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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER- - UTAH HYRTJM. UTAH BUDGET The total fruit crop for Utah county has been estimated at close to u half million dollars. The Cedar City Hoys' and Girls' Agricultural dub won several prizes at the fair in l'arowan. For the first time In five years, Salt Lake has passed through a summer without experiencing a water shortage. The Amalgamated Sugar company's new factory building at Smlthfield is ready for occupancy and will be running by October 10. Leslie Heath is the first Salina boy to reach the front in France. Word was received last week to the effect that he had arrived sal'ely. Itiley llale has succeeded in trapping a big wolf near Castle Itock that had done thousands of dollars worth of damage to live stock for some time 5 isnt necessary to know any other jewelry store. The mark of PARK js guarantee. What (he 6oys from Our farm Are Ooind in BOYD PARK BOUNDED 166 Their Unde Samis Wavy City, while trimming his beard, heart failure being the cause. Mr, Hunsaker was born in southern Utah in 1848. More than of a million dollars is being expended in the erection at Salt Lake by the Denver & Rio Grande of the most up to date and most complete freight house system ever attempted west of the Mississippi. Residents of a number of the cities and towns of Utah are already in the clutches of a near coal famine, and unless radical relief is afforded through a more liberal distribution to Utah points will shortly face winter weather without fuel. Motor riding for pleasure is to be discouraged by the retail merchants of Ogden, who declare that if the neces-- ' slty 'arises for the conservation of gasoline the joyrider and not the op erator of a delivery truck should be the first to stop operating. Because he made a young boy sales agent for a stolen talking machine Edward Johnson, a negro, was sen tenced by the judge of the juvenile court at Salt Lake to serve six months in the county jail for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Title to coal lands of great value in Carbon county and ownership of the townsite of Castlegate has been de nied the Ivetchum Coal company by a decision handed down by the supreme court. The land involved comprises 160 acres in the Castlegate district. Caught, it is said, in the act of rid-in- g in an automobile which was reported stolen from John Griff of Kem merer, Wyo., three boys, William Howe, 16; Glen Bybee, 16, and Ray Jeremiah, 23, were arrested at Ogden. Shortage of cars for the shipping of the peach crop, followed by severe storms as soon as relief came, has knocked the war prices oil peaches, and as a result heavy losses to growers of Boxelder county will ensue un less a quick change in the market oe curs soon. All male students at the "Utah Agrt cultural college will be furnished with complete uniforms by the war department, according to a telegram from The battalion was last Washington. year organized as a unit of the senior division of the reserve officers training corps. The Emery State academy at Castle-dal- e opened last week with the largest enrollment in its history. New courses in domestic science and other branches are offered, and whole families have moved in from the country to give their children the advantages of school for the winter. Unless they were occupants of home steads on the public domain before they enlisted for service in the army or navy or were drafted into the national army, soldiers and sailors may not claim homestead residence in lieu of field service, the Salt Lake land office announced last week. The public utilities commission has sent an appeal to the war shipping hoard asking that orders be issued for the diversion of empty cars passing through Utaii to the Carbon county mines, that they may be used while en route to help avert a coal famine in Utah and Idaho this winter. Because the coal mines in Carbon county have been operating at a loss during the past month, and because they feel the injustice of the governments stand on the coal question, Dr. A. II. Garfield, national coal administrator, will make a visit to Carbon county to ascertain the uxact situation. one-thir- d , JsaTtJ2c,ty IN USEDCARS running condition-ea- sy terms if warn.!' br right parties. Write for detailed list ar" tion, Used Car Dept., dip- Randall-Dod-S- Auto Co., d Si&sS-Jrf-y- WANTED Sal, L,ke Ci vwiggssassgw MEN AND WOMEN t time to leariHhe barlier V1 bera in SnenUiBa rat now opeu for 30 days.greatdemand. hnrtVimPec Onlv Tools furnished and commit wS?11 pa Ing. Call or write Moler Baber Sohoni 13 ?.ara Co0r ' merclal St.. Salt Lake City, Utah A $40,000 earthed. Abraham Hunsaker, well known cattleman and early scout, died suddenly September 20 at his home in Brigham OF street main BARGAINS past. school building is to be the gift of the Granite school district to Magna. The structure will be one story, and a contract for its construction has been awarded. That high school boys are earning from $100 to $125 a month working ill the Carbon county mines is given as a reason for tlie attendance at the schools being cut down. While excavating for gravel to grade the new county road near Leland, what appears to be an old Indian burial ground was discovered and up to date seven complete skeletons have been un- makers , DRUG STORES USE MANY EGGS Furnish Medium Through Which Paul, tryman Can Dispose of Produce and Obtain Valuable tising. ticipate things before firing. A draft of men came on board a dreadnaught the other day. Though willing, they had only a mere idea of naval discipline ; they had only been at the training station for a few weeks. They their yarn here and there and putting didnt ask who the topside guy was on the final varnish in the letters to walking up and down the deck with the folks at home, making the censor an opera glass upder his arm doing no work.! They knew that he was -- work overtime reading the dope. . the officer of the deck. But in But chewing it over among themterms, they were Just green. By HENRY REUTERDAHL, Lieuten- selves, the lads suddenly discovered The first thing was to show them a U. PhiladelS. R. N. in the that they had been cheated. So they ant, F., the gun; Public second, which was the busithe on to wait phia Ledger. organized a delegation AYS I to Bill, Here she gunpery officer of the ship. In the ness end of the gun, and where the blows and before I could eyes of the young bluejackets who had gun was loaded. And In the doing the finish, the torpedo explod- just come In and are new to the game, loading machine was introduced, a the simulates ed and the Rockingham the gunnery officer stacks up highest, contrivance which was done for. Winged, we for he Is In charge of the shooting Irons breech of a gun, In which the bluelay there with the sea of1 the dreadnaught and Is the whole jacket lad is taught to pump In prosurging In and filling up thing like the angels rolled into one, jectiles and powder at the rate of 15 Then the Insides of the ship. work, and enameled at that. With the kids a minute. which means that a small gun clamped We didnt shove off, the ship did he lias the muzzle velocity of a the shoving and left us floundering In gun, and to the youngsters the skip- on the big one Is fired at a small tar get close aboard. the boats, me nursing a skun knee per, In comparison, is Just a myth from slldjng dovn a boat fall. Wi some InvisiblCs;'wer fea gold lace. With all hands properly keyed, up were in two boatloads, white and Now, the training given is most In- and full of pep and hope, there was Hawaiians, and us sailors all gathered tensive In character; each man Is the first target practice. , Not one of In one. made to specialize as far as possible, the rookies had ever heard anything .Say, It was a long way from home and every effort Is made to perfect bigger go off than a Fourth of July and mother, and some of us kids just each member of the crew In the work firecracker. Three gun crews were to new to the game and never before on to which he Is assigned. The most fire at the target In what is known as salt water, and sort of lonesome, with likely youngsters, even those who have short-rangpractice, which consists of wet sea rocking up and down and at never seen anything larger than a firing at a mark not very large and at us. I come from a farm in Wisconsin. shotgun, are assigned arbitrarily, moderate distance. The doors of each The chief gunners mate In com- to start with, as gun pointers and gun gun compartment were closed, so that each gun was comparatively Isolated mand was some bird; he said we be- captains; the hefty, strong, haved like real gobs, but I was sea- lads are made shellmen and loaders; from the other and from communicasick to my tummy, though I didnt let men of quick minds are assigned as tion with the entire ship except by tel s on. We were pulling like the devil. and telephone operators; ephone or voice tube. Several runs It was a sort of rough, but the C. P. and these' men are trained, trained, were made across the course; ranges O. kept us at the oars as If we were trained, and instructed, cautioned. Al- were taken down ; the sight-sette-r set training for a boat race. All the while ways drilled together, they are made his sights, and outside of actually firwe kept our peepers plumb bn the to feel that if any one of them falls ing the pieces it was the first touch horizon, hoping to pick up a smudge down In his particular job, the work In the test. of smoke somewhere. The rubber-necof the othtrs Is spoiled. It is all teamOne of the precautionary measures wagon had nothing on us. which is always taken in target prac work, like on the diamond. But It was getting more and more So this gang laid aft and waited on tice is that after a round is fired the lonely and awful wet. I remembered the gunnery officer and presented their first loader looks through the bore of the old wheeze, Is the moon coming case thus wise : Of course, mister, we tlie gun to see that there are no unup, too? Apd while I was sitting there, are going to be the next fellows in the burned powder grains or parts of the pulling on the oar with one hand and gun crew to go abroad, aint we? powder bag or any smoke or flame left shoving a ship biscuit in my face with Certainly not; you had your trip; In the gun. An automatic the other, I couldnt help thinking that you have just come back. drives the gases out of the muzzle, at last the Germans got the RockingNo, sir, we didnt just come back; thereby preventing premature exploham, having two years ago tried to we never got there. You know when sion. Neither the shell nor the powtorpedo her. I couldnt help thinking we left you said we were going to Eng- der charge are put in the breech until how the ships lamp trimmer told me land, and we never saw England at this man sings out bore clear. But that in the middle of the night the all. We aint going back home and at this practice the wind was on the foremast crashed down apd as the have all the fellows 'guy us and say bow and drifted the smoke into the ship stopped the skipper came out of that we didnt finish the job and that gun parts and the muzzle of the gun, his room trailing his pajamas and the ditched us. They went taking it longer to clear the bore. bawling out everybody, not knowing back all right. The youngsters knew and had been what happened. Anyway, they all had Here you have a sample of the met- told what flarebacks meant and that io take to the boats, and after paddling tle of these youngsters, some barely a any premature explosion would send and waiting for help month in the outfit, but getting the all hands to kingdom come. The order around they found the old ship still afloat at punch and absorbing the spirit of the commence firing had been given. Aldaylight, so they climbed on board service, the willingness to do the job, most instantly the gun pointers found again and gfct back to port. the desire to play the game. their range and had the cross-wire- s In Makin out smoke, we headed It is now tolerably well known that the sights right on it. Number one toward it, and In a litle while up lum- picked men from our battleship fleet gun fired right after number two. As bers a steamer above the horizon, us have been sent to man the guns of the the breech of number two was thrown hoisting the colors on an oar.. She armed American merchant vessels that open some smoke and powder gases looked like a square-heatramp. go abroad. This started first several from number one were blown into the Finally she changes her course and months ago and a gun crew and their muzzle. The second loader, whose picks us up. And, believe me, those officer in command would make a duty It was to examine the. bore, took Scandinavian guys were the real stuff, round trip, over and back across the a good look through it, and, seeing and gave us lots to eat, and we cheered ocean and then return to their ship. that the bore was filled apparently up some when we heard that she was You know how well these men have with smoke, sang out: Bore not bound for the US. A. done their duty, and truthfully their clear. But you should see us land, dressed exploits have been reported in the Now, the lad with the powder charge up in nil kinds of sea rigs borrowed public press. felt Instinctively that something was from the tramps slop chest, us looking But in hunting the little has wrong. Anyway, his routine was inlike going to a masquerade. Hitting been said about the long, untiring terfered with. In his arms he had the the beach, some high-up- s get us all to- watches and the ceaseless vigil that powder. He knew its potential energy. gether and we take passage for the fleet these men must keep while crossing He knew the danger. So he threw , and get back again the sea, and particularly when at Base No. nearing himself flat on the deck a,nd wrapped to our old home. the danger zone. And these calls from himself around the powder bag just And, say, werent we the real he- the fleet have been so great that raw like an elephant wraps his trunk roes when we came over the gangway? recruits have been specially trained to around a peanut. He had to shield It. r I guess yes like a circus parade swag- man the comparatively He believed that the life of the ship gering up Main street, with the rest of guns which our merchant vessels carry. depended upon him. We Intensive training has been the order the rubes looking on a months training the With had seen war all right, and right in the of the day, and tlie fleet Is full of V.y boy hadonly the Instincts of a already stories of how these young and comeye, too. Thats what I wrote mother. man. He was willing to This was the kids story. Shift the paratively inexperienced men have sacrifice his life to save the ship, and scene to the dreadnu light down at the taken to the game. he did it upon his own responsibility, nil base these youngsters talking it There is such a thing as being gun-sh- without He had al anybodys say-so- . e Over aaiong tfcemselves, touching up and evep men might an ready learned .Initiative. man-o-w- I sub-calib- 15-inc- er h ar The farmer Is missing a market for hls eggs by overlooking the drug store, says the Farm and Fireside, The drug store represents a sple- chance to work up a direct to the consumer trade. One New England poultryman started supplying the leading drug store In a city of 20,000. Hls farm, carrying several hundred layers, was in an adjoining town on a car line. He produced infertile eggs. Through the publicity the drug store gave him, opportunities by the score came to him to sell direct. Now a large portion of his production the year round is sold at retail prices. Numerous customers come to his farm to buy eggs for Invalids. In the spring he does a large business in eggs by the case for obtaining for his infertile eggs a premium of 3 to 5 cents a dozen. ndid water-glassin- Institutions are good customers. He caters to this trade, believing there is going to be a tremendous Increase in the use of waterglass. " A .drug store is onq of the best customers a poultry keeper can have, declared this man. Besides yielding an profit, this trade makes a for you quicker than a large reputation additional amount of well-bui- lt sight-setter- k air-bla- st all-nig- d I at small-calibe- wild-eye- man-o-wa- rs y, old-tim- paid adverti- self-inspir- sing. ; e 12-bo- re Adver. INDIANS USE A GRABHOOK Have Unique Outfit Which They Use in Fishing for Salmon Poles Are Twenty Feet Long. The Indians fish for salmon with a large Iron hook fastened to a pole by a loose cord three or four feet long. A hole at the blunt end of the hook that slips over the tip of the" pole keeps it in place until the fish is hooked. Then the hook is pulled off the pole and the cord gives the fisherman a chance to play his fish If necessary before dragging it ashore, says the Southern Workman. The hooks are made by the blac20 feet in ksmith, but the poles, about ' themmake length,' the Indians rough a fir. selves of red Taking a; "grab-hoo- k, piece of dry wood of the required with length, they patiently work at it the Is It until knife drawshave and the suit to size and tapering right hardThen it Is usually workman. ened in the coals before putting on the cord, which they braid themselves. hapIf a pole breaks, as often lashe are broken parts pens, the is smeare together with string, pitch rubbed w over and melted by being as pole the makes which a hot stone, gen strong as before. The Indians or from erally fish from the bank ey water. the over platforms built across thrust the long pole out t river as far as they can and let current carry it down and Into bank, trusting to chance and a Qjc feel o jerk to hook the fish If they In the water. Chameleons In Hospitals. Sir Frederick Smith would not have, oi: Bpoken of the fabled versatility e the in did he the chameleon (as back Inquiry) If he had lain on hls Alexandr a military hospital In writes an E. F. A. sergeant. - Watching the actual variations of tint assume by that strange animal and Its prJ tlon of Its long tongue is one diversions of hospital life tn EgJ'P It Is welcome In the wards because Its Insatiable appetite for files. The hues It assumes In accorda with the law of protective mimicry are not often as vivid, as the co a 8 simulated, but the lizard makes approach to most of the primaries. Is only beaten when the Highly J"; puts R on, say, the Cameron (or renec beef") tartan. After a little co nevitrnl It takes on a more or less C y with a bias to wurAkvr-Jxmd- on . Icle. |