| Show IWhere I Where was Marshal Noy brA RAt t1 R-At Haarlouie on the Itlver Saar in 4 Rhine province Prussia When was Louisiana ceded to Spain 2 When was It returned to France L C TIn T-In 1763 2 On October 1 1SGO L Hot many Masons and Odd FcIIowa arc In the United StatsM C Stevens returns 55137 Masons and I TrSOS Odd FclJoV Who filled the chair of Poet Laureate 7 of England between Tennyson and AuKtln Margaret The office was vacant V Car that time Are elms native of this country or oC ruropcA T POt P-Ot both countries but the finest of the gnus the American or white elm la our on Rexburg Ida April S WOO t Kdltor Tribune How did the word Yankee originate Subscriber Thatchers Military Journal says A farmer of Cambridge Mass named Jonathan Hustings who lived about the I joar 1713 uacd the word Tankeo ax H favorite cant word to express cs lJenf Ha n Yankee good horse or i ankoc good cider The students of he college hearing him use It a great itc < il adopted It and called him Tanker Tan-ker Jonathan and an he was n rather iak man the students when they I iplud to denote a character of that kind would cal him Yankee Jona rlian Like other cant words It spread 4nd came finally to b applied to the New Englander as a Jocose pet name Mnc < then the term hns been extended tn any American of the Northern Stiitn I might be added that tho extcn lon of the name to any Anuran < Anur-an or soldier of the Northern States L iroi during the War of the Rebellion nd during the war with Spain the Ameilcun troops were all called Yan kTf vhclhcr they cam from North or South J Sole suppose the term Yankee l 1 IK I ih Indian coriupllon 6f English ir tin French word Anglais thus Tongues Ycnghls Yanghis YunkcfS It If EtnlJ that the Persians called the Americans Yanki doonlah Inhabl imls I of the Now World ayard In hil book on Nineveh and Its Ito inuliiH also mention Yanghldunla as the Persian name ot America 4 According I to Thleny UK word Is a corruption of Jankln 0 diminutive of John Jahn or Jan a nickname given to the English colonists of Connecticut by the Dutch settlers of Now York rThe frat time Yankee appeals In print Is referred to by the Cambridge Cam-bridge Chronicle November 18 1S3J In an article upon Father Able will rlttin by John Langdon Slbley Mr Slblcy gives an extract from the Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Magazine 1705 vol 7 p SOI S In which occurs One of the three Betters dated Cambrldge September 27 1718 the editor has before him I Is a most humorous narrative of tho fate of a goose wasted at Tankeo Hastings and It concludes with n pom on tho occasion In mock heroicS heroic-S The words Yankee Hastings arc tiuolcd apparently from the letter of September 27 172S S Jameson In his Scottish Diction amy has tie word Yankee which he ilcllnoK a IL sharp clever woman at thiut same time Including an Idea of for wirdnes8 r 7Some trace the word In two Chinese Chi-nese characters Yong Kce signifying signify-ing time nap of tilt ocean 8 BrookjtM New York Stories of the HlulcH ji 1 fiG t says Yankee Is i an oldS old-S JHitrh verb meaning to growl or toy to-y < old I wu applied by the Dutchmen Dutch-men of New Netherlands to their rivals of the Massachusetts colonies and IK Wild to be the original of the word Yankee 0 Oppression a Poem by an American Ameri-can with notes by a North Britain i London printed Boston reprinted t 17J contains an early use of the word The writer denounces a Mr llujtke then a member of the House of 1 Commons for Maiden In Essex as the orlgljmto of the sclicme for taxing the cdlonliH vise 1 S From nuanncss first this Portsmouth Yankee rose And still to meanness all his conductS conduct-S flows This 11lu upstart by obtaining friends From TwnndB clink u MIdn moms ber ends From nil of which It appears that conjectured as to the origin of the name are many but that the certainty In regard to It has not been traced S a S Is tho eclipse of the sun on May ZSlh tt > he tota11G IS C In the Southern Stnto s there will boon bo-on to two minutes of totality the on llr < rtline occupied by total and partial jlmscH being about two hours aHIn linlf l Jan I have anything patented In i4XlO I s can you I J mo how to jFoccl7W R C The Mexican patent hws l of 1S90 makv provlficiiiK similar to our own soS so-S > ru ran secure n patent 1C your device Is I pntenlable 2 You should consult l solicitor 5 latent soJelor Whnt IJ I skllllng to what country dors It belong In I It now used and whHt U I its value AFW The wkllllnir va a Coin of Norway Denmark and Gcriimny The oqulva lentln I our money was one cent for the S Norwegian coin half M cent for the Danish and 2 cent for the German Kkllllngs are not current I i Fork April 10 WOO Editor Tribune Th charter of the S Spanish York Cooiwrnllvo Iiuilllutlon ixplrc ties year 1WO Can the ma J rtly of lie vote of the stockholder cgmpl the minority to reincorporate Tribune Render No NoS S Oaen April 6 WOO Klltor Tribune Will you in next Sundays Tribune kindly vIvo n few i nrguuirnls In favol of CSbvernment own rhli I and oLitionOf mllwaya Alrti I please mute some authorities on tit same subject A iut crlbcr AVo cant do It iwt b vinr JO that Intern we dont consider l any p nnt of UnIt an authollt on rallrohilsi or either S govermrvent er erlhl S Lehl April 1011 S Editor Tribune Wilt you pieRce tell me In your Question and Answer column col-umn of Sunday next If there Is such a pnsetge In the Bible as tho following Down to hell where David went Rnd there will remain until he ban paid the uttermost farthlngr R E Q There la not Where was II M Stanley the Afri can explorer born and bred X W4 8 bc rr In the Confederate sxnyW 8An l nblifh Ynln During most of hitS bo v hood he was an Inmate of a Morlu uxc Eventually lie shipPed to Nrw orl anii A cabin boy and wz ndpr by a mereUant hO name b S tv Ik Ills own name tru Jhu Row Inrt I 2 is he HO trt i rI and 1 volunli nd far lc liliittl l hM ny Did Gr at Irliulti r fu5 to ur tru the pI 111 pro 11 PrIIri I t t ti 1 f r t t n grr54 T5 I t M I T > tt YCB npratjl l 11111 J T 4 fJrunvllle asrrol to arbitrate all dif ferent between the two countries nut the Marquis of Salisbury became Minister of Foreign Affairs before the proposed convention of arbitration was agreement Klgned and refused lo confirm the I Salt Lake City April 12 1000 Editor Tribune Will you please answer an-swer In Sundays paper the date when Thoodore Durrani the California mur I derer was executed at San Quentin Subscriber January 7 1S9S S Salt Lake City April 1 1300 Editor Tribune What Is your esti mate of the cost of a railroad In et tail from Salt Lake Clly to Los Angeles An-geles 2 Does the common stock of railroad represent any part of the cost of tho sanif or is this what Is known as watered stock 3 Can Congress I give a Hperlal charter for a railroad pi ejected to handle interstate tralllc Subscriber tralc The correspondent asks for Informa tion which would cost from 525000 to fGO 30000 to secure The estimates could only be given after a preliminary aCcl Plwlmlnary survey sur-vey and careful figuring on the part fan f-an engineer In a general way however how-ever rime Tribune will answer the question The estimates for the Utah California made In 1S07 were for 11000 a mile or 6160000 for the line from Milford to Barstow This Included In-cluded rails fittings ties buildings water supply shops and everything save rolling stock uu lug to advances In price of material these figures If true then will not hold good today In I detail hero are some uf the Hems at to days prices Rails sterI 30 feet long G pounds to tile yard IM tons and 640 I pounds to the mile at 10 per ton Number Num-ber of rails per mile 332 Angle bars 704 per mile 3 cents per pound or W2SCO per mile Bolts 1lOS per mile about 700 pounds at 20 cents per pound 5110 Spikes 12000 per mile at 2 cents each 5210 Ties 3000 per mile at 50 cents 51500 Grading plain work 15 to 16 cents per cubic yard heavy work 80 cents loose roclc work 35 cents The various rail fastenings go by size style 1 i weight and so on which makes prices I vary The figures above are for good material for K 60pound rail Cheap I stations can be built for 1000 water tanks SOO freight cars from 400 to 700 passenger cars from 1000 lo 2 000 common locomotives from 10000 to 15000 If the subscriber will send his preliminary survey the exact estimates esti-mates can be ziven 2 Very seldom Tin stockholders usa us-a general rule aided by a construction company build 100 for a starter say at 15000 per mile Then they bond It at 30000 and build some more plasterIng plaster-Ing It with bonds as they go on but the ondod l indebtedness of a road Is usually twice the amount It cost and pays for all construction The stock Is good for a otc and In many cases the holders of bonds preferred and rommon stock arc identical with the construction company Watered stock Is an Increase to the original authorization authori-zation of slock 3 i orlsnal days of Congressional charters for railroads is Concerned past wherein Interstate matters are How long was it after Christopher Columbus discovered America before William Penn traded with the Indians Columbus discovered land at 2 a in o Octoger 12 H02 Penn reached this country on October 27 16S2 and began acquaintance with tIme Indians directly making his famous treaty with them 1 early In the following December the fourth day of the month It Is supposed sup-posed We do not find record of his very first dicker with S them What did you say to her about Bertha Ber-tha and iimet What did you say to her about Bertha Ber-tha and I Kliujly I state which of the above sentences sen-tences Is grammatically correct and also state reasons and obhigeT C Johnson The llrst the pronoun must be used as If the words Bertha and were not there lhat Is also a good rule for 1 such canes I Brigham City April 10th Editor Tribune Please give the altitude alti-tude of Ml Nebo also BeiknapL L Mt Nehru uccoidlng to records In the olllee of the SuivvyorOenpral Is llCSO feet above sea level c l Belknap S Is GSO S 55 Wasatch April Kith Editor Tribune Kindly l state in Sundays Tribune the votes of Senators Joseph L Rnwllns and Frank J Cannon Can-non upon the final passage J of the Dingier bill and greatly oblige Very truly D A Buck Senators Cannon and Rawllns both vofed nay upon the passage of the bill In the Senate July 7 1807 Neither was present and voting when the Houfe amendments were concurred In by the Senate July 21 1S07 a I What Is the commercial value of one ounce of pure gold 2 What Is the highest grade of gold ever taken out of a mlncS I 5UOfi718 plus 2 Gold is sometimes found puie but almost always there Is an alloy of silver California gold uv craKen about S pr cent pure gold Australian gold Is 02G per cent pure the Noa Scotia product Is still nearer pure and the pale yellow alloy of the Com taIt bade was 42 per cent silver What was the exact date of the killing kill-ing of the striking miners In Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania In 1Si How many were killed and what was done with the men that killed them Inquirer The affair at Lattimor occurred September Sep-tember 10 1897 Thp kl d and mortally mor-tally Injured numbered twentyfour and about forty were hurt Sheriff Tame Martin who commanded the deputies who Ored on the strikers was lncll te < l had a trial lasting a month and was acquitted a a Hoytxvllle Utah April llth Editor TrlbuneHow much of the national debt has been I paid during the prettnt I Republican Administration 2 What Is the attitude of the two parties on the tariff question regardIng regard-Ing Porto Rico Cuba Hawaii and the Philippines Phippine I How are the names obtained for the distribution of seeds by the Government Gov-ernment 0 What II I the State quarantine lawn and how long after coming down with smallpox is I there danger of con Utclon i I Is Itch considered 1 contagious dlneatte and If xo should I family hayIng hay-ing It 1w qUarantIned and compelled to disinfect chI same as for other dU Htfe A Reader C It II only during the present fiscal year that any reduction of the debt was possible the war exp heretofore hereto-fore havlnjc cuM lhp expenditures to exceed the receipts but for the nine months ending March 21st last the cx cess of receipts over disbursements was f13M Republican are for tariff as to Porto Rico the Democrat upimee both favor tariff MS to Cub save that the Democrats an In B neml against protective I tariff but If they are to be I in force at all they agree that they must he so as to Cube both parties AfTOtf to free tri with Hawaii the question has not yet arisen aarrgards A 1 > M Philippines S It Iomigresamu distribute them t 1 1fii onntltuent O nupliculion the it 111 Im r > t of Aarlculture distribute I m n Dray but i f tIl n 10 t c ti I a v mit 11 J ih tu w iu R u 1 I Statutes they arc too long to reprint here Fourteen days 5 Yes but It Is not deadly l and Is I not subject to quarantine S Salt Lake City April 12th I Editor Tribune Did B E Winters I of Salt Lake City belong to the Utah I I oluntecrs and go to the Philippine Islands Isl-ands 2 Dirt he get his honorable I discharge t l so when and for I what cause was he discharged 1 2 Under the new game and fish law I I I Is City creek legally closed to fishing after June 13th If so by what authority author-ity ityE K Winters enlisted at Fort Douglas I Doug-las on June 10 1SOS and was assigned to the Fourteenth United Stales In antry which has ben doing service In limp Philippines A letter to Adjutant General of the army at Ittashlngton would be perhaps the quickest way to I secure time other information you desire I Mr Winters In regard to hJel rOIard I 2 City creek Is closed to fishing at all limes by ordinance of tho city I which under the laws of time Stale has Jurisdiction over the stream I a C a To Wyoming correspondent Inquiry at the New York Customhouse glvcs i the name of the United States consular consu-lar agent at Uualnn Honduras as William C Wildt as the official Government Gov-ernment publications have It and as j wo said before a I I I an American stufint attending a I European university desires to bring his textbooks hontel will there be u duty to be paid on them 1 so how much 2 What is duty on steel engraving 1 en-graving or lllhographs Onyx Probably not Section 504 of the 1S37 tariff acts free list runs Books libraries li-braries B of persons or families from foreign countries If actually used by them abroad not less than one year j I and not Intended for any other person j I I or persons nor for sale Dutiable books pay 25 ncr cent ad valorem 2 On steel engravings 25 per cent ad valorem on lithographs from 6 to 30 cents a pound i j I W C Alexandria and Lake j Charles In Louisiana are on the Kansas I Kan-sas City Watkins Gulf railroad Ella RThe Senale will have a President when the country again hns a VicePresident McKInley had a majority ma-jority of the popular vole In 1S06 G F EThe Texas Legislature has biennial sessions G W WThe spelling of Biblical i I names that strike you as peculiar are traceable to a Greek rather than to n I j Hebrew source and because of them i you should not condemn the author of the work S II I I Sal Lake City April Sih I Editor Tribune What training j would one need lo lake a position as j librarian o a library such our own public library pUblc lbrary 2 About what would be the compensation com-pensation of such a position and lhat of nn assistant 2 i To whom would one apply I I When is the nearest library school Very respectfully Miss Grace Anderson 1 The best training would be a course in n library school The course is generally three years and consists of classIfication of books arranging cala logues labeling shelving etc 2 The compensation varies according accord-ing to the extent of the library probably prob-ably 100 per month und upward for chief librarians and from 576 a month and onward for assistants < 3 To the board of directors of the library where you wish employment 4 Los Angeles K B wishes to know if an alien after af-ter taking out his intention paper to be an American citizen Is authorized to take up mining claims In the United Slates Yes or Alaska Did not the Czar of Russia previous to The Hague conference call the worlds powers together with a view to effecting universal euceT I L B Hardly that but In 1S6S Alexander I suggested that the powers convene and trs come to some agreement by which wars might be made less dreadful The result was Time St Petersburg Declaration by which representatives representa-tives of sixleen European states and Persia agreed not to use against each other projectiles of less than a pound weight that were explosive or charged with Inflammable substances I was in effect a renouncement of tho explosive explo-sive lull t This country did not join the others I Salt Lake City April 1 1900 Editor Tribune Where Is time first house built In Salt Lake City situated Give brief biography of Gen Otis Was there ever a wall around Salt Lake City and does any of it atlll remain A Tribune Reader 1 The oldest and what Is claimed to be the heat house ever built in Salt Lake City Is situated on the premises 0 Zibulon Jacobs corner First North and West Temple 1atreets 2 Ho Is l In his 62nd year he won his BrigadierGenerals commission by distinguished bravery In the war of the Rebellion and afterward entered the regular army as LlculenanlColonel In 1S03 he was made BrigadierGeneral and became commander of the Department De-partment of the Columbia In 1S07 he was given command of the Department of the Colorado with headquarters at Denver On the sending of troops to tho Philippines he was went to Manila as second In command to Gen Merrill on the way he had the honor of raising rais-ing the American flag at Honolulu He has put In two years of very exacting duty in Manila he has just been ordered home at his own request = Yes A portion pf it Is still lo he seen near the Warm Springs to the south of time Cenlfl street car track as It rounds the curve going west Will you print a short account of Pore Hyaclnthc R He was born at Orleans France March 10 1R27 After becomInG a priest he was profoasor of theology in several schools and soon imtorcd the Lyons convent oC the Carmelite nmnks From 161 to I860 he was much celebrated asa as-a preacher but then he was suspected of uttering too liberal doctrines and was excommunicated In 1SC9 he camo to America Returning to France In 1 2 he married a native ot this country coun-try Persecution drove him to Switzerland Switzer-land where ho established an old Catholic Cath-olic church Finally ho opened an independent In-dependent church In Paris under tho name Egllse Galllcano Ills own name was Charles Xoy lon Marysvale April 1300 Ktlllor Tribune Can a man locate a I mining claim across a patented claim and by so doing wjll lime have a right to follow the vein underground Into the patented claim provided he docs I not work on the surface of said patented I patent-ed claim the vein being a cross veln Subscriber Yes If the apex aC the vein exists upon ground outside the patented location loca-tion and the ownor enters the patented ground line through other than the end Inb a a r Salt Lak Anrll 11 19W I Editor Tribune Kindly answer through your Question njid Answer t column of next Sunday the following qtmstlon Wherecan I obtain a copy of the Revised Statute of Utah and obi lee A Subscriber I At the office of the Secretary of State C t Editor Tribune What Is the popu latlon of London England and of I I Greater New York Which II the I Uirirfst To decide 1 l eL Subscriber i The iKipulatlon of London In 1SX was ftpu1Uon 44M01S the population of Greater New York Is I tHwated at about 2 I I Cherry Creek Nov April 1 iso j Editor Trfbune If a mill has been t bum twenty years ago and used tor several years Den abandon and t14 fu taxes ana the land on which I j1 t s bnflr t J never been flee L i x I 1 at 41 U j for roll Sit I I purposes In connection with a mine and notify the party who bought the old mill for taxes to remove any building and machinery from said land I so what length of time will the law allow him to remove the property prop-erty and If not removed In the time Hllowcd can I legally claim the prop I crty George W Walker Yes you may locale the land Any t Improvements which are fixtures will r go with the property and belong to you 1 Such of the Improvement as are personal I per-sonal properly and not sIlo s-Ilo the real estate would belong to ihe pereon who purchased them at the tax sale By keeping them there ho Is committing an act of trespass You may I 1 give him a reasonable time to remove I them and if he does not do so you can I remove them at his expense I Black Rock April 11th Editor Tribune On page 7 of your 1 I paper of the 11th inst there appears I an article headed Durrani Was In noconl As a conslanl reader of your paper I wish to ask If the confession as staled in this article Is true Have been reading your pall < r all along and this Is the first time that I have noticed I no-ticed anything of thy kind 1 If this Is true It KM I pretty forcible argument In I favor of time repeal of capital punishment I punish-ment L W r The Tribune printed that story merely mere-ly I as a clipping crediting the Wyoming Wyom-ing paper with lit nuthoiship and not knowing but there might bo something i In It but we are now convinced that there was no foundation ab all for the I I story V What was the Foote Resolution A D I A resolution Introduced In the United I States Senate late In 1S29 by Samuel A I i Foote of Connecticut It called for an I I Inquiry into the expediency of checking I time sales of public lands for a time I and wan promptly Interpreted by Western West-ern and Southern Senators as an attempt 1 I at-tempt by the East to slop the growth of the West Robert Y Hay no and Daniel Webster were leading opponents I in the debates thai resulted In which the former propounded the doclrlne of nulllficailon It Is claimed by some I that one effect of Websters arguments I was that CaJhoun resigned the Vice Presidency in order to resume his place In the Senate and meet Webster his i old opponent I i i Will you give a brief sketch of Lo renzo de ZavaiaI T THe I I T-He was born In Madrid Spain October I Octo-ber 3 17S9 To avoid Dcrsecullon his I father look his family to Yucalan I I Lorenzo was carefully educated and acquiring English became a disciple of Thomas Jefferson Elected lo the Cor I lea of Spain he aroused a storm I of opPosition i op-position by his demands for relief for thc colon of Texas Fleeing time country coun-try he returned home and in 1S22 was I elected to the firsl Mexican CongrcM i and became its President In 1830 while Governor of the Stale of Mexico Mex-ico a revolution compelled his flight to this country On the triumphof Santa Ana Ill returned and was sent as Minister to France When Santa Ana I turned dictator Zavala resigned his position in disgust and sought an > I lum In Texas He was zealous In the I revolution of 1835 and was first Vice r |
