The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-07
MISSIONARY Is
HERE FROM KOREA
Miss Margaret Best Speaks
Well of the laps.
JACK LONDON SENT HOME
SAYS KOREANS WOULD LIKE
THEIR INDEPENDENCE.
JACK LONDON SENT HOME
Photo by Harry Simpler

The Japs are anything but the bar
barous captOrs that tfe Russians would
have the civilized world believe from
the dispatches sent out from St, Peters
burg. according to Miss Margaret Best
She has Just returned from Ping Yang,
South Ping Yang province, Korea,
where she has been for seven years as
a missionary for the Presbyterian mis-
sion. headquarters in New York City
Miss Best is stopping with the fam
lily OF w. II. Tibbals. 1905 Third street
In times gone by she was student I'M
der Professor Tibbals at Park college,
near Kansas City. No, and afteTward
associated with him on the faculty Of
that institution of learning
Miss Best left the Orient early in
MAY. but was detained almost a month
en- route through a suspected case of
plague on the steamship Korea, on
which she took passage from Kobe, ia
pan. Among the passengers was Jack
London. the author. who was sent To
the scene of the war by the Hearst
syndicate Of papers. He was en- route
home. having been depOTted- she
thought, by the Japanese government
Ordered to Beg Wallets Pardon
Mr.. Lcndon's troubles arose over his
striking his Jap servant The last Miss
Best heard of his case was that ne had
either to apologize to his valet or take
the consequences of q cOurt-martial-
She never learned whether he did
either. both or neither At any rate,
ne was on his way home OF the Korea,
persona non grata to the little brown
people.
At the present time Mr.. London
THE Sea Wolf" is being run in the
l. Sc al 1r oil
thor OF The Call of the Wild
That the first newspaper c0TTespOn-
dents upon the scene of war were often
hard pressed for news. Is stated by Miss
Best.
Early in February a band Of Cos
sacks rode almost to the gates of Ping
Yang" she said. Three of the riders,
more bold than the others, came as far
as the gates and made a demonstration.
A few days afterward we read thrill
ing accounts of a battle having been
fought at the gates Of the city As
near as ] could learn. and I was in the
city at the time, not a man was in
jured-
To the credit of the newspaper men.
I must add that since then they have
had plenty of real fights TO report, and
lthey have given accurate accounts. The
fights must have been bloody ones.
judging from the number of wounded
which were brought back to Japan.
Says Japs Are Hopeful.
q really know nothing about the war.
The Japs absolutely refuse to give out
any information. They move as quick
~ and silently as possible but we who
watched the passing columns We're I'M
able to even learn their destination.
While in Ping Yang I saw at least 40. 600
troops pass through the city at one
time But we knew absolutely nothing
about their destination. Of course, the
Japs are hopeful of defeating the Rus
slams. The concensus of opinion of the
English-speaking people in the Orient
is that the Japs Will win if they strike
effectively in the next year If they
do not win by that time, the Russians
will crush them by their superior
forces. The Japs have not the resources
of the car.
1T is hard to tell just how the KO-
reans feel about the war. Some Of them
would like to have the Russians and
others the Japs. At the same time all
would much prefer being permitted to
rule themselves. It is a question in my
own mind whether they are capable of
doing that. I really think the Japs
would give them the best government. -
Declare Koreans Hospitable.
Speaking of the hospitality OF the
Koreans, Miss Best said:
AS a race they are a very hospitable
class of people II a man does not
have d warm floor ia sleep upon, they
think it an awful condition of affairs
When the Jap army was passing
through Ping Yang the Koreans who
had rooms TO spare would go out at
night and ask the soldiers and officers
TO come in and enjoy the hospitality
Of their floors.
Judging from what little I know of
the Japs, 1 should say the stories sent
out from Russia about their alleged
ba -baric treatment Of the Russian
wounded is false. They are not that
kind Of people, and aside from that.
they do not want to do anything which
would lower them in the eyes of the
civilized ma atoms of the world"
a. P. HIBBS, osTEoPATHISF.