Show Bubonic Fleas and Ruined Crops in the Daily Papers The falsehoods of the daily papers are becoming a menace to intelligent people their late or drouth stories are now being denied in their own columns here is the latest OF DROUTH IN MONTANA EXAGGERATED July J. H. commissioner of has telegraphed Secretary Wilson of the agricultural a protest against stories of range destruction in this state emanating from that The text of the telegram affecting the Canadian provinces and western misa has not been as injurious in Montana as Montana will produce this year the largest grain crop in its Grasshoppers are not destroying the 1 he enormous number of settlers who have flocked into taken up and fenced lands is the chief reason why the range is The range country is being transformed into productive grain Daily Press three weeks ago sensational head-lines appeared in daily forest and prairie fires were over Montana and thousands of sheep and horses were dying from thirst and These wierd sensations were scattered all over the country by the Associated Press and were made still more flaunting by the and Emigration to Montana was practically Utah Menaced by Sensational Drouth Every one who has read Utah's daily papers has seen large head-lines and column after column of wierd apprehensions that the drouth had ruined the dry crops of The daily papers publish the above without the least If had telephoned to the Agricultural College for tion they would have learned that the reports were but facts one thing and to fill up six or eight pages of a seven days a week is to fill up a column one day with a falsehood and then take another the next day to deny fill up space and the daily paper reader is the They swallow their own in the taken from the daily papers of FARM ADVICE SAVES THE CROPS Agriculturists Who Followed State Authorities Were v 1 L. A. Merrill Tells Why Some which have been issued from time to time during the present summer in regard to the shortage of crops this year on the Utah dry farms were corrected yesterday by Lewis A. Merrill of the Utah Agricultural said the Utah crops year would be short on account of the are not and in all parts of the the reports are that the crops are up to the the Times Saturday we took a drive out west among the dry farmers to see how the harvesting was coming in We found most of the wheat cut and considerable of it In spite of the fact that there had been no rain it since the first of and no the yield is far beyond the expectations of the Fields of thirty to two hundred acres aver age from twenty els per and the excessively hot the past few the are plump and of good ing everything into the crop is a very but we noticed that'll who took the most summer in disking and h ing to prepare a perfect se are the ones who have crop this M Filmore Progress from the vario farms are of the most ing a greater effort be put forth by clearing burning brush to plant M acreage this M Rats and Bubonic ja Breaks Out in the DM Here is another silly started Monday in Sail the dailies to fill ip wm AND FLEAS MENACE TM m Rodents and Insects Bubonic Plague It Breaks T. B. BEATTY'S He Says People Immediate the people Lake and quietly among the mountains of this inland not realize or never have given the moment's this slate is in the direct attack of the dreadful deaM ing bubonic ment has been given state board of health after cugh investigation of the M rat pests in this S little over a year 3 people of Salt Lake that the Norway rat into the TH dents were for a short fined to the southern and M IL of the city in the direct of the railroad ft had spread to other sections wL city and at this time there a section of the city cannot be The Be rats K is of little Kats everything it can find and BL a mischievous role in A rat plus is one of the most Cerous things in the tnt investigations in the Bern part of Utah have Might to light the presence of K All that it would require M to start bubonic plague is presence of one rat infected The rats and fleas are and the very first diseased hat arrives is likely to start a Bible he above rat and flea story is A Parallel nee upon a time an old a hot stove with a very Wn when great drops of id sorrow coursed down her led and furrowed her groans and lamentations e so loud and some one asked her why sorrowed so She she was just thinking that e time she might get married then she might have a dear baby and that dear little darling might crawl into hot oven and be burned Beatty's and the daily pa-E bubonic plague y will be as far from Utah as the old maid's ba-lEot-oven f A Barbarous J. H. Baas' outline of the of medicine says that the W bubonic plague is a dis-W of and yet Ey and the daily papers insinuate that Utah and City are so filthy and f ratS and fleas and so that we must look r get Beatty 11 Beatty A I can Point out a city or a like Salt Lake City or the air is as clear vv-here is where are cool and the days are warm in the summer where the winters are moderate and the days are filled with where the people ar clean and intelligent where the bubonic or any other death-dealing plague ever got a There is not a city or village in the States east of the Rocky but what has more rats to the square rod than Utah has to the Philadelphia and other large eastern cities are full cf rats and fleas with it all the bubonic plague is unknown and yet with the above fact's Beatty and the daily sensationalists loudly proclaim rats and fleas are here-and the very first diseased rat that arrives is likely to start a terrible Again we Rats to such rotten daily paper |