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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
feed and provisions for the Philippines.
There are seventy-five members of the
Third cavalry aboard.
GOLD In THE TREASURY.
Largest Amount On Hand In History
of the Department.

Washington, Aug. 31.-Today's treas
ury statement shows that the amount
of net gold on hand is S247. SS0,60 This
is the largest amount on hand at one
time in the history of the department,
the next largest having been $246,Slo
026, on Dec. 81, 1898.
This situation is accounted for by
the fact that during the last two weeks
or more the revenues of the govern
ment, of which from so to 80 per cent
are paid in gold, have largely exceeded
the expenditures.
AT New York. the customs receipts,
with the exception of from s to 10 per
cent, are all being paid in gold, and at
other important points the excess of
gold has been nearly or quite as large.
The receipts to-day exceeded the ex-
penditures by f$1 ,460,66S and for the
month the excess amounts to nearly
81, 100000. Since July l, however, a de-
ficit is shown of $4036,6 5S The total
receipts for the month are $49, 97S, i7S, Of
which 20,546,697 came from customs,
$24, 49,, 039 from internal revenue, and
IS, 1874 .436 from miscellaneous sources.
The expenditures amount to $45.51S,-
600, of which S14,9S1, 600 was charged to
the war department, 81. $3.50 to the ma
Wy, $13, 10000 to pensions, and the re-
to civil and miscellaneous, in
tereSt anG Indian accounts. For AG-
gust of last year the payments to the
war department amounted to $24. 015,
Q34
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
HALSTEAD IN DANGER
Anti-imperialists Try to Mob Him
In Cincinnati.
CALLED THEM TRAITORS
MADE A RUSH AT HIM WITH
RAISED FISTS.
The Famous Editor Delivered an Adj
dress at the Economic Club and
Said Some Things That Enraged
the Aguinaldo Sympathizers-Es-
capped Through a Side Door.

Cincinnati, Aug. 31.-Editor Murat
Halstead lectured tonight, by invitation
of the Economic club, which meets in
the Vine street Congregational church.
The audience was miscellaneous, in ad-
dition to the club, which is largely i'm
perialistic. Mr.. Halstead's subject was
THE Philippines
After the lecture, according to THO
rules of the club, Mr.. Halstead was
piled with questions One of the ques-
toner's with decided sympathy for Ag-
uinaldo, after his question had been an
swered, added the remarks:
L hope Otis will be kept in and will
keep on laundering till he and the whole
army are driven into the sea or cap
tured.''
Mr.. Halstead-A man with those SEN
timents is a traitor to his country.
Several men jumped up and remark
ed: ''Two-t thirds of this audience think
that way
Mr.. Halstead replied: whoever
thinks that way is a traitor"
Then there was a rush down the hall,
with raised fists toward Mr.. Halstead,
but great number of men stepped in
between Mr.. Halstead and those who
We're rushing at him. Through the noise
and uproar was disclosed the fact that
the audience was composed of men on
both sides of that question. Mr.. Hal
stead was quietly led out of the church
by a side door and taken home. No
blows were struck, but chairs and seats
were upset and there We're loud threats
and a great uproar.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
Portrays Scenes From Her own
Life On the Stage.
SHE MAKES A DECIDED HIT
PRINCE OF WALES TELEGRAPHs
HIS BEST WISHES.
Appeared at Haymarket Theatre
Last Night In Sydney Grundy's
New Comedy "The Degenerates''-
-Her Daughter In Cashier
Husband Saw Play From a Box.

London, Aug. 31.-Mrs. Langtry's ap-
pearance at the Haymarket theatre this
evening in Sydney Grundy's new COM
edy, THE Degenerates, was a decided
success. She daringly portrayed what
are generally understood to be scenes
taken from her own life.
The realism of the initial act is so in
tense, bringing in as it does, the scam
dals associated with her name, that the
unanimous comment at the close of the
performance was, 1T was good, but she
was awfully brave to do it"
Mrs. Langtry acted better than ever
before, seeming to throw herself thor
oughly into the spirit of the comedy,
which bristles with epigrams, but is oc-
casionally vulgar.
Mr.. Hugo Gerald de Battle, her hus-
band looked on from a box with the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and
Prince Louis of Battenberg. The Ouch
ess of Marlborough, many other titled
persons and a large number of well
known Americans, including Nat Good
win. were in the audience. The Prince
of Wales telegraphed from Marienbad:
MY best wishes for a brilliant sue
cess. Booked for fortnight from to-
day. ALBERT.'
Charles Hawley, Miss Lily Hanbury
and Miss Lily Grundy were the pick of
the cast, the last named lady being
Mrs. Langtry's daughter, who made her
first stage appearance tonight.
Mr.. Grundy's clever dialogue met with
the usual appreciation. 1t is probable
that 1.-THE Degenerates'' will be taken
to the United States in the course of
few months.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
ANOTHER FOSSIL-HUNTER.
DR.. Ward Goes to Wyoming to Look
For Cycads.


Laramie, Wyo., Aug. S1.-Dr. Lester
Ward, chief of the bureau of paleo-
botany at Washington, will arrive here
Saturday. accompanied by Professor
Knight. He will proceed TO Medicine
Bow and will there take stage for a
tWenty-fivemile trip into the interior
He will examine the beds of cycads re-
Gently opened by assistants in his de-
partment.
DR.. Ward, who is the first living au-
thority on cycads, has been greatly i'm
pressed by photographs of the Wyom-
ing cycad beds taken by ole of his
assistants now in the field. These pho
tographs lead the scientist to suppose
that the most valuable cycad beds
known to science have been discovered
in the great fossil state.
DR.. Wards monumental work on cy-
cads viii contain a discussion of Wy
oming's contributions, and it's author
wishes to verify the testimony of the
photographs before sending the work
to press. He has visited every cycad
field in the world, but now comes to
Wyoming for the first time. He will
remain in the field several days.
This distinguished government scien-
fist has returned from a visit to Ari-
zona's agatized forest. He is leading
the movement to make of these forests
a government reserve and thus protect
them against the ravages of collectors.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
THE RANGES ARE ovERTAyED
GOVERNMENT MAY CEASE FREE
GRAZING POLICY.
Proposed to Substitute a System of
Leases to Preserve the Western
Pasture Lands.

Washington, Aug. 31.-Professor
Lampson F. Scribner, chief of the gar
trology division Of the agricultural de-
partment, has just returned from an
extended tour of the Pacific coast and
the northwest, where he went to study
the grasses and forage. plants of those
regions. The government has a grass
farm al Walla Walla, where extensive
experiments are making with grass
available for the vast arid tracts of
the west.
The most startling condition Pro-
fessor Scrfbner found was in the big
cattle ranges on the public lands east
of the Cascades in eastern Oregon,
Washington, Wyoming, Idaho and Col
orado. These ranges are badly over
stocked, and there mas been, conse-
quently, a great deterioration of grass
upon them. Radical measures will be
required to restore them to first-cla
condition as pasture lands.
Upon the advice of Professor Serb
ner, Secretary Wilson, in his forth
coming annual report, will recommend
that the government cease the policy
of allowing free grazing, and substitute
a system of leases. This would place
the land leased entirely under the con-
troll of the lessee, and make it to his
interest not to overstock his range. AS
further incentive, it is suggested that
it might be well to give the lessu2 the
preference when the land is sold.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
WANTS FURTHER CONFERENCE.
Suggestion of Great Britain to the
Transvaal Government.

Pretoria, Aug. S1.-The Transvaars
note to Great Britain offering the five
year franchise and the other conces-
sions, was strongly worded and eX-
planned that the concessions were made
with sincere desire fully to settle all
differences. to put an end to strained
relations and to avert a disastrous war,
therefore, a prompt answer was re-
queSted.
The note of Mr. Conyngham Green,
in reply, was conciliatory and tanta-
mount to an acceptance of the five year
offer. 1t agreed to waive the suggest
ed commission of inquiry, provided a
representative to be appointed by Sir
Alfred Miner, should be given facilities
in Pretoria to make an investigation
of the franchise question and provided
the report of such representative
should prove satisfactory. Otherwise
the Transvaal government was request
ed to await further suggestions from
the imperial government before sub
hitting the new proposals to the Volks-
raad.
Mr.. Green's note in conclusion sug-
gested further conference at Cape
Town.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
M'KINLEY AT HIS HOME.
Receives Visits From and Chats With
His Old Friends.

Canton. Aug. S1.-President McKinley's
brief visit to this, his home. is marked
with almost constant calls and informal
visits from his old neighbors and friends.
But he seems to be thoroughly enjoying
the little chats with his OLD friends and
this evening is in the best of spirits.
Aside from a trip to the cemetery this
morning with Mrs. Mckinley. where they
laid fresh flowers on the graves of de-
parted parents and relatives. and the
little detour about the city which FOL-
lowed. the president remained practically
all day at the Barber residence. Only the
most urgent matters of pubic business
were forwarded from Washington to re-
ceive attention here but even this kept
the secretaries well occupied.
This evening the president went to Il
local food show. The size of the crowd
almost blockaded the show when he ar
rived. and some one proposed that ne 60
through a rear entrance opening upon the
stage. from where the view was COM
paratively clear, but this he declined TO
do. saying he would stand just as o-her
people did. Guards made a way ard the
party passed up and down the aisles in
sDecting and admiring the displays. He
shook hands with many friends and ac-
QuaintanceS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
JIMINEz IS RELEASED.
Will Start Today For Santo Domingo,
Where He Is Awaited.

Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 31.-General
Juan Isidro Jiminez, the revolutionary
aspirant to the presidency of Santo Do
mingo, will lea Santiago de Cuba to-
morrow On a spet ia'ly chartered steam
err, the George Croise, General Wood,
military cover lor, having received in
struction frorI General Brooke to re-
lease him from custody, unless there
are indications that he is promoting
a filibustering expedition.
Today General Jiminez received nu-
merous dispatches from Santo Domingo
announcing the downfall of the old
government and urging his speedy ar
rival He says the revolution has been
practically bloodless, as the people are
almost unanimous against the old re-
gime.
General Jiminez has issued long
proclamation announcing the reforms
he will institute if he is chosen presi-
dent. The existing laws Of Santo DO
mingo are, he asserts, adequate. if
properly enforced. All that is needed is
honest execution. and he has no doubt
of his own immediate success.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
ONLY A FEW LEFT.
Less Than 100 Appointments of Vol
unteer Officers to Be Made.

Washington, Aug. 3.-Adjutant Gem
eral Corbin said today that there we're
less than 100 appointments of volunteer
officers yet to be made, and that they
belonged mainly to the states OF Wis
consin. California and Ohio. The quotas
OF the other states are full. All the
field commissions in the volunteer es-
tablishment have been distributed,
with the exception of one lieutenant
colonelcy and ten majorities. The presi-
dent had made a small list, from which
these appointments viii be made. and it
is expected the result will be announced
in a few days.
The governors of states which con-
tributed colored troops TO the volunteer
army in the war with Spain have been
requested by the secretary of war TO
nominate company officers for the col
ored volunteer regiment 10 be organ
lied for service in the Philippines. Col
onel William p. Duvall of the Twenty
sixth infantry, most probably, will have
command of the proposed regiment.
The other regimental officers will be
secured from the colored regiments
which rendered such gallant and ef-
ficient service in the battles of Ell Caney
and San Juan Hill in the Santiago cam
paign.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
REPORT ON PENSIONS.
Were 4O,22e Names Added to the
Roll During the Year

Washington, Aug. 31.-The annual re-
port of the Hon. II. Clay Evans, COM
missioner of pensions, shows that dur
ing the year there were added TO the
pension roll 1929 names and 43, 1856 were
dropped, 34,S4o of these by reason of
death.
There was expended for pensions
Sl3S, 355, 052- The annual value of the
entire pension roll amounts to s131 ,617,-
S61, being $649. 1856 more than it was, due
to the higher average annual value of
pensions. The roll is made up of 753, 451
surviving soldiers, 2S7, AS widows and
dependent relatives, and 613 nurses. The
total number of original applications
filed during the year, including those
on account of the war with Spain, was
tS,765.
The number of original claims allow
ed was 3I,Ol7. During the year 10I, 919
claims of all classes were rejected, a
large percentage of these being claims
for increase.
The report will state that the delay
in the adjudication of claims is, in
nearly every case the fault of the
claimants or their attorneys. In order
that the present complex system of
pensioning may be simplified. and to
secure a more uniform practice in the
future, the appointment of a commit
tee on revision of laws, rules and regu-
la lions is recommended
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
INDIANS WERE ROUTED.
Mexican Troops Have Lively Fight
With Hostile Yaquis.

Hermosillo. Mexico, Aug. 31-A COM
pany of volunteers went from here this
morning to PLAYA to join Colonel Pie
nadoe's command and arrest the Yaquis
who had destroyed the telegraph lines
to Potam The troops met band of
about eighty Yaquis and a short fight
occurred, in which one soldier was kill
ed and the Indians routed.
General Torres headquarters have
been entirely cut off from Geographic
communication from the outer world
for the last five days. The Yaquis
burned about mile of telegraph poles
and carried the wire away.
Volunteers continue TO arrive daily in
columns of 100 or more, and a heavily
guarded pack train of mules is kept
busy conveying new guns and ammuni-
ton from the launches at Medano to
Lorin Many of the natives who occupy
huts near the edge of the town have
become so alarmed that they CARRY
their beds in near the heart of the Pu-
ebla TO pass the night.
General Luis Torres has suspended
hostilities till October, when cooler
weather will have set in and the troops
will be better able to take care of them
selves. BY that time there will be about
5000 more soldiers in the field.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
THREE OUT OF FOUR DEAD.
Terrible Experience of Party of
Miners In Alaska.

Seattle. Wash, Aug. 31.-Advices
from Dawson state that F. C. Gilbert
has arrived there from Fort Yukon
with news of the death Of three mem
bers of a San Francisco party of four
who wintered on the Black river, a
tributary of the Porcupine.
Four men, E. f. Amstor, Herbert
Earl, j. B. Mcdonald and c. D. Whit
more, known as the Amstor party of
San Francisco, left Fort Yukon last
fall for the Black river to prospect.
They got up the river about 100 miles
when winter overlook them and they
were compelled to go into winter
quarters. All four became sick with
the scurvy, and before the river opened
three of them had died.
The surviving member of the party,
c. d. Whitmore, managed to rig up a
boat and drift down the river. He was
found and taken in by some fishermen
at the mouth of the Porcupine, in a
most helpless condition, and was sent
to the hospital at Circle City, where
he is now doing fairly well.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
WRECK OF BRITISH STEAMER.
Five of the Crew of the Tekoa. Which
Foundered. Picked UP.

San Francisco, Aug. 31.-The Mer-
chants Exchange has received the fol-
lowing news from Valparaiso, Chile:
The British bark Iredale, which ar
rived today from Barry, reports the
British bark Clifford, from Cardiff. for
San Francisco, as having been spoken.
The Clifford reports having picked up
a boat with five of the crew of the Brit
ish steamer Tekoa, from Wellington, N.
T., for London, which was wrecked on
Staten island. The steamer is supposed
to have foundered after she struck. Her
crew left her in boats.
The Tekoa was vessel of about 200
tons, engaged in the general carrying
trade
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
THE BIG BICYCLE TRUST.
Completes Organization and Ar
ranges For Issue of Bonds.

New York, Aug. 31.-The American
Bicycle company completed its perma-
nent organization. Albert G. Spauld-
ing was elected president
For the purchase of the various
plants, which include the oldest and
most prominent bicycle concerns in the
United States, there will be issued S1O,-
00O, 900 per cent twenty year gold
debenture bonds; s1O.OOO,OOO per cent
preferred stock and 500, ZOO, 900 common
stock, leaving in the treasury ample
means for the purchase of such addi-
tionaI plants as may be desirable and
for the extension of the business es-
pecially in foreign countries.
The manufacturers have all the $10,-
600, 600 preferred stock and the $40, 000,-
900 common stock and have subscribed
for a substantial part of the debenture
bonds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
FILIPINOS ARE ROUTED.
American Troops With Field Pieces
Clean Out a Band of Natives.

Manila, Aug. 31.-Dispatches just re-
ceived from Cebu announce that the
American troops under Colonel Bayless,
with two field pieces, sailed on Monday
into the hills against a band of natives
who recently ambushed four of our SOL
diers and who have been generally
troublesome. The American force found
the natives entrenched and drove them
from their trenches further into the
hills.
There were no casualties on the Am
erican side, though there were some
heat prostrations. The natives loss is
not known.
The United States cruiser Charleston
landed men, who guarded the city dur
inf~ the absence of the troops.
The Fourth infantry having prepared
to give the insurgents a warm recep
ton, the latter have ceased their prep
afations for an attack on linus.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
THE TROOPS COMING HOME.
General Otis Informs War Depart
ment Regarding Departure.

Washington, Aug. 3l.-General Otis
today informed the war department Of
the departure from Manila of the trans
port Para, in the following dispatch:
THE Para sailed today: fourteen Of
ficers. forty-one enlisted and 924 dis
charged men, six civilians"
Another dispatch from General Otis
gives the dates Of the sailing of the
transports now at Manila, and which
will bring all the state volunteers in
the Philippines TO this country. This
cable says:
Tartar sails Sept. 3; Pennsylvania,
Sept. ;; Newport and Ohio, Sept. ~
The state volunteers yet remaining
in the Philippines, in the order in which
they left San Francisco for Manila,
are: First Washington, Twentieth
Kansas, Third Tennessee. Fifty-first
Iowa. troop of Nevada cavalry, First
Wyoming battery.
1t is the policy of the war depart
ment to have the troops return in the
order in which they sailed. and these
volunteers will probably come on the
ships above named in the same order
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
GIVEN HEARTY AND
NOISY RECEPTION
Escorted Through the City By the
California Volunteers.
Parade From the Wharf Was Headed
By the Governors of the Respec-
tive States Soldiers Were
Crowned With Wreaths of Laurel
Will Probably Be Mustered Out
turn to Their Homes.

San Francisco, Aug. 31.-At 8 O'Clock
this morning the 1,SSS officers and men
of the Idaho, First North Dakota and
First Wyoming regiments of volunteer
infantry and a battalion of the Wyom-
ing light artillery, who arrived yester-
day from Manila, disembarked from the
transport Grant at the Folsom street
wharf and marched in triumphant pro-
cession through the city to the Preside.
where they will remain in camp until
mustered out of service.
The reception accorded the returning
volunteers was hearty and noisy,
bombs being fired at regular intervals
over the heads of the cheering crowds
which thronged the streets from the
tops of tallesr buildings as the column
marched past.
The returning men were escorted by
the First California volunteers and i've
batteries of the Third artillery, who
formed on Market street to receive the
troops, and wheeled into line after they
had marched past. At the head of each
column rode the governors of their re-
spective states and their staffs, who
subsequently fell out of column at the
junction of Bush street and Van Ness
avenue, for the purpose of reviewing
their respective organizations from
stands erected for that purpose.
Decorated With Wreaths.
The men, who wore the regulation
khaki uniforms, were decorated with
laurel wreaths. and a bunch Of flowers
was inserted into the muZZle of each
rifle.
Among the Idaho officials were Gov
ernor Frank Steunenberg, Lieutenant
Governor, Hutchinson, major Lucius
Rice. state treasurer; Bartlett Sinclair,
state auditor; NJ. Patrie, secretary of
state; j. Cizzik, mine inspector; c. ].
Bassett. immigration commissioner;
Judge j. H Hawley, state attorney and
prosecutor of the famous Wardner riot
cases: Surveyor General Perrault;
Captain William Welles of the gov
errors staff: ]. L. Weaver, United
States Senator Shoup and Congressman
Wilson and WIFE,
From North Dakota there were Cen
eral z. S. Miller United States Sem
ators Hansbrough and McCumber, Con-
gresham B. Spaulding, Colonel Peake
and Colonel ]. w. Jones, the latter for
nerly commander of the North Dakota
regiment. but invalided home just be-
fore the Filipino insurrection.
Wyoming was represented by Gov
ernor d. F. Richards. Major F. NJ.
Foote, Adjutant General F. A. Sitter,
Colonel \. p. Hanson, Colonel p. Cow
ert. Captain p. Sullivan, Captain
Charles Jackson. Captain John Indale,
Mrs. CAPTAIN Clark, Mrs. Thorp and j.
Hope Sutor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
THE HERALD BULLETIN.
PAGE ONE
INN Of the RreeiJ;o

PAGE ONE
In Camp at the Presidio.
Dreyfus Weeps In Court.
Tried to Mob Halstead.
Santo Domingo Revolution Victor
ious.
Boer Women Warlike.
PAGE TWO.
Future of the Short Line.
Superintendent Cason Resigns.
PAGE THREE.
Honor Returned Veterans
Captain De Lamar Returns.
PAGE FOUR.
Editorial.
PAGE FIVE
Mcdonnell Case Postponed.
State News.
PAGE SIX.
Mining Stock Market.
PAGE SEVEN.
Lawyers Talk Of Arbitration.
PAGE EIGHT.
Republican Search For G. Victim.
Another Wife-beating Case.
DR.. Loswenstein May Remain.
Alleged Robbers Rooster Caught.
Scrap On the Midway.
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Cuts Their Travel Paw.

Washington. Aug. 31.-The discovery
of a shorter route between Manila and
the United States has had a rather de-
pressing effect upon some Of the troops,
as it reduces their travel pay. The old
route was $3.50 miles. but of late the
transports have cut off the 700 miles re-
quired by touching at Honolulu. Some
of the soldiers at Manila had received
travel pay on the basis Of the old
route, but part of the first payment has
been refunded to the paymasters. This
applied only to those soldiers at Manila
who re-enlisted and received travel pay
to which they would have been entitled
if they had returned to the United
States