them. That fact should not initiate
gains the practitioner. Patients will
recover from deaths door, this fact
should not establish an undying reputa-
ton for the practitioner. But there are
uuacks, charlatins, mountebanks in the
roster of NJ. DIS, a brand they have
flched from the vocabulary Of language,
not earned by hard, earnest, honest men
tai labor, or placed upon them by recog-
nized medical institutions of reputation.
These men prey upon a community under
~fraudulently gained professional nomen-
clature, as often destroying a life as they
save one.
Now the question arises: Shall a COM
munity be protected from these incom-
| petents. or shall it not. If it is to be pro-
tected who is to protect it, a board COM
posed of medical men Of recognized abil-
ity or a jury composed of wcll-meaning,
honest miners or mechanics, or business
men, who may be quite able to weigh
facts and arrive at just conclusions, but
| who may be totally ignorant of the differ
ence between a diseased mucus mem
brane and a strongly marked case of
tceiam? If q medical board is to assume
the duty and the responsibility, why not
permit it to perform the n and assume
the other in the way and manner it deems
best for the interests of all concerned? If
it is not permitted to do this, why should
| the law creating a board of medical ex-
aminers cumber our statute book? Why
not repeal the law and turn the matter of
examining applicants to practice medi-
cine in Montana over to juries alto
gether?
The governors action may be approved
by some, but those who regard a medical
examining board in line with the sanitary
interests of the ill will withhold their en-
| dorsement of his excellency in vetoing the
medical bill. This veto will not strengthen
the constitution of the state if it destroy
the constitution of the sick.
A Washington dispatch says the volun-
| teers in the Philippines are not nxiou
to come home. 1t is quite possible the
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

In connection with the Van Dyck Ter
centary, which is to be celebrated at
Antwerp in August next, one million spe-
cial postage stamps will be issued which
will bear q portrait of the great painter
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

The board of directors of the Musicians
Mutual Protective Union nave signified
their Willingness to permit any of its
members to donate their services, and
with this consent on the part of the
union the renowned Boston & Montana
band will grace the occasion, rendering
many new and beautiful selections.
Beginning March Z, at 8 D. m. .,,......
GENIUS OF SHAKESPEARE.~
March IA .......... ......."SHYLOCK."
March q 80. .............."HAMLET."
March % . ....."JULTUS CAESAR"
Tickets to the full course, $3.50; single
lectures, so cents; season tickets at J. H.
Leyson's; single tickets at the box office
at the Auditorium nights of lectures.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

Hewitt sat at the table next to yours
at the restaurant yesterday, and l don't
see how you could laugh at the stale stor-
les that Gruet was telling.
Jewitt-He was paying for the dinner
What To Eat.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
The Talk OF the Day.

A band of Jealous young English
High -churchmen are keeping Lent by
p~raying-for the conversion of Sir William
Vernon Harcourt.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

A Washington dispatch says the volun-
teers in the Philippines are not anxious
to come home. 1t is quite possible the
volunteers may challenge the truthful
ness of the dispatch.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

from a drawing by Gerard Postieje. In
the programme of the fetes, drawn up
by the appointed for the pur-
pose, is included an historical procession
representing the development of art from
the earliest known times to the lays of
Rubens.
d you think it proper" said the man
who was trying to keep his temper, ito
laugh at a man who slips on a banana
peel by acicdent?"
lcally. II laughed by accident, too. I
didn't think of such a thing until l saw
you.'-What To Eat.
On the same day on which news of the
death of Lieutenant Afford, of the Twen-
tleth Kansas, who fell in battle near Ma
Mia, was cabled, Miss Evelyn McCurdy,
of Lawrence, Kansas, received in the
mail a box of native mad handkerchiefs
which had been sent by the lieutenant.
In each handkerchief was a Mauser bull
let, mounted as a pin-an ornament cruel
~ suggestive of the manner in which the
brave officer lost his life.
James H. Hamrick, rs years old. who
died recently near Parsons, W.. Va, was
famous because of his knowledge Of en-
aiming, having, it is claimed, revived
the Egyptian process. In his house are
several mummies so preserved as to ap-
pear. almost as natural as in life, the
bodies having BEEN secured from public
institutions ten years ago. They are in
glass cases. A Negroes head, obtained in
1890 from a. Cincinnati medical college,
IS exposed on a plaque, the beard and
flesh being soft and pliable. About the
exterior of the house and on trees are
preserved birds and squirrels, while here
q md thnrn in fIA x-or5 Sc n e,,o Jo oo;Io ,,
as if to Observation-Disclosures Record.
This is how a Georgia darkey explained
a fatal accident on a railroad:
How come he died, he wuz in de way
err de train; en- how come he wuz in de
way er de train wuz count er de dimmy-
john err liquor; but how come de liquor
dldn,t spill, en- de dimmyjohn didn't break
Wen de train ruined over him, is one err
desc things OATS providential, en- hid fun
our onderstardin' for a wise purpose.
All L knows fer suttin' isl don't see how
a man could go ter sleep on a railroad
track, or ~aEywhar else fer dat matter,
wild such good liquor 'longside him!"
Young America Abroad-Among the
crowd of fashionable folk in Rotten Row
stood little Lois with her mother, eagerly
watching for the coming of the royal
! eQuipage-for the rumor had gone abroad
that her majesty would drive in Hyde
Park that day. Mother. if the queen
sees me. will she speak to me?" asked
little Lois.
ooh, no, dear"
"Why, mother, is the queen so shy?'-
Judge.
"Please. sir" said one of the small
twins as they entered the grocery, 1--WE
want a cents worth of beans"
"What do o want them for?" asked
the grocer.
"Cause our mammals gone out, and
| she told us not to swallow any beans
while she was gone, and we can't find any
in the house, was the reply.-ChicaEo
News.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

from a drawing by Gerard Postieje. In
the programme of the fetes. drawn up
by the committee appointed for the pur-
pose, is an historical procession
representing the development of art from
the earliest known times to the days of
Rubens.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

DO you think it proper" said the man
VINO was trying to keep his temper, 'to
laugh at a man who slips on a banana
peel by a~cicdent?"
Well" replied the spectator-apologet-
really, II laughed by accident, too. I
didn't think of such a thing until l saw
you."-Wha To Eat.