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Show QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Spanish fork, rjtah, Jan S Please answer In your Questions column an old Mormon has two wives; his legal Wife dies; can his polygamous Wife Inherit any of h'.M property when the old mnn dies un-leSS un-leSS he gl'-es It to her by Willi ; A II If ho marries her legally, she would Inherit In-herit CHARLESTON, Utah, Jan 2. Please answer In your Questions and Answers Was Moab ever a part of ESmery county Utah and you will oblige cm. of your readers. H. W, Wlddlson, We think not; Emery county, as w- recall re-call the boundaries, never extended beyond be-yond Green river. SALT lake CITY, Jan 2 -is th- Mormon Mor-mon religion taught In the public schools 111 re" f not, how long ago was It taught ? -Header The Mormon "religion classes" were withdrawn from thl public school buildings build-ings of the state something over a year agi 9 RIG BY. Ida., Dec. 27 Will y.m kindly punish in your Question and Answer column col-umn Of next Sunday's Tribune, the number num-ber df rounds thai wi i fought by Corbott and Kltzslmmonn at ' arson Clt. N , March 17 18s7 .- A Subscriber. Fourteen rounds NEWLAND, Nov., Dec 29. Kindly an ."v 1 1 in the n. xi issue of Th.- Tribune What are the names Of the Honorable Chief Justice and the .-icriit Associate Justices of the Supreme court of the United States? A Constant Header Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller Associate Asso-ciate Justices John M Harlan, David J Brewer, Henry B Brown, Edward D. Whit. . RufUB W IVckham. Joseph Mr-K. Mr-K. una i "liver W Holne W llliam H. Day. ill SALT LAKE. Jan 4 Please answer In Sunday's Tribune; i know- a man in this State who left his wife -tlx years ago and eloped with another woman. He has bought property and has children by this woman; he had her num. recorded as his wife In the courthouse record Tie Is not divorced from his lawful wife What can the wife do respecting the propertj with another woman's nam. recorded. E. S. The lawful wife would, of course, havo hei dower right in the property Tht recording re-cording of .mother woman as his wife would not In the bust affect the legal Wife's rights. w BANVARD, Nev . Jan. 2. "Who was the ilrst man to discover this continent? Was It discovered before 'olumbus discovered n ' (2) Please give the names of all that volunteered foi the Spanish-American war frutn Iron county. Utah. R E. L. (11 This continent was discovered b Lelf the Lucky, an Icelander, prior to the .'ii Icon A I i i.'j We haven't ain vs i. to give such a list. LEVAN, Juab Co . Utah, Jan 2. Please tell mn whether the mining laws are I anged Iti regard to nts or not Does one have to de WOO worth of work In ninety days? You will oblige a subs, nb-er.-L S. H. The assessment work In ninety days required re-quired by section H99 of the Revised Statutes Stat-utes Is no longer required, that section having been repealed b section 17 chapter chap-ter U Laws of 1M.H BRID";L Ida Jan. 2 To decide a bel would you please state the population f Salt Lake 'ity twenty yean ago, and at the present time S Call Th. census of population has been taken only onco In ten years; the population figures fig-ures for this city are those of imi. which gave 68,581 simiiarh, the figures for twenty years ago would i- those ..f IS90, which nve it ty population of Z0.70S s MERCUR i tah Jan 4 Please answer the following question In next Sunday's Tribune; Is It possibli to compel 8 -.r-geant In the United States aiin to pa B part of his wages on a debt he has contracted con-tracted before joining the army? D M King Not out of his army pay. If you mean I si ing him. EUREKA, Utah. Dec. 29. We wish you could Inform us In your Questions and Answers column when the big snowslidc took place In Alta. A says it took pin. In 1888 B says in the year or ivv,-,the slide that Fr..l i ull.-n and fair.il wcr. aught In. E B As we recollect it. the nip snowslidc at Alta was In ivr. but we hav not the names e t OGDEN. Utah, Dec 27 Will you kindly answer the following questions In our Question and Ansu.-i column of Suiida i Tribune What ruler of nations la rail", conceded to hold the most dignified office as ruler; also why Is the one you ma name Kl.n the distinction? Is not the office f Lord Mayor of London k'"- 1 rails admitted to be the most popular Mayorship? p. E. A Wi don't snow thiit any ruler Is gener ally conceded to hold 'the most dignified office:" It Is a mutter ..f opinion, and if submit tt-ri to ;i world vole, the Sultan of Turkey would be J1M llkev to win SB SJI) bodj unless it miiit i.e th. Bmpress of 1 hlna (2) No doubt, In ur.ut Britain; i"'t . ltlcs in oth.-r countries ul. ha. i lalm S I salt LAKE CITY, Dec 29. Suppose thai on the 3ist drfy of December, l.s, i made u homestead entry of elghtv acres, and have not et made flnnl proof (the niter, ii iieinK m.w si. cars i , then suppose sup-pose thai v. Ithln the paat six months a prospector, claiming to have found min- ral ( value upon a portl.n of said entrv, has innde two miner., I locations thereon i retiirrled the name Hat said jiros-pector jiros-pector a legal right to make such locations from tin- fact Of mv not making final proof? if so, can i relinquish th- part lalmed as mineral and make final proof i pnn the remainder? What is my status, inywaj in regard to not proving up within with-in sev. n vears. supposing that I have cul-tlMit'.l cul-tlMit'.l ii portion of homestead entrv-. hut only lived upon It occasionally, mv'home helng In another locality fifteen miles I v a " U. .id. r The best w.i to j;f I ,,ur status defined 1 i to unte to th.- Register or Receiver of the United States Land office in this city "r P" ther, personally Klvlng the -xnct I |