| Show editorials E D 1 TO R I 1 A THE CROOKED land LAND OFFICIALS AND THEIR rast PAST FRIEND AND EAGER rage ABETTOR tim unprincipled 1 pled pied sheet that egged on tile the late register of the tho lund land office in this city and fully endorsed his bia tyrannical proceedings ilow now talks of him and his Us official and officious crookedness in this way A considerable degree ot it lr inter ter est ia is felt by our citizens in the recent removal of our land officers numerous Nur nemus complaints had been made to the authorities in washington of irregularities in this office and arid in order to learn whether these complaints were well founded a special commissioner from the interior department was sent here to j investigate this gentleman mr maurice M U kaighn has spent about ten days in bait lake and during this ethis time ho he has devoted himself zealously to the work of inquiry that he has discovered gross irregular irregularities ties is evidenced by tile the fact that ills his report to assistant secretary gorham has been of a character to elicit an air immediate order from the president suspending the register and receiver this action comisi so soon after register pat tons tyrannical conduct in the wasatch was Waa atch has led many of our citizens to believe that some sinister sini ster stor influence has been exerted to procure this result but we do not believe there is any ADY ground for fon this suspicion special commissioner kaighn is perfectly unbiased and is a gentleman of undoubted integrity his discretion and fairness aro implicitly jy trusted by the chief officers of the interior department and his ills report of the condition of affairs here liere is based upon facts as they have cometo his knowledge eur pur many months complaints of irregular and improper proceedings have been quite frequent from those having dsa daa lings with the salt ball lake land office and it would seem that the public interest demands that a a change chango should bo be made ninny dinny many blany bitter complaints were made mada by parties doing business at the tiie land office of arbitrary and tyrannical conduct of the register of irregular p proceedings roee roce edings and studied neglect or of the public interest it wasa was a reproduction of Grant ism on a small scale the register was a kinsman of tile the president and deemed to hold the belief that he was master and not a public servant but although frequez frequently itly requested to pitch in and expose some of that office we preferred to let it severely alone it seemed unwise to get too much fight fl lit on our hands president or grant ant displayed an infirmity for sending his hia most worthless material to the territories and as vs he had llad a preference for misrule we deemed it wiser to possess our souls in patience and wait a change of hands but now the culmination has been reached and register patton and receiver silva have been peremptorily emptor ily lly invited to leave we learn that the business of the office has been grossly mismanaged that persons doing business jtb there ere ero have been systematically fleeced and that some of the delinquencies brought to light are really of a ll agrant flagrant character and so the people of utah are happily rid of such unworthy boffl officials 1 we cannot help but regret the sudden fall of patton just as he distinguished himself by his overbearing beail ng unjustifiable abusive and tyrannical conduct it greatly to the credit of the the tho utah people that their od official enemies iid ild and rid persecutors are suspended for acknowledged crooked ness in regard to their off leial official duties as proclaimed by the fastest est friends and staunchest abettors abet abot tors of said officials lurther FURTHER F concerning C THE grasshopper convention OP OF GOVERNORS IN irl the late convention at omaha on the grievous grasshopper question gov Pills rills burys opening address was taken as a basis for discussion discursion by the convention prof thomas of illinois thought it night be necessary for government to extend ald hid of some I 1 kind al 11 d J thou though gh illinois could not ask as much as other states could the government might 0 gather information on the subject for the use I 1 of f the people bounties in the states should be paid by the states and in the territories by the general government in the tle states the legislatures should first learn what could be done and then devise means to do it the convention should recommend what the general government could do the grasshopper was a national insect and the only national insect the mere fact that for 1000 years they had had the locust in A asia asla sia sla and europe without being able to get rid of it did not hot prove that it could not be destroyed having travelled all over the these se states aua anu tearl tories for three or four years he felt safe in saying that the insect could be 40 destroyed and driven out by concerted act aut lon ion he ila thought it was hot a permanent plague about 1784 germany had a plague of locusts nor for 11 years bethought tle lie thought there would be no large invasion ol 01 illinois A commission should be appointed to tell the people how to destroy the brood next ne spring ing gov kirkwood of lowa iowa saia said sald the western and northwestern north western por poy portions eions of that state had summered suffered ered sev severely my by grasshoppers the eggs this fall bad had been laid in in larger number numbers than ever before in the tile northwestern part the people were saving lv their prairie grass to burn in the spring with the hoppers while they were in it on cultivated land they proposed to lay jay out old hay bay and straw for that purpose in other places they were plowing the land six or eight inches dee deep P to cover the eggs and thus make them rot without 6 u t hatch hatching dg some men even thought they could be caught when young in sufficient quantities titles to save the crops gov penin Perin ington of dakota could suggest no remedy fremed ya and he lie had little in arty physical means of destruction he jis is thus further reported 7 in the quantities in which they came in dakota piling inches deep on the ground houses and trees so horses would hardly go through gli them thebaud the maud mand and even interfering with the running of railroad trains they were too i numerous to be caught in any kind of traps or killed ile ho thought best to encourage the growth of or crops which could be grown and gathered in spite of the plagues some men in dakota said that the hoppers had always been there and others that they were a new thing from his own knowledge three years back they had bad had them every year in J uly had never seen a better pr prospect aspect for a corn crop than they had had that year but in that section from yankton to sioux city the corn was wholly and absolutely destroyed and not a bushel was gathered for 60 miles there was nothing left but a part of the stalk nevertheless th eless they had bad made a good crop of wheat oats and potatoes ile he was satisfied that the people of dakota could prosper even though the hoppers came every year by lanting planting only such grains as would ae be matured before the pests came ai the moral effect had been worse than anything else the territory had been dama damaged ed ten times more by the panic tiran than by the grasshoppers newspapers and other frightened people had done more harm than good by applying for aid in the east he had stood out in 1874 as long as possible against the appeal for alms the people who came there were poor and they needed help every winter anyhow but the people of the territory were able to succor their own destitute farmers without outside aid in 1874 after all tho the harm barm had bad been done and they received the paltry sum of or there were hundreds of thousands of bushels of if surplus grain shipped out of southern dakota to chicago they were able to take care of their own in 1875 the hoppers were as numerous rous reus as before coming from the tue northeast and going southeast south east but none came down and he did not know of 10 worth of damage done they had the biggest crops ever known they always go the same way this year the damage to the wheat crop would not be 5 per cent arid the tho crop is very good they had gathered gath tred sred goed good crops of wheat oats and everything but corn which varied from one fourth to one half a crop by fall breaking and ind early seeding in the spring conid be wholly sayed saved without d damage anlage and one object of oi tile the convention he thou thought glut glit was to assure reassure re the people he believed that the people of dakota could feed themselves and the grasshoppers too and yet grow rich if in dakota the hoppers were all foreigners riot not natives coming there full grown and his people had had no experience with those which hatched out he would urge fall plowing and early sowing relying on small grains and they could thus make a living he was waa nut disposed to petition for financial aid it demoralized the people and made mendicancy honorable among some classes governor hardin of missouri came CIMO to learn in 1874 many grasshoppers came and laid eggs in missouri and that state had bad a big lot in 1875 for a time there was great danger in thirteen or fourteen counties but they left in june and by late planting they raised one of the finest crops ever known and they were troubled by no other varieties of insects he thought Con congress gress gresa ought to do something at least to appoint a commission of investigation he should even suggest to ills his own legislature to establish commissions to call on the people to fight the pests la in the afflicted districts and make it a matter of police or military duty he daiil n t know exactly what could be done they bad done everything practicable but after they had destroyed millions upon mil mii lions there were still millio millions ns up i on millions to come prof riley eiley of missouri saw no reason for discouragement 1 ement these grasshoppers were more properly locusts totally different erent to the asiatic species the young insects did damage in Ia dakota lakota kota and I 1 hatched out but near pembina and bismarck in june and obtained heir wings in ill july prof riley is thus further reported L he thought that I 1 in n 1875 1973 the swarms were going gains back to td the north and had germs of disease and parasites in them which rendered them theme incapable of breeding and too weak to do much dabag damage e their native home was in the northwestern part of the country and that when hunger over multi on or other causes drove them out they came south at a great rate sometimes when weakened only at a rate of twelve or fourteen miles per perk day but at other lumes umes when assisted by a strong wind they traversed or SOO miles in a year between the time of hatching in 9 out opt and the acquiring of wings th there B re was a peri perl period od of about one mo month nth the two things to be prepared against were that they should not hatch out in our territories and to prevent them from immigrating to the south from their northern breeding places I 1 he believed that against the winged insects ineeta there was no protection but that much could be done against the unfledged insects he thought that a small bounty off offered ered for the eggs would have a very benefi benell beneficial cial clai effect for they would be gathered in numbers during the winter and spring also for fur the un hedged fledged insects but much care was necessary and it would be best to offer say sixty cents per bushel for the young in march and decrease the bounty from frona week to week so that it would bean beau be an object to get them early in the season the professor suggested that a man for each state be authorized to travel all the points where the eggs were laid thickest and disseminating information as to the best methods of dealing with the plague in ila judicious ditching was a thorough and positive tive remedy and he believed that the first two weeks in the spring if spent in ditching would be of incalculable vallie value they could be driven right into these ditches and killed in in myriads myri ads he said isaid that the action must be combined and directed from some centre of information he agreed with the other speak i ers who believed that the government should take some steps he believed that this was the greatest drawback to the settlement of this western country but congress regarded anything with the name bug attached to it as something to bo be laughed at afie ille HP d dj 1 I not think that the tho grass lint hr ijes pas would be permanent nor that they were an annual pest but that within two or three throe years they might censo cease to be any more troublesome than the chinch bug and other kindred nuisances he thought that a government commission for investigating the habits and exploring the breeding places of the insect ought to be connected with one of the leading exploring expeditions of the government ern ment such as haydens by running a spade a short distance under the ground the tho eggs would be dislodged and the number could be determined by a 4 microscope if they were found in great number a ditch one foot and one half wide and ot of the same depth should be dug du g all around the nield field into this they could be driven and easily killed hilled there would not be ba more than one or two such ditches needed in a loo acre lot after discus discussion sion siou it was concluded that the thie plans for protection against the winged hopper were exactly opposite to those to be employed against the young gov garber of nebraska would heartily advocate ant afi appeal t to 01 congress f for nor or a co of in investigation vesti gatt gation on i ex governor furnas Is thus reported I 1 the primary object in view was the destruction of the young hopper which was to hatch out next spring he believed that a longtime long iong time timo would not be required if there was a combined effort the hopper usually selected a clear bare dry spot and in nis nia farm of acres he was satisfied there was not over one avro ayre occupied I 1 as a laying spot although the roadsides were full of eggs his experience was waa that the young insect did not eat nor move much for the first ten days and therefore they should be destroyed while very young they could be killed in those first days w with ith a hick hiek hickory ory broom or a spade as they huddled together or a mere touch of coal oil III would killed them ho he believed that with one days laborin labor in the palf pail and another in the spring taking every man who labors a bors he could dould save the crops throughout 0 the state prof williams taid said sald in reier reler reference i ence to thel the lyIng flying hopper some good has been accomplished by smoking them hway away by sulphur and by ropes dragged over the grain they had however taken most of the crops where thi they abad had been for the reason th that thab atthe the people could not defeat the tho thereat great numbers which succeeded each other some thought they might keep kee the insects off for a time in ill Prof processor Pro messor ressor Williams 1 locality they had usual ly jy selected ploughed sloughed hed ground grass grabs land or sandy bandy land to lay their eggs in it was vas also noticeable that already this fall some of the eggs had hatched out and many of the young hoppers had been beep seen teen but they disappeared veis very quickly from one reason or another rain birds and colda cold coid and the people hoped that they might on this account be less troubled by them m next spring near leave b a gentleman had saved a fine orchard by simply tying small bunches of bf cotton batt batting in insects around trunks when the in insects would climb up they goten got |
