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Show The Paramoimtlssue InThis Campaign Is Prosperity. WeHave It. Why Risk It? Weather Forecast fyommunity Booster Thursday clearing; Friday fair, PROVO CITY. UTAH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER NUMBER 217 HAS JUST RE- UP AGAINST THb - VOLUME 5 10,1912. HURDLES PHEDFOR - The President of the Salt Lake and Utah Valley B.Y.U. Interurban Line Ready to Build the Road j 44 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 OTHER COMPANY BIG DAVIDENDS GETTING BUSY 4 , 8 $ '3 - THE ELECTRIC COMPANIES GIRLS GYMNASIUM OF THE WEST HAVE WILL BE FEATURE COMBINED THEIR PLANTS OF THE BUILDING 444 . The Provo City System Has Be-- , The Cost of the New Building ,.come a Part of the Combination Will be About $20,000, and Involved in the Big Power Promises to Be One of the Deal. States Best. - The directors of the Grand Central Mining , Company met at the general offices There is Trouble Ahead for the New Group of Promoters in z This County. - morning and after in- vestigating conditions at the mine declared dividend No. 53. The amount is 5 cents per share, or $25,000. The books close Oct. 20, and the dividend is payable Oct. 25. The directors of the Iron Blossom met this morning and declared a dividend of ,10 cents per share, or $100, 000 on the outstanding stock. Jhis W. president of the & Lake Utah Salt Valley Interurban Railway Company, reurned and home from NewYork-Jodaafter consulting a few minutes in "this city with his engineers who are in charge of obtaining the C. Orem, y i eom-4an- y went to American - Fork to represent his company beThe books close Oct. 18 and fore the officials of that city. is being i the dividend is payable Oct This new company-tha- t -25. fostered by Montana and Wash-ingto- n . men are working hard to 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 44444444 secure franchises through , this county parallel to the interurban LOW CUT GOWN IS DIRECTOR F.H.NEWELL; system which was started by the CAUSE OF CORYZA f local business men, and other towns I received from outside T ST. LOUIS, Oct. 9. Every have for some reason to believe getting coryza, or soon wil that this franchise will be grant- - bodys" declared jr - Martin C. be, ' ed. of the de UTAH PEOPLE TOO CONSERAfter visiting the officials of Woodruff, today, head of diseases contagious partment this American Fork afternoon, VATIVE ON WATER The Mr. Oi'em will return this evening of the city health bureau. PROJECTS. at to go over the interurban situa-- f disease makes an attack only Woodof Dr. the year, tion with the business men of this this time is particularly and ruff saj PROVO-WEBEbe SYSTEM city, as there wilLundoubtedly women who wear low cut a hard fight made to secure a franRECEIVES PRAISE a gowns. Dr. Woodruff terms eorv-zchise into Provo. -1M biguecze., , , , ' RepfCsentativefbf Mrr GrcmVte-nounce' Ov. i When the tip of your nose starts sometime ago that the is One Of l the Safest in the It tojd.ush, when your lips and the money was already to build the roof Country, According to of your mouth begin to feel interurban line and. many of the NewelL fill and hard, and your eyes people of this section are anxious dry with tears for no apparent to see one line completed before a up reason, youve got coryza, or rathscond is started-Whe- n Director. F. II. Newell of the U. has got you. interviewed today a prom- er coryza S. Reclamation Service is in town inent business man stated that he to go over the Strawberry project could sec no reason why a second EXPERT AGRICULTURIST " and to inspect the work done durinterurban company always en- WILL LECTURE IN PROVO ing the past few months. Mr. leis the field just at. the time, when Newell came te Provo after an ex . one was ready to begin work. , The tillers of the soil and tended trip through canyons lqad-n- o This thing, he said, came up business men of Provo will ing to the head of the Weber and when Jesse Knight 'first asked for doubt be interested in the an Provo rivers, where he went to in- his franchise into Salt Lake City nouncement that Dr. W. E. Taylor, Vestigate the great water and never has there been fi com- an eastern soil specialist, will de? which will bring the waterproject from pany ask for a franchise since but liver an important and intensely the Weber into the Provo and to a second company entered the le?ture in College Ilall Friday, irrigate the land in the north end field and left it again 'as soon as October 11, at four oclock Dr. 0f Utalfand the south end of Salt the first- - company started activi- Taylor has won fame for himself Lake counties, ties. We want one interurban from all over the United States This project, said MrNew-an- d line and more if we can get them, he is considered one of the ell is one of the best in the but we dont want half a dozen best agriculturists in the country, country and I can see no reason The people of Provo and vicinity-wh- y the people oi Utah do not promises with, no roads. will do well to turn out to hear make more of it. The' settlers him. seem entirely too conservative up- MABLE BORG TO 'on these great water projects eon- GIVE PIANO RECITAL LITTLE BOY SAVES sidering the vast area of land SNAKE GIRL FROM is to be developed. there , The first series of the Lyceum - 1eeture' Course of the B. Y. U. Tndiseussifag the Lake --Tahoe 9. Get. and the irrigation of the great Colo., Using KEOTA, in will bdgiven tomorrow evening William district books under it Mr. Newell stathis as a Mable Miss weapon', when L College Hall, 7, ed ed that the government had done today jsd Mable Borg, assisted by Professors VogHotti,: ttgr--in rattlesnake all Besaw its from a Ruth pqwer toprotect the setLund and. Gudmundson, will give as he snake killed the 'dry season, but the tlers when bite a during a piano recital Miss Jkrg chil- the dredging of the outlet to The strike. was about had it and Provo favorite with people do with the governto d dren almost walked upon nothing be no pleas-edoubt will the public tlrep: to learn "of her appearance to- tile before they saw it.The girl ment suits brought against the was nearest but the boy pulled power companies. morrow night. her back and smashed the snakes 44444444 head with his books. ANNOUNCEMENT. POLK DIRECTORY MAN HERE AGAIN The many friends of Mr, Geo. Clarence J. Hawkins will teach Merton Farrer, who has been suf- Clarinet, Cornet, Piano and HarA. T. Ogren of the Polk Directory Company : is . in, fering from typhoid pneumonia mony .Thursday and Saturday of for the past seven weeks, will no each week. Will be town preparing another list Blake doubt be pleased to learn that lie Music Store Monday, gtOct. 14, of names for the new direct- ory that company will put 4 is improving and it is hoped that from 10:30 to 3, at which time he will be out before long out within the ext-few stud entscarr' make arrangements 4 months. The new book will for their courses. Miss Salina Farrer, daughter of be a complete directory of on w every town in Utah County 4 J. T. Farrer, ho was operated General inProvo The first and second year classthe at last Monday and. will gontairL valuable imis es of the B. Y. U. met this mornTor tmacthose appendicitis, Hospital formation for out is to organize for the ensuing for 4 held and section. ing this hope with proving quainted 4 her recovery. year. right-of-wa- y, - - - re-por- ts - R d . " About fifty Japs and a large force of white men are located at Upper Falls and will socin be hard at work in constructing a great cement conduit from the Tclluride dam to the power plant. The lias experienced much trouble with its flume all along the line from the dam to The power plant during the winter months and at times a break in the flume has cost the e ompa ny thou sa n ds of , -- . js 44444444 , ' -n- 4444444 dollars. Ae report from Salt Lake on the merger of the Power Company gives the following information : Progress on the extensive plan to bring he majority of hydro. electric concerns of the' west un on control, involving several LARGE NUMBER OF BOYS i J.rniIIion I011: became ' apparent WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE (yesterday, when the Itah Power 'HERE. company, recently incorporated under-th- e laws-o- f Maine by New York Maine and closed capitalists, SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS two deals for the purchase of the -- TO MUTUAL WORKERS Knight Consolidated Power coim pany and the Electric eompany of , The" Stake Tabernacle HaV Beeu Erorn;,repectivel;v.- - The-- e,pany also has purchased the powSecured in Case of er plant of the Davis and Weber Crowd. r Counties Canal eompany and the steam electric plant of the Salt Lake & Ogden Railway company A program has been -- prepared at Lagoon. It Is further underfor the Boy Scout cvention to stood from authentic sources that take place at the Central School the Utah Power eompany is aboi: building next Saturday morning, to successfully consummate nego and Prom, reports coining in from Rations for the control of the Power company "recently different parts of this .section, there will he. boys from every, reorganized ward in the stake to take part ini The plan is being financed by the exercises. Anticipating a j Hayden, Stone & Co. of New York Boston. The interests behind the committee large crowd, in. and ara represented by F. L. ie ' of scout the movement charge have arranged for the stake fab - am wb s registered .at .the ernacle should the Central School f Hotel. Utah.-- ., Mr. - Dame and W. room prove too small. The fol - J Barrette, who is vice president the Uta Power low will be rendered:' anc a )recjor 1 rompany, closed the twro deals in Selection, male quartette. IYqvo yesterday in behalf of their 2 Opening prayer. . - , eompany. 3 Solo, Prof. Johnson. It is believed that the real power 4 Speech, J.W. Knight. behind the plan is the General 5 Selection, Epperson Band. Electric eompany. or 6 Remarks. A. W. Richards. electric trust. The recent re7 Reitarks, Mr. John Segall. organization of the Tclluride com- 8 Selection, Band. the 9 Bov Scout Acti it ies. Mr.Pany w,ikh is Wl(ki move, placed jat its Jiead J R. John IL Taylor. who is musical select ion ncejed with the & Share Electric Bond and prayer eompany, ' which, in turn, is closely allied to the General Electric eompany.' It is understood that the incorporators of the Utah Power company are largely persons interested in the General Electric company. The Post Office department It was denied yesterday- - that has established branch No. 4 present developments are in any at T. E. Thurmans store, 301 (Connected with a reported scheme South Seventh East street, to bring nil interurban electric and Ir. Thurman is authorizprojects,- - either carried out or ed to issue money orders, sell , planned, under the same control stamps and do most of the ,as that which will be exercised business that can be done at , over c concerns. It the regular office in town. ;was not denied however, that This means a great saving in such a scheme might eventually be time for the residents of that carried out. On July 1 last, it is declared.-th- e section, as Mr. Thurmans store is centrally located. interests in control of the Utah 4 Provo is rapidly growing, as Tower eompany secured an option 4 this is the fourth station of on the Knight Consolidated Power its kind to be established iu company through the payment of this city ,$50,000. The option, it is under- 44444444 4 4 44444444 stood, was to expire October 15. I -- 'r . 1 . Tel-Iuri- - fng-prgra- -- so-call-ed " MO-Closi- ng. hydro-electri- -- N ( j J -- An 'announcement twas .made today that Architect ,J. E. Allen had completed the plans for the -- new' danee"and amusement for the students of the Brigham Young University. The building wflLbe erec.t e.dj n th e block west of the main buildings and its dimensions are 61x140 feet, with an altitude of 36 feet. The dance floor willJbeiiOxlOOJeeLTheapproximate cost, of - the new building will be $20,000, and it will be one of the best amusement halls of its kind ever erected in the State, , - Aa soon as completed the building will serve as a ladies gymnasium with, rest rooms, drinking fountains and all modern conveniences. A new dance hall has Been under consideration for a long time, but it has only been . " ( re- cently that the board could assure the faculty and students that one would be built. Negotiations were concluded yesterday, whenJhe option was' taken up. The Utah Power company takes over seven Knight power plants in Salt Lake, Utah, Summit afid Wasatch counties, the con sideration paid yesterday being $1 .9000, it is reported. Jnder the terms of the deal, thfe Knight company assumes the payment tf about $100,000 wofth of outstanding - bonds. These - were undesigned bonds of the old Utah County Light & Power company, wheh was combined with the" Knight Powmr eompany into the Knight Consolidated Power company. The Electric company of Provo, which is a subsidiary organization of the Telluride Power company, it is said, and which has been furnishing electricity to Provo for lighting' purposes, was sold outright to the Utah Power company yesterday at a figure said to be -- -- more than $200,000. Senator Reed Smoot, president, and W L. Bier-saesecretary, yesterday declined to mention the exact sum, but the figures given here 'weresecur-- . ed from an authentic source, - From Simon Bamberger it was learned, that the Utah Power company had purchased for $150,000 the steam plant of the' Salt Lake & Ogden Railway company at LaMr. Bamberger declared goon.that a contract had been signed with the Utah Power company, under which that eompany is to furnish the Salt Lake & Ogde Railway company with lighting and motive power for a period of fifty years. It could not be learned last night the amount of money involved in this contract. From an authentic source it was learned that the purchase by the Utah Power company of tho Davis & Weber Counties Canal companys plant near Weber canyon represented $523,000. The total of expenditures as made known yesterday is 'close, to and the comprehensive (Continued On Page Eight) h, -- - A3,-000,0- Hear Senator Reed Smoot Discuss the Issues ofthe Cam paign at The Opera House Friday October , 11. All Invited , - , |