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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-21
SKEPTICISM AS TO
C0NGER MESSAGE

London, July u, a. m.-The Congef
dispatch fails to carry conviction tc
either the British press or public. its
geRuineness is not disputed, for, as is
pointed out here, the Chinese must pos
sess quite sheaf of such messages
which the minister fruitlessly endeay-
ored to get transmitted, from which
they could easily select a non-commit-
tai dispatch TO serve the required pur
pose.
1t is supposed that Mr.. Conger omit
ted to destroy the cipher code. and that
this is now in the possession of the
Chinese, in which event the Selection
of concoction of the dispatch would not
be difficult
II is argued that the dispatch if If
were genuine reply to the inquiry
or the American government. would re
lore into details.
The slight ray of hope is admftte
in the fact that both Mr.. Conger and
Mrs Conger are known to have been
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-21
THREE THOUSAND CHRISTIANS
MASSACRED IN PERSIA

that there has been a general massa-
ere of 5000 Christians in Oroomiah.
The letter states that this feeling of
the Mohammedans against the native
Christians is growing and that there
have been several hand 10 hand bat
ties, with fatalities on both sides.
Mr. Shimoon's father is a native mis-
siOnary and this fact adds to the wrath
against him and his family.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-21
THE HERALD BULLETIN.

PAGE ONE.
Powers Is Further Accused.
PAGE TWO.
Beckham Is Nominated.
PAGE THREE.
Hill's Water Scheme.
Half the Heirs Sign.
Liberty Park Water Supply.
PAGE FOUR.
Editorial.
PAGE FIVE.
Discuss Bicycle Ordinance.
Railroad News.
Fix City Tax Levy.
PAGE SIX
Mining Stock Market.
Mining News.
Weekly Trade Review.
PAGE SEVEN.
Financial and Commercial.
PAGE EIGHT.
Call For Democratic Convention.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-21

Chicago, July pa special to the
Record from Peoria. HIS says: George
ShimOon, Persian student who has
been attending college in Illinois for
several years and is passing the sum-
mer in Peoria today received a cable
gram from his home at Oroomiah,
Persia, stating that his brother had
been captured by MOhammedans and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-21
HECKPOORT Is TAKEN.
Federation of Labor Committee Is To
sistance.

6C0IdI1On OA 1C5OOI NOA41414bSOO - ~
sistance.
London. July 2O.-The following dis
patch from Lord Roberts has been re-
ceived at the war office:
Pretoria. July 19.-Methuen occupied
Heckport today without opposition Ian
Hamilton and Mahon continued their
march along the country north of the
Delagoa Bay railway Hunter is re-
connOitering the positions occupied by
the Free Staters between Bethlehem
and Ficksburg-
1t is admitted that a force of 10000
will be raised in Cape Colony to enable
the despatch of troops To China.
The Cape Colony parliament opened
today with impressive scenes. The
speech of Sir Alfred Miner, governor
of the colony, prophesied the early
close of the war and subsequently a
united and prosperous South Africa.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-21
American Honored by France.

Paris, July 2O-James Hyde of New
York has been appointed a chevalier of
the Legion of Honor. This decOra-
ton has been conferred upon him in
recognition of his work for the ad-
yancement of French literature in the
United States, through the Cercle
Francois of Harvard university.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-21
F07FICNEUS DECLARED
SAFE, But HARD PRESSED
Dsrach Dated at Pekin, July Is, Is Accepted by
The State Department as Genuine.
limited States Army and Navy Officers in China Ordered to
Use Every Effort For Relief,

Washington. July 2O-FolIowing is the text of the
bsgram from Minister Conger received the depart
msnt today:
IN British legation
Under continued shot and shell from Chinese troops
Quick relief only prevent general massacre"
The message dated, but it is understood to have
hen sent from Pekin July 16.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-21

Declares Ching's Palace the Refuge.
Paris, July 2O.-The foreign office has
received information from a Chinese
source, in which. however, certain re-
lance may be placed, that the foreign
ministers at Pekin have not been mas
sacred. According to this information
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-21
liver AND LEAD

,..,..er Gle per ounce Mend
/ Copper. 10 4. r. Coz price, $3.S7l2; New
| Lee 2, Ais99,r%e. S5.g71zGSf.O21k; New York
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Forecast for Salt Lake Today Is.
Fair, Stationary Temperature.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24
cost $4,000.

cost $4,000. altogether, the United
States section is likely to be the most
creditabe display this country has ever
made across the ocean in that picturesque
bazaar of nations called a worlds fair.
As far as recorded there are 10000 ex-
hibitors from France, 6,364 from the
United States, $500 from Belgium, 1000
from Germany, 2,0G0 from Italy. 1,500
from Russia, 400 from Norway and
Sweden, 1000 from Austria, 600 from
Great Britain and GOO from British colo
MES. Up to this time the United States
has shown more interest in the exposition
than any other country except France.
The exposition opens with about $4,000
exhibitors on the books, against 1900
at the Worlds Fair in London in 1851,
400 at the Worlds Fair in New York
in 1853, 23,954 at the Worlds EXPOSE
ton in Paris in 1865, 2S,653 at the
Worlds Fair in London in 1862 50,226
at the Worlds Exposition in Paris in
1867. 10000 at the Worlds Fair in vi
emma in 1878, 30,S64 at the Centennial
Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, 40,
500 at the Worlds Exposition in Paris in
1878, $4,000 at the exposition in Paris III
1889 and 65, 422 exhibitors at the Worlds
Fair in Chicago in 1893.
The Worlds Fair in London in 1851
occupied twenty-one acres; that i'll New
York in 1858, thirteen acres; that in Paris
in 1855, twenty-four acres; that in Lon
don in 1862. twenty-three acres; that in
Paris in 1861, thirtyseven acres; that in
Philadelphia in 1876, sixty acres; that in
Paris in 1878, 100 acres; that in Paris in
1889, 160 acres; that in Chicago in 1893,
633 acres. The grounds of the present
exposition in Paris are greater in extent
than the grounds of 1889, but do not COM
pare in extent with the grounds of the
Columbian exposition in 1893.
Political controversies and complica-
tons, wars and rumors of wars amt the
prejudices of the French people against
England and Germany have initiated
somewhat against the exposition of 1900.
but it will be undoubtedly the greatest
exposition in the arts. sciences and man
ufactures ever seen on the continent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24
TRACK rs NOT CLEAR.
THERE WILL BE REPUBLICAN OP-
POSITION TO M'KlNLEY.
The Load of His Failures and Blum
ders Has Become So Heavy as to
Scare Many Prominent Leaders of
the Republican Party.

WashiDstsd correspondence:
There will be Republican opposition
to MeKinley's denomination. The load
of his failures and blunders has be-
come so heavy as to scare many of the
prominent leaders of the party into
belief that his denomination would
lead to an inevitable and overwhelDl-
Gratis hope and pray for McKinley's re-
nomination. They want the campaign
to be fought squarely upon the issues
which Mckinley has made They may
be briefly summarized as follows:
Subseryiency to trusts and corpora
tions; the establishment of the single
gold standard and the perpetuation of
the national debt in the interest of the
national banks; Imperialism and mill
tarism, as typitied in the attempt at
seizure of the Philippine Islands ana
the placing of the military above the
civil authority in Idaho: the continual
ton of the war taxes in order to fur
nish funds for gross extravaganza and
reckless expenditure; bad faith and
broken national honor in dealing with
Porto Rico; an extreme pro-British at
titude not only as against the Beers,
but also in connection With the Near
aguan Canal treaty, the Alaskan
boundary question, and every other
issue between Great Britain and the
United States.
The revolt AGAINST McINinley has not
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24
PARIS EXPOSITION FACTS.
THE Paris exposition originated in a m
ti..., - n I.,lns un.Ln AliniStar Of Z

It HE Paris exposition originated In mo-
l ticn Of NJ Jules Roche. Minister Of FL
nance. who, in July. 1892 proposed the
plan TO President Carnot. On July 13 of the
same year the President Issued a decree
announcing universal exposition of works
Of art and of industrial and agricultural
products in 1900.
Eight years have been consumed in the
preliminary preparations and IN the actual
construction of the buildings.
The total cest of the exposition proper has
been $2T ,000.u00 C135, 100000 francsj. OF this
sum the government gave 20.000,0O0 francs,
the city of Paris like sum and the re-
mainder was raised by an Issue of popular
bonds.
1t is estimated that G00O0,O00 people VIII
visit the show and that strangers will spend
about 5000 100000 in Paris during the time
of the exposition
About S1O.0o0.0GO has been invested in side
shows and amusement enterprises outside
the grounds
All the buildings including the Paris
midway" occupy an area of 300 acres.
Space allotted 70 the United States, 100000
square feet.
Appropriation Of the United States Gov
eminent. 81 210.000
Duration of the exposition, from April Is
to Nov ,, 204 days.
Number of classified exhibit groups IS
Number of buildings, including payilions
of foreign states, 65.
Foreign powers cooperating, AZ.
Number Of regular exhibit buildings, 3d.
General admission to the grounds will be
1 frame go cents between 10 a. M. and q
D. m. At other hours the admission will be
francs In order to prevent tco great crowd
ing But tickets may be purchased outside
the grounds at much cheaper prices.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24

countrymen, and after a parley Were led
away. The prospects of working behind
a stockade and in fear of violence from
union pickets was also a factor in getting
them to desert.
Mayor Harrison says that the labor
unions, contractors and material dealers
are all wrong, but that the workingmen
have the least to answer for. Whe Mayor
says that the reports of labor troubles
are keeping people away from Chicago.
He adds: 1T is argued that the labor
unions constitute trust Why, the ma
terial men and contractors have been the
parties who have formed the trust To
day not a single thing is bought by the
city but we run up against combination
controlling the needed article. | know
men who have sent orders from outside
points and had goods reshipped to this
city at cost less than they would have
TO have paid in a direct purchase. This
thing has gone so far that we have or
dered city purchases shut off as far as
possible. We will try the Eastern mar
kptS -
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24
A scotchman's selrControl

Charles Mathews used TO tell a good
story in support of the truth OF the re-
mark about a Scotchman, joke, and a
surgical operation. When starring" in
Edinburgh, his landlord. who seldom
attended any other public meeting save
the kirk" asked Mathews if he would
oblige him with "a pass for the play
hoose."
On this favor being readily granted,
the "guid mon," as Ian Maciaren would
say, donned his cheerful black suit, and
witnessed Mathews two great perform.
ances, Sir Charles Coldstream in Used
Up" and Plummer in Cool as a Gu
cumber," both downright "side-split-
ters."
Meeting his landlord on the stairs as
he proceeded to his own room after the
performances Mathews was cordially
greeted by that gentleman. of whom he
then inquired how he had enjoyed the
entertainment.
"Aweel," said the Northerner, ''it
pleased me yara much, ye ken. and |
conseeder you played uneo' naturally;
but. heigh. mon. I'd a hard matter to
keep frae laughing"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24
Brief News Items.

The cruiser Topeka is to be oycrhauled
and fitted up for use as a training ship.
The new south terminal station has
added about 100000 to Boston land
values.
Rev. d. G. Shepard OF san Francisco
denounces kissing games and forfeits st
church socials.
The French statistician. Or. Livrier.
says that half OF al human beings die be-
fore they are Il.
The marriage rate of Queensland. Aus
tralia. has been steadily declining from
14.5 per 1000 in 1868 10 6.3 per 1000 in
1895.
New Zealand's frozen near trade with
Great Britain now equals about 1s.OU
sheep a day. or some 6.J0o.o0O carcasses
per annam.
Long * Tin. the Chinese reformer. de-
clares his party can now dictate terms
TO the Empress Dowager under pain OF
revolution
Adyiees from Sydney, Australia. say
that rats hare spread the bubonic plague
there. and that a war on rodents IS in
progress. The plague is now in the New
Hebrides, four deaths having occurred
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24

Oh, what n change comes over things,
What quiet fills the place;
The winter evening slowly drags,
The purple flames that race
Far up the chimney seem to shed
Less cheerful warmth and light,
When, putting on their little gowns,
We kiss our boys goodnight.
We follow them as off they go,
With ringing laugh and shout
To fondly tuck them in the bed
And turn the gaslight out;
And, clasped in one another's arms,
So warm aud snug and tight,
They ill our hearts with worship
When we kiss our boys goodnight.
And as they drift to Sunderland
We linger round their cot,
For lol a strange enchantment
Binds us voiceless to the spot,
And life somehow grows sweeter,
And the vexing cares take fight,
When. bending Ger their sleeping forms,
We kiss our boys goodnight.
Then. looking to the future,
Into whose mysterious years
They must go to meet life's issues,
Now with gladness, now with tears;
We pray that He may lead them
Ever in the path of right,
When no more beneath our rooftree
We may kiss our boys goodnight.
.-Galyeston News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24

of next month sees all the exhibits in
place and the fair fully inaugurated in
all its splendor, the authorities may be
congratulated on their success.
The exposition is planned on a yaster
scale than any previous one, with the sim
gle exception Of the Columbian exposi-
ton. American visitors will not, as at
blush for the exhibit this country makes
at Paris. With the exception of France
itself we baye the greatest number of
exhibits. numbering nearly 1000 in all
while Germany. the next in number. has
only about 5000, and England only about
a third as many as Germany. The Unit
ed States pavilion also will probably car
ry off the honors as one of the gems of
the fair. Its interior decorations alone
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24

he sank into a chair and sobbed Ike
a little child.
Suddenly he started up. "a we'll
known hand caressed his head.
rs it you. Paul?" he heard her ask
in a whisper.
"Yes." said he. breathing heavily.
paul, | looked for you everywhere
in the garden and could not find you.
Then | took off the bandage.'
And do you see me?" cried Paul in
deadly alarm.
II must say that do not. No, no! 1t
is just as dark as it was before. The
operation was failure. l see nothing
whatever
And nothing" said Paul exultingly.
Il also took off the bandage. at once
everything became quite dark"
Nov" said Anna with a sigh, I'VE
must remain forever blind
ut is better So" answered Paul with
happy heart; and be tenderly en-
braced his poor blind friend.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24
The GReAT1LAkES
They Are Becoming Greater, CONNER
cially, Every Year.

ciaIly, Every Year.
The fact that navigation on the lakes
is about to open and that the greatest
season" ever known is confidently pre-
dieted by those familiar with the traffic
makes some facts, which the treasury
bureau of statistics has just presented in
one of Is monthly publications, especially
interesting.
Statistical statements kept during a
considerable term of years at st. Mary :
Falls canal show that the tonnage of
vessels engaged in commerce passed
through the canal increased from 9l4.
T35 registered tons in 1872 10 II .95S.34T
tons in 1899, the increase having been
over 1000 per cent, as against an in
crease of 100 per cent in the total for
eign commerce. and 200 per cent in ex-
ports. In 1871 the number Of bushels; of
wheat passing through the canal vas
1.3T6.T05. while in 1929 the number was
$500, :s:s5. Flour increased from 1885,
AZ barrels in 1872 10 7,114,147 barrels
in 1890. while grain other than wheat in
creased from 445.T74 bushels in 1872
to 1000. GOO bushels in 1899.
In lumber. metals and minerals the
growth Of transportation on the lakes IS
quite as striking IS in breadstuffs. The
percentage OF freight carried by Cana
dian vessels, which in 1887 was { per
cent of the total. was in 1888 only -
per cent.
The cost OF transportation per ION per
mile has fallen from 2.3 mills in 1871 to
T9-lo0 mill in 1920.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24
DIVORCES IN VARIOUS STATES.
oklahoma the Only One that Believe
". Making. Senaratinn Easy

oklahoma the Only One that Believes
IL haking Separation Easy.
With the enactment of the law re-
curing one years residence In North
Dakota before divorce can be granted,
another State joined the decent ma
jority of those which are not inclined
to make things easy for people who
wish to be separated from wife or hus-
band.
Oklahoma is now the only State or
territory in which only ninety days
residence is required.
The term of residence now required
in other States is as follows:
SIX MONTHS.
Arizona, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada,
South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming.
ONE YEAR.
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colo
RADIO, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Missouri, Montana. New
Hampshire, New Mexico, New York,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode ISL
and, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia,
Washington and Wisconsin.
TWO YEARS
Florida, Indiana, Maryland, North Car
DINA, Tennessee, Vermont.
THREE YEARS.
Connecticut. New Jersey.
FIVE YEARS.
Massachusetts tunless parties are resi-
dents at the time Of marriagel.
During the reign of the ninety-day
residence law divorces were sometimes
granted on curious grounds. For in
stance a woman was granted a divorce
because her husband did not battle fire.
quently enough, thereby causing her
great mental anguish. Another man
slept with a razor under his pillow
solely to brighten his wife. who was
accordingly given divorce. A third
defendant made his wife climb step
ladder to drive nails in the woodshed;
one woman complained that her hus.
band treated her as a child; another got
divorce because her husband enlisted
in the navy; a decree was issued to a
woman whose husband cut off heI
bangs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24

Over 1900 people went through YeI-
Iowstone Park this season, breaking the
record by 1900.
Among Colorado's relics Of Cliff Dwell
ers is one building that sheltered prebz-
bly, COCO people.
Chattanooga school superintendent
has decided that henceforth boys shall
not smoke ia school.
The French have the exclusive right
to carry on researches in Persia. but half
Of the finds are to belong to that country.
AZ FolkstoBe, England, an undertaken
rode a bicycle on the bandlebar Of which
was strapped a coffin containing child
The nost magnificent opal in existsnce
i. Il 5 stated worn in the cap OF the
Chinese minister al Washington. 1t is
as large rs a pigeons egg. and surround
cd hy ,Iiamonds. II is valued at 5000.
At Chesterfield Ind. the warnings
which preceded The deaths Of seYyn peo-
ple-the entire Steiaman family consist
Cd OF loud rapfangs on the front doors Of
the homes thgAs nights in succession. fCi-
lowed by raps- on the inRer doors.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24
CHICAGO STRIKES INCREASE.
Mayor Harrison Blames Both Unions
and Contractors.


Frank Riepol, a non-union Chicago la
borer employed by the Western Electric
Company. was probably fatally injured
by four men, supposed TO be union pick
cts who assaulted him, one after the
other, as he was gong home from work.
The men were not arrested. The Build
ing Contractors Council announce that
the men employed en- the Western Flee
tric building will be housed and fed in
the same manner as those employed on
the Merchants Loan and Trust building
All of the prominent members of the
Contractors Council are protected by POI
lice. Many are also carrying revolvers
Police Inspector Hartnett supplied them.
1t is claimed that the police heard of
plot TO assault some of the members of
that body. Officers in citizens clothes
are closely following these men to pro-
tect them from injury.
An attempt by the contractors to bring
labor from other States to work on Chi
cago buildings was foiled Monday when
the union pickets intercepted twenty
Italian worl1men imported from New Or
leans and persuaded them not to go TO
work at the Western Electric building.
The men when they arrived at the build
ing We're met by a delegation of their
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24
PARIS FAIR OPENED.
INTERNATIONAL SHOW IS FOR
MALLY iNAUGuRATEO.
Exhibition Buildings Still Unfinished
and Exhibits Not Yet Installed The
United States Makes Most Creditable
Showing Chicago Strike Growing.

The worlds exposition at Paris was
formally opened Saturday, although many
buildings have not been finished and many
exhibits are not in place. The EXPOSE
ton win be the largest and most attrac
tive eyer held in Europe.
For a fortnight or more work Oh the
exposition has been pushed night and
day by armies of masons. plasterers, paint
ers. glaziers. carpenters and other work
men, and while in some respects the exhi-
bition which opened IFS doors officially
Saturday is far from being completely in
order, it probably approaches that condi-
ton at least as nearly as the Columbian
exposition did at its official opening Of
80 Correspondents say that if the end
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24
HILLS is NOW OUT.
Noted Preachers Resignation Accepted
by Chicago Presbytery

by Chicago Presbytery.
Newell Dwight Hills is no longer a
member of the Chicago presbytery or the
Presbyterian Church. The name of the
Brooklyn preacher, who dared to re-
nounce the confession of faith of that
church, was erased from the role of the
presbytery at its weekly meeting Monday
morning. DR.. Charles III. Parkhurst of
the Madison Square Presbyterian Church,
New York, has joined DIR. Hills in his
opposition to the Westminster confession
of faith and in his sermon Sunday he
said things which provoked comment
Apparently these two divines are far
from being alone. There are frequent ac-
cessions to their ranks, it being announc-
ed in Cleveland Sunday, by way of illus
tration. that Rev S. T. Sprecher and
Rev. Paul L. Sulphen, delegates to the
Presbyterian general assembly, would
favor the adoption Of a shorter creed.
The demand for a new creed is pointed
out by some as showing the trend of mod
ern thought in the church, and it is evil
dent that those favoring the action will
be satisfied with no minor changes. They
will ask for new creed-a short one
and the question will be one that win
make the coming conference of unprece-
denied interest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-24

When President Mckinley selected
Mrs. Potter Palmer to act as representa-
tive of American women at the Paris ex-
position he conferred an honor upon the
woman who is generally conceded tn be
best fitted for it. Mrs. Palmer is an ideal
type of the American woman. She is
handsome, graceful. tactful-a born lead
er. For years her word has been law in
Chicago society and since acting rs pres
ident of the Woman's Board of Worlds.