25 Aug 1898
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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1898
Page
1
A note on the Globe and Header merging into Globe-Header, with praise for the managers and expectations of success. Mentions from Salt Lake City highlight Utah’s Sega Lily photo, urging locals to order, while editorials comment on neutrality and prisoners of war in a broader peace context.
John Goodnow, American consul general at Shanghai, argues in a private letter that the United States must hold the Philippines, Caroline and Ladrones, Cuba, Porto Rico, and push for coaling stations. He favors a Nicaraguan canal route and acquiring land to build a canal on U.S. territory, asserting naval and trade power depend on such moves.
Journal excerpts recount Galloway and Richmond navigating a treacherous Colorado canyon. They fear rough rapids, improvise boat repairs with drift timber, rebuild rowing seats, and test a multi compartment boat as they press onward.
A speaker argues that Cuba and Porto Rico can make the isthmus waters private and controllable, Cuba seizes Gulf of Mexico routes to the Mississippi, England controls the eastern route via Suez, and Nicaragua with an Anglo-American alliance could govern the other passage, enabling mass power and potential starvation of continental nations.
The diary describes a river journey on Ton 24 1897 with rapid passages and rock-filled channels. Will narrowly survives a capsize while navigating tall granite walls and roaring waves racing through multiple rapids. A note at the end references the Edwards mine and coal company.
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