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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-06-27
WHAT AN OFFICER SAW IN THE
TRANSVAAL.
The Boer Burgher is Not a Trained
Soldier-The Foreigners Who Enlisted
With the Beers

WASHINGTON, June 19.-The dlvi-
sion of military information of the War
Department is preparing for publication
reports of different officers who have
recently had an opportunity to observe
military movements and campaigns.
one of these is Captain Carl Reichmann
of the Seventeenth Infantry, who went
from the Philippines to South Africa
and for seven months observed the
operations of the Boer Army. on his
way to the Transvaal he stopped at
Madagascar. He said the French were
doubling the garrison of that island,
perhaps in view of possible Complica-
tions with England"
When he arrived in the Transvaal he
met President Kruger who asked him
if he had come to see the fight of one
against five"
Captain Reichmann says that the
ages of the Boer soldiers ranged from
is to 80, that the Transvaal army num-
bered 2044l, and the Orange Free State
had 1854. Captain ReiChmann says
that the Boer burgher is not a soldier;
he has not been trained as soldier and
his fighting methods are the outcome
of his environments and personal char
aCtCr The Beers are reserved and dig
nifed people and made few comments
even when they heard of the destruc-
ton of their homes and property by the
British.
AS to the breaches of civilized war
fare with which they are charged, he
says it is due to ignorance or accident.
They are democratic in their character
and institutions. Much of this portion
of Captain Reichmanns report is re-
presented by astersks, showing that
there have been Examinations in order
that no offenso may be given to those
he criticises.
Upon the whole he found that very
good discipline was maintained in the
Boer army and that the soldiers were
equipped with good arms and plenty of
ammunition. Bayonets were used.
Captain Reichmann says that the vol
unteers played a considerable part in
the South African war. Among the for
eign organizations in the Boer war was
an Italian company of seVenty-fiVe men
under Captain Ricardo. who had been
with Aguinaldo in the Philippines. He
says there was a body of Irish Amer
leans who went as hospital corps, but
dropped their insignia and took up.
rifles as soon as they were within the
Boer lines. There was a small COM
pany of American scouts under Captain
Hassel. These had dwindled to a few
men at the time of the capture of Pre-
toria. The foreigners included nearly
all nationalities. The Kaffrs cut con-
siderable figure in the army and were
subject to military duty for the Trans
vaal.
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FAREWELL TO A HALL

Castle hall over Wichman's store is to
be given up as lodge room after near
ly thirty years of continuous service
Oahu Lodge, K. of p, will farewell"
there this evening and on Monday the
Elks will take the fixtures of the place
and H. F. Wichman will occupy the
rooms. Raising of the rent is what
forced all of the lodges out of the place.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-06-27
GENERAL CORRIN.

WASHINGTON. June 19.--Adjutant-
General Corbin will leave here tomor-
row for the Philippines where he is to
make a special inspection of military
conditions and needs for the personal
information of the President and Sc
cretary of War. He will make a tho
rough survey of conditions in the ISL
ands and will be gone some months,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-06-27
MRS KENNEDY Guilty..

KANSAS CITY MOI, June ia
jury in the Criminal Court today de-
cided that Lulu Prince-Kennedy was
guilty of murder in the second degree
for having killed her husband, p. H.
Kennedy, on February 10th last, and
assessed her punishment at ten years in
the Penitentiary,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-06-27
SENATE LATE YESTERDAY,

The Senate yesterday afternoon fin
ished most of the departments of the
government in the appropriation bill.
on third reading. When the military
was reached adjournment was taken to
this morning
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NOTICE.

All overdue accounts of our firm have
been placed in the hands of Attorney
S. F. Chillingworth, Room 5 Spreckels
Block, with Instructions to enforce
prompt payment.
Hawaiian Wine Company,
FRANK BROWN.
Honolulu, June q, 1901.
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OFFICES FOR RENT.

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by Major Robinson as quartermaster
offices in the Progress block win be for
rent after June 80. The rooms will be
rented singly or en- suite.
Apply to
CHAS. S. DESKY,
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DIED.

San Jose, Cal, June IL,
1901, Mrs. A. S. Perkins, wife of Pro-
fessor Walter Perkins, and mother of
Philip H. Dodge of Honolulu.
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healthy locality, on the upper Dad to
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Box 81, or on the premises.
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the Island of Hawaii
Honolulu, April 80, 1901.
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and began to improve at once. After taking
only six bottles / felt quite well, and now am
able to go about my work again. might add
am seyenty-tive years of age"
You cannot enjoy good health unless you
have a daily movement of the bowels. Ayers
Pills cure constipation.
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wa King Street with Y. A. Soon
Next to W. w. DImond q Co.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-03

water reports that with the ponds al
ready prepared an annual crop OF "a
millions tons Is possible. The purinca
ton OF the salt is partially accom-
plished in the ponds by the careful re
moval Of the mother-liquOr at the dem
sity indlcateds by experience. The
coarse salt Is sold on the cars at the
works at a dollar per ton. For table
use the salt is further purified by ar
tihcial desiccatlOn and winnowing.
Beside common salt, other chemical
products are obtained from the lake
brine Every winter. when the criti-
cal point of temperature is reached,
sodium sulphate, or mirabilte sepa-
rates from the water In enormous
quantities. This is cast up upon tho
shores and may be collected with ease,
and further supply of the sulphate Is
found as a bed a few feet below the
lake bottom, which deposit Is contln-
uous with similar bed OF the material
ivshore beneath a shallow covering OF
shore drift.
Freight cost alone prevents the ex-
portaton OF these and many Other
products from the saltv lake. The man
UGacture Of sodium carbonate has been
successfully accomplished but the want
Of market killed the industry.
The Importance Of the topic is my
excuse for this depression
The most prominent feature OF Utah
topography and surface relief is the
central ridge or highland which runs
as a continuous wall with a continual
" increasing westerly trend through
the middle portion OF the state. On most
g IL ann IL,
Of the newer aliases this Is represented
as the Wasatch range In unbrOken
line. As matter of fact Il consists
only IN part Of the Wasatch, which
range termintes at a point about 10
miles south Of Salt Lake City and In
succeeded by series OF plateaus
scarcely less imposing and massive
and classed as mountains by all eX-
cept the geooglst,
This elevation marks the eastern
boundary Of the Great Basin and sepa-
rates somewhat sharply the eastern
'ror, to wo~torn drainage Rvstems or
Utah; the latter is that OF the Bas'o
affording no escape for the water ex-
cept through evaporation; the former
Is a typical river drainage forming part
Of the Colorado system
The typical mountain range consists
Of strata folded and twisted, contorted
and overturned, like the leaves Of
book crumpled by some powerful hand.
This Is represented by the Wasatch,
range with more than common his
tory, inasmuch as II represents a COM
paratiyely modern series Of deformed
strata which were laid down on a much
more ancient and deeply eroded range.
In trayersing the Wasatch from north
to south. one passes oyef'the upturned
edges OF Paleozoic strata fully 10000
feet in thickness; and in places the
uncomfortable contact between the
Cambrian or lower members Of the
series, and the underlying Archean. is
exposed from canyon floor to coun-
tain peak.
The western front Of this MAJESTIC
range IL so precipitous and steep as
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TO attract the attention of even the
least obseryant. This abruptness Is
due 20 one of the most profound faults
or critical displacements Of crust
blocks ever described, According to
King, the throw Is not less than 49,
600 feet; nevertheless, the range ap-
pears TO be still rising, and at different
points along the base the fault scarp
is so fresh as to suggest the most re-
cent fracture This bold face OF the
Wasatch looks west across the state
Of Nevada, over the crests Of the in
tervening Basin Ranges, the first OF
which occur within the Utah lines as
string OF ranges embracing the
promontory the Oquirrh and the TIN
tic mountains.
The Uinta range abutting almost at
right angles against the eastern slopes
of the Wasatch with an exceptional
trend TO the east and west presents
structure Of striking simplicity, Here
we find single great anticlinal Tod,
the regularity being broken only by
a fault on the north side.
All the mountain ranges properly So
called show themselves TO be strongly
impregnated with metalliferous depos-
its The powerful compression and
folding TO which they have been sub
jected have produced numerous large
assures, which in the majority OF cases,
have been filled by slow deposition Of
metalllferous material While the Coz
lossal Wasatch considered In proper
ton 10 its mass, is less productive Of
mineral wealth than are its smaller
neighbors TO the west, the famous Park
CITY and Cottonwood regions alone are
sufficient to insure il lasting fame as a
producer of valuable metals. The
Oourrh and Tintic ranges have yielded
fabulous returns and the mere listing
Of their mines would exceed the tins
limits allowed me.
All the mountain ranges, as well as
the plateaus OF Utah, are deeply cut
by transverse stream courese, and can
yons OF surprising grandeur are tho
result. There are canyons Of every
type, some yerltable valleys, others
considered in their relation of width to
depth mere cracks in the crust. thous-
ands of feet deep. Most OF the canyons
are Of the kinds Characteristic of new
topography, and the streams they car
ny are mountain cataracts, or a sue
cession OF water falls. This condition
has been turned 10 good account In the
utilization OF water power for the pro-
duction Of electric energy, and numer-
Gus plants Of great capacity are now
in successful operation. For a time
the area Of distribution from the Og-
den power station surpassed that Of
the world-famed plant at Niagara.
Scarcely less imposing than the
mountains referred TO are the mag
nihcent erosion forms OF the plateau
region and the high plateaus them
selves. The greater part of Utah east
Of the rim Of the Basin and south Of
the uintas belongs to the Plateau Pro-
vince, In which are revealed enormous
uplfts. generally with monoclinal folds
and exposed fault scarps. The Mesozoic
rocks have undergone erosion on a
prodigious scale and the remaining
remnants Of these formations present
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cellont ,,poti,,,
Puildinp Sio,oo ,-,
granite ,,ro,,r - 'Slns IN.
sandstone i,,a",a WHY Iahss OF
also nur. ,hit.. IN. 'uu harD'es'
Vice for the oro.tig,' NV lu Syi-
most inposi,o iS'1o,, WI some OF the
citv III 'lle capital
Precious stor,, t.,.,,
aratae by,tito '', 'uNn's Vpa's'
Utahlitr tbo NM. ,',.'.,.l,,'", g.. t.....
for ybat arne9rs - ~ NU"N.
yariscite ~ rnvs,,.t -, i'ely VI
romeo and go 49,. ~, 3i uOtul
ouois ne IN Gn5 ~ ,oa,7, , ,.,.,..s ,ui-
tbs degl,,, H.. 49,, Guy 'l'ih', AMONG
mite stul n,,ra oi's'i.. , ',' s.D'' p'"so'
auois oo,.rots "Ll', ooliilns WI
MANY otbai. ~ ,,i,,',' ,,,,.,.'... an"
or tbo notolir.r,,,, -,
data abroad, n,,liis,.,i' a,, y. Wv p'''l9'
mon nroporiy testic, Guy Nv" I'm,
wealth M cold sii,.r ,i,s S'1ls
ana jron pa.an, 49,, ,., Do'psi' !e""
sive occ,tn,,i, ti,,,.' 10 ,. -, Wy. W, 49,
associatad rniUerais ,.ii P5sii",u'I5Ic %i'u
am induet,.,. a. dix '','. ~ 'vAe'oP
paposa oras "7 VI i''"'-
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fusTH ion nI Ms f1r % t,I.f f,,,rtt.,. 30 a.,
eporu,oue daposit ~, ,r,, ~, '.'i ~. WI ~
western T-tab Tbasa go ~, OT I..,
county within tbo pi,to r,t,,i,, jl,
trict The nrircinoi ontornm 's nro
grolpad within nm gros oC In, ,o
miles in lemon IA. civ r,itos h., ,,t1,i,
These outcrons ave not 49, :" .,,r 49,,
indications brt svt,osi,.. ,,,,,...,,,.,.,. =
great ore bndise ,b,ye ~ ,,a,s,..,i
level Tho oros occnr 4, ,rou 5oenoa
and coutinuoue heds b,,,,5.l va ,.',''.l
talline ronls nres,,,,al,t,. ~ rS 49,,
brian opa Tho digIoratton ns 49,
early rocks folloved h, tho cone,oi
denudatlon Of tho rseion nae eynosc1
the ore An a series NJ nro{ectino ,ndsses
which In general ennosro,,oes ",,ooS,,
ia the casual obeer,,ar ,,raienti,,a, 5,sl,as
and I'm ,artir,,lo,. casos ,,,o,,,,ain 80.
es of volcanic oris,in go Ne a,,,o,,n,
of ore thare rreeort tho o,on,t, U'' ao,,,
allv In sight abo,e ,,rd,,nd ~ 80
tlcaliv incalculabls no oyar,,,,d tho
sinpIe occ,irr4nce known os ~ "pi,,
plowoutp Is a nroiect,nr ,,,oss 90 me-
metric + OOO foot an Ioretb ern,, toa 49, IA
foot I'm width ana v,i,b a r,aan heIoht
NJ nearly 90o foot Tbo s,,rn,,i, crs ~, ss
are so bigbI,, tno,,ot,a 49, ton lei
~ tacts tbrcc.n oooins, tba,, ara MA
In contact An ne stroo,,, "o,,rsos ~
he neigbborhood oro i,nnI ,r,th roog
netite and benotite ana tomseo ~ ne
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n.r. permit me a WORD p ~
| = ne q Introduction. II IS
III Va, and enconrasins to
l.'' me recognition accorded
In nov ,osy IN the program of the
III gent session Of the Intsrna-
iii rooal Minlng congress WIN
iii .so means Of discovering
III ea' 'o,reral deposits there
u v'''"' mining Industries. ana no
saa = '., ar as this congress
~ 9s the work OF the founder
'aa '' ,.s,,lsmitn is preceded by that
to- ,silurgist and this In turn
mai OF the miner whose pam
, M whose camp Is 'Sea 'S '"'
n. ,,'', rain Of laborers, each taking
' a,,,t Of his predecessors toll
.',.lne It on enriched and I'M
.,1 BY his own treatment to the
drder. the geologist appears TO
80 Mace The practical value OF
lance has been but tardily and
.-.Ilsciy recognized He has been re-
sssaman Of dreams and theor-
\" sollector OF specimens, a lover OF
sbens and plants, Of bits of bone
n ,.ores Of fern. that have long lain
m bstween the stony pages OF
= 0os Of earth. He has been looked
=, d one who is more concerned IN
\. theses as to how the earth was
4. than in the facts Of its present
lad II existence u.n,
~ rnlmre value, and even the ethl-
ssrih Of Geology has been admit
II. tye science has been voted to be
,ni ore for a place on the college
|u,nm Of axpectant bachelors OF arts
4. Silence but for the practical man
Il ,sairs, for the prospector and the
IL, for him who delves into the
TX crust for the sole purpose OF
|.-,ting therefrom as many dollars
/ rs,lble, the opinion Of the geolo-
|. has been held as of little service.
4 be years however, let me say
En- the last quarter Of the nine
La century. geological knowledge
! DIN have been accorded increasing
1 milton as a guide TO intelligent
Lge,tng and mining. Many of the
Hes Of geology have served the
,yse Of all sound and worthy theor-
Il, seaffoldlng upon which the
r stands while placing the build
|aAocks Of truth In position as part
M, growing edhce Of science. Ge-
4 has done much toward trans
rlng the unclassihed accumulation
atts and differences, which once
I'd the foundation Of the miners
into an orderly arrangement, in
1 ID the relation Of part TO part has
sze plain, and in consequence OF
uih true science Of mining has
rst 10 the advantage of mankind.
n half-tamed Indian Of the wilds
lsssss a wealth Of knowledge as to
ashltat and seasonal change of the
is,a and animals that serve the pur-
yAd bis life; but he is not thereby
s.aa to the distinction OF a botan-
kTi BIOLOGIST, for his facts are UNI
dEted and disconnected. They are
tEi together as a pile of building
rnal on the site chosen for a house.
Y the province Of mining there was
10 gathering Of facts. much in the
/ Of accumulating valuable knowl-
2 before classification became pos
p ! think ! do not overstate the
rie rendered by the science In ques-
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into Cache valley, 20 miles north Of
the Idaho boundary. IL was at this
northern extremity that the flooded
lake found an outlet, and therefore a
regulator, enabling It to maintain its
level sufficiently long TO carve In some
places and to build up by deposition in
others, 50 constructing its great ter
races, now gashed by canyon streams
There is a record Of two periods Of
maximum flooding with a period Of re
cession Intervening and attempts have
been made TO coreate these with two
periods Of maximum glacation and an
interglacial period. in the eastern part
of the continent
At Red Rock Pass In Idaho, through
which the Oregon Short Line railway
now runs. the waters escaped, and IN
so doing cut away the sill Of Yield
ing rock which for a time formed ths
barrier, and rapidly lowered the lake
nearly 400 feet The Bonneville river
thus formed made It's way through the
Port Ncuf valley into the Snake, thence
TO the Columbia and on TO the Pacific
At this second level approximately
400 feet below the highest terraces the
lake stood for a long but undetermined
period, giving ample time for the con-
structlon Of shore terraces and for the
building Of enormous deltas. Today we
traverse these ancient deltas. covered
in part with orchards and farms. and
examine the delta-structure at leisure.
and all dry-shod From this lower
level. called the Provo level on ac-
count OF the unusually well developed
deltas near the mouth Of Provo cam
yon in Utah county. the lake has
shrunk to its present insignificant pro-
portions by disiccation alone. and
through all the time OF It's recession the
dissolved solids have been accumulat-
ing, until today the lake Is one OF
the most concentrated natural brlnes
known.
BY far the greater part Of the dis
solved matter Is common salt; ana
by efficient methods this may be sep
arated from the water through solar
evaporation alone, in quantities sur
ficient to supply the world with ~
salt for the next geological epoch. Thu
Salt Lake, devoid Of any outlet, fuct-
yates in level according 10 the varying
conditions Of arldty or humidity. ana
the solid contents diminish or increase
on the same scale. The earliest analy-
sis of the lake water on record shows
22.2S per cent dissolved solids. Of which
&C. 22 per cent was common salt. This
result was that OF Bale obtained on
a sample collected in 1850 After that
time the lake rose and It's brin> was
correspondingly diluted, so mat in 1873.
according TO Bassett there was but S.35
per cent salt and but 1912 per cent
total solids. According to the writer's
analysis, the water contained In 1885,
1880 per cent salt and 1911 per cent
total solids dissolved: and in 1889 1874
per cent salt and 1856 per cent total
solids. At present the lake is under.
going a cycle of shrnkaee and the
solid contents are in proportion greater
than that shown by any previous an
alysis.
The largest company now operating
In the extraction Of salt from the lake
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with grass. Towards the lake the forest
predominated until within a few miles
OF the Sapoa, we entered again the
characteristic tropical forests. our
road soon dwindled to a trail and this
often lost itself, so that We were re-
quired to keep In the alert at all times
or run the risk of being lost. But with
out serious accident, at Up. m. we came
out on the shores Of the great lake
Nicaragua, and following the beach
for half mile climbed a
bench fifty feet high and were
soon at the hacienda, Sapoa.
For beauty OF location. this hacienda
exceeds all others we have visited 1t
overlooks on one side the great lake.
the other shore OF which cannot be
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seen. Ten or fifteen miles distant stands
out prominently the island OF Ometepe.
with its two volcano peaks On tn,
other side from the lake, is the river
Lapoa flowing slowly to the lake. while
farther back and across the river rises
abruptly the mountains, the beginning
Of that range Of volcano peaks that ex-
tend nearly through Costa Rica.
The lake was quiet that afternoon.
The island was clear. save for a heavy
Gaping Of clouds resting on the very
top The picture was so beautiful that
Artist Fairbanks made a sketch ana
took a photograph from the front yard
of the house.
In the evening We enjoyed a bath Ia
the lake, and would have tried the river
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from a well country should be stopped.
We decided there was some mistake and
that we would run the risk. We found
the quarantine as we had expected. No
one from Costa Rlca could enter
Nicaragua. and TO enforce the order a
captain and four soldiers had been de
tailed from Rivas to keep guard We
decided to camp for the night at Sa
poa. as the next drive would necessar-
ily be long one, and soon found that
the superintendent Of the hacienda, the
captain and the telegraph operator.
the officers in charge were all nice
young fellows, and all Interested in US
and our trip.
Matters went on smoothly until even
ing when / was handed what at first
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as well but the aliigators were rather
loo much I'm evidence. The natives say
they are very plentiful, and the car.
cass Of one lying on the shore indicated
their size as sufficient TO take mans
leg or. so We contented ourselves with
the lake bath.
DIFFICULTY WITH PASSPORTS.
We expected some difficulty at Sapoa,
though not exactly the kind that came.
For some time past we had been in
formed that Nicaragua had quaran-
tined against Costa RiCa because Of the
yellow fever In Liberia, and that II
would be impossible for us 10 pass out,
or for any one to come In. As II did
not look reasonable that one passing