The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
A STORY OF PROGRESS.

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A STORY OF PROGRESS.
The report of Baron Cromer, the Brit
ish agent and consul general in Egypt,
is looked upon as being a wonderful
story of progress and the triumph of
administrative foresight and military
vigor. He advocates extending the
railroad from Khartoum through Abu-
Haraz to Geodarif and Massala to Sua-
kim, and thus tap the territory about
the Upper Nile, which Samuel Baker
called "the granary of the Soudan."
Geodarif is the center of this grain-pro-
ducing region. Lord Cromer says that
hitherto grain at Khartoum has at
times been sold at famine prices, while
at Geodarif it can be had in such uuan-
titles that it is unsaleable. The railroad
will change all this.
The British agent also makes a sig
nificant remark that: School statistics
show that French is dying out as the
language of the middle classes and En-
glish has already largely taken its
place.
The Figaros revelations in the pub
LEGATION of the evidence in fhe court of
cessation in the Dreyfus case is the
sensation of Paris, and has revived the
keenest interest in the Drevfus affair.
The Dreyfusites are highly pleased with
the publication of the dispositions,
which, in fact, are apparently approved
by the whole mass of sober opinion in
France. The Figaros bold step is par
ticularly interesting, as last year its
editor Unexpectedly championed Drey-
fus, with the result that the paper lost
a great number of subscribers, and the
proprietors removed the editor from his
position.
FIGARO INCURS HOSTILITY.
The Figaro his now taken a step
which has drawn upon it the formidable
hostility of the general staff of the war
office, which desired secrecy, and whose
reputation is grievously damaged by
the publication of the dispositions, in
which there are evidences that the war
department engineered different trials,
Influenced witnesses and had the inten-
ton of preventing the eXculpation OF
Dreyfus, though the motive of the war
department in so doing still remains
obscure.
The dispositions show that both NJ.
Cavaignac, the former minister OF war,
and General Roget, who restated the
whole Of the general staff case, failed to
produce any direct evidence against
4)reyfus.
The testimony of Examining Magis-
trate Bortulus was very damaging. He
declared PLAINLY MS OplI1Oli ludl
tenant du Patty de Clam and Major
Count Esterhazy were the guilty men.
The Duke and Duchess of York next
week wiz pay their serond visit to Ire
land within two years. 1t is evident that
they desire to become popular with the
Irish people They intend to attend
number of public functions. On their
arrival in Dublin on Monday they will
become the guests of the lord lieuten-
attend the Punchestown and Leopards-
town races. the viceregal ball at Dublin
castle, the Dublin society's cattle show,
and viii also pay a short visit to the
Marquis of Ormonde at Kilkenny cas-
tie
The government has decided to re-
lease three Irish political prisoners,
Mullet, Fitzharris and O'Hanlon, now
undergoing life sentence in Mayboro
Jail for participation in the Phoenix
Park murders. A deputation from the
corporation of Dublin, headed by the