Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-09-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Commissioner Coleman, of the Agri-
cultural Department, at the Annual Con-
vention OF Chemists in Washington yes
! terday, said he had already directed the
! chemist of his Department to give his
| ention to the adulteratiOn of foods.
The frauds that are practiced upon the
public in adding cheap and harmful
! incidents to the food we eat in order to
make greater profit, ought to be exposed
in no uncertain way and the perpetrators
of them held up before the public as OBJ
jects of scorn and detestation. To such
an extent is the adulteration OF butter and
! the manufacture of counterfeit article
carried on that the great dairy interests OF
our Nation are almost Frustrated. The
honest producer OF the pure article is i'm
poverished, while the manufacturers and
dealers in the fraudulent article are en-
| riched, some of them having become
millionaires by this illegitimate work.
The same may be said in relation to the
adulteration of our sugars and syrups.
James NJ. Richardson came in from the
gold belt yesterday, to send his little boy
off to Utah for couple of years school
ing. The boy will be student in Bishop
Tuttle's school-Inter-Idah
The Lyon County New Times says
There is a good, solid Democrat in Day
ton who wants to bet from 800 to 81 900
that James G. Fair will succeed himself
year from next fall. There are no Re-
publicans who wish to take him up, and
it looks now as though it was good bet
to make
James McElhaney, one OF the owners
of the King of the West group of claims,
in Smoky District, has transferred all his
interest in those claims to Professor Jen-
ney, w. H. Watt, Samuel Allen, j. 0.
Swift and p A. Reagan, who took pos
session to-day. The consideration stated
is $2O,000.-Hdiley Times, Goth ul.
Judge Lambert Tree, the new Ameri-
can minister to Belgium, is worth round
$5,000,000. 1t is intimated that if he likes
the country he will try to buy it with the
view to moving it over on the lake front
at Chicago and converting it into a beer
garden.
A census-taker at Buffalo had funny
experience. After the usual questions
had been put and answered at house,
he was about to leave, when the woman;
who had seemed in an uncertain state of
mind, made bold to say: 81 think there
may be another by this time; wait little
while" He sat for a few minutes. She
returned, exclaiming: Yes, you can add
another. It's girl
When President Cleveland's string of
fish arrive via blackboard route from the
Adirondacks they will be duly tagged, |
"Tell the truth"
M. J. Rhode, attendant of machinery at
the railroad shops in this city, met with !
painful mishap last Monday by having his |
thumb caught in some of the gearing, which |
almost severed it. He is now in Salt Lake !
but will return to his position by the time !
the wound is sufficiently healed.-Shoshone !
(Idao) Journal.
The Oregonian says Portland butchers are :
becoming anxious in regard to the probable !
scarcity of beef next winter, on account of |
SO many Eastern Oregon cattle being sent to |
Chicago. A number of the largest cattle |
raisers of Umatilla county have been send !
ing large shipments lately to Chicago, and |
Portlanders are beginning to worry about !
their supply for the future. Fat cattle will !
= ..oubt bring high price before another |
harvest.