The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-14

policy games. He stopped this by not pay
ing until the end of the month and he now
pays at the close of the engagement. The
Senator employs Chinese cooks upon the
farm and these cooks do all the cooking for
the boys and he always eats dinner with
them. AT such times the Chinese cooks
prepare special feast for the governor
and it has been their custom to
make little corner where he
IS to sit and at which thera is to
be some special delicacies put. Ia some
way or other the Chinese cooks always got
wind of the fact that the governor was
coming some days beforehand and they
would have this nice little feast prepared
Tor him. He always circumvented them,
however, by sitting down somewhere else
along the table and eating with the boys.
He would say, Johnnie, pass me those
pickles." or sam, what do you think of
that meat Let me have little piece of
that bread" or something of that kind, and
all the while the feast at the other end of
the table would go untasted. After trying
this method several times and not succeed
ing, the Chinese cooks gave better dinners
to the whole party whenever the governor
was there, aud n this way gave him very
good dinner and the boys much better
one than they cared to give
Everyone has heard of
SENATOR sTANFoRD's GREAT FARM
at Palo Alto, which contains his country
residence, the great university and some of
his best ranches. In this farm, which by
the way has all been given to the upiver-
Slty, he has some land which is worth $1,000
an acre, and he has a patch of forty acres
in grapes which has produced as high as
81, GOO year and wh / has never produced
less than s., 200 year since they have been
planted. On one of his tracts of fluit land
there is little piece of ten acres for which
man pays him s., 500 year for the priv
lege of picking the fruit.
He makes equally as well out of his cat
tie He has all kinds of line breeds of cat
tle-Jerseys, Holsteins and Others He
was very much delighted this past year to
get the highest prize for butter max
ing and for milking which consisted of a
fifty dollar gold piece, which he got at the
California State fair. In this case the cow
was brought to the fair and left there for a
week, its milkings being registered every
day and the milk being churned into butter.
His cows took the premium both for the
production of milk and as to the quality of
their milk and the production of butter. l
am told one of his cows gave the cream in
one week which produced twenty four
POUNDS of butter.
l see that
SENATOR HEARST HAS HORSE
which has at last been successful. He is
as proud as a turkey gobbler in new
flock and struts around blowing about his
fine horses. The fact is, Hearst knows
very little about horses and he does not
know even the names of his own stock A
great many of his horses he merely owns
the racing privilege; that is, he buys of
Senator Stanford the right to run his
horses for a certain season and they are
entered under Hearst's name though they
really belong to Stanford. Senator Stan
ford himself does not race his horses, or
only few of them, to keep up the adver-
tsement of the Palo Alto stock. OF
course it is good thing if his horses turn
out well as it makes them more valuable
for breeding. Not long ago a race was run
in the east atwhich it was reported that one
of Senator Hearsts horses had won Hearst
knew little of the horse that won and he
talked in the Senate about his fine horse
which knew him by name. 1t afterwards
turned out that the horse belonged to some
one else and Hearst did not know whether
he was among his stock or not Hearst
has jockey whom he pays $4,000 a year
and when asked the other day what this
boys name was he said that he could not
paying him this big salary for his work
and allowing him to run other horses when
he was not working for him.
This sounds funny to poor man, but
Hearst is many times a millionaire He
has mines all over the country. His farm
in California contains thousands OF acres
and he has so much property that it is nc
wonder that he does not keep better track
OF 1t all. FRANK G. CARPENTER.