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Show THE SPANISH ANDREW JENSEN, LOBSTERS AT $500 WILL AID IN TAKING CENSUS FORK PRESS Porto Rican Journal Has High Idea of Morgan's Taste. Publisher UTAH SPANISH FORK I : UTAH STATE NEWS Baltimore, Md. Now that Porto Rico is a part of the United States, it behooves the . Porto Rlcana to take heightened Interest in that most curious of North American products the And they are doing so. Judging from which appeared In a newspaper of San Juan about J. Plerpont Morgan, which may or may not be known to readers of more northerly, latitudes. Here it is: "The lobsters destined for the exalted palate of Mr. Morgan are caught expressly for him, and for nobody else; they do not belong to that vulgar class of fish which everybody can acquire at the market by simply putting down the price asked. The American multimillionaire has had built on the shores of the ocean a little hut, painted red. In this hut a lobster fisher lives all the year round. His Job Is an easy one, because Mr. Morgan's craving for the delicious crustaceans comes upon him very seldom not more than three or four times a year. "The lobster .fisherman above mentioned draws a salary of $2,000 yearly. Supposing that the American potentate eats lobsters four times a year,- the cost of his lobsters comes to $500 a - The Woods Cross State bank has teen organized, with a capital of $25,000, to do a general banking busi- ness. Joe Bcllovltch, an Austrian, aged 7 years, was fatally Injured In a cave-Iin the Btope of the Daly-Judg-e mine at Park City. Rufus Franzden, a boy of Mount Pleasant, was thrown from a horse last week, bis leg being broken in three places. son of Nutlan The elghtyear-olWells of Willard, who was seriously Injured, being run over by a buggy, is recovering from his Injuries. It Is probably that a rate of 1 cent a mile will be in force on all roads botween Chicago and Salt Lake during the G. A. R, encampment. old At the sixtieth folks' banquet held in American Pork last week, there were present 200 people between the ages of 65 and 70. ' Job C. Rolley, a constable at Helper, was found unconscious on the etreets of Salt Lake, having been truck by a runaway team. He will an-ite- m J' .t.M'i.J. '( v- ':' J semi-annu- recover.-- . , , ;." Arrangements are already being made for the Big Four county fair to be held in Ogden next fall, the counties of Weber, Box Elder, Morgan and Davis participating. Two children deserted by their par ents, being placed upon the doorsteps of the homes of two Salt Lakers, were last week placed in homes by the Juvenile court. It is probable that Utah will decide to establish and maintain a stale building at the exposition at Seattle, Wash., June 1 to October 15 this year. Ralph Cardner and John Gardner, the boys who escaped from the Slate Industrial school at Ogden, while at work In a green house, were Alaska-Yukon-Paclfl- o appro-tende- d at Pocatello, Idaho.' David Hanson of Mount Pleasant was painfully injured in the head when a large tree fell on him. For Feveral hours after the accident he remained in an unconscious state. Utahns are to have an opportunity to see the historic Liberty bell next June, when it will be taken on a tour cf the west on the way to the Alaska-YukoPacific exposition at Seattle. One of the moBt elaborate entertain tnents planned In many months was the old folks' celebration, held at Ephralm last week, all over C5 years of age being guests of the entertainment committee. In view of the fact that a movement la on foot to abandon the agricultural experiment station at Lehl, the Ogden chamber of commerce is endeavoring to Becure the location of the station near that city. who Alex Carlson, the paranoic murdered Miss Martha Ecklund at 6andy, shooting the woman as she sat reading her bible, has been .Insane and Is now confined In the state mental hospital. Life Imprisonment at hard labor was the sentence Imposed by Judge Chldester at Richfield upon Alvin Heaton, Jr., for the murder of Mary Stevens. The crime occurred near Ordervllle, Kane county, last April. Alfred Lpckett, a man about 40 years of age, who reported that he isd killed a man In Chicago several years ago and wanted to be locked up, has been adjudged insane and Is now f.n occupant of the State Mental n bos-X.lt- the result of a snowsllde at the mine, near Alta, L. S. Turner, a miner, Is dead. The cabin In which Turner was staying was completely burled In the snow, and It Is supposed that death was due to sufAs Alta-Hecl- . a focation. George Sorensen and Henry Hardin became engaged In a saloon brawl In Salt Lake City, during which Hardin Is charged with having stabbed his antagonist. Inflicting a wound in the abdomen which U not regarded as serious. W. It Is rumored that A Clark of Montana may Join hands with David II. Moffat for the building of the Moffat mad from the Utah line to Salt Uko City, where It will connect with tin San Pedro, Los Angeles tt Salt Lake road. George Addle, aged 22 years, sufat the Little fered serious Injuries Iell mine at Park City, by striking Ms pick Into a "mlfcsed hole." As 1.1k pick struck the powder an explosion took place and blew fragments cf rock Into his face, thus blinding ilm. Earl Drown, aged 14 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Brown of Pleasant Green, was shot and Instantly killed with his own gun, while returning from a rabbit hunt. The boy was In the art of crawling uuder a barbed wire fence when the sad accident At Parowan John Ayers has been sentenced to five years In the stato prlion upon a plea of guilty of forgery. The offense consisted of d an order for money on Mr. I Jim! of Modotta and signing ,f. Nell's name 1o It, and by which he obtained f 10 In money. I.uirt Vclcarll, an Italian, who some rapidly weeks ftso Jumped from moving passenger train In . Nevada, ttml uuR'atncd ullKht Injurl", was lartt week tried fit Ogden and found to be Msnnn, He was on bin way to his native land at the lime he Jumped from IS trail A MEAL. - catch.- - MINES AND MINING NORTHWEST NOTES Work on the large warehouse of the Jumbo Plaster company at Richfield, Utah, wns commenced last week and the shipment of the product to the coast will begin within a very few days. "Based upon present quotations, the securities of the American Smelting & Refining company show a market depreciation of about $00,000,000 from the high levels reached in 1900, says Mining Science. It la anounced that an Important strike has been made in the vicinity of Kooskia, Idaho. It is generally believed among mining men that one of the rich ledges of the Middle Fork country has been uncovered. The camp of Yerlngton, Nevada, is not booming Just at present, but all reports show a steady growth,' with work being pushed rapidly as possible on all the properties. Yerington will be heard from later on. a With an Increased force, the work of extracting ore from the north t level in the Hap drift on the ris lease of the Seven Troughs Florence Mining and Leasing company, is with all possible being prosecuted vigor, preparatory to a mill run. It Is difficult to believe that, two years ago, bar silver was quoted in London at 33d per ounce, says the Mexican Herald. Roughly speaking, it has fallen off some lid, and this makes an immense difference to a country like Mexico. It took a mule, so the legend goes, lo kick off sufficient of the surface to expose ores on' what Is now one ol the greatest lead producing mines in the Coeur d'Alenes, and another legend has It, says the Salt Lake Tribune, that a burro was to blame for the Tonopah Butler discovering ' camp. Finds of a sensational character rave been made recently In the Wildcat claim near Farrell, Nevada. In the face of the drift which has been extended 200 feet northward from 'evel, is exthe saft, on the body of ore which posed a two-foo- t is said to Average better than $100 a ton. The American coal miners' twentieth annual convention, which President Lewis called to order at Ind'an-spoil- s on January 19, developed into one of the largest national conventions the miners have ever held. Between 1100 and 1200 delegates were seated in the hall for the opening session. A prominent resident of Ely, Nevada, reports that the monthly pay-toof the mines amounts to $200,000. He predicts a very prosperous year during 1909 for the great copper camp of White Pine county, as there never was a time In the history of the whole camp that looked so favorable as at 200-foo- "Thus the greatest of millionaires has Introduced once again the gastronomic customs of the ancient , Jtioto by Wddoa f'twrctt Romans. The Romans liked lampreys, Cressy L. Wilbur is chief statistician of vital statistics of the United States Just as Mr. Morgan likes lobsters. In census and has held that position since July, 1906. He is an expert In mat- order to feed the lampreys properly ters pertaining to the gathering of statistics and has introduced many Innovaand be enabled to eat them in season tions that will simplify the taking of the coming census. they kept them In tanks at enormous expense. Some historians go so far as to say that the said Romans, in or der that their fish might have a succulent taste, were in the habit of giving them live slaves to eat. "But the American multl millionaire be will spend two or three years in has not as yet thought of treating his BOY WILL END COLLEGE TERM Germany or France, devoting himself lobsters to a meal composed of to philosophy or science. AT AGE OF FOURTEEN. Vv That is, at an age when the average boy has still two years of work ahead THEY GROW TALL IN MONTANA, Norbert Wiener, Sen of Cambridge of him for his bachelor's degree young Wiener will be doing advanced scien- Combined Height of Ten Members of Professor, to Graduate from tific work among the One Family Nearly Sixty Feet. Tufts In June Also Good savants of a German university. in Athletics. Prof. Leo Wiener of the department Helena, Mont A singular rivalry Boston. At Tufts college a boy will of Slavic languages at Harvard is of has arisen between two Montana Russian parentage; the boy's mother towns as to which possesses the tallgraduate next June at the age of 14, Is a native of Missouri. The other est family. Llbby, In Flathead counand we will have to take off our mortar board caps to him. He Is children of the family do not differ ty, professes to have more tall people Norbert Wiener, the son of a Harvard from other boys and girls of their age. than any town of its size on the conApart from the fact that bis capac tinent. professor. This remarkable boy was Ten members of one family have born in Columbia, Mo., November 26, Ity for learning Is phenomenal, Nor1894. He could repeat the alphabet bert Wiener is like other boys. His combined height of almost sixty feet. at the age of 11 months, could read physical development Is excellent; be The father weighs 215 pounds and is inches tall. The mother and write at three years, and at the is a good tennis player and an expert six feet 2 age of eight he was fitted for college swimmer. He Is a ,tall boy and a weighs 225 pounds and Is five feet six strict vegetarian. His head is normal Inches tall. The children size up as In mathematics, philosophy, modern In size, but his blazing, black eyes are follows: First son, six feet ZM Inches and the sciences. languages ' It required less than three years almost uncanny In their power. Per- tall, age 21 years; second son, six he chooses mathematics as his feet four Inches, age 19 years; first cf schooling after donning short trou- sonally favorite study. Philosophy he calls daughter, five feet eight inches tall, sers for him to prepare for college. his "fairyland." .r. age 17; third son, six feet four Inches, Boys seldom do this in less than ten age 16 years; fourth son, five feet ten the present or 11 years; usually It requires an THEY CAUGHT THE GOOSE. Inches, age 14 years; fifth son, five In the east drift from the bottom even dozen, and often longer. r- 11 years; second daughter, level la of the winze on the 170-foWhen Norbert Wiener entered Tufts Des Moines Bridge Workers Have an feet, age Holl-ga- n four feet two nine on lease the inches, age Truett Happy the years; In the autumn of 1906 he bad gone Exciting Chase, sixth three feet ten son, Inches, age claim at Rawhide, Nevada, the farther In chemistry and philosophy four years. The head of this proud miners have encountered the, same Des Moines, la. Workmen on the than the average senior. He was reIs Herman Bockman. ore that lich streaks of quired to take several entrance ex- new Locust street bridge were treated family Red Lodge takes exception to Lob- occur directly above in the seventy-too- t to a thrill which would set the galaminations, mathematics among them, level, Indicating oonJlnulty of in which he was found to be far la ad- lery wild with excitement If utilized by's claim to the supremacy and calls attention to the fact that in that city the pay shoot to depth. vance of the freshman class. as the climax to a four members of one family are taller A vein of coal has been found alSo as a freshman he did upper-clas- s medodrama, and In the end captured Bockthan four members of the any most In the heart of the Ely copper work in the theory of equations a mammoth goose, which would af- man family. W. A. Talmage and his district. It Is not a large vein, but aud in determinants, while In philoso- ford a substantial basis for a charity three sons are probably the tallest of It Is a fair graae of coal, and tne j phy It was found necessary to place dinner. Mr. TalAbout 8:30 o'clock In the morning 4 any quartet in the city. him In a class by himself. He had ve'n having Increased In thickness is six feet i Inches tall; Earl mage cent in sinking upon r.00 read Spencer, Haeckel, Darwin, Hux- large gray goose was 'sighted off the about Talmage, age 18 years, Is six feet It nine leetperthe outlook is most enley and many others. Now he has starboard quarter of the new bridge Inches tall; Elmer Talmage, age for a camp that is paying read Locke, Hobbes and other Eng- by one of the workmen, and the alarm eight 19 years, is six feet 7Vi Inches tall, couraging was $12 to $15 a ten for coal. lish philosophers; he has translated given. The bird was steering due and Homer and several plays of Aesctrlus, north, all sails set. In the teeth of a 13 Nathan, the youngest, who Is only The New York Mining Age, the diyears of age, measures five feet six as well as a similar amount A Latin. spanking breeze. A rowboat was of which represent every rectors Inches. This makes a total or 24 feet of the mining and engineering In mathematics be has delved Into quickly manned and the men set out 8 phase Inches. Then the average height business of New York the Galois theory of equations and has to Intercept the strange craft. When or the father and three sons will City, has been unthe boat became visible to the goose state ,to York New In caldifferential and Incorporated completed Integral questionably compare with that of devoted culus. He will continue this branch It tacked and started down the river any other a irsue paper, mining weekly In the entire family this year and will study the philosoph- at full speed, but all Its efforts were to the publication of mining solely In vain, and it was captured Just under news that Is calculated to keep stock ies of Leibnitz. Spinoza and Kant. the Walnut street bridge, where a buyers correctly Informed about the In Greek he will read Herodotus and Wants to Fumigate a Cow. large crowd had gathered, encouragmarkets throughout tho counmining Sophocles; the rest of his time will be ing the flight or the fowl with Cincinnati. Dr. B. F. Lyle, physilusty try. taken up by biology and orgautc chem- shouts. cian at the branch hospital, has anr That the leasers and owners of istry. In June, 1909, he will have comThe question over the distribution nounced that he was open for suggesr four-yeapropertlea In the Seven Troughs discourse In of the one bird pleted the regular the half a tions on "bow to fumigate a cow." need have no fear of disposing trict three years, receiving the degree of hundred workmen among . Robert Armstrong, living opposite has not yet been nf their bachelor of arts before he has reached settled. milling rock, Is evident from , the pesfhotiHe, claims that convalesmade on the Harthe the age of 15. But the work he has progress cing pesthouse patients swiped his ris mill. Thisbeing, will be a custom plant covered will equal the amount usually Mail Dogs Carry Bags. cow, and he won't take It back until Yeadon. Pa. W. B., Evans, who Is It is fumigated. They offered him 50 and will make the fourth mill for the completed by a candidate for the de; the postmaster and Justice of the cents rent for the cow, but he spurned district. gree of doctor of philosophy. The stock of the Ohio Copper comIn the autumn following his gradua- peace of this borough. Is the owner of It because be was afraid of that half pany Is to be listed on the Salt Lake tion at Tufts college he will enter the two valuable and Intelligent collie dollar. The company's estate comHarvard Graduate school, where he dogs. When the dally malls arrive at txchange. Many methods of fumigation have 15 patented claims. Work acwill elect work In higher mathematics, Fernwood station they can be seen been suggested to Dr. prises but each Lyle, of shaft with a supplementary course In biol- waiting for the matlbngs, which are has had Its own disadvantages. The complished Includes 1.385 feet cross to or and ogy them, chemistry. After receiving the given they trot with them city service, to which the complaint 10,082 feet of raises, tunnels and 7.000,-000 doctor's degree at 17 an age when to their master, who Is always on the was made, left It to Dr. Lyle with cuts. Ore In sight Is given- at tons. many students are not yet contem- lookout to so that no one attempts to power to art. and he feels responsible The Crowley boys report splendid take the bags away from them. plating the entrance examinations for the met hod as well as the results. showing at the coal mine about 30 miles from Idaho Falls, Idaho and as TRUNDLES BARROW 4,660 MILES. work progresses the vein Is assuming a more solid form and the coal Pedestrian Must Go 4,340 More Withlr. of first class character. The propFind Near Wadsworth, O., Declared in Time Limit to Win Bet. will bo developed for all there It Is Prof. Wright's belief that at erty to Be Important to Geologists. is In It. one time the site of Wadsworth was San Francisco. J. A. Krohn of J. Ward, who has been prospecting Akron, O. Tho discovery of what covered with a largi glacier which In the district for eighteen years, last has arrived in this city la asserted to be a paleolithic stone was a mile high and extended to Portland, M In his on a walk of 9,000 miles, which be Is near Wadsworth has led Prof. (1. The paleolithic stone tound week uncovered a vein of ore district of Peak Ward's In the nine to make on a wager In 400 days. Ac- Frederick Wright, geologist and prsb near Wa lswoith Is an t Optical shaped cording to the conditions of the bet. dent of the State Archnoglcal ho flint stone weighing about a half or Idaho thnt assnys $220 to the ton. 11 Krohn. who Is better known as ciety, to declare that Medina county of a pound and Is a 1h vein Is a little over In feet wide, value with and Is said to Increase "Colonial Jack," must push a wheel- was the home of paleolithic man. fine specimen of one of the Instruevery shot. barrow en route and cover 4,600 miles, Prof, Wright took the stone with hi in ments UMd by man In the glacial Mining development work In the an average- of 26 miles a day. To to Haltimore and will return to Wad Pig Creek section near Wardner Is rompteio t'.ic walk on schedule time worth next spring, he says, with gov he in nut wulk about 20 miles a day, eminent geologists to continue his resurprising In Its extent and, Judging Planet Out Btyond Neptuntf from the progress man In thfl develand in Kilte of 11 duvs lost on ac searches. Mans, The Cambridge, possibility count of Illness he Is far ahead of his Prof. Wright and Prof, ftronsnn of of a planet out Hide of Neptune, which opment of new location since Januschedule. Ubeilln college declared that the find since its discovery In 147, hns been ary 1, favorable results In this district The Sphinx, the wheelbarrow which lug of the puleollth at Wurinwnrth In conshli red the ouiermoiH body of the wnnt be certain.' says the Coeur die pedestrian trundles on Ms long one of the most Important discoveries rol.tr H.vMm, Is indicated as the result d'Alene Press. (Jermnn and French markets for walk, Is covered with the postmarks made in Amerb a In fixing the uee of of ralciilntlons at the Harvard observrrllned silver for the flat American life o( Olir. on human unices. a also has the It American contl atory of certalu Irregularities In the ot Hpeedonnter attached to reglMer the nent. They cald also that the best 01 hit of Nepltiue. The officials or the end hollow wire tradra art Imptov-InRentiers report thnt shipments number of miles covered. The wager peolmen of a Kni or Ksclier ler observatory do not contend that they on Die outcome of the walk Is $1,000 race they had ever examined Is in the have illticovered the presence of such segregating d.CTR.OOO ounces will p,n against 2.000 copies of the book which neljililMiilmod of thu Mcntionitu chinch a body, but say that such a planet out by express steamnhln to sail Krohn will write on the completion on the Seville road west of Wads would caiirto jut tut bat Ions such at from this port this week according to Wall Street Summary. of bis walk. worth. have been fo.uul. . tilver-producln- g , IS STUDENT WONDER 80-fo- gray-haire- ll '' high-grad- e - Discovers Paleolithic Stone three-quarter- g. Former Judge Gordon, arrested at Tacoma for alleged embezzlement at Spokane, gave bonds In the sum of $20,000, and will demand Immediate trial..-,- ' John H. Horner, proprietor of the hotel at Deltz, Wyo., dropped dead on January 20, from heart disease. Horner was well known In hotel circles i?r Utah, Wyoming and, Montana. The Butte Miners' union Is raising a fund for a monument to the late George A. Pettlbone of Orchard fame. Subscription lists are still open. The shaft, if is said, will he raised In Denver. Sterilization of the criminal Insane is the object of one of the Important measures. Introduced In the Oregon legislature. The measure Is being advocated by many physicians, and It is arousing unusual interest. A richly dressed woman was found face down In a skiff half filled with rater, floating in the bay at Seattle. The only clue to the Identity of the tattooed woman was a delicately bracelet on the leTt arm with the word ' "Milly" on it. It Is believed that Dr. H. L. Stuart, who left Ocean Springs, Miss., In Marcfc 1907, for the gold fields of Nevada, has perished In the desert. Vhe last word received of Dr. Stuart was from Wellington, near Walker Lake, and Reno. After a prolonged debate the Oregon senate refused to memorallze Congress to adopt 'measures for the suppression of polygamy. Republican members declared that Utah, the ttate aimed at, 13 capable of taking care of the question. WWiam Rockett of Fall River, Mass., formerly employed at the Utab Construction company on the Western Pacific railroad, was found dead sitting m Tight in a chair In .a back room of a saloon in Reno, Nevada. The cause of death is unknown. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Colorado Federation of Mrs. Women's clubs in Denver, of Adrlanna Hungerford. president the Colorado W C. T. U., charged that polygamy was being practiced openly in the southern portion of the stat. Because of financial losses and poor health. H. D. Gough. state organizer for the Woodmen or the World, and well known In Montana, made a desperate but probably unsuccessful attempt to commit t suicide at Living-iton- , slashing his wrists and throat. The Central Colorado Electric-Powe- r company has closed a conrtact for building the Baker reservoir dam la Boulder county at a cost of $00,040. The new dam will be the largest la Colorado and will Impound 500,000,-00- 0 cubic feet of water. It will be ISO feet high and COO feet long on tho mur-ier-tri- crest. The first serious mishap " - ",$ onthe a result Montana Northern Pacific as of the high water caused by the warm weather of last week, and the consequent melting of the heavy snowfall, cfvurred at Eddy, Mont., when 120 teet of track was washed . out and through heavy train service brought to a standstill. P. S. Hanson, head carpenter of tho Meyer & Chapman bank In the course cf construction In Red Lodge, Mont., was Instantly killed by the door and framework of the vault, weighing 2S0O pounds, falling on him. The accident occurred while Hanson was talking to the wife of one of the owner of the building. It develops that W I Seeley, who silled bis wife and daughter at Seattle, and then committed suicide, had reached the end of his means, had borrowed money, saw no way to pay It back, and let false pride keep him from making known his desperate financial straits lo his friends or relatives, and ended the struggle. The trial of Ccorgo Franklmuser at Helena on the charge of robbing a Great Northern train near Rondo In Hepteraher. 1907. Is now on. The evidence adduced tends to show tho presence of Frankhauxcr and his alleged companion In crime, McDonald, in the vicinity of Rondo Immediately prior to the sensational affair. Radical changes are proposed by rportsmen In eastern Washington a.i amendments to the new code of laws for the protection of game to be submitted to the legislature, now In session at Oyympla. by the Washington State Game and KUh Protective association. Governor D. R. as commander-in-chief or the Wyoming has reappointed Adjutant-Genera- l P. A. Gntchrll and Assistant W. R. 'Schnltgcr. Tho remainder of the Maff was reappointed with one or two minor' exceptions. With his bride of three months, whom he married In the Jail, clinging to his 'arm and sobbing convulsively Tony Clark, found guilty of one of th most daring saloon holdups In the Llstory of Butt. wa sentenced tc iilncteen years In the Deer Ixnlgo f cnltenltary: Robert Ppauldlng. .a Janitor, wai killed In an elevator accident In tlu city hall In Tncoma. He was In th freight case beneath the pnissenget caee or the elevator, and the operatoi vns not aware of bin presence. Ai tho elemlor started Spnuldlng wai tnitrht and his skull crushed, John T, Burns, terrciary of tho board of control of the TransmlHrturl Dry Farming ruiigres. has sent a letter to Prenldeiu Romevclt urging the president to request members of the Cout.try Life rnmmlMlon to attend the aenslons of the pry Farming t Cheyenne, February 25. totigrc ml-Jltl- a, " |