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Show is, of course, the niont fluential member of the committee. chairman, SEES HEED OF OS TIME Taft Is in Favor of Forming Two Great Reserves President TABLE that Mr. It seems natural, the whom president naturalMann, to ly would look for first aid, should pre- fer to stand aloof because he has premeaspared an Interstate commerce ure of his own which differs in a good Mr. many respects from that which Taft has eaiiBed to be Introduced. Mr. Mann's bill, for Instance, does not for provide for a commerce court may cases that on speedy Judgment come to It through the Interstate commerce commission by the process of appeal. It is believed that the committee which has the administration bill in its keeping will report It favorably and will fail to report the Mann bill. This means that the committee must override Its chairman, which is a most unuBiial and not altogether comMr. Townsend fortable proceeding. will champion the president's bill on the floor, but who will be his lieutenant it is hurd to tell, for no one of the chief men of the party thus far has done any volunteering. In the senate, Mr. Elklns has Introduced the president's Interstate commerce amendment measure. The West Virginia senator is the chairman of the senate committee on Interstate commerce and he is the proper person to Introduce the bill and .to guide Its destinies, but not even Mr. Elklns' friends will claim that he is In any sense a debater or a skillful hand in piloting legislation through the shoal waters and the rocks of trouble which frequently are found In the senatorial sea. Postal Savings Bank Bill. In the house the postal savings bank bill has no great company of friends among the leaders. The bill Is in the postofllce committee, and naturally Representative Weeks, who is the committee's chairman, should be Its sponsor on the floor of the house, but the chances are that Representative Foss of Illinois will undertake to do the work that the president wishes to have done. Mr. Foss for years has been the chairman of the house com mtttee on naval affairs, and when be undertakes the pilotage of the postal savings bank bill be will be somewhat out of his element. The president's conservation recommendations are likely to lack outand-ou- t champions in both house and senate. The bills, when prepared and Introduced, probably will go through because they seem to be immensely popular with the country, but for some reason or other they do not seem to be at all popular with the ReThe Republican publican leaders. members of the committee on public lands do not seem to care to stand sponsor for Mr. Taft's measures for conservation. Who It is that will take up the work no one can say, but the Democrats say that a good many Republicans are losing a fine chance for popularity with the country and to se for themselves, by this cure holding back at a time when the presi dent needs strong friends willing to stand in the open and to fight for him. and not to be content merely to express a willingness that the legislation should go through. Tariff Very Much to the Front. After a long, hard, hot weather session of congress which end ed in the passage of the Payne-Aldric- h tariff bill, it is likely that most persons thought the tariff would be practically a dead Issue. Very like ly the majority of the Republicans in the house and senate thought that it would be, but it now seems certain that the tariff is to raise its warlike front again in the campaign preceding next November's election, and that it may be formidable enough to frighten most of the other issues out of the ' field. The leaders In congress recognize the power of the tariff as a continued trouble maker. Representatives of the two schools of tariff thought are pre paring for the fight that they know is to come. The Democrats are going to present the action of the Repub lican congress as a "high protection' act which was unjustifiable, and the Republicans are going to defend it as "the best tariff bill ever passed." Some few of the Republicans, how ever, those who belong in what Is known as the Insurgent camp, have spoken their minds so freely In opposition to some of the tariff schedules that they probably will be contented to forego any attempt at a defense of that which previously they in part have denounced. Both houses of congress have the privilege of printing pretty much anything that they choose as a public document, ro that it can be franked One of the re through the malls. sults of this privilege Is that both Democrat and Republican campaign documents are sent out at the people's expense. In connection with the tariff matter it may be said that Sena tor Thomas Carter of Montana, a "regular" Republican, has succeeded in having printed President Tart's Winona speech, and this pronouncement or the president will go to many of the voters of the land as a public document. In his Winona speech Mr Taft said that the tariff bill passed by congress at its August session was the best tariff bill the Republican party ever enacted into law. It must not be supposed that the Republicans are having everything their own way In the matter of reaching the country with campaign material printed at public expense. The Democrats have the same privilege that the Republicans have, and It Is very seldom that anyone enters objection to the printing of a document, for in the senate it Is a case of turn about Is fair play, and if one senator should object another senator nlno would object when the chance came to get G6 (52 ...... l'u-clfl- c mass WHttS?S3 ...... 1 4-F- AST What's the matterfi) IDAHO ( Land of Opportunities Land of Homes PRINTING H. BROWN, Livery Feod Stable Hack Meets All Trains Spanish Fork Institution, General Merchandise, O Flour, Grain Produce. Harness, Boots Shoe O . GEORGE CLINTON. WOMAN Prompt Courteous WHO FLED IN AN AUTO r. RAISED; 10:15 a.m. POINT OF LEGALITY going north 7:20 a.m. going north 3:28 p.m. No64 going north FROM SALT LAKE Wrangle Over the Question of Federal 10: IS a.m. or State Jurisdiction Need of No. 63 going south 10:28 p.m. No. 61 going south Leaders to Push Admin 6:23 p.m. No. 65 going south , istratlon Measures. Pallntlal trains are now running ' daily between Salt Lake and the Wanhlngton. President Taft is givcoast. recent bill UTAH COUNTY la In direct touch ing his support to the most to Into introduced provide congress local train with two great cities, Uest for creating a great forest reservation service, an. J. 11. MANDKRFiELD, Assistant in the Southern Appalachians, and White In tho smaller reservation other General Pattsenger Agent. The N. PETERSON, Depot Ticket Agent mountains of New Hampshire. is there thinks that nothing president in the constitution of the United States which forbids the federal government from taking over the ownership of forests which lie within the borders of "sovereign states." The president apparently bases bis 110 GRANDE belief in the constitutionality of federal ownership of state forests In the Arrival and departure of trains law which gives tho general governfrom Depot: ment supervision over navigable streams. The president's belief Is, and No. 409 For Springvllle, Provo, and all points east and west he is said to have the support of bis 8:10 a. in. lawyer cabinet In the contention, that No. 431 For Springvllle. Provo, the government has a right to control Salt Lake and all points east those things which keep a stream nav3:27 p. m. and west igable, and among them the experts No. 410 For Eureka, Mammoth 7:03 p. m. say the forests stand first and foreand Silver City most When a heavy rainfall comes No. 432 For Eureka Mammoth 6:15 a. m. in forest covered land, the roots of and Silver City the trees and the trees themselves rYinnprtlmm itiiiiIa In Oeden Union check the distribution of the water so Southern on depot with all trains that it coifies down the sides of the Pacilic and Oregon Short Line. mountain shed slowly, and as a re sult the streams are kept at a nor , OFFERS CHOICE OF mal depth. If the forests are cleared THROUGH TRAINS DAILY- -4 away the water runs off all at once and flood conditions ensue, to be folDISTINCT SCENIC lowed AND THREE by periods of drought ROUTES Representative Weeks of Massachu Pullman Palace and ordinary Sleep- setts introduced the bill which pro ing cars to Denver, Omaha, Kantas vides for a forest reservation in VirOty, St. Louis and Chicago without ginia, North and South Carolina and change. in New Hampshire. President Roose Free Reclining Chair Cars: conducted Excursions; A perfect velt tried in every way that mental and physical energy suggested to get Dining Car Service. congress to sanction these forest resFor rates, folder, etc., Inquire of - H. T. MATTHEWS. Ticket Agent, ervations, but Mr. Roosevelt failed and the present president is willing or write 1. A. BENTON. G. A. P. D., Salt Lake City. to attempt something that his prede cessor confessed he could not do, and he has hopes to succeed where an other could not succeed. Either Feast or Famine. There are thousands of acres of with virgin forests left in the Southern Ap palachian country. Timber cutting, in places, it is charged, has however, have Thousands of acres of land been so reckless that the mills sltuat beeu reclaimed to cultivation oy ed along the streams fed by the wa State in that during irrigation the past 10 years.. Thousands ters of the mountains are compelled mom will tw reclaimed within at .times to shut down because of althe next 10 years. This means ternate flood and drought conditions. an opening for many thousands It is a case of a water feast or a wa of homes. ter famine for a large part of the time. The friends of the Weeks bill are IDAHO? You Invbstioatbo Hate maintaining that streams now navia termed been It bas truthfully gable will be useless for purposes of commerce unless there is a stop put to the work of denuding the forests. The representatives in congress from A The Oregon Short Line Railroad Co. the states affected by the forest preswill 1)6 pleased to sendaescrlptiTe mat. ervation bill are practically united in ter regarding Idaho's resources. Write supporting the measure. Nearly all of to D. E. Hurley, G P. A- - or D. 8. Spen- these representatives from the states cer. A. U. P. A.. .Salt Lake City, Utah. of Virginia, North and South Carolina are Democrats, and they are with the administration in its wish to create a forest preserve. A few of the south ern Democrats are in opposition, and they give as a reason that the federal will be invading government the OP FIRST tft.ASS QUALITY 18 OCR HOBBY rights of the states it it .takes over the forests. GIVE US A TRIAL ORDER Doth sentimental and business considerations are to be found in the attempt to save the forests on the White mountains of New Hampshire. The scenery of the great New EngB. land summer resort is said to be threatened with destruction. Moreover, the- - water flow in the streams which provides many New England mills with power, the friends of the Weeks bill maintain, is endangered. Sentiment and business seems to have come together In partnership to preserve the forests. President Taft seems to approve of the partnership. phone no, 12 Want Men to Push Bills. Is having hard President Tart Utah Spanish Pork work to find individual leaders in congress who are willing to stand as sponsors and champions for great legislative measures which he has Introduced. The leaders, it is said, have promised party support for the legislation, but what the president Co-Operative wants is some man of force in the party counsels to stand forth as a chieftain von the floor to direct the destinies of the bills which he wants to have passed. Take the measure for amendments to the Interstate commerce law, for Dealers In instance. In the house of representatives Mr. Townsend of Michigan is the sponsor for this bill. He has been sponsor for other bills along similar lines In the past Mr. Townsend Is an able man, but he Is a subordinate member of the committee on Interand state and foreign commerce, to which the bill has been sent for considera Kaaafaoturers of The representative, who by tion. precedent and custom ought to introduce the measure and Btand as its sponsor through the trials and tribuad lations of debate. Is Representative James R. Mann of Illinois, who is the JOHN JONES, Supt. chairman of the 'committee on Inter (tn. state and foreign commerce and, as ( SPANISH FOnK, UTAH Ko. No. in ROBBED BY Female Chlcagosn Is Vlctitm of a ana Silks Wore Who Footpad Diamonds. what everybody wants. Get it by using "The Phone that talks." A woman footpad who rMfnen uses an automobile in which to escape offer aho has taken her victim's mon in ey and Jewelry Is the latest thing or life the criminal unicago. One or the victims says the lemaie hnlil.nn man" is a handsome young woman and was dressed In silk. He fieinrH he saw d amonds flashing on the fingers of the hand In which she held a pearl handled revolver. lunch at such statements Tho milt rwi nt th idea of a woman hold ing up a man, but Tony Lenzo, one of the victims, says the muecoais are Telephone Service is . Utah Independent Telephone Co. January 16, 1910 Effective Departure from SPANISH FORK. NORTHBOUND. 7:20 ..For Provo, Salt Lnke and Intermediate Poind A. M For Provo, Salt Lake and Intermediate For Provo, Salt Lake and Intermediate 10:15 A. M p. M Points Points SOUTHBOUND. For Nephl, Mantl and Intermediate Point For Payson and Intermediate Points 6:23 P. M Acoma, Nev., and IntermediModena, 10:28 P. M. For Lynn, Mllford, ate Points. lu: 13 A. At For tickets and inrormatlon see N. PETERSON, Local Agent A. G. P. A., Salt Lake City, Utah. J. H. MANDERFIELD, "Hands Up!" Dr. C. O. SCOTT DENTIST only trying to cover up their negligence. The police point to the kl'llng of half a dozen robbers by officers in Office Phone No. 43- the last few weeks in refutation of W. O. Lenzo's charges. Bldf, Spanish Fork. Vuh "Hands up!" Lenzo was walking under the Rock CPIMCE HOURS IND. PHONE 1 T 12 A. M. Island railroad viaduct at Fifty-firs- t RSSIDBMOB NO. 48. t TO 4 P.M. OePlOS M0.4S- -. street when he got the command. He recognized It as a woman's voice and believed it was one of his girl friends DR. A. G. STODDARD who was trying to play a trick on him. He turned with a smile and found himself facing a revolver. IN W. O. CREEK BUILDING "If you move I'll blow your head SPANISH PORK, UTAH off," said the woman, calmly. "I want your money and I want it quick Then It was that Lenzo saw it was no trick. He handed over the money he had in his pockets and bis watch Quarantine and City Physician "Now stay right here and don't try to follow me or 111 shoot," ordered the Office two doors north of City Drug woman as she backed away. "I'm Store. Night calls made from office I'll and no Ind. Phone r. take chances," desperate were her last words. Spanish Fork, Utah, Lenzo did as he was ordered and stood watching the woman as she ht rrled away. Imagine his amazement when he saw her leap into a Office ai WtrM Drtf Cs. laiMlaf taxcab waiting at the corner. The chauffeur put on full speed and the Spanith Fork, Utah machine was almost out of sight whec Ind. Phone 32 Bell Phone 11 Lenzo reached the corner and told bit Eetldenca on block writ of Commercial Bank troubles to a policeman. Sugar Company. PhjfMaD Crr Dr. W. E. Warner 35-2- Dr.J.W.Hagan" Cub-Idah- Fifty Years Ago In Chappaqua. Horace Greeley was the first presl dent of our Village Improvement so ctety. I have the minutes. Alonzo Delezene kept the hotel. Joshua Baney was the harness mak er. Samuel Allen was tanner, and also kept a nursery; sold the Baldwin appl trees for six cents apiece. Henry Miller ran a magic lantern show and made fancy rocking chairs. Samuel Halght made fur hats for the elderly Quakers. I think that Francis M. Carpenter was supervisor. Anyway, I drove Horace Greeley over to Carle's ,Corner every year for 14 years to vote for hlra. That's all he seemed to come up to election for. Every old Quaker in the section kept a cider mill. All the stone walls In this section were built on pork, cider and five shillings a day, from sunrise to sundown. Westchester . Magazine. Slogans FREE Sewing Machine runs lighter than any other. tsPFREE lasts longer than any other. is more beautiful than any other. FREE bas less vibration than any other. tFREE is easier to operate than any other. X3FREE makes a more perfect titcb than any other. tFREE is the best of all com bined in one. Dr. J. Fred Potter FREE SEWING MACHINE CO. ILLINOIS CHICAGO it Optician EYES TESTED GLASSES PROPERLY SOLD BY FITTED at Residence SPANISH FORK. Office Phone, Ind. 38-- ORAN LEWI! Miss Agnes Engberg Teacher of Saturday PIANO, ORGAN AND THEORY OF MUSIC For particulars apply at the home of MRS. THOMAS CREER of Each Week is Butter Paper Day Johnson & Braithwaite K. If your order ii placed before JESSE 8. Contractors and Builders of Com plete Homes that date your ESTIMATES GIVEN FREE Diplomacy. "Papa!" Inquired a young hopeful of somewhere about seven summers, as he looked up from the book he was NOTARY PUBLIC perusing, "there's word' here which puzzles me 'diplomacy'; what does it mean?" on Irritated Parma low inuraat apaelal options ot partial pajmeata-Offlo"Diplomacy, my son," and the old at Naldeaoa, ona bloek aaat of man smiled paternally as he said It, SPANISH FORK. UTAH. "means this! Doing or saying prethe at cisely right thing precisely the right time." A. "Ah!" retorted the young hopeful, "then I guess I exercised diplomacy ATTORN last night." "How, my boy?" Inquired the fond PROVO TalaphoM X Fslfil Bunatoi parent. I "Why, rolled Johnny over Into my place just before ma came In with the enstor oil, and then bnck again before she came to the other side." FASHIONABLE paper will be SAMUEL CORNABY ready Saturday at 4 p. m. Money Loaned Co-o- p. B. MORGAN, The Cough Syrup rids the system of by acting ai a cathartic on bowels is LORENZO THOMAS Tiger's 150 Victims. The Madras government has offered a t'70 reward for the destruction of a tiger which has created panic In the Ganjam villages, having In the Inst three years killed upward of 150 persons, carrying some of them off from among bands of twenty or thirty men. A reward or 16 previously offered hnd proved Inadequate, local shlkarlr being afraid to approach the creature'! H.nints TAILOR On Stock North ol Bank, R. M. Spanish Fork, Utah. 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