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Show o Utah County Democrat PROVO - ed off, but I did not feel frisky enough to waste any energy in that direction. The boss proved to be the best rassler" in our party, tipping up men much larger than he was, with Yi FROM CRY TO FARM UTAH apparent ease. By the time the afternoon had waned a little, Suicide hill was as fine a bit of work as you would care to see in a days Journey; all the ruts who tiiUn with credulity to the whUperinr of fancy; who pursue with will perform the promisee present dsy will bo supplied by youth, tbo morrow) attend to tbo history of RsmsIsi, Prucs of Abyssinia,9 MY the phantoms of hope; who expect that aga ttfwroM and that the deficiencies of the of NORTHWEST NOTES A woman has been Indicted on the charge of unlawfully enclosing 2,000 acres of government land la Wyom- Author By ERNEST McGAFFEY of Can and Rod, Oatdoorj f af oemj Colorado. It Is officially stated that $5,340.20 represents the loss to the Great Northern Express company In the robbery of the companys strong box by two bandits, near Seattle. on public The house committee lands has reported favorably a bill allotting in the state of Wyoming, under the Carey act, 1,000,000 acres oi land to be subject to reclamation. Meager details have been received of the killing at Musselishell, Mont., of a woman named Mrs. Wesson. The tragedy occurred in a saloon and two men are being held pending an in- i f vestigation. The federal grand Jury sitting at Denver has reported sixty Indictments, for unlawful Including twenty-sifencing of public lands, thirteen for perjury in obtaining land, and one for x timber trespass. The body of William McCruden, who known as the "Catholic Kid, , was lost in the mountains near was in December, Mont., early found last week by a party of searchers, including Robert McCruden, a brother. Twenty houses on the east side of the main street of Tonopah, Nevada, were destroyed by a fire which originated In a lodging house. A high wind was blowing and the entire city was endangered. The loss Is estimaSalt-ese- ted at $150,000. W. J. Arkell, well known In Reno and once a prominent stock broker at Manhattan, Nev., is a bankrupt. Ilia liabilities are $279,040.66 and assets of some worthless mining stocks and about $200 in money. Arkell's liking for fast horses, it Is said, is the cause of his downfall. A case Involving mining property in the Silver Peak district valued at approximately $10,000,000, and which ha3 been in litigation In the Nevada courts for the past twelve years, was completed In the district court at Reno, Nev., last week, ana will be submitted to Judge Pike in briefs. It la announced that the Madison River Tower company has secured options on all the electric power plants east of Billings, Mont., Including those at Columbia Falls, Forsythe, Big Timber and Livingston, and will run a power' system frni tho Dakota line to Billings from one central station. Glen Holbrook was found not guilty at Antonito, Colo., on the charge of murdering M. W. Lowther, whom he shot and killed at Alamosa, Fedru-ar20 last. Holbrook, who was in Mrs. Lowthers apartment's when her husband unexpectedly returned, claimed that he shot Lowther in y self-defens- 1 . From his cell In the Alameda, Cal., jail, where he awaits sentence for the murder of Mrs. Vernie Carmin, formerly of Springfield, Mo., Mark a Wilkins has sent out word that the women who had lived at Elmhurst an his wife, and whose body he burled in a shed behind their home, was not Mrs. Carmin. Federal Judge Hunt of Helena has granted an injunction restraining Butte and Anaconda Typographical unions from interfering with the transactions of the business of the Butterick Publishing company of New York. It was alleged that a boycott had been placed on the concern by these unions. Helena has been visited by two distinct earthquake shocks, one Tuesday and the other Thursday night of last week. The last shock was severe enough to throw one West side woman into convulsions, and it made several other people quite ill. Houses rocked violently and dishes rattled and pictures became askew. A Chicago man has patented a process that will convert the sagebrush of the west into millions of money by utilizing it in a scientific manner. Potash is deiived from the ashes, which contain 61 per cent, while ordinary wood ashes contain only 21 per cent. A dramatic and unexpected feature of the Washington Republican state convention, held at Spokane, was the adoption of a local option plank, by a vote of 506 to 258. The convention adopted unanimously a resolution favoring the candidacy of Secretary Taft. Reno, Nevada, merchants have filed a petition with the Nevada tallroad commission, asking for an adjustment of freight rates that will enable them to compete with Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and San Francisco dealers. The commission will investigate their request. L. W. Hawley, expert on wood distillation for the forest service, left Washington last week for an extended visit to Oregon. Washington, Montana and Idaho, to investigate the possibility of a future turpentine industry in the northwestern portion of the United States. George Rock, who, with three other convicts, made a desperate attempt to escape from the state penitentiary at Deer Lodge, Mont, during which they killed Chief Guard John A. Robinson and desperately wounded Frank Conley, has been sentenced to be hanged on June 1C. (Copyright, of the Totnp Etc, Along In the fall the roads around us, and on the way to town, began to show decided signs of dilapidation. Gullies had been worn in the sides and center of the highway, and long ruts formed where the clay had dropped down, had been carried away by the openrain, leaving smooth, spout-likings. The dirt had been washed away, also, from rocks and boulders that protruded like fangs from the soil. Bridges had lost some of their timbers, and planks on them had been loosened by the heavy and constant clover-hullertraffic of thrashers, and teams hauling grain to market. On some hills it was almost suicidal to try to drive down them. It was bad enough going up, but to go down was simply dry "coasting over ruts and boulders, with either a runaway or an upset long before you got to the bottom. The "road boss of our district began to bestir himself. I reckon youd rather pay your poll tax than work her out? he Inquired of me one morning, almost apologizing at the idea of my deliberately going out on the road instead of paying the comparatively small amount necessary. Ill Why, no, was my answer. work it out. As I was neither blessed nor burdoned with a horse this meant that I would have to work twice as long as I would had I been possessed of a team. "Well, the boys will be ready at morning, said the eight boss, "and we start In on "Suicide Ilill. I reckon it'll take us two days to fix that and the bildge across the creek there, and then we can take her easy on the bottom road. Two days will pay your tax all right, and you 11 be right in it up to your neck on the hili, he added, with a grin. "Better fetch an ax; we'll have everything else. Now, I was not entirely certain as to just what this poll tax meant, nor that I was due to either pay It or work it out, but it was an opportunity for new experiences and a chance to get acquainted with the neighbors, so I hung over the grindstone that day and got my ax down to a flp edge Jor the next day. Cecile put me up a hearty lunch, and at eight sharp I was at the hill ready to begin work for the day. This particular slope was jagged with boulders, seamed and scarred with deep cuts and gullies, and looked like several blasts of dynamite had been touched oft under it. A tougher patch of hillside never lay out of doors. No one could go down it without getting seasick, on account of the constant "slewing from side to side, and as for ascending it, the incline was so steep that a squirrel would almost fall off backwards. I was directed to clasp a pickax and start digging a ditch on the north side of the hill and on down towards the bottom. This required digging in a rocky shale that lay on that side, and it was hard work. Progress was necessarily slow, but foot by foot I wore down the shale and rock until I began to see the outlines of a serviceable ditch appearing along the north line of the highway. Meanwhile some of the men clamped huge chains to the largest boulders and hauled them down and dumped them in the creek. Others plowed a deep ditch along the south border of the road, where there was a layer of gritty soil. Still others took "scrapers and dragged dirt, sand and shale up and over the road and packed It into the ruts and hollows. Horses and mules were hitched to the scrapers. which were merely iron scoops of large size, which had wooden handles, at each side. These handles were held by the driver of the "sciaper and as he elevated the handles the scraper slid into the soil and took up a load of dirt. It looked easy,- - and it was easy If you knew how, but when you got into heavy clay, or tough ground, or rocks you were apt to find it pretty rough sledding After I had worked a couple of hours with the pickax the "boss came and relieved me, leaving in my charge a team of salmon-coloremules and a "scraper, with instructions to go over the top of the hill and cut into the hillside there and bring down a few scraper loads on to the top and shoulder of the hill and spread them out there. I had brought along a pair of buckskin gloves that morning. I took the mules and drove over the hill, hawed" my team around, took hold of the handles of the "scraper and set the edge into a bank of pretty stiff clay, just beyond which was a ditch of shale and mud. Giving the mules the signal, we lunged forward. Now, my buckskin glove cn. the right hand had slipped over the handle of the'8craper without my noticing it, and the handle had gone into the space where the glove buttoned. As we went ahead the scraper began to turn, on account of the toughness of the bank, and when I started to let go so as not to go up into the air the glove held me, and I soared aloft with the soaring scraper. The scraper e s d Directory for those wishing the address of any of the following business but I continued on my wild career, literally shot out and over into the ditch, the glove unloosing from the end of the scraper just enough to send me on in advance. I came down on my nose and face in the mud and gravel, somewhat scratched and C. F. Decker Ql Co., Fruit and Produce. i Provo City, Utah. hammered down with broken rock, dirt; all J. Beck, shale, sand and . J the bowlders buried under a cushion Watches and Jewelry) Ca.pita.1, $100,000t that covered them of DIRECTORS: deeply and effectually, and a good John T. Ta.yIor, ditch on each side of the highway. Reed Smoot The bridge at the bottom was as President Groceries and Provision! C. E. Loose good or better than when it was new, and from that time on, had lost, for L. Holbrook, J. Wm. Knight, the nonce, its suggestive cognomen. Watkins Geo. Berch Roger Farrer, Taylor, sr, When we turned our attention to R. Twelves. John the bottom roads, it became a matArchitects. JOS. T. FARRER Ce.Ki.r, ter of faster work, and more scraping, filling and leveling of the highGeneral banking business transacted 335 So. Academy Avenue, Provo. way. Here we came across bridges Safe deposit boxes for rent. 518 Dooly Block, Salt Take City. where the huge bulk of the "separators had cracked or broken the planks, and where we were compelled to go into the woods and cut logs to PROFESSIONAL. replace the spoiled timber. The "road boss had a general discretion to apPROVO. propriate timber for road purposes, feuds and sometimes neighborhood grew out of the fact that the "boss has cut down some sturdy tree for a D. D. HOVTZ bridge timber which the owner has ATTORNEY-AT-LAbeen saving for some particular purCredit may be given to the pose. Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Farrer Block j party furnishing the tree, or the township may be charged for it, and the Provo City, Ufah to figure on them And get owner paid In cash. But the boss can cut where and when he pleases, wiring your house for elecand the farmer must grin and hear tric lights. IV is the only JACOB EVANS, it. I found that several months of outclean, safe and reliable Attorney-at-La- w. door life and a constant round of daily method of lighting. Practices Law In the State and Fed exercise had so hardened my muscles and improved my breathing apparatus eral Courts. Office, 95 N, Academy Avenue that I had no trouble in keeping up Offices, rooms 3, 4 and 5 Both Phones 37- -2 Rinjfs block, Knight my end of the log, either actually or Provo City, Utah. Work which would have figuratively. tired me mprtally seven months befere, TELEPHONE NO. 91 T. was only good, healthy exercise. I had to walk about three miles to the work, and the same distance back at night, and wield an ax, a pick, or KAIGHN TIIVRMAN drive team and scrape or help lift W. II. Brereton, Prea., ATTORNEYS-AT-LAheavy timbers, and yet I was not out at of In a the end John Marwick, Cashier, played day. D. F. WALKER BUILDING fact, the longer I was at the work, the Alva Nelson, Asst. Cashier,. SALT LAKE CITY more accustomed I got to it, and after all, work in the open air is much Interest Paid on Time less hard than when a man is confined A. L. BOOTH HARVEY CLUFF to four walls. Deposits. Droits on The necessity of good roads in the oil Parts of the World. & country is so immediately apparent that it seems strange that there has Opposite the P. O. on ATTORNEYS-AT-LAnot been some attempt to make it X compulsory on each farmer to keep the roads in front of his farm in ROOMS SidiBUILDING. ProVO, Utah shape, opposite owners to join in attending to the highways between their It is also surprising that property. the "good roads movement has so far been confined to comparatively a PROVOS LEADING A government turnlimited space. SHOEMAKER pike, built and maintained by the ' 123 N. ACADEMY AVENUE Luk line government,, fc xrt is of roads in each state, or two or three of them in the more important agricultural states, would be a "good The side thing for an experiment. roads would branch into these roads, and while they would carry in some mud on them, it would not make much difference on a thoroughly good turnpike. I qualified as not exactly an expert, but a fair average hand at PROVO, UTAH working out my "poll tax, and have the satisfaction of knowing that I OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. have- - done something towards the Thomas N. Taylor, President; good roads movement besides talki. IF YOU HAVE A GOOD Hkmer J. Rich, Vice President; ing about it. V J. D. Dixon, Cashier; James A. It was currently reported, after this J. Robert John Bee, Loveless, experience, that I was not too SiCraner, Andrew Knudsen, proud to work, and that I must have mon P. Eggertsen, Wm. R. been on a farm at some time during Wallace. my life, or I would never have been General Banking Business able to handle an ax, or drive a Transacted. Interest paid on And as a means of breakscraper. time deposits. Safety deposit boxes for rent. Drafts issued ing down the impalpable barriers that IF HOT seem to exist between the man from on all parts of the world. the city and the man on the farms, working out your poll tax may be AND CET IT confidently recommended as a payWE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. I met a number of ing proposition. men while on the road that I would not have known otherwise, and in my trips to the county seat I could always of a Saturday afternoon find some one IN EACH T0WII out my way who would he glad to district to give me a lift to the farm four miles special offer at once. N1 i N irv n veZXll'Z?U away, just because we had worked un?i yoJ recv and approve of your bicycle. We ship to side by side together with the axes, IIoTtkN "free TRIAL during which time you may nde the bicycle and J V ? the picks, the scrapers and the teams. Tou "Ish Vu ar then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish W lteep the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and you will not bo out on e cent, . ru. IMA My work was eminently satisfactory FACTORY PRICES Rraae bicycles it is possible to make atone small above profit actual You save tie factory coot. to the road boss, for I worked steadhav the m.anufac'ur'r' uar- WO a' OT h fa ittrw a wt'r of and did 0 not or to bicycie your ,blcycle' from anyone ily, stand around try our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory raeive and soldier on the Job. A man can jrtter and remarkable special offers to rider agent.our beautiful receive lOil WILL EE ASTESftMPn catalogue and easily look out for the soft "snaps in study our superb models at the wonderfully work of that kind, and he may be the highest grade bicycles for less money h? TJiS.n ?ake you 31? year' We are satisfied with oo piofit above factory cost. - ?!. successful in getting them. But he n sell our bicyclesjkunder your own name plate ai our double received. will be watched, and his work In that SECOND numhjJ ftnK.nY l5 handle second hand bicycles, but jdVwt i twnallT hav line will be noted and commented on. The only way to do if you are going COASTER-BRAKE--a into a deal of that kind is to do your share, and not shirk the disagreeable liEDGETHOIU! POnCTOSE PROOF features of the work. Going into three or four feet of mud and water SAMPLE PAIR SELF-IIEALIH- Q TIRES ATO INIR3BUOE, ONLY to help hoist a heavy piece of timThe regular retail price of these tires is ber is not so very pleasant, nor even SS SO per pair, but to introduce we will safe, but some one has got to do eellycuasample pair tor S4.SOcnshwithoi-dsrS4S5)- . K0 MOKE TROUBLE FROM PBHCTU2ES it, and it might as well be you. I got my receipt for my work from NAILS, Taki or Glass will not lot the oat. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. the boss, duly signed and attested air Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. with his official authority, and I DESCRIPTION l Made in all sizes. It is lively lioedinsidewith still possess this piece of paper which and easy riding verydutableand a apeciai aual.ty of rubber, which never become attests that I have well and legally poroua and which close, up small puncturea without allow-tuthe air to escape. We have hundred, of letter, from satis. paid my separate and several poll ed customers stating that their tireshaveonly been pumped tax" Vice-Preside- soiled, but unhurt. Fortunately, no one was there to see my mishap. If there had been I should never have heard the last of it. I worked the "scraper with bare hands after that, and when It went over by reason of too heavy going I did not go with it, I am happy to say. I soon got the knack of handling the machine with ease and grace, and it was not nearly so hard nor so monotonous as swinging a pick. It is wonderful how much work a gang of men can do in a few hours by sticking closely to their task. The hillside, which had looked bo dangerous and stubborn that morning, commenced to assume the proportions and aspect of merely a steep incline, but perfectly safe for travel. There was one spring hole in this hill, and this we had to dig deep into, tile and then rock over with heavy boulders. The strength of a spring is something enormous, and a good spring in the middle of a highway is something that will cause more trouble than any one other thing. In that country, with sheer descent of hundreds of feet along the roads, the springs sometimes wore away sections of the road from year to year, compel-lina retreat further and further into the fields, until great bays and inlets would be eaten into the meadows towards the sources of the gushing wag ters. The bridges in the country are generally very good or very bad. Some of them are neat iron structures, well furnished with stone abutments, calculated to stand for 50 years or 'so. Others, the great majority, Wre makeshift concerns of heavy enough timbers, but crudely put together and shored up with brush and dirt that the spring freshets carries off, leaving the supports to sag and drop as the traffic goes over them and the rains undermine them. We took hold of this bridge at the foot of the hill and pried out the timbers to the north, and set In, much deeper than the original supports, straight and massive oak timbers, and braced them with bowlders so that they could not wear or shake loose. Then we filled in and back of them with more rock, and nailed them with heavy planks so that the entire square of support made one framework solidly set in "the earth. Then we reinforced this framework to the top with additional timbers spiked to the square, and then laid on the road planks, spiked securely to the Joists or heavy upright timbers laid lengthwise on the bridge frame. Everything was liberally fastened with spikes of huge size, driven down with sledgehammers, , and every point where weight would possibly cause the structure to bag was shored up with rock, so that the rains or high water could have no effect in causing th,8 bridge to "give in any direction. Then we nailed up stout side poles, braced at each end, to keep skittish horses from 'tumbling down 40 feet to the bottom of the ravine, and reckoned we had done a good, clean job of bridge-buildinAt noon we halted in our work, fed the teams and comforted ourselves with a substantial meal of victuals, as the "boss put it. The boss, by the way, ate more than anyone else, and did about a man and a half's work. After dinner several more men drifted up to where we were working and some of the morning shift went home, those who had come with teams being replaced by others with more teams. In this way the mules passed from my sight. I got acquainted with a great many men by reason of the changing about of the workers, and they were most of them curious to see a man from the city handle an ax or a pick, drive a team or carry and help set up timbers. But as my garb was about the same as the scarecrows" wore, and entirely guiltless of collar, cuffs, tie or anything which might distinguish me from a tramp, the novelty wore off very soon. Indeed, I was so tanned, and looked so mcuh like a section hand that when I was introduced to the newcomers they must have been unable to detect any "urban significance in my attire or looks. Being stuck up in the city makes a man hated; in the country, laughed at and despised. If you will work in the country you can dress as elegantly as you please on Sunday, or On occasions of social importance; in fact the better you dress then the more you will be appreciated. But dont dress when you go out to work, just cover yourself and no more. I had a set of hats that I wore which were unique In their tatters. For coats I wore usually my hunting coats if it was cold For shirts, except on state occasions. I wore the old fashioned hickory shirts, preferably blue, while rs for overalls, I had a collection that would have caused the blush of shame to mount to the cheeks of a . self respecting During our noon wait, Several impromptu rasslin matches were pull dove-colore- scare-crow- ?'' 1 men of Provo. d f nt. Bo It Now See The Electric Co. State Bankof Provo CLUFF BOOTH W Academy CATES-SNO- Avenue. EGLESTON Farmers and Merchants Bank nU.BUSIF fe--; J V iAdvertis1 JllBER flGHIT: SlJIfcfl !? Tas 1 L L. UJ -- 11 S?! S, - S(TT)U by manual labor honestly per- formed, although the document does not go into any elaborate detail about it. After that experience I began to have a critical eye for bad roads, and when I used to ride down Suicide Hill towards the bottom country, I viewed with an extremely complacent gaze the fine work which I had put into the ditch which bordered the hill to the north, "and took a sort of interest in the bridge at the foot where I had put in such strenuous, such hercluean licks in working out my poll tax. ERNEST M'GAFFEY. l IS up one or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being riven by several layers or thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires RS jo per patr.hut for .uu.u. advertising purposes rte are making, apeciai factory price to the rider of only fc.8o per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on You a not cent do until have examined and found them strictly as represented. pay you approval We will allow a cash dlsoonrt of s per cent (thereby the price 4.65 you end FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this making advertisement. We will alsTiend on nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe aa m a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will nde easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and lock finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at pnee. W know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give any us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. dont buy anyktnd at anv price until you send for a pair of 1C I tires on approval and trial at Hedgethom Functure-Proo- f the special introductory pnee quoted above, or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which desenbes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual but wnt illNK. Of BUYING a bicycle postal today. DO WAIT wr Mil or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful oner we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NO W. lau Ynil bial W BJFrn TPro nn umr I L. HEAD GVCLE COMPANY, i I 1 g by Joseph B. Bowles.) Working Out a Poll Tax K well-packe- d ing. Franklin M. Barnes Is charged with taken 3,000,000 having unlawfully feet of timber from government forest reserves In San Miguel county, OUE BUSINESS GUIDE. 4' son CHICAGO, ILL ' |