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Show SAD HAPPENING OVER'ATHYRUM H. J. Olson Loses $2,000 "Slick as a Pin." I Letter Sent One Day too Soon Causes Loss. News comes of a sad calamity at llyrum, a calamity that happened some time ago, however. This unfortunate unfor-tunate experience Is not In the nature irdL of San Francisco's misfortune, but ' does entail the loss of $2,000 by a man who could illy alTord it. Some time ago, II. J. Olson, a Hyruui ger.lus, Invented In-vented a reversible window sash whereby windows can be reversjd for cleaning purposes without taking them out. Mr. Olson secured Ills patent pat-ent on the invention and in a short time far-sighted easterners made In- iqulrlcs of him, expressing a desire to purchase ills rights Mr. Olsen offered offer-ed his holding for $0,000, and his inquirers in-quirers In reply said they would give $3,000. This was taken under advise- mcnt'by the llyrum man, who finally concluded that the $3,000 might be of service to him. He sat down and wrote the easterners that he would accept their otTcr, and posted the letter. let-ter. Imagine Mr. Olson's chagrin to receive on the following day a letter from the cast saying they would accept ac-cept his offer to sell at $3,000. We cant't vouch for the truthfulness ol tills latter assertion, but 'tis said that Mr. Olsen went out behind the barn and kicked the bosom of his trousers. Hcbcr K. ilauscn Is another local inventor who Is dreaming dreams and seeing visions of a fortune that Is o come to him through a recently perfected per-fected discovery of tils years ago. Twenty years or more ago, lie made . from wood a wheat cleaner and in the -f Hear Lake country at that time did wonders with his machine. He was able to clean wheat that the ordinary mill left in a very bad condition. Seed wheat needs to be cleaned perfectly, but the mills of today do not produce protection. During the past winter Mr. Hansen perfected the invention of years ago and lias now what lie and Others claim Is the best thing of the kind ever produced. A patent screen icmoves every foreign substance from the wheat, een oats. The machine sepaiates the light from the heavy wheat, may be operated cither as a left or right handed mill by changing a clip and lias what arc said to be wonderful won-derful advantages. It will be remembered remem-bered that Mr. Hansen patented a very useful hammer, selling the right to J. A. llcndrlckson. That gentleman sold the patent to an eastern tlrm for about $10,000. Speaking of patents, .1. .1. l'owell, of Logan, has one that bids fair to give him good returns. This Is a simple device that converts ordinary llr Into what appears to bo the very finest oak. The device consists of two threaded rollers, the threads so broken that when lumber Is shoved through as In a planer, any desired grain can Le so-sured so-sured Mr l'owell has done a great deal of wot k here witli what is, comparatively, com-paratively, a crude machine yet the rcsujt lias been exceedingly satisfactory, satisfac-tory, several homes being finished with this Imitation oak. Mr. l'owell has Ills invention patented, of course, and It comes to us that he lias an olTcr of $20,000 for It. A Salt Lake tlrm Is said to have taken a $1,000 option on it. Some time ago mention was made of a patent disc attachment invented by II. C. Danlelsen, of the Danlelscn Mfg. Co., and It will be remembered that ho went east and disposed or it to a great eastern tlrm on a royalty basis. Mr. Danlelscn reports that the tlrm has just now completed Its plant for manufacturing his patent and is now turning out the goods. He Is confident confi-dent that his invention will result to his financial advantage before a great while. |
