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Show THE MAMMOTH 'RECORD, MAMMOTH CITY, UTAH' -- RECLUSE CAIII10T ' ,i LOSE HIS MONEY t " , j y rrr NOMACLE vv v. Leonard R. Herzke, a cook in th of the Union Pacific, dining car was arrested at Ogden last week, on the charger of bigamy.' The . senate . has. . passed Senator stu-yic- r Chicago Man Made Unsuccessful Attempts to Give v , a .lions Away. Mil- -' JvinCUSLsEt95s'SIde a tract f government land in' Carbon county water supply of the town o'jSfiinyside. - ; ffsof the principle of capillary attraction in providing moisture for arid Utah hinds is being demonstrated in. a series of experiments at the Utah Agri- SOUGHT TO BE PAUPER Eccentrio Is Again Millionaire, Although He. Transferred Money to Attorney Victim of Many Fleecings. cultural college. The annual meeting of the comity farm bureau workers opened at Salt Lake, March 3. Representatives from every northern and western-- ' state Aged f v , were-presen- TV. Morrison, Chicago. Edward aged recluse of Chicago, has been trying to get rid of his millions for many : years, but, despite the. assistance of his lawyers and cronies, he is unable to become a pauper. The millionaire nearly succeeded a few years ago, when he transferred all his property, variously estimated at $3,000,000 to $6,000,000, to his attorney, but the transfer was recently set aside by a federal court.' In addition to his dealings with his attorney, Edward Morrison gained notoriety some years ago when he was accused by Joseph Burnstein, a Chicago junk dealer, of being the father of 'the two Burnstein girls he had adopted. The charge never was proved.1 Spent $94,000 to Get $25,000. In the 'investigation conducted by ! ' Federal 'Judge Landis it was shown that the eccentric millionaire-hapaid $94,000 to a man named Douglas to go abroad arufth search for $25,000 worth f1 of. bonds supposedly stolen from his Another man Is said to have col- -' lcted thousands of dollars for pro- -' vidlng the aged millionaire with questionable entertainment. My father was rich, he declared when questioned about a real estate 'transfer.' He left me $3,000,000 when he died. I doubled that in speculation The Salt Lake County Farm bureau 1y,? : . ' - is opposing the measure introduced in the house by Representative D. D. Mc- 4"' Solft2fAfPAR2M? A3 7iW "ComBAZr" 4 MORE FOOD IN THE SOUTH. Before the war the South annually imported about $300,000,000 worth of corn, hay, grains, mixed feed, flour, 'meat and meat product, dairy products, poultry and poultry products, and canned goods. The emergency work of the United States department of agriculture has emphasized intensive home production with the result that 15 Southern states produced 141,787,000 bushels more corn in 1918 than they harvested in 1909. The 11 states comprising the cotton belt produced 135 per cent more wheat in 1918 than in 1909. These same states during the same period increased their oats crop 133 per cent; their hay yield 128 per cent ; Irish potatoes, 117 per cent ; and sweet potatoes, 67 per cent. - I d the enrollment of boys with re spect to the branch of farming was as follows : Corn, 40,394 ; JT4V pigs, 31,375; poultry, 11,633; cotton, 5,297; miscellaneous, 4,087; potatoes, 3,441; peanuts, 3,157; (Prepared by the U. S. Department, o and grain sorghum, 2,126. These . Agriculture.) numbers were greatly increased HE AGRICULTURAL South of during 19I8, while an additional today is as different from , the 400,000 boys aided in emergency Dixieland of 1910 as the induswork. The average yield of corn trious and experienced hands of of the boys clubs was 47.97 bush. skilled els per acre. Thousands of pureagricultural workers can make It. A near miracle has bred pigs have been distributed been performed; Thousands of members. among the acres that were running wild The ' boys club work is stimuin weeds and filth are now productive of profitO'j "?, lating the attendance of farm able crops of corn, wheat,' oats, hay, cotton, tobacboys at agricultural colleges. In rmcAA co, potatoes, vegetables, and truck crops. Secone Southern state, during 1917, tions that formerly had never exported a carload 218 club boys entered the State Agricultural colcrop estimates, there are 65,066,000 hogs n the of cattle, hogs, or sheep are now extensive proUnited States, of whiph 29,651,000 animals, or 45.5 lege. ducers of mutton, beef, pork, 'wool, and dairy Under the supervision of the Southern county cent, are on farms in the six corn belt states per ' products. Families which formerly lived a drear of Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri, Indlann, and agents, 303,723 adult farmers conducted farming life of meager existence are now not only enjoy1918 the 1917 in figures are not demonstrations Ohio, while 21,756,000 porkers, or 33.4 per cent,. .. ing plenty of the staples but also many, of the of acres corn, 156,660 on 501,729 yet available are .located In the 15 Southern states,, , and the luxuries of country life. 77,597 acres of of acres acres of rye, 68,769 wheat, remaining 21.1 per cent are distributed over the ' How was that revolution effected? How was "a soy '.beans, 540,448 acres 'of velvet beans, 44,526 27 states of the Union. Under pres- remaining Southtransformed in into an mirage acres of alfalfa, 100,505 acres peanuts, 14,809 actuality the ent conditions the South ranks second only to the land? The war presented the opportunity for reacres Irish potatoes, 11,178 acres sweet potatoes corn belt as the leading section of formation along agricultural lines due to the unand 864,741 acres of miscellaneous forage crops the The remarkable fact about the country. limited demand on the American food store for hay and soil improvement purposes. houses. The second reason is because the United growth of the hog business in the cotton states is Approximately 636,000 fruit trees in Southern that it has developed rapidly during the last five States department of agriculture and the state Orchards are yielding more fruit of better farm years as a direct result of the untiring efforts of -- qoality as the result of intensive spraying and agricultural colleges, through the medium of 1,539 county agents to popularize pork production. county agents, located In the 15 states from Texpruning demonstrations conducted by the county sec- as to Oklahoma and from Florida to Maryland, Climatically the South is the ideal agents. The county agents also had charge of tion of this country and present indications are have been steadily urging farmers to increase feeding demonstrations with 18,598 head of beef that it is en route to come into its own. crop production ; to practice better farming methcattle as well as 30,041 hogs. In addition they ods ; to maintain more live stock ; and to produce Indicative of the rapid rise of the pork indusaisisted in the Importation of 58,007 beef cattle in the South the majority of what food the South try, 17 counties of southern Alabama, although for breeding purposes, while they aided in buildinannually consumes, utilizing cotton as the leading they did not ship to market a siDgle carload of ing 2,256 dipping vats and 5,517 silos. They ' marketed 2,352 56,031 farmers how to care for farm structed hogs during the year 1912-191surplus cash crop. ' manure ; hey conducted 25,068 lime, demonstracarloads of hogs during the period from April 1, Heretofore the South has been the Eden of the to advised 156,804 farmers concerning 1917, cotton farming corporation. April 1, 1018. Mississippi exported' 7,244 tions; th The negro farmers have raised cotton largely to Ihe use n commercial fertilizer; they furnished hogs In 1914, while in 1917 she disposed of 88,730 ' the exclusion of all other money crops. fat porkers, an increase of 1,224 per cent. For Then building plans for 3,028 farm buildings ; they Inthe most' part;1 the Southern, hogs are. developed. stalled 1.753 home water systems';' they super-they have about faced and converted their cotton money into imported beans, bacon, and bread vised 28,812 tiling demonstrations apd 20,439 ter- -' Inexpensively, 6ii such forage crops as soy beans, at the local supply stores. In view of this prevapeanuts, cowpeas, chufas, potatoes, native grasses racing demonstrations, and directed 315,654 home Southern county agents visited 885,966 and clover, while corn is used-- as a finish feed to, ,gardemi lent and traditional practice of buying instead of -firm, compact and bloom the flesh to the desirfarms and received 765,207 callers at their offices raising the bulk of food, the United States depurt-- ment of agriculture operated under severe haridt- able market quality. .. They delivered addresses at 78,096 or, home. , The hog supply has developed with the increase cap when It began food work south cif the Mason meetings attended by 8,880,403 people, and Dixon line. in In 1909 North Carolina raised ' TAUGHT TOREAD AT THREE. Great credit Is given to the county agents, 'who 34,000,000 bushels of corn, while in 1918 ,lt harj j have not only shown Southern farmers, in 15 vested 64,305;00G bushels and fattened 1,599,000 ' How an ingenious mother states how to raise and produce vegetables, truck hogs. Georgia produced approximately 29,475,OOQ .,1 .Here is ihe story ' bushels' 'more com In 1918 than in 1.909, fir'd durtaught her little. soa.o read, before he could talk crops, field crops and meat products' but have been successful . In getting the farmers' to raise the, or wn.lk properly. Although not three, lie can ing 1918 handled 2,507,000 hogs. Similarly. such products on a large scale. Despite Ihe fact now fend with accur.aou.und ease, yet" a normal Case o'? Jhe .otlifii Southern states, increased yields that the record price of cotton 'lias 'operated of corn pnd pork havC" been Intimately related,, baby. In fact, any boy or. girl could he similarly : ' , taught. production have against the popularity of other crops, the average ' whiletpe; exigencies of war-timIn this particular case the child began to notice farmer hacked up the food program. Southern . speeded. iti the' farmers and, largely In accord witli-farmers and townsmen raised plenty of potatoes, ldgh "market values, have expedited pork , ihe larger headlines In newspapers arid to ask in as well as sorghum for sirup, In their, home gar.manufacture'.''; Similarly; as" a result of greater baby language what they were. The letter II was dens. The farmers increased their production of, hay piio'luctioni' iiijire cattle' hnve been kept In the pointed out to him, and for a time lie was content small grains, corn, haj, peanuts; .velvet beans, '; Soiith.V In 1914 Mississippi' mnrketed only 86,229 to look for this. Next his mother taught him R .wlille in 1916' it' shipped 156.237 and A, these being selected as sufficiently differsoy beans, oowpens, as well as meat',,, milk and fat cat-tl10 the Sf. Lpuis :hinrkef, :ftn Increase of 181 ent: from H to avoid confusion. The idea of the For example, during 1918 Alabaiun .increased jts .'Ver cent. During 1015 "Mississippi fanners sold letters was thus grasped, and It wns easy to teach 6.850 head o i sheep in St. Louis, ' while in 1917 the boy the entire remaining alphabet. production of potatoes 68 per cent ; cotton, 30, per Then his mother began to print letters for him, cent; hay, 12 per cent; oats, 8 per cent; hogs, '21 they shipped 15,917 sheep to1 the sarhe market, an cent." increase of 232 he asked for pictures on pieces of paper. per cent; sheep, 19 per cent; and sweet potatoes, when, pjr 7 per cent, over the yields of 1917.,,. Tills wns called drawing. Gradually she combined Reports show 1,470,408 women actively engaged j in regular and emergency wnr work in the SouthThe South has been a heavy buyer of hay, the the letters in words suited to his experience, such Sometimes he tried, to ern states during 1917, wtyle 980,272 'gYrl assisted ' aS horse" and "dog. majority of her yearly forage coming from the "otal'l of "2,600,213 women Western states. The services of the- Southern draw "the letters himself, achieving quite a creditalong similar linfs; an occasional and girls worked 'to help win the war by gardenable II at twenty-simonths,. Also county ngents have Increased the local Jiay pro' duction to the extent that Alabama produced A, F, E, O nnd Z. ing, poultry production, canning and drying fruits, 1,293,000 tons of hny during the year 1918, as Gradually smnll letters instead of capitals vvere vegetables Rnd meats, butter making and cheese Their achievements are partially picdruwn for the words he' recognized, nnd soon1 he compared with 106,000 tons in 1909. During the malting. know that dog" and- - "DOG" meant the same. tured in 200,000,000 cans of fruits and vegetables period from 1909 to 1018, Georgia increased hay in 420 Southern storeSmnll cards were used instead of hits of paper, per Cent; North Carolina, 183 per .now awaiting consumption production rooms and pantries, impartial opinion, states flint ,, the words being drawn nt the top. Thus, step, by cent; Florida, 302 per cent; and South Carolina, 253 per cent. According to recent crop estimates during the Just 12 months ihe Southern stntes step, he was taught the appenrnnee of words nod the hypothetical value of the farm crops of Alahnve canned and preserved 500 per rent more' letters, until one day his mother took him on her fruits and vegetables thnq in any similar period bama, Florldn, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolap and read a simple story to him, pointing to in the !ast lmlf century. each Word, the appearance of which had already lina, and Soutji Carolina, amounted to $839,213,-00- 0 In 1909 and $2,100,390,000 In 1917, an Increase In 62.227 3.812 women been Southern Impressed on ills mind by the card system. enrolled .The of 250 per cent,1, Tills rending was continued for sotne time. clubs recently have put up 34.993, C77 cans of Then one evening his mother sld, You road a It Is only logical that ns the production of corn vegetables and fruits worth over $7,000,000. In and hay Increases. In the Southern states, the addition they have' prepared over 2,750 tons of story to father," nnd the boy, pronouncing each , word 'without error, slowly, nnd with proper numbers of hogs and caVle raised and kept show diled fruits and vegetables, and brined, pickled read six lines of .simple words without r !.ho razor-bacand stored 500 additional tons of vegetables. The virrespondlng gains. hog has boon traditional of the South since the Civil war, mistake. 73,800 Southern girls engaged In regular club hut of lute years these n.ttlve rustlers havo been work raised and canned 8,882,000, cans of vege;i NO RELIEF. tables worth $1,500,000, as well as canning r.n adreplaced by plrkors of desirable conformation and breeding wMch nfe more eeonftin ditional 3, 061,000 containers of fruits and vegeta"Wont you he glad when no more of your leal In the manufacture of pork under Southern bles 'which they 'did not raise thenrselves. conditions than nro the grnlipfed hogs of the corn Boys club work 1ms also developed on an g mazprivate letters are opened by the censor? I dont know about thnt. My wife is still on belt in middle Western territory. ing scale because of the persevering and conscientious work of (lie county ngents. During 1017 the Job.' According to recent estimates by the burenu of J pig-clu- b , , pork-produci- . j live-stoc- All His Property. in mines and real estate. It was my money; I made it. I had a right to spend It as I pleased, and I did. , . But. the Chicago courts and the Chicago board of education, tp whom the will of Morrisons father provides the estate shall revert for the erection of a high school building, should the cluse die without children, thought otherwise and through their efforts the . property has been regained. So Ed-- , ward Morrison Is a millionaire,' once more. .. i ' k , one-mul- one-negr- o 1 , -- . , "Corn-producti- ' Atlanta,' Ga. You must watch things even when you have a funeral In' the house. J. L. Wood has Just been indicted in Atlanta charged with stealing a lavallere and a small sum of cash from a home lu Hemphill, avenue where Wood had gdne' from a local undertaking establishment to make arrangements for the burial of the mother of the household. USE GAS TO QUIET CHICKENS Fall Off the Rooeting Placet and Are Eaey Prey for Thieves t In Ohio. Springfield, Ohio. Chicken thieves In looting the hen coops of Clnrk County. Farmers In the vicinity of Buena Vista, near this city have noticed a peculfar odor in their chicken coops after thieves have been there. The mystery was explained when one fanner found n chicken under one of the roosts which he took for 'dead. He tossed it In the barn yard and. In a few minutes the chicken recovered and walked away. Farmers say the gas puts the chickens to sleep, they fall off the roosting places and are easy prey for the thieves. are using gas Steals Shots In Arm." Bellefontalne, . O. When Dr. II. A. Skidmore started home from his office he found a note on the tnhle In his reception room. It said : When you get this I will he on my way. Many thanks. I hope Roinotlmo to have Investimoney enough to pay you. gating, the physician found that his supply of morphine and. sill of his hypodermics were gone. . lier, " . Accused of Theft in Home Where Dead Lay Kay which creates 'a new department in the state, that of the department of agriculture. ,j. Utah will hujid roads and may have $10,00Q4X)O' aVailahle for this purpose by. July '.1, 1921. The government will provide $3,650,000, but the difference, $6,350,000, must come from tlie coffers of the state. Frank B. Cook, cashier of the Columbia Trust company, who since July 23 ast has been acting as Utah sales-agen- t for the certificates of indebtedness, has resigned from the government position. Four youths, ranging in age from 13 to 17 years, believed to have been of an illicit still, have been arrested at Salt Lake, all the paraphernalia of the youthful moonshiners-beinconfiscated. Success is marking the experiment being made by the Salt Lake city board of education in opening a special school for employees of business houses,' according to tlie superintendent of city schools Alleging that Alton Atkin promised on November 30, 1918, to marry her, and that in January of this year lie married another woman,, Virginia Hopkins has filed suit 'at Salt Lake $20,000 damages. More, than 18,000 miles by automobile is the record established by Dr. George Ewing Davies, pastor of the First Presbyterian .church, at Salt Lake, in visting members of his church during six years servie'e. Trial of J. J. Ryan, charged with murder in tlie first degree for liaving administered poison with fatal effect to liis young spn, James I.eRo.v Ryan, at Salt Lake, on September 4, 1918, lias been .continued until the next term of ' court. The end of tlie ninth week of and sailors'- employment bureau of the state council of defense at Salt Lake, found 1294 returned Of this number less than., 5Q per cent have received permanent employment. Vfida Graham, a girl of Bountiful, received a slight concussion of the brain in the Warm Springs swimming pool, when an unidentified' youth, diving from the bank collided-wit- h . Wzo: Transferred t, most of them from the if ' e , ' nni-ina- ls . - x : ' Into-nation- k . well-finishe- lii.s head striking Miss Gra- ham's head. Supported liy members of the hoard bf education and city school teachers, a plan lias been initiated to make one of tlie first reconstruction jobs of the season a big gymnasium 'and manual' training building for the students oi the Lrovo high school. , bms.of $60 will be awarded to all service nfen who have been released, from duty either in the ariAy, navy or niariue corps with an honorable discharge since April 6, 1917, by filing witli tlie zone finance officer, . Lemon building,, Washington; D' c: ... . .... One hundred plant superintendentsand assistants employed by tlie Rfigar company in Utah, Idaho--anWashington met at Salt Lake, March 3,. for the purpose of discussing factory methods and planning the work to be undertaken during the present year. .During the past two years. hundreds of thousands of dollars have been saved In Utah through cnmpaigiis in counties grasshopper where tlie pest lias proved a menace 1o all agricultural products, according lo tlie biennial report of the state crop pest commission. Tlie civil service commission announces an examination, to he held on March 25, foV position of superintendent of road construction, to fill vacancy, in thp bureau of public roads, department of agriculture. Tlie rate of pay will vary from $1.10 to $250 per month, according to class. Tlie national' Own Your Own Home campaign wns locally launched In Salt Lake last week. Representative business men of tlie building industry, labor leaders of the allied building trades, bankers and building lean operators wore among those, attending for tlint purpose. For Die fiscal year 1920, Utah lias been allotted $1,078,425 by tin government for road work and for the fiscal year 1921, a total of .$1,135,185. School cbl It Iren of Salt Lake-wilhe mustered into tlie Own Your own Home which will be campaign, launched In (lie city soon. Application for tlie appointment of a receiver for the Delta Land It Water company 1ms been made by the Columbia Trust company. Judgment for tlie amount of $1,000,(100, with Interest nt the rale of 6 per cent, from July 1, 191-8Is asked for by the plaintiff.,' Utah-Tfdali- well-directe- d , , -- |
