Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-16
SMOKING ROOM GOSSIP ON
BOAT CARRYING MR.. TAFT
e,,,r Nops ite Rrssp,sd Eosrd tie Mrnso and the
Va. They Tell are Both Interesting and Speculative Tales
OfAdventure IN Every Chme

marooncd FOR nearly two years well up
toward the peak OF the worlds ROOF IN
northern Eamschntka. about opposite
'lns'7 TIC is ordered home long ago
and told that Russian guuboat would
come Tor him. There haven't been many
Russian uunhoats at liberty Tor can
scrvice on the high seas since the Jap
ancsc- Russian war. no the captain VAIN
ly waited and blew upon his cold. blue
fingers through two summers ana
winter OF the vile kamschatka climate.
Finally deciding that 70 the gunboat
wouldn't come Go him he would SO 70
Sf Petersburg o. see about 10, he FISK
ed HE life crossing from Kamschatka
fn ALASKA in small sailing craft
Thence D., Coastcd 10 Seattle, and Will
20 90 ST. Petersburg by way Of Hoko-
hama Nladivostok and the Transsiber-
i3n.
SOME OF THE AMERICANS.
Colonel George r. Cotton, Just re-
turned from fetching san Domingo from
the depths 81 financial messcs. az the
lrhest Of the president, is houn M
nuaward o. take charge ~ the Gus
toms Of tho islands. Across the little
round table from him ono secs the lean.
scholarly face and tho pointed gray
/ beard Of Thomas IT, OBron, OF Grand
| Rarids tho newly named ambae-a 'or
! Co japan. The ltUc man whose short
less swing inches free from Tho floor
! as he delivers himself encrgeticaNy =
l Renaissance and Huccdote like % whole
I battery Of after-dinner orators ls Judge
Thomas Burke az Seattle. m he and
[ hrIw Andra Carnegie should come face
90 face each would believe himself tl
tc looking into a mirror. The same
set NJ plans aud specifications served
I for both
/ Judge Burke. who IS going around
the world as chief in0itor ~ interest
/ n tho Alaska yukon exposition 0f 1909,
/ tolls with cro3t JUNCTION how be st0rmed
/ tho outer walls Of tho Pe7ce co~fer-
cuce in New York last spring. ticket
/ Jess and without credentials. The door
man took ono look a him. summoned
nn usher and ordered him to show Mr.
/ Carnegie 90 r box.
Soft-shod Wong. the Chino harboy
curhearer to the don,zens OF this Babel
dispensed lioucurs the other evening.
and mistakenly set n pony Of ye low
| chartoruse az the judges elbow, ip-
stead OF tho green mint which he or
lered The judges expression OF hor-
ror when the laughter NJ the multitude
anprised him Of what he had done was
worth ono Of hts funniest stories.
The ioke again was on Judge Burke
the first night out from Seattle. S3lll
Ing from his stateroom he nearly
| bumped into a lady clad IN a. dressing
gown, with her hair in a braid down
her back The judge modestly retreat
| ed. Again venturing forth he eucoun-
| tered another lady similarly attired.
| and also with braided hair The same
/ thing happened a third and a fourth
| time. on the ifth attempt the judge
| caught a glimpse OF the lady's face,
| Tho lady was a Chino boy. So were
/ the other four. The ladies' dressing
gowns were the boys white ovorslips,
which they don 20 serve dinner In.
! The ladies' braided hair were the boys
[ pigt0ils.
SALT LAKER ALSO.
Judge J. c. McNally. sometime Or
/ pittSburg and Utah. r. going out TO
/ Marking as consul general, coming all
! great and consuming curiosity az TO
/ Marking and the attractions Il offers
! as a residential city He has had his
| doubts since the Wise Man OF the East
| who has been trottlng IN and out OF
/ Chinese and japanese ports FOR yea g..
/ and knows their streets and byways a.
! he knows Broadway above Thirty
| fourth street said coldly and dspas-
I sionately upon being presented 10 tac
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