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Show v wWawiMiM, 1 - J fTioCt7 V:4. ,( "r - ' 5 , ' a 4 4 V . 9 ' ."Ji fe3. f Wy 'llX- i ' - xV V yv. h Vv. i;an3h, rich county, utah, Saturday, February acioio. VOL. X1Y. IB OF II WEEK III RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hletor) Information Gathered from AU Quarters of the Globe and Glvan In a Few Lines. . INTER-MOUNTAI- Captain H. S. Stark, one of the best known mining engineers in the country, and a captain in the Royal engineers during the Boer war, died at Denver hospital on Friday. Accusation of sweatbox methods were made by Attorney Tannahill against the government counsel in the trial at Boise of William F. George Kester and William Dwyer, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the government out of Idaho timber lands. By signing a pledge never to. drink Intoxicating liquors or to smoke tobacco or to use any other narcotic," any young man who lives in Idaho or North Dakota will shortly be able to secure free a college education. The late Charles B. Botsford of Boston is the man who made all this possible. Another attempt to identify a woman as Mrs. Belle Gunness, owner of the La Porte, Indiana, murder farm, failed when Sheriff Antiss telegraphed from Everett, Wash., Not Mrs. Gunness. Mrs. Sophia Hopkins, who is, living on a ranch near Bellingham, Wash., is the woman w'ho Sheriff Antiss was called upon to identify. Senator Smoot has presented an amendment to the Arizona statehood bill, providing for the annexation to Utah of that part of Arizona lying north and west of the Colorado river. The request of this change has been - rcnde d'd.'cfat'Jifways seaa. ' ' DOMESTIC. f ' brake-ma"B. P, Green, a Rock Island was frozen to death near Amarillo, Texas. He had started to walk to the station, and his body was found in a snow drift The meat trust is to be placed on trial in New Jersey, the Hudson county grand Jury having instructed Prosecutor Garvan to draw up the form of an Indictment against the National Packing company and its directors. A movement calculated to solve the cost of living has been Inaugurated at New Orleans. Citizens have formed a and will raise 150,000 combination vegetables, chickens, etc., for the use of stockholders. A mistake in the delivery of two barrels of oil nearly caused several fatalities at Laurel, Md. Citizens had been eating doughnuts prepared in machine oil, Instead of oil used for cooking, the mistake having been caused by the mixing of the two barKet-enbac- rels. steamer Yucatan, Alaskan bound for Seattle from Valdez, with sixty-fiv- e passengers, struck an iceberg in Icy strait and sank. All on board were saved and have been taken to Juneau oy the steamer Geordia, which went to the rescue. In a pitched battle at' Cairo, Ills., between a mob that sought to lynch a negro arrested for snatching a purse from a woman and the deputy sheriffs guarding the Jail, Several members of the mob were shot down, but it is not believed any were fatally injured. Tom Hanson, the Arizona who after his release from prison carried out his threat and killed two men whose testimony had convicted him, has been captured in the mountains near Globe, Ariz. Four bandits blew the safe of the Citizens bank at Chatsworth,. Ills., got 10,000 and escaped. and fifty An engineer was killed people injured, seven seriously, in a head-ocollision between a Hocking Valley passenger train and a pay train near Nelsonville, O. Because he had been reprimanded by his mother for keeping late hours, John Plaskett, aged 18, suicided at in the Chicago, shooting . himself mouth with a target rifle. The village of Lakeland, Fla., has been wrecked by a hurricane, twenty-fiv- e persons being injured and a number of houses demolished. Reform, which has many times gone down to defeat only to come up again for another fight, received its hardest blow in the municipal election in Philadelphia Tuesday, when the Republican organization swept the city and won everything It started out to get. Drawing a revolver from a table drawer in his real estate office Tuesday night, Jacob Bzdek of Chicago shot and instantly killed Bruce Morgan after the latter had threatened to shoot him unless he turned over $1500 which was U the safe The n The territory of Alaska, bought from Russia for $7,000,000 in 1867, has to the present time paid $160,000,000 in gold alone since 1880, when placer mining there began, and what the resources of its copper, coal and other minerals will be is beyond the limi, s tation of man. One man is dead, five are badly burned, one of whom may not survive, and two are painfully scalded about the face and hands as a result of a boiler tube blowing out in the forward battery of the torpedo destroyer Hopkins, at San Diego, Cal. Edward Bowman, aged 11, was shot to death at Montgomery, Ala., when he ran up to put a valentine on a porch and was mistaken by Mrs. W. ' f H. Pierson for a burglar. an Fut0 traveled in who Robbers, mobile, stole $3,575 from the State Bank of Ford, Kansas. Four changes were used in blowof safe. the ing WASHINGTON , Senator Perkins of California was in his seat in the senate on Friday for the first time in more than six .weeks. His absence had been due to an injury to the spine, received by falling on the ice, soon after the Christmas holidays. Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas delivered a speech in the senate on Friday, in which he changed. Senator Owen of Oklahoma with beln$ interested in the Standard, 0114 company, and said that he would like to see the John D. Rockefeller rappedin J , flames of hell. ' ' jv" President Tafts decision $n the Whiskey is liquor controversy ,th whiskey whether tt'be blended or straight, has been formulated Jn a set of regulations prepares by thfe board of food and drugs inspection of the de' , partment of agricnltujeV tj President Taft- - bwjssdf a conference with a number of senators, impressing th.;; 'dilatory his disappointment v: ' tactics of the 6snte In acting upon administration measures', and it is understood the chiefexectiti eAas been Ae leaders given the promt' ' that everything j ,Sble vill bj done in t le future. to expedite The cens bureau is . nitro-glycerin- e Unitv td itfaonMaty preparations the approximately exact number and value of livestock on the ranges in the United States on April 15 next, the date of tho livestock inascertain ventory. FOREIGN. Swenden has had the unique distinction of having had both her king and queen imder the surgeons knife within a month. Authorization to increase its capital 20,000,000 haS been granted to by the Japanese South Manchurian railway for the development of the line and the improvement of Port Arthur. Quietly old Palestine is being filled up with Jewish colonists and it is not impossible that the next generation will see the Zionist movement successful to the extent at least that the great maorijty of the inhabitants of Palestine will be Jews. Investigations are to be made Into alleged army scandals in Japan, according to news received by the The steamer empress of China. Hochi SHimbun charges gross irregularities, and two other Tokio papers allege scandals. The disappearance of the wife or M. Parat, a Paris druggist, has been cleared up. It develops that her husband, who Is Insanely Jealous of her, has kept the unfortunate woman chained up in ,,theif home for the past two years. Policemen rescued her a few days ago. Baron Otto Orban, an aged Hungarian nobleman, was torn to pieces by wolves in a forest in Transylvania recently. The baron, who was 70 years of age, was riding in the forest near his county seat at Lengyelfalva, when a pack of wolves gave chase. They frightened Baron Orbans horse, which threw the rider. Greece needs money and it is possible the great American financier, J. P. Morgan, will be asked to float a loan of $30,000,000. For political reasons intimately connected with a desire to remain on good terms with Turkey, Great Britain and Germany seem anxious to place .every obstacle in the way of the loan. in Nicaragua Fighting continues both the government forces and the victories revolutionists claiming While details have not been received it is the general opinion that the gov ernment has geen getting a little the best of the contest. Because of a shortage of wheat ir Mexico, the rate of duty has been re duced by the Mexican governmen from 3 cents to 1 cent a kilometer, Following new evidences of seditiol in India as a result of the muzzling of the Indian press the past week, th war office has begun to mass Britist troops about Calcutta. M. Laird, vice rector of the Univer sity of Paris, has been officially ad vised that Theodore Roosevelt wil reach Paris about April 14, and tha' the length of his stay probably will nol exceed three or four days. f AMERICANS INSURGENTS AID TO CONSERVE WATER Numerous Factors Involved Em braches Much Public Land. Perform Brave Deed and Are of in Defeating Nicaraguan Government Troops. IRRIGATION AND DRY FARMING Ideal Combination of Condition Loading to Success in Agriculture in Western States. The ideal combination of conditions leading to success in fanning in the arid and semi-ariwest Is found where it is possible to have a relatively small tract of well irrigated land adjacent to a large area of dry farming and grazing land. This permits of the widest diversity of occupation and the rounding out of an establishment practically complete in itself, writes F, II. Newell, in Campbells Scientific Farmer. The irrigated land is capable of producing each year one or more good crops which can be counted on with almost mathematical precision. Where the climate is favorable, fruit trees, berries, bushes and garden vegetables flourish, and shade trees or flowers are possible for the beautifying of the home. On the adjacent dry farming land, with ordinary skill and in average years, the grains or other standard field crops can be produced. If In exceptionally dry seasons or by reason of hot winds these crops are not successful, the irrigated land tides over temporary depressions until there comes a favorable year when the crops will repay the labor lost during the lean years. The dry farming land also serves a useful purpose from time to time for a home range for the cattle, and if the farm extends up into the foothills to the summer grazing lands the cycle of opportunity is complete. From the irrigated , area there can always be had green fodder for the cattle rnd hay can be cut for feeding drying severe winters. This ideal arrangement has been possible for realizatou in a few Instances on reclamation projects where the farms could be arranged in such manner that 4(1 acres or more lie 'under a canal wifh the remainder extending above the ditch. Attempts have been made lso to secure legislation by which the owner of 40 or 80 acres within he irrigated tract could obtain title t" a large area of dry land ne-iHitT aIT$;eKt.ron has 'also been considered of endeavoring to segregate the dry lands which surround the reclamation project, making these available for the use of the entire community as a general grazing ground or home range to be cared for by the water users association. d Transmission of Hydro-Electri- c Power Will Always Be Most Practicable and Econom- leal in Western Statee. Long-Distanc- Blueflelds. Americans took an active part in the battle between the insurgents and the Madriz forces at SL Vincente and at least one was badly hurt They were under Captain Victor Gordon, with General Mena, the known as the contingent being American scouts. The wounded man is William Wilkins, who Joined the provisionals from Panama. A steel bullet struck the cartridge slip swung across his shoulder, near the heart, and deflected, penetrating the arm and leg. Another scout, G. T. Bushby, was bruised when a stone from behind which he was firing was shattered by a cannon ball. Bushby was thrown twenty feet, but he went back to the fight. In a dispatch that he has sent hither. Captain Gordon says that the battle began on the 15th. The insurgents reached Chinao on the 18th, when, after ten hours of desperate attacks and counter-attackthe enemy, under General Vasquez, retired to a secondary position, from where, next morning, they opened a desultory artillery fire that ceased at 10 Oclock-Genera- l Mena is loud in his praise of the bravery of the Americans. This Is the Number of Administration Measures That Mjst Be Passed. The announcement Washington. from the White House that President' Taft had, by his own motion, cut down to four the number of administration measures he would demand at the present session of congress is received by Republican leaders with unmixed feelings of relief. The administration program was so formidable that members warmly supporting the Tait policies hardly knew where to begin..' - Numerous are involved water power factors of conservation of in the development in the arid and semi-ari- regions of the west, which embrace ail the remaining public lands outside of Alaska. The essential factors are, (1) a saving of the natural fuels, coal, oil, and forests; (2)- , a lessened expense in the irrigation of agricultural lands and in securing power for mine development; (3) 'the restraint of flood waters and the augmenting of waters for naviga-thW'riteg Secretary R. A. Ballinger in American Review of Reviews. The transmission of hydro-electri- c power will always, generally speaking, be more practicable and economical In the Rocky Mountain and Raciflc Coast states since the cost of coal and other fuels for power generation will have locally prohibitive values, due chiefly to cost of labor in raining and the long hauls in transportation. This however, is not true in all localities, as at present the low selling price of oil in Los Angeles and San FYancIsoo removes much of the incentive for hydro-electridevelop. ment It these cities. - It ndeds no argument to show that every horsepower developed by conserves transmission just that quantity of natures fuel necessary to produce the same horsepower, not to mention the fuel used in its- - transportation; therefore tl?e gain represents the saving of an exhaustible natural resource and the utilization of what would otherwise run to waste. The natural gift of power in the waters tan never be of full service until devtfoped pdtojjLd, wet and are dry seasons, and such development is dependent mainly upon private enterin prise. Water-powe- r development probably the major portion of the west is impracticable from a commercial point of view unless coupled with the irrigation of arid lands, the extraction and reduction of minerals, or railway operation. The force of these statements is better understood when it is known that the maintenance of a continuous flow throughout the year in wet and dry seasons requires the impounding of flood or surplus waters. These waters so restrained thereby become in part available for irrigation during crop seasons as well as in the continuous generation of power for Also thoutransmission. electrical sands of motors are thus capable of use in pumping water to the surface for irrigation to an extent not feasible if fuel were necessary to create power or normal stream flow must be depend- substantially long-distanc- e c WILL BE SATISFIED WITH FOUR. - e - hydro- -electric well-define- d A schedule Including only the bills to( amend the interstate commerce laws, to regulate the issuance of injunctions, to start Arizona and New Mexico on the road to statehood and to validate the withdrawals of public lands for conservation purposes, is regarded as quite possible of attainment. These are the measures the president insists must be passed. SHOT BY STUDENT. Close Call, Egyptian Premier Has Wounded. Being Seriously Cairo, Egypt. Boutros Pacha Chali, Egyptian premier and minister of foreign affairs, was shot and seriously wounded Sunday by a student, who was arrested. The student fired five shots, three bullets lodging in the premiers body. Two of them, however, inflicted only superficial wounds. The bullets were extracted and it is thought that the premier will recover. The crime was entirely of a political nature, the would-bassassin beHe declared that ing a National. his motive was the desire to avenge various acts of the government, which the Nationalists attribute personally to Boutros- - Pacha. e Strikers Burn Street Car. With this city bound Philadelphia. in the throes of a street car strike which has completely tied up traffic and stagnated business, rioting broke out Saturday night in three different sections of the city, in which several persons were hurt by flying sticks and stones. One car was seized by a band of strikers and the passengers ordered out. Then the car was set on fire and practically consumed. The strike was precipitated by the discharge of several hundred employes Saturday morning. ift.cmea ed on. wel-draine- d Experience shows that the impounding or storage of the waters of mountain streams in the flood season necessarily retards the abnormal seasonal run off and equalizes the flow of the natural streams and rivers, preventing Inundation of lands in one season of the year and augmenting river flow in other seasons of low waters, thereBeware of Rotten Ensilage. by increasing the facilities for naviDamaged ensilage is almost sure gation. death to horses. It Is not the custom to feed ensilage to horses, but if it is For Hoed Crops. sound and sweet it w ill do no harm. For hoed crops I plow the stable Ensilage that is slightly damaged manure under, setting the plow to run generally is eaten by cattle with no eight inches deep, says a writer in harm, although it should not be given The disk har- them. Rotten ensilage should be kept Baltimore American. row follows and after the crop is out of the way of all animals, and if planted the weeder Is used liberally. horses are allowed to eat it there is When I plow old ground I plan to go almost certain death to follow. a little deeper each time. The best When ensilage is soft and slushy fields is to plow and looks and smells dead" it ought way to treat worn-ou- t out, applying a heavy coat of dress- to be put out of sight and reach oi ing and then cultivate thoroughly. both cattle and horses. Cows on Dry Feed. Financial Confidence Improved. the milk cows are on dry While New York. Financial confidence feed the digestive organs do not work as In last reflected week, improved freely as when they are on green tfe movement towards recovery in so fired. To keep their digestive organs tie stock market There was a mo- in good tone and their bowels normentary interruption to the recovery, mally loose, feed some oil meal daily. witch had set in the week before, oil rneal not only maintains the whn the week opened, because of The organs in good working ordigestive false reports of what President Taft but it is one of the best der, was 'going to say in his New York feeds, being highly speech on the Saturday preceeding. ous. Musty and bad feeds nitrogenof any who had 'ssional operators not good cow feeds. They stocks because rumor had said kind are lie president would say that the are not only poor in nutrients, but rments attitude toward corpora-woul- d are dangerous to health. be moderated, sold hastily The Farmer's Wife. r reading the speech. A good investment for a woman is Will Intervene. United States a good horse and comfortable buggy. vashington. It is believed the To the woman who owns her acres iiae has come for the United States and lives in her colonial residence Intervene in Nicaragua. The move the bank account is Just as necessary already been made by the state as to the woman of the few acres artment. An March 15, John Bar-a- and the house. A herd American diplomat, now at of Jerseys grazing on ad of, the bureau of American the pasture makes the plantation more e and a commission repre-thattractive; the sheep delicious United States will go to lamb to spring menu,adding the goats for conditions. to investigate Nicaragua The report will determine the future the little ones to drive, all increase of the gWernment of Nicaragua. Sir. the spending money of the farmers wife. Barrett isiow New Orleans. n three-roome- fawn-colore- rep;ca Increase Profits in Alfalfa. Notwithstanding its present importance and great value in irrigation farming, the profits on the area now in alfalfa could be greatly increased if more care rnd skill were exercised In growing it. We all know that the most essential conditions for the production of alfalfa are abundant sunshine, a high summer temperature, sufficient moisture and a soil. All of rich, deep, these essentials, save moisture, exist In arid naturally and regions when water is supplied the conditions become ideal. Although alfalfa can be sufficiently grown under a wide range of soil conditions, yet all western lands are not equally well adapted to its growth, but can be made so by a little cultivation from the sod and subsequent fertilization and even the dry farmers are getting very good results from putting alfalfa where rosin weeds grew. d d Medicine for Swine. Salt, sulphur and charcoal are good things for the brood sow. if kept in a box in the feed loft, the sows Boxes may be will help themselves, made with hinge covers that project over the edges of the box. This will keep out the rain, and the pigs will soon learn to lift the covers. NO. 4:i. UTAH STATU The town of Midvale is to have a volunteer fire department. The town of Price is to have a lighting plant as soon as the same may be built, the citizens ' having voted bonds for that purpose. For burglarizing a Denver & Rio Grande box egr of merchandise, C. Lytle, former telegraph operator at Mounds, has been sentenced to tw'o years imprisonment. The fish hatchery in South fork, Provo canyon, is in successful operation. One million rainbow trout eggs received lately have been hatened and tne business promise to be very successful. The annual convention of the State Horticultural society, held in Salt Lake City on Tuesday and Wednesday, was well attended, questions of interest to fruit growers of the state being discussed. The holding of a state convention for county auditors, assessors and treasurers for the last part of May and first of June has been decided upon by the state auditor, the dates to be announced later. An appropriation of about $30,000 for the installation of block signals on the Southern Pacific division west of the lake hug been made by William H. Bancroft of the Oregon Short Line, and the work will be undertaken at once. George Johnston, who committed suicide by leaping from ' the Luna theatre in Salt Lake City on the night of February 8, and the unidentified man who took poison January 29, were buried Wednesday in potters operation than in 1900, with a total ol about 6,000,000 an increase of sev eral millions of people employed or farms. In 1900 there were 10,433.181 males over ten years of age em ployed In agricultural pursuits. Poultry Manure. Freh poultry maure is said to bt worth, compared with the present value of fertilizers, 65 cents per 104 Figures from different expounds. periment stations give the producl of 25 hens for the winter season of sij months as 375 pounds for the roosl droppings only. y t of the late Mary Kroll, widow Rudolph A. Kroll, one of the victims of the disastrous wreck on the Southern Pacific at I.emay, January 17, will tecelve $5,000 from the railroad company in full settlement of her claims for damages. A matter that Is creating a great deal of interest in Tooele at present is tho building andn)uluti4nlnjia Car--- , negie library.,' Some time ago Carnegie donated $3,000 to Tooele for that purpose and $1,500 has been i raised by a special tax. Dominico Aibanese was sentenced to serve five years at hard labor in the state prison by Judge Lewis at Salt Lake bn Wednesday for assault with A razor upon his sweetheart, Rosa Paula, last July. The girl was badly cut about the face, but recovered. Brigham City was successful in it effort to land the horticultural co vention for 1911. The famous fru growing center in the northern part of the state received more votes than Provo, which was also a candidate. The vote resulted; Brigham City, 62; Provo, 36. At a meeting of the Utah conservation commission held in Salt Lake City, plans were discussed for getting out a new map of the state, to be used as a part of the next report of the commission. It is proposed to make the map far more complete than any heretofore attempted. According to William H. Rowe, one of the largest fruit growers In Utah, a crop will be registered this year throughout the state. Despite the cold weather during the winter, no damage has been done to he fruit, and indications point toward a successful season. A. R. Hunt was severely injured at Collinston, when a bobsled, in which he was driving, was struck by an Oregon Short Line fast mail train. Mr. Hunt was just In the act of driving over a crossing near the town His when the train struck him. horses were instantly lulled. John H. Redd has received notification from Washington, that he has been awarded the contract for four years for carrying the , mails from Price to Emery, Emery county, seven times a week. The contract begins July 1, 1910, and runs for four years. Utahs rui crop for 1910 will be marketed through the Utah Fruit Exchange, organized last year, and all of the crop sold in carload lots by nine oi the eleven fruitgrowers' associations in the state will be marketed through the loneer Fruit company of California. With freedom almost within their prisoners confined grasp, seventy-twin the county Jail In Salt Lake City missed liberty by the barest margin Sunday night, owing to the vigilance The of the sheriff and his deputies. boldthe one of was break attempted est in the history of Utah prisons. association of The Retail Clerks Salt Lake will probably be backed by the Salt Lake Ministerial association In its efforts to have earlier closing hours established in the stores. The ministers are taking much interest in the matter and it is thought that they will take some definite action. According to statistics compiled by State Statistician Hf T. Haines, there were just two more divorces granted than in 1908, in the state in 1909 while the marriages for 1909 show an Increase of 378 as compared with record-breakin- g , 1 .1 field. o Increase of Farms. It is estimated that the census wil show almost 200,000 more farms Is NbWs 1 ! t y. jJ s $ |