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Show T RU T H. 6 TRUTH 11 . Issued Weekly by TROTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. and 12 Central Block, West Seoond South Street, Salt Lake City. JOHN W. HITCHES, Editor sad Manager. Entered at the postofflee st Salt Lake City, ' Utah, for transmission through the mails as second-clas- s matter. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 1,1902. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION t ONE TEAR (In advance) SIX MONTHS THREE MONTHS M S.00 1.00 75 Postmasters sending subscriptions to Truth 5 may retain per cent of subscription price as commission. If the paper Is not desired beyond the date subscribed for the puDlicatlon should be noti-- ; fled by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by . letter when a subscriber wishes his stopped; all arrears must be paid In . Requests of subscribers to have their paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as present address. . Address all communications U8HZHQ to Truth Pub- -: Compart, Salt Lake City, Utah. can very well run in the canal and if the exchange was made for Cottonwood water the farmers could take their share from the canal when and where they needed it The only piping really necessary would be from Cottonwood to the city. The insurance men are again agitating the question of insurance rates and inadequate fire prevention appliances in the city. It is pointed out that the fire department equipments are all run down and that the department itself has not enough men to successfully cope with a big fire. Some time ago the city council had the question of the department, but nothing in that line has yet been done. The underwriters also think the' hydrant facilities are inadequate and asked that a hydrant be placed in the interior of every block in the business district. They also think that cy sterns should be placed underground in various places in the central portion of the city. It is true that the city will have hard work to make both ends meet in a financial way this year and but little money can be spared for improvements, to the fire department, but it is equally true that The tinkering with the problem of unless something is done in that direc- getting more water from Utah Lake which has been going on for years has temporarily ceased, but both it and the question of getting an appropriation from Congress for the purpose of converting the lake into a more complete .and more serviceable reservoir will have to be taken up again and the project brought to a consummation sooner or later. The proposition to erect a plant to pump water from the lake into the Jordan river is but a makeshift and a poor one at that, considering its cost. Former City Engineer F. C. Kelsey pointed out and urged the adoption of the only correct method for years, but his advice went unheeded and in some quarters was received with disdain, but they will have to come to it yet. Mr. Kelseys plan, which was approved by the best engineers in the state, was to dredge the Jordan for a distance of about six miles from Utah Lake to. the Jordan Narrows. This would enable sufficient water to be drawn from the lake in summer for all purposes and in winter the water can be damned up in the lake until it reaches Compromise Point. The canal companies and the city could get their proportions of the water at - the Narrows and the city could exchange its share of the irrigation water from the lake with the farmers for an equal amount of the fine, clear, sparkling water of Big Cottonwood creek, which could be brought to the city by a wooden stave pipe. That is the cheapest and most feasible way of solving the water problem . It would effectually solve it and provide the city with all the water it will need for twenty years. The plans and specifications and estimate of the cost were furnished by Mr. Kelsey long ago and the sooner they are adopted the better. It would cost a good deal of money but it These would be cheap in the end. make-shifcost money, too, and give no permanent or even considerable relief. The idea put forward by the Tribune of piping the water from the Jordan Narrows to the city, a distance of over twenty miles, is not feasible at present. It would cost too much. It . ts tion, there will be an advance in fire insurance premiums. James R. Keene of New York is a During the recent cold man of action. snap in that city, when men were hungry and children crying with starvation Keene sent first, a check for $10,000, then another for a similar sum and last for $2,500. All of which was distributed in coffee, sandwiches and other kinds of food for the destitute. Keene is a man of deeds and those checks beat all the prayers ever J. M. Coombs, of Salina, wasmtho when it came to distributing the prize on business. city who money the Acting Judge Thomas Marioneaux can.c un wasnt there got away with the bundle. from Nephi on Tuesday eveniu-- and spent several days in the city ena-reOmaha is rejoicing over the acqui- on legal matters. sition of a big tannery. The first hide Hon. Moses Thatcher has returned to be sent there will be that of Reedell from an extended in Mexico the chief of the fire department, who where he is interested trip in sugar was removed a few days ago for cruelty mining and other industries! to his men. Mrs. Ezra Thompson who has been ill at the Holy Cross hospital for some Some person has presented the pre- time, is improving. sident with a parrot. Now will some NAT BRIGHAM IN BOSTON. kind hearted gentlemen forward a monkey to the White Bouse so the Three hundred or more persons .nado usual time can be indulged in? almost n living journey to the grand Prince Henry cannot go back to canyon of Arizona with Mr. Nat M. Germany and say he did not have Brigham at the Newton club last evenMr. Brighams lecture, aceom. enough to eat while here. That's cer- ing. panied by Etereoptican views, were tain. drawn from his nine months of obserCaptain Sigsbee took about as vation in the grand cony on. He has all that go to many risks as any of the heroes of the a ward we lecturer. never His descriphear from making Spanish war, but tions are brilliant, and his attractive him. presence and clear, powerful voice lend Senatorial courtesy does not seem charm to his utterances. He wa9 apto prevent Tillman from smashing the plauded again and again at the conother fellow when he calls him a liar. clusion of bits of vivid word coloring and eloquent oratory. PURELY PERSONAL. There were about 100 stereopticon views, all of which were admirable. Mrs. Nye, of Ogden, who was visit- The lecture said the grand canyon wa9 ing with Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Breeden, a running fire of beauty and color for returned home the early part of the 500 miles. In touching, upon one of the week. gloomy views of the canyon, he reW. L. Park, of Cheyenne, superin- marked that if Dante should comeback tendent of the Wyoming division of on earth, he would tell his countrymen the Union Pacific railroad, and W. A. to let his first five cantos go to the inWhitney, of Laramie, assistant super- ferno after seeing this inferno. He intendent, were in the city the early described the canyon a$ being the most beautiful under more favorable conddays of this week. rear-admir-al r the-attribute- W. II. Bancroft and J. J. Greenewald attended a meeting of the Scottish Rite Masons at Evanston, Wyo., this week, where the former received the 33rd degree of that order. Miss Lucy L. Mower is confined to her home by severe sickness. Robert J. has resigned The irrigation congress did very good his position asFitzpatrick train dispatcher on the work, that is, so far as talking goes. Rio Grande Western railroad, and has Now let those so vitally interested in gone to St. Louis on business. Mrs. Joseph Henshaw has gone to irrigation get to work and do someCalifornia on a visit to friends. thing. Irrigation is the greatest problem that confronts not only the people Lloyd V. Draper, who was sick at of Utah but of half a dozen other states, St. Marks hospital, is better and is atand it is of the utmost importance that tending to business. the waters be utilized in the most adCounty Commissioner Barker, who was confined to his home for two vantageous manner possible. The con- weeks by sickness, is better and atgress will undoubtedly be productive tending to business. of great good. P. n. Towey, of Park City, was Salt Lake Monday. Carrie Nation announces that she will not marry again until she meets her affinity. We dont like to interfere in private affairs Carrie, but cast your weather eye in Congressman Wheelers direction will you and see if you do not feel a sort of thrill in your stormy bosom. If gold continues to be found in such enormous quantities as it is said to be found at Thunder Mountain and eggs continue to maintain their high prices, why not make the product of the American hen the medium of exchange? What becomes of our discharged soldiers? ask the New .York Press. We don't know what becomes of him down east, but in this neck of the woods he can be found almost any time hustling for a job which he seldom gets. It may have been a captains battle all right, all right, Mr. President, but in C, E. Stewart has returned from a five weeks trip in the East. Judge J. II. Ryckman is back from a trip to Cheyenne on legal business. s itions. The lecturer astounded his lecturers by showing how many of the tallest buildings in New York could be put on top of one another in the deepest part of the canyon, and said that the Washington momument would appear like a mere stump. Mr. Brigham is a native of Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Harvard, and was a member of the famous 79 crew that three times beat Yale. He was appointed United States marshal of Utah in 1892. Boston Herald Feb. 6. A MOSQUITO STORY. Hows this for high? The clipping is from the New York Jonrnal. Salina, Utah, Jan. 25. A swarm of mosquitos has descended upon Salina and is making all manner of trouble for the inhabitants. The phenomenon is a remarkable one, for mosquitos have never beeD heard of in winter in this part of the country, and these mosquitos are as large as wasps. The mosquiotos arrived when the snow was deep on the grouud. They came in a cloud, like grasshoppers and settled everywhere. The appearance of a living being i9 a signal for them to swarm to the attack in myriads. They are so large and fierce that they Manager H. E. Parkhurst of the Board of Underwriters of the Pacific, was in Ogden for a few days this week looking over fire insurance matters can only be fought off with difficulfy. there. People have been forced to remain indoors as much as possible, and Attorneys. A. King was up from women, and eveD some men, have Provo on business Monday. taken to wearing veils when they apJudge Higgins returned Monday pear on the street. from a trip to Beaver on legal business. They have even invaded dwellings, the people there. attacking The two children of Cassius Treseder, who have been afflicted with scarlet Another railroad is coming to Salt fever, are getting along nicely and the quarantine on the home at Bridport Lake. It starts according to official street has been raised. survey, at a point adjoining a box head, thence along the column to an item in inal Bear River Duck club, cai border to a point where it is asserted from Denver Tuesday. that ties will be wanted, thence to the M. K. Parsons is back from editorial page where a halt for dinner a ti his ranch in California, is made, thence to the basement and through the press thence to the city. Thomas Homer, manager of tin In the meantime passengers for the curity Abstract company, was con east and west can buy tickets via to his room for several days this Denver & Rio Grande railway and by sickness, but is now better Union Pacific at the same old rate. |