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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14
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You really don't know what COM
Portable travelling is if you have
never travelled via the Burlington.
Holds the Worlds record for long
distance fast running 1,o25 miles,
1,O47 minutes.
The Burlington Route IS 1887
miles long-nearly ope-third the dis
t-nce round the world.
Offers wider choice of routes than
any other line, to and from Chicago,
St. Louis, Omaha, Kansas City and all
eastern points.
Two through trains each way daily.
Vestibuled buffet smoking library
ears. Pullman sleeping cars, reclining
chair cars (seats free) coaches. Fin
est dining car service in the world.
Dining cars operated on the cafe
plan; that is, you pay only for what
you order.
Tickets at offices of connecting lines.
I. A. BENTON, Ticket Agent, r. G.
w. Ry., Dooly Block.
R. F. NEsLEN, Travelling Pass. and
Freight Agent.
w. M'MILLAN, Gen. Agt.
ga S. W. Temple St., Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14

the herdsman in the hills When the
shelters, the regulators. as it were, Of
natures reservoirs are removed, moth
ing remains to keep back the floods
of spring which not only sweep ruin
through the valley bottoms, but carry
away the hfeblood of husbandry be-
fore the demands Of the famine time Of
summer are made upon it.
The reckless. indiscriminate cutting
down of trees in the mountains Should
be stopped. There should be some tenn
pies Of nature held sacred, some mon
arcils OF the forest that the woodman
may be made to spare. The floods CT
spring are not the only dangers threat
ened by this spoilation, but the conGi-
ton and productivity of the land, the
character Of the climate are at stake.
Scientific observations have demon
strated that forest covering, owing
to its tendency to hold moisture
throughout the year, determines the de-
livery of the rainfall in its region. The
springs and streams are more peren-
NAL in their character when the water
shed is covered with timber, more reg
ular and faithful in their flow.
Bare mountain sides present no OBJ
stacle to the early melting of the
SHOWS or the precipitous escape of the
waters. Instead Of slowly percolating
through the soil to gush forth in
springs down in the canyon depths, the
bare mountain watershed would de-
liver the storage IN bulk and suddenly.
One of the most serious western prob
lens seeking solution at the hands &C
congress today IS that Of irrigation and
water storage; and the result Of every
important investigation has been,
whether based upon the experience of
farmers and canyon men" or upon
scientific calculation, that watershed
forests must be preserved in the inter
est Of intermountain agriculture.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14
DEATH or NELSON DINeLEY.

Representative Dingley is dead. He
passed away at the Hamilton House,
at Washington, yesterday evening, af-
ter an illness beginning with the grip
and covering a period of seventeen
days.
At the time of his death, Nelson
Dingley, jr., was almost 81 years of age,
having been born in Maine, Feb. 10,
1882. On account of his years and deli
cate physique, serious doubts as to the
outcome were expressed from the first,
but for a day or two his condition
seemed to improve so much that re-
covery seemed almost assured And
when d sympathizing people were be
ginning to congratulate the country
that the crisis in his illness had passed,
the sorrowful announcement of death
was made.
Mr.. Dingley's public career was long
and eventful. He began as a member
of the Maine legislature in 1862. Year
after year he was returned to that
body. In 1874 he became governor Of
the Pine Tree state. Afterwards he
was honored by his party in one way
or another, being elected TO congress
in 1881, in which capacity he has served
his constituents at every subsequent
session.
AIr. Dingley was not a statesman. He
has been a party leader in the house
mainly because OF the inclination of
Speaker Reed to so regard him, and
because he has held the important
Craftsmanship of the ways and means
committee during several exciting
tariff battles.
He was an unremitting worker,
painstalzing legislator, honest in his
contentious, sincere in his convictions,
and, like the late Senator Morrill,, true
to the section he represented.
he never pretended to be a states
man of the highest order. He never
sought to obtrude his views upon con-
gress or the public. He was not
an orator He was not even
q real leader Of men. But his serious
ness, his energy, his capacity for work,
made him invaluable to his party in the
committee room, where Mr.. Dingley's
triumphs were mainly scored.
His long service in the house, and on
the ways and means committee most
OF the time, placed him in close touch
with his party on economic questions,
and his death at this time, besides be-
ing regretted by all, is a distinct loss
to the Republican organization.
He represented class of safe and
useful lawmakers. who are given more
TO business than to oratory, with
which, it has been well said, congress
can never be over-supplied."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14

81 500 600. Even assuming that the
trust contemplates adding at once $50
mills to the thirty-eight now constitut-
ing its amaIgamated interests, the ac-
tual capital invested would be $7,5OOo00
at the outside.
Yet dividends are guaranteed on $780,
coo, 600, and, as the infant grows under
the fostering care Of government aid,
an effort viii be made TO extend the
dividend earning capacity to S3o,0O0,0oO
of watered stock.
After reviewing the situation in a
two-column aIti-le the star-eyed states
man concludes as follows:
IF any one can see prospect of
eheapening tin plate to consumers IN
der such circumstances, he is blessed
with a credulity that is wonderful In
plain English the tin-plate trust is or
ganiZed to prop up the manufacturing
establishments that competition was
about to hurl to the ground. The money
to DO this must come out of the cen
sumer's pocket before prices are re-
duced. The aim OF all trusts is to de-
stroy competition, and competition is
the great cheapener.''
From which it may be inferred that
Colonel Watterson, as The Herald init
mated at the time of his collar button
talk for tariff protection, has other
IDEAS of Dingleyism from those express
ed in his holiday effusion.
While cheapening processes Of manu-
facture the system has also aided trusts
in raising prices to the consumer.
Process cheapening and price raising
help the trusts more than they help the
people
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14
THAT EMBALMED BEEF.


Bad as the beef was that Eagan sent
to the army in Puerto Rico, it was bet
ter than the head of the commissary
department
Scores of soldiers have taken chances
with the crazy man who furnished the
food by reporting to Secretary Alger.
to General Miles and to the commission
of investigation that the beef was
putrid.
In his evidence given before the COM
mission, General Miles merely repeated
the almost universal complaint from
officers. surgeons and men which had
reached him. It was his duty to make
the statement he made, whether it hurt
the Chicago beef trade or Eagan's feel
ings.
Governor Roosevelt, the hero-politi-
clan VINO scaled the heights Of San
Juan to capture the executive mansion
at Albany, has stated that the steamers
which carried his men TO Cuba carried
some of the embalmed beef, and the
stencil of it so filed the ship that it
nauseated the men.
Alger undoubtedly stands well with
the administration. but he will hardly
side with Eagan as against Roosevelt.
He may hate Miles as cordially as
Eagan does, but Roosevelt commands
more respect in the Republican party
today than McKinley's whole cabinet
can muster. Alger may despise sol
diers, but he fears politicians.
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TIN AND COLLAR BUTTONS.

After delivering himself of a protect
/ i've speech the other day, in which he
said that protection had cheapened the
manufacture of collar buttons, Iocomo-
tives and Intermediate articles CT every
description, Colonel WatterGon, the
moonshine statesman CT the starry
eyes. paused a few days before reply
ing to himself.
In a lucid interval he illustrates, by
words ard figures, how Dingleyism and
McKinleyism do not cheaper goods to
home consumers whatever change pro
lection may effect in processes and
however the prices may be cheapened
to foreign customers.
He notes the advance in the price of
tin plate twenty-five cents a box i'm
mediately following to protection of the
tin plate trust, which is one Of the
legitimate offspring of the protective
system. II is estimated that this in
crease means a tax Of s., 100000 per
anruu on users of tin plate in this
country.
While the result of the systam and
the formation of the trust may cheap
e.. processes, 1t does not lessen prices;
instead Of bcnefting the consumer it
simply increases the profits of the mil
lonaires behind the combination. This
Colonel Watterson admits in the fol-
lowing:
1.-The salient point about tie organi-
cation of this mammoth frdst is that it
was formed not to lower piI-es, as its
promoters claim, by the reduction oe
unnecessary expenses, but to keep them
UP in spite Of the economies and in
ventions whose effects are seen far
more plainly IN the declining valuations
Of finished products than IN the lowered
cost of raw material. To prove this it
is only necessary to state that the trust
has bought up all the large tin plate
plants in the country, thirty-eight in
number, giving them a complement of
500 hot mills. With these as Il basis
the concern has been capitalized of
$50, goo eco, of which $40, 000 0G0 IS TO be
preferred and $50, OOo, coo common shares.
It is announced that dividends viii be
paid from the start on both classes OF
the stock, and this is borne out by The
prices which they are bringing, al
though the trust is scarcely ready for
business"
He calls attention to the astonishing
prices commanded by the shares on the
market, the preferred running upwards
of 102. TT is evident" says the Cour-
ier-Journal, that the Tin Plate Trust
is expected to make great deal of
money. Those credulous people who
believe that these industrial monopolies
are so disinterested as to reduce the
prices of their products when they can
do Sc, are invited to contemplate the
amounts it viii be necessary to earn in
order to pay the Z per cent dividends
on each class of stock as the promoters
have promised. 1t Will take 81 400 600
yearly to provide the preferred divi-
dends and s2,1oO.Ooo TO provide the COM
mon dividends, a total of S3,5oO,00O."
While the trust begins operations
with but thirty-eight mills ii is esti-
mated that 800 frst-class, modern mills
could be erected in choice localities for
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14
EQUAL SUFFRAGE TO MANILA
Mrs. W. H. Cowies Will Make the
Change When Fourth Leaves.
(Chicago Inter Ocean.)


Mrs. Grace Espy Patton-Cowles, SUI
perintendent Of public instruction in
Colorado, arrived in Chicago yesterday
from Denver. Mrs. Cowles came east
to meet her husband, Captain Warren
Hayden Cowles, who leaves this week
for Manila with the Fourth.
My term of Office expires tomorrow, !"
she said when seen at the Wellington
soon after her arrival. 1t will be quite
a change TO leave public duties in an
equal-suffrage state to retire to Ma
Mia, but perhaps the change will be
not altogether unpleasant. You see, i
may become an equal-Suffrage agi
tator out there among the native
women, who, understand, are untram-
meled by fashion, and therefore, be-
yond the reach of the dress-reform
movement"
Mrs. CowIes is a slender little woman,
barely five feet tall. When elected, she
was professor Of English in the state
agricultural college. She stumped
the state and by her witty speeches
secured q big vote. She was elected as
Grace Espy Patton, but when the war
began she was married to Captain
Cowles, Who was ordered to Cuba. Her
change in name presented an amusing
problem for the attorney general to
solve. It was the first time in the his
tory OF the country that the name of
an officeholder had been changed. After
d long period of reflection the attorney
general gave out the opinion that the
state could not recognize the existence
of Mrs CowIes. Therefore, since her
marriage the state superintendent has
had two names. Every day when she
crossed the threshold of her Office she
became Grace Espy Patton until the
end of official business, when she again
assumed her right title, Mrs. Warren
Hayden Cowles.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14
FORESTS AND IRRIGATION.

To the Editor Of The Herald: I no
tice in the governors message that he
says The increasing SpOliatiOn OF OUT
timber areas is seriously affecting the
source Of water supply fer cur valleys.
I would like to ask what relation the
timber in the mountains has to the
supply Of water in the valleys, and
how? If the governor is a close OBJ
server, or had asked a canyon man. ."
he never would have made such q re-
mark. Every person acquainted With
the source Of supply knows that the
water used in irrigation does net come
from the timber sections, but from the
drifts or pockets where the wind piles
tie snow in great banks, or from slides
which come down the mountain sides
and packs the snow in the ravines
Timber hinders this, for il is a wind
break and prevents the wind from
making drifts; it also stops the slides
from coming down and piling it up in
vast banks to draw from for late ir-
rigaticn, which is the water we want
TIE snow that lies all over the ground
lnelts and Just nloistens the ground
where it lies, and never gets into the
creeks at all.
Then what are bona fide settlers to
do for tin1ber2 Does the governor ex-
pect them to go to England for lum-
Der for building and timber for fuel?
.fAFIlQ Il ROT DC ~ elk 10 GILL Oh DI2EIl-
cal men TO make laws for the protee-
ton Of the forestry and the increase
of water supply instead Of the bank
ers. merchants, clerks and politicians?
Let the farmers and iaboring classes
have a say as TO what is for their good.
n brief. what do the governor and the
majority Of our legislature know about
it? Nothing. Respectfully,
4,o,,,+ir,,l T-4ah
The matter discussed by our Bounti-
ful correspondent was briefly mentioned
BY Governor Wells in his recent mes
sage TO the legislature as follows:
Serious problems are presented with
the lapse Of time and the increasing
sDoliation of our timber areas as TO
the source Of water supply for our val
leys in the future. The intimate rela-
ton between extensive forests in the
mountain canyons and plateaus and a
bounteous supply of water for irriga-
ton in the valley below. is SO univer-
sally recognized and understood as to
require no new confirmation
The governor is right when he says
that the timbered areas in the noun
tains and the canyon streams are close
~ related. Where forests have been
destroyed by AK or fire it has been OBJ
served that the ground becomes dry
AMI barren; that springs dry up, not
only injuring the farmer below, but
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14

It is the prevailing opinion that there
are laws enough already. Several slight
changes in the code, where discrepan-
cies now exist, an examination into the
affairs OF the state and the condition of
public institutions, an appropriation
sufficient 10 carry. on the state govern
ment and institutions, and not more
than a dozen bills enacted into laws,
would be better than for members to
race with each other for the record of
introducing bills and resolutions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14
In Complimentary Vein.
CR.chneld Advocate.)

NIt-NIIIiOIu 1AuN ONs-tO.J
The Salt Lake Herald has usually
confined its special yearly addition to
the Christmas issue. and while it got
out a very interesting Christmas num-
Der this year, it departed from its usual
custom, and spread before its readers
on New Years day a magnificent edi-
ton of thirty-six pages, CONTAINING a
succint, yet complete, review of the
progress of the past year in the min
ing, commercial, manufacturing, and
agricultural industries. 1t fully met
the demand Of the many inquiries con-
corning Utah, and was splendid ad-
vertisement of the states resources. It
is to be regretted that the edition was
exhausted so soon, because it could
have been used to great advantage in
promoting the advancement and de-
velopment Of the interests Of the state.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14

In a letter enclosing Eagan's testi-
mony, returned to him by the COM
mittee of investigation, this mild re-
proof was ventured: I'VE think that
the personal attacks and Irrelevant
statements contained in the papers
submitted should be eliminated" Bet
ter eliminate Eagan, and be done with
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14
HALF RATES TO DENVER
Via Union Pacific Railroad,

For the convention Of the National
Live Stock association at Denver, Colo,
Jan. "a to q, inclusive, a rate of $500
for the round trip will be made by the
Union Pacific Tickets on sale Jan. %
and %, good twenty days. AS every
body knows, the Union Pacific is the
shortest, quickest and best equipped
line. Dining car service, buffet smok-
ing and library cars with barber shop
and choice assortment of standard
literature Tickets on sale at the old
Stand" POI Main street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14
OREGON SHORT lines
RAILROAD.
IN EFFECT JAN. 4. 1899.


Trains viii arrive and depart at Salt
Lake City daily as follows;
ARRIVE.
From Ogden, Chicago. Omaha
st. Louis, Kansas city and
From ogden. Portland Spokane. ~ q L.
Butte, Helena and San Fran
From Ogden. Chicago. st. Louis. $3.50
r...-..s.:......:..; ....;:.;;.... s:15 p. m.
Montpelier, Soda Springs. Po-
catello and San Francisco. .....7:45 p. m
'trom Tintic, Mercur, Provo.
Sanpete. Milford and interme-
''Frem Garfield Beach. Tooeie. 80 -
and Terminus ............ ......6:00 D. m.
DEPART.
For Ogden. Park City. Omaha.
chicago, Denver. Kansas City
For or Ogden 5s; diHT Pocateilo Mont W d. H.
pEelier and Soda Springs and
intermediate points $50 .. m.
For o.. Ogden; Denver, Kansas
CITY, Omaha, St. Louis, Chi
cago and San Francisco ........6:4O o. m
For Ogden. Butte, Helena, Port
Iand San Francisco and Cache
:alley points .9:45 a. m.
*Fpr Tintic. Mercur Provo, San
pete, Milford and intermediate
''Eor GARFIELD Beach Tooeie and '''O0 a. M
Terminus .-. 7.45a r,
@tDaily except Sunday
STrains south of Juab do not run Sum
days.
Telephone No. 25O
CITY Ticket Office. Masonic Block. NO.
t0O West Second South street
w. II. BANCROFT,
Vice President and General Manager.
S. w. ECCLES,
General Traffic Manager.
d. e. hurley.
Genl Passenger and Ticket Agent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14
THE COLORADO MIDLAND R. R.

IWO
Between Salt Lake City, Ogden and Lead
y.ne. Cripple Creek, CO Dorado Springs,
Denver and all points east. Only line
running THROUGH CHAIR CARS.
Through sIeepers On both morning and
evening trans. This line, in connection
with the Rio Grande Western. reaches
Denver earlier than any other line via
Colorado Springs. No change OF cars or
DELAYED trains Take the Colorado Mid
lard and save time and enjoy the finest
ride and grsndest scenery in Colorado.
For full Information call on any r. G. ".
ny. agent, or
" f. BAILEY, o. A. BROWN,
c. p A Gen. Agent.
Denver Colo. Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14

According to last evenings News
there must have been an exciting time
in the state senate yesterday. Under
the Senate" caption, it told about the
disposition of one Chapman, arrested
last fall for grand larceny. The name
does not appear on the roster, SO ne
must be a member Of the third
bousa ,"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14

independence or DEATH" shout the
Fiiipinos. 1t might be we'll to give
them both. AS an Irishman would OBJ
serve, the only way to teach the heath
ems to respect the American flag is TO
exterminate them. When the natives
are dead, it might do to free the is
lands
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14

The selection of Judge H. P. Hender-
son to succeed Nat N. Brigham on the
city board of education, is highly sat
isGactory to people generally. Judge
Henderson is fair, capable, and inter-
ested in the cause Of education. 1t is
certainly a strong board as now con-
ct;f11tod
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14
METEoRoLoe1cAL RECORD.
Yesterdays Observations at the Local
Weather Bureau Office.
sac Lake Gu. Utah. Jan. b. 1s

Salt Lake City, Utah, jan 10, 1899.
Mean temperature, % degrees; departure
from normal minus 3 degrees: maximum
temperature, p degrees; minimum tenn
perature, 10 degrees; accumulated excess
oil temperature since first of the month,
. degrees; total precipitation Gnches and
hundredths), none; departure from normal
minus .05 inches; accumulated deficiency
OF precipitation since first of the month,
so Inches.
Following is the local forecast of the
weather for today: Light snow. station
airy temperature. J. Il. SMITH
Section Director
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14

A New York Herald cable says that
General Aguinaldo's soldiers one and
all are longing to attack Manila They
declare they viii accept no terms ex-
cept absolute independence" The
chances are about ninety-nine in a
hundred that if the Filipinos attack
Manila, a large number of undeveloped
souls will be freed from as many yell
low bodies.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14
ADJUSTMENTS.

The second night of the Frank Dan
iels' engagement attracted an audience
which was quite equal to the one of
Thursday night, in size. brilliancy ana
enthusiasm. The comic trio Daniels,
Wheelan and Danforth, were simply
immense, as usual, and it is safe to
say that a more eccentric. more ill-as-
serted looking and mere nlirth -provCk-
ing three were never seen in comic
opera. Mr.. Daniels introduced a new
song in the last act, That Good Luck
Coon" with the chorus, and il was an
exceedingly fetching number.
This afternoon and evening THE
Wizard OF the Nile" also a Smith-Her-
bert opera, viii be given
The engagement of Clementine de
We're and her company at the Theatre
next Friday night comes as somewhat
of q surprise to theatre-goers. An OPP
cratic programme will be given, and
feature will be the rendition of Liza
Lehman's In a Persian Garden" the
song cycle which has attracted so much
attention, and has been given by so
many well known quartettes during the
past season.
Mr.. John J. AfcGlellen gave a special
organ recital in the tabernacle yester-
day afternoon to the members of the
Daniels company. The program NINE
was:
Lohengrin overture. ............W Wagner
Ave Maria. ...................M ascagni
OffeTtory ................J. j. McClellen
Lohengrin wedding march. -. Wagner
America ......-.. ..............
81 @ o
Blanche Bates, in whose career Salt
Lakers take the greatest interest, will
create the leading role in this country
in The Great Ruby" the London mel
cdrama, which Augustin Daily viii pro-
duce at his New York theatre in the
near future
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14

This prosperity is not so general as
is claimed for it. One OF the Oldest
dry goods houses of Providence, r. l.,
founded in 1871, has just failed for
$3.50, GEO. The Associated Press attrib-
utes the failure to business depres-
sion
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14

zone of our Tooele boys will not light
the fire with a can of coal oil for some
time to come" says the Transcript
There are tombstones all over the coun-
carved
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14

Receipts from licenses in Salt Lake
City in 1858 show an increase of $4,000
over the collections of 1897, a fairly go ID
Indication OF Improvement in business.