Show r What is I the address of Oplo Read 7 GLG 4 Press club Chicago Ill io r fj I What IB the address of exGov Bob I I Taylor l of Tennessee G S Y Johnson City Tonn 0 I What is the age of John P Rockefeller Rocke-feller H H Rv He was born July S 1S39 I 011 Wlmt Is I the Copulation of the Russian Rus-sian cmplreQ 0 I One hundred and thirtysix millions a What Is the jrieltlngpolnt of aluminum alumi-num 2 What IB wash leatberL T > 73 I About 1300 degrees Fahrenheit It becomes pasty at 1000 2 Chamois leather or an Imitation ofit made usually sheepskin 0 0 I Provo April 5 Editor Tribune Will there be niiy publlo lands thrown open In the Sand allch Islands Subscriber Address Hon BInger Hermann Commissioner Com-missioner of the General Land office at Washington for Information on this point 00 Salt Lake March 31 Editor Tribune In your Questions and Answers of Sunday March 31st I see the following question Would you kindly settle this het A bets that when Fred Hopt alias Welcome was executed for the murder of Sheriff Turners Tur-ners son there were live blank cartridges I car-tridges l and one bullethole his body Jo w A lost the bet did he not for there were not five blank cart dges and one bullethole In his body were there Subscriber There were live deputy United States marshals who executed Hopt and each put a bullet through the body Blank cartridges did not figure In the matter Settle your dispute accordingly 4 O i j In what court circuit is Texas and 2 who Is the Judge of that circuit J AR The Fifth which takes In also Alabama Ala-bama Florida Georgia Louisiana and Mississippi 2 There are three Judges Don A Pardee David D Shelby and A McCormick S O ¼ Does not Mix hold the worlds record for trotting and what Is her record 2 What Is the record of The Abbot W GC No though she holds the record for mares 20394 2 The worlds trotting record 203 When Is the earliest and latest that Easter Sunday may come 2 How Is the date determined G G H March 22nd and April 25th 2 It falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon that follows March 21stthat Is the ecclesiastical full moon I S I I Salt Lake April 2 Editor Tribune How many pianos pi-anos are there In the United States 2 Who Is the greatest actress in the world Subscriber 1 You may figure one piano to every 400 people but it might be more satis factory to say about 200000 I 2 That Is a matter of individual I preference largely but Sarah Bern hardt Is l probably entitled to that distinction dis-tinction 0 A On what date wan Thanksgiving In the year 1S737 2 Which Js the higher mountain SuEllas or McZinleyiL AA November 27th 2 MbKIhley the I height of which Is put at 20461 feet to 1S101 feet for St Ellas 4Salt I Salt Lake April 2 Editor Tribune Is physical culture taught tn the high school and University Univer-sity here and at the Agricultural col logo ac Logan Are the teachers melt or women and are they required to teach otherbranches E W Physical culture Is 1 not on the high school curriculum present although it formerly was It Is taught In the I University of Utah by Miss Babcock who also teaches elocution It Is also J taught In the Agricultural college i p Eureko Utah April 3 Editor Tribune When and what Is groundhog day Subscriber It Is Candlemas day the feast of tho Purification of the Virgin Mary February Febru-ary 2nd It is said by the weather wise that the groundhog comes out of his hole on that day and 1C he sees his shadow scuttles back and stays for six weeks more of winter a p Is there any wayto store electricity and control it for use as a motive poverJ M C Certainly such is the < con nol practice prac-tice In electric vehicles storage battery bat-tery or accumulator with electrodes of lead plates coated with lead oxide Is the medium a Eureka April 3 Editor Tribune Would y6u please stato In next Sundays Question column col-umn where I could get a road guide to Ii I travel to California In a wagon and i how much It will beA Subscriber See some bookseller a 4 o Mouseley March 31 Editor Trlbuhe A locates a spring on January 1 1901 and does very little I work on It If any B relocates the same spring on March 2Sth Was the spring Jumpable seeing that A did not recordIt nor do any w rlA Subscriber Sub-scriber If A did not do enough work to open it 1 up it was subject to relocation 0 it 4 Lehl April 3 Editor Tribune Can tomatoes be grown In a hothouse and with what success A Constant Reader Yes and with profit If the arcd devoted de-voted to their growth Is large enough Tomatoes have been grown on a small scale In greenhouses by Florist King at his greenhouses in East Mill Creek and they were very luscious They bring a good price in the winter time too as all the hotels would prefer them to the California product There is also one florist In the city who makes a specialty of growing lettuce in greenhouses green-houses and he finds a market for all he can raise at good prices right In this city One Salt Lake florist who found he had no use for one of his greenhouses as his stock of flowers was short planted radishes and says he realized more from these vegetables I In the winter months than he did from a crop of American Beauty roses that he attempted to raise p What were the entire receipts the United States Government for the quarters ending September 30 1900 and December 31 1900 2 What Was the population of the Dominion of Canada for the last census and also for that before the hLstA B They were 1HI1S242 and 147303619 f respectively 2 By the census of 1891 jS332tp by the preceding cAe of 1SS1 4324810 p p LaGrande Or March 30 Editor Tribune Is a centipede poisonous pois-onous Please state color shape length and If they are found In Oregon Ore-gon W HC Yes but not necessarily fatal It de ponds on the physical condition of the person attacked The bite oi the carnivorous car-nivorous species is certain death to Insects People who have been bitten by both say the bite of the centipede Is more painful than that of the scorpion ° scor-pion They are wormlike In shape slender and slightly flattened The color is yellowish almost creamy and the body bears from 42 to 300 legs The length I varies from a couple of Inches up to a fool If any have been found as far north as Oregon It has not been reported U u Payson April 2 Editor Tribune Which of the metals met-als is most sensitive to heat that Js to expansion F P Howard Cadmium OCthc more common metals j lead I p q oI What is meant by the pitch of a roof I and how Is it determined Say for instance in-stance 1 am required to give a roof a l f or a Vt pitch what is the significance signifi-cance of these fractions W H The pitch of a roof is its inclinatiOn and to express it numerically divide the span by the heigh Quarterpitch I Is a slope of 2C degrees 35 seconds half pitch Is 15 degrees p 10 p Salt Lake City April 4 Editor Tribune Is a bill outstanding over a year outlawed How long does it take a bill to outlnwlA Reader It is not An open account outlaws In four years a written acknowledgment acknowledg-ment of indebtedness in six years and a judgment In eight years Salt Lake City April 2 Editor Tribune Is It a State law that renters must pay Nnt In advance or is It only a custom Please answer in Sundays issue of your valuable paper pa-per and obhlgeA Reader Neither It Is a matter of arrangement arrange-ment between the lessor and the lessee p a p Phillpsburg Mont March 27 Editor TribuneDoes an honorably discharged volunteer soldier of the SpanishAmerican war have to pay a road and poor tax In the State of Montana Mon-tana 7 2 Did a bill flass in the last Congress Con-gress granting a months pay to soldiers l sol-diers QC SpanishAmerican > war who were mustered out after August 42 1S98 3 If so when and where are the funds available Subscriber 1 Write to the clerk of the Supreme Su-preme court of Montana 2 Not at the last session but at the one preceding that 3 Address the auditor for the War department or some reliable pension and claim attorneys in Washington Certain affidavits and information are required p p p Salt Lake April 3 Editor Tribune I saw in the Sunday Sun-day Questions and Answers that an honorablydischarged soldier does not have to pay poll tax Does this apply only to those soldiers who fought in the SpanishAmerican war and in the Philippines or does It meanevery hon orablydlscrflrixjed soldier of the army regardless of when he was discharged Max Blank It applies to all p p p What Is meant by the Dred Scott decision de-cision K S The decision rendered in the United States Supreme court In 1S5C In theca i the-ca e of a slave named Dred Scott who I had brought suit to assert his title to 1 freedom It was to the effect that If I the negro were assumed to be free he I wtis not a clUzen of a State so as to 1 bring action and further that he was I I a slave So his gult wus dismissed for I I want of jurisdiction on the part of the l Circuit court In which action had been I brought i p p p 1 When and why was King Christian j i I TX made King of Denmark 2 Will you name his children and tell who they mariledJ a i Hebedamo King November 15 18G3 His accession was In accordance with the rIght of succession arranged by the London protocol of 1852 thC Olden burg dynasty having become extlncl I 2 In lie order oJ their birth they were I Frederick married Princess Louise or Sweden Alexandra who married the Prince of Wales and now IB Queon orEn or-En lnncl i George I King of Greece married the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia Dngrnar now Dowager Empress Em-press of Russia having married Alexander Alex-ander III Thyra married the Duke of Cumberland and Waldemar who married mar-ried the Princess Marie of Orleans p Provo City Utah April 2 Editor Tribune Please give mo In your Questions and Answers next Sunday Sun-day the vole of the Electoral college I J of the Presidential elections of lfG and 1900 and obliEeA Reader I In IMC McKinley 271 Bryan 176 in I 1900 McKinley 202 Bryan 155 Salt Lake April 1 Editor Tribune When will the Klowa reservation be opened for settle ment 2 What Is rpunlrod of a settler to hold land after locating Patron Address the Commissioner of Indian In-dian Affairs or the Commltsione of the General Land ollcc at Washington 2 Continuous residence unlll the land Is surveyed and subject to entry and then to enter at the district land Im H L U Salt Lakp Apill 1 Editor Tribune Woul 1 you kindly stale In your Sunday Issue whether a gentleman should precede or should follow a lady down the aisle of a atcrSubscrlhcr Precede the lady and at the row of seats t j allow her to preMle I p Salt Lake April 1 Editor Tribune Is there any possible pos-sible way in which one can take the examination for railway postal clerks having failed 1 to secure application blanks ten days before tho test is given lie must have the blanks p p p What was the earliest railroad In the United States and when and where was It bullf What was the name of the engine and engineer of Us first runP H T The first railroad ran from the granite quarries at Quincy Mass to the NelOnset river and was built In J82G to carry granite for the Bunker Hill monument It had wooden rails laid on granite sills and topped by a straprail of rolled Iron Horses supplied sup-plied Its motive power The flrst trip of a locomotive In this country was made August 0 1S29 on the Plonesdale Carbondale railroad which was built by the Delaware Hudson Canal company I com-pany The name of the engine which L was built In England was The Stout bridge Lion and it was run by Hora tie Allen Though it weighed but six tons It proved too heavy for the fails p p p Will you give a short history of the United Stales flag as lo arrangement of stripes and stars Claybon Up to June II 1777 the colonists hal I used flags of various devices but on I thai day Cpngress provided that the flag should have thirteen stripes alternately alter-nately re < 1and white and thirteen white stars Ina blue field l This held i until May 1 4795 when by an act passed January 13 1794 change was made to llfleen qtrlpas and fifteen stars Then on April ISIS tho flag was re I established as thirteen horizontal stripes alternately red and unite the union to consist of twenty white stars In a blue field one star lo bo added for f each new State admitted the addition to be made on the Fourth of July suc ceeding such admission On July I isis this flag was first used and Is to day the national ensign I If Salt Lalce March 31 Editor Tribune Sjippoe a citizen of England comes toMlie Lulled States and lives here without taking ou this citizenship papers will ho children I born to him her be citlens of the United States 2 I Then again If I a citizen of the United States gb to Denmark lives there a few years raises a family and returns again 10 l hie nativity without affiliating with the Danish Government will his children be subjects of Denmark or citizens of the Ipiled StalcsJ S Yes 2 They will be subjects or Denmark unless tIe father Is serving the United Slates In DenmaiK In some offlolal capacity Hnd so his children born constructively under the tars and Stripes p 0 I To the Inqulier as to the population of Canada In IDOl The > cenbuslaklng of Canada was begun on April 1st I your query was received April 2nd Jt I I Is out of the question to give reply till the enumeration Is mad and the returns re-turns tabulated which will not be for several weeks p 4 Axtell March 2S Editor Trlbunte A owns a farm of I 400 acres The posloffice and Ro I Grande railroad switch are located about the center A refusps to give more than one road Into said office and switch thereby compelling some parties to travel 1 several miles around his farm Can tile parries force a road from the opposite direction 2 A owns a farm of 100 acres 13 owns a farm on the south side of As und lives on thy north side Can n force l road through Au farm or will he be compelled com-pelled to travel out around a distance dis-tance of several miles1 A W 1 They can not but If I they can show to the satisfaction a court oc competent lurlsdlctlon that a road where they want It would be for the advantage of the gencia public the court would condemn as much of As land as might be hecessny for a road and the parties bringing the notion would have lo pay A the appraised value of tho land used for the road and any damages which A mIght sustain sus-tain on account of the road running through his property 2 No 15 will have to travel aroiin L p 4 p Did Grover Cleveland attend or graduate grad-uate from college 2 Was Martin Van Buren a college graduate 3 Were Franklin Pierce and Mlllard Fillmore Fill-more college graduates 4 What qol lege did President McKinley graduate fromJ R J No he attended school at Faycttes vllfe and at Clinton N Y but at the age when many young men nowadays attend college he was leaching school and studying law 2 No he went so 1 far In the academy at Kinderhook N Y as to acquire a little Latin and I then began the study of law 3 Franklin I Frank-lin I Pierce graduated from Bowdoin Flllmores school education was scanty I scan-ty and had between whiles of farming and apprenticeship to the woolcarding business Yet he was leaching school and sludylng for the bar when 19 years old and was admitted practice at the age of 23 4 He Is not a college graduate grad-uate when IS he enlisted in an Ohio volunteer regiment and was In active I service for four years S p U To the anxious and uneasy one who asks about hoboes We hove no returns re-turns from the alleged hoao convention conven-tion you Inquire about if you are a member of the fraternity In good I standing you ought to know its purpose I pur-pose if It had any perhaps It received reports of the safest brakebeam line what roads have the stoniest brakemen brake-men where the best handoul terri tory ts to be found and the routes where the mfaat vicious dogs are brrU We do not know where nor when tho next convention Is to > c hehl bu lIt l-It I there Is to be one we pity theJ owners of henneries In that vicinity AA to t the legal question Involved consult con-sult the County Attorney Kent Nov March 20 Editor Tribune 1 Is Prof Lv A Harradcn who promises to teach me hypnotism for 500 a reliable man or a faker 2 Is Walter BaU r Springfield Spring-field h Mass who gives premiums for selling their goods a reliable firm or swindlers 3 What are average garnets worth Subscriber We dont know anything about these people hut money Is best spent for necessary matters and If you have a surplus Invest It cautiously In a safe way 3 Garnets are worth from 2 lo 250 per carat Will you tell one who Is part Indian I I blood something of the Cherokces R A W They were of the Iroquolan Indians under which name are grouped many tribes that spoke a tongue of common origin Some of those tribes were the Iroquois Hurons Wyandots the Tobacco To-bacco Nation Eries Suscjuehannocks and Tuscaroras The earliest known domain of the Cherokees look In the mountain region of northern Georgia eastern Tennessee northeastern Ali bamn Kentucky southern West Virginia Vir-ginia and the Carolina They emigrated emi-grated to the eastern part of Indian Territory early In the last century and now keep l up there a constitutional government gov-ernment have their laws printed In English and in Cherokee maintain fine Schools and have kept the Government In their debt Instead of relying upon It for support They are gpod farmers farm-ers the most enlightened of our Indians In-dians and through the sales of their lands to the Government one of the richest peoples on the globe I a S P Frisco Utah April 6th Editor Tribune Will you please answer the following questions Sundays Sun-days paper t When and where was Benedict Arnold born 2 When did he leave America for England 3 When and where did he lIeA Subscriber Sub-scriber Born at Norwich Conn January 11 1741 died In London June 14 1801 He sailed for England in December liSl p p p Editor Tribune Was Mozart a violinist and at what age did he die An answer In Sundays i issue will oblige J fE He was in his 36th year born January Janu-ary 27 1756 died December 5 17910 r Malad City Ida April 4th I Editor Tribune I see In your semiweekly semi-weekly of March 29th page 2 third 1 column headline School Land Decision De-cision An Important Opinion from Commissioner General Land Office Please answer In your Query column does it affect my case In 1897 I entered en-tered or filed on 320 acres under desert entry paid my SO it being unsur eyed land I fenced it conveyed water onto it Improved It to 3 improvement im-provement per acre Made final proof in 1S9S same land being surveyed In 1893 Survey was accepted by Land office In 1900 Land office put out notice no-tice that same was open for entry I sent the 320 same being 1 per acre expecting to get a Government title to the land I was notified by the Land office that my entry had been rejected I that the 320 acres was part of a school section and as such was not open to entry under the desert acL My money the 320 was returned Commissioner Com-missioner General Land office having ruled that homestead entry would have been honored but not desert entry Have I any hope by this late I decision lo yel get my entry jrelnstaled Please answer in your 1uesday Tribune and oblige Subscriber i It Is impossible for The Tribune to undertake the decision of cases like that Write to your Land office the officers of which no doubt have all the facts In lh ihe case as well ruling of the Commissioner al th Their opinion on the case rererrlcl tor win feotlve or If you are bJ Cr nol co with It COntnt you can write to the 11i1 U Blnger Hermann n Commissioner General Land office r of lh Wn8hln lon D U Tuab April Editor TrlbuneIn 4 locating Ing I claim on the ll of WIllts the a Inln the year dOi1 mining law of Utah require caiors to do the full amount of nlc 10 mont work within a specified time can thin be done at Intervals Or any time during the yearA W or B 1l When a location Is made on JanuaVv 1st 100 worth of assessment work nuar m7i be done within a year all at once or must nicrvaln If located after January i al then the locator ban the balance t that year nd the next yenr In which or do piecemeal 1CO worth of work all at once or to in o p Trenton April 2nd Editor Tribune Give me a descrin tlon of gllsonlte and tell what Ills used for forIt It Is a black rcslnouR substance com monly known as asphaltum Used for street paving chiefly How many claims are tour partner allowed on the same vein I As many as they desire under the re I i aulrements of the law governing tho t location of mines i Mercur AprnYSh Editor Tribune Please state IfAfhcre I aro any email assaying outfits onthe market thai can be carried by pros t rectors In I a pack outfit Also state weight and cost of same if any can they be used by anybody and obligej A Reader Yes Tlieweight Is about 200 pounds the cost S2oO Any assayer can handle them a U MarIon Ida April 5th Editor Trlbunci Has It ever been de sided In the courts which State Is on HUed lo the use of water The one that made the appropriation or the OM lhat the water rises In or flows through first Please give all the Information you can as It Is a matter of very great Importance to many people living in this vicinity C A Tolman Cases do not come up between Stales as such but between Individual claimants claim-ants of the water and every case la tried not as between State Jurisdictions but on the proof and the law as applied to the acllon at bar |