The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-31
Utah Volunteers Description Of
Present Conditions.
TRIBUTE TO MAI. YOUNG
GOODNESS AND BRAVERY OF
UTAH OFFICER.
Isaac Russell, Now Secretary of a
Mining Company-His Horse Shot
Instead of James Creelman's-
Chinese Threaten to Run the
Islands-Have Great Wealth.

A letter just received in this city
from a. Utah volunteer in Manila tells
entertainingly of present conditions in
the Philippine islands: There is hard
/ ~ a Utah man here now. Manila is
the dumping place for the filth and
outcastS of the world, but the strong
military law enforced at the end of the
long tom-toms keeps the acts of these
people down, and when they are caught
they get il properly" the writer states.
''Only today a fellow was sent to Bill
bid, our local prison. to serve a six
months sentence ana Their 1000 days
more, for besides the Imprisonment he
was fined $3.50, which he will have to
work out in jail at the rate of 25 cents
per day. the same as is allowed natives
under the old Spanish laws.
Il tell you, people of Utah, you can
never oVerestimate the work of Ma
jor Young. I have seen him when 1
fquaked and trembled and dug my hole
cut holes in trees on each side of him,
just as cool as if he were eating at
home. 1t is very few who are that way
and they are far between"
Importance of Cinnamon.
Referring to the prominence of the
Chinese in Manila. the writer says:
and they are going to get the pie of
the Philippines if the Americans don't
wake up. l fear that American capital
will not have the courage to invest in
the great riches and to develop the I'M
precedented opportunities that are
kicking around loose, until after the
ground floor is full One phase of the
Chinese question that is rather odd is
the immense amount of capital that
y ira haE n DISMISSAL There
are twenty firms which can obtain
credits of $4,000 at the banks of the
city. and many a scraWny, n!tiN
Chinaman is worth a million or less.
They have a government all of their
own, and no Chinaman is so poor that
he cannot find friends to bail him out
of Jail and produce the amount of his
fine, no matter how large. 1t is very
rare that Chinaman does time. Every
Chino seems to be bound to some other
Chino, and one never does business
with principals, but always with agents.
Each district seems to have ruler who
attends to all the commercial relations
with outsiders and keeps all members
out of trouble. John Chinaman does
business on the sugar-coated commits
sion plan, and the whole crowd are
salams and cod fish. When a Chino
comes to your office with a bill, he
stays outside grinning and bowling low.
In response to your demand to 'entre
pronto" he kisses the doorstep, bows
till you get tired and finally reaches
his hand close enough for you to get his
letter. 1t is a bill all receipted and
payment acknowledged, according to
the custom of the country. All you do
is hand him his money. then with a
few dozen more salams he bows him
self out and is gone.
THE Chinos have had lots of money
by the government of Spain
and are now prey for the insurrection-
lists. Consequently much of their +,
wealth was horded in England and
China. but now. as confidence is re-
stored. it is being brought out of its !
holes TO be applied to every sort of en- F.!
terprise which the change of conditions |
brings into existence.
Ike Russell In Clover.
The letter mentions the fact of the |
organization of the Philippine Mining /
Bureau & Development company by |
bank officials residing al Manila and |
Isaac Russell. formerly a
private in battery A of the Utah Light
is the company's secretary.
Russell is The Herald's Manila cores
and besides he is writing for
Leslie's syndicate. The writer reports
hat while James ]. Creelman was rep
'esenting the New York Journal in the
Philippine campaign, Russell was as
;isting him, but he, Russell. got
cared out after having horse plugged
inder him. Creelman wrote of this in
.ident to the Journal, telling how his
,wn horse was killed under him."
Russell is putting his spare time in
It writing volume of stories of bat
cry life and sketches of queer charac-