davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
Notifications will probably be pr,

Notifications will probably be pro-
posed as a reasonable guarantee of
peace which will be satisfactory to the
imperial government. The Beers will
not be likely to take the same view of
the matter. They will consider it an
unreasonable demand, remembering
Jameson's raid and the real crisis in
the relations between the Transvaal
and England will follow
The safest judgment which can now
be formed is that, barring accidents or
an impetuous Boer rush upon Laings
Mex, a conference will be arranged
and that there will be no war until the
end of October, if at all Everything
indicates that the British government
has determined to operate on a large
scale if it is compelled to declare war
and it will not take any chances. The
appointment of Sir George White is a
clear indication that the government
will be prepared for an emergency
which may require force of 10000 men.
The selection of the former COM
handkerchief in India cannot be eX-
planned on any other ground and ne
will be at the base of operations. Ger
tainly there are not British troops
enough in South Africa at the present
moment for operations on the large
scale which the government has in
mind if it is forced to settle the Trans
vaal question by war.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16

most remarkable today being from Mr..
Michael Davitt, the Irish nationalist
member of parliament, and the Rev.
Hugh Price Hughes. editor of the Meth
odist Times Mr.. Davitt says English
sympathy for the prisoner is entirely
due to the fact that Dreyfus is rich
Jew instead Of poor one, and to the
desire to injure q rival nation
mo absolutely innocent man." con-
tinues Mr.. Davitt, was ever convicted
twice in any civilized country by jury
of his peers. No civilized country
could produce conspiracy of men edu-
Gated. cultured and responsible like the
French military chiefs, to stoop to the
baseness and infamy of plotting to ruin
an Insignificant petty officer. The sup
position is too monstrous to be enter
tanned by any mind warped by anti
French feeling.
What have you to say about Flor
ence MAVERICK? Your lord chief JUS
tice is said to believe her innocent. So
do many eminent Englishmen and tens
of thousands of Americans. Why has
she not had a second trial If innocent!
She has suffered ten times more than
Dreyfus could suffer. She is an AmeTl-
can citizen, abandoned more or less by
the press and public opinion OF her
country; which car repeat the London
phrased insults to France for the al
legged miscarriage of justice, but which
do not have word of protest or OF
reproaeh against England, which re
fuses to listen to the petitions OF Amer
lea in regard to the unfortunate counr
trywoman's gaolers.'
The Rev. Mr.. Hugh Price Hughes: III
the Methodist Times, preached against
'the first of English gentlemen, the
Prince of Wales, being allowed, as
chairman of the British committee. to
associate with liars, forgers and as
CO
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
THE LAW IS UPHELD.
Act Taxing Collateral Inheritances
In California Is Constitutional.

San Francisco, Sept 15-The su-
preme court of California, in an opin-
ion handed down in the matter of the
estate of Leland Stanford, has held as
constitutional the act of 1893 taxing
collateral inheritances. This opinion,
rendered by four justices, one dissent
ing, reverses the decision in the same
case written a year ago by Supreme
Justice Harrison, who dissented from
the majority of opinion. The law as
laid down today applies to every estate
in California over $500 in value, and
puts Immediately into the school fund
nearly $500 900, all of which comes from
the Stanford estate.
When Senator Stanford died he left
a will, in which among other requests,
he gave $2,500,000 to trustees for the
benefit of the university he had estab-
hshed, and $2,200,000 to certain of his
nephews and nieces residing in this
state and in the east.
The district attorney of this county,
Oh behalf of the treasurer, brought an
action against Mrs. Stanford, as adj
ministratrix, for S235,7 taxes on the
collateral inheritances mentioned. In
the lower court, judgment went in ia
vor of the law and an appeal was taken
to the supreme court by Mrs. Stanford,
which reversed the judgment of the
lower court, on the ground that the
legislative amendment of 1893, exempt
ing local heirs and taxing foreign heirs
inheritances, was a. discrimination, and
hence the act and amendment were I'M
constitutional. This decision was re-
garded as a great victory, as it was a
hard blow to the Inheritance tax act.
The attorney general of the state Sc
cured a rehearing. and the supreme
courts second decision on the constf-
tutionaIity4of the act under considera-
ton is upheld, on the ground that the
tax in question is not upon the prop
erty, but upon the right of succession,
and the right of the legislature to i'm
pose an excise tax includes the right
to select the subjects upon which it
shall be imposed. The reason for the
amount now due. about $500, coo, being
greater than the amount sued for, $751;
$50, is on account of the penalties at
tached for non-Dayment of the tax.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
URGES PACIFIC MEANS.
John Morley Holds United States Up
AS Warning to the War Element.

As Warning to the War Element.
Manchester, Sept. 15.-The Ri. Hon.
John Morley, liberal member of par
lament for Montroseburgh, while ad-
dressing a peace meeting in this city
tonight, at which a son of the late John
Bright, the distinguished British states
man and friend of peace, presided, was
frequently interrupted by cries of Ma
juba HILL and other anti-Boer demon
STATIONS. In retorting to the inter-
ruptions, Mr.. Morley said:
"A year or two ago the United States
saw only aspect of war, and what are
they today. They are repenting. They
have their yellow press and we have
our yellow press. If 1 am asked to
speak in this hall a year or two later
l shall find those who now oppose me,
repenting Also
The proceedings finally became so
noisy that Mr.. Morley had great diff
ficulty in obtaining a hearing. He urged
adherence to the five-year franchise
proposal and advised President Kru-
ger to accede to Great Britain's sug-
gestion regarding the conference.
Mr.. Leonard Courtney, unionist MEM
Der of parliament for the Bodmin di-
vision of Cornwall, in seconding Mr..
Morley's resolution in favor of secur-
ing reforms by pacific means, advo-
Gated the renting of the question OF
suzerainty to the privy council.
Mr. Morley's resolution was carried
by a large majority, the noisy minority
expressing its dissent by hosting the
Union Jack.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
BLUE BOOK IS ISSUED.
Tells of the Distress Occasioned By
Situation In the Transvaal.

Situation In the Transvaa1.
London, Sept. ia blueboook con-
tanning. the last Transvaal dispatch of
the secretary of state for the colonies,
Mr.. Chamberlain, relating to the mat
tiers which led UP TO the dispatch being
sent, was issued today. The text of
Mr.. Chamberlain's note is identical
with the dispatch as cabled to the AS
ISOLATED Press Sept. 13. The only i'm
| portant feature revealed is a telegram
from the British high commissioner,
Sir Alfred Miner, dated Aug. 81, refer
ring to the commercial distress, and
| saying:
Il am receiving representations from
many quarters to urge the imperial
government to terminate the suspense.
! British South Africa is prepared for
! extreme measures and is ready to Suf-
fer much more in order to see the vim
dication of British authority. 1t lis the
prolongation of the negotiations end
less and indecisive that is dreaded. L
fear seriusly that there will be a
strong reaction of feeling against the
policy of the imperial government if
matters drag. Please understand that
I invariably preach conference and
confidence and patience, and not with
out effect. But if 1 did not inform you
of the increasing difficulty of doing this
| and OF the unm1Stabable growth OF uh-
easiness about the present situation,
and of the desire to see it terminated
at any cost, L should be failing in my
duty
Other lengthy dispatches from the
British high commissioner are pub
lished, but they only reiterate the Out
lander claims regarding the franchise
and the commissioners ideas regarding
the propositions already made. The
blue book throws no new light on the
situation as it is today, except to show
the commissioners patience has
| reached the ebbing point
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
KRUGER HAS KEPT PROMISE.
Says British In the Transvaal Dc
Not Want the Franchise.

London, Sept. ia published inter-
view with President Kruger, said to
have taken place at Pretoria, is i'm
portant He is quoted as saying:
Il have tried all along to place the
aliens in the Transvaal on the same
footing politically as the burghers. Mr..
Chamberlain says l have not kept my
promises. This thundered President
Kruger, Il deny"
Continuing, President Kruger is re-
ported to have added: 1.-THE aliens of
the Transvaal have the same CONNER
cial rights as the burghers, and have
always enjoyed them without interior
ence. l wanted to let them have the
same political rights, but they would
not avail themselves of this. Roughly,
there are more that $4,000 aliens who
have been here more than seven years
and have registered, thus being eligible
to the franchise. Yet of the British
subjects who have awaited themselves
of it the chief part have been Afrikan-
ders and not English born. This shows
that the, British Trarlsvaal does not
want the franchise.
In my opinion there is no cause
whatever for war. Everything could be
settled by arbitration"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
SENT HIM INTO BANKRUPTCY
ENGLISHMAN INTERESTED IN A
UTAH SILVER MINE.
Was Unable to Form Company and
Raise Money to Operate It In
London.
lsnecial to The Herald.l

New York, Sept. ia special to the
New York Commercial Advertiser from
London says that in the London bank
rupt court yesterday, an adjourned
meeting of creditors was held under the
failure of B. w. B. Bell. The senior
official receiver reported that accounts
had been filed showing unsecured la
bilities of 915,575, and assets nil.
The debtor was formerly an officer IN
the army Then he Joined the British
South African company's police force,
and was subsequently interested in a
ranch in Utah and an orange grove in
California.
When in the United States the debtor
became interested in the Creole silver
and lead mine in Utah, and came to
England, and since 1887 had been en-
gagged in attempting to form com
pany to acquire it, but so far nothing
definite has been done.
If the mine had been hoated he would
have become entitled to the amount of
100000 for every 100000 of capital
subscribed The matter is at present
at a standstill, and the mine is shut
down He ascribed his failure to loss
in connection with the Creole mine,
$4,000.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
OFFER FOR OGDEN GAS COMPANY
A WILD RUMoR THAT COMES
FROM WALL STREET.
Proposition Involving s5,ooO,ooo
Was Refused and a Demand For
More Money Made.
fsnecial to The Heraldl

New York, Sept. 15.-Report comes
to Wall street from Chicago that di-
rect offer of $5,OO0,O00 in cash was re-
Gently made. for the property and
ranches of the Ogden Gas company and
the Cosmopolitan Electric company,
which owns the stock of the Ogden
company. While this offer did not
come directly from the Peoples Gas,
Light & Coke company, it is thought
that it was made in it's behalf. The
offer was refused.
A counter proposition was made for
the sale of the Ogden Gas company
and the Cosmopolitan Electric company
for S6,500,000. This proposition was re-
fused by the persons who had made the
first offer of $5,000,000 for the proper
ties.
Local interests identified with the
Peoples Gas company had nothing to
say yesterday when seen regarding the
Peoples Ogden negotiations.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
HE WILL RETIRE TO
THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
Will Endeavor to Avoid All Demon
STATIONS of Sympathy.
These Might Be Used Against Him
In Case an Effort Is Made to
Cause the Court of Cessation Later
On to Quash the Rennes Trial
His Liberation Will Be Decided
Upon at Cabinet Meeting Next
Tuesday.

London, Sept. I'm. de Blowitz, the
Paris correspondent of the Times, says.
Il learn that Captain Dreyfus will
shortly withdraw his appeal for re-
vision of the Rennes trial, which will
leave the ground clear for the govern
ment to take immediate steps to par
don him. This pardon will not anIlul
the civil and military consequences of
the verdict, and he will, therefore, no
longer belong to the army.
There is nothing, however, to prevent
him from applying to the court of cas-
sation to quash the Rennes trial when
ever the new fact required by law is
produced. When liberated he will set
tie in the south of France. as the MEM
bers of his family do not wish to ex-
pose him to such demonstrations of
sympathy abroad as might be used
against him by his adversaries at
home
London, Sept. 1.-THE Paris CORE
spondent of the Daily News says: The
premier, NJ Waldeck- Rousseau, has
promised definitely to propose a pardon
for Dreyfus at next Tuesdays cabinet
Council
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
REAL CRISIS TO COME.
When the Question of Permanent
Peace Comes Up For Settlement.

New York, Sept. ia dispatch to
the Tribune from London says: A cold
At has followed the hot fit over war
with the Transvaal The acceptance
by President Kruger of the proposals
of peace made with dignity and tact in
the Chamberlain dispatch is regarded
as highly probable. The Beers are
simply required to carry out their own
offer Of Aug. 10, with the suzerainty
question left out and permission to use
English in the Volkshaad added. Both
the commission Of inquiry and the
Cape Town conference ought easily to
be arranged since the Beers have all
ready accepted one and apparently
want the other. An interval of pacific
diplomacy may be confidently expected
until there is a sudden change of tenn
per in Pretoria.
The best informed observers assert
that the real crisis will come when
guarantees for permanent peace are
discussed in the conference The
natural inference is that the British
representatives will demand the re-
duction of the defensive works at
johannesburg or ct Pretoria since
these menace Englishmen only and are
not needed for external defence from
any foreign power.
Reduction or abandonment of these
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
THE HERALD BULLETIN.

PAGE ONE.
The Transvaal Situation.
Bryan Refuses to Speak With Cock
ran.
Dreyfus Certain Of Pardon.
PAGE TWO.
Lieut.. Lansda1e's Watch Recovered.
PAGE THREE.
Boycott of the Short Line.
PAGE FOUR.
Editorial.
PAGE FIVE.
State News.
Too Much Water For Bowdidge.
Bids On University Buildings.
Troubles of Elder Jensen.
PAGE SIX.
Mining Stock Market.
Lease On the Silver Key.
PAGE SEVEN.
Weekly Trade Review.
PAGE EIGHT.
Lecture On Dreyfus Case.
New Republican Candidate.
Slaughter of Ducks.
E. j. Witcher Returns From the
Klondike.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
CARELESS WITH HIS WEALTH.
Hawaiian Finds Himself Missing a
Fortune In San Francisco.

San Francisco, Sept 15-B. R. Ban
ming, Hawaiian capitalist, arrived
from Honolulu on the steamship Aus
tralia last Tuesday and registered at
the Occidental. Among his effects was
valise containing, it is said, between
s30,000 and $4,000 in bank notes, bonds
and sugar stocks, together with mum
Der of other valuable documents.
few hours after his arrival he missed
his valise. An investigation has been
made, and it is now thought that Mr..
Banning's property is on its way back
to Honolulu, having been sent on board
the Nippon Maru by mistake as part
of the baggage of Purser River of that
vessel
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
MAY HAVE BEEN SEA SERPENT.
Upheaval of the Waters of Lake In
State of Washington.

Spokane, Wash, Sept. 15.-Word has
reached here of a recent peculiar oc-
currence at Lake Chelan, the largest
lake in Washington. situated about 200
miles west of here, in the heart of a
mountain range. Last Sunday persons
living along the lake shore saw an up
heaval OF the waters near the lake cen
ter. Huge waves, some of them ten
feet high, started from this point and
rolled toward the shore. At one point,
where the small passenger steamer Kit
ten was moored, the boat was torn
loose by the waves and carried ashore.
When the waves receded it was carried
back. overturned and swamped. No
person was aboard at the time. The
disturbance is thought to have been OF
volcanic origin.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
Voice From Buenos Azres.

Buenos Ayres, Sept. 15.-All the pa
pers, with the exception of one or two
clerical ones, condemn the sentence of
Dreyfus. Indignation prevails through
out the country The students prepared
demonstration, but were stopped by
the police. Numerous kilograms of
sympathy have been sent to Dreyfus
and Labor. A group of Rosario ctti-
zens cabled as follows to Mime. Drey-
Ifus: after twenty centuries, the world
halls you as new Mater Dolorosa."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
Despair Over Proposed Boycott.

London, Sept. 15-The Daily Mail, which
is still booming boycott of the Paris
exposition, publishes dispatches from
Paris and Nice that describe insults in
the streets to Americans and British.
Its correspondents refer to these incidents
as indications that the people of both
especially the Riviera, and declare that
the house agents there are in despair at
the prospect of abandonment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
Floods In Austria.

Vienna, Sept 15.-Numerous fatalities
continue to be reported and the complete
death roll will not be known until several
weeks have passed. Several places in the
Perg district of upper Austria have been
flooded. but at most points the waters are
subsiding. Ischl is safe. and railway
communication has been re-established
between Vienna and Salsberg.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
DIED ON THE GALLowS.
Negroes Pay Penalty For Their
Crimes In the South.

Mobile, Ala, Sept. 15.-Henry Gard
ner "a negro aged Is, was hanged in the
Jail yard here today for assaulting a
white girl under 10 years of age last
June. When the trap fell the moose had
not been properly fastened, and the
negro fell heavily to the ground. He
was assisted to the scaffold, suffering
great pain, and the trap sprung the
second time successfully.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
Hobart Too III to Move.

New York, Sept. ia special from
Long Branch N. j., to the Press says:
Vice President Hobart expected TO leave
Normanhurst, his summer home, today
for Paterson, but his health would not
permit The vice president accordingly
postponed his departure until next We'd
neSday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
Chile Wants Him Pardonad.

Valparaiso, Chile, Sept. 15.-The citi-
zens of Valparaiso are sending the fol-
lowing telegram to President Loubet:
THE inhabitants of Valparaiso, con-
WINGED of Dreyfus' innocence, invoke
your feelings of humanity and justice
to pardon him"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
Mother Kills Children and Herself.

Scotia, Neb., Sept. 15.-As a result of
domestic difficulties Mrs. Earne Phil
fps forced her two children, aged l and
2 years to take carbolic acid and then
swallowed a dose of the poison herself.
The husband found all three lying upon
the floor dead when he returned from
the field where he had been at work.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
Pope to Urge Harmony.

Rome, Sept. 15-The pope, while receiv-
ing fifty pilgrims from Toulouse, France,
today, announced his intention to address
a letter to the French nation, urging an
immediate pacification for the sake of
humanity and so as not to compromise
the success of the Paris exposition.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
Increase of Pensions.
fSnenia1 TO The Herald. J

washington, Sept. 15.-osman B. ia
cobs of Salt Lake City has been grant
ed an increase of pension from IS to S12
per month. ..dam Aiber of Tanney,
Ida, has been granted an increase
from $40 to s12 per month.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16

Situation Is Grave.
"The situation has become extremely
grave. The material changes IN the
draft of the reply delivered to Mr..
Green today are due to representations
from Blomfontein and the disposition
Of the volksraad."
The dispatch then gives what pur-
ports to be a summary of the reply,
which is similar TO the other forecasts,
concluding as follows:
THE Transvaal feels at liberty to
depart from the joint inquiry, which
she accepted in the bona fide belief that
it would lead to a final settlement"
The correspondent adds: Both the
president and the executive council are
firmly convinced that no finally is in
tended, and that further concessions
would only postpone the struggle. The
TranSvaal regards herself as tricked
into a proposal by Mr.. Chamberlain.
The Orange Free State will certainly
stand by the Transvaal''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16

Pulaski, Va, Sept. 15.-Noah Finley, a
negro, was hanged here today. His
crime was highway robbery and at
tempted murder, and his execution was
the only instance in late years in which
the extreme penalty has been imposed
in Virginia for this offense
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
Hurricane Off New Foundland.

ST. Johns, N F.. Sept ia violent
hurricane swept this section of New
Foundland last night. Four fishing boats
were driven off the St. Johns coast and
three men and woman drowned. 1t is
feared that there has been much damage
and probably loss of life at more distant
points
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
Shooting scrape Over a Cow.

Shelton, Wash, Sept 15.-E. A. Has
kell was shot and killed last night on
Hortstein island by Wallace w. Lott.
The shooting was caused by Haskell's
COW breaking into and damaging Lofts
garden.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
THINKS HE WILL BE PARDoNED.
Soldiers and ALI Want to Get Rid of
the DreYfus Case.

LIIC OICJ TUE OteN0'
New York, Sept. ia dispatch to
the World from Paris says Command
ant Carriere, the government commits
sioner of the Dreyfus courtmartial at
Rennes, has said in an interview:
'Dreyfus is certain to be pardoned
very shortly. Everybody wants to get
rid of the Dreyfus case, the soldiers
more than anybody else. In any case
Captain Dreyfus will not have to go
through a second degradation-of that
I am certain
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
yellow Fever still Raging.

Key West. Fla, Sept. 15.-There have
been thirty new cases of yellow fever in
the past twenty-four hours. One death
was reported. ------
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
HOW ABOUT MRS. MAYBRIcKp
Michael Davitt Says England Is Liv
ing In q. Glass House.

London. Sept. 15.-The papers are
still flooded with Dreyfus letters, the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
SILVER AND LEAD

Silver SO Cents Per Ounce.
Lead, $40 Per 100 Pounds.
Copper, II Cents Per Pound.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
Situation Is Grave.

tor'ia correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian, teiegraphing Friday, says:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
TO-DAY.

Forecast for Salt Lake Today Is:
Fair, Stationary Temperature.