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Show 0 DAILY UTAH gtffWWWWWWFWWFWWF STATE JOURNAL, FEBRUARY MONDAY, lit. null. W I 5ALT LAKE LETTER 1 PICTURES OF LIFE Z. C. M. I. III THE DESERT (Special Corre?ion,liK-f- . ) iuUUilUUJUJUiUJUJU JUUI1U iU ilUUJUJUiU JU iUiiUUiU JUff STRANGE FASCINATION WHICH 14 his i!!ion,.'.vs. THE DESERT HAS. luck fmin &aT LAKE CITY. Feb. .Many u In Wash-Irigto- thia published Smoot the with connection rity In but the moat brilliant of In the Saturday evening 4ll appeared Salt Lake Telegram, the mifL that if Smoot la atatea which gravely will call a Welle seated, Governor at of the leglalature special elon Dema H. William King, whUh Hon. aelected to fill the vaocrat, will be waa given apace anecdote Tbla cancy. to reading manext column, of at top tron the teat page, amongst other IU verity was happenings. local statement that the couched for by the a port had been gaining ground for to attached the only string week" and ihe yarn was in the assertions of followed the primary anyln)r which he nouncement, to the effect that benot did and it about nothing knew of the lieve it. The ridiculousness gtory la so apparent it scarcely needs been urld tale have a Khi.rt time e created by the expulsion of Smoot call a special session of a ReDemopublican legislature to elect a crat is 11 little short of silly and a porter credulous enough to write iuch a story and a copy reader green enough to pass it could be found on no other paper In this or any other country. Sufficient to say that some one, perhaps Billy OMeara, who Is well known as a practical joker, has been filling some of the crowd up No one, save the with fairy tales. paper mentioned, has ever heard of such a rumor ore report. be would Goodwins Weekly did a little senator making this week, too, when It elected the editor of the State Journal to the senate in place of Kearns and went a bit farther and nominated Fred Dubois on the Democratic ticket. deductions indulged in by Angus political writer on the Weekly, were of so tremendous a character that people would not understand them if reproduced, so your The Nicholson, the refrains. I'or the first time in many years Attracted by the sounds that have all the desert people are UU nearly floated westward to him on in town. Ordinarily they would have breeze, Colonel Isaac Trumbo been gone two months ago. coine to Zion wearing one of It i the backwardness of the season brand of overcoat that lit closely that has delayed them. With the exaround the hips and an air of mysception of a shower on September 27 tery. The overcoat is easily Investiand a mere sprinkle on January 23, gated, but the air of mystery defies there has been no rain since away back all comers. Colonel Trombo, howin April. The teinierature is that of ever, has been Bent for by the church summer and the hygrometer shows alauthorities, 0 we are told. He Is most absolute dryness. wanted to straighten out the tangle In other words. It lias been desert Into which the authorities have gotweather here, which means that on ten themselves by the election of the other side of El Cajon Pass the Smoot. He will stay here just long mercury is doing some altitudlnous enough to ascertain the ins and outs performances not pleasant to expeof the transaction, after which he will rience. The folks who spend their hie himself to Washington, where he winters over In the Mojave and in will tell the senate that everything Is Death valley and elsewhere on the desall right and will demand that the ert know the meterologleal characterInvestigation be called off. If It Isnt istics of the region, and that is why then the senate will prepare itself to some hundreds of lungprospectors, get the hardest spanking It ever re- ers," land seekers und miscellaneous ceived, because the colonel is not a campers are still here instead of beman to be trifled with. It was the ing sprinkled over the yellow waste colonel who brought Utah into the of sand from Daggett to the Nevada union and at that time he made him line and from Indio to the Colorado. self responsible for all the acts she They are waiting for the first rain, might commit and he proposes to because, until it has fallen. It is not stand by the bargain. If everything pleasant over in the desert. Every goes right the colonel will be seen out time the sky shows a few clouds there riding at 2 o'clock tomorrow with Is u scurrying among the corrals, an Bishop Iilram B. Clawson. The route overhauling of wagons and an inspecwill be from the church offices south tion of harness; but as the expected on Main to Third South and back the rain falls to descend the desert folks same way, with side trips on First and settle hack to wait. A few of them Second South, In order that everyone have grown tired of waiting and startin the business center may see what ed across the range, but most of them Is doing. At the conclusion of the will wait until the first shower comes. ride the colonel will go In and reserve But they will all go eventually. The a lower berth, after which he will say, desert is always calling for him who Good-byThe bishop will has once known its charm and mysBishop. e, Then the tery. Colonel. reply, Good-by- e, we have all colonel will go to lunch while the Old timers declare that a man who Speaking of Smoot torts of news concerning his prosbishop takes the horse and buggy back spends six months among the desola pects. Waldemar Van Cott, one of to the barn. tion of the sand hills will never be con tented anywhere else. They tell of who, having wandered for prospectors TO CHARLES UTILIZE STALLINGS STEAM. WASTE INJURED. years across the arid wastes of the southwest, have finally struck It rich Nsw Davies for Heating Passenger Prominent Resident of Eden Meets and gone to San Francisco or New With an Accident in OgTrains is Being Given Trial York or Paris or London to live and den Canyon. by the Short Line. enjoy their hard won wealth, and they declare that not one of them has been The Short Line is trying a new Charles Stallings, a prominent rest able to stay away longer than a year scheme for heating its passenger dent of Eden, was seriously injured or so. trains, which, if It proves successful, Friday afternoon In Ogden canyon. Mr. Eventually they all come back. If will aid materially In the cutting Stallings was on his way to Ogden, only for a few weeks or months at a on a load of hay. Upon reach- time. A down the expense of fuel, says the riding pack burro, a pair of blankmouth of the canyon he de- est, a frying pan and a sack of provithe ing Pocatello Tribune. The heating of a cided to take the old road north of sions are quickly procured, and then passenger train at the present time Is Ogden river. A high wind was blowthe desert gets Its own again. accomplished with steam direct from ing and the' big load of hay offered a All sorts, and conditions of people the boiler; the new scheme Is to emtarget for Its fury. The load of hay winter in the desert, and when the Los Angeles and ploy the exhaust from the air pump was blown over and the rack' fell upon new San Pedro, Mr. Stallings, breaking his collar hone, Salt Lake railroad, now under confa this purpose, thereby one rib and otherwise badly bruising struction. shall have been completed what is now a total waste, and making the heating of a train practicnlly him. He was removed to his home the desert population will undoubtedly and although his condition is serious be greatly Increased, since the road Inexpensive. recover. Mr. J. W. Place of Waterloo, traverses the very heart of the region la., he will likely hitherto most Inaccessible. representing the Economy Car Heating HINTS FOR BOYS. company of Portland, Me., Is now In It is now a good deal of a Job to get to the city applying this a for advertised A boy into the desert from the coast side of gentleman companys patent to a number of the Short Lines assist him In his office and nearly flf the mountains. It will then be no trouengines, and he feels quite confident ty applicants presented themselves ble at all. An outfit can be loaded on that the appliance will demonstrate a before him. Out of the whole num a freight car and within six or eight sufficient saving In fuel to Induce the her he selected one and dismissed the hours the camper can be set down In company to equip all Its passenger rest I should like to know, said a the heart of a desolation so complete with the new device. The comfriend, upon what grounds you select- that not even rattlesnakes or prairie pany has been In existence for a pe- ed that boy with out a single recomdogs exist there. riod of only two And that is what the true desert mistaken,1 are You mendation! years and In this time some six hundred wants. It is the sense of isoa he has great camper said the gentleman: engines all over the he desolation that appeals to United States have been fitted and when feet lation hla He wiped up with many. and came In and closed the door showing him. company's appliance Given that requisite water supply, hla seat wherever applied they have proven ex- that he was careful; gave up he no matter how brackish, he will be that actly what Is claimed for them. to that old lame man, showing hla off cap took happy until the Increasing fervor of According to the figures of the Econ-oni- y waa thoughtful: he the sun's rays along In early April quesCar Heating company It requires when he came, answered by M ihe warn him that It Is time to be trekshow and respectfully, present time about one pound of tions promptly coa' heat a par.enger coach for one lng that he waa polite and gentleman- king back to the western side of the hour and from this estimate Is de ly; he picked up a book which I had mountains. ducted that a There are plenty of desert people train of ten cars would purposely laid on the floor and re who see no human face for six months all the require ten pounds of coal per hour, placed it on the table, while "nd for a run a stretch. Sometimes, of course, at of, say ten hours. 120 rest stepped over It or shoved It aside; Inare tragedies as the result of there Pounds of coals is used his for turn, up, which ex-P- and he waited quietly An accident to man or loneliness. When this or the new appliance entirely stead of pushing crowding. 'olds by the use of the waste from I talked with him. I noticed his clothes beast means death, for there Is no help uir pump, and the waste of steam were carefully brushed, his hair In nice to he hoped for. The deflection of a used In and compass needle is fatal when it leads a operating the air pump. It Is order and teeth as white as milk, of nured, la enough to heat a train. when he wrote his name I noticed his man away from the only spring miles. of a water radius fifty be within of Instead finger nails were clean, Your genuine desert man is a stoic handsome n evening comes with Its restful like that Jet, with lng tipped t Don philosopher, however. He faces death jading hours, you want the enjoyment little fellow In the blue Jacket with composure, and in most cases he recommendach comes to of those who have had you call these letters more carries a safeguard against its linger' r mPerfect eyes made more perfect tion? I do: and I would give tough perfect glosses. I have the for whHt I can tell about a boy by us- lng agonies. That. is to say, he takes all with him and keeps always on his faction of knowing that I have ing my eyes ten minutes than by e me. person enough morphine to put to an reading a pleasure to many the recommendations he can give end his sufferings if he should he e eyes have Scientific American. long been imperfect me Five by a slide of rock or over caught you that pleasure by a whelmed win by sand or if he should run Journal ectly fitted pair of The management of the glasses. Prices water of out at a hopeless distance will subscribers If nnble, satisfaction consider It a favor guaranteed. a from of supply. C. P. UTTER, O. D. report promptly any I thought you started for the des SOS Ecclea Bldg. papere. Telephone 6C4. ng en-tfn- es ne non-delive- ry ...SOLE AGENTS FOR... Devoes Ready Mixed Paints Murphys High Grade Celebrated Varnishes Southern White Lead and Whitings Brushes A FRESH SUPPLY JUST ARRIVED We can supply your wants says: that Governor comment. The Idea the has power to appoint Wells, who if one shall fill the vacancy, to a man correspondent mid e ,Ve out the cheerful information tlitt Smoot Something About Death Vslley and was safe: that lie would Other Dry Lakes Which Once Conimt he untained Large Bodice of Water. seated. A day or two later Williams also returned from An exceedingly clever article by a lngiou ami announced liie observer has recently upiteared would be unseated: that he had no in tlie columns of the New York Sun moi-show than a snowball in Tophet. oil the subject of men u ho prefer the The dear public is respectfully invited sand dunes to comfortable homes. It to take Ha choice. timmmtimmmmnimmmmttmmimmmimimimitiiim I Z. C. M. I. ert jvxti'iilay," said a torrktvptar at IiaiKinw the other day lo a miner wliuiii he hail grubstaked. "1 diil start, replied the pros per tor, SIXTY CENTS hut 1 made ten miles and found I hud forgotten my morphine. That's what brought me bark. Hard lurk." said the storekeeper In a matter of faet way. The Incident was evidently regarded as an ordinary episode. Hut the iKtsslbilitles of death or suffering tire, of course, much less among people who seek the desert for health or for sight-seein- g or for mere dls- tract ion. Such people do not wander I so far ufleld us the prospector and I they usually make longer camps thun he does. Indeed, some ixniple now go Into the desert with most of the con- venieuces of civilization. There is an outfit here comprising three wagons filled with pretty nearly everything from isirk and beans to finger bowls. There are three teain-- il ster and a Chinese cook and a Japanese boy to wait on the table. Among the articles lit the wagons Is a collapsible rubber bath tub which folds, up like a camp stool. There Is gasoline range big enough for n hotel. This caravan Is headed for the ylcln- Ity of (lid Dun's mountains. In the Soda Lake district, and a well driving outfit has preceded it to sink an ar- tesla n well for water supply. The owner of the expedition Is a Boston man who has several million dollars and only half a lung. Most people do not travel into the desert In such luxurious fashion, how- ever. The two-horCHmplug wagon is a popular vehicle, but It has dls- advantages because of the fodder prob- lem. Horses require grain or hay, and neither is obtainable at any great dls- tance from the railroads. Hence people who take wagons and horses must either stay close to a base of supplies a necessity highly repug- nant to the genuine desert dweller or else they must maintain a sort of supply train, which is expensive. Fack burros, on the other hand, will subsist almost anywhere. Anything In the vegetable kingdom Is fodder for them. They require little water, and they will go Into places where It would be Impossible to take a wagon. Three pack burros will carry from S00 to 600 pounds, and that la enough for three or four people who really want to lead a Bedouin's life for four or five months. As for the joys of winter life In the desert all who have tried it tell thej same story. They assert that there is j no feeling of loneliness after the first j few days, but always a sense of keen , ONE DOLLARS WORTH j DURING OUR GREAT Stock Reducing Sale ' COMMENCING ; , i TUESDAY MORNING j se j ; AND CONTINUING FIVE DAYS EVERYTHING 40 PER GOES! CENT REDUCTION IN PRICES . j enjoyment The air Is perfectly dry, still and warm, for there are no sandstorms In winter they come in the fall and splrng. The sky is cloudless and dusting blue. The stillness Is absolute, for In the heart of the desert there is neither bird nor beast nor creeping! j thing. No one sleeps under cover because; there Is no dew. The heavens at night are sprinkled with diamond dust. Moonlight Is a shower of liquid silver. The desert Is mystery and fascination. $1,000,000 Losses and Not Affected! j j Leagues of cactus and sand and stars And the Milky Way with Its serpentine bars. And the desert Is leagues across. THE WAY OF THE WORLD. We fret, Regret And sweat And yet Forget You bet! A Vary Close Call. "I stuck to my engine, although every Joint ached and every nerve was racked with pain," writes C. W. Bellamy, a locomotive fireman, of Burlington, I was weak and pale, without Iowa. any appetite and all run down. As I was about to give up, I got a bottle of Electric Bitters, and after taking It, felt as well as I ever did In my life." Weak, sickly, run down people always gain new life, strength and vigor from their use. Try them. Satisfaction guaranteed by Jesse J. Driver. Price 60 cents. The following telegram lias just been received from Manager Richards of the New York office of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Co.: Our Baltimore losses aggregate one million dollars. Will be paid In cash. Am instructed to value on Lrndon for the necessary funds, without disturbing American securities. The combined assets of the North British aggregate over 80 Million Dollars, the assets In the United States being Six Millions. The agent for this company for Ogden Weber County is B. H. and GODDARD 412 ECCLE8 BUILDING. PHONE 252-- Satisfactory Tailoring at Satisfactory Prices. That la sssctly why we do thw Tailoring Business of Orfdwn. Anderson |