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Show jylatc ilmtntal Published Daily at Ogdca, Utah OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE PEOPLE THE RAILWAYS UTAH STATE DAILY PAGE FOUR. AS PIONEERS IN IRRIGATION. Every section of the country Iihs lte separate and peculiar problem for the railroads, in addition to those everpresent general questions that confron present general questions that confront all the railways In whatever sec tlon. In the great west this distinct problem at the present time Is Irrigation, and there Is not a single important western system which is not putting forth efforts to encourage the reclamation for settlement of vast tracts of land along its right of way. The part the railroads have played as pion eers in this great work of reclaiming arid lands is detailed by President Janies J. Hill, of the OreBt Northern railwav. In a letter read before the National Irrigation congress recently in session at Portland, Ore. This letter, In part, Is ns follows: MHow this campaign was begun many of us still remember, and it ia now right that the people should not In work spying out forget. The first In Investigating for Irrigation. the land Its possibilities, and above all In getting its merits before the people was done by the railroad companies. At first three, and a little later five, of the great systems of the west united dent Hill. In closing his letter. One-thiof the entire land area of the United Slates outside of Alaska and our other outlying possessions Is still vacant. The great bulk of this is included within the regions known as In the sixteen diarid nr seml-arl- d. visions. thirteen states and three territories. to which the reclamation act Is acres applicable, there are 535.4S5.000 vacant out of a total of 972,777,600 acres. What portion of this can ultihabitation mately le made fit for the present the at of man we are unable tt Undoubtedly declare. to moment current of excess In will be largely estimates And it is confidently stated 60,000,-00- 0 by good authorities that about a of supporting acres are capable irriof basis on the settled population as gating enterprises now regarded this area, feasible. A great portion of many times as valuable for production as the same quantity of land would be timupon the richest prairie or in the bered districts. Is included within the states and territories carved out of Justifying purchase. the Louisiana afteV the lapse of a century the statesmanship which, far sighted for its age, was more brilliant than those who conceived and executed it could possibly have Imagined. JOURNAL. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1905. rd Upon the completion of government surveys now in progress upon the Flathead Indian reservation, in Montana, it is expected that this region will be thrown open for settlement, In accordance with authorisation by the last congress. Railway companies reaching the territory are already sending out literature on the subject In which the statement is made that the land will be available in the course of a year. The reservation la fifty miles long north and south, and thirty-fiv- e miles from east to west, and Is on the west side of the Rocky Mountains It is estimated that there are 1,250,000 acres of land In the reservation. northwestern PIERRE, S. D., Cept. 7. A marketmachine, which can be able carried in the coat pocket, la promised by Arthur L. Runyon, a young man residing In this city. To prove his assertion he Is showing a model on which he has applied for a patent The shape of the model is that of two cones with the large ends placed together. It is four Inches long and an inch in diameter at the largest X-r- THE LAST DAYS ARE HERE ed EVERY IN WHICH ARTICLE OF SUMMER GOODS MUST LEAVE THE STORE, AND THESE DAYS CAN TRULY BE TERMED BARGAIN DAYS. MANY rEm JUST THE KIND TO MAKE UP FOR SCHOOL WEAR, AT HALF THEIR USUAL PRICE. SUITS AND NANTS, LINE OF WAISTS TO BE SEEN IN THE WEST MUST GO BY THE END OF THE HANDSOMEST THE He demonstrates with it that the user can see the bones in bis hand, or in the arm of one who will place his arm between the machine and the light of a window, and that a large-sizbook, or even wood or metnot will hinder an investigation of al what is beyond it His discovery, he says, was entirely accidental, and not the result of study MONTANA FIREMEN HAVE or Investigation. At the time the sun BAREBECUE AT LEWISTOWN spots were being discussed last spring he tried to arrange a device by which LEWISTOWN, Mont, Sept 7. Tohe could examine the spots, and after is the principal day of the conday experimenting discovered that he could vention of the State Firemens assosee the bones In his hand. ciation, which opened here on MonTWENTY-SEVEHOUR day. There was a business meeting SCHEDULE TO L08 ANGELEES In the morning, at which many Important matters were considered and sub7. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. By several addresaes on Important ! There delivered delegates. jects by will road Lake Salt the arrangements double its passenger service on or will be another session In the afterabout November 1, when it will put on noon and after the session there will of through train with a schedule of be a big barbecue and a parade music furnished with the visitors n by twenty-sevehours. It is expected that this time will be the Livingston Firemens band. The hours before convention will close tomorrow evenshortened to twenty-fou- r ing with a grand celebration at the the winter is over. The present schedule between the city hall. terminals is thirty-fiv- e hours, and the part WEEK. OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE The Millinery Department THE LARGEST AND MOST OF AUTUMN AND WINTER HATS EVER BROUGHT WEST BY THE BANKS MILIS NOW READY WITH 8ELECT COLLECTION LINERY COMPANY. NOT ONE OLD 8TYLE TO SHOW YOU. EVERYTHING NEW AND UP TO THE MINUTE. MISS DRAKE WILL BE GLAD TO SEE YOU; JU8T TO LOOK. N and furnished $5,000 a year as a working fund to make the necessary inquiries and to spread the facts abroad. It was by the provision of these corporations. studying the Interests and welcontemplated Improvement places Los fare of the west, searching for means Angeles in much closer connection to increase the tillable area, the with Montana, Colorado and Utah wealth, the population and the prospoints than it has been heretofore. perity nt the country tributary to It la further planned by Salt Lake them, that Irrigation first passed from officials that with the Installation of the sphere of the bookmen to that of the new sen-icthey will offer a seventhe men of affairs; that it rose from schedule between Los Anty-hour $ the rank of a theory and an idealist's George Howard Darwin, professor of geles and Chicago, the routing from dream to that of a national policy unSalt Lake to be, without doubt, over at Cambridge, England, astronomy dertaken in pursuance of and fortison of the distinguished naturalist, the Union Pacific and Northwestern fied by a national law. Tt would be Charles Darwin, in a lecture on the This will equal the fast time offered strang If they had not now the Intense the Santa Fe. Interest In the working nut of the evolution of the heavenly bodies has by new train will be one of the The from that the opinion magnificent scheme at whose birth expressed most luxuriously appointed In the have to 1,000,000,000 years they presided and whose Infancy was moon was a west nurtured by their care. For by It the probably passed since the oft into flew of and earth the part boundaries of man's heritage are to be existence to a GOLF CHAMPIONS CONTESTseparate space pursue food supenlarged, the volume of the He thinks It likely that as a ING AT ST. PAUL satellite. almans be first necessity, may ply. most indefinitely expanded, and the for a long time the moon was only a 8T. PAUL, Minn., Sept 7. The total sum of the worlds available few thousand miles away, although now 240.000 miles What distant largest gathering of expert golf play- wealth and of common comfort may must wonderful there era ever seen In this state has been atmonllght nights conbe expanded, and at the same the In been have those tracted to this city by the great open says ages!" early of Individual of ditions the laborers, the family, of the home, may be so the Sacramento Bee. The moon, view- golf tournament, which began this bettered as to counteract those ten ed from this parent planet, must have morning on the links of the Town and denotes that ace commonly admitted looked as big as a Ferris wheel, pro Country dub. Many of the players, to be threatening In the development vlded there were any eyes on this who Intend to take part in the conHun tests. have been here for three days to of the race and the rearing of a high- globe at a period so remote. dreds of millions of years may have one week and the privileges of the er civilisation. 'The need of this new area for home passed before the earth became fit for links were extended to all of them for animal life and human occupation, and practice work. , building 1s immediate and pressing. The principal event will be a medal There lies the great source of wealth during the ages of transition the moon which alone may and must be drawn was gradually retiring to a respectful play contest, 72 holes, with many valuable prises. There are also severupon without Intermission for man's distance." al fine trophies and special prises to needs. The forest falls, the mine Is TO DISCUSS MUNICIPAL be contested for. The tournament has depleted of its precious contents, even OWNERSHIP IN CHICAGO attracted an the seas might. If searched too severeunusually large number of crack players and tt is expected ly, cease to give tribute, but the soli 7. The head of the CHICAGO, Sept. Is the last unfailing resource. Flay municipal governments of several that a batle royal will be fought out on games as we may with picture cards hundred American cities are assem the links during this week. The med adorned with other names, the man at bled In Chicago, to attend a conference al play competition will begin tomorrow morning and will be concluded on the bottom, the man with his foot up which waa called by Mayor Dunne and All contests will be In acon a plot of ground, the man who is the Municipal Ownership League of Saturday. cordance with the rules of the United drawing from earth food for himself this rlty, for the purpose of discuss Golf association. States and others Is the foundation of all ad- Ing the subject of municipal ownervancement as well as of all prosper- ship from every Imaginable point of ity. Make way for him; for where he view. The object of calling this con TERRITORIAL PIONEERS' ASSOCIATION AT LOG CABIN ia decaying the pillars of the state are ference was to spread the doctrine of weakening, and all the more lmpres municipal ownership broadcast over MINNEAPOLIS, slve forms of wealth are trembling to the country and thus to Sept. strengthen hundred members of the association ward the duat. the position- of the advocates of the "The need of more land snces for duo trine, who won such an over- known as Minnesota Territorial Pioneers were assembled at the Log Cabin the home builders Is created by the whelming victory at the last election rapid aetlement of the country and In this city. Among the chief execu on the Fair grounds when the annual precipitated nnd aggravated by the In- fives who stended the opening session reunion of the organisation was called to order today. The association has sane policy of land laws which tend of the conference today are many en at toward the exhaustion of the pubic do- thuslastlc advocates of present about three thousand memmunicipal but la anxious to gather nil the main by the land monopolist and bers, ownership, but the discussion disclos Except In a few selected ed the fact that there are also some surviving pioneers of territorial days spots where the Influence of the rail- who have not much faith In the feasi- Into Its fold. Among those present road rompHnies as colonisers has been bility of the doctrine. The difficulties are. Franklin Steele. Col. John II. Stevens. John Rollins, Gen. George N. exercised to secure actual settlement with which the municipal administraon their lands, the Influx of actual cul- tion of Gov. John S. Pillsbury. Gov. Chicago has to contend at the Morgan, tivators la so small as scarcely to be very outset. In its Alexander Ramsel, Gen. H. H. Sibley, attempt to carry the H. M. reckoned with. Those who go upon doctrine of Rice. Louis Hobart. D. W. Inger-aol- l, municipal ownership of the Revs. Edward government land In our day for the street car lines to a D. Neill. practical test, are Hobart and many other old purpose of making homes are a hand- used effectively as Chauncey arguments by the ful." time residents of St Paul, Minneapolis opponents of municipal ownnershlp. Doubtless congress will consent to The and other cities of this state. Extendiscouraging reports from some amend the land laws by the repeal of of the cities In sive preparations have been made to and In this those employed now solely to Increase country where theEurope entertain the visitors. system was tested the holdings of the dishonest man and for some time are also used with conto give rise to such scandals as have siderable force, but tt la doubtful .that SHOT IN A RUNNING FIGHT WITH PAT CROWE lately thrown shams upon the Ameri- the opposition will be able to dampen can name; hut If the future Is to be the enthusiasm of the Judged by the past, this access of wis- mayors. The conference will OMAHA, Sept T. During a running last two dom and of honesty will come only between police officers and a man fight days and during that time the visiting when there Is no longer any land left believed to be Pat Crowe, the alleged will be royally entertained and mayors that la desired by the lumber king or given an of Eddie Cudahy, kidnaper and a to study the the cattle baron. It Is. therefore, of street car opportunity before Just companion. Pamidnight, problem the utmost moment that these lands Chicago administrationconfronting the trolman Albert Jackson was shot by personal rapable of reclamation, which it was observation. Tonight the visitors will through the leg and the two men made not In the past to their Interest to ac- be entertained at a banquet. Automo- their escape. None of the other offquire. and which are at least partially bile rides over the chain of boulevards icials was Injured. A large detail of nnd in a lame fashion safeguarded by are also on police was Immediately sent to the spot the program. the law of 1902, should be prepared to try to locate the fugitives. as a patrimony for Ihe days when the The fight occurred on lower SixA Good Start. land hunger that Is as old and as inteenth street, where the men were Mrs. We kavg discovered destructible as man shall find ho food breakfast by Officer Jackson In a at 9. Bridget. for Us reasonable satisfaction. New Girl Im not particular about There Is, Indeed, a magnificent area the hour. mum. as long as you call available for this purpose," says Presi l ie f it gets cold ! THE e 500,-000.0- 00 - spe-ulat- or. Browne-Front- JEFFERSONVILLE, Ky., Sept. 7. The annual reunion of the Work family Is taking place today at the Work homestead, three miles east of Charlesof town. Several hundred members the family, representing five states of the union, are In attendance. Governor J. Frank Ilanly Is present and will address the meeting of the clan this evening. The family came to this state from Pittsburg, Pa., In 1804. John Work and family, with the members of the family of his elder brother, Henry, who had died on the way, settled in this county and purchased 2,000 seres of land along Fourteen-Mil- e creek. The industries established by John Work Included three flouring mills, seven saw mills, a powder mill and a distillery. e n-Ip- on. I JOURNAL 10 CENTS A WEEK. 2429-2431-2- Washington Ave. 433 mim RAISING CATTLE ANXIOU8 FOR GOOD ROADS IN THE SOUTH ANTS THAT EAT ROCKS. IN WEST. How Refrigerator Car Built Up Trade the Trust Ruined. LAKE CITY, Fla., Sept 7. The 'To produce beef that will stand reGood Roads convention which met at and long carrying," writes the county court house this forenoon frigerating Mr. Russell in the May Installment with an unusually large attendance, of The Greatest Peculiar Appetite Cause of Much fc cuniary Loss. The engineers In charge of s tils graph line at Hongkong were iw prised recently by the discovery that about seven miles of their cable, though it waa well protected and laid underground in a concrete trough, had been severely damaged. For the greater part of the length oval holm had been bored quite through the ca lug down to the copper wire itself It was agreed that Insects moil have been the authors of the though what kind of Injects wu sol obvious. It might be possible to lid one which enjoys perforating laid But these Insects seemed to haw drilled the holes, not In order to a passage, but by way of making i meal ! They had taken a dinner d six courses, consisting first of tarn! rope, then of lead, then of ttrlsUf rope, then of tape, then of hemp Ibc and lastly of India rubber. The cop per strand had been too much hi Trust in the World Everybodys magazine, cattle must about more harmonious be fed on food that contains certain elements. In some parts among the various Good Roads associations of the south, and it la ex- of the country there grows what is pected that a committee will be ap- called short grass,' which has all the pointed to agitate the subject vig- required nutrition. But the supply of 'short grass cattle la not sufficient orously by calling meetings and in- The only other food that will make teresting the citizens In general in the quality of beef requisite for refavor of road Improvements. frigeration purposes la corn. Hence, In the great corn belt of the west ENGINEER EMERSON (Missouri, Iowa, southern Minnesota, KILLED IN WRECK South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas) the practice came to be WINNIPEG, Man., Sept. 7. A pas- this: The farmer bought from the senger train struck a milk train near western ranges in western Nebraska Regina last night and killed Engineer and Colorado range cattle that had bem matured on common grass, took Emerson. them to his farm and fed them on corn for six or eight months. When FLOG MEN BY MACHINERY. they had been sufficiently finished on them. Portions of the damaged cable wn corn they were shipped to be slaughRussians Have an Automatic Device tered. sent to the Natural History Mustu for Use In the Army. But this practice required capital with a hope that some pinion nigh The spanking machine has been The fanner must buy the range cattle he given, and the oracle replied the used in farce comedy as a mirth prothe and pay for shipping them to his there could be little doubt that waa caused by white ssta voker, but the flogging machine now farm. damage In almost every of their peculiar forma of adopted in the Russian- - army is a case heConsequently, became a at his lo- Specimensand borrower more complicated and serious affair. industry are kept In the cal bank and the bank carried his vipetlte ucum. which show not only that The whipping has always been done loan until he effected the sale of hla her will lead, but will alio bon by other soldiers, under the command feVened cattle. Therefore a great of. an officer, and the punishment has .cjgh hard sandstone rock. business grew up for the country varied, according to the feeling of the bank. soldier toward his victim. The Hot One. So long as there was a free, unimThe new machine is automatic in its at a certain dine Belmont, August and unmanipulated cattle mar- tors s fits! was action and as soon as the culprit is peded describing meeting, ket both ptries to these transactions fastened in position a spring la tight- went that hqd been brought to light is a their ways rejoicing. The farmboard. ened or loosened to gauge the exact er found that selling his corn turned proposition laid before the force of the blow. A pointer la moved Mr. said These Into cat'le fit waa far more remunergentlemet. over a dial to the requisite number Thoy themselves sway. gave ative than selling' It to the elevator; of strokes and the mechanism la starton their out of stood convicted the bank loaned much money at fair ed. hukeep the like were mouths. They rates and on good legitimate securWith perfect regularity the victim's er's family that conducted the weekly back la sco'rged by tfc thongs, the ity." raffle. handle of the whip beta; moved by a In this raffle the prizes wen tor screw devir? after each stroke so of Why Webster Wae Great ducks, young pigs, baskets keys, Webster's father was much char that the las'i does not fall upon the commodities rural such like same spot throughout the punishment. grlned and pained when Daniel re- eggs, and A quantity of steel disks, number from clerkEach blow Is of uniform severity fused a 1 to 25, were put Into a black big and as soon as the reqilred number ship in the court of common pleas In and the little daughter of the Innkeephas been g..en tbe m- rhlne comes New Hampshire, which he had er put her hand In the bag snd dro to rest and the offender Is released worked hard to secure for him after he a disk for each speculator In turn. The with the e.rance that the exact left college. "Daniel," he said, don't person whose number was the blghsk No, got the prize. wed has been meted you mean to take that office?' punishment Indeed, father; I hope I can do much out to him. the Well, It had been noticed that better than that. I mean to nse my the wife prize got pntjj tongue in the courts, not my pen. I Innkeepers A Loss of Three Shillings. mean to be an orator, not a register frequently, but nothing was thought honest rmzl Forbes Robertson, the English ac- of other. mens acts. Sublime self- of this by the simple, tor, said In an address In New York faith was characteristic of this gi- folk. . . , that he favored salaries for theatrical ants career. "One evening, though, the performers. Without and an iron will with her hand in the bag, Mr. Robertson gave several in- man la but the waa her mother's turn, and she d plaything of chance stances of salaries disgracefully a ad a puppet of circumstances. With not draw forth her mother's disk needlessly low. Then, with a smile, these he Is a king, and It is In child- her usual quick and careless he said: The other rafflers kjosw hood the seeds must be sown that will The mean manager to whom I have make him a conqueror In life. Suc- at ope another oddly. The Innkeep said: been alluding reminds me of a mean cess " Dome, rams, child. Hurry IP- man whose llle wss saved from gW-But, father, said the little drowning. -B- uffalo one. hot find Shaw the and Senator Tom cant Secretary This man fell overboard in stepping from a ferryboat. It was a bitter Carter, of Montana, were swapping Enquirer. day. Cakes of gray Ice floated in the stories the other day, when the Secblack water. Neverthe'-s- s a ragged retary of the Treasury told a good one Patrick Gleason Paid the. .B wharf tat plunged head first Into the about a man out in an old Iowa town Gleason, Patrick freezing stream, and after ten minu- who was never known to disagree shoe manufacturer of Br . with statement a of another, no mat. tes' hard work rescued the man. very particular as to the One day What reward do you think this ter how improbable it might be. leaves his factory. One day a group of fellowa deterwas a very P hero got? He got two shillings, s to see If they couldn't get a laster who shoe the mined which the other gingerly handed him man. The first Smith call him Smith, said SecIll so badly from a purse heavy with gold. to express a dissenting his last wss on bis rack f The poor fellow looked at the two retary Shaw, loit not dare put opinion. So when Smith came along hid it under hi but shillings, and then said: tion, ior. one of the boys said: 'Man, Id have gotten five shil" T had a most remarkable experi- tending to make a The Jecxmd shoe to noon hour. the deadhouse.' lings for takln ye thongbt ence the other day. Smith. Aa I waa Ing the much better, but was not yj on into town through the hills it would coming pass, and started Gives Credit to Japanese, I saw a buffalo up a tree yonder Mr. Gleason, coming The St. Petersburg correspondent of grapes, so shot him. Did you ever then, picked up the shoe turB- the Echo de Paris says he asked Gen. see a buffalo up a tree, Smith? examined . and rack the ju DragomlroiTs opinlou of the Major-Gesaid, a""1 aoe Well, I can't say that I have, r Ing to the laster, he Meckels rlalm that the Japanese turned Smith, how regretfully, bet you $10 you can t uthli. success was due to German military What, persisted the story teller, In this factory as badly yj instructors, and that Dragomlroff said: never saw a buffalo up a tree Deion that ft you take eating Ill "Meckel's chatter does not deserve and. reaching down. nch gnd laster, serious consideration. The whole af- grapes? Well. no. I never saw a buffalo up m fmvil tinder i.ieAll fair was the work or Oyrnna. Kurokl, a tree, but.' aald Smith, brightening and Oku. whom Merkel, of course' up, T know they are very fund of never taugh anything.'' grapes.' 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