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Show k' THE SPANISH northwest notes FORK PRESS ANDREW JENSEN, - - SPANISH FORK SEEK CURE FOR DREAD DISEASE Publisher There are thirteen canning Institutions In and adjacent to Ogden. It Is announced that the Salt Lake route Is contemplating building a spur to Grantsvllle from the main line. Representative llowell Introduced two public building bills last week.' For Brigham City, g50,000; for Park one-stor- g lock-boxe- search; so many well-know- n physi- cians were of opinion that cancer was practically Incurable, that the work appeared involved In Insurmountable difficulties. Three years ago the Imperial Cancer Research Fund was started, with King Edward as patron and the Prince ot Wales as president. Among the vice presidents and supporters of the society were Lord Lister, Lord Strathrona, former Premier Balfour, Sir William BroaUbent, William Waldorf Astor, the late Alfred Belt, Lord Rothschild, the Duke of Bedford and others. Controlling practically unlimited wealth, and with such enormous Influence behind them, the Cancer Research investigators were soon able to report progress.. Splendid laboratories were fitted up and some of the ablest scientists of the day were permanently engaged In the work under the directorship of Dr. E. F. Bash-ford- , a physician who had devoted years to experimental research. Dr. Bash ford had not long been engaged on his Investigations before he found that the best results were obtained from mice, and lie began experimenting with these animals on a scale unprecedented in work of this character. It was not long before the whole upper floors of the great building were converted Into a "mouselary, so to speak. All the rooms In the place contain crates, barrels and huge cans full of live mice. Even the passage between the rooms and the hallways are lined with mouse-holdinreceptacles of various kinds. The majority of the mice are caged In small, openwork boxes, but the wild field mice are housed at the bottoms of great ash cans. These mice are such high Jump- - Dr. Bashford, while showing me over "Recovery from common. Is caucer experimental tumors and disappear. Growth stops IndiBy following up Investigations cated last year it has been possible to protect mice from all the consequences of Inoculating them with cancer. This has been done In four different ways. Protection may be conferred In so high a degtee that whereas out of 100 ordinary mice 90 develop tumors after inoculation, in the protected mice no tumors at all developed. The protecting influence acts by way of the body fluids, and the body fluids of some protected mice, when Injected Into mice with experimental cancer, have retarded the growth of tumors. When asked if be was able to cure cancer definitely I)r. Bashford stated that the study of the methods of protection were still In progress and pointed out thAt all be had accomplished so far was to render healthy mice unsuitable for the growth of experimental cancer. "It is not yet possible, continued the scientist, "to arrest the progress of experimental tumors with certainty; far less to effect the cure of the disease occurring naturally In mice. While the results of our experiments contrast favorably with the complete failure of all the reputed empirical remedies forwarded to the laboratory to be tested, they require to be carried much further before It can be ascertained if they will have a bearing on the treatment of the disease In mankind. Disease Not Confined to Man. It was long thought that cancer was a disease peculiar to man; but it la the laboratory, said: a", a Eight men were Injured by the explosion of a gasoline tank In a fire In the D. F. Walker building in Salt Lake, most of the injured being firemen. The property loss was small. Park City capital has just finished equipping three prospecting outfits for Nevada. The outfits go In different covered. Incorporation having been filed In the capital city lust week. Sidney Reeves, 26 years of age and unmarried suicided at Mercur, shootReeves was a former ing himself. resident of Salt Lake City, where he well known, being a brother ol J. A. Reeves, general freight agent of the Oregon Short Line, The board of trustees of the State Industrial school have passed a resolution to the effect that bids for nop plies be advertised for and that all Ogden merrhanta shall have the op portunlty of competing for tho sup plying of this Institution. Rick-har- t, ship-buildin- g non-lnat- nnex-plre- ot cancer, just as its knowledge of dlphthsrla has rendered that once dreadful plague practically harmless. When we consider that the material for cancer research Is supplied entirely by mice, the human race owes the mouse a debt of the deepest gratitude. If science Is able to Isolate cancer and finally cure it through the agency of the mouse, humanity should comblue to erect a statue to the genus Mouse. We have statues to dogs and lions why not to mice? Mouse Alone lo Useful. Strange to say, the mouse has proved the only animal capable of serving in the search for the cause and cure of cancer. Guinea pigs, rabbits, dogs, kittens and all other animals so often used In Investigations to dlsrover a remedy for deadly diseases have utterly failed to yield practical results In cancer research. It was at this point, when the world of science was practically stumped, that the mouse came forward and Immolated hlinself on the altar of knowledge others Ise the table. era, and so clever at making their way out of all ordinary receptacles, that it has been found necessary to place them In these deep cans, where.. under a handful of hay placed In the bottom, they muy have comparative freedom, until taken out for operation. On the Operating Tablee. The operating rooms of the fund occupy several rooms Joined together on the top floor of the building. Here you may see mice every day stretched out on the operating table undergoing various treatment connected with cancer research. It cannot bo said that the work Is particularly enjoyable; but so Intent are the scientists on the objects in view ihe discovery of the cause and cure of a terrible plague that they pursue their operations with a methodical lack of sentiment that even the mice themselves could not fall to admire If they knew what it was about. The first operation connected with cancer work Is to Implant in a healthy mouse the living cells of cancer. This Is I have just paid a visit to the tan-dolaboratory of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and saw from to 30,000 mice, each one ot which had a cancer In some form or other. Mice live for a very long time on the vivisection treatment; and some mice which hnve had cancer actually recover. It is on this extremely Interesting fart that the hope of ultimately conquering cancer rests. Why certain mire with virulent and undoubted cancer actually get well Is the problem which science Is wrestling with Mice by the thousand are being observed and treated with rertaln tnedl dnes; and pet Imps some d.ty In the not distant future one of the doctors will hit upon a form of treatment which will enable mice to recover with certainty, and then the human race will be ild of one of the worst scourges which today affects humanity. Ones Thouoht Incursbls. When It was first promised to conduct a systematic Investigation Into the cause and cure of cancer the medical profession concluded that the task was an almost hopeless one. Bo many in Merle were Involved In the re- - n 25.-00- 0 to-da- usually done h.v a hypodermic needle. The mouse to be treated is seized by the hnck of Ihe neck, and, with a swift movement, the experimenter gives him un Injection of cancer. It does not take very long after the first Injection for the cancer to develop; and you see thousands of mien running about, each one of which has a cancer more or less pronounced. From time to time mice with cancer are treated with certain fluids, taken from the bodies of other Inoculated mice, and occasionally mice with cancer actually recover. At other times certain mice are injected beforehand1 with these fluids, and then, when they nr given the cancer Injection, it has been found that the disease will not take root. It Is by the discovery of some prohibitive scrum that the scientists hope to achieve success. As soon as some body fluid la found which will have the me effect on CHiioer growth ss antitoxin has on diphtheria the innstery of cancer will have proved an accomplished fact. Much Hss Bean Dons. Speaking of whnt hss already been done In the field of cancer researrh, now proved that there Is scarcely a vertebrate animal without it Savage races were long supposed to be free from cancer. Now, however, that trustworthy reports are being sent In to the Imperial Cancer researchers, it is known that savage races, and Indeed all animals, develop cancer quite aa freely as people living under civilized conditions. One of the first cases brought under l)r. Baahford's attention was that of a cancer in a wild mouse; and malignant cancers have been found in birds, tame as well as wild. From trout in hatcheries, from carp and from marine llsh living in a state of nature cancers huve been taken. Even an oyster has been found with a large cancerous tumor. Dr. William McGregor found canrer In codflsh off the Newfoundland banks, and even frogs have been discovered with It. Prof. Welsh of Sydney recently found genuine cancer In an old lioness, a tigress and in a kangaroo. All races or mankind, In fact, and all vertebrates are liable to cancer, whether under civil-Ize- d conditions or not. Besides the fact that animals and all men are subject to cancer, It Is significant that the same kind of cancer is found In men and animals. It Is because of this that so much is hoped from canrer research on mice. If cancer can be cured In mice It seems to be a logical deduction that It can be cured ulao In mutt. Book Not Meant for Children. During tho seventeenth and eighteenth centuries four grent books which, though certainly not Intended for children, were soon claimed by them and made their own. One Is "Pilgrim's Progress." meant to steer grown up people through this vale of woe, but read with delight by the poor little victims of the catechism. Then came "Robinson Crusoe" and "Gulliver's Tiavcls" and "Munchausen." The simplicity and directness of the narrative attracted tho children, and Ihe more wonderful the tales, the greater the enjoyment of the little adventurers. The books were rend at first stcnlthlly, and with fear of the awful consequences of being discovered, but Tater they were openly and eagerly devoured. d e Lead-ville- the Roosea.nveiiipon. velt third term national league in F. Culpjer former ch'ef of police J. Chicago, and says that clubs will he and widely lilnown throughout the organized In every county and city In southwest, was shot and killed In e the United States. pistol duel with a negro named Brock E. Willetts, a stockman from Idaho at Pine Bluff, Arkansas. enroute east with stock, fell from s The Imperial budget, presented last car in the yards at Rawlins on the adds $4,000 to the salary of the wee, night of the 4th, and when picked up German Embassador at Washington by yardmen the following morning to the increased cost of living owing died in a few minutes. at the American capital. Senator Heyburn of Idaho has pro A report made to congress by the posed an amendment to the railway of New Mexico shows that governor railrate law which will require the In that territory favored voters 26,195 and roads to give Boise, Spokane In the recent election, statehood Joint other Interior points the advantage while 14,435 voted against It. of the long haul rates. A letter received at Phoenix, Arb Because the Montana Coal & Coke zona, reports the stoning to death of company refused to reinstate a minei an squaw by tribesmen, one Apache , who had been discharged some week-agomile from Fort Apache. The natives 400 miners struck, tielng up the with her charged being a witch. mines and coking plants of the comIs a side lead ha It that reported at and Mont Horr, Aldridge pany old Comstock min been in the opened The gold output of Montana for 1905 was $208,551 less than that of 1904. at Virginia City, Nevada, which bid The silver output was $1,491,315 less fair to be richer than anything evei taken from that famous property (coinage values) than for 1904. The yet Lulu Bridges, aa glrl,wa copper output was $11,754,907 greater at tas Angeles and lodged arrested and the lead output $31,035 greater. In Jail, charged with having accepted Rev. Oscar Woods, of Laramie, a bribe at Paris, Mo., for leaving the Wyo., In an article In a local paper bittown to escape being called as a court endless terly denounced the witness. prayer chain letters, several of which The Chicago Board of trade has have been received In Laramie. One young woman of a very religious turn decided by a vote of 5CG to 277 to of mind was so wrought up about the reduce grain commissions from 14c matter as to be m a scrims mental to bushel on orders Oiled for a condition. for outsiders and from Ike to A wreck occurred near Rawlins, members. Wyo., In which B. B. Johnson, a brake-maThe trial of Harry K. Thaw for the was killed, and an engineer, of Stanford White, the archmurder brakeman and two firemen were hurt not begin until March or will itect, A westbound freight drawn by two enApril of next year, unless District Agines and an eastbound freight collided head on as the result of con- ttorney Jerome consents to rearrange flicting train orders, all three engines his court calendar. being derailed. It has been determined by the pro The California delegation In con- visional governor ol Cuba that Chrisgress has received what they consider tmas gifts, sent from the United State a satisfactory assurance that the pres- to officers, soldiers and American emadident did not desire to be understood ployees serving In Cuba shall be as saying in the Japanese section ot mitted free of duty. his message that he would use the The Agricultural chamber of West military forces of the United States Prussia has adopted a resolution In forcing the Japanese Into the Calcommittee to ifornia schools In which the whlto powering Its executive as farm laChinese to prepare Import children are taught. borers in order to relieve the preThere have been many deaths In sent sarclty of such labor. Goldfield the past, month or two, more, As a result on the explosion of H perhaps, than people generally know about; but they have not been In boxes of blasting powder on th 8 such numbers as have been reported. level of the Quincy mine at Hugbton The death rate during the worst of two miners were killed, t tho prevailing storm have averaged Mich., not more than four per day as against seriously Injured nod n number ores come by the gns and amoke. twenty as reported. A squad of citizens A term of nix years for th Pr1 of Billings, Mont, forcibly seized a carload of coal dent and the vice president of the and distributed it In one ton lots. In United States Is proposed by Sena body the squad then proceeded to ator Cullom In a Joint resolution Introtho ottlces of the coal company and for compelled the agent to receipt for the duced last week, providing payment of the fuel. amendment to the constitution. Montana produced In the calendar The biggest cavalry drill hall year of 1906 copper, silver, gold and world In to be built at Fort Lc lead to the value of $70,677,683. These worth, Kan. The quartermaster for values came from 5,000.000 tons of ore, ask for bldi and the agurecnte production was partment will noon w&c greater by $10,0X6.736 than the value the erection of the building. 1W of the output of 1904. which was will be 340 foot long by 1W $IO.OOO.ooo greater than O formal nplit hnn occured 'or tho year before. Polish Socialistic party at Warn Idn Rnd Minnie Hill, sisters, were A majority of the party found asphyxiated n ther rooms In formed Into a fighting organUaU Cortland by Hilda lllll, another sister. when she returned bom from work. whllo the minority ha Joinrd dhrt The dead girls left n note bidding Hil- peaceful Socialists. The two . 1 da farewell, but It does BUt0 along aro now engaged In fightinl the reason for their net. other with energy. bf b Irene La Barge, aged 17 years, com-ltte- d Acting on reports submitted suicide at her home In Seattle, Interstato commerce commit110 after a quarrel with her sweetheart! torney General Moody boa a iw John Tweed, a imstofflcn messenge. that suits be brought against She was Jealous o, the attentions of number of additional railroad the young man to another girl and panics for violation of the drank poison In bis presence. vllnnr law. It Is announced that the Spokans A Senator Klttredge ha Introduced Inland railway bus awarded to Grant, resolution desiring an lnvetig Smith & Co. the grading contract for commerce by the department of a 15 mile extension from l'ulouse, labor Into the lumber trad Aash to Mom-ii- , Malm. It g country, to ascertain whether thought Ihe line muy he extended to la in exlafenre a trust or agreeai Lewiston and Clarkston next year. among dealers. Colo., has organized n, directions, and It is expected some new wealth producers will be disMany complaints of shoplifting made by the Ogden merchants, lead to the belief that the city Is Infested with shoplifters. A concerted effort has been decided upon and detectives will be placed In all the larger stores. The Utah State Poultry association will ask the legislature for $3,000 this winter to promote the poultry Industry In the state, secure the raising of better birds and to Interest more people In the proper care of chickens. The clerk of Sevier county has preprepared a statement for Governor Cutler, upon request of the executive, of the Income of this county from all sources, which shows that the county's Income for the year ending June 80. was $63,034.17. An organized system to rob the railroad companies of brass and copper has been discovered at Ogden, and a large amount of the plunder discovered also. Those taking part in the thefts are said to be hoys not yet out of their teens. Joseph Day Bryant, a trucker employed in tho Oregon Short Una freight yards, was struck by a shunted car on one of the sidetracks and Instantly killed. He had secured a policy for $1,000 Insurance just an houi before he was killed. A refrigerator service to cover the entire system, Is the latest move ot tho Harrltnan lines. Suit take Is the birthplace and the pndiublo borne of this immense cnteiprlse, articles of y Bo ch C&g 5 London. Mice are at a premium In London just now. There Is one place where upwards of 100,000 of the tiny rodents are kept "In stock." And still City, 150,000. the cry Is for more. This is the headThe biennial convention of the quarters of the Imperial Cancer Reunited Brotherhood of Carpenters and search Fund, which Is established In Joiners of America will convene In a large building adjoining the Savoy and Cecil hotels on the Thames emSalt Lake City In September, 1908. At Elsinore 5,000 tons of beets are bankment, with which all American visitors to London are familiar, writes stored by the truck awaiting shipment, Evans, In the New York Maynard and at Moroni there are 2,500 more Press. tons awaiting cars to haul them to The porter at the entrance of this Lehl. building has never been known to turn Pneumonia is again appearing In a mouse away. Anything In the mouse Park City, and as is usual. In such line, from the wild field creature unused to city ways to the sleek, white &lgh altitudes, it Is serious. Guy sophisticated variety, Is acceptable at Tracey, a native of Idaho, is the first the Research building. If you happen victim. to be broke and want 10 cents all you have to do is to catch a mouse and Utah canning companies are invad-inthe Nevada fields with their prod- take him up to the "Mouse Hotel. Inucts at a rate that means that the variably you can make a sale. No market will secure control of that matter how many mice you may have the market Is always open. There Is a region. dime waiting for every possessor of a The beet tonnage for the Lchl sugar mouse who wishes to dispose of hts factory will far exceed the earlier property. Up to this time the ordinary mouse estimate of 112, COO tons. It now looks nearer 130,000 tons would be har- has been considered a mere pest; an enemy to mankind. At last, however, vested. mice have been advanced to an honThe Black Ilawk war veterans have ored place In the animal world. Withformulated a petition to be presented out mice modern medicine would know to congress for the passage of the practically nothing about that deadly Black Hawk war veteran pension bill, toe to the human race cancer. During the last few years, however, sow pending. since science has turned Its attention In order to keep pace with the mousewards, research Into the history growth and prosperity of Spanish of cancer has progressed by leaps and Fork, Postmaster Lawrence has re- bounds. It Is not too much to predict modeled the ofllce and added ninety that before many years medical knowlfive more edge will have extended to the mastery James McDonald has been convicted at Ogden on the charge of stealing three horses from t Henry Larson, of Ogden, and selling them to a farmer Bear Syracuse Junction. The supreme court In an opinion handed down last week, held that It Is not contributory negligence If a cow wanders on the track of a railroad company and Is killed. O. P. Washburn of Monroe, one of the leading and most successful of Sevier county, harvested a crop of apples this year, 96 per cent of which were free from worms. The Western Pacific has now twenty miles of track laid on the desert and Is almost 100 miles out from Salt Lake, thus making the road only about line. 40 miles from the Utah-Nevad- 2 Eminent Surgeons in British Institution Experiment on Mice in Effort to Find Preventive or Remedy That Check Spread of Cancer in Human Race. A to be Anton Fritz, Compromise on the ship IUb.u. of Portland, was decapitated at San seems to be in sight The president's special Fernando, Cal., by the westbound ' Panama will be laid before Santa Barbara pasenger train. Alexander Findley, a carpenter, aged December 17. The question of spelling 53 years, was burned to death at Butte Undoub ly will receive attention at the In a fire that destroyed the 7 was living. of congress this week. frame building In which he The yellow fever situation In Ole Martenson, a Swede, was killed pu Enat Roberts named Is Irishman an satisfactory. There Is ODQ by h In Is Jail Havana and two in the interior. campment, Wyo. Roberts murfor tried be at Rawlins and will During the past week eight tern der. Ists have been executed at Wars The plant of the National Reduction and eight others condemned to death A military raid on the Rakoff mills, half a mile from Florence, Colo., iron was entirely destroyed by fire last works at Czenstochova, RUB9lai week. Loss $150,000, with no insur- suited In breaking up an extensive rlv ance. olutlonary organization. Thomas Brant and Thomas In an explosion of gas In the Balu two Northern Pacific engineers more mine of the Parrish Coal com were killed at Cedar Creek spur, near pany, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., two men Garfield, Wash., when a passenger were killed and five others Injured. train collided with a light engine. Orders have been placed with the G. O. Yergy, of the Yergy Lumber Nikolaelff yards for the company, and a well known Helena construction of four modern torpedo man, while driving across the street cruisers for the Black Sea fleet of was struck by car tracks in Helena, Russia. an electric car and almosst Instantly Charles G. Washburn has been killed. by the Republicans to succeed A strike of gold ore on the one hun- the late Representative Rockwood dred foot level of the Annla Laurie Hoar, of Massachusetts, for the claim, belonging lo the Manhattan term. Mining company's group at Manhat With the coming of the new tat tan, Nevada, goes better than $1,600 of Oklahoma, It will require the per ton. of thirty-onlegislature to , Edward A. Horner, formerly of secure from congress a call for a A man supposed UTAH UTAII STATE NEWS NEWS SUMMARY 1 i,t ft ' from come s H'ordle't aleeplnt above t atorm. open of ed Its first m The lat thong, and lnt whole bodily pesl pi the no' the wa drove man-a- t Nevl looked elDls are sit in upo of shir And made they bolts, yard, thems tered tempe was a cold i wall, 1 on slat blow out ol In t tide t wall rled I l imott blue they laborl "Pc Boris bis p ed a fonts ah all Foi pitch llghti appei be si sped wave live! and they i near arch' on tl B sudd mal rolle fron mint a w' aval rush two unhl mlei at t Tt. 1 vai wb rel Th tin an to' Ilf lln rci th I) wi Wl ha th d hi P' al ti, tc bl I C( h w r |