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Show ' THE BINGHAM NEWS TOWN OFFICIALS OF BING-HAM CANYON , Dr. F. E. Straup, President. Boyd J. Barnard, Treasurer F. W. Quinn, Clerk. Board Members, Boyd J. Bar-nard, Dan Fitzgerald, R. II. Ken-ne- r, J. A. Wright. Town Marshal, W. F. Thomp-son. Night Patrolmen, John Mitch-ell and Thomas Mayne. Water Master, Wm. Robbins. Health Officer, II. N. Standish When in Salt Lake stoP.fT" THE ALTON HOTElC Modern Clean Quiet Rates: $1.00 day and up Sam Lyte, Manager 138 South State i . Seeing Machines Repaired Our work guaranteed on any make of machine. See us before buying a new one JOHN G. LEWS Phone 114 85 CarrFork MAKES lJ Appetizing Eat Better qT Stimulating General Sleep Better M Toilic Invigorating ECMLAR 1mj a Fall It Ox. Feel Better Laxative SOLD BY Schramm-Johnso-n BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH D. PEZZOPANE Fancy Imported and Domestic Groceries Foreign Money Orders ltJjvv and Drafts $fuft Banco of Naples Coriespon- - i$J$3$'LV dent tythSSbi J STEAMSHIP AGENT g5VA--T?- ? NOTARY PUBLIC 541 MAIN STREET BINGHAM SH) iffi5F DOESN'T LOOK IT S(&'3 7 You can't always judge a M&7 ACf koli by its cover and you may V 'j n" ClKN think tat coal is clean and L&br-- r '' Vt without dust or slag when you if3?y if lVJ buy it but the burnin2 teIls A?? L llr the tale. Our high grade llll ty or Utah Fuel coal is well 1VX jffjBJ screened and cleaned, and burns K fowre" with a brightness and heat that Hj pC I';. will cook and heat when want-B-"- 2 N ed, when you buy it at the Citi-- zen's. Citizen's Coal and Supply Co. Thone 39 Bingham, Utah Smiling Through on Ironing Day Watch for Our Announcement Next Week in this Newspaper Utah power&iigot Co. Gficient Tublic Service 4T ""ibmmm Bingham and Garfield Railway Company u.itl,0t!?nC' "V'.0? PackaKe Car Sorvice' in connection .system between Salt Lake City and Lingham. tor convenience of its ator cars are patrons heated refriger- operated in this .service, ICn ab, f,'ight W,,cn Weather ' conditiS: II. W. STOUTENBOUOUGH, A. W. MALY, Asst. Gen. Freight Agent, Agent Salt Lake City, Utah liingham, Utah THE BINGHAM NEWS Entered as second-clas- s mat-te- r at the Postoffice at Bing-ham Canyon, Utah, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1871 Price $2.00 per year, in advance Single Copies, 10 Cents A Weekly Newspaper devoted exclusively to the interests of the Bingham District and its people. Published every Saturday at Bingham Canyon, Utah George Reynolds Editor and Publisher Bourgard Building, Main St. Bingham Phone 91 ' '- - NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION! MEMBER No. 1855 RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIGH-WAY ACCIDENTS RESTS ON GOVERNMENT An appealing number of peo-ple are killed and injured every year on the highways of this country. Sporadic efforts are made in cities and occasionally by States, to cure the evil by legislation and regulation of the traffic, notably in speed ordi-nances and headlight laws, but without much effect. The rea-son is that speed and glaring headlights are not the primary cause of highway accidents. Examination as to the causes of accidents shows that the prin-cipal factors are sharp curves, impaired vision due to fences, overhanging trees, embankment J ect., excessive grades, too nar-row bridges, slippery road sur-faces, dangerous detours, defec-tive road surfaces, weak bridges and too narrow roads. If the National or State gov-ernment permitted a railroad to kill and maim its passengers be-cause of too sharp curves, too steep grades, defective rails, improper signals, or too weak bridges, the people would speed-ily change the government ! Roads have grown almost im-perceptibly from paths through the forests to highways. The automobile traffic was born al-most overnight and is increasing by leaps and bounds. Govern-ment is used to highways as safe ribbons of traffic. It has yet taken little cognizance of the dangers which the road, safe for a horse and buggy, provides for a car. It is inevitable that the Unit-ed States construct a system of trunk-lin- e highways north and south, east and west, through-out the country. Such highways will not have dangerous surfaces curves, bridges, embankments or crossings. As soon as State, county and town road builders see the difference in the death and injury rate on properly built and maintained highways, their own standards of road con-struction will inevitably respond. Until that day comes, it is im-possible entirely to absolve gov-ernmental indifference from com plicity in highway accidents. Father Getting 1 Fitted 1 By CLARA DELAF1ELD J , lii4, Wuttn Nawapaper Union.) (U, CHILDREN I" Mrs. Robert-so- n fulrly gobbed. "Father's new suit hns come home." The twins, May and Ethel, frowned. That meunt hard times In the Robert-son family for several days to come. Futher arrived home soon after. "Hello, here's my new suit I" he ex-claimed eagerly. "111 be able to wear It tomorrow, then. That high-price- d tailor Jones recommended me to cer-tainly Is one good little fitter." Father took the suit upstairs. Moth-er and the twins heard him grunting and grounlng. Presently be came down. "W'hnt't the matter, deur?" asked mother. "The darned fool never did a thing to these sleeves. Look, they're In wrong 1 They want to be turned so." "Are you going to take It back to hliuT It seems a pretty good Qt to me." "lluh, that shows how much a wom-an understands about a mini's clothes. Look here! The lining's too loose. And the trousers are uneven lengths. I'm going to give Simpson a piece of my mind I" Next morning father went oft with the new suit In a parcel That night was a very distressing time. Father kept lamenting about his suit. "Eighty dollars I" be snorted. "And Simpson tits no better than Green-berg- , the corner tailor 1" Next evening the suit vens buck again. Father took It upstairs to try It on and came back In a fury. "Look at It 1" he Bnorted. "Just look at It I First the right sleeve wns too long and the left too short, and now the left's too long and the right's too short. I'm going to get my money buck or sue Simpson." "Why don't you wear It a day or two aud see how you like It, dear?" asked mother. "Wear It? I I" "Couldn't you make Simpson alter It Just as you want It?" "No I That man has the head of a pin. It's no use going back to him. Throw It on the dustheap!" shouted father, flinging the suit on the floor. "Take It out of my sight I Never let me see It again! That's what conies of trusting Jones to find a high-clas- s tailor for me I Well, what are you waiting for? Take It away I Give It to a tramp I" Mother picked up .the suit and car-ried It away to one of those mysteri-ous places that only housewives know about. Father was In a terrific rage all the i evening. "Eighty dollars thrown away !" he snorted. "No use suing the fellow 1 He'll get out of It one way or another. They're a slippery lot, those cheap tailors. He's simply digging his own grave with bis needle, because he'll never keep any of his customers If he treats them thui way !" Father grumbled and complained for several days. "Ill have to wait for a suit now till I've saved up eighty dollars more," he would say. Or, "I'm trying to raise twenty-fiv- e to have a suit made by Oreenberg, on the cor ner. Those little fellows fit you best nnd they haven't big rents to pay." Three weeks passed. Father had stopped grumbling. Mother said: "My dear, did you remember we are going to the Wllliamses tonight? Your suit looks rather shabby." "I know it does," said father, "but whnt are you to do when there ln't a tnllor can make a suit thnt fits? I'll have to go Into the tailoring business." Mother produced something in a pa per package. "Why not wear this Just for this evening, deor?" she sug-gested. "The Wllliamses won't notice It's a misfit by the electric light." The twins grinned at each other. "Well, I suppose I may as well," said father. f He took the suit and went upstairs. They heard him grunting nnd groan Ing as he got Into it. Mother smiled. Presently futher reappeared. "Why, my dear, I never saw you look so nice!" said mother. "I don't think that suit's such a terrible mis fit after all." "Misfit?" said father. "Of course It Isn't. I wish you wouldn't try to persuade me that my clothes don't fit me. This Is the best-fittin- g suit I've ever had In my life." Legend of the ...Lost Mine I; By JAMES BLACK $ (O, 1914, WaaUrn Newspaper Union.) CLOWLT the tired burros paced across the sand-blow- n track. The desert marches had brought them to the end of their resources, but they plodded on, conscious, like Hnynes, that evening would see them at the be-ginnings of cultivation. That traversing of the sandy waste had been the worst thing In Ilaynes' prospecting experience. He had come clear across El Inferno, well named and something that he bad been told could not be done. Rut It was the legend of the lost mine attracted him. And he hod not found It. It was a myth of the Imag-ination. Well, at least he knew that now. He had paid for his experi-ence. Suddenly his eye caught something lying In the snnd some distance away. A dead coyote no, a man I He ran townrd him. To his aston-ishment It was an old man, nenrlng eighty, Hnynes would have adjudged, a prospector, as was evidenced from his pack beside him. The sagging trail In the sand showed that he, too, had crossed the desert, from a point some distant away from that which Haynes had se-lected for his own starting point. Haynes had only enough water to take him to his destination, but he poured a half down the old man's throat. Presently the prospector opened his eyes. He began to talk, al-though he seemed not to know where he was. Ilaynes listened he was speaking of Lost Mme. "I found her," he was babbling. "It was ma found what they call Lost Mine. You'll hear rumors of her everywhere In all the mining comps, but It was me brought back the word. Gold, the richest ever dug from the bowels of the earth rich, red gold for the taking. "I was a young man this was long years ago. I hit on her by chance. I'd been prospectin' and I got lost In the desert, and all my water wos gone. Mad with thirst and delirious I must have been, and I wandered on and on without knowln' where I was goin'. "Then I woke with the taste of wa-ter on my tongue, and a woman's face bendin over me. And there wns trees around, and flowers, and ripe fruits hangln' down. "It was an oasis In the middle of the howlln' desert, and when I come to Peplta told me about It. It ap-pears her grandfather and grand-mother had found the place when they was travelln west, and they had been fleeln' from the Indians who then scoured the plains. They liked It and they stayed. They never wanted to leave It. They was happy In each other's company. "There Peplta was born, and there her mother and father died. And she'd lived there alone, an never seen an other human beln'. "And she nursed me and tended mi and showed me the gold In the rocks, and for a long time I lived with her happy and content. What was the gold to me? "But then I began to hanker after the world without, and wanted to tuke Peplta away with me. And she cried and begged me to let her stay, be-cause she'd heard the world wus hard, and cruel people In It. "But me I was dreamln' of gettin' the gold out of the rocks, and takln' Peplta somewhere where we could live In comfort and elegance. And I missed seeln' other folks. "And one mornln', while Feplta was asleep, I stole away. Somehow 1 don't know how I crossed the desert. But I never found my way back to Lost mine." Tears burst from under the shriv-eled eyelids of the old man. "All my days since I been tryln' to strike Lost mine, hopln to find Peplta God, If ever I found It I'd never leave again. And I can see It now, as well as ever before, with the fruits and flowers, and my gel for me" Suddenly a marked change came over the old man's face. He nit up and extended his arms. "Peplta !" he shouted. "Look, thnr she stands, stranger. I found her Jest as I told you and she ain't grown old I I'm comln. Peplta I" Haynes folded the blanket over the dead face. EDITORIAL ARE WE ENTITLED TO CRITICISM? These days there is a flood of criticism directed against Amer-ica and the American people, and mainly by men of English let- - ters. Recently in ' New York City, Zangwill, an English writ-er and lecturer, flayed the Amer-ican people and a large audience paid good money to hear them-selves called crude, lacking in culture, art, literature, drama, and many other things. This flood of criticism has been going on for some time. Foreigners come to this coun-try and are well paid for their lectures, treated with the great-est hospitality and in return they spend their time in pick-ing flaws with us and our ways. It is about time the Ameri-can people asserted their inde-pendence. No foreigner has the right to criticise us or our mode of living. We should not be judged by the European standard. Our art, drama and literature appear to suit us and therefore do not con-cern Europe or Europeans. Too long have the people of this great United States been hum-bugged by these foreign lectur-ers and the quicker we begin to realize the facts of the case that much quicker will we refuse to nay large sums of money to these knockers whose aim and object is criticism. FAm's Horns Curved. The "Big Horn" U a stocky, sturd) animal, surprisingly agile in spite of Its weight, says Nature Magazine. An average size ram will turn the scales at 250 pounds, while an occasional specimen will weigh 350. Both mule and female have horns, those of the ram being gracefully curved. Where Pearls Are Plentiful. In the Tlclnlty of the Pearl Islands, In the Bay of Panama, pearls are so plentiful that when the Islands were first discovered the natives were using tbem at decorations for their canoes. Too Muoh Argument. Two drovers were sitting In the Inn of an English village. They had been sitting there for nearly an hour, ami so fur neither had spoken. At last one of them opened his mouth. "IMdst see old brown cow on the moor?" he asked. Another half-hou- r elapsed. Then the second drover spoke. "It wasn't brown cow," he said. "Twos brown bull." Silence again for another half hour. The first man rose and made for the door. "Oolng?" queried the other. "Aye," came the reply. "For too much argument here for me." What Calumet Means. The Calumet region Is the name glv en to a district In northern Indiana and Illinois lying between the Calu-met river and Lake Michigan. Original ly It wns composed entirely of sand rldgej and marshes. It Is now a great Industrial district, comprising such cities as Hammond, Gory, Fast Chi-cago, Indiana Harbor and Whiting Sometimes the entire region around the southern shores of Lnke Michigan Is spoken of as the Calumet district The word "calumet" wns the name giv-en by the French to a pipe used by th Indians. This pipe, sometimes calico" the pence pipe, wns the emblem of pence nnd hospitality. It Wns smoker, to confirm all treaties between tribes To refuse the calumet corresponded to a declaration of war, and to accept it meant peace and friendship. Drawbacks of Religion. A colored woman consulted the vil-lage lawyer. "Ab want to divorce niah husband," she sold. "What's the trouble?' asked the lawyer. "Thnt nigger's done gone an got religion, nnd we ain't seen a chicken on Ai table foh two weeks." Wiscon-sin Agriculturist. Boy Scouts Assist In Fighting Fire Five boy scouts of I'hltlpsburg Mont., gave excellent assistance In re porting and fighting a forest fire that city, according to word received by forest officials of the United States Department of Agriculture. |