Show THE FRUIT Editor of the Independent Predicts Plenty of Fruit This Year i The misfortune are now getting in their stints over the cold weather last The Republican states that 70 per cent of the fruit crop for this season is ruined and all the other Salt Lake dailies are now shedding sorrowful brine over There has never been a year since Utah has had daily newspapers that has not been confronted with the startling announcement in large head lines Crop This b il-lious ruined fruit-crop that attacks' the Editors of the daily is not confined to our it extends as far eastward the Atlantic The started in New Jer-sey in In that year all the daily editors caught they announced that the Delaware fruit crop was killed by the This happened before the days of the linotype when all the type had to be set by but the knowing that their would reoccur the next kept the type and all they had to change was the date Our old Judge C. C. it is was the first to break out with it in Utah yet the Intermountain Republican Leroy had a dose of it last spite of these annual attacks of the on the daily Utah has never had a ruined fruit she has always had enough fruit to supply Therefore the Edi the tor of the Utah Independent is willing to wager that we shall have plenty of fruit this' One spring when we did not have the after the 1st of the daily editors nevertheless contracted the disease just about the same as to use the last year's standing type they declared that the wet weather had basted the fruit Another year they said it was so dry that the fruit would be A large paper that comes out every day has to be up with so that the people will at least imagine that they are getting something for their |