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Show Independent. 1 Mil VOL. 8. NO. 26 SPRING VI LLE, UTAH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1899. PRICE- $2.00 PER YEAR. " W" Makes the food more delicious and wholesome RvaL RAKINQ POWOTR CO, , NEW YORK. iumgiiiiiim BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY- i This Year Will See Great Activity. REMARKABLE PROGRESS IN 18'Jis. litrpe Number of Factories Were Built, But the Tonnage was Less than in 181)7. -Notes and Comment. Willet & Gray's circular, devoted to the sugar industry of the world, makes interesting mention of the. the progress of sugar making in the country when it states: "The domestic beet-sugar industry of the United States shows some very notable features, which are quite surprising when considered from some points of view. The result of the campaign in tons is below last year, but the gain in factoriesbu.lt and Droposed is quite important. The object ob-ject lesson of a few well-managed factories paying 20 per cent divideuds to stockholders and dividing $200,000 among farmers near by. as in Utah, is having a wonderful effect both upon capitalists and farmers in neighboring neighbor-ing states and localities, and the year 1899 bids fair to see much greater activity and advance in this industry, regardless of any objection or fears from without. The industry itself is expected to be strong enough in its portion to take care of itself against all opposition, politically or otherwise, other-wise, by the time that any important action may be required. Certainly the progress made this year is phenomenal phe-nomenal and unexpected generally, not as to sugar produced, but as to factories fac-tories built and contemplated, and as to progies3 made ! y farmer ; in e.iD.ri-mental e.iD.ri-mental work." Orange Judd Farmer: Two large schemes for the speedy development of the beet sugar industry are announced. an-nounced. The Advance sugar company, com-pany, capitalized at $j0,G00.(X)O. is proposed pro-posed to '"take over"' exiting or contemplated con-templated beet sugar factories in Michigan. New Yoik or tin; middle States and to buiid others. The promoters pro-moters are trying to place the stork solely among retail grocers and farmers, farm-ers, tanking it a co-operative effort for those who produce and sell its product. Tiie other scheme is the consolidal ion into a single company of the Oxnard factories at Norfolk and Grand Island, Neb. Chi no and Ilucneme, Cal. It is said that the Oxnards will keep a controlling interest inter-est in the new company, but that the deal will free much capital uow tied up in these factories and enable them to use it in builing new mills at some of the many places all over the country coun-try that want sugar factories. Orange Judd Farmer: -The farmers of Utah have declined to grow beets for the Ogden factory at a straight price of $3.50. as their beets in 1SU8 averaged about 1" per cent sugar. They offer to contract a large acreage at $3.50 for beets containing con-taining 12 per cent sugar to the weight of the beet, with a purity coefficient co-efficient of not less than 78, and 25c per ton for every per cent of saccharine sacchar-ine above 12. and 25c less for each per cent below 12. This is about as near ly right as the thing can be figured. It means a low price for poor beets and a good price for rich beets, and that is fair for loth parties. A lot of Improvements will be made at the Lehi (Utah) factory. They will cost quite a large sura and give employment employ-ment to many people. That new 6ugar mill near Springville is practically prac-tically assured. Springville is lively after a sugar factory, and it begins to look like 6he would get it. There are mauy nice things in this world, but i( takes push and pluck to get them. Richfield Rich-field Advocate. Denver Republican: There may bo a beet sugar factory near Denver within a year. C-V. Cox, promoter of lb" Colorado Sugar Manufacturing coin pans, is authority au-thority for the statement, lb- U at the Albany because the snow pn -nt his return to Grand Junction, arid he said last night that the building of a factory was probable. ' It will lie a great benefit." he continued, con-tinued, "to Denver. The contingency upon which rests the carrying out of our present plan is the success of our proposed factory at. Grand Junction. We will soon start upon its erection and b" fo re fall will be in a position to V'W whether or not it will be a paying pay-ing undertaking. "If it turns out to be profitable then we will at once build another factory, about the same size, at some point near thiscity possibly at Love-land Love-land or Greeley. Lovcland oilers better advantages on account of its having plenty of water. These points are so near Denver t hat I venture to say nine-tenths of the $200,000 or S250.000 we will annually an-nually expend at the new factory will rind its way into Denver. This city will do nearly Jill the selling, banking and like service for those who will receive re-ceive the money and thus will be greatly benelited." Millions Given Away. It is certainly gratifying to the public pub-lic to know of one concern in the land who are not afraid to be generous to the needy and suffering. The proprietors pro-prietors of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have given away over ten million trial bottles of this great medicine; and have the satisfaction of knowing it has absolutely cured thousands of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseuess and all disease of the Throat, Chest and Lungs are surely cured by it. Call on Dr. C. J. Peterson, Peter-son, Druggist, and-get. a free- -trial-bott'e. Regular size 50c. and $1. Every bottle guaranteed, or price refunded. re-funded. AN AERIAL VISITOR. Large Meteor Passes Over Central Cen-tral Utah Tussday Evening. At a few minutes after 0 o'clock, last Tuesday evening, people who happened to be abroad saw a remarkable remark-able meteoric display. Eye wit nesses state that the earth was suddenly bathed in a flood of beautiful white lieht. which lasted but an instant. Various descriptions are given of the fast flying body from which this light emanated, one being to the effect that it was shaped like an umbrella. um-brella. Its flight was to the southward, south-ward, and no sound was audible. Superstition Sup-erstition people regarded the aerial visitor as a warning of some sort from super-natural sources. ' The same meteor was seen at Manti, according to the correspondent of the Detent A'ur.. who gives the following account of it: "About 0:15 last evening as your correspondent stepped into the street there appeared in the heavens a light simliar to that of an arc light. The mountains around could be seer, as plainly as at noon day, although it was snowing hard at the time. The light lasted for about one minute then darkness came, and in about three or four minutes after the light disappeared we heard a trembling roar and a loud report far greater than the report of ten cannons. Many of the residents of Manti heard the report and heard the windows of their dwellings shake and their houses tremble. At the time of the report. i me l. w. u. v . lodge was in seesion aud the report caused many of them to jump to their feet, wondering what caused the buildidg to tremble and the windows to shake. It is believed that a meteor fell near this city and perhaps may be found at some future time." THOUGHT IT AN EARTHQUAKE. The correspondent at Price reports the appearance of the same star, as follows; "An earthquake shook the country westand'tiorthwcso from here last night about half past eight. A large Hash of light was seen here at Price which seemed to cover the mountains in a semi-circle running from west to northwest for miles, and was immediately followed bya muffled, rolling noise like the sound of distant thunder. People living up at Miller's ranch, west from here, and also up along Gordon creek, northwest from here, report the earth shaking violently violent-ly for a few seconds. TALE WITH A MORAL. A Springville Story From Sevier Sources. FRUIT GROWING VS. ALFALFA. The Push and Enterprise of a Couple of Springville Boys.- Said to be ' x'.ng all Kinds of Money. A reliable party informed the writer of this last week that he knew of a case in Springville where the head of a family died a few years ago leaving a small piece of land upon which there w is ;i mortgage of $1000, says the llkhfieid Advocate. The laud was occupied as a home, with the usual farm buildings and improvements. improve-ments. The land used for cultivation was planted to luceru and grain. With t he closest economy and many sacrifices the husband and father was just able to pay the interest on the mortgage, aud at his death the outlook out-look was not very bright for the family, lint the boys thought of a 8 :heme whereby they hoped to redeem the property. They ploughed up the entire piece of land, bought a stock of fruit tries on time and planted the land to a nice young orchard. They managed to keep up the interest inter-est on the mortgage, aud in 1897 they paid for the trees with the first year's crop Last year they paid 8250 on the mortgage, bought a few head of cows and made some improvements about the home. This year they expect to pay the mortgage in full. . How many people in Sevier county are plodding along as did the Springville Spring-ville gentleman? They have, perhaps, mortgages on their property, and in spite of their hard labor and closest economy can pay no more than the interest. How many are growing j hopeless of ever being able to icdeem the mortgage? On unmortgaged! land, how juany farmers -flad-: themselves them-selves 8300 or $400 ahead jeaeh year? Their grain yields a good crop and their hay is all the land will produce. But when the yearly debts are paid what is left? Nothing very encouraging. encourag-ing. How many propose to raise the same old crop, and how many propose io ty a change? What can they cha ige to? Have they ever tried fruit? No, but they have seen the experience of others, and are satisfied it is even less reliable and remuncra' tive than the hay and grain products. Did they ever see an acre of orchard carefully attended to, and every effort devoted to its sucress? No, it wasn't worth the time. Von can never tell whether you will have a market for your fruit. Well, you haven't made much of a fortune at fanning; eau you do much worse trying some! hing else? Suppose you try the plan of the Springville hoys whose only inheritance inheri-tance was a small farm, mortgaged for $1000. Suppose von plaut five acres of your land to orchard. Tou can spare that small spot. Suppose you try about two varieties of apples. Don't neglect the trees, but give them reasonable care. In three years, your crop will pay for your trees. The following fol-lowing year you will have about 1000 bushels of apples to sell. If the trees have been treated fairly the fruit will bring you 75 cents a bushel. How many acres of hay or graiu will olTset the $750? In five years you will produce 2500 bushels of apples. Now where is the prollt from your land coming from? Your five acres of fruit are worth all the rest of your crop. They do not require as much work. All that Uiey have needed has been your care and attention. Your mortgage is a cancelled can-celled instrument. You have a little surplus money to devote to comforts and luxuries. Yes, this is a nice dream, you may say, but it won't work. Well, it has Highest Honors, World's Fair Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair Amid Halting Powder containing alutu. Thr.v are Injurious to health i If W?ri worked in tens of thousands of cases, It l working in thousands of cases today. to-day. It is redeeming homes and farms and bringing money where akin to poverty prevailed before. It is building up fortunes, and creating factories. It is one of the best crops grown. The climate and soil of Sevier County are nicely adapted for it, Why not have a change? Devote the soil to more profitable uses. ISLAM EH THE JUDGE. "A Citizen" Thinks Culprits (Jet Too Liurlit Punishment Rowdyism is becoming so rampant in this citv as to be almost unbearable, unbear-able, and ihe good citien are becoming becom-ing very tired of having their slum-hers slum-hers disturbed and their property destroyed de-stroyed by gangs of noisy, drunken hoodlums. The city niarahal is handicapped handi-capped by lack of help to properly patrol the city; being alone most of the time, he cannot lie in several places in the town at the same time. When he does manage to run to earth tiny of t he gang of rowdys, why are mostly lads in their teens, he does not receive the proper support from the Just i c, of the Peace, who, through tenderheartness and a fatherly regard 'for the boys, gives them a lot of valuable val-uable advice and a tine ranging from one to three dollars, or else remits the fine altogether. Now it appears that this system does not work to the best welfare of the city. It is time to make a change and I believe that if the Judge would give a more severe sentence iu those cas's, a decided improvement would he noted in our citv in a very short time, and many a boy thereby will be made to face about and get into the path of morality. And he will be doing do-ing one of the greatest kindnesses to tile boys that he could bestow, even if it was hide beneath the grim Dage of chastisement. A Citizen. IS ALl'M POISOXH'S. Whitens the Baker's ISread but Plays 4 Havoc With the Stomach of the " Alum is used by many bakers to whiten their bread, enabling them to use an inferior flour, and it is also employed as a cheap substitute for cream of tartar in the manufacture of baking powder. Its use in bread and baking powder is very detrimental detrimen-tal to health, producing dypepsia and obstinate constipation, and under certain conditions of the human system sys-tem results in poisoning. What these conditions are so far as each individual individ-ual is concerned can only lie surmised: some peculiarity of the system producing pro-ducing a morbid change in the secretions secre-tions of the stomach with which the alum combines and forms an active poison: or, the secretions may be healthy but, in abnormal proportions aud these lesser or greater pi oporlions in combination with the alum constitute con-stitute a poison just as two parts of mercury and two parts chlorine form calomel, whicli Is not poisonous, while one part of mercury aud two parts of chlorine yield corrosive sublimate, sub-limate, which is a most deadly poison. Frances E. W illard .Memoriul. The Woman's Christian Temperance Temper-ance Union invites the public to meet with them Friday evening, Feb. 17, at the Presbyterian chapel, to hold memorial services for the late Frances Fran-ces E. Willard, the organizer of the union. The following program will be given: Devotional exercises Mrs. Hall. Music and recitations Loyal Tciu-perauce Tciu-perauce legion, Vocal solo Miss Dougall, Short addresses: 1 Lessons from the character and life work of Fiances E. Willard, Miss I'limpton; 2 Miss Willard's childhood child-hood and home training. Miss Hansen; Han-sen; 3 Miss Willard's influence as an educator, Mr. I. N. Smith: 4 Miss Willard's influence and work as the organizer and leader of the W. C. T. C. Mrs. Lee. Vocal sain Mr. West. Miss Willard's address to young people Mrs. Murphy. Music. Free will offering. Music. I.ioncdiction. The relatives and friends of Serjeant Ser-jeant W. It. Dougall of Co. Iv, 2nd Fnited States Volunteer Engineers, met with a very happy surprise last Friday evening by his arrival home from Honolulu. His arrival was somewhat unexpected, though it was was known that he was on his way home, but he arrived a few days sooner than expected. Harney looks as If ho had stood the hardships of soldier life admirably and looks none the worse for his experience. Serjeant Ser-jeant Dougall is on special detail w irk ind was ordered home to appear ap-pear as a witness for the Government Govern-ment in the law suits over the gllson-ite gllson-ite claim In the Uintah reservation. Springville wants a pay-roll to insure her growth and permanent prosperity, pros-perity, and to get it she must encourage mid eupport homo industry. A good way to do that is to buy their product irt preference to foreign goods. A word to the wise is sufficient. suffi-cient. Call and see my fine stock of homo Socks and Stockings, which for material, workmanship and price will compare favorably favor-ably with any Eastern product. James Whitehead, 3r. - Springville, Utah. i - - - - Beck's Jewelry Store. Rich Provo City CITY COUNCIL MEETING. Belated. Report of Week's Session. Last MOKE STORAGE RESERVOIR TALK Petitions and Communication. Rio Grande Western Depot Expense Bill.-Routine and Other Kuslness. Last week's t'ity Council report was unavoidably held over, and is herewith here-with submitted: All the members of the council were present when the session was call-d to order. A petition of Charles Uulett and thirty others, asking that certain obstructions ob-structions on the street near J. II. Weight's residence lie removed, was referred to the commit tee on streets and sidewalks. Petition of city marshal, mar-shal, asking that bed and bedding for the jail, and for other supplies be furnished his nflice was granted, and the mayor was instructed to purchase the necessary supplies. The recorder petitioned for ofllct room and oflice supplies, and on motion $20 was allowed al-lowed and appropriated for the purchase pur-chase of a desk for the recorder. A communication from the auditor of the Ilio Grande Western Ry. Co., returning the cancelled note of the city for $2000 in favor of that company, was read. It also included a state ment of expenditures on the new depot, which amount to Dec. 31, 1808, was 5773, .and that since then other expenses would bring the amount up to 4,oo0. Report of the committee on City pasture for the year 1808. was read aud ordered tiled. A communication from attorney Lrltcniow of halt Lake Lity, in re gard to the" Perry Thomas damage suit was read, atid the mayor was instructed in-structed to consult the City attorney and answer the communication by telephone. Councilman Huntington called up the question of the City recorder col lecting hotel licensed. The recorder had been collecting the hotel licenses under the old ordinance which made It $1 00 per quarter on each hotel, while the new ordinance under which the license should have been collected regulated the ainoutit according to number of rooms and would make the license on the hotels here $3.00 per quarter. 'No action was taken on the matter. The marshal's bill for himself and deputies for the month of January amounting to 3S.VJ.00 was presented and allowed. Committee on irrigation reported having investigated the watermaster's report recommended that the report re-port be referred back to the water-master water-master for corrections, Huntington reported having visited Mapleton, and had taken some measurements on the Oak Springs reservoir, and also having made some measurements at the proposed site on the Joseph Wing A Magnificent Slock of ai Useful Presents, At Prices to Suit Everybody. Watches, Clocks, Diamonds, Opals, Rings, Canes. Rogers Bros. Solid Silver Knives. Long Chains, Umbrellas, Spectacles, Lovely China and Cut Glass. Utalx. farm. He reported having met considerable con-siderable encouragement in this direction. The reservoir was again discussed at some length, after which the council adjourned. DEATH RATE GROWING. Doctors Attribute It to What We Eat. The constantly Increasing number of deaths from stomach troubles is exciting the keenes't'ihterest amoog the medical fraternity. The prevalence prev-alence of these stomach disorders or ailments the doctors attribute largely large-ly to impure food products with which the country at large seems to be flooded, and in an attempt to counteract coun-teract which many of the states have enacted pure food laws. The fact of the mat ter is the people of the United States are, as a rule, too careless and Indifferent as to what they eat or how it is cooked, and the inevitable penalty pen-alty of disordered stomachs is the result. re-sult. One of the adulterations that is most serious in its effects is the use of alum to whiten bread or to furnish cheap baking powder. It destroys the coating of the stomach, produces dyspepsia, and eventually poisons the blood. Trv a piece of alum in your mouth aud note the result. No stomach stom-ach into which itenters can long remain re-main healthy. - Grip makes one sickj weary and restless. Dr. Milts' Restorative Nervine brings rest. Marriage Licenses. Legal permits to ,wed have been issued since last report to the following follow-ing parties: A. L. Mecham, Jr., aged 27, of Provo liench, and Nettie Keltch, aged 2ti, of Linden, Hyrum J. Wright, 21, of Linden, and Alice H. Trinna-ui Trinna-ui an, IU, of Pleasant Grove: J. A. Packard, 31, of Springville. and Eliza llobertson, 24, of Spanish Fork; Bruce Ilovlance, 22, and Efl'.e Wheeler, 19, both of Springville: Chas. I). Evans, !!, of Springville, and Clara Resh, 42. of Paysim; Fred S. Dart. 32. and F.flle M. Stewart, 23, both of Spanish Fork; Win. Oleson, 2.", and Irene Berry, 20, both of Provo; George A. Madsen, 23, of Lake View, and Nettie Wilson, 19, of Pleasant Grove; Andrew E.Lofgrcn, 20, of Santaquin, and Armindia Launceford, 22, of Vrovo. Prepare for Spring. Don't let this season overtake you before be-fore you have attended to the important im-portant duty of purifying your blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla. By taking this medicine now you may save sickness that will mean time and money as well as suffering later on. Hood's Saisaparilla w ill give you rich, red blood, good appetite, good digestion diges-tion and a sound, healthy body. It Is the greatest and best spring medicine because it is the one true blood purifier. Its unequalled record of marvelous cures has won for it the confidence of the whole people. WANTED -Several trustworthy persons In 1 his Mule to iniiuuKO our business In their own and nearby counties. It U mainly otllce work conducted at home. Salary Sal-ary (iti ainht t'.KKl a year aud expenses definite, defi-nite, boiialldti, no more, no less salary. Monthly K.V Inferences. Knnlose self-ad-drviuiod slumped envelonv. Herbert E. Hewi. 1'rw.t.. department M. Cnlrago. |