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Show UTAH STATE WATCH REPAIRING I Th better your watch, the more ned there ia that yeti ehould intrust it to an experienced, rehable Jeweler when it n or adjustments requires reputr. cannot eftord to wear regulating. Yon an inaccurate watch. Send your watch to us nnd well pat it in order. Charges Several hrldjres n the large canals netir Roosevelt were washed out last week as iTFesult of the high waters. For the alleged distribution of seditious literature, Jacob Witt, aged 29, a street ear conductor, has been arrested at Suit latke. Arrested at Salt Fake on o charge of robbery, James L. C.reen, a miner, will also have to face it charge of failure to register. A recent arrival In a Japanese fondly iu Salt Lake City has been minted by his patriotic parents WinhI--foWilson Shotaro Kasuga. Him down by mi automobile while crossing the street In Salt Luke, Mrs, swill be reasonable. BOYD PARK fQUNBBD ALAG YAGAACCOZDJfs 7D BARGAINS IN USEB CARS ...Acr.aA. St w Ameeu lloshep- and iJ And the grand city. A Vernon Hodge, whose hoint wus hy drowning last in Ogden, met death week near Reno, Nevada, according to information received hy his parents nt Ogden. Fnder the auspices of the Weber county farm huretiu, free steroptlenu lectures are being given In each of the towns In Weber county In connection with the campaign against weeds, At the ninth tiunual convention of the Utah hankers, held nt Provo last week, nearly 250 hankers and their wives and friends were In Provo, enjoying the hospitality of that city. A young man not over 18 years of ege, and n member of a prominent family of Ogdon, wus brought before the Juvenile court Inst week, charged with being a dguret smoker, and lined I P J s - fAJ- LLJ. ZAC 7V ?AJJPJ CJ3A slon of Mr. C. F. Gunther of Chicago ; this was the Drat one raised, but was shot away. The flag owned'by the Littlepages Is the second one run up. Covy-pen- him. ed er ' 4 1S-I7- Regan's Flag. In the rooms of the Stevenson Post at Roxbury, Mass is preserved one of the strangest banners the world has ever seen. In a tobacco factory in Richmond, In Civil war times, many Federal soldiers were prisoners, among them a Timothy J. Regan. Regan conceived the idea of making a flag of Federal Stars and Stripes even In the close confinement of their prison. There were about 20 men nnd they secretly got together the material A flannel shirt made the blufT ground, a shirt of white cotton furnished the white stars, and goods were, bought sufficient to mnke the red and white stripes. In hiding, they worked at their task till at last it was finished. It was thrown to the wind at once In a place which was sheltered from the view of the guards, then torn Into strips and divided among the men. After the war, Regan, by persistent effort, managed to get together all the pieces nnd had them sewn Into a flag, which Is now at Roxbury. The flag of the Maine, the ship whose sinking n war In 1898, Is precipitated the kept at Annapolis. Near by the banners captured by Dewey at Manila from the Spanish, as well as trophies of the battle of Santiago. Thebnnnor'whtohfloflted over the North pole, raised there April 6, 1909, by Commander Robert E. Peary, now lies for safekeeping In the vaults of company In Washington. It was (n made hy Mrs, Peary, the stars being worked In silk embroidery. It was flown In the wind on the Bhores of the Polar sea for more than a fourth of Its circumference. The hits of white with which It is dotted Indicate the fragments which the explorer left with records at different places Some were deposited at Cape In his Journey. 'Morris K, JessupT the farthest northern jvolnt of land on earth; one was left ut Cape Thomas Hubbard, another nt the starting point of the dash for the pole Cape Columbia five bits are In the Ice of "Teary's Farthest North," In 1900. and one Is yet In the eternal stillness of the North pole Itself. . Oldest Flag In Museum. The, oldest flag In the National museum, at Washington, Is the first United States flag of which there Is authentic record. This is the banner of John Paul Jones. On the very day the law was enacted establishing a national flng for the : United States of America, June 4 appointed John Paul Jones to be commander of- the Ranger. History does not relate, with an- thorlty, the exact dnte of the making of the Ranger's flag, but It must have been very soon after the congressional enactment, because the war department states that The ship Ranger, bearing the Stars and Stripes and commanded Iy Capt. Paul Jones, arrived at a French port about December 1, 1777, nnd her flag received, on February 14, 1778, the first salute ever paid to an American flag by t foreign naval vessels. Later, Paul Jones set Ms loved ensign high above the Bom Ilomme Richard and "waved tri- jimphnnt over many a fierce encounter with the foes of the new country. The most notable of these was when It came In contact with the ship SeraplaJn 4779 and went down. Commo-do- r Jones rescued his precious starry flag and hojsted It over the captured Serapls, bringing It home covered with honor. The museum authorities believe this to be the . - Spnnlsh-Amerlca- safe-depos- it 4777-congress- -- It autoinobile. According to D. D. McKay, of Huntsville, president ofthe Utah-stafarm bureau, ten dollars a ton or w'e will raise 110 beets will prolmbly be a slogan of tbe organized farmers of Utah and other organised interinmtn-tal- n stutes In future. The life of a new horn hula was saved last week ufter the doctors had given It up, as the result of the prompt and efficient use of the pulmotor longing to the lire department, two firemen using the rnachl ue w Iren culled upon by the parents. The mnu who was. killed when an automobile crashed Into a farm wagon near I 'lea sunt Grove, has been lilontl-lb-- d te -- ' ::s Tir Aigofins May coekT aged 27, .m of a prominent resident of Spring-ville- . When the accident hnpiemd the body wus not identified. J -to- oth-entering tion. In a statement made In circulars ing sent out from the office of the jutant general of Utuh bead- ahje bodied men, of Utuh between 18 and 29 years f age are subject to conscription us members of the National Guurd of Utah- .- The junior police of the city of New York Is an organization for boys between the ages of eleven and fifteen, who are regularly trained, drilled in 4 Instructed In athletic sports, civic and good conduct under competent In the' and responsible supervision. Century Henry Rood describes its It occurred first to a police origin. of the East, side Sweeney of captain The commis- the Fifteenth precinct. first American flag that came Into existence after sioner and several civilians got tothe enactment of congress. As evidence of the gether with Sweeney, and the i lea was 13. theory they point to the 12 stars Instead ofmisworked out Today the junim force Had this flag had nn official predecessor the well organized, with Inspectors and la take In the number of stars would hardly have and other young officers, and captains occurred. a growing membership that will reach This historic standard, kept Intact by long and 5,000 and over this spring. Uniforms edges are loving care, shows Its age In permitted, but are not Insisted on ; nnd worn patches. The 12 stars, arranged In every junior, however, is entitled to three parallel perpendicular rows, still stand out wear a special badge, which Is never stanchly on their unstable foundation, for the worn on the outside of coat or Jacket, blue field and the 13 red and white Btrlpes have excepting at drills or other gatherings. grown pathetically threadbare. Duties of the Junior police Include tha The National museum contains a collection of use of clean and decent language at remnants of flags that participated In naval en- all times, in all places. The code congagements from the time of the Revolutionary war tinues thus: to the warwith Mexico; also those of foreign vesJJever hitch' on wagons or street sels of war captured by the nnvy during those cars; always cross the streets at the periods. This dlsplayof fragments Is quite intercorners; do not build bonfires in the esting. It was collected by Peter Force of Washstreets ; do not break windows or street ington, and presented by him to the library of lamps, or deface buildings or sidewalks congress, which transferred It to the National with chalk ; do not smoke cigarettes or museum. play craps ; see that garbage cans are Among these remnants Is a piece of the Britkept covered, that garbage and ashes ish flag of La Guerriere, used during her encounand waste paper are not mixed In ter with the Constitution, and of the Java, worsted cans ; that cans are promptly removed by the same Indomitable American, as well as a from the sidewalk after being emptied ; fragment of the flag of the Algerine brig Zoura, that persons are requested to keep sidecaptured under Decatur. walks and areaways in front of their A division of the museums flag collection rebuildings clean, and that they do not lates to the Civil war, and the most Interesting throw refuse in the street" of these Is the garrison flag of Fort Moultrie, in Charleston harbor. South Cnrollna. This flag was Complaint of the Stupid. lowered December 26, 1800, when MaJ. Robert is It only stupid people who complain Anderson. First United States artillery, moved are misunderstood. If they that they his forces to Fort Sumter. The flag was secured were not stupid, they would know that by his second In command. Capt. Abner Double there is absolutely no such thing ns day, and remained In his possession until presentand therefore that understood, being ed to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. Is nothing whatsoever to be there In the National museum also Is the United by complaining about It. States flag raised In New Orlenns by the volunteer gained Wise people who want to be under flag committee after the occupation in 1862. This stood do not spend their time complain was the first Federal flng raised hy citizens of any lng, but in perfecting some means of of the Confederate states after the commencethemselves by which they ment of hostilities. Here, too. Is the flag of the expressing to the world about them reveal United States ship Kearsarge. In use at the time may at least, of thelo some slfght remnant, of the surrender of the Confederate cruiser Alaor their ideas, or or their minds, souls, bama. also the first United States flag raised In or their eccentricli 'Richmond-afte- r the surrender. This was used ns their discoveries, or Is whatever it ties, they want tq headquarters flag by Gen. E. O. C. Ord, U. S. JL, make known. when he took possession of the city. When you complain about not being The history of our war with Spain Is Illus- the only thing you makq understood, trated at the National museum by a series of flags are a complalnqr. clear is that you of picturesque Interest There Is here the Spanish XMxdc. " garrison flag used at Fort San Cristobal, San Juan, Porto Rico, during the entire war, and Only One Weakness. floated over the fort during the bombardment by About the paved inner court of the the American fleet. May 12, 1898. "There Is, tod. the flag lowered from the customhouse at the Kremlin in Moscow rise other churcheg, plaza, Ponce. Porto Rico, when It surrendered to cathedrals and palaces, to right and the United States. The yellow stripe In this flng left. None of them can compare with was painted red to give It a chance to escape the Church of St. Basil for oddity, but Identification. Another flag here was taken from many are beautiful in more conventhe trenches before Snntlago, and still another Is tional fashion, famous among their a guidon used by Spanish Infantry at Porto Rico. kind. In this court, too. Is the famous The museum Is also custodian of the pennant Tower of Ivan, holding up Its load flown by Admiral Schleyon the Brooklyn during of monster beils. After Its churches the Kremlin is celebrated for Its huge the battle- of Santiago; The United States Marine corps has a nnmher cannon and bells. The great bell of of flags-- of vital Import. It Is proud of Its tro- Moscow Is 68 feet In circumference and phies, and well It may be, for it was the foremost weighs 200 tons. The largest of th In winning them. The Marine corps possesses the ennnon has a bore of S feet, thus outfirst American flag under Are In Cuba. This flag doing the 42 centimeters of Herr Krupp was raised by the Marine battalion at Guanta- - by about 100 per cent.- - The only weak- nnmo. the tenth of June. 1893, and flew during ness of the Russian monster Is the fact that it will not shoot. Exchange. much-fraye- d 1 -- -- -- -- S! ' " - , CROWN PRINCE FUNERALOF TURKISH of at sainthood The following account of the funeral cortege the Turkish crowu prince Is given by Alexander -- -Brody; who saw the ceremony In which On the scarlet covered coffin of Jussuf Izzeddln, the crown prince of Turkey, who hnd killed himself In his harem, was cnrrled to the grave lay Ids fez, or kalbag." In token of his military cureer. The coffin was made of wood, for metul Is too scarce oven for a prince, and It wns lmrne by of the royal household. Jussuf had been kind to his servants although stem with their , peers. A gigantic negro with the eye of a faithful a. hound constantly smoothed the--. red cloth wrinkle might dishonor the seemliness of the occasion and he kept constant watch on the pallbearers. The 500 burly negro eunuchs were ns one In their grief. Following them were thetcbam!H'.c-.yjtM'lr,.lirdisfns and attendants of the household, with red caps on their black heads. The coffin was gently laid on the Mussnla tasay, a prayer stone, fragments of an eld Greek column dating back to the days of the victorious emperors. The holy prayer was chanted: Blssm Blah Irrnh-maeJhamd ve Illalil, rebhl ul alernin (In the name of God, the merciful nnd gracious"). Then the holy men approached, dervishes of all ranks, nevlevs and raputls, the monks who Impose punishment on themselves by imposing rnmels-hal- r busbies two feet high on their heads. The fanatical death song is heartrending. The green cloth about the heads of some indicates that they have arrived - r -- the-bod- y he-eunuchs - let s com. attached to. a. tooth Frank Morten harrow, spring en, aged .9, was thrown underneath the harrow, one the Praia, mid another piercing the back and penetrating a lung. He is in a Salt Luke hospital in a serious condidriving a CQ0QETHL prganlzatlon of Young Boys In New York-IGiven Instruction in Civic Duties and Good Conduct. JJtE rAKOUS "jrARAY SZAC"0 home-comin- g v -- 1 After Bachelors death In March, 1781, the flag remnlned In his family, and when the British Maryland in 1814 this same flag was carried by William, Bnchelr.s son. In the hattle of North Iolnt, os a banner for the Twenty-sevent- h Mary-- , $10. land regiment. This William Bachelor died In 1883. Itesldonts of loiyton fenr thnt thejr The flag, In 1907, was to the state of may have been unwittingly recipients Maryland and hr.s since presented In its capital then reposed of germs by mall, since they have building at Annapolis, learned that members of the family of Another famous banner Is the battle flag of Coma rural route currier are Infected with mandant Oliver Hazard Perry, the same which smallpox. flew successively on the masts of his flagships, The central part of Provo beach Is the Niagara and the In the hattle of to have a big fruit cannery. The plant Lake Erie, September, Lawrence, 1813, This flag had been wilt he erected In three units, one for made at Terrys express command? but nt the sugevaporating or drying the fruit, gestion of Purser Hambleton, he added the words for canning, and the third for It bore, Dont give up the ship," the last uttered preserving. by Captain Lawrence, killed Ip the fight In June, Charged with failure to register on 1813, between the English and American forces. registration duy, Tony Soltda was ar- These words have erroneously been attributed to rested at Salt Mike, hut the officers Perty, but are. In fact, an adoption of Lawrences darkened to his pleadings und he was sentence to Terrys flag. The banner Is a bunting allowed to register after his arrest and of one solid color bearing Its famous motto In large letters across Its face, and Is now kept at arraignment. Six days after he hnd met death hy the United States Naval academy at Annnpollif ' , ' A British Trophy. drowning in the J,ordnn river at Salt Ijike City, the body of Fred ICevern . In the same chamber nt the academy Is a gorwas found lodged among the timbers geous royal British standard which was captured of a bridge a short distance below the from the parliament house when the cnpkal of Canada fell, In 1S13, Into American hands. It is a place where he sank. Governor Hunt of Arizona, son of magnificent ensign with live quarterlngs, all In Jefferson Hunt, after whomthe town radiant tones, the heraldic blazonry being such as of Huntsville In Welter county was was used In the time f George III. In one corner-I- s a red lion poised in air, to denote Scotland ; In named. Is expected to attend the Is the golden hnrp of Ireland; two other another he to held celebration at contain three golden rampant lions for quarters 4. 1 to Huntsville, July In the central quartering Is a comThe Carnegie library nt Garland Is England, while arms of the of Saxony, .Hanover, Brunsbination to he Kept oja'ii on Sunday hereafter wick and some emblems of the with Luneburg, from 4 to 8 p. nt., Wcause of repeated Romnn Holy empire. requests of patrons. No hooks will he museunT hPWashlngtonls the National In the Is to on idea issued Sunday, tut th Star real. Banner, the same flag which Spangled provide u place for rending. floated over Fort Mcnenry In September, 1814, Senator W. II. King of Utuh became when It was attacked by the British, nnd the one a proud futher lust week, the event around which Key wrote his ImmortHl poem. Behappening while he was III Washinging 80 by 20 feet, it wilt hang from the second story ton. and the child being mimetLDaYld of a tratMlng to the flrat'floorr In spite or lime by'tbe scinitor, who announced the It Is well preserved, nnd the stars nnd stripes name by telegraph to his friends. which "gleamed through the perilous fight" are According to Information that has still plainly to .be seen. reached the Utah Agricultural college Mexican trophies are to be seen at the Naval from the bureuu of crop estimates. academy. These flags are all unique In design, United Stutes department of Agricuhearing the Mexican condor standing on a cactus, lture, Utah lends the United States in with a snake In Its mouth. There are several of the condition of her crops this spring. this war, one of them being the flag captured by Nearly all the hoys who have gone Gen. Winfield Scott nnd Commodore Matthew Perto the farms from the cities und towns ry nt the fall of Vera Cm In . have made good, Is the rejsirt of-In the antechamber to the rooms of the secregovernment sugar beet expert who has tary of war. In Washington, Is the famous Jlag just returned from mf ex leaded trip which flew over Fort Sumter In April. 1801, when through the sugar beet areas of Utah. It was fired on by the Confederate batteries. This was the shot which opened the greut.wnr between A Joy ride which began in Salt Lake the states. , and came to a sudden end In Sail FerThe flag of the Merrlmac Is now owned hy the nando, Cnl has resulted hi the arrest of three Salt Ijike youths and they family of the late Capt. Poverty LIttlepnge, forfrill be brought back to the cupltnl merly of Washington. Another flag of the Merrlmac Is Iff the posses- city to answer a charge of stealing an un-oth- car Buickl, Oldsmobilet. S, Coaianteed first ,,i tU0. scat Northern France and Belgium "lOUGIl as yet the baby of nations. Uncle Sara hns muny flags of which he hns reason to be proud. Most of them are In the possession of the government, hut a few ere owned by Individuals or army posts. One of them, now kept nt the slate-- , house at Annapolis, Md.. was carried hy thMaryland troops during the war of the American Revolution, and Is made In accordance with the act of congress, June 14, 1777. It la positively known to hove been the regimental flag of the Third Maryland regiment, commanded s, by Col. John Eager Howard, at the battle of S. C In. January, 1778, In which fight It was held by William Bachelor. Bachelor was sent home to Baltimore wounded and took his flag with ltd to eosdiilos-es- sy term if warned or rtfht parties. Write (or detailed iiM sad Used Ctr Dept.. tins. Rnndnll-Pod- d Auto Co, Salt Lake City old banner will soon be making more history and receiving great-e-r honor on the battlefields of t,.V-,:i,(k)- . 50 ntssios country rich in history honor, lpt4id Hot-t2- Starry emblem of our wus so seriously that her life Is despaired of. A cafeteria Is to be established nt Lite Ogden J.lgh seluad when the school season opens this fail, where students may purehuse luncheon n netuul cost Ah average of gallons of ,vater was used In the thiee days end- log June 29 iu Salt Lake to keep down The dust and flush the streets of the - igM MAKERS OF JEWELRY e maim strict salt lake city -- n, - through a visit to the tomb of the prophet at Mecca. After the dervishes came the members of Union and Progress," the Young Turks, In Parisian dress, Soc of the faces were milk white ; now and then one saw a gray head among them. I11 the eyes of the dervishes burned the lire of the past; la the Young Turks that of the future. Which one Is- - approaching' his last hour In the Ozmntt lands?' -- The head of a more conservative Turk. came in view, tlmt of the new heir to the sultans throne, Vnhdeddin, of Persian type. long, narrow-nose- d features resembling .Abdul Hamids. One may. janly conjecture concerning this repre.. ; sentative of royalty, grown up In the shade of the harem walls, in eonsfant companionship of women of the Orient, whq never divulge anything about master.., :Jbc .ncro.m prince. Is, long past middV' age. - Behind hlm rode Prluce Metl-siaged hnd worn; in fact the whole roynl left youth behind. has family A group of Arabs came next. The' rays of the cold spring sunlight threw pale gold over the fancy costumes of these menof the desert. A prominent merchant whispered: They are the Arabs, of the faith, yet they do not obey Allah because he Is merciful, but because they fear him, and not without reason. ' I fear that we cannot trust them In this holy war, at least some of them. They value money too highly, especially silver, although they have no contempt for gold." New York Herald. gagement It was hauled down and sent to hend- quarters at" Washington. Another noteworthy flag belonging to the corps 4s the signal flag used by Sergeant Quick at the battle of Cuzco. During the engagement the fleet stationed in the bey, while firing otr the enemy. was seriously endangering the Unseen marines on land, who already had the Spaniards surrounded, A volunteer was requested to go out and signal to the fleet to stop firing. Sergeant Quick Immediately responded, and In full view of the onemy stood nnd wigwagged .the Dolphin to stop firing. The signal flag Whs rent In several places, but the sergeant escaped injure. For this act he received a medal ant honorabfe mention. Among some later flags to come Into possesslou of the Marine corps is the large United States fljig Wti by the marines faring the siege of the legation In Peking at the time of the Boxer riot. It may he recalled that the guard of the Oregon served In reking. This was their post flag nnd o th Tartar City wall, wheriUtT trail Jealously' guarded. '"'Later It was hoisted on the ruins of the Imperial Chlen Men as a- - signal to the allied forces, nd It has the honor of being the first signal the latter had that their friends were still living. The flag shows Its hard usage at the hands of Us enemies, being torn In several places hy volleys of shot and shell assail, ing It. Another Chinese memento possessed hy the Marine corps is a large Imperial flag captured on the walls of Tientsin by the marines when the city. This is a large pennant-shape- they d affair of turkey red, with enigmatical Chinese characters in its center. -- as'-planted V 1 How War of 1812 Was Declared. Ah' act declaring war between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dependencies thereof and the United States of America was approved by the president at S p. m. June 18, 1812. The act was drawn up by William Pinkney, then attorney general of the United States. It passed the house June 4, 1812, 79 In favor, 49 against, and passed the senate Juno 171812 yeas, 19; noea, 13- - -- Waste of Time. A little fellow, age four, was' repeating a prayer after his mother, ending with "God bless papa, mamma, grandma, brother and sister, and everybody." "Mamma," said he,, "if we had said' everybody at the start it wouldn't have taken up soJ much of God's time.1 J V A if - Era of Youth. "Many grandfathers are dressing In youthful sty lei" Yes, all the old stagers are sprucing up." Quite so. I s'pose well soon see Pa Time depicted with a wrist watch and a faultless Van Dyke." Her First Love. his second wife 7 , "Yes, she is." "Then hes not her first love?" hOh, no ; she owned a dog bex shg ever met him." You say she is as - |