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TO BUY LAND IN MEXICO.
American syndicate Said to Have Option
on a Great Pine Forest.

MEXICO CITY, Mex, Sept. 19,-It is re-
por. ed here thft N Americ; n syndicate
headed by j. P. Morgan Of New York h =
secured n OPP ion on bout C,OC0,cCO CT es
Of iana RI I..ted in w tern Mexico ne r
the NJ 20 River. Pine forests cover about
5000 600 ores Of this land.
Tie SYM il ate oontemr la'es est ablisl irg
large number mills to utilize tie timUer
ar, Il will also bull, atout lC0 miles OF rail-
wav II tie pure. ase is ira. e. Tie ro-
Jost d purci use price is sai. 10 be 40 cents
an are.
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DEPUTY MAPSF4L A SCICIDE.
He Had substitute Aged hincse for Young
Ones to He BepOrtCd to China.

Ones to He BcpOrtcd to China.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10 .-Dcputv United
States Marshal William p. Gamble, who
was under arrest for substituting six aged
Chinese for six younger ones to be deported
to China, committed suicide to-day by
shooting himself in a park near his lone
Gamble had confessed tie crime, but the
disgrace p eyed upon him and led 10 suicide.
He h, d been in the service several years
and bore good reputation.
GainL 10. it turns out, was rros ed for
money and was tempted agents II the
ones ordered sent ack to China. TIE
fraud was only discovered Ivy the presence
OF some menters of the Chinese Lureau
who happened 70 tie on the steamer Wien
the Celastials were taken abroad. How
long tie Illicit traffic has zen carried on Is
uncertain. As the Chinese had paid $500
fir the admission certificates, Gf MI le, no
doubt, received half this amount for his
fraud on tie Government.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-20
BODY IN THIEF PROOF BOX.
Unusual Effort Made TO Guard Bronson D.
Tuttlr's Rem aims From Robbers.

Tuttle's Rem iims From Robbers.
New HAVEN, Conn, Sept. 10 lhe
body Of Bronson B. Tuttle OF Manga
tuck. which WIS buried this week, was
pls ced In a coffin enclosed In burglar
proof metallic box, so const ruct ed that
once the lid wss shut n /! the locks snapped
ino place the box could not be- opened
i,hout much work or the use Of dyna-
mi Q.
The lid h f,s ensd by twelve automatic
locks and bars, and to open the box 1t
would be necessary TO saw through every
bar. This work could only be cone by
hand ind would require al! Of twenty
four hours.
As another precaution against grave
robbers, a Waterman sleeps under tent
near the grave.
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LYNCHED by Els OWN RACE.
An Arkansas Negro Hanged for . Crime
Against lOiOred lnildren.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 1o-Iniormation
reached here to-day rom Lu1ora. Ark.,
lha negroes last night overrowered tie
She IL at that Ilare, took negro nan ed
HELEN and hanged him to a water tank.
WI are his body vas ltft darGlins until this
morning. HELEN WAS charged with as
ssul.inS two negro girls aged S and 10.
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CRUELTY IN GERMAN ARMY.
Case OF Sergt. Breidehbach. Accused Of
Brutality, May lie Rcopaned.

Spscia! cable Despatch 10 TEx SUN.
BERLIN, Sept. 10.-Procecdings In the
appeal in the case of Sergt. BrsiGent ach.
who was sentenced recently to three and
a half years imprisonment for III treatment
OF priyates in tie German Army, were
begun here to-day.
He is accused Of brutality In 500 cases,
one OF which ended in suicide. Many of
the cruelties alleged to have been inflicted
were admins tered with heavy whip.
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.Sp,ci1, Cable Dispatch 10 THE Sun.
LONDON. Sept. 19.-Lieut. Gen. Ian Ham
iltor of tie British Army, the distinguished
South African war can p Iigner, Is booked
TO sail for New York on the CunaId liner
Etruria next week.
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PEACE PALACE COMPETITION.
Architects or All Nations VIII Be Invited
10 Submit Plans.

Sotct.l Cable Despatch TO THE sun.
The HAGUE Sept. is.-The correspondent
OF TIE Sun IS informed that the Govern
melt will insugurate al international COM
petition for plans for the Peace Palace,
given by Mr.. Andrew Carnegie.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-20
SU2 so Round Trip 10 California.

2 tohA. 6 to II. from Chicago via Chico go,
Milwaukee 4 It. Paul ard Union Pacific
line. Route Of The Overland Limited
4ickets 3si b. Dad way. ADJ.
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O,i, a Wv. Ia See New York.

EDUCATIONAL sightseeing Yacht. Coaches.
Automobiles 1000 points OF Interest explained BY
expert lecturer Yacn, foot Of West 72d st.. n y.
Coaches And automobiles start from 9TH 80. SIDE
Flsnrol big. 5tn ave- and 23d 81 SoDhooo
call t070-l8tn sL.-Adr.
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Murdorr's "Nceranfar- glasses for reading and
distance fround In piece OF glass: no cerlents.
The acme Of optical skill. Theo. Mundorn. op.
tciAn. 1857 Broadway. patcntee'-Adr
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Tie New York section Of the Social
Democratic rarty arnounced Yesterday
d ut a call for an inter atior al rgress of
Socialists az been s"rt o. ., II n ox-
pectet will reT resort 10 COO 600 oooi.A.iDts
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short repettloI o your summer vacation
may be enjoyed on . Day Line one day excursion.
--A6t.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-20
By CLARENCE E. BARROW

palace. the Prince Of Wales at MARI
borough house. the foreign ambassa-
doris gather at ST. James palace. the
Duke Of Bedford and the Duke Of West
minister live in Monaco. The rich and
the powerful own all the great resi-
denCes along the drives. and iron or
stone fences high and strong keep the
vulgar mob away. There are some
100000 people living in London, some
4O.0OO,OOO in Great Britain, and not more
than 200, 200. can be said TO have any
thing 10 do with all this fnery. except
TO pay the bills
or course. not many are interested In
the way that these other millions live.
not much more interested than ~ the
poor cab horse who never complains
nor strikes. Neither is il really worth
while TO tell how they live: I'm fact. the
story cannot be told. Here again one
must have imagination. To say hat
the dividends from Standard Oil
amount 20 $4,000. 900 per year means
nothing except a long row Of figures,
mostly ciphers; to ten how the poor
man lives means nothing without i'm
agination 10 place yourself in his
stead, and then YOU become a lunatic,
$50 where's the use?"
But still if one really cares to know,
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Along LOndon's greatest drives are
scattered miles and miles of the most
substantial and elaborate buildings
palaces, government offices. hotels
banks. churches theatres-in short
everything which a highly cultured and
evolved society seems to think IL needs
or wants. And within its squares
and public places are thrown indiscrim-
irately an endless number of great
monuments and statues. commem0rat-
ing all sorts Of scenes Of glory and OF
blood. excepting the BOer war. of which
even the bOastful BritOn will not brag
Our American cities are all very small
and cheap and shoddy and ragged com
pared with London. Here and there we
put up a tall building or erect a monu-
ment. and we take all our foreign Wis
it0rs and potentates to show them what
we have done. But i'm London these
costly. vain and eXtravagant. piles are
almost as thick as the sands on the sea-
shore or the stars IN the heaven above.
America is young and ignorant and
proud, she fOrgets that England has
been plundering the whole world for
centuries and that every workman on
earth for long generations has I'm some
way been sending his small tribute to
adorn the British capital. America
must needs ship wheat and corned beer
and picked ham for several generations
before she can build city ike London.
But this is only one side Of the pic
ture. The king lives at Buckingham
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TO see London is no easy task. Lon
don is arranged like all other cities.
and. I'm fact. like every portion Of
our civilization SO that it cannot be
easily seen. Very few people really see
London, but then very few really see
anything. which accounts for the fact
that they al keep on living just as long
Hs they possibly can. To see anything
requires an Imagination. and no one
Cuitivates this faculty. else life would
nOi be worth the living.
But London is really a wonderful
city. Nothing short of an elaborate
guide book can give the faintest idea
or the fine places it has 10 show. The
traveller gets only a confused impress
EioTable picture OF this the most mar
velous city the world has ever seen.
The West End is its show ground and
contains all that is really worth while
10 bother with. After staying i'm Lon
dor until you are weary. you then have
only "a confused sense of an elabora te
system OF beautiful parks, kept i'm the
most perfect way. fine drives around
and through them. all filed with luxu-
riOus carriages drawn by proud horses
and driven by liveried co1chmeu sitting
beside still other useless lackey. whose
sole business IS TO advertise the wealth
and rank OF their owner Inside the
carriages are decayed and decaying
men, useless and generally superannu-
ated old women. and poodle dogs.
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earth. A stranger cannot well see in
side these houses Here, again, the fac
Ulty of lima gination must be called in
if one really wants to know.
Summing i'm our day has been re-
dUced TO fine art. one is really dis
appointed when he goes through the
slums and does not find the poverty he
hoped to see. Many people have found
summing and perhaps il is time that
governments took some measure to
preserve the Sums as they do the game
preserves. But, really, enc needs not
go 10 London, or in fact. outside Of
warm, wel-lighted library. to write PFC.
lures Of slums. II only needs imagina-
ton and fair use of words One can.
work up the Imagination when the oc-
casion requires. and there are the col
leges TO give us words
The most ] shall try to do is to give
a few plain facts and let each one use
his own imagination and go SUM
ming for himself. or dismiss the
case and so to the theatre. instead.
which, after all. is much the best, for
these conditions have been upon the
earth a long, long time. and VIII be
here when we are gone. and what's
the difference, anyhow. when we are
dead?
The common people Of England are
very poor and very common. TT they
were rot so common they would not be
SO poor. They are poorer here than in
America. and surely that is bad enough.
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The outside appearances are better here
i'm London, and, i'm fact, in all English
cities, than in America In the first
place, the streets and alleys are per-
tectly clean. as clean in the poor dis
tricts as amongst the rich. Ones sense
Of sight and smell and hearing is not
forever offended i'm the slums of Eng
land. and, after all, If these senses are
taken care of. that is the largest part;
there are only two more senses. and
most everybody has lost the sense Of
feeling still. perhaps. tasting has
been enough over developed to take it's
place. The spirit of cleanliness has
spread from the municipality to the
people. However poor the cottage or
ragged the children. these are almost
always clean, and i'm the meanest cot
tage window il is not uncommon to see
a box of gay. bright flowers giving their
touch of beauty TO life and perfume to
the most sorded scenes. But in this
world man pretty nearly lives by bread
alone. And il is easier i'm England than
with us to find out the acutal basis or
life of the common people. and when
the basis Of life is fixed ali the rest IS
matter Of imagination And right
here is where the rich have such an
advantage. the imagination that bub-
bles Up from the champagne bottle ia
So much more alluring than that which
is born of brown bread.
As near as can be possibly ascer-
tanned, the average yearly earnings OF
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cosmopoitanism had never impelled toward covenant
ing in marriage with the daughters of the soil IF It
had, his philosophy of life would not have stood be-
tween. But it simply had not
Sipsu? He had pleasured in camp fire chats with
her, not as man who knew himself to be man and
she woman but might with child and
a of his make certainly would if for other
than vary the tedium a bleak existence.
That was all But there certain chivalric thrill
of warm blood in him, despite his Yankee ancestry
and New England upbringing and he made
that the commercial aspect of life often seemed
ngless and bore contradiction his deeper impulses
SO he sat silent, with head bowed forward
ganic force greater than himself great his face
at work within him. Wertz and Halves looked ask
him from time time. faint perceptible
trepidation in their Sigmund also felt this
Hitchcock strong. and his strength had been i'm
pressed upon them in the many an event IN
their precarious life. SO they i'm certain def
mite awe and curiosity to what his conduct would
be when he moved to action.
But his silence long and the fire nigh out when
Wertz stretched his and yaWned and thought
he'd go to bed. Then Hitchcock stood up his full
height
May God damn your souls to the deepest hells you
Chickeu-hearted towards! I'm done with your' He
said it calmly enough but his strength spoke every
syllable, and every intonaton was advertisement of
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intention Come on he continued 'whack up, and in
whatever way suits you best quarter interest
in the claims; contracts show that There
twenty-five or thirty in the sack from the
pans. Fetch out the scales Wen divide that
And you Sigmund, measure me my quarter share of
the grub and set it apart Four of the dogs mine
and ] want four more I'll trade you my share in the
camp outfit and mining gear for the dogs. And I'll
throw in my six seven ounces and the spare 1880
with the ammunition. What dye say2"
The three men drew apart and conferred. When
they returned Sigmund acted spokesman. Wen
whack up fair with you Hitchcock In everything you'll
get your quarter share neither less and YOU
can take it or leave it. But the dogs as bad
as you do get four, and that's ALL If YOU don't
want 20 take your share of the outfit and gear why
mats your lookout. II want it you have it;
if YOU don't leave it."
The letter OF the law" Hitchcock sneered. But
go ahead I'm willing And hurry up. 7 can't get
this camp and away from its vernin any too
quick"
The division effected without further comment
He dashed his belongings upon the seds
rounded In his four dogs and harnessed up His pOr
uon of outfit and gear he did not touch. though he
threw onto the sled half dozen dog harnesses and
challenged them with his eye Interfere. But they
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-20
BY Jack London.

Sigmund shook his head You can't make me mad
Hitchcock, do mad things because of your mad
ness It's a cold business proposition and a question
of facts I didn't to this country for my health
further, it's impossible for a hand.
So is bad for the girl, that's all It's a
way Of her people and il Just happens We're on the
spot this time. Theys done the a thous-
and years, and they're going to do it now, and they'll
go doing it for all time TO come Besides, they're
kind. Nor's the girl No, take my stand
with Vert and Halves. and
But the dogs snarled and drew in and he broke off,
listening the crUnchcrunch Of many snowshoes. IN
dian after Indian stalked into the FIRE light tail and
grim fur-clad and silent their shadows dancing gro
tesquely the One, the witch doctor, spoke
gutteTaIly TO Spsu- His face daubed with
age paint botches. and over his shoulders drawn
a wolf skin the gelaming teeth and cruel snout
mounting his head. No other word was spoken The
prOspectOrs held the peace. Spsu and slipped
into her snOWshOes.
Goodbye O. my man. she said to Hitchcock
the who had sat beside her o the sled
nj sign. lifted his head they filed away into
the white forest.
Unlike many men his faculty for adaptation, while
large, had suggested the expediency OF all
lance with the women of the northland. His broad
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shrugged their shoulders and watched him disappear
in the forest
A man crOwled upon his belly through the snow.
On every hand doomed the moose hide lodges OF the
camp. Here and there miserable dog hOwled o
snared abuse his neghbOr. Once Of them ap-
preached the creeping man. but the became mo-
uOnless- The dog came closer and shifted,
yet closer, till its touched the strange object
which had not been there when darkness fell. Then
Hitchcock, for it was Hitchcock, Upreared suddenly
shooting unmittened hand out the shaggy
throat And the dog knew its death in that clutch.
and when the man moved left broken necked
under the stars In this manner Hitchcock the
chiefs lodge. For long he lay in the without,
listening to the voices OF the occupants striving
locate Sipsu Evidently there many in the cent,
and from the sounds they in high excitement.
At last he heard the girls voice and crawled
so that only the moose hide divided them. Then bur
rowing i'm the snow. he slowly wormed his hand and
shoulders underneath. When the warm inner air
smote his face. he stopped and waited his legs and
the greater part Of his body sti the outside He
could see nothing, did he dare lift his head
one side Of him skin bale. He could smell it.
though Ire carefully felt he certain the other
side his face barely touched furry garment which
he knew clothed body. This must be Spsu. Though
he wished she would speak again. he resolved to
risk it.
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the east end of London is very near
1T covers less ground than the west end
but stiu there are more people here
that is if you really cali these men and
women people" who have nothing else
To do but work. and often not enough OF
that In the aristocratic parts Of the
west end some ten or twelve live on an
acre OF ground, but in the east end 500
or 400 live on an acre. This shows that
the poor really do economic. whatever
The rich may say.
But although only the poor live in the
east end. il must not be forgotten that
this is q very important part OF Lon
don. Here are great docks, on which
are loaded and unlOaded more foreign
commerce than ever reached any other
city in the world. Here are moored a
large part of that sreat fleet Of mer-
chant ships that has made England
the mistress of the seas and poured the
gold and jewels and treasures of all
the world into the ever eager yawning
lap Of Great Britain. MoOred at these
docks can be seen at any time great
ships from Australia. New Zealand.
South Africa Japan. China. India. Ger
many, France Italy Russia. South
America, Canada and even the Dnited
States. And England welcomes these
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great ships and their cargoes. which
other enlightened nations seek to drive
away. But however fabulous the
wealth that these ships bring to Eng
land. no part Of il belongs to the poor
laborers who throng the docks for a
chance 10 work. Any morning a long
line OF these hopeless men stand wait
ing outside the gates Of the great COM
panies i'm the eager hope Of a days
labor, and every morning most of this
line are sent away 20 return again next
day. and so on forever. These ara
casual laborers, the great reservoir
from which the employer draws his
competing workmen to turn against or
ganiZed labor. II is these poor help
less wretches that judges love so well
when they discourse so eloquently
about the right to work just before
they send a working man to Jail"
In this section of the town there are
few monuments, unless want and rags
can be so called; there are few great
buildings, scarcely any parks. and in
fact little attempt at parade and show.
Here are endless rows of monOtonous
brick houses. with their two or three
or four small roOms-houses without
lawns or yards, but packed close to-
gether TO save space on the precious
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face. And what we do against half hundred In
dianSI If we quarrel with them have to VamOOse;
If we fight wiped out. Further we've struck
pay, and. by God, for one going to stick by it,"
Ditto here supplemented Wertz.
Hitchcock turned impatienty to Sigmund, who was
softly singing:
In year, in a year, when the grapes ripe,
j shall stay away.
well, it's this way, Hitchcock" he finally said
I'm in the boat with the rest. If three score
bucks have made up their mind to kill the girl why
we can't help IL. One rush and we'd be wiped the
landscape. And what goodd that be? They'd still
have the girl. There's in going against the
customs of a people except you're in force
But in fOrce," Hitchcock broke in. -Four
whites match for hundred times as many
reds. And think of the girl"
Sigmund strOked the dog meditatively. But do
think of the girl. And her eyes blue like
skies, and laughing like summer seas and her hair is
yellow, like mine. and braided in ropes the size of
big mans arms She's waiting for there in
the better land And she's waited long and now my
piles i'm sight I'm not going to throw it away"
And shamed would be to look into the girls
eyes and remember the black of the girl whose
blood my hands," Hitchcock sneered for re
born to honor and championship, and do the
thing the things sake, stop to weigh meas
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lifted his voice. Look here. fellows. There's
lot of foOleTy going to the camp and they're
getting ready TO murder Sipsu. What dye say2"
WertZ looked at Halves and HAYES looked back.
but neither spoke. Sigmund dropped his head and
petted the shepherd between his knkees. He had
brought Shep in with him from the outside and
thought great deal of the animal In fact certain
girl who muck in his thoughts. and whose pic
ture in the little lOcket mis- breast often inspired
him to sing, had given him the dog and her blessing
when they kissed goodbye and he started his
nOTthland quest.
What dye say?' Hitchcock repeated
''Mebbe it's not Serious Halves answered with
elaboration. Most likely it's only girls story.
That isn't the point" Hitchcock felt a hot flush
of over him at their evident reluctance.
THE question is. if it is So going TO stand t2
What going to dO2''
u don't see any call to interfere spoke up Wertz
IF il is il is So and that's all there is about It,
It's way these people have of doing. It's their
giOn. and it's no concern of ours our concern is TO
get the then get out OF this Cod fOrsaken
land 'Tisnt fit for naught else but beasts. And what
these black devils but beasts? Besides, it'd be
damn poor policy.
That's what I say" chimed in Halves Here we
are, four Of Us. 800 miles from the Yukon white