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Show TRUTH i wont have the same kind of ball as la3t year. Good men wont come for Sporting Gossip. that money. There is no need for alarm. That limit will be passed long before the first game is and as At the meeting in Salt Lake of the the struggle wages fiercerplayed, the price for Intermountain league John S. Crltch-lo- men will get higher, and the only limit be the extent the stockholders of of Salt Lake was elected president, will the different clubs will stand. That is his choice at Butte the week before the history of minor leagues. having been temporary. Sewall Davis C. of Butte is the new H. Kircher of Ogden, secretary, and Walthour and. McEachern won the the Bank of Commerce in Salt Lake, y bicycle race at Madison Square treasurer. last garden Saturday, Walthour crossThe meeting in Salt Lake resulted in and bythe adoption of a constitution ing the tape two yards ahead of Willaws, but it left two important matters son of the Maya and Wilson team. unsettled. One is the matter of rail- Salt Lakers took an unusual interest road fares, on which the financial suc- in the race because of the fact that cess of the scheme largely depends, and Charlie John Turville, Oscar Lawson, the other is the matter of grounds in Julius, W. F. Samuel-soW. and E. King Salt Lake. Every city in the league n Salt Lake riders, took except Salt Lake owns or controls its part. John Lawsons bad park, and the other cities naturally luck attended him, hisproverbial team mate, objected to furnishing free grounds to Julius, falling and breaking his collar Salt Lake and" then paying rent in this bone toward the end of the race. King city. The graft on grounds has been and Samuelson got Inside the money not is the and this here, pretty strong and are now on the stage, doing a first kick. As the other cities have turn on a home trainer at Proctors taken a determined stand in the matter theater in New York. The finish of it begins to look as if a new ball park the race was as follows: Critch-lowould be built, and President Miles. Laps. says he already has a man in the anti McEachern 2555 4 field seeking a suitable site, one that walthour and Wilson 2555 4 the Salt Lake association can either Maya Newkirk and Munro 2555 4 OIL DEVELOPMENT. Sperintendent B. L. Goodridge of the Pan Juan Oil company reports a strike nt oil in the companys property in San Juan county, fifty miles west of Bluff. The oil was encountered at a depth of The flow is estimated at 300 feet. e barrels a day. It is of a twenty-fivnature, but as yet is light paraffine water. The a Impeded by large flow of300 acres of has company Juan Pan Tand in the neighborhood and will soon get to work on a number of other we'ls. w vice-preside- nt, six-da- Charles Dinsmore of Boise, formerly editor of the Statesman and now engaged in promoting oil companies, arrived here from the Fossil oil basin' of "Wyoming. He is enthusiastic over the prospects of oil companies in that vithat the Fossil cinity and is field is destined to become one of the greatest oil centers in the world. Thero are three Boise companies interested there, he said, owning about 2000 acre3 n, well-know- coidet Speaking of the Thunder mountain excitement, Mr. Dinsmore w of oil land. said: "We expect that 20 000 people will go through Boise next spring on the own or lease. The real stumbling block is likely way to the new gold fields. The citizens come over the question of railroad to 34500 to have subscribed improve the rates. If the Short Line refuses to now is and to Bear there road valley, Babcock and Turville 2555 4 Butler and McLean 4 ffi55 2555 1 King and Samuelson Hall and McLaren 2142 9 Fredericks and 2409 Jaak .. , will the concessions league a good wagon road to within thirty make any Lawson and Julius 2231 2 in come to close it; up against being The record is 2733 miles, 4 laps. miles of Thunder mountain, with a trail fact some of the towns have as good Tribune. the rest of the distance. Hall and McLaren, Fredericks and Jaak as said they will not come in without and and Julius were scored offia special rate is secured. The jump cially,Lawson the though from here to Montana is a long one, vious to the finish.team left the race preT. J. Hart and others of Chloride, and would cut some awful holes into The prizes the riders contended for were seven in number, as follows: First Ariz., have located about 8000 acres of the receipts at the regular rates. The constitution provides that 10 per prize, $1500; second, $1000; third, $750; oil lands in that locality. The indicsu-tion- s cent of the gross receipts of each game fourth $500; fifth, $350; sixth, $250; sevfor oil in that region are said to be paid into the treasury of the enth, $150. shall be as good as any in California. balance to be divided equally the club, The San Rafael Oil company has let a contract for the sinking of another well on its property in Emery county. . A certified copy of the articles of Paraincorporation of the Arizona-Uta- h ffine Oil company of Prescott, Ariz., was filed with the Secretary of State Tuesday. The company is capitalized for $1,500,000 .represented by 1,500,000 shares of the par value of $1 each. The officers are: J. F. Wilson, presiHodent; E. J. Allen, vice-preside- nt; mer R. Wood, secretary and treasurer. The company will deal in oil lands and water rights, manage boardinghouses and do a general merchandise business in this State. The oil exchange mentioned in Truth two weeks ago as being worked up by H. Dukes has been organized fnd it is felt confident it will be of great aid in the development of the oil industry of the State. The organization was effected on Tuesday, M. and the following officers were chosen: l'erry S. Heath, president; W. I. Roberts, Nels E. Young-ber- g. vice-preside- nt; secretary, and Dr. A. S. Chapman, treasurer. These, together with M. A. Dougherty, S. L. Boggs, J. A. C. Freund, H. P. Mason and F. L. Gardner. will constitute the first board of directors. The agreement to organize the ex- -' luinge was signed by the following: Roberts, H. B. Cole, H. P. Ma-L. Boggs, D. C. Robbins, George J. W. Pike, Hodge Marshall. A. S. Chapman, C. M. Kilbourne, Joseph J. Meyers, Chet Marshall, J. A. . Freund, H. M. R. M. Pope, M. S. King, A. G.Dukes, King, B. R. McDonald, Nels E. Youngberg, C. C. Hig-gin- s, E. V. Higgins, F. L. Gardner, Henry Simons, D. J. Williams and M. I- A. S. Dougherty. Judge E. V. Higgins, M. A. Dough-oi't- y and George Westervelt were appointed a committee to draft articles of incorporation and were instructed ' report at a meeting to be heic January 7th. Quarters have not yet bf en secured, but It is probable an arrangement may be made whereby the now exchange may use the mining xchange room. between the opposing teams, each team to pay its own expenses while traveling. This, and the fixing of a salary limit of $200 per month for umpires, are the principal changes over the regulations of the Intermountain league last year. Another good change is the adoption of a clause to prevent any club or player from laying any wager on a game and making the penalty expulsion. This rule will be hard to enforce, but it may at least have the effect of sparing. the public the spectacle of directors of a club betting openly in the grand stand against that club, as might have been seen last year not more. than three counties removed from the Salt Lake City postoffice. The usual suspension list, contract system and fining rules will obtain. That $200 salary limit for umpires seems to look pretty good to all over the country, and President Critchlow is getting bunches of letters from all points. It is to be hoped a better quality of stuff than was generally secured last year will be found this season. The magnates, of course, talked $800 salary limit. They always do In minor leagues, and the credulous fans have We been lamenting this, saying: has-bee- ns Champion James Jeffries was in Salt Lake the past week and gave an exhibition with Brother Jack at the Salt Lake Athletic club Monday night in the presence of a large crowd. The function proved pleasing to those who had never ?een the big fellow go before. The feature of the evening, however, was a mill between Fat Schuler, the football player and baseball rooter, and Kid McLeod, calling himself Sweet Caporal. McLeod weighed 113 pounds and looked as if he had consumed many a Sweet Caporal, while Schuler gently hove the scales down to 235. The game was for $250 a side, McLeod having found a man willing to wager that much that McLeod could stand in front of Schuler for seven rounds. The McLeod element took on considerable sadness before the" session closed, for Schuler simply knocked the stuffin' out before two of the little fellow McLeod anrounds had elapsed. nounced that his game would be to run away from Schuler, but he could not do it. Schuler surprised all hands by his speed, and knocked the little man down at will. After the bitter end, which occurred soon after time was called for the second round, Schuler threw out his chest and remarked that, "This was the easiest graft he had ever struck, and intimated that he might follow the ness hereafter. busi- The friends of E. B. Hallowell, the baseball pitcher, were grieved during the week by the announcement that he had become insane and had been taken to the Provo asylum. The unfortunate young man came here during the summer with the Boise team and remained. He was unable to secure employment and it is thought worry over this caused his mental derangement. Hallowell was a man of excellent habits and a fine ball player. He is well known all over the country and has many friends, who hope his malady will soon be cured. PURELY PERSONAL. Ewing of Bingham was in the the city early part of the week. C. H. Lashbrook, the Bingham merchant, was in Salt Lake Monday on business. Judge W. S. Arnald is still critically ,!1 at his home from a complication of organic disorders. C. H. Schue has gone to Los Angeles for a trip. E. W. Wilson Is in Colorado on business. H. E. Parkhurst, surveyor in charge of the board of underwriters of the Pacific. was in Ogden fer two or three days on official business this week. John H. Keetley was down from Park City Tuesday. Dr. A. L. Castleman of Mercur was in the city Wednesday. Everett W. Pingree of Detroit is a local business visitor. James A. Pollock left over the. Rio Grande Tuesday for St. Louis. W. L. Gosler, a cattle dealer of Grand Junction, was in the city during the C. R. week. T. W. Howard, a Bingham hotel man, was in Salt Lake Wednesday. William M. Roylance of Provo was in town Tuesday. E. W. Clark, the Ophlr mining official, is a local visitor, accompanied by Mrs. Clark. J. D. Leffingwell, business representative of Willie Collier, is registered at a local hotel. Ex-Speak- n well-know- er Col. Cooper, Maj. Varnum and Maj. that conBushnell, of the cluded its labors at Fort Douglas, left for Denver Tuesday. court-marti- al |