The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-15
HOTEL GOSSIP.

4A-AeNAeA was III tON4L ySSACANuI tAA AaAS
way from the Philippines to his home in
| the east. Mr.. Davis was attached TO the
reglmental hospital corps. and constantly
on the firing line while in service in the
far east. Speaking of his experiences
and deductions after a close observation
OF actual conditions now existing in our
imperial possessions. Mr.. Davis said:
Every Filipino is born with a large per-
centage of treachery in his makeup. He
Will beg food of you, eat 1t ravenously.
and then thank you by stabbing you in
the back. They are not susceptible to
fine phrases or honeyed words: the only
sentiment they have is revenge for i'm
ag5nary wrongs. and the sooner the
United States stops the issuing of mani
with sword and gun the sooner they'll
capitulate. The staff officers now in the
philippines ere the most greedy. grasp
ing set of morta5s I ever came into con-
tact with. The commissary generals.
quartermasters and adjutants are pro-
longing the condict to satisfy their own
selishness. Situated as they are, they
can work into all sorts of outside deals,
and every one of them let's no opportun-
lty to feather his nest escape him. wheth-
or or not it interferes with his duties
nave no opportunities out there, as the
attitude of the officers towards the en-
listed men. even after honorable dis
charge. is unbearahle: and man with
the tiniest spark of self-respect in his
makeup would make almost any sacri-
flee to get away from it. Lawton is the
Every man who has been in the Phil
ippines acknowledges the efficiency and
superiority of the Utah batteries. They
We're the keystone TO the entire army
and their departure for home was much
regretted by all the regiments, regular
and volunteer. No successors worthy of
the name have appeared since they left
the Islands. Major Young was the ac-
knowledged chief of artillerists. and his
enclency anc gentlemanly qualities won
MIN the praise and friendship of every
tod a.. L ,&i-
army corps"
Ex-Sheriff Turner of Cache county ar
rived in town yesterday with his clothes
filled to the bullying out point with sam
pies of copper ore from the Rich-Cache
mines near Bear lake. The ex-sheriff was
copper plated with reserve last evening,
but said: The. mines are situated on the
dividing line between Rich and Cache
counties, about two miles from Bear lake.
Ihey are on the same lode that runs from
the La Plata district to the Humming
Bird back of Paris. which is being
worked by Colonel Shaughnessey. We
have penetrated to a depth of eighty-five
feet, and there came across a seven-foot
YEN that gives promise of great results.
Some of the ore is now at Sandy being
assayed, but cannot state what the per-
centage of copper will be. The stock
holders are very well satisfied with the
results thus far, and believe they have
got hold of a good thing
George Francis Train. jr., son of the
famous New York writer and philan-
thropist, arrived in town from San Fran
cisco yesterday and put up at Knuts-
ford. Mr.. Train sells hats for a San
francisco house, but he refused last even
ing 70 ne quoted through that article of
wearing apparel. George Francis Train
ST., is now q years of age. and despite the
TACT that he has not tasted particle of
ANIMAL 1000 of any sort in the past TWEEN
vigorous constitution. He is very alb
stemious in his diet. His breakfast, which
Is MS only meal, he usually eats at 5
o clock in the morning and consists of |
a saucerful of oatmeal, without sugar or
cream. He writes principally for his own
amusement, but once in a while an ar
tlcle or two manages to find it's. way into
PRINT. Ihree times q week he boxes with
Mike Donovan. and he has learned how
70 make men forty years younger hustle |
t ! op,, i points. Several years ago he was
MS neck. The doctors wanted to oper- |
ate on 1t. but dad had his own ideas !
ar removing it. He went into a Turk !
ism bath and stayed there for forty-eight |
hours: That was the last of the Job-like I
ah1iction,' said Mr.. Train
Archie Brandt waits on table at the
h4ln1utsford. and versatile chap he is.
song, paradoxical as it may sound ne is ,
colored, because he was born that Wav |
creme mas an unquenchable thirst for /
knowledge, and can sling quotations from
cicero or extract the cube root to ten |
decimal places with equal facility. He
attended the Philips-Andover academy |
Ior unree years, and last year was gradu-H
ated at the Boston English high School. |
He may be seen daily in the Knutsford |
dining room, weighted down with a tray |
nlled with dishes, and the cares that arise
from hypodermic injections of Greek. /
Latin and algebraic roots. Archie knows /
a thing or two, and is the social lion and l
beau ideal of the c0lored 400. He will de- ,
liver an address on The Hone of the.
Race" at the Salt Palace on Sept % He ,
is immersed in mathematics and deceased
languages every evening nowadays and |
expects TO pass the entrance examinations
for Yale academic this fall.
G. B: Mexican, wife and two sons of
Milford are at the Cullen.