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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29
A LIVELY YoUHesTER.

ME BESPEAK for John Redpath of
W Freeport. Pa. a place in the list
of lively octogenarians. Indeed. John
is entitled to stand very close to the
top he is a little more than 50 years
old The other day this lively young
ster was out taking the air on rail-
road trestle. Children Of his years and
deaf people usually prefer railroad
tresties for that purpose.
Along came a train. 1t bumped John
and bumped him hard He alighted in
deep water forty feet below. Did he
calmly drown2 Did he give up the
ghost without a struggle? Why. the
thought doesn't seem 70 have entered
his mind. Although slightly Jared
from the impact Of the engine, as most
Of Us would have been, he bHthely
swan ashore and walked some dis
lance 10 the home Of friend
At last accounts he was as lively as
q cricket. The damages sustained by
the engine have not been reported. but
IL is fair to presume that it has been
sent 10 the shops for extensive repairs.
Mr. Redpath is a man after our own
heart. Here's hoping he will live to
be real old man and that, if it is any
pleasure 10 him, he may put many a
locomotive out of commission.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29

| EVEN WAR and rumors of war are
l. not without their humorous fea-
lures if one cares to look for them. In
one Of its dispatches about the vene-
zuelan controversy, published IN The
Herald of Saturday. the Associated
Press says: 1T is not possible TO learn
either, whether the allies insist upon
apologies from Castro" Isn't that
pretty close TO the limit?
Why should Castro apologize? Be
cause he didn't make a fight when the
allies destroyed. his fleet? Because he
protested against the blockade of the
ports of Venezuela? Surely, if an
apology is due from any of the parties
to the controversy to any other party
Castro is not the debtor. Indeed.
Venezuela has been compelled to do
ali the suffering while the other fellows
have had all the fun.
1t is pleasant to note that the whole
affair has been referred to The Hague
tribunal for arbitration. That is the
sane and sensible course. The inter-
national court of arbitration is abso-
lute1y without bias and. therefore, its
decision is entitled to all possible con-
sideration If England and Germany
had agreed to arbitrate in the begin
ming they might have spared themselves
vast deal of trouble. worry and ex-
pense
Venezuela has always been willing
to arbitrate. In the beginning, though.
the allies refused the Droffer because
of their alleged fear that the South
American republic would not carry out
the decree of the court in the event OF
a decision adverse to it. Then they
executed their previously planned dem
.onstration in the hope of frightening
Venezuela into granting all demands,
however unreasonable, or of creating
a sentiment in this country which
would have resulted in an American
guarantee.
The bluff has failed to work. Now
England and Germany are exactly
where they were in the beginning
Venezuela may stiIl refuse to abide by
the judgment of the arbitration court.
L she does. nobody can justly blame
the allies if they promptly seize one of
her custom houses and hold it until
their claims are satisfied.
There is no possibility that the Mon
roe doctrine viii have a place in the
arbitration hearing The question is
not involved. either directly or indirect
ly. 1t is simply a money dispute, an
argument as to the business of the
claims of Great Britain and Germany
against Venezuela. No matter what
the award may be, the Monroe doctrine
cannot be tempered with in any man
-ner
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29

According to Lees story at the time
land this was subsequently verified.
there were vast lodges of surface ore in
sight of precisely the same quality as
the ore which from time to time he
brought in on his burros- He was very
secretive about the location of his mine.
and those whom he took into his conf
dence were under strict pledge to reveal
nothing.
Among these was r. w. Waterman
who afterward became governor of
California. Mr. Waterman was at that
time struggling lawyer. For ten years
after Lees disappearance nothing was
heard of the properties. Then a big
expedition was organized in San Ber-
nardino to search for the abandoned
claims. Under the guidance Of two
prOspectors. who claimed to know
something of the locality, and who had
heard where lay the Lee silver, the par
ty went elmost Immediately to the
mines.
But upon their arrival they found
Waterman guarding the property with
Winchester rife. He had been In pos
session for two hours. He had driven
out TO the claims in a blackboard. For
more than fifteen years Waterman held
a controlling interest in the Lee mines.
and II is estimated that during that
time more than s2.000.0O0 in ore was
taken out.
Dark hints We're cast in regard to
waterman by those who considered he
must have known the locality. Now
the nndlng of Lees body clears the air
the ex-governor has been dead several
years Since the depreciation of silver
puiilon the mines have been idle. but
the old story Of Abner Lee is often re-
peated by the desert prospectors.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29
STANDARD Oh ROBBERY.


An OIL AUTHORITY makes the
n statement that the recent increases
In the price OF coal oil will add
S5S. 500 600 annually to the income Of
the Standard Oil company. This re-
!ers to the refined product. If the in
crease in the price of crude petroleum
Is added, the total net gain to the most
typical Of all monopolies win be $685.
900 a year. Practically every cent
IF this enormous sum comes out of the
pockets OF people who can i'll afford to
pay it, That is to say. it comes from
he scanty earnings of the very poor.
The excuse given by the Standard
Dill people for increasing the price of
heir product is the unusual demand
accasioned by the shortage in the east
srn coal supply. There is no hint that
a reduction WILDE made as soon as
The coal famine is over. Neither is
there any claim that the cost of pro-
ducing and refining the oil has been
Increased. Indeed, even such a trust
as the Standard Oil company could
hardly make an excuse that could so
EASILY be refuted.
The expert who furnishes the figures
pm the handsome addition to the mo-
nopoly's net income, also furnishes fig
ures relative to its output. He esti-
mates that S.e00,o0o0OO gallons of oil
we're produced in the United States
during the year which has 50 nearly
ended. Of this amount the Standard
Oil company handled 1850, 900, 600 gal
Ions. or a little less than 50 per cent.
The difference between the trust out
put and the so-called independent out
put is so trining that the STANDARD
company may be said to control the
market absolutely.
Since Sept. 20, last. the Stand
ard Oil monopoly has raised the price
Of coal oil. cent and a half-cent at a
time. until the total raise amounts to
cents a gallon. Oil sold in the
crude state has advanced half a cent
a gallon during the same period. and
the people pay the money. John D.
Rockefeller owns a large proportion of
The Standard stock. 1t is not so very
remarkable, then, that he is able to
give millions to universities and stnl
have enough left to make him the rich
est man in the world
The Herald has no fault to find with
Mr.. Rockefeller, either, simply on the
score of his great wealth. It does be-
lieve, however, that just criticism may
be laid at his door when he takes ad-
vantage Of public necessity to wrest
from the pockets of the poor wealth
that he does not need. His action does
not fall far short of downright rob-
berry.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29
AN INSURANCE PROBLEM.

THE HERALD has received copy
L OF the report submitted by COM
mittee of prominent business men TO
a meeting Of business men representing
many callings and many states, on a
problem which has Ions been a pons
asinorum TO merchants and manufac-
turers everywhere. 1t is the problem
OF full. reliable ana absolutely sound
fire insurance. II is a well known
fact that many hegvy insurers are not
able to secure sufficient insurance to
properly protect themselves against
fire losses.
The expense is so great. the security
is so doubtful in many cases. that in
surers are forced TO carry a large Part
of the burden themselves. One reason
for this, says the committee, which is
headed by Lewis Nixon Of New York.
is the exorbitant expense account main
tanned by the so-ealied old line com
panies as well as by the. new ones that
spring into existence every year.
1t is pointed out that the annual pre-
MUM payments made by the United
States aggregate, in round numbers.
$175.00000e. OF this sum, S97. 0O0. OOo is
returned for losses and the balance
goes for expenses and dividends to
stockholders. The committee argues
that the big insurers pay the difference,
amounting to s7s,OOoOOO. and the argu-
ment is made that it is unfair to place
a tax Of IS per cent of the premiums
upon the large insurers in order that
the remaining SO per cent may be dis
tributed in Ere losses.
To obviate this evil, the committee
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29
a MINING PRosPEcToR,s BONES.
The Strange Disappearance Of Abner
Lee at Last Solved.
(san FRANCISCO Examiner.)

AsoGH FRANCISCO EXam1ner.l
After thirty-seven years of mystery
the strange disappearance of Abner
Lee, the notorious old prospector who
discovered the famous Lee silver mine
seventy miles northeast of San Ber-
nardino, Cal, has at last been solved.
Lee was the most famous prosDector
Of his time. In 1865 he located those
claims known as the Lee mines, which
subsequently brought a fortune of 81
00O,O0O to Governor r. w. Waterman
of California. Soon after discovering
these rich silver properties he disap-
peared into the desert and was never
seen again. A great deal of excitement
was occasioned by Lees withdrawal
from the world. and it was suggested
more than once that he had been foully
done away with by INSCRIPTIONS per-
sons who wished to gain possession of
his property. Others thought the Piute
Indians. who then raided the desert,
had killed him ana burned the remains.
Now the4riddle has been solved and
the skeleton of old Abner Lee, the
bones of his burros, his '.washpaar and
an old mining pick bearing his name on
the handle, have been found in the
Devils Playground by Jim" Moran, 4
desert freighter plying between Fenner
on the Santa Fe road and Resting
Spring branch. at the head of Death
valley. The shifting sands which COW
cred Lee have given back their dead
the miners are cleared Of obloquy and
the bones of the prospector have been
given decent burial on the crystalline
shores of Soda lake.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29

The proof of the pudding is said to
lie in the pleasure taken in the eating.
On that principle The New Year Her
aid was about the best thing in the
newspaper line that has struck Salt
Lake for many days; in fact, the best
since the last New Year Herald was
published. We always did consider
salt Lakers people of excellent taste
and we are more firmly grounded than
ever in that opinion now. They took
to The Herald of yesterday like poor
cousins to a rich relation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29

A better price for Utah lead is one
of the bright prospects for the new
year. The Herald joins everybody else
in hoping the miners viii be success
full in securing the desired increase. At
the same time. let US hope that silver
and copper will also take a balloon as
censiOn.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29

The Herald heartily endorses the eff
fort now being made by numerous cit
liens to secure the calling of a special
grand jury to consider the crime and
immortality now prevalent in Salt Lake.
with special reference to Vioctria al
ley The work of such a body could
not fail to result in great good to the
municipality.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29

It certainly is rather unkind in OBJ
server Murdoch to keep the warm
weather tap turned on right at the
time when the dealers want to unload
their stocks of skates.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29

We are authorized to deny the re-
port that Apostle Reed Smoot is busily
engaged in, writing a book on How 1
Broke Into Politics. or the Advantage
Of Being an Apostle"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29

1t develops that that Kansas mob
lynched the wrong negro. There may
be some difficulty now in explaining
whether the joke was on the negro or
on the mob.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29

The allied powers are mighty busy
exchanging notes. but none of them
wants Castro's note. They all prefer
the cash in hand paid.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29

Along about next Thursday morning
considerable of that material we are
reliably informed hell is paved with
will be manufactured.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

munds was the Radical and Trumbull the
conservative. In 1872 Trumbull supported
Horace Greeley, and Edmnds supported
Grant. In 1877 Trumbull was OF counsel
for Samuel J. Tilden before the Electoral
Commission, and Edmunds was a member
Of that extra constitutional tribunal.
Trumbull began Democrat, was. like
Chase, a Republican on the slavery ques-
ton only, and died a Democrat Ed
munds began a Wing, lived Republi-
can. and will die a Republican.
Edmunds sided with Grant in the quar-
rel with Sumner, and doubtless that was
real service he rendered his country.
He was chairman of the Judiciary Com
mittee, position that might challenge
the emulation, or the envy, OF any law
yesr, however extensive his learning or
transcendent his abilities. He was the
author OF the legislation against poly
gamy that made Statehood possible for
Utah He was also the author OF the
statute relating to the counting of the
vote for President and Vice President
that was suggested by the insolence OF
Ben. Butler on a certain occasion, when
the two Houses OF Congress convened in
Joint convention to canvass the returns,
and emphasized by the disputed election
of 1876
Edmunds became the leader of his party
in the Senate during the administration
of Arthur, though Sherman had first
place when economic subjects were con-
sidered. If Conkling and Blaine agreed
upon anything it was a common dislike
of Edmunds. On the other hand Allen
G. Thurman, a Virginian and West
erner. had a genuine affection for this
man, as frigid as the annual harvest
yielded by Lake Champlain. Ben Harri-
son and George +. Hoar and John ]. In
gals were content to follow his lead
and for several sessions he was the most
powerful Senator in Congress.
The Republican party surrendered ex-
executive control with a great deal of re-
lectance in 1885. Indeed good Republi-
cans did not feel that there was enough
of LOYALTY or a sufficiency of respectable
ity in the Democratic party to render il
safe for that party to be intrusted with
power Senator Edmunds shared this
feeling. though a metaphor of his
something about Jay Gould and hi:
breastworks and James G. Blaine and 3
{ miiSkGl-naQ something " w Win tl's
adverse verdict the people rendered IL
1884
And so, when Grover Cleveland got tc
be President. Senator Edumunds debated
with himself whether he would permii
it. He concluded that he would not
Now Mr. Cleveland, if not very much II
/ love with his job, was very intent or
performing its duties. The Senator pro
posed TO investigate the President. The
/ President answered ard mentioned some
I thing about ''innocuous desuetude, ant
1 things And Senator ingalls, said tina
\ the Presidents response was tantamoun
/ to bidding the Senate to go to hell.
/ 1t was all about sDoils. Edmund
wanted the President TO give his reasons
for removing loyal Republicans from tn
public crib and putting rebel Democrat
! in their places. ingalls, fell into mathe
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bar, and has had 4 long and an honor
able career. Voluntarily he retired from
the Senate OF the United States at time
when he was by common consent accord
cd first in that august body and after
serving a quarter OF a century and rank
ing the while among the leading .AmerI-
can statesmen. Mr.. Edmunds is an old
ia shioned man and bears a conscience.
He thinks much of the Constitution of
the United States, as he interprets IL,
and, in his opinion, Senator in Con-
gress is required by the Constitution 10
be an inha bitant of the State whose cre-
dentials he bears time came when Mr.
Edmunds believed that his physical con-
stitution could no longer withstand the
rigors of the Vermont climate and he
changed his citizenship to Pennsylvania
and spends much of the winter season in
North Carolina. Hence, he resigned as
Senator. though he might have found pre-
cedent for retaining his seat. notwitn-
standing the change of habitat.
Mr.. Edmunds was born in Vermont In
1925 the native State of stephen i.
Douglas. Thaddeus Stevens, and Matthew
H. Carpenter. 1t is related that the last
named was opposed to Edmunds in the
trial of the first case the latter had after
he obtained q license to practice, and
that Edmunds was victor. 1t is also re-
lated that young Edmunds wished to APP
pear for his father in the trial of a
cause 10 which his father was a party,
but the old gentleman did not think his
son lawyer enough for the occasion, but
sent to Montpelier for veteran of the
profession, whereupon the youngstcr vol
unteered on the other side and got the
verdict. neighbor remarked to him:
George. your dad will not feed you any
longer after that" Mother will. was
the imperturbable reply.
In 1866 Mr. EdmundS was chosen to the
United States Senate as the successor OF
solomon Foot perhaps the most accom-
rlished presiding officer the Senate has
known since John G.. Breckenridge, if not
since John c. Calhoun. Edmunds had
been a member Of the State legislature
and Speaker of that body, and was him
self destined to be President pro tempore
of the Federal Senate.
1t was in the days of Southern recon
struction. and Edmunds was a Radical
The North was victorious and domineer-
ing, vndictive and irresponsible. implaca-
BILE and infiexible. Lyman Trumbull was
the fancy lawyer of the Senate, and fur
nished constitutional construction for the
rigorous and strident reconstruction
measure of Stevens, Butler. Wade and
Chandler The bloody shirt was the cam
paign ensign, and outrage grist the cam
paign literature of the Republican party
Ofttime a dead negro was worth a sea-
in Congress EdmundS enforced the
legal learning of Trumbull, and if there
was any scourge that might have beer
visited on the South that met his dis
approval it was never suggested in the
Senate of the United States. Trumbul
was the gentleman who taught william
Jennings Bryan law and craftsmanship
/ These two great awyers-Trumb,al ant
Edmunds-parted company in 1868. whel
1.-THE House of Representatives impeachet
the President of the United States. Ed
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19
GEORGE F. EDMUND'S LAWYER.
By SAVOYARD.

Somebody asked Daniel Webster whom
he considered the greatest lawyer at the
American bar, and he is said to have an
swered: IF 1 were to reply TO that Ques-
ton in New England l would answe,
jeremiah Mason; in the District OF
Columbia my answer would be John Mar
shall. / have another opinion, however,
which good taste forbids me to express. =
And doubtless the opinion withheld was
the soundest, for the Great Expounder"
was even greater at the bar than in the
Senate.
John Marshall, certainly the greatest
OF judges. if not the greatest of lawyers,
pronounced William Pinkney the first
lawyer at the American bar, and in that
opinion John Randolph, of Roanoke. con-
Cured, though William Writ. lawyer
of the very first rank, disagreed with
them; but Writ and Pinkney were rivals
and had euarreled. and in those days q
quarrel between two prominent public
men was a somewhat serious affair.
Judge jeremiah S. Black declared that
Matthew Hale Carpenter was Americas
greatest lawyer. and Black was lawyer
enough to be an excellent judge of that
matter.
William NJ. Evarts successfully defend
ed Andrew Johnson in the impeachment
proceedings, successfully conducted the
American case at Geneva, successfully
defended Henry Ward Beecher at the suit
OF Tilton, and successfully conducted the
Republican case before the Electoral
Commission of 1877. On form, as the
turfmen say. Mr.. Evarts was the first
lawyer OF his generation, but, be it re-
membered, Webster appeared in McCul-
loch and Maryland, and in the Dartmouth
College case, and perhaps the intellectual
excellence and legal wisdom he discover
ed in either of these were more hercu-
lean than all the works of Eyarts. They
were leading cases, and Homer was
greater than Fenelon. But then the name
OF Americas greatest lawyer is legion.
There are a hundred and large odd OF
him.
Senates could not very we'll get along
without lawyers. but it takes more than
a legal mind to make great parliament
tary leader. Perhaps Murray, afterward
Lord Mansfield, was the first of English
jurists, but Felix trembled" when Pitt
cast a savage glance in his direction and
in voice thunder exclaimed, Il now
have some words for Mr.. Solicitor Gen
eral and | promise they shall be dag
gers No doubt Murray was a more
intellectual and a more accomplished
man than Pitt, but he lacked manhood
Pitt could not have done for our Henri!
Clay what he did for Murray but Ga!
inundated Webster in the matter or tn
confirmation OF Andrew Stevenson a.
minister to the Court of st. James, ant
later crushed Rufus Choate in az per
sonel debate in the Senatea though in
tellectually Clay was inferior to Web
ster, and probably inferior to Choate also
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

George F. Edmunds is one OF the very
great lawyers OF the existing American