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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-11-18
IntPrment In LOnJOn.

Careful estimates show that each
year there are inferred within the limits
of Greater London about $780, 900 human
bodies.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-11-18

TREAsURER's BALANCE SHEET.
Cash in treasury to tne credit of the
various funds, Oct. 1, 1899:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05
RENOVRTiNG HAVANA.

The work of cleansing Havana is go
ing steadily forward. Colonel Black Of
the United States engineer corps is in
charge Of the work, and at last ac-
counts he had nearly 1900 men and
about 100 carts employed in street
sweeping, park cleaning, paving and
nacadamizing, washing out of sewers
and cleaning and renovating public
buildings.
Cuban correspondents of eastern
newspapers say that while an immense
amount of work has been done, the task
rs yet before the Americans. More than
a century Of Incidence and filthy habits
have hemmed the city in with bank of
garbage on one side and a harbor reek-
other.
The more the department digs, and
the more it carts away. the more there
seems to be left Even with all that
has been done, there are buildings and
courtyards, seemingly endless in num-
Der, whose loathsome and disgusting
foulness beggars description
No wonder Havana's death rate has
been out of all proportion to the rest
of the island, and contrary to the prom
Use Of her glorious climate and ideal
location
When the cleansing is over and strict
sanitary regulations are adopted ard
enforced, the city is destined to ca
reer of brilliant interest.
There will be a special attractiveness
for people seeking homes and capital
looking for investment. 1t viii be a
place of peculiar interest, combining
American rule and enterprise With
Spanish ease and customs.
Two civilizations in miniature will in
fuse the zest and rivalry of social con-
trasts into the life Of the city. The
vigor, alertness and political caDacity
of the Americans will imoart a new
tone to the Spanish element. A city
of growing industry and reformed civic
rule, with the picturesque setting of
old Spain as a lure to the leisured class
these are gifts to make the new Ha-
vana far more attractive than the old
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05
A Voltairean Shaft.
(Plttsburg Dispatch.)

Voltaire had once taken a box at the
opera and was installed in it'with some
ladies, when the Duke of Lauzon, one
of the worst men in the time of Louis
XIV, arrived and asked for box. He
was respectfully informed that all of
the boxes were taken. THAT may be-
he said, but I see Voltaire in one;
turn him out In those times such
things could happen, and Voltaire was
turned out. He brought an action
against the duke to recover the price
of the box.
What" exclaimed the advocate of
the duke. rs it NJ. de Voltaire who
dares to plead against the Duke of
Lauzun, whose great-grandfathe was
the first to get on the walls of La Ro-
chelle against the Protestants; whose
grandfather took twelve cannon from
the Dutch at Utrecht; whose father
captured two standards from the Eng
lish at Fontenoy; whose "Oh, ex-
cuse me-" interrupted Voltaire Il am
not pleading against the Duke of Lau-
zun who was first on the walls at La
Rochelle, nor against the duke who
captured twelve cannon from the
Dutch at Utrecht, nor against the duke
who captured two standards from the
English at Fontenoy; L am pleading
against the Duke of Lauzun who never
captured anything in his life but my
box at the opera
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05
CHIEF THOMAS HILTON.

Sergeant Thomas Hilton was ap-
pointed by the mayor and confirmed by
the city council last evening as Chief
Pratt's successor.
While the new chief of police is Re
publican and was a non-partisan in the
last municipal campaign, he was
promptly confirmed in the hope that he
win give his attention to the depart
ment. rather than to politics, and that
he win reorganize it on basis of eff
:iciency, rather than favoritism.
Chief Hilton has an opportunity to
make a record for himself that win en-
dure, provided he shows an independ-
ence of political tricksters, and refuses
10 carry out the programme of personal
rewards and retaliation which his pre-
decessor is believed to have marked
out
Members of the force should be Sc
lected with reference to their ability
and experience, and without regard to
their party affiliations or personal re-
lations.
1t has been urged in opposition to Mr.
Hilton that he is expected to serve as
a mere figurehead through whom Pratt
viii continue to manipulate the depart
mert, TO reward his friends and punish
those for whom he entertains dislike;
hat the men Pratt has always wanted
TO get rid of will be left out by the new
chief, and those whom Pratt has tried
to employ will be given positions by
Hilton
Nothing could injure Mr.. Hilton more
than this. What the people expect of
him, and they have a right to expect
it, is that he viii demonstrate in his
reorganization Of the police force that
he and not Arthur Pratt is doing it.
And until there is evidence to the
contrary The Herald is unwilling to be-
lieve that these suspicious are we'll
founded.
co in. Hilton, and make a record for
yourself. But be chief in fact as we'll
as N name.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05

an extra hazardous task when he ex-
posed the Indian, steal. and that it is
only a question of time when Mark
Hanna, our imperial dictator just now,
win have the official scalp of this
man Lee" But Lee never shirked a
duty or a responsibility in his life.
At the time he made public the fraud
upon the Indians he framed a'bill for
their reimbursement and had it intro
duced in congress, but Captain Lee was
kept in the field, and the contractors
who had been robbing the Indians sue
ceeded in defeating it.
Lees character was revealed in that
transaction. There was no glory to pc
gained, but, on the contrary, the FISK
of sword and epaulettes. and all be-
cause his sense OF justice was stirred
up by the wrong inflicted upon a poor
and helpless group of Indians.
His reputation as a man is beyond
criticism, and his record as a. fighter
is one that any soldier might well be
proud Of. He recruited a regiment OF
colored immunes for the war with
Spain, and he did it as a friend of the
negroes, hoping to improve their OPP
portunities and their ideals And when
it became apparent that the negro vol
unteers would not be engaged in active
service. he resigned his place as colonel
TO fiji vacancy as major in his old
regiment.
Major Lee undertook the role of the
prosecutor in the beef contract inves-
legation as he had championed the
cause of the helpless against official
power and corruption before. 1t was
another example of his chivalry and
courage. He can have no motive for
entering into a fight for the rank and
file of the army as against group of
rich contractors and powerful staff Of
ficers, except his native hatred Of
wrong 1t viii be observed, however,
by everyone who reads the testimony
that Major Lee has never found it nee
essary to forget that he is a gentle
man when he is examining the wit
nesses brought before the court; and all
of Hanna storming or Ayers I'M
friendliness or McKinley's efforts to
have revenge upon the honest old SOL
der will rebound to his credit and to
their ultimate shame.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05
Saved By a Dream.
MAINLY About People.)


The following curious experience is
told by Melton Prior, the distinguished
war artist: Il was going out to the
zulu war in one of the Union COM
pany's vessels, the German. On board
this steamer / dreamed on two occa-
sions-that is to say, l had two dreams;
precisely similar in their tenor-that 1
was shot dead and then buried In my
dreams L saw myself killed, and wit
messed my own funeral in all it's dreary
detail. Shortly after my arrival at the
Royal hotel at Durham | had a letter
from nv mother in which she stated
that she had had a DREAM which 1
found to be precisely like my own, and
begged me to be careful, and if posi-
bic, not to go to the relief of Etchowe.
This dream coincidence certainly
had an effect on my mind, and in a
weak moment 1 decided 1 would not go.
III be hanged if 1 go up to Etchowe,'
l said to myself, and l didn't 1t so
happened that [ heard of a gentleman,
then in Durham, who could sketch very
we'll, and When ] had put myself in
communication with him. he offered to
take my place and send his sketches
down to me. so that l could touch them
up and send them to England. L COM
municated with the proprietors of the
liuSlIdteu LOHuOH news, informing
them of the whole incident and what I
had done. Well, William Ingram (now
Sir William Ingram) sent me a cable
gram: Regret it ran. your not going
into battle at Etchowe. Perhaps our
special artist is preserved for better
things to come 1t is a very curious
thing that out of the sixty or slore
battles I've been present lat, and wit
messed and sketched, such an idea as
keeping out of it never occurred to
me. The man who went up for me
was one of the first killed in the fight
ing"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05
COPPER SPECULATION.

Eastern capitalists are securing the
country for copper properties, A New
York syndicate is buying up the cop
per prospects in the south Boston, the
home Of the copper speculation, is add
ing to her list of investments. The
Standard Oil people are buying right
and left, and the Rothscnilds are send
ing their agents all over the world to
look for copper mines
A big mining company composed Of
Maine capitalists has just been incor-
porated, and the articles have been
filed with the secretary Of Utah 1t is
said that United States oil capitalists
are behind it.
There is an unusual and a growing
demand for copper owing to its use in
electrical industries and ether appli-
cations in which the metal has en-
tered.
So great has been the demand for
mines Of this class that conservative
experts estimate that the market QUO
tations Of copper securities traded in
at the present time represent an ad-
vance Of at least 10 per cent upon the
highest possible figure which could he
secured for all the properties of this
class under the most favorable condl-
items in actual commercial operations
In 1882 the total production in this
country was 4o467 tons In fifteen
years the capacity of the country's
mines has been increased to 22O.571 long
tons. the record for 1897. There was a
gain in 1898 which acted as an incen-
tive to the boom this year, which VIII
certainly eclipse the record of any pre-
vious period Of five years.
The United States has been one of the
leading copper producing countries of
the world for fifty years, but so little
attention was paid TO his branch Of
mining that, statistics, have been com
piled only during the last fifteen years.
Reliable statistics show that the
worlds production of copper in 1897 was
399 247 long tons, of which North Amer
lea contributed 2Ss,679; Europe, SS.S2s;
South America, 25, 300; Asia, $4,000; ttus-
tralia. 1900, and Africa, 7,l40 Since
1889 the worlds production has ;n-
creased by 139,410 long tons, of which
the United States has added 119,005, or
more than the entire European prodlct.
Utah has number of old, reliable
copper mines, and in their further de-
velopment many thousands iof dollars
Of outside capital Will be. expended
here. and, we regretfully add, millions
will be taken from our mines and in
vested elsewhere
But mining activity is the life of The
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05
ADJUSTMENTS.

Shakespeare's magnificent play of
"Othello,' as given at the Theatre last
evening" must have carried some of the
old theatre-goers back to the days of
the drama which are now designated as
''palmy." To see three such stars at
once in the play was a rare treat, and
one to be remembered.
The Iago of MIR. Warde stands out as
brilliant and scholarly performance,
made by actor in conjunction with au-
thor, the central figure of the perform
ance. The subtle villainy, the insin-
uating falseness, the hypocritical
friendship that Shakespeare painted,
We're given life and gloomy color by the
art of Mr.. Warde. 4.
1t was a performance as well rounded
in its whole effect as it was perfect in
detail. The play of "Othello" needs
Frederic Warde, for where else in the
land would we find such an Iago? Mr..
James Othello- was what we would ex-
pect 1t to be-strong, passionate, mas
terful-and here again did the role and
the style of the actor blend admirably.
His reading of the lines was at all times
satisfying.
Miss Kidder is a gifted actress, and
as Desdemona scored another success.
In her few eXacting scenes, she was all
that the role required. Mr.. Barry John
stone was not at all times a sufficiently
strong Cassie, although once or twice
he struck the proper key. Miss Loretta
Wells as Emelia delivered her lines
with good effect, and won much ap-
plause for them.
"A good character also was the Roder-
iago of Mr.. Cooke.
AS regards settings, ETC., the produc-
ton was all that could be desired at
this distance from home Much an
plause was given the actors-and also
the author-during the course of the
play. The engagement of this excellent
company is great treat for Salt
Iakers, and the big audiences so FAY
give testimony that they mean to take
advantage of it.
This afternoon a large number of
students will embrace the opportunity
to see Hamlet" and tonight "A School
For Scandal will be repeated.
E. W. Dunn, representing Stuart Rob-
son, arrived in the city yesterday, to
look out for the interests of his COM
pany's engagement at the Salt Lake
theatre next week.
Bobby Gaylor, the well known Irish
comedian. viii come to the Grand Fri
day of this week in "McSorleys
Twins, an exceedingly funny farce
comedy, which he promises to present
with an excellent company.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05
ssJIM.''
Detroit Tribune.)

(Detrolt IrlDune.)
Jest an orn'ry yallar pup.
'Thout no breed nor kin.
Eats a heap o vittles up,
Yet he's allus thin.
'Tain't the sleekest kinder skin,
Hides the kindest heart:
Take a costly dog ter win
Me and Jim apart.
Tell yer what the critter done,
He Jest saved my life,
That time old Marin Robinson,
Visited NV wife.
She's Sues mother, don't yer see;
Best she ever had,
But we never could agree,
Cause l made her mad.
Marin stayed with us jest week,
Seemed an awful spell;
Wife an me, we didn't speak,
Home was jest like-well
'Twern't jest as nice a place
AS it was before,
Frowns and scrowls on eV'ry face,
An heap o. jaw.
Then ] found this yallar pup,
Comm home one night;
Picked the oID'ry critter up,
| was kinder tight.
Fotched him home like he is now,
Got marms dander up,
Made her raise an awful row,
Swore she'd kill the pup.
lin next day got prowlin round.
While marin took her nap.
An when she were sleepin' sound,
Ate her Sunday cap.
Chewed her kSittin' all ter bits,
Chased her Maltese cat.
Scared the critter inter fits.
Wise young pup. sir, that.
Marin she swore she wouldn't stay,
In the house with him,
Packed her buds an moved next day,
All along o Jim.
An when i come home that night,
'Spectin' frowns an strife,
Jim he wore that collar bright
Put thar by my wife.
Now you see why we love Jim,
Yes. my wife an me,
Think a mighty heap O him,
Saved US both yer see.
Marin writes that she'll visit us,
When Jim goes away,
Wife an me no longer fuss,
Jim, you bet, will stay.
EDMUND DAY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05
THE DANGER OF BEAUTY
Roston Journal

tBOStOn JOuTndl.g
/ never read the papers without feeling
so content
That both my eyes are twisted and my
nose is slightly bent:
I'm glad my mouth is out of line and
that my teeth are few,
And if L had a wealth of hair / don't
know what I'd do.
A "tiny foot or lilly hand which fill
me with dismay.
And if ] had a slender waist I'd sicken
in day;
For / have noticed from the first. as
strange as it may seem,
The girl wo gets the worst of it is lovely
as a dream"
The papers never tell about a woman
being shot,
Or mangied by trolley car, or married
to sot,
Or forced. at point of pistol, her last fifty
But mat her eyes are "limpid" and her
hoots are number twos.
So / can live in-sweet content. without
the slightest fear.
That trouble or calamity will ever hover
And when I see my misfit face, it's some
relief to know
That I'll outlive the beauties by hundred
wears or 50.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05
WHO is THIS MAJOR LEEq

81 see in the newspaper reports that
one Major Lee has attempted TO drag
my name into the case by questions
which conveyed the impression that I
was present at some conference where
beef contracts were discussed. / desire
10 say that 1 never had anything to do
with any meat contract, nor even eX-
changed word with any official of the
war department on this subject I
make this statement in order that it
may have the same publicity as was
given to the contemplate insinuations
of this man Lee"
In the foregoing outburst of feeling,
Senator Mark Hanna relieved his mind
to an Associated Press reporter, ac-
cording to dispatches printed yester-
day.
Apparently Mark is not acquainted
with this man Lee" who has made
a reputation as "a. cross-examiner on
the beef investigation board. Taking
the irate senator's denial Of completely
in The Mckinley mismanage-
ment of the war department, for what
it is worth. let as see who this man
Lee" is, and how his record as a pa
triot and friend of the soldier compares
with that of Mr.. Hanna.
The American army never contained
2 better or a Drawer soldier than is
Major Jesse NJ. Lee. He began his
military career as a private in the
Ffftv-ninth Indiana volunteer infantry
in 1861. and was promoted in the field
through the several grades TO a cap
taincy. from which he was honorably
mustered out in July, 1865. only to take
service the next month as captain in
another regiment Meanwhile the
president had nominated him for lieu
tenancy in the Thirty ninth regular
infantry, from which he was trans
ferred to the Twenty-ffth regular in
fantry. and later TO the Ninth, where
he STAINED. his csptaincy in 1879.
Jesse NJ Lee never knew what it was
to have easy assignments, soft snaps
or political preferment. During the
twenty years Of his captaincy he went
ahead attending to his duties with IN
firing faithfulness and modest self
effacement. and most of that time at
hard service and exile among the
dreary posts OF the Indian country.
lie has been a conscientious worker
for the practical solution of national
questions pertaining to the army all
mis- life. while Mark Hanna, who AFRO
pantly refers TO him as "one Major
Lee was studying up just as many
schemes to skin the government.
while on detail as acting agent for
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians in
Oklahoma he Brought to light a sean
dalous piece of business in which the
Indians were robbed of more than $50,
o0o. When it is remembered that the
government at Washington is very
Jealous of any criticism by persons in
its service. and that the exposure of
rottenness by an army officer is liable
TO cost him his commission with all
that such a loss entails, it win be un-
aerstood that Captain Lee undertook
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05

state, whether it depends altogether
upon local enterprise or in, part upon
outside investments. And there are
new discoveries reported from this and
adjoining states every week.
It is a prosperous outlook for cop
per states. With the reopening of the
old mines and the exploiting of new
ones, the expansion of electrical indus
tries and the improved methods in
mining, the copper production of this
section will show wonderful increase
this year. And the extent to which it
is being developed legitimately and
backed by the strongest fnanciers of
the world, precludes the possibility OF
any serious reaction.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05
MARK Is INDIGNANT.

Mark Hanna's virtuous indignation
is thoroughly aroused. 1t has been in
timated that he was mixed up in Al
putrid meat contracts.
Hanna has been accused of a great
many questionable transactions in pol
itics, he has been charged with bri-
berry, boodling, bartering government
franchises and officers for support and
all that. But he has. never resented
it; has never shown the least indigna-
ton.
He is storming now because his name
has been linked with Ayers, because
a suspicion has been voiced that he
was even remotely connected with the
war departments poisoning of the SOL
diers during the conflict with Spain.
When these charges were first pre-
scented Mark Hanna undertook to de-
fend Alger by saying that the presi-
dent knew what was going on all
through the war.
why, L was there nearly the whole
time and know that Alger consulted the
president two or three times a day."
said Senator Mark Hanna, the chair
man of the Republican national COM
mittee, maker of presidents and mort
gage of the present administration.
But now when a member of the beef
inquisition asks witness if Mark was
present at any of these daily confer
ences he becomes violent and assails
the board and Major Lee.
We do not blame the senator for
wanting to escape the responsibility
that rests, according to his own state
ment, upon the shoulders of Mckinley
and Alger alike. 1t is bad business,
and Mark Hanna shows his characters
tic long headedness by trying to stand
from under without unnecessary delay
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05

Revenues from the Philippines are
not as encouraging as they might be.
The Americans took possession of the
islands Aug. Is, 1898. The receipts to
the LIST of January were $1,S1e,S15. The
receipts for January, February and
March, so far as reported, were $1,16S,-
666, of whic hamount $4,000 is from
Iloilo and $4,000 from Cebu 1t is be-
lieved the total showing of $2,9SS, $50
would have been some larger if other
ports had been in the possession Of
United States authorities, but Egypt
held out brighter prospects to England
sixteen years ago. There was a reve-
nue. of $45.Ooo,OOO collected in Egypt in
1883. And the enormous public debt of
the latter country, which was, on the
LIST of January, 1897, about S500,0O0 900,
is now being cut down at the rate of
4.250, 900 per year. 1t will take a long
time for the Philippines to repay the
outlay we have been to in comprising
their subjugation and partial extermi-
nation. The warning for humanity is
expensive business.