Show from spokane dry farming convention ven tion special telegram to the transcript spokane oct ath MR J MS ml S D 1 NN TO EU ELF about fifteen hundred delegates at ar the convention here are sixteen from utah walter james from from tooele thoele county subjects very interesting ind a great fire it deal of discussion at every session session there area great many here hir efrom from canada and other foreign countries the dry farm product 0 the west on exhibition is a beautiful display at the fair the mineral exhibit is a grand display WALTER JAMES A one per cent grade on a road bead liean arise n rise of one foot for each hundred dredie feet et of distance 6 traveled up the hill A ten per cent grade means ten feet feat rise in each hundred feet so traveled A one per cent grade then means that I 1 in traveling up hill one mile an ascent is made of feet white while a ten per c ent cent grade means a rise in altitude of feet in a mile accurate tests have shown the minnesota experiment station that a horse which can pull 1000 pounds on a level road can pull only pounds on a rise of one foot in fifty and on a rise of one foot in ten he can pull only pounds these facts show that the greatest load that can be hauled over a road is the load which can be taken up the stee steepest peat hill on that road or through the deepest mud hole it is therefore advised that all highways traveled by heavily loaded vehicles should be kept within a three or four per cent grade if practicable to do this may require a change of location to get around hills always keeping in mind that the lower the grade the larger the load may be hauled and the cost of haulage kept at the lowest point brigham city oct 4 supercharged electric lead wires an electric wash ing machine and the efforts efforts of thomas mcmaster io to chi change inge the I 1 connection from the washer to the wringer were responsible for the death of mcmaster and his sister verna and the severe injury in to mrs thomas mcmaster through a heavy electric shock this morning in the attempt to change the connection conr lection mcmaster came in contact with the wire and 2300 volts of electricity passed through hi his s body death was instantaneous mrs mcmaster grasped her husband by bythe the hand endeavoring to pull him away from the wires received the charge in her body and fell to the floor unconscious verna mcmaster hi his s sister froni from hr home next door heard the scream of mrs mcmaster and ran to her brothers home seeing the situation she too grasped her brothers hand and received a shock which brought instant death mr mcmaster was 38 years old and leaves a wife and two children verna vema was 16 and ada both were natives of brigham city herald republican A prominent clergyman while travel 3 ing from st louis to chicago noticed a lady dressed in black seeming in deep mourning going over to her he said lady you seem to be in trouble I 1 ama am a minister of the gospel and if there is anything I 1 can do to console you I 1 would be glad to do it the lady replied 1 I have been marred three times and am just taking the body of my third husband to chicago to have it cremated bust then he noticed another other lidy lady cry in ing g walking over to her her he be said 1 I am a minister of the gospel and if I 1 can console you in any way I 1 will gladly do it I 1 she replied no I 1 guess noti was just cr ying crying because I 1 am 75 years old and have never had a husband and that old thing over theres got ent to buro |