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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30
Administration and Irrigation.

I CONGRESS meets next week, and
indications foreshadow a session
devoid of much party acrimony.
unless the majority develop the usual
Partially for the interests of monopoly
as against the common people. With
the money question in soak for the
time being, the opposition to trusts APP
pears to be the only peg left to the
/ Democrats upon which to hang their
/ hats.
/ President Roosevelt's message, it is
said, will exceed the usual length of
documents of this character We had
hoped that Teddy's training in the
literary field had taught him the value
of brevity, and that his communication
to the congress would be meant also
for the lay reader of limited time.
What he has to recommend about reci-
procity will be the chief feature in
the message, although he may cause
surprise by springing something new
outside of the Mckinley politics he is
pledged to carry out. Many Repub-
licans would not murmur if he did so;
and surely the Democrats can stand it.
There is a big surplus in the treas
ury and many schemes will be devised
to get rid of it. The proposed in
crease of the navy, if carried into eff
feet, will absorb millions. The chances
are that the army may be increased;
at any rate the cost of keeping troops
in the field will be greatly augmented.
i-Io h
to the west-something that will be
felt by the people of the intermountain
states and territories? It will. if the
recommendations of the president and
his cabinet are taken up in like spirit
by the congress. The reports of the
secretaries of the interior and agri-
culture are already published They
show that national aid for the recla-
nation of arid lands will prove of in
f1nitely more advantage than money
expended in building battleships. Sec
rotary Hitchcock introduces his report
in these words:
Briefly stated the results of the ex-
aminations of the extent to which arid
lands can be reclaimed by irrigation.
made by the committees of congress.
show that while one-third of the
United States is still vacant there are
relatively few localities where homes
can now be made. This is not because
the soil is barren or infertile, but on
account of the difficulty of securing an |
adequate water supply. There is water !,
to be had, but this water is mainly in !
large rivers, from which it can be !
taken only by great structures, or the !
supply comes in sudden floods and can /
not be utilized until great reservoirs
have been bu 1t is impossible for
a laboring maA or an association of 1.
settlers to build these great works."
Summing up discussion of western
land problems, Secretary Wilson in his |
annual report presents the following
First-That private enterprise will
have to be supplemented by public aid
in the construction of certain classes
Of irrigation works if we are to secure
the largest development of western
agriculture.
Second-That reservoirs located in
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30
CARD FROM BISHOP scANLAN.

l feel it my duty to protect Catholics
and the public generally from fraud and
imposition by notifying them from time
to time that no person bearing the name
and garb of n priest or sister or anyone
else is authorized or permitted to solicit
or collect in this diocese for any purpose
whateve connected with the Catholic
Church without having from me permits
sion in writing bearing my seal and
signature. Should any one be found en-
gagged in doing this unlawful work of
collecting without such a document. he
or she. as the case may be. should be re-
garded by all as fraud and an imposter.
L. SCANLAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

Very small things often cha nge the
! whole course of history. A Spanish
sharpshooter, with rifle able to carry
twenty miles. might have picked off
Admiral Sampson at long range during
that battle of Santiago harbor, and SO
averted the whole court of inquiry bust
ness.-Boston Pilot.
The press and public of Chicago would
seem to be very much perturbed over the
fate of Ii Hung Changes soul, Judging
from the frequent and earnest INQUIRIES
made IN the papers of that city and the
attempts made at answering the moment
Gus question. The people of that wicked
metropolis of the west care precious lit
tie about their own souls and it is a
wonder that they trouble themselves
4pout the soul OF a heather Chinese.
That is one way of minding other peo-
pie s business, and a way peculiar to the
frivolous. 1t is none of their business,
and none of ours. for that matter. what
Chang. He was pagan; he had little love
for Christianity and cordially hated the
missionaries of that cult But he was a
child of God, and has been judged ac-
cordinS to the law of God as ii was made
knowT to him.-Western Waterman.
THE Boer war" SAYS the New York
World, has developed one successful
British general in French And this
French, we regret to say. is Irish from
County recommendation and Times
If the young man of today has glori
Gus opportunities, he has likewise ap-
palllng temptations. He may not al
ways be conscious of his power for good
but he carries within him by a strange
perverseness of our nature. an abiding
convection of the ruin he may cause
It IS easy for young man to go to the
pad; our prison records show us that.
1t is easy, toe, for young man to he
all that he ought to be to the fannie
circle, the church. and the society in
which he moves. The successes of vounn-
men, perhaps of our own acquaintance
as model sous. Christians aw-nallers ~
!aw-givers. conclusively prove that youth
is no barrier to success if youth will oniv
cooperate with the advantages offered
Union and Times.
For some reason which we are unah1a
to fathom, much attention Just now is he
ing devoted by a section of the nuhlic
press. to the subject of Boss Chroker's
religious belief and preferences. What
are at a loss to discover So far as we
can see, the public is really no more CON
cerned about Mr.. Cookers religion than
that gentleman himself appears to be
Monitor.
Mayor-elect Dennis MulvihiH of Bridge
port, Conn.,, announces his policy as fol-
lows: AV-
I'll serve all the people.
No politicians about me.
Public expenses must be reduced
No secret sessions No COMMITTEES meat
ings behind closed doors
1 know the value of money. have had
to work for it. The taxpayers money
shall be used as If it were mine own.
How many other elected officials can
promise so good programme, and fur |
nlsh so sure a guaranty of its fulfflment |
as this brainy. honest workingman who !
has never earned more than S14 a week. |
by hard. unremitting toll?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

made for old age. and a proper and
suitable place TO look, after the wants
ailments and physical disabilities of
persons not blessed by Providence with
the goods of this life. a more endur-
ing monument could not be devised to
perpetuate the memory of the dead, or
add luster and glory to the living. The
name of Judge will be enshrined in
golden letters in the hearts of d CRATE
full community.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

Sir Robert Hall, the English astron-
omer, in a lecture at Boston, said that
''at the end Of million years it will
take the earth seventeen minutes long
er to revolYe once around its own axis
than it does today. The aggregate of
loss in four million years will be about
an hour, making twenty-five hour
day" That means another strike by
trades unionists for shorter hours.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

the channels of running streams should
be public works.
Third-That the first step toward ma
tional aid for irrigation should be the
passage of enlightened water laws by
the states to be benefited.
Fourth-That the land laws should
be modified by repeating the desert act
and by requiring cultivation as well as
residence on a homestead.
Fifth-That the non-irrigable grazing
lands should be leased in small tracts
so as to unite the irrigable and the
pasture lands.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30
THE PopE's ADMoN1T1oN.

A Catholic newspaper in parish Is
perpetual mission. Let all who truly and
society defended by human Intellect and
literature should flourish strive by their
liberality to guard and protect the
Catholic press. and let every one in pro-
his money and influence. for 10 those
who devote themselves to the Catholic
press we ought by all means TO bring
helps of this kind. without which their
industry will either have no results or
uncertain and miserable ones.
POPE LEO Mi.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30


An editorial note in Thursdays Salt
Lake Tribune says: The offer of Mrs.
Judge to establish a home for aged
and infirm miners is a most noble
thought, creditable to her generous
heart. The offer is contained in a let
ter printed this morning, addressed to
Bishop Seaman. 1t will be a benefac-
ton Of great service in this whole min
ing region; and though the thought
is kindly and high, it has to do with
men of high spirit and independent
character, and Mrs. Judge is fully as
sured that here benefcence will not
be abused, for she knows the men. The
proposal is another in the shining list
of good deeds for this region, that we
trust is but fairly begun.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

The trouble Japan is having in rails
ing that little loan of 100000 should
be interpreted by the Japs as an evil
dence that the outside world, while it
admires their pluck and spirit, is n
little dubious as to their ability to
whip Russia
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

y new coast defense gun recently
tested at the United States arsenal in
Watervliet, y. Y, fires a huge projec-
tile a distance of twenty-one miles A
few more improvements along the same
lines of force and space will render
fighting ships somewhat obsolete, says
the san Francisco Monitor.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

Opening Of the saloons on Sunday is
the first note of reform" that has been
sounded by the anti-Tammany admin
istration in New York city. The con-
clusion reached is that efforts 10 close
them have all proved failures, includ-
ing the Raines law.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

The news editor of the Salt Lake
Tribune invariably alludes to our ma
tive aborigine as Poor Lo." The fire.
quency Of the adjective made Lo so
weary and lonesome that ne has asked
the editor to include jack and the
game.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

. 1t is not surprising to read that the
Lynch and Plunkett factions in Gal
way had a little scrimmage by way
of 'divarsion,' but nobody was killed
and only slight damage done to the
elegant Galway whiskers.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

While the writer is putting these
lines on paper, a gloom hovers over
the couch of dear friend, and the
agony of a beloved wife melts one to
team. DR.. McKenna, who met with
the accident Thursday morning which
viii without doubt deprive him of life,
was one of natures noblemen, whom
Fitz F'reen Halleck must have had in
mind when he wrote:
None knew him but to love him;
None named him but to praise
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

People who keep up with the daily
history of the world generally skip
Central and South American news, be-
cause the daily reports from our sister
republics confuse the reader in an en-
deavor to keep track of the army
which won yesterday, so as not to mix
it up with the other which gained the
victory the day before. However. the
casualties before Panama number
enough to make the engagement re-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

With $4,000 unemployed persons in
Berlin living from soup houses;
French miners on a gigantic strike;
discomfort all over Great Britain:
Spain threatened by revolution and
Italy bankrupt and beggared, there
seems to be no people across the pond
absolutely contented but the Ice
landers. AT least if they are unhappy
nobody knows it but themselves.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

The Chicago Tribune rises to ask:
why should Ellen Terry retire from
the stage, when she still looks so young
in her photographs"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

Here is an interesting Boer war de-
tail AS described by an Englishman
JUS back from South Africa:
The local warriors, known as Town
guards, are cautious as we'll as val
orous' Boer force being reported
in the neighborhood, they are sent out
to surround and capture it. Thereupon
the guards march forth, make de-
tom and proceed in the direction op
posite to where the enemy is sup
posed to be.
Returning in due course the guards
report that they were unable to cap
ture any Beers, as they fled on their
approach-in proof of which statement
the guards exhibit articles thrown
away by the panic-stricken fugitives.
These articles, so necessary in this
emergency. have been previously stolen
by Town guard heroes from deserted
Boer farms"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

The picture of John Judge in this is
sue is published through courtesy Of
Salt Lake Tribune. in which paper it.
first appeared.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

The public is assured that Grover
Cleveland has recovered from his cold
and again reposes in innocuous desue-
tude
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

Mr. Dooley peter Dunne) has tried
one Of those White House dinners,
along with Hennessy on the side.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

spectacle, even more than usually oc-
cur at a football game.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

An energetic demand is being made
that Captain Clark, the gallant COM
mander of the battleship Oregon,
Should be given the command of the
European squadron instead of CROWN
shield, chief winder of red-tape in the
navy department and head of the
cabal against Admiral Schley. The
latter did not distinguish himself
while Clark gave invaluable service.
To send Crowinshield on a junketing
voyage around Europe, where he will
be feted at every port he touches.
While Clark is retained in a minor SUI
perintendency on shore seems pre-
posterous and ought to arouse the pro-
test which is being made against it.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30

The consolidation of the Northern
Pacific and Great Northern railroads.
two great competing and parallel lines.
eXcites the opposition of the people of
Minnesota, and Governor Van Zandt
WI! probably bring suit in the name
Of the state to prevent it. The pro-
posed scheme of consolidation, if eff
fected. would leave the farmers and
ranchers of the northwest at the mercy
OF the monopoly controlling such
united lines. Hitherto competition
gave them choice of shipment over
either at competitive rates. Montana
should join Minnesota in its opposi-
ton to the deal Colorado is already
aroused over the proposed consolidation
Of the Gould and Hartman interests.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-30
CATHOLIC OPINION.

Very small things often cha nge the
whole course of history. A Spanish
twenty miles. might have picked OFF
Admiral Sampson at long range during
that battle of Santiago harbor. and so
averted the whole court of inquiry bust
ness.-Boston Pilot
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-08
THE MURPHY CLUB
Is WELL HOUSED
Place Where the Bibulous Citi.
zen May Find Headache
Powders.

/ 1t has been whisered anent the Muir
ply Temperance Hall that there Is
| bromo-k ola to be had there for $50
bering-up' purposes, and that anyone
in a state of over indulgence in drinks
that are more than cheering, might
| take himself to the headquarters of the
Gospel Temperance League, and there
forthwith lose his headache by the
most approved and efficacious meth
DDS. These whispers were investigated
by a representative of the Advertiser
were true
But what of it?'' inquired the gen
tleman in charge, and why not? II
man comes in here alr-intoxicated
why shouldn't we do our best to brace
him up, make him. comfortable and set
him on his feet again. 1t certainly is
more encouraging way to treat him
than to throw him down the stairs.
OF course, we could not make this a
loafing place for drunkaros, as 1t is
fundamentally meant to be a clean,
wholesome, leisure hour resort for the
boys, and to proceed in that manner
would make it very different sort of
place; but it certainly is all right to
take away some poor fellows head
ache, when he, perhaps, comes In here
to escape from getting more intoxicaI
ed. Yes; you may say that we have
settler here, and''-he added with evil
dent pride-"we know how to use 1t.
We can bring them around all right
Murphy Hall has also tobacco and
cigarettes for sale, upon the ground
that it is the greater evil they would
combat, and that did they draw the
line at tobacco and cigarettes they
would lose many patrons to the sa
looms.
Last evening there were eleven men
and boys sitting about in the hall at
o'clock, some reading, others talking.
and few writing letters at the desks
screened off for quiet in the corners.
Upon a neat bar of marble near the
entrance, was an array of shining
glasses, and glass pitcher full of wa
ter with generous lump of ice in it,
while two electric fans hummed at the
ends of the hall and kept the air cool
and refreshing. Behind the bar were
the soda fountain faucets, the sur
rounding shelves burdened with pack
cts of cigarettes and tobacco bags,
presumably containing the Jag Grad
icating powders whispered about.
Adjoining the hall is the Murphy
Hall kitchen, where coffee OF the old
homestead kind is made on a gasoline
stove, and near by the stove being
barrel of flour and all the apparatus
for the manufacture of doughnuts,
which, it is alleged, are undeserving of
the name of "sinkers,' so light and
spongy is their quality.
The new temperance resort is GER
tainly an attractive and pleasant leis-
ure-hour rendezvous, and from the
number of it's patrons one may judge
that it is being appreciated. A clever
pianist is engaged to play every even
ing from 1880 p. m. until closing time.
which is about 1870 o'clock, an ex-
cellent piano being rented for the pur-
pose by the club.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-08
Aguinaldo q Wheel Artist.

After all Aguinaldo Is not bad fell
low" said an Ohio man who has been
representing New York firm in China
for two years, the other day. 1T think
can tell of side of his life the
public has heard little about 1 often
met Aguinaldo while he was in Hong
kong. His favorite diversion was an
afternoon spin awheel, and I must con-
fess he was one of the nattiest figures
on Governors road. He wore the reg
ulation cycle costume, and was in
variably accompanied by his secretary,
Sixto Lopez, now in Boston. He rode
a high-geared American wheel and.
like most athletes of small build, was
a graceful and strong rider He took
his bicycle with him to Manila, and |
doubt very much il Funston could
have captured him had it been a chase
of best man on wheels. Funston is a
great fighter, but if Senior Aguinaldo's
tires had been in good condition he
would not be in a Manila guardhouse.
know. for have watched him throw
dust in many a pair of eyes on the
Rotten Row of Hongkong, just before
Dewey set sail for Manila
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-08
ONE OF THE PLAGUE SPOTS.

Now that notice has been called to
the state of things in Magoonville,
something may be done to improve it,
Health Officer Pratt says that stagnant
pools of water stand in the public high
way and that such garbage as will be
found in any neglected street gathers
there. Manager Lightfoot admits that
orange peel has been thrown into the
street by his tenants, and confesses the
need of garbage chutes to carry refuse
from the upper story of the big frame
building which the laundry rents to
Asiatfcs and Hawaiians. The laundry
and Its cottages, he says, are clean,
and no one, so far as we are aware,
has questioned the statement. The
point made by the Advertiser is that
the streets about the tenement are
filthy, and that the squalid inmates are
responsible for such filth. Any one
who goes there to see-or who has Jared
that way during the past three months
knows that the facts have not been
magnified. There are dozens Of Chi
nese laundries in town where the vicin-
age is more sanitary than in Magoon-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-08

The Beckley mission shows the i'm
mature political notions of the Home
Rulers and the ease with which they
can be manipulated by constituencies
white politicians. Everyone who is at
all familiar with American public af-
fairs knows how utterly hopeless would
be the effort to induce the President of
che United States to instruct the Gov
ernor of the Territory to do a certain
thing which the law left to his own, the
Governors, discretion. Furthermore, the
idea that party in opposition to that
of the President could get him to re-
move an appointee of his own politics
because the latter was obnoxious to the
outsiders, is SO comic that it sweeps
the gamut of the risibles. Nobody
knows the absurdity of the thing bet
ter than the white manipulators who
are sending Beckley on missions of the
kind described. They know perfectly
we'll that he will fail to either get in
strNuctions for Governor Dole or to Sc
cure the removal of that official; but
they hope he will manage to drop a few
Impressions about the Governor which
will assist their own conspiracy. How
he may be Inundated they do not care.
The point is to multiply Hawaiian tes-
timony against the Territorial execu
tive. BY keeping this sort of thing up
indefinitely they imagine they can get
something of value for themselves.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-08
Not of Recent Origin.

Maurice Barrymore's illness has been
noticeable to his friends for the last
five years, but until recently all ex-
pected that his naturally strong con-
stitution would pull him through. No
other actor in this country has had
more admiring friends, and no other
actor has thrown away more chances
for success. Barrymore had the advan-
tage of a much better education than
most actors, and added to this had a
naturally keen wit that made him pop
ular. He seemed to care more for his
triumphs of wit off the stage than for
the lines of the play in which he hap
pened to be cast. Several years ago
member Of the Lambs Club present
ed to that organization a painting OF
summer landscape. When the new
picture was hung a group of club MEM
bers were looking at it, and one of
them asked Barrymore for his opinion
OF the painting. Barrymore looked at
1t critically, and then said impressive
ly: NO, no, my boy, I can assure
you that summer is not as bad as 1t is
| painted