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Show Jlr public djr w. l owi m asm asacm. - ME PHI. a very queer mixture. Many of them are quite civilized and good people, but I do not think they are fit for just yet. But when I say that, I must add at the same time that it is my candid opinion that they are more fitted for it than the Cubans; that they are a better people than the Cubans in every way. I do wish, however, that the whole business was settled, and I think that after a little the Filipinos will take kindly to us." The fight in the Bhilippines should be easily ended. The people have been so badly treated for such a length of time by the Spaniards that they- - are distrustful. This is the great difficulty in dealing with them. Where we have met them and they have been in such contact with us as to learn that we mean to treat them well; where they have seea that we mean what we say, there is no trouble. They stand by us all the time. They will get from under the influence of Aguinaldo, or rather, those people who are behind Aguinaldo, who, as I said before, is a mere tool. I thought that this thing in the Philippines would be over long before this, I eaunot imagine how they have stood out until now. Of course, there tvas the rainy season, and I suppose little was done. One great trouble out there has been that General Otis has tried to do too much. I told him so. He wants to be general, governor, judge and everything else to have bold of all the reins. No man can do that. This is the great trouble. It is enough for a man to do one thing, one thing, but when a man tries to do everything and be everything, it is easy to imagine the result. It was suggested to the admiral that it would not be such a change from the ship Olympia to the ship of State. it would Yes, said the admiral, be a very great change. I am not a politician; I am a sailor. My training has been all that way. I am at home on board my ship. I know my business, or at least should know it, and I do Dot want to mix up in the affairs I am perfectly satisof government. fied to live and die a simple sailor, who tries to do his duty. Iam not a politician, I cannot make a speech even. I wish I could, but I have to be content with my lot. UTAH. UTAH NEWS. The commission of Arthur Pratt a census supervisor of Utah, has been received. The business men of Payson have organized a company to build and opi erate a creamery. Miss Eva E. Nelson of Wheaton, 111., has been appointed assistant teacher in the .shebit Indian school, Utah. Gustave Meyers, of Auerbach & Pro., was found dea 1 in bed in Salt Lake Sunday morning, heart failure being the cause.' A free continuous-performanc- e vaud- will be given at the state eville fair every afternoon and evening during the fair. A two mile spur connecting the Ontario drain tunnel with the Union Pacific railroad will be built at Park City. The contract for the grading has been let. Edward D. Lancaster, aged 28, of Salt Lake, jumped from a moving street car last week and collided with a pole, crushing bis skull, lie will probably recover. The Brigham Young monument, at the intersection of South Temple and Main streets, Salt Lake, will be completed in the near future at an outlay show of about $14,000. Over 000 children are crowded into some of Salt Lake's school buildings, and suitable structures cannot be rented to relieve the overcrowded condition of the schools. Reed Uathenbruck, a Provo boy, was struck in the eye by an exploding gun cap which he was removirg from a shell, probably causing the loss of the eye, Christopher Ililberg, of Logan has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for having criminal relations with Annie Ward, a girl. The case has been appealed. Andrew J. Burt of Salt Lake, lieutenant in Colonel Torreys rough riders, has been appointed captain of the Thirty-nintinfantry and has accepted. He will be sent to the Philippines. Charles Brown, a miner from Park City, fell in a faint on the streets of Halt Lake one night last week aud badly hurt his head on the prvement. Excessive smoking of strong cigars was the cause. Arthur W. Brown of Salt Lake will be appointed a lieutenant in the regular army. Lieutenant Harry llines would have been named instead of Brown but for his age, he being under the limit required by law. Melvin Witbeck of Juab was killed ot Aspen, Wyo., last week. He was driving a sheep wagon across the railroad track when it was struck by a passenger train. A curve and a high bank made the rain invisible. John W. Burton, formerly a prominent sheepman of Ivaysville, has returned from the Klondike, after an absence of nineteen months. He is one n of the few survivors of the ghastly ton trail and says the booming of to-b- BRITISH ULTIMATUM. h Ed-mo- WITH TRANSNEGOTIATIONS VAAL DECLARED OFF. Years of Futile Agitation Make It I'seless. to Further Fursoe Discussion Itoerg Must Come to Terms. ADMIRAL DEWEY IN THE UNIFORM OF 1IIS RANK. ing along at the uniform rate of ten knots an hour since we left Gibraltar. Several days ago we knew that we would arrive before Thursday unless we moderated our speed or went somewhere out of our course. Captain Lamberton and Lieutenant It. Brumby and I held a consultation. The propriety of running into Hampton Roads, or some other port in the south, was spoken of, but we concluded that get a little grass and scamper around. we o ought not to touch land first I feel a good deal that way myself. I New York. at was It except am mighty glad to get home. It is not that we cruise some distance suggested man a for good any more than a dog to New- York until Thursday, but outside live on shipboard for twenty-thre- e we knew that if we did we would be months. discovered and reported. The admiral said he felt tired, hut The weather looked a little squally, he did not look so. Ilis complexion is and it seemed better to be inside the a clear bronze, his hazel eyes bright, Ilook than outside. But the considera" his bearing brisk and rather jaunty. tion that really decided us to come into Some deep lines are under his eyes and was to give Captain Lamberton a around his mouth, but his voice is sin- port chance to clean up the ship before our gularly clear and pleasant. voyage up the harbor. Captain LamAlluding to his arrival two days berton and I are very proud of the ahead of time, he said: and we wanted enough time I am sorry that I am ahead of Olympia, at our anchorage to rub her down and schedule. The Olympia has been steam" to make her look spick and span. DEWEY ARRIVES HOME Surprised at Preparations for His Reception and Talks Interestingly About that trail by the Hudson Bay company New York, Sept. 28. Admiral Dewey in order to sell provisions at an enormous cost, has cost hundreds of men is again in his native country, after an absence of twenty-thretheir lives. months, and The secretary of war last week tele- the Olympia is anchored off Sandy Hook. The Olympia arrived two days graphed regrets to Governor Wells earlier than was expected and was that regulations for the organization of the volunteer troops do not permit sighted outside the entrance to New him to accept the signal corps of the York harbor Tuesday morning just National Guard of Utah as an organi- after daylight and immediately conducted into the harbor, where a perfect zation. of notable visitors called durstream 11. II. Crone, a Salt Lake carpenter, the ing day. last week feel with a scaffolding from A called upon the admiral, reporter a barn he was working on, a distance of eighteen feet, breaking one leg be- bringing him copies of special editions giving an outline of the proposed relow the knee and the ankle of the other leg. lie will be laid up for a long ception. In his cabin, littered by illustrated Dewey editions which made time with his injuries. hundreds of pages in black and white Major Young, Major Grant, Governor and colors, all concerning the admiral Wells, Colonel Clayton, Colonel and the preparations to receive him, Lieutenant-Colone- l N'ebeker, Dewey said: X. Lieutenant Benner Smith, LieutenIt almost saddens me to see what ant W edgewood and Lieutenant Critch-lomy people are doing for me. The pride departed Sunday for New York to and gratification is immense and I can attend the Dewey reception. not the appreciation feel. I express Notwithstanding the comparative did not I did not really- perceive know, failure of fruit in the state this year, until this the splendid welmorning the display which will be made at the state fair next month, it is predicted, come that my countrymen are giving will eclipse any of the exhibits hereto- me. The governors of many states are fore made of the state's horticultural coming to see me, and troops from Florida, Georgia and other far away possibilities. are on their way to take part in states Salt Lake and eastern capitalists are me. receiving to build an embankment around Utah The admiral stroked the hair of a to Lake raise the water and confine it dog, the Chow dog of a to a smaller area. This would result tawney-hairein reclaiming many acres of good land Chinese breed that appears in the illusand force more water through canals trated interviews with the admiral. Bob here, he said, is not well. for land now cultivated. He yearns to be ashore. lie is sick to any-wher- e Bru-bac- - FILIPINOS NOT READY FOR k, w 1 - d SELF-GOVERNME- ' Aguinaldo Declared a Tool of Designing Men Otis Attempting to Do Too Much War Should Soon End. New York, Sept. 28. Admiral Dewey impressed with the capacity of the Filipinos for When the question came up the admiral sent an orderly for a picture of General Luna, the Philippine general who was murdered by order of as he said. The picture was that of a negro in a sort of military uniform. Dewey said that Luna was the best man the Filipinos had. It was a plot to assassinate him, A crack swordsman was he said. placed as sentry and when Luna appeared he simply stabbed him. is not Agui-nald- o, But these fellows all," said the admiral, are a queer lot. They were simply servants and stable tnen, and Aguinaldo was a junior clerk in the navy yard. He is a pretty smart fellow. I know him pretty well. In fact, we were great friends, and are for that matter, but he has not the brains. There are people behind him, some of them lawyers and able fellows, who make a tool of Aguinaldo. Do I think the Filipinos are fit for Well, no, not just now. They probably will be in a little time. They are a very queer people London, Sept. 27. The officials of the foreign office have given out the text of the letter of the secretary of state for the colonies, Mr. Chamberlain, to the British high commissioner in Africa, Sir Alfred Milner, dated September 22. The British reply expresses regret that her majesty's offer number 5 of September 8, had been refused, and says: The object her majesty's govern- -' ment bad in view in the recent nego-tiohas been stated in a manner which can not admit of misapprehension, viz., to obtain immediate representation for the Outlanders as will enable them to secure for themselves, that fair and just treatment w hich was formally promised them in 1881 and which her maiesty intended for them when she granted privileges of self government to the No conditions less com Transvaal. prehensive than those contained in the telegram of September 8 can be relied upon to effect this object. The refusal of the South African government to entertaiD the offer thus, made, coming as it does after four months of protracted negotiations, ends five years of extended agitation and makes it useless to further pursue the discussion on the lines hitherto followed and the imperial government is compelled to consider the situation afresh and formulate itsown proposals for a final, settlement of the issqes which have been created in South Africa by the policy constantly followed for many years by the government of South Africa. Mr. Chamberlain concludes by saying the demands of Britain are just, and that charges and insinuations of breach of faith can not be passed over in silence. ns G. A. R. M ill be In I.lne. New York, Sept. 28. Five Grand Armyr posts have made application to General O. O. Howard, commanding the Sixth, or unarmed division, for a place in the line on the occasion of the land parade in houor of Admiral Dewey. General Howard said they would be invited to participate and would be given a prominent place in the line, and that it was now assured that 1,000 veterans would be in line, the number alloted by Majol General Roe. |