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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
DIVIDING CHINA.

A correspondent inquiries if each of
the various powers having designs upon
China has designated the particular
portion it prefers, and if a conflict is
likely to result from two or more trying
to obtain the same slice"
AS The Herald has already stated, it
is not an easy matter to determine the
wishes of a warli1e power either from
the maneuvers of its army and navy
or from the assertions of its diplomats;
for feints and bluffs are prominent fea-
lures of modern warfare and conceal
ing real intentions is the object of di-
piomacy.
But most of the provinces have al
ready been selected and, in all prob
ability, the division, if it comes, will
be effected without resort to arms. 1t
may be that an international congress
will be called into existence. a board
of arbitration, to which the matter will
be submitted and the revision of the
map of eastern Asia entrusted.
There will be few disputes, if any, to
adjust. Russia has already secured the
Manchuria peninsula, Germany occu-
pies Shan Tung, Italy demands Che
kiang, France insists on the three
southern provinces of Yunnan, Kwei
Chu and Kwangsi, with the island of
Hainan. Europe has long known that
Great Britain intends to have the pro-
vince of the Yang-tse-Kiang valley.
This will give her control of the prov
inces of Kiangsu, Honan, Nganhwei,
Hupeh, Kiangsi, Flu KEN, Kwang Tu,
Human and the great province of
Szechuen, the largest. richest and most
populcus of all.
There are eighteen provinces alto
gether, but the Chinese government
may be allowed to retain that of Chilli
upon which it is located. That is, pro-
vided a fit of generosity overcomes the
looting powers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
"TRY, TRY AGAIN.

Interest in the proposed Salt Palace
is not dead, although the governors
veto was looked upon even by the most
enthusiastic supporters of the project,
as q. fatal stab
It may recover. In fact, there seems
to be a newborn determination to put
it through: and the character of the
men behind it, and the public spirit for
which the city and state are renowned,
seem to justify the prediction that the
Salt Palace will yet be built and Will
prove a success.
The simple fact Of the veto itself was
not so discouraging, because based
upon a strict construction Of the con-
stitution, as was the governors asser-
ton that it is clear to him that the Salt
Palace is IAN enterprise for private
gain and of private character" and
that 1.-The association in charge thereof
expects to derive a profit therefrom."
These observations were gratuitous
and unwarranted. since his eXcellency
knows the men, the enOrmity of the
undertaking, the public purpose Of the
project and the extreme imorobability
OF the promoters ever realizing a cent
from their investment except through
the general advantages which it may
prove to the community at large.
It is, indeed. gratifying to learn that
further attempts to establish a Salt
Palace, for the purpose Of advertising
Utahs beauties, resources and attrac-
tions. Will be made. The Herald wishes
them success.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24

ablaze with enthusiasm and the hills
resounding with martial airs. All this
it repeated, to the great amusement of
those acquainted with the facts.
But it seems that our neiehbor has
one true friend who blushed for it and
kindly notified it of the several kinds
of donkey it was making of itself. So
yesterday the Tribune came down from
its perch and printed the following:
"a private letter from Logan says
that Representative Laws reception at
that place was not SO demonstrative as
has been indicated. A number of his
friends from Paradise came over to
meet him, but they brought no
bands"
There were no bands. no parades, no
professions from the various settle
ments, no such demonstration as has
been indicated. Some of his friends
from Paradise drove over in a wagon
and sang songs as they drove home.
And the pipe dream of cur neighbor
is over. 1t is time to return to earth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
REFORMS IN SPELLING.

Pathological associations in Anglo
Saxon countries are trying to inaugu-
rate new reforms. They are now insist
ing that the final 'e'' be dropped when
it is not intended to lengthen the pre-
ceding vowel; that silent 'gh'' be
dropped; that "f'' be substituted for
the soft PHI and. "gh," and that an
genealogical spelling be adopted in such
words as sovereign" and foreign"
and island so that they would read
''sovran, "'forein,' Hand and so
forth.
They request that the publishers of
dictionaries be required to extend rec
ognition to these changes by inserting
these spellings with those now recog-
nfzed in the body of all dictionaries
published or revised hereafter, and that
authors and publishers OF school books
be requested to use only the amended
form of spelling in such publications
after the 4th of July, 1900.
And they further insist that all litera-
ture-books, periodicals and newspa-
pers-intended for use and circulation
in the East and West Indies, especially
the school books TO be used there, be
published with the amended spelling
recommended by the American and
British associations of the kind named
This would certainly simplify mat
ters were it practicable. 1t would en-
able our new fellow citizens to acquire
the language of commerce without any
trouble with silent letters and unneces-
sarily long words. But we fear it is
never to be. The present system has
taken too firm a hold upon the English
speaking public; the libraries are too
well filled with the old style; printers
cannot be reformed and newspapers are
entirely too busy to give the matter
any consideration.
The phonetical and chronological pur-
lists are commercially diligent and, it
may be added they are on the right
track; but the omniverous readers of
the present age of the world are not
clamoring for change and SO long as
they are satisfied and devouring liter
allure as it comes, the common usage
will remain undisturbed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
special stockholders' Meeting

OF THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE
Comstock Silver Mining company, whose
principal place of business is Salt Lake
CITY Utah and whose mines are located
in Tiintah Mining district, Summit coun-
ty. Utah Notice is hereby given that =
special meeting of the stockholders of the
Comstock Silver Mining company, cor
poration, will be held at the office OF the
company. in the Mccormick building, In
Salt Lake City. Utah. on Tuesday. the
18th day of April, A. d. 1899, at 3 O'Clock
D. m. for the purpose az of amending
section of the articles of incorporation or
said company so as to change the capital
stock of said company from 10000 shares
of the par value of $25 per share to 2O0.VOO
shares of the par value of one dollar per
share. and considering what disposition
shall be made of the 1900 shares Increase;
and (2) for the purpose of amending sec.
ton 7 of the articles OF Incorporation OF
said company so as to reduce the huInpeT
of directors from seven to i've, ana 10
for the purpose of transacting any otaer
business which may lawfully come be
fore said meeting relating to sald pro-
nosed amendments. BY order OF the board
of directors made March %. 1893.
JOSEPH NJ. COHEN,
Secretary Comstock Silver Mining Com
pany. a. r-. +Lt- oo.a
day of March, 1899. .ooo
First publication, March "A, 1917
Last publication, April is, 1899.
Pierce. Critchlow & Barrette, Attorneys
for Company.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24

Reeds secretary is authority for the
statement that the great Republican
standby is thoroughly disguised with
the presidents Philippine policy. Reed
likes a man with backbone and the
courage Of his convictions. Mckinley
is quite the opposite of his ideal. The
car even left Washington without bid
ding the president good-by. He has
not been to the White House during
the present session. He has called up
on President Mckinley only twice, and
then by special invitation-once shortly
after the inauguration and the second
time at the beginning of the session of
congress, in December 1897, to discuss
matters of legislation. He has met the
president socially on several occasions,
but has never been invited to any of
the cabinet dinners or other social func-
tons given in honor of Mr.. and Mrs
Mckinley.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
OUR NEIGHBOURS SAVIOR.

Mr.. \. A. Law, alias Shelton, is fairly
worshiped by the Tribune He is a
Republican Of the Tribune stripe, a sa-
vior Of the state on the Tribune plan,
and a worthy representative of the
Tribune's anonymous Young Utah.
1t has compared him to Leonidas
holding the pass, to the greatest detec-
tives Of the world, to Monsieur Lecocq
and Pinkerton, and, blasphemous as it
may seem, has claimed to find in him
a striking resemblance to Jesus Christ.
Some time ago our morning contem-
porary gave utterance to the following
profane sentiment in an editorial para
graph:
Mr.. Law may congratulate himself
that, in that regard, no mortal for
eighteen hundred years, has been able
to SO nearly initiate the entrance of the
Savior into Jerusalem"
Yesterday it depicted him lifting up
his eyes in Paradise (Utah?), while be
whiskered cnerubims and seraphims
around him were beating bass drums
and blowing baser horns, and behaving
very much as if the difference between
thirty pieces of silver and eighty dollars
We're as great as the world seems to
think exists between a case of petty
larceny and a transaction on Wall
street.
Our neighbours idea of the entrance
of Law into Paradise and its conception
OF the place is revealed in its headlines
hot fine in para disc,
For many days it has been trying to
convince itself and its readers that its
eighty-dollar nero had been received
with a mighty ovation upon his arrival
at Logan; that brass bands had led
professions from all parts Of Cache to
meet the train that bore him. in, that
the whole northern end of the state was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
AN ORDINANCE.

ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE FIXING
the license rate to be paid by retail liquor
dealers IN Salt Lake county. The board
of county commissioners of the county
of Salt Lake, state of Utah, ordains as
follows:
Section l. That all persons who manu-
facture, SELL barter, deal out or otherwise
dispose of any spurious. vlnous, malt or
other intoxicating liquors. either at whole
sale or retail. within Salt Lake county,
outside of any incorporated city in said
county. shall pay a license fee therefor
at the rate of S75D.0G per annum, the
same being payable quarter yearly in adj
vance. provided no license shall issue to
any. person until said license fee is
paid.
Sec. 2. Application for such license shall
be made by petition signed by the appli-
CAM and fled with the county clerk Said
petition must distinctly state the par
ticuiar place al which any of the liquors
named in section one are to be manu-
featured, sold. bartered, dealt -out OF
otherwise disposed of, and whether the
applicant intends to carry ON retail OF
wholesale business.
Sec. g. That no license shall be granted
for longer or shorter period than three
months.
Sec. l. Before a license is granted tc
the applicant he shall execute a bond te
the county, conditioned that during tbs
continuance of his license he will keep an
orderly and weli-regulated house; thai
he viii not allow gambling with cards
dice, or any, other device or implements
used in gambling, within his house, out
house, yard or other premises under his
control: that he will pay all damages
lines. forfeitures which may be adjudgec
against him under any of the provisions
OF title 90. laws of 1898. Said bond shall
be in the sum of one thousand dollars
with two or more sureties to be approved
by the board. Said sureties must justify
on oath before some officer authorized tc
administer oaths that they are residents
within the county and worth the amount
justified 10. over and above all other
debts and liabilities, exclusive of prop
erty exempt from execution. Such justi-
hcauon shall be in writing, signed by the
persons juStifying and certified to by the
officer who administers the oath and at
tached to and flied with the bond.
Sec. D. This ordinance shall take effect
thirty days from the date of approval.
Sec. o. All ordinances or resolutions in
conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
JOSEPH S. RAWLINS,
Chairman of the Board of County Com
missioners, pro TEN.
Passed and approved this 10Th day oi
March, A d. 1899
Commissioners Joseph S. Rawlins an6
George a. Whitaker voting aye. and Com
missioner FRANCIS Armstrong being
absent.
tSeall DAVID C. DUNBAR,
tAtteSO Clerk of the Board of County
commissioners.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
THE HERALD FOR NEWS

Our evening contemporary seems to
be fully as inconsistent at times as
our morning contemporary is usually.
one day it deplores personal journal
ism; next day it resorts to il. One
evening it condemns the cutting Of edi-
torial paragraphs in two; next evening
it quotes a severed half for comment.
Now it deprecates an exhibition of ill
humor in some one else: and again it
becomes as testy and as querulous as it
used to be.
The other evening it dreamed that
John Sherman was dead and its glow
ing obituary of the old gentleman
proved that visions and realities are
all the same to it.
On Wednesday it remarked that the
pope is at the point of death. AS an
item of news in the same issue it
printed the following:
The pope's physicians, DR.. Lapponi,
and Professor Mazzoni visited his holi-
ness at O'Clock yesterday afternoon
and found his general health and the
seat of the recent operation in excel
lent condition.
The Herald called attention to the
discrepancy The News flies all to
pieces now, quotes a telegram to the
contrary from the columns of The Her
aid, and suggests that we read our own
paper for news.
1t is better for a fact. This advice of
our evening contemporary is good, and
we are glad to note that its worthy
editor follows his own counsel in this,
even though it does lead to discrepan-
cies between its news and its editorial
statements.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24


That rank Republican organ, the New
York Press, takes the position that the
negroes, and especially negro soldiers,
are responsible for recent lynchings in
the south. 1t says that the negro SOL
diers have shot wild volleys at the
white people of the south wherercr
they happened to remain long enough
to get drunk. In one place they wound
ed thirteen men, women and children.
We could hardly expect the whites to
remain calm under the circumstances.
Governor Gambler is quite right in his
statement to the editor of the Press.
The negro troops are responsible for the
recent race troubles. With uniform
on his back, a Niger is fiend incar-
nate when not subjected to the strictest
military discipline
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
ASSESSMENT NO. q

THE SUCCESS MINING COMPANY
of Tintic, location of principal place of
business Salt Lake City, state of Utah;
location of mine and works, Tintic mining
district Juab county, state of Utah.
Notice is hereby given that at a meeting
of the board of directors of said com
assessment No. 4 of Il cent per share was
levied on the capital stock of the corpora
ton, payable Immediately to the secretary
at the office of the company, GIT McCor-
nick block, Salt Lake City, state of Utah.
Any stock upon which this assessment
shall remain unpaid on the Goth day of
April will be delinquent, and advertised
for sale at public auction, and unless pay
ment is made before, will be sold on the
18th day of May, to pay the delinquent
assessment, together with the costs of
advertising and expense of sale.
BY order of the board of directors.
ERNEST WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Salt Lake City, Utah. March 20. 1892
First publication, March Il, 1899.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
TALES OF THE TOWN.

Inc bind musician was grinding faith
fully away yesterday afternoon on State
street and attracting no attention until
the dog arrived He was not much of a
! dog, as dogs go nowadays; one ear was
gone, his tail had been shortened at the
wrong place and bare patches of hide
showed where he had been the unwilling
recipient OF scaidlng compliments. he had
an air about him, though, that spoke of
! better days; a jaunty sort of swing and a
wicked little leer in his left eye that told
of worldly wisdom and with it a kind
heart.
When his Dogship reached the. neigh
borhood of the organgTinder he looked
at him co1nmiseratingly. The rain was
falling with a steady drizzle and pedes-
the strains of Elsie for Chelsea" and
the musician was evidently having q hard
time of it. 1t may have been that the
dog felt sorry for him or perhaps, he was
sorry for himself but, however that may
be, he sat calmly down on his stump of a
tail ana began to howl. 1t was long,
ghosts and battle. murder and sudden
death. a newSboy edged up close and
looked wonderingly at the dog as though
he expected to be able to ''see the wheels
go round
The organgrinder didn't like the in
terruption and turned the crank of his
instrument feyerishly but the harder he
worked the louder the dog howled. 1t
ing his field when the blind mans
patience reached its limit. Stopping his
efforts to find the wandering boy he
seized his long stick and struck vicious
ly at the dog; he missed him by about a
yard and landed with terrific force on the
newsboy's shins. Then the boy joined
forces with the dog and the chorus of
bowls that went up was sufficient to at
tract everybodys attention for block
each way. While the boy and the dog
howled in unison the organgrinder swore
with a fiuency that was beautiful and
evidently the result of long practice, and
it took a big policeman nearly ten min
straighten things out. By that time the
dog had departed evidently of the opinion
that he had done as mucn for the good of
his country as was possible on a rainy
day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
ADJUSTMENTS.

In case they had i'm any way forgot
ten it, a large audience was at the
Grand last night to Remember the
Maine" all over again. And it is safe
to surmise that they will remember il
for a day or two, at least.
This latest dramatic invention Of Lin
coin j. Carriers, while fashioned on the
familiar lines of melodrama, was writ
ten for the purpose of appealing TO al
the patriotism that could possibly eX'
list in an American heart-almost every
line is a catch for applause. Or
course, the prime motive, then, is the
friendship between America and Eng
land, the sympathy of America fol
Cuba, and the hatred of Spain for al
three. The leading characters have
these traits strongly in evidence. ant
the. actors last night used them for al
they were worth. The lines of The
play follow the newspaper accounts o.
the Maine disaster very closely, witt
due observance for dates. For the rest
we all know that Carter keys up the
. emotions to the highest pitch, and aim:
to fire his audience with enthusiasm tbs
same way as he delights in firing pyro-
technics in his scenic effects. In due
sequence we saw Fitzhugh Lee, Gen
eral Weyler, Captain Sigsbee, tht
Maine explosion and the battle of Ma
Mia. 1t fairly seemed like the days
.'befo' de wah"
The company is somewhat above ths
average of a Carter meiodrama, anc
handles the thrills with telling effect
The piece stays at the Grand for the
remainder Of the week.
The manager of the Ellis Opera com.
pany has made complete arrangement:
fO,~ tic hi nir nd
nCunces, an unusually attractive pro.
gramme.
The opera of "Lohengrin" will b.
given. supplemented by short miscel
laneous programme. The principals vii
be Nine. GadsSli. Nine. Olitzka, MessTs
Van Hoose, Bensaude, Rains and Stefl
man, together with the large chorus. A
special feature will be the famous New
York Symphony orchestra
The mana gers of the GodowsiSy con.
cert in Provo have decided to turn their
efforts for Salt Lake toward the Og
March 90. The Provo people deserve
praise for this courtesy toward Their
neighbors, as Ogden and the date vii
prove much more convenient to the peo
pie of Salt Lake. The seats will be or
sale at Cdlder's, and much interest i:
taken in the affair by Salt Lake must
clans.
There are few men better known to
the reading public than Ian Maclaren
known in private life as the Rev. DR.,
John Watson, and it is a foregone con-
clusion that when he is heard in Salt
Lake on the night of April 8, in the
Assembly hall, he will be greeted by a
large audience.
DR.. Watson has been as successful on
the platform as reader as he is as a
writer, and in every place he has ap-
peared his audiences have been de-
lighted. There is a lovable, human
quality about DR.. Mcclure and the
other characters that he has made ia
nous that endears them to every one,
and when their creator reads in his
musical voice the story of their deeds
they live and breathe before the audi
ence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24

NOT1E is HEREBY GIVEN BY THE
city council of Salt Lake City, Utah, Of
the intention to make the following de-
scribed improvements: Extending and lay
ing sewer lateral along the following
named street, to-wit: On the west side
OF Ninth East street, between First South
street and South Temple street, and de-
fray, the cost. thereof. estimated at $50
per linear or front foot, or eight hundred
twenty-five fifty-one-hundredth dollars,
by local assessment for depth of p
feet upon the block. lots. parts of lots
and pieces of ground within Sewer Dis
trict No l, being the property, lots. parts
of lots and pieces of ground in SAID district
to be affected or benefited by said i'm
provement, namely: The north 40 feet
of lot l. and all of lots 6, 7 and s, block So;
plat ''B, Salt Lake City survey. All pro-
tests and objections to the carrying out of
such intention to make said Improvement
must be presented in writing to the city
recorder. on or before the 18th day of
April, 1899. being. the time set by the
sa!d council when it will hear and cons.d r
objections as may be made thereto. By
order of the city council of Salt Lake
City, Utah, made the 21st day of March,
1899 GUSTAVE H BACKMAN.
City Recorder.
Sewer Intention No As
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
SUMMONS

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SALT
Lake county, state of Utah. Matte A.
Rehrens plaintiff, VS.. Henry f. Behrens,
defendant. Summons.-The state of Utah
to the said defendant: You are hereby
Summoned TO appear within twenty days
after the service of this summons upon
Won if served within the county in which
this action is brought, otherwise within
thirty days after service, and defend the
above entitled action; and in case of your
failure so to do, judgment will be rem
dered against you according to the de-
mand of the complaint, which is now on
file in the office of the clerk of the dis
trict court of Salt Lake county.
- MORRIS SOMMER,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
p O. Address, Rooms IA and 10, Eagle
block, Salt Lake City, Utah.