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Show uAL I LAHl EXTEND SCOPE OF FARM EXPERIMENTS Dr E. D Ball, director of the Utah exporlroent station and school of agriculture agri-culture of the Utah Agricultural college, col-lege, has Just returned from a trip to Parowan that coered a week's time. Concerning the object of thiB visit and hi observations on the way, Dr Ball yesterday said: "At Parowan wo are Just starting an experiment stntlon on the old Pan-guitch Pan-guitch Indian farm, which i6 considered consid-ered to be one of the best in all of southern Utah. We expect to make 'of It a dairy and livestock demonstration demon-stration farm, whoso chief object will be the introduction of puro breed live, stock into that section. "Joseph WalBh of the Agricultural college has taken charge of the farm, and ho will begin our experiment work at once. "Although somewhat behind in the matter of time, the crops' in that district dis-trict are iooklnc verv fine. "On the return trip I stopped In Sevier county to look over tho sugar beet situation, and the growing crops I found to be In excellent shape, with very little blight. The cold, wot spring has apparently destroyed most of the leaf-hoppers, which caused this trouble." GENTLEMAN BURGLAR GETS TWENTY YEARS Salt Lake, June 25. "Dick" Merrill, gentleman burglar, who was caught on the night of Juno C while trying to rob the store of tho W E. Fife company, 165 South Main street, and wno subsequently obtained much notoriety no-toriety by a sensational effort to escape es-cape from the offlco of Chief of Police B. F. Grant, entered a plea of guilty to second degreo burglary yesterday yes-terday and waB sentenced to a term of twenty years at hard labor in the penitentiary pen-itentiary by Judge Loofbourow, in tho criminal division of tho Third district courL The sentence was the full limit allowed by law. HAVE NARROW ESCAPE FROM FALLING SCREEN Salt Lake, June 25. One of the big window fly-screens at the IJotol Utah yesterday was blowu from its fastenings and fell to tho sidewalk from tho fourth story of the building. The trivial accident was near to having serious consequences, aB two women were passing tho southeast corner of the hotel at tho time tho screen narrowly mlsBlng them. While tho framo was light In cons traction. Its drop from tho fourth story gavo to It considerable momentum and it was with monmentary fear" that an attendant at-tendant stationed at tho south entrance en-trance of tho hotol saw tho narrow escape had by the passing women. EDITORS TIRE OF GIVING FREE ADVERTISING SPACE. Salt Lake, Juno 25. Country editors aro tired of printing advertising thinly thin-ly disguised as news which is furnished fur-nished them gratis from various sources. They said so yesterday afternoon aft-ernoon at the regular meeting of the Utah Ncwspapor association In the Commercial club. Discussion at the meeting brought out that, although tho country papors aro requested to print columns of such matter, they are given the cold shoulder shoul-der when they aBk for more substantial substan-tial encouragement A committee comprising com-prising J. S. Barlow, Royal Jcppson and Charles England was appointed to draft resolutions denning tho association's as-sociation's stahd against the free puffe. There was some criticism, too, of the Salt Lake commission's reception of the Salt Lake & Payeon electric lino's application for a franchise to enter the city. Terms laid down by the city would not be accepted by tho railway Tho newspaper association associa-tion may adopt resolutions touching upon tho question and scoring tho Salt Lake commission as opposing Interests Inter-ests of the smaller towns. A committee commit-tee was appointed to consider the question. This committee Is composed com-posed of H. C. Hicks, Jacob Coleman and J. S. Barlow. Tho next meeting of the association associa-tion will be held at Brigham City on Peach day and will be In the naturo of an outing, although an important business session will take place at the same time. Yesterday's conference began with luncheon at the club. Charles England read a paper on "The Cost System." Royal Jeppson on "How to Educate the Merchants to Advertise" and H C. Hicks on "Tho Count rv Nowsnnnnr as an Educational Factor and Town Booster." Those present were James M. Kirk-hara, Kirk-hara, Jr, president of the association and publisher of the Deserot Farmer-Secretary Farmer-Secretary N C. Hicks of the Provo Post, James M KIrkham, Sr., and J C. Hogonson of the Deaeret Farmer, George W Pypor of the Lehl Banner, J S. Barlow of the Murray Eagle, Royal Roy-al Jeppson of the Box Elder Journal, Charles England of the Logan Journal, Jour-nal, S. h. Radon of the Park City Record, Rec-ord, D. C. Johnson of the Springvlllo Independent ami nthnre IRRIGATION PUMP IS LATE INVENTION Salt Lake, June 25. At the shops of the Silver Bros., iron works Is a working model of a new pump for Irrigation and other purposes, the Invention In-vention of G G MoXeo of Clay Center, Cen-ter, Kan , who Is represented in this city by J. Tom Fitch of Helper. Utah. Tho pump Is of tho piston alcty, but the movements of the plungers are directed by a series of cams By the method adopted there are two strokes of each of the four plungers at one revolution of the main shaft to which thoy aro attached In a test that was had, it was demonstrated dem-onstrated that a six-Inch stream of water could be delhered at a height of 125 feet from the Intake, with tho absorption of less than three horso- powcr, me measurement being 1050 gallons per minute Mechanics who witnessed the test say that the pump is a highly effective one at tho expenditure ex-penditure of little power, and that tho cosf of construction and maintenance should bo comparatively small. HUNGRY BURGLARS INVADE TWO HOMES Salt Lake. June 25. Burglars who took Infinite pains for the sole purpose pur-pose of satisfying their appetites, Invaded In-vaded the homes of George W. Wallace, Wal-lace, 82 Laurel street, and Mrs. E. H. Hoyt, 74 Virginia street, last ni?ht At the Wallace homo they cut the glass from a front window, made their way to the pantry, ate a box of strawberries straw-berries and drank a pint of whiskey. At tho Hoyt home they cut tho glass from the kitchen window and drank two bottles of cream, ate a box of pro-served pro-served pears and stole 90 cents In cash from a pocketbook. In neither case was there any attempt at-tempt to ransack tho rooms, although al-though much of value might have been secured. The thefts were reported re-ported to the police last night. Thev aro believed to havo been tho wotk of boys from the neighborhood TWENTY-THIRD WARD CHAPEL IS BURNED Salt Lako, Juno 25. Sparks from a passing locomotive Bet fire to the old Twenty-third ward chapol In north Salt Lake yesterday afternoon and though the fire department made a gallant run, the Isolated site of tho chapel gave the flames an advantage that could not be overcomo Only the four walls are left of the building. build-ing. The loss Is estimated at 53,-000. 53,-000. The chapel was built many years ago. It was situated close to the Oregon Short Line tracks near Thirteenth Thir-teenth North street. The fire was discovered Just a6 the downpour of rain began, and though DhcetB of rain soon soaked the shingle roof, the flames were in nowiBO checked. RUNAWAY ORE CARS TEAR UP RAILROAD Salt Lake, June 25. Forty empty Rio Grando WcBlern aro cars that were standing on a Bide track at the Magna mill at 11 o'clock Sunday night broko loose and ran down tho grade toward tho Garfiold Hmeltor, and ovcntually piled themselves up In a heap across tho tracks of tho Salt Lake Route. No ono was hurt in the runaway, but the cars wore considerably damaged dam-aged and the Salt Lake Route tracks were torn up at tho point of the smashup, causing a traffic delay of two and one-half hours. HUMANE SOCIETY HAS POOR HORSES IN MIND Salt Lako, June 26, At a meeting of tho State Humano society, hold last night in tho offices of Dr. T. B. Bcatty, in the Mercantile block, several sev-eral questions looking to tho Improvement Improve-ment of conditions for the comfort of horses were discussed. BccauBe of tho absence of many members of the society matters were not taken up for thorough discuHBion. Dr. Beatty, president of the society, was not present and the meeting was called to order in his stead by tho Rev. Mr. William F. Buckley. |