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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
THRILLING HER0ISM
OF GENERAL CR0NJE

New York, Feb. 26.-A dispatch to
the Journal and Advertiser from Lon
down asys: ]. B. Robinson the Afri-
can millionaire miner said:
Il have known Cronje long and init
mately and wish I could now shake his
hand and tell him how much I. in
common, 1 believe, with every English
man. admire the courage he has shown.
He may be our foe but England is
generous enough to recognize the good
qualities of the man fighting against
her.
"Cronje and his 1000 men have GER
tainly revealed a herOiSm never sur
passed in the history Of our race. Sur
rounded by an army Of $4,000 men with
10 guns continually pouring shells on
their position they have stood at bay
for DAYS. 1t is only what those OF
us who know the man expected OF
Cronje.
"He viii never of his own will sur
render. He may be compelled by his
men refusing to fight any longer, but
of that I am very doubtful He IS sup
ported by the old guard of the Trans
wall No Boer has such influence over
his followers. They believe him in
vincible They almost worship him
Il believe he can, if his men only
stand by him, resist for weeks. He made
| for the spot where he is now en-
| trencned for two reasons first he
wanted to be as near BlOemfOntein as
possible because his relief would come
! from there. Next he was aware that
| the situation he now holds was the best
! fitted for defense. It is the bend OF
! the river and that means much shelter.
! The South African rivers are not ike
English rivers. Here the waters come
up to the top of the banks; in South
Africa the steep sides mount up tenr
| twenty, even thirty feet above the
water.
I'm these banks caves can be easily
made in which men and stores can be
placed. AS soon as CrOnje reached
| this spot. they speeded the defensive
| preparations. Stores having been put
away each man would dig a shelter
| trench and if it had not been for these
| trenches the men must all have been
quickly, annihilated by our artillery
I fire.
! Each shelter trench nOt1Oniyi goes
/ down but has a part scOOped out al
/ the side in which d man can lay III
safety while lyddite and shrapnel are
pouring on the earth above. Unless a
| shell actually falls in trench 1t does
1 the man no damage.
In these trenches the Beers lie,
few men being placed as sentries
above. The moment the sentry gives
/ the alarm. up the men spring and pour
q rife fire on any stOrming party
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
Beers RUSHING TO
RESCUE OF CRONJE
CONTINUED from Page u

are sapping steadily toward the Boer
laager, and according to a special from
Paardeberg, dated Sunday. Feb. % the
Gordon is gradually drawing closer.
General Buffers march on Ladysmith
is being marked by sharp fighting A
Pietermaritzburg dispatch of today 5
date says he is still heavily engaged in
fighting. In Gr0ebier's KloOf. General
Butler seems to have discovered a hOr-
nets nest.
In Cape Colony the British arms are
steadily advancing. Barley East is
now in their possession according to a
dispatch from that district. the Beers
evacuating the place, retreating on La
dygrey, and wiring President Steyn
for reinfOrcements to prevent their sur
render.
The Pretoria government proclaimed
Feb. % and Feb. y as days of thanks
giving and prayer, presumably in menu
DRY of the battle of Majuba hill
A dispatch from Kimberley says its
inhabitants have planned to erect a
statue of Cecil Rhodes in recognition
of his services during the siege.
General Butler. in a dispatch from
CoIenso. dated Sunday, Feb. p, re-
ports that the British casualties Feb.
90 were twelve killed and ninet.- wound
ed among the SOmersets and Dorsets,
and that Feb. % and Feb. %, twelve
officers were wounded.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
The Wretched Newgpapar Man.

Gerald Stanley Lee. III the Atlantic)
In every city Of the land, the news
paper man is az outcast- He knows more
people to be a stranger 20 than any other
being in the world. He has no holidays.
His Christmas is the record Of other
mems joys. His Thanksgiving is a res
taurant- Even the Fourth OF July and
Sunday. servants OF the COmmOnest man.
refuse him their cheer. The Fourth of
July is the day he must be in every place
at once. because everything is happening
and Sunday is the day he must make
things up. because nOthirT IS happening
His labors are cur pleasures. He gels
his vacation by doing another mans
work. and earns his living by watching
other people live. The very days and
the nights turn their backs upon him.
The lamp Is his sun by night. and the
curtain is his night by day. and he eats
his supper in the morning. His business
is the reflection Of life. He is the spirit
behind the mirror. What is left 10 US is
right to him, and riglt is left; sometimes
right side up upside down. The world
is all awry 70 the newspaper man. Ii
whirls across the hours in columns now
in one edition and now in another but It
heeds him never In return. He IS a spec
Jator. The show passes before his face
"a shut-Out. unsharing face. He lives as
the years go on, a notebook under the
stars, and when the notebook is scrib-
bled out he dies.
Men who might be immortal morning
after morning. week after week. year af-
ter year, fighting 10 be allowed to live
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
BOERS ARE VILLIFIElD
BY CECIL RHODES

Kimberley, Saturday, Feb. 24.-Mr.
Cecil Rhodes, presiding at meeting Of
the De Beers company, delivered a
speech which was received with en-
thusiasm. After announcing that the
years profits. of the De Beers COM
pany amounted to $2.000,0O0, he spoke
of the Chartered cOmpany's transaC-
tons with De Beers and said that the
shareholders were divided into two
classes-imaginative and unimagina-
tive.
The latter, he said, passed their lives
fning money bags that are dissipated
by their offsprings on wine and women.
and horses. To the latter class he
STATED that the transaction with the
Chartered company had closed salts
factorily. as the De Beers company
owned all the diamonds wherever its
charter excited. To the imaginary he
drew an eloquent picture of these
mines 100 years hence as mirroring Eu-
ropean civilization in the far south.
"The latter" he said, feel a glow Of
satisfaction at the thought that the
immense riches taken from the soil
have not been merely devoted to the
decoration of the fair sex"
Speaking Of the war, he considered
! il a puzzle why it had arisen. The
Transvaai and the Free State were
| not republics he declared but Oligar-
chies and had been long conspiring to
seize British South Africa. Each gov
eminent was simply a small political
gang who humbUgged the poor Dutch
men, appealing to their patriotism and
dividing the spOils among their coter-
! les. The AfTikandeT has been working
| twenty years for independence. He
said that the former president, Reftz
Of the Orange Free State, had years
! ago avowed that his only ambition in
( life was to drive England out of Africa.
| After showing how Kimberley had
| been defended by its citizens. of
whom 100 had been killed or wounded.
and thanking General French for his
gallant ride. Mr.. Rhodes closed bril-
/ liantly, asserting:
! I'VE have done our duty in preseTv-
! ing and protecting the greatest COM
| merciai asset in the wOrld-her maj
| esty's flag
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ISSUES OF COMING CAMPAIGN
SENATOR JONES OPINION OF
WHAT THEY WILL BE.
Says the Democratic Party. Will OPP
pose observation-disclosures Bryan
Will Be the Candidate.

st. Louis. Feb. Ex-senator James K.
Jones. chairman of the Democratic ma
tional committee, who is stopping IN
the city for a few days, submitted to
an interview with the Post Dispatch
today. When asked what would be the.
position of the Democratic party on the
issue of expansion in the coming cam
paign, Senator Jones said;
THE Democratic party viii be op-
posed to imperialism and by that L
mean the acquisition Of territory re-
mote from this country and its govern
ment. either as a part of the United
states or as colonies. The Democratic
party has always favored the extern
sion Of our commerce, while the Re.
publican party, by its protective poll
icy has always opposed and discOurs
aged it. The Democratic party viii con-
tinue TO favor every legitimate means
of expanding and extending the COM
merce of the United States"
"Win silver be as important an is
sue as it was in the campaign of 1896,
he was asked.
IF you viii come to me about the
18th of next November I will be bet
ter informed on that point" answered
the senator.
DO YOU think silver has paled any
as an issue before the American peo-
ple?'
You know as much about that as
do. Conventions and platforms do not
n AXE issues. The wishes and opinions
Of voters make them. The Democratic
party is the party of bimetallism and
its declaration in the next platform on
this question will be as strong as it
was in 1896. But whether silver, OppO-
sitiou to trusts or imperialism viii
claim most attention from the people.
Is something 1 cannot tell you"
'Wnl Bryan be the next Democratic
nominee for the presidency"
ct think eo
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
ENGLISH NAVAL ESTIMATES.
Sum Fixed Is $4,000, 900, Menaced
By No Power.

London, Feb. 26.-In introducing the
naval estimates in the house of commons
today, Mr. George J. Goschen. the first
lord of the admiralty, said there was
nothing spasmOdic or sensational therein
The total with the expected additions
he added, would be ESQ. 900, 600 There had
been complaints that the estimates would
be sensational. but the government real
lied the situation and knew the nation
expected the navy to be prepared for all
emergencies, and the estimates were
framed on that footing.
Nothing. he continued, had been put
down for the mobilization of the fleet II
mobilization should be necessary the gov
eminent would not hesitate to mobilize
and come to the parliament for the money
bu the thought the time had not arrived
for taking that course, and he hoped II
would not arrive.
Continuing, Mr.. Goschen said that Great
Britain was not menaced by any naYa
power Europe knew her strength and
the number of ships she possessed. There
were times when a demonstration was ad.
Visable, but the government did not think
II advisable upon this OccaSiO
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
Chahnch and Cobwebs.
CPhil Robinson, in the Confer
ReVfeW.)

ReVieW)
When the chaffinch asks for CObweb
she sees she gets it. She is not to be put
off with trash And while her ladyship
turns over its samples the spinner Of the
stuff crOuches Itself out Of sight, pre-
tending to belong to the corner, is, in
fact, part Of the corner. its extreme angle,
and not a pottle-bOdied, edible spider
Nor is the custom soon suited to her
mind" Some threads are too dusty some
have been in stock too long. What she
wants. and means 10 have. too. even II
she turns the whole shop over for It
(and eats the spider into the bargain),
are fresh. sticky strands that Will make
an invisible cement and ligament for her
fichens and moss. So she picks and
chooses with most amusing fastidiOus-
ness pernickfty Is, l think, the epithet
applied to human beings who are so ''fid-
faddy"-Or is it the other way about?
Anyhow that is what the spider, hiding
for dear life behind a tattered bit Il its
own arras. thinks she Is "A plague on
the hussy; viii she never make up her
mind and go2' AT last she does. SauS-
fled that she has picked out all the very
best of the cObwebs that are to be got,
she fits away to her nest
BY and by she is back again. and just
as finley as eVer-the despair Of shop
men and the horror Of the shopwalker.
Apparently sha has forgotten she mad
been there before At any rate, she be-
gins making her selections with all the
nice 0eliDeratfOn OF the previous WISH
itself. perhaps the twentieth or the hun
dredth-and Il Is only after she has fas-
tidiOusly ransacked the veranda that she
is content And with what a little.
Packed up in her beak, her laborious col
| lection really amounts to nOthing-a ride
uIousiy small parcel at best, for cobwebs
/ crowd up very small. But, after all. it is
not altogether becoming in US human be
/ ings to make objections to the sh0ppings
OF a Chaffinch. If The chaffinch consid-
/ ers a bundle of cObwebs that would just
nicely cork up a weevil hole in a nut TO
| be a fit and proper load for ct. and as
much as she can handle properly at a
/ time. we may depend upon il that Il IS
| She would be a sorry housekeeDer, indeed
who took home more than she could dc
with.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
CR1TIcIsE THE BRITISH.
Their Tactics Commented Upon By
American Military Attaehe.

New York, Feb. 26.-ImpOrtant re-
ports in regard to the operations of
the British army in South Africa have
been received by the war department
at Washington from Captain S. L. H.
SIocum, Eighth cavalry. military at
tache with the British forces.
Criticisms which Captain Slocum
makes of the tactics and personnel of
the British have caused the department
to determine that it would be improper
to make them public and they have
been filed away in the military inform
alton division for use by officers in
their studies at the several military
schools.
It is known that Captain Slocum
especially condemns the failure of the
British TO make proper reconnaissance
before advancing. He was with GEN
eral Butler on the Tugeia and says that
ia his first battle there that officer at
tempted to cross by two drifts in plain
view of the enemy. with absolutely no
preliminary attempt TO reconnoitre.
and that apparently General Butler be-
lieved he had only a small force to en-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27

Mr.. Butler and Mr.. Mason Of Illinois,
the latter declaring that this was the
only civilized country which did not re-
ceiye loans from the poor people Of the
country-the only government which
was absolutely dominated by the banks.
Mr.. Allison submitted that IL would
be impossible to extend the postal saw
ings bank system over a part of the
United States without making it gen.
eraI in application and even it it were
possible it would not be equitable 70
pay AZ per cent interest to postal saw
fngs deDOsitOTs in Hawaii as the pro-
posed amendment provided, when bill
was about to be passed by congress re-
funding the Understanding debt OF the
United States at per cent.
Without concluding the discussion of
the amendment the senate at OH p. m.
went into executive session, and at 5:15
adjourned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
PROVES HER MARRIAGE.
Mrs. Craven Produces Certificate on
the Witness Stand.


San Farncis 20, Feb 26.-The Fair
Craven proceedings were licking in
sensational features today. Mrs. era
ven was on the witness stand and the
substance of the examination related to
any provision Senator Fair ever made
for the witness during his life time
Once or twice the Fair attorneys had
Mrs. Craven in uncomfortable corners,
but each time witness managed TO eX-
tricete herself and once in reply to a
question said that Senator Fair had
provided For her "as any good husband
should"
Mrs. Craven was questioned regard
ing her marriage to Senator Fair par
ticularly as TO the alleged marriage by
Justice of the Peace symptom of Sau-
saiito Mrs. Craven was asked To pro-
duce the affidavit % marriage which
she did Il is dated Aug. u. 1899 and in
il Simpton declared that he married
Mrs Craven and Senator Fair in the
latter part of July, 1892.
symptom has since declared that this
affidavit was a part of a trap planned
5y him 10 upset the case of Mrs. Cra-
ven. The Craven interests seem par
ticularly jubilant over the reduction Of
this paper as il viii force the Fair heirs
TO put symptom on the stand for exami-
nation.
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in the current of a day. reaching i'm vain
for something that lasts longer than "a
day TO hold 10. only % 20 under like all
the rest-a few bubble tW0-iuCh ub.r-
man who is going under next and the
story is told. The man who can furnish
quantity and quality at once. who can
thrive on the impossible. who can swim
in the whirlpool instead of being carried
with u, is a man VINO sums up iu him
self not only the definition of what the
problem is in literature Today. but Jus
answer to the problem.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
The Boys In Blue Are Turning Gray
O.. A. Barrett)

The Boys in Blue are turning r--
Thin grows our ranks and tH
We piayed Deaths game fur U. ~ Dbl ..s.
But Death today is winner.
Mid whistling shot and SCREAMING s-
When StCUteSt hearts must % .E.-
Facing the batteTy'S belcliUE ...
Some crossed Deaths silver .t..
Some. maugled. moanei VIII t.....l
breath.
Till Death in mercy freed Tn ..-
In prison pen some starved { -.t"r
With only foes TO heed them
And some Gods country gain. st -
Died mid the dear home t-.
OF limbs torn of by wars u.... 'r
Their empty sleeves are tra..--
We list no more the shriekfu- shell.
No more the bullets rattle.
But comrades fall while tolls ODD. "
As once they fell in battle
Then close the ranks as years r.- ..
As LIES dim sun grows colder. ,
Face death 20 come as deaf. -El. -.'-'
With shoulder firm TO shoulder
What though above our was-i-- rams
No battle flag is gleamine -
Gods red and white In mor-.l- '.-.--
Ger Heavens vault is s-ream..--
Though scant the muster roll 't.."'
Above It's growing longer --,v-
TnOy gin faint on elrth cur voice. $50
In Heaven they'll swell the SCI --7-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
TO STRIKE FINAL BLOW.
Rumored That End viii Come on
Maiuba Day.

London, Feb. 26.-The Leader says:
up till Saturday night Cronje seems
10 have held out 1t is strange that
he should have elected to have a Citi-
del in river bed, with heavy rains
due any day. All we have been able
70 Go is to wound him with artillery,
now nearer seventy than fifty guns.
THE militia are now arriving at the
Cape, and they will be able to release
| the regulars on the lines of commune
cation, who can be pushed to Robert S
Clements and GateacTeS aid.
Butler burrows forward, but the en-
envy around Ladysmith is not yet in a
hurry to be gone. It is Tumored that
Butler and Roberts are waiting to
strike the final blow simultaneously
on Majuba day."
The Leaders expert compares the
| Transvaal with Scotland, and says that
often armies that are broken into guer-
| lila warfare may go on for months or
| years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27

almost {. 200 He said he had kept his
checks and check stubs for the past
five years and that they were subject
to the inspection of the committee II IL
desired to examine them.
Mr. DAILY then complained Of feeling
exhausted on account Of illness and ne
was excused.
State Senator ". a. Clark Of Madi-
son county, was recalled TO make a
statement concerning the testimony of
benjamin Fine. Mr.. Clark pronounced
as false the statement that he had al
tered the records of Madison county.
He proffered a copy of an order of the
county court of that county showing
that the alteration was made by order
Of the court.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
COLLAPSE Of Trust.

Indianapolis. Ind. Feb. 26.-Suit was
filed in the federal court today ask
ing for a receiver for the American
Plate Glass company. The suit is on
behalf Of the De Paw heirs who own
500 G00 of stock in the glass trust, The
complainants aver that the company
has failed to pay the earnings Of the
money which the De PAW estate has
invested in stock. The claim has been
made by the trust that il could not,
based on its earnings. pay dividends.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
WAR OF STEEL KINGS.
Another Suit Brought By sFrick
Against Carnegie Company.

Pittsburg. Beh. 26.-John Walker. guard
Ian of Andrew Carnegie Wilson. s. L.
Schoonmaker and John POUtefract on be-
half Of themselves and such other stock
holders of the II. $. FTick Coke company
as may choose To- Join ir the suit as
plaintiffs. filed the much talked of bill IN
equity 20 annul the contract with the
coke company BIZ the ~ --gie Steel COM
pany, limited. In common pleas court No
late this afternoon. The action is re-
motely connected with the trouble now
existing between H. q. Prick former
chairman of the Carnegie Steel company
limited. and Andrew Carnegie and was
precipitated 10y the filing Of AR Frick' S
bill i'm equity in common pleas court No
TO secure an accounting OF the affairs Of
she Carnegie Steel company limited
I'm ease the plaintiffs seek to stop the
defendants by injunction from selling
shipping or delivering any coke to- the
Carnegie Steel company. limited. under
contract dated Jan !. 1S99 az q price Of
Sl-35 ton. the contract to run for
period of five years. and from settling
with the steel company for coke already
delivered under contracts. IL is also asked
mat the court aHuul the contract and or
der an accounting.
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Certifcates to Democrats.

Frankfort. KY, Feb. 25.-The state con-
test board this afternoon awarded certi-
fcates Of election to all the Democratic
contestants for minor state Offices I'M
sworn in and repaired 20 the state house
in a body. where shey made formal de-
nard on the Republican incumbents Cor
possession OF the offices, but the demands
were not aCC6ded 70.
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NOMINATED BY PRESIDENT.
He Sends a Batch of Appointments
TO the Senate.


Washington, Feb. 26-The president to-
day sent the following nominations to
the senate:
To be cOnsuIs: George B. Anderson of
the District of Columbia, at Prescott,
Can: Grenville James Of New York, at
Grenoble, France.
To be second neutendntS. United states
army: Ralph Z. Lister of Colorado; Spen-
Ger NJ Bowman, District of Columbia;
Clifford L. LeOnOri of New York, Julian
l. Dodge Of New York, Frank b. Davis
Of North Carolina, Daniel Van NOOrhls OF
Ohio. =. Fl. Pope Of Texas.
To be captains United States volun-
teers: Harry n. Cooler, first lieutenant
Thirty-fifth infantry.
To be first lieutenant, United states
volunteers: G. n. kimbaIl, second lieu
tenant Thirty-fifth infantry.
Navy marine corps, to be second lieu
tenant: Louis G. Miller of Ohio.
The senate today confirmed the follow
ing nominations: To be major general
by brevet, Brigadier General Harrison
Gray Otis. L. s. V; to be brigadier gener-
ais by breVet: Colonel 0. Summers. Sec
ond Oregon volunteer infantry; Colonel
il. G. Kessler, First Montana volunteer
infantry.
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CROWDS AT MARDI GRAS.
New Orleans Entertains Rex, King Of
the Carnival.

New Orleans Entertains Rex, King of
the Carnival.
New Orleans. Feb. 26.-In the pres
ence Of an immense. assemblage on the
river front. Rex. king of the carnival,
made his entry into the city today.
After the marine parade a pageant filed
through the business district At the
city hall the king received the keys Of
The municipality.
The influx of visitors continues. and
the boarding houses and hotels are now
taxed beyond their capacity. The Ma
tional Editorial association reached
here during the day
Minister WI OF China. also came in
today. a committee representing Gov
CTn0r Foster and Mavor Flower met
the distinguished Celestial al the train.
and accompanied by leading Chinese
OF the city, escorted him 10 the St.
Charles hotel Later, Mayor Flower
called. Mr.. WI said he had a pleas
ant trip. but deprecated all the fuss
that was being made over so simple a
mn %