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Show THE SALIVA Sl'N. SAI.INA. ITAII Get poisons G3l of system. portura know (hit ' News Notes t' I a Prfoiltf to Lit In tK!i modern ffrimUfle Uxatir work tflcknlly In antUet do eg becouso fou them it, tfe and mild for old nnd young. UTAH UNIVCMITV OF UTAH Motor oils, Ik hub price of hUb taal gasoline and dirty piua are e arty t Ik eoUegtaal 8T tke lnt varsity of flak Mot arias Avi. k to become Iloa rluh, a he kuaeal lo goods gild ore of tk National Gtldr association. Three Famous Indwn s'Autcrarh 0f fclMO SCOTT WATSON S lints a H Mir Itiiuv, I be 1 11.1 ildr lluutrf lm,niir llclbt-r- t fir lil f In lal Ili-- J blitiMlf will tf urliM'i arr a f IlitrMlrn up II. 111. It. fait rilulii'inl t. tlli-Clnlim liau in y lit h mil. i)"hMS ;itr(r!t p:iM-r- . paper iimm w!u-i- i Iy, n.nlillL a iil ! bu-- lr tin ih rumple ii iMo a lucr. n auh a wt frmn if. re)leni in auii;rMli il aalrlaLi llnrliilf, vUlior basket anil n-v- i a-- ld probably i n4 ml li il.at til acrap of paper bail any particular lil II ana that lb visitor value, but lb fnr hal la deacrilied aa 'a fair prtlii of lb Droldi-tills- l salary," Il nw hold an honored lar In lb collection of Tbnmna F Madlgan of New York. an authority on autographs. aim an) Il la lb moat unusual signature over to ro:n uul of b Wlille I Ions. Hut Ilia la only on of tbe many Interesting lloma ahlrb bat paaooil through Mr. Madlena's hand during hla lone career a autograph collector and dealer. TIi fruit of that ram-- r la a Frederick A. book, publlalii'd recently by lh Stokes company, lo which b bn given the appropriate title of Wool Shadow of ih Great" lth tub-titlwhich tell of The Lure of Autograph Collecting." Autographs are truly "word ahadowa, reflecting the poraonalltlm of the men and women who wrote them and often revealing their very aul and for thl reason autograph collecting la on of the moat fascinating bubble known to mankind. What American would not he thrilled to hnve In hla posaoaabiti a letter written by George Washington, or by Thorna Jefferson, by Andrew Jackson or by Abraham IJncoln or some other great man? Tot many auch letiera. often throwing new light oti some Important event In our history, have been In Mr. Madtgnn'a possession before they became In.shrlned In tbe collection of lome autograph enthusiast. For Instance, there Is the letter written by Washington to Governor Clinton of New York from his headquarters at Morristown, at a time when the dawn was Just beginning to break for the great commnnder of the Continental army after five dark yean of what seemed at times a hopeless struggle. It was glorious news which this letter bore, news that for aid from the French was soon the to come, and It Is easy to Imagine Washingtons elation as he penned these lines: ablrk he sitillltigly 1)1 II TVrtigtest Priced Autograph on. Record riiti long-hope- d Morristown, May ISth. 1710. Dear Sir: I hav th happiness to Inform your Excellency, that th Marqula Da LaFayette hna brought th Interesting Intelligence of a French fleet ft army which was to sail from France early In April for the Continent, to with us. He la gone on to Congress, and measures will. It Is to b hoped, be Immediately taken by them to put ourselves In a situation to derive the advantage from this succeur, which with proper exertion, we have a right to expect Tou will be sensible that there will be a necessity for the concurrences of the Legislatures of the different States In providing men and supplies. As I am Informed your Assembly is now sitting, and may probably ba about rising; as th determination of Congress may not arrive In tlm to prevent Its adjournment, I have thought It proper to give this Intimation In confidence that you may keep them together. If they once separate it will be Impossible to reassemble them in time to answer our purposes; and It Is of Infinite Importance that they should be assembled. As this anticipates Congress, It Is of course only Intended for your private Information, and Is not to be officially made use of to the Assembly. In the intended to whatever point It may be directed, we shall stand In need of all the Continental force we can collect On this principle, I wish to have the regiment at Fort Schuyler relieve); and shall be glad your Excellency will be pleased to order two hundred and fifty men, of the 800 raised by permission of Congress, as speedily as possible, to that Post. I propose to leave Lieut Col Van Dycke, and some good Sergeants in the garrison to arrange the New Corps, ft perform the duties with vigilanced It Is my wish that the officer who propriety commands the 250 men should be Inferior In rank to Lt. Colo Van Dycke, as he Is, I am told, an attentive diligent officer, and the command may b aafely reposed In him I am with the greatest respt. ft affection, Yr. Excelys Most Obed ft G Hble. ServL WASHINGTON His Excely. Govr. Clinton. "Had I never read the Inspiring story of Lincoln's progress from the log cabin to the White House, I believe I could still obtain a Just , conception of his immortal character from his letters, says Mr. Madlgan. Few letters of Lincoln are more reflective of his simple modesty and sound Judgment than the letter written during his The letter single terra as member of congress. to which h? refers reads: Washington Feb 13. 1343. Dear Hewett: Your Whig representative from Mississippi, P W Tompkins, has Just shown me a letter of youra to him. I am jealous oecause you did not write to me. Perhaps you have forgotten me Don't you remember a long black fellow who rode on horseback with you from Tremont to Springfield nearly ten years ago. swimming your horses over the Mackanaw on the trip? Well. 1 am that same old fellow yet. I was once of your opinion, expressed In your letter, that presidential electors should be dispensed with, but a more thorough knowledge of the causes that first introduced them has made causes were briefly these The The me doubt the Constitution had this Conveo'ion that d fficulty: tne emsli .'ate wished to so form the new Government as ifcv they might be equal to , the large enea rg ardleas of lb Inequality of population, the lefg ones insisted on equality in proThey compromised It by portion to population oa populabssti g the llousu of Reprssentattv tion and the Pnat on Ptalsa regardleaa of population, and lb esreutit on both principle, by elector In each slat equal la number to her senator and representative Now. throw away the machinery of elector and tba compromise la broken up and lha mhol yielded to th principle of the large plates Thera la on thing mors In the Slav atataa you bav representatives, and consequently, elector, partly upon (b basis of your black population, shub would be suept ana y by Hava you ever th chnng you think, desirable. reflected on then things? But to como to tbs main point. I wish you to bnow that 1 hav mad a speech In Congress and that I want you to bo enlightened by tending It: to further which object 1 send you a copy of th speech by this mall. For old acquaintance. If for nothing else, ho I was vary auro to writ me on receiving this near forgetting to tell you that on my being Introduced to Gent Quitman and telling him I we from Springfield. Illinois, be at one remarked "Then you are acquainted with my valued friend Hewett of Natch," and on being assured I was, he said just such things about you as I Ilk to hear said about my own valued friend Youra a ever, A LINCOLN. Josephus Hewett, Esq It Is doubtful If tbe long, black fellow who writes thus modestly of himself realized at the time that lu less than twenty years lie would be enshrined In the heurts of his countrymen. Certainly. he would have been the most surprised person In the world If some one had told him s of a century after he wrote that that letter. It would be sold for more than $300. Considerable space was devoted la New York newspapers recently to the fact that n New York collector of Americana hud acquired an extensive collection of letters by John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe. John Quincy Adams and others. The most Important were sixteen Jefferson letters, only four of which had ever been published. The concluding paranewspaper story about graphs of the these letters reads as follows: One or th letter which haa been published It one of the most Interesting that haa aver passed through the hands of Mr Madlgan during his twenty-fiv- e years In the autograph business, he In a few sentences Mr. Jefferson clarified said. whatever doubt may have been In the mind of hla correspondent about the authorship of the Declaration of Independence. In part. Jefferson wrote; "Your statements of the corrections of the Declaration of Independence by Dr Franklin and Mr. Adams are neither of them at all exact. I should think it better to say generally that the rough to these two gentledraught was communicated men. who, each, made 2 or 3 short verbal alterations only, but even this Is laying more stress on mere composition than It merits; for that alone was mine; the sentiments were of all America." three-quarter- half-colum- n While It would seem that the autograph letters of the earlier Presidents would bring higher prices than those of the later executives, such is not always the case. For the typewriter has had Its Influence on autograph hunting. Washingtons and Lincolns voluminous correspondence was all handwritten, but the letters of the last three or four residents have been dictated to stenographers, written on the typewriter and one cannot always be sure whether the signature at the bottom of the letter Is by the President himself or by some secretary or clerk. One of the rarest of all autograph collector's items. It Is said, is a letter written tn long hand by Warren G. Harding, and a similar one by Calvin Coolldge is nearly as rare. Being rare, they therefore command a price which will equal that asked for the letters of some of the earlier Presidents and compare favorably with the prices of Washington and Lincoln letters. At a recent sale a Washington letter brought $150, the same price that was paid for a Harding letter in the President's own handwriting. But when the matter of price In connection with autographs Is mentioned, there Is one classic example which overshadows all other valuable signatures. The man himself was comparatively unknown to most Americans until the signature broke all autograph price records. True, he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, but It might be possible to get a complete set of autographs of the signers (with the exception of this one man) If yon were willing to pay from $500 to $2,000 for It-- But If you wish to make It complete by adding the name of Button Gwinnett of Georgia to the names of tie other 55. It may cost you from $30,000 to $50,000 more. For the signature of Button Gwinnett Is one of the rarest of all known autographs, there being not more than twenty known to be In existence and of tiiis number not more than half a dozen have ever been available for purchase by collectors The reason that there are not more Is doe to the fact that he was killed In a duel In 1777. about a year after his signing the Declaration made him oDe of America's imra Gals. PATIO M rkfiek Bark lu Iksfl, according to Mr. Madlgan, a Button Gwinnett autograph sold for only $185. But that waa long before autograph collecting became ao popular and took on a big bualneea tinge. Forty yeara later, on Janunry 19. 1920, Col Jam IL Munnlng offered at auction hla complete set of autograph of the signer and hla Button Gwinnett signature (at a witness to a will), the first ever sold at a public sate, brought $22,500. The total collection realized tie sum of $40,089. In May of the same year another Gwinnett from the Dr. George C. F. William collection sold for $19.-00- 0 and a cut out signature brought $10,500. But that was Just the beginning of the Gwinnett boom. Not long afterwards Mrs. Arthur W. Swann of New York, who had read of those prices, remembered that she bad Inherited some old letters front her ancestors and had stored them cart-less-ly among some old sheet music and hooka In a closet She began to Investigate and found among the letters the third bond mentioned In the records of the Gwinnett estate by Its executor. This signature sold for $28,500. But the end was not yet In March, 1927, a letter, signed by Button Gwinnett and five other signers of the Declaration, was sold for $51,0001 It was the first letter ever found bearing the Gwinnett signature, the other examples of hla autograph being from official documents. This letter waa found by John Cecil Clay of New York among a mass of old pupers that had been stored In an outbuilding at Mnmnroneck for many years. Hearing of the high prices being paid for Gwinnett signatures, he remembered that there was one among the papers stored on his propety. So he went through them until he discovered the precious document. And two days after the discovery the building In which the autograph had remained so long took fire and burned to the ground I But talk of such prices does not mean that It Is Impossible for the average person to obtain autographs of famous people If he so desires. The signatures of any number of celebrities Presidents, generals, authors, poets, actors, statesmen, sculptors, artists, singers. Inventors, explorers, etc. can be obtained anywhere from 50 cents each to $5.00 and It Is possible to buy letters which they have written from $1.50 up to $25 or $50, depending upon the historic Interest which the letters contain and the rarity of such letters. For those are the two factors which usually determine the value of an autograph. It Is not often that a celebrity "cashes in on the value of his autograph while he Is still living. Yet that was true of two famous Indian chiefs, Sitting Bull of the Sioux and Geronimo of the Apaches. After Sitting Bull had returned from his exile In Canada in the '80s he learned to write his name and upon Joining Buffalo Bills Wild West show did a thriving business selling his autographs for $1.50 apiece. Geronimo. the Apache leader, also learned to print his name after his days on the warpath were over, and at the World's fair In St. Louis In 1904 he was kept busy printing his signature for 25 cents cash. Capl Jack Crawford, the Poet Scout, who guided some of the soldiers when they were trying to round op the Apaches In the old days, tells with some amusement of visiting Geronimo at and how the old chief, upon seeing Crawford in the crowd, promptly suggested that the price to him would be 50 cents. The autograph of the third Indian (shown above) is of special interest because of his insistence upon prefixing the word Christian to his name whenever he wrote It Nalehe (or Natchez) was the hereditary chief of the Chirieahua Apaches and a lieutenant of Geronimo In the long series of Apache wars In the Southwest But after he surrendered and was settled down as a prisoner of war at Fort Sill. Okla., he accepted the Christian religion and took great pride In this evidence that he wag traveling the white man's road. In that connection It is interesting to note that Just a short time before he wrote the autograph reproduced above he discovered that th elder of his two wives was Jealous of the younger So to cure her he shot her through the knees a somewhat curious manifestation of Christian sky-hig- spirit! h To Insure kids for OGOEN school construction from responsible contractors, tk board of adoration recently adopted a bidders' questionnaire which must b filled before plana and specifications will be submitted t say prospective bidder. Tbe question deal with th Integrity of the contracting firm and Its ability to finance and complete the work. OGOEN Ogden dairy Interests and a prediction of greater things for this vicinity along those tinea were emphasized at the noon luncheon meeting of the Ogden Ilolary club recently at tbe Hotel nigelow. J. B. Fitch, head of tba dairy department of the Kansas State Agricultural college, and George IL Caine of the dairy department ot the Utah Agricultural college, were tr SLEEPLESSNESS aawMrrMlaUia ISimkil Ilk Itill I Mariil bWo rm Nrn directors. PROVO A storm area which has hung persistently over the plateau region for several days, centering in southern Utah, produced more In Salt Lake, Intersnowfall. mittent snow flurries were experienced throughout the day, but the snow was light and the water content of the fall up to 6 p. m. recently was only .04 of an Inch. For the 24 hours ended at 6 oclock, meahowever, the precipitation sured in water content was .17 of an inch. A brief history TREMONTON of tbe Bear River migratory bird refuge project was outlined to by L. M. Winsor, Logan, chief engineer of the project, at the Hotel Utah recently. "An Investithe gation of the proposition, speaker said, was started in 1927 at the request of the state fish and game commission, headed by David H. Madsen, by the United States biological survey and myself. A report I made to federal authorities resulted in a congressional appropriation of $350,000 In 1928 for the work." WASHINGTON The 1930 prfi.e tour of the national oratorical contest, arrangements for which have Just been completed, will be an extremely attractive one. Under the rules of the contest, now entering Its seventh year, the prize tour, with all expenses paid, will be awarded to each of the seven participants in the national finals, to be held in Washington on May 24. An Important feature of this year's trip will be a two-da- y visit to Oberam-morgawhere the party wTTi attend the presentation of the Tas-sio-n !!! WW I Ml UUMag MkMiunioUiO M MM Mali dfMl 4? Imh bf pFiW komalMM Ika IrralMMd rdf Ml ft Kfft in Htro m ladidMMi mm Ail m U. ! 4 i ui AT ALL O mmmm MUO ATOMS Pin MM ees!l5IuMfBe ni At. Ma Cos Idee Peas! II Crevrtk future derelopmeot of th district and consequent Increase or decrease In tbn value of hla property should not be overlooked b" th prospective buyer. Though be may not bn building for an Invest ment. the wise man considers carefully tbe financial end of the problem. Th Colds Cost Money It It nflmfM IM nfinrlrMiMlZl laaa (Area iayf fw htm awk im )w. tbe speakers. SALT LAKE No foreign automobile may legally operate In Utah for more than 10 days without securing from the office of the secretary of state a nonresident permit, and to secure the nonresident permit the owner must declare that he la a legal resident of the state from which he has secured his current plates and not a resident of Utah, It is pointed out In n statement made public recently. Plans for Ji SPRINGVILLE second annual dairy stock show to be held la Springvllle, February 28, were discussed at a meeting of the local farm bureau association here recently, and officers for the year 1930 were elected as follows: Andrew V. Nelson, president ; Ileber Fred Weight, Houlz, secretary and treasurer. These, with George Peterson and Will Mower, constitute the board of Tried CW4e I'boiiugraph cbl a are bring tried la out r lure be la Germany, and I ley threaten ! replace regular choir and f organism Tbe full tubed folum sound la obtained by flaying two recrare fully synords simultaneously chronized marline-- , tin sound being magnified by loud speaker tn tbe organ toft. re-eot- HcVroleiSr on a TVcc. ; au IL H. Goeliman PRICE unanimously eierled president of Ik Carbon County Flak and Gam Protect It aaaorUttoa at Ika dtreo-tor- a lie meeting recently, reed Bay Demlng, Other officer r named ara John tftatey ho of Bcolelt, vie president; Gust IUlU, reelected treasurer, and U. Merrill Fog, reelected secretary. Gatolia Ui reSALT LAKE turn amounting to $5l7.Mt?3 for Ik quarler ending January 1$ were transferred from tk secretary of stale's office to tke state treasury recently. Motor vehicle registrations totalling lj:i.7l, and transfers I tba general fond amount-la- g la 1121.1!? CS er sla received by tbe state treasurer. SALT LAKE Compaaie In luh, exclusive of elate employer and employees of companies In interstate operation, had payrolls amounting to $101. 20.013 during tbe Oacal year of 112$, the number of employees totalling 70$?. It It hon la n report released by tk slat Industrial commission, S ( ww. irk 1. j FORTIFY YOURSELF AGAINST COLDS, GRIPPE DR. PIERCE'S GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY AO Daalara. Liquid a Taklata, Chan gad Viewpoint Who waa that pensive, mysterionn boy Hazel used to go with? Hes that sullen, evasive man shes married to. American Legion Monthly- Is It depends on you whether each day the dally grind or the 'L ; 4 ; Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound is a wonderful medicine at the Change of Life. I would get blue spells and just walk the floor I was nerv- ous, could not sleep at night, ana was not able to do my work. 1 know if it had not been for your medicine I would have been in bed most of this time and had a big doctors bilL If women would only take your medicine they would be bet- ter. Mrs. Anna Weaver, R. F. D. No. 2, Rose Hill, Iowa. i u, I'lajl W. N. U, Salt Lake City, No. A |