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The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15
THE COST OF A HOME VICE.

1t cost last year to educate the chill
dren of Provo for teachers $6,712.15;
the additional expenses of the schools
would not raise the figures above
$4,000. 1t took not more than, say
100000 to supply all the wants of the
children of the city, in addition to then
education. In other words, without
economy being practiced whatever,
Provo city paid out last year for the
support and education of its 5000 chill
dr. under the age of is years, $4,000.
Recent low estimates say that in a
year Provo city pays out for intoxicat-
in liquors. outside Of that used for
me .icinal purposes, $13O,OOO.
Readers, how does this sound? Fig
ures do not lie. The comparison Is ap-
pa ling.
Parents, read this little sermon to
your boys You need not tell them of
tie heartaches their recklessness causes
their mothers, or the moral havoc liquor
creates. This is enough for one lesson.
Ii is short and will be easily understood
an will not tire them. Just ask them
to think over the facts above stated.
i will do them no harm.
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15
MORE on WATERWORKs.

1t is an interesting item that in our
local columns this morning. We refer
to the interview with J. E. RHODES, OF
RHODES Bros. Denver, Colo.
1t viii be remembered that this firm
has been in communication with Mayor
BoorH on the subject Of waterworks,
and that this fact is perhaps the cause
of the renewed lively interest in the
subject our citizens have been lately
manifesting 1t viii be seen that he
has a plan whereby his company takes
the bonds of the city direct in payment
for the work. Mr. RHODES, of course,
does not know what the system VIII
cost, although judges that Sl2O.OOO
would furnish a system OF waterworks
that would supply each and every house
within the city corporate limits with
water. The exact cost viii be figured
out within ten days, after the
company's engineer has been over the
groun s, and a proposition with them
be handed TO the City Council for re-
lection or acceptance. The engineer
will be in Provo one week from yester-
day.
1t is good news to learn that at last
something is to be actually done, and
done soon, in this matter, and now
that the ball has started to roll, the
citizens viii not let it rest until Provo
is in possession of a system OF water
works.
Mr.. RHODES is delighted with our
city, but realizes the great need we
have of a good system Of waterworks.
He sees that we must have it, and re-
allies that he will have competition.
1t is. therefore, guaranteed that his
company VIII make their proposition in
accordance with these facts, and that
the figures will be placed within reason,
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15

ed TO tell Mr.. Boyer, but concluded not
to do SO; then something seemed to say
to her set this on fire and
something else would say not to do
it. Further than this no reason
for her rash acts could be arrived at.
During the fires none worked harder to
extinguish them than did this girl,
and she often helped 10 give the alarm,
but this mania seemed to have entire
control over her.
In an interview with the reporter she
stated that her name was Nieolena
Erickson, native of Norway. She
was brought here two years ago by a
lady by the name of Mrs. Hansen. and
has no relatives this side of Norway.
She had worked for Don G.. Johnson
and had always been considered a very
smart girl and 4 good worker She is of
medium height and Of rather slim build.
To the questions asked her she replied
in a very logged sort of way.
Mr.. Boyer stated to the reporter that
the only thing that has ever been
noticed wrong in her, is at times when
she becomes cry Sulky and seems des-
poudent
Tie mystery has now been thorough
ly solved. ana it is to be hoped that the
rumors of chemicals being scattered
around the house will not be credited
any longer. Mr. and Mrs Bower will
continue to run their hotel in the same
style as heretofore and guests will find
themselves made comfortable and en-
tertained in very agreeable manner
They are sincerely grateful to the goJd
people OF SpringyiIIe who have SO n0bIy
lent their assistance during this irving
ordeal. The girl aili be taken before
Justice Boyer to-day and it is expected
that steps VIII be taken to have her sent
to the reform school
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15


that so unfounded a-story should get
out against him. He LETT the territory
over month ago for Haden, Idaho,
Teton Basin, where he and lis three
brothers are improving ranches and
tarms-an enterprise in which they
have been engaged for four years past,
to assist in the summer work, and at
the same time Tecuperate, us his health
was failing him. AS yet he has, per-
haps, not heard cf the rumors, as his
father, b. w briggs. Sr.. OF Pleasant
Grove, received a letter from him, day
before yesterday. written i1 his haPp
est style, detailing the amount OF We
that had been dome, ard speaking III
glowing terms of the prospects of the
future, and stating that hr expected To
return to Salt Lake this month and
straighten up and attend to all of his
business matters. Il is doubtless fact
that the young man is involved through
speculation, and is embarrassed with
some debt. The family and friends OF
young Mr.. briggs are very much pui
out about The charge OF dishonesty hav-
ing been originated and circulated by
his enemies, and desire that tue papers
that have published them deny the
truth of the same. They state positive
" that they know him to be an
honest, energetic and straightforward
young man, and that they believe the
whole thing is Matchmaking scheme,
gotten up to injure the reputation OF
the young man by some of his enemies,
and that there is no truth in the story
1t is expected that Mr.. briggs, Jr.,
himself, will have denial and refuta-
ton of the charges published when he
returns to the territory.
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15
Inmates of County Jails

The Census office has issued a bull
letin Oh the subject of prisoners in
coun4y jails. 1t shows that the total
number OF prisoners in county jails
June |. 1890. was 1888; the number
reported in 1880 was L, 1891, an increase
in ten years of 6,S47, or at the rate of
53.95 per cent. The increase in the
total population was 1856 per cent. In
1880 the ratio of prisoners in county
jalls to the population WAS 253 in each
million; in 1900 it was 312. The in
crease, therefore. has been 80 to the
million. The largest increase has been
in the north Atlantic division, where it
was % to the million. OF
the total number of pris-
oners in county jails 1861 were white
and 5,577 cololed. OF the latter 5,32S
were negroes, 13l Chinese and IFS
Indians About four fifths of the negro
prisoners were in jail in the south At
lantic and south central divisions. Of
the 1861 white prisoners, 1864 were
native born, and 1866 foreign born,
while the birthplace OF 512 is unknown.
The foreign population of the country.
OF their immediate descendants, the
bulletin says, contributes, directly or
indirectly, 6,Sl3 persons to the popula-
tion OF the county jails, or .234 more
than the entire native white popula-
ton OF the total number of prisoners,
1901 are men and 1,737 women
BrGdSfreet's
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15
DID RIGHr.

Acting upon the suggestion OF The
DIsPATCH of Sunday, the Provo Cham
her of Commerce met yesterday to take
action upon the matter of having Utah
county properly represented at the II
rigation Congress to be held at Salt
Lake on September Is, 16 and II, 1891.
They appointed as delegates, W. H.
brown, J. A. Loveless, W. II. King,
Roger Farrer and Walter Scott. The
Chamber also addressed circular let
ter to the Mayor of each city in the
county and to the presidents of the
town boards requesting that they ap-
point five delegates to represent their
interests.
This is a subject OF the utmost i'm
portance to this part OF the west, and
the Chamber of Commerce are doing
right in taking hold of the matter in due
season. The delegates will have time
to make inquiries and research and be
prepared for a proper performance of
their duties,
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15
Is Not Disrouraginr.

The Liberals, or Gentle party, car
ried Salt Lake city in the late election,
but those who took stand in favor of
political division on the old lines of the
old parties should not feel disheartened.
1t was not to be expected that the rad =
cal change proposed could be success
fully accomplished in the first cam
paign. The unsuccessful attempt IS by
no means discreditable and those vito
engaged in itwlth honorable and cOnsci-
entious motives to promote more cor
dial business and social relations BE-
tween the warning factions of the ter
ritory, may feel satisfied with the re-
cord they have made, fully confident
as they have reason to be, that the
courageous stand taken by them will
some day be heartily approved by Il
popular demonstration signalling even
a greater triumph than the victors III
The late contest now celebrate with
spirit.--Aspen Times,
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15
THE REPUBLICAN BAIT.

The placing of sugar upon the free
list, which the MCKINLEY bill did, was
done with one object. and that was for
the purpose Of reconciling the voters of
the country to the enormous increases
upon other necessaries of life, by the
promise that the bill would give them
cheap sugar. 1t was a scheme charac-
teristic of the Republican party, SO that
they could 20 into the campaign, and
appeal to the sympathies of the labor
ing classes, and ask them, Who gave
you cheaper sugar."
But, in lieu OF this tax upon sugar,
the bill, by its provisions, will pay out
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15

mess and OF living. Profits arc conse-
quently higher and the encouragement
! is greater under these circumstances
for men to lead out and develop the
country and build up the city, and it Is
/ by this encouragement of people,
stimulated by a greater gain that d
country is prosperous and progressive,
Our city fathers must not lie back
in their chairs and say, "Yes, we will
let the city have a system OF water
work. whenever the opportunity comes
to us and we have enough money in the
/ treasury to pay for it. But they must
get up and hustle-the people, whose
servants they are. demand it. They
must get contractors to put in esti-
mates, select the honest and most re-
sponsible and put him to work and
then plan to pay him. If the city must
be bonded-and all admit that it must
be in order to accomplish the object
why, bond it. Get the money and pay
it out legitimately for the work as it Is
done. There is scarce u citizen who is
property owner but will help the
Council in this move both with
sentimental and substantial encourage
ment in the way of assessment or work,
pay for which will be taken
in the use of water for culinary, lawn
and residence purposes after the
system is once in operation.
Again. a most deplorabie disadyant-
age under which we are laboring is the
fact that the residents of our beautiful
and otherwise attractive city are com
PEELED, the majority of them, to drini
well water which is to say the least not
good and is the chief source of the pre-
valent malaria with which Provo is
cursed. \ system of waterworks bring
/ ing to us pure water from the noun
tains would in very short time eradi-
cate this loathsome, enervating, linger-
/ ing, miserable disease from our midst.
and ouls would not only be the most
beautiful and attractive city on the
Pacific coast, but it would also be the
most healthy, because our air is pure
and our climate perfect, and our stu
alton such that we could not help but
al be healthy with ordinary care, were
it not for this water while many OF us
are compelled to drink The water
comes from some substrata that was
once marshy slough, and is filled with
the germs OF malaria
Gentlemen of the City Council: In
the name Of justice and mercy, are we
much longer going to fill the systems OF
ourfelves and our children with the
germs OF disease and have our property
unprotected from the ravages of fire?
/ Your answer should be moi" uttered
in the laundering tones of immediate
action which will result in the establish
ment of system of waterwork$ for
Provo.
GIVE Us WATERWORKS.
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15
CASH FOR TAXES.

The assertion may sound strange to
newcomers and to the world, that in
city such as ours, the citizens Of which
cry loud and long and prove by their
works that it is prospering and grow
ing, and in the march of progress is up !
in the front ranks, that ready cash is
very scarce in the city. Such, how
ever is thefact- 1
=. :. : M. g. = ssaS--.slasl4 i 4
cultural lcenter,Palthough, of course, we
have many other sources of revenue.
The recent financial depression the
country has experienced has resulted
in placing our outside markets in
very peculiar condition. People with
money have bought up, at greatly re-
duced prices, a large portion OF the sur
plus of agricultural products, and now
we find our outside markets glutted.
We do not wish to take a gloomy
view of the situation, but the facts are
before us. Our harvest this season will
be bountiful one, but prices offered
for the products at first viii be low.
However, Notwithstanding the fact
that it is at present impossible for our
merchants to sell the products. with
reasonable care and forethought our
farmers will not be compelled to dis
pose of the fruits OF their summers
labor at a sacrafce. The caption
under which we are writing is
cash for Taxes. For taxes,
of course, we must have
cash-we must also have cash for other
purposes. 1t IS the custom with farm
ers, Immediately their crops are har-
vested. to dispose Of them to the mer-
chants. 1t VIII be practically impossi-
bic to do so this season and get fair
price. Later on good prices will be Of
fered. The idea, then, Is to make ar
rangements for a little ready cash with
which TO tide over the lull. Every,
thought and energy of the farmers
should now be in this direction, that
they will not be compelled to crowd
their products on an already glutted
market, but be able to hold them for
better prices.
An opportunity for the farmers
OF this county is thrown in
their way, s. 5. JONES has a monster
contract to supply the r. G. W. with
ties laid down along the line of the road
in Spanish Fork canyon and is adver-
tising for teams and men. Good prices
are paid and the work viii last for two
or three months or more, and as many
as like can work on this and in getting
out wood for charcoal for the same gen
tleman. The suggestion is for each
farmer who has team at this season,
which is practically between hay
and grass" to take that team
for the length Of time he
can spare away from hi
crops into the canyon, and thus earn
some money, which viii aid in the OBJ
ject above set forth. 1t is manual labors
Of course, but not more arduous than is
that of getting in crops, and it is ia
better to work hard during these few
weeks Of comparative rest for the farmer
than to be forced to part with the pro.
ducts Of their farms at a sacraice.
The above Of course is merely a sug-
geFtiOn
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15

THE Young Womaa'S Journal is out
for August. 1t is already one of ouI
best Utah periodicals, and has very
wide circulation for its age, and lib
eral advertising patronage. Volume
third, which commences in October, is
to have two new departments, one on
d" Constitutional Government, the
other, Professions for Women" The
latter will include instructions on how
to prepare for these positions. The ex-
cellence of the contents of this maga-
zine is tco well known and widely ac-
knowledged to need comment.
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15
SAFE IN JAIL.
The Three Thief Tranips Nabbed
by the Police.
The Trio that stole Conductor yincent's
Valise Found Asleep on the
Lake Bottoms.
From Tuesdays Daily

From Tuesdays Daily.
The tramps who stole the valise, be
longing to Conductor Vincent from the
r. G. w passenger train on Tuesday
night, were captured by Policemen
Wilkins and White, those officers haY-
ing been notified of tie theft Yesterday
morning. The police first went to the
depot, and after searching around
among the weeds they found the valise
ripped open and some clothing gone.
The re OF the contents. consisting OF
tickets and papers, were LETT in the va
lise. The officers then started out to-
wards the river. After considerable
trouble, crawling through brush and
Wading creeks, they finally ran across
three men lying asleep in the willows
on the lake bottoms. Before
awakening them the officers
made an examination and found
some of the clothing belonging to
conductor Vincent. They then awoke
the tramps, placed them under arrest,
and brought them to town. On being
searched at police headquarters, one OF
them was found to have pair of the
missing socks on his feet, and pair of
light gray pants, a towel, and u hand
kerchiet with a beautiful monogram
worked on it. They give their names
as Charles Phillips, Charles Fagin and
John Monroe, and are now in jail pend
ing an examination Officers HattOn
and Elliot, recognize these men as the
same three that,escaped from the officers
on Tuesday night.
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15
GIVE Us WATERWORKS.
DEMOCRATS, PROVE YOURSELF

The eyes of the political nationi are
upon Utah. The eyes of the social ma
ton are upon Utah. The eyes of the
moral nation are upon Utah. The
eyes Of the industrial nation are upon
Utah. in fact, all classes of people are
looking at us through the press reports
that 90 cut from here.
The nation wants to see us conf out
and defend ourselves, and not Only to
Sc Is do LIS, but to see us COM, out
I ard 'tss6rs< Dur rights and ENJOY Them
unhampered.
The division movement means that
we shall hereafter govern ourselves
more completely than we have been do
ing heretofore and are doing now. 1t
means that we shall from now on lead
out ard govern ourselves by American
methods. This is part of our rights
that we must now stand up squarely,
boldly and fairly and unfinchingly
contest for.
Utah is Democratic. Republicans in
the last Congress undertook to foist
upon the people of certain states of the
Union an election bill most infamous.
Had it became Il law, a commission
with arbitrary po yer would have man
ipulated the elections, and the people,
instead of controlling their elections
themselves. would have been under
this arbitration. 1t was measure to
take away or curtail the rights of local
self-government. TIE Democrats, al
though in the minority, met, fought and
crushed this monster enemy. We speak
Of the Infamous force bill.
Especially honored with Republican
legislation, Utah is blessed (?) with the
pattern from which the force bill was
taken. We have that august and su-
preme, but, however, entirely useless
body-the Utah Commission.
A carpetbag Commission with arbi-
trary power to dwarf the will of the
people in the interests of pet faction,
is not American. VIII the true Amer
leans OF Utah, the Democrats, put up
with this condition of affairs without a
manly effort in behalf OF human liberty
and freedom to abolish that useless and
un-American body, the Utah Commits
sion?
1t is not one dav too soon for
Utah Democrats to move in this
matter. They should start petitions to
Congress at once, praying for its aboli-
tion, setting forth the partisan charac-
ter of the majority OF the Commission,
its unwarranted interference with the
freedom of our elections, its cOntinu-
ance of fraud and chicanery.
Congress has once proven itself inter
ested in this subject and jealous of the
freedom of its soverigns by the killing
of the force bill, and we believe it would
act upon such petition. At least it
should be asked to act upon one and
forever do away with the useless Utah
Commission.
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15

THATnarrOw escape HATHENBRtCK's s
dry goods house had early yesterday
morning has made all of Proyo's citi-
zens more eager in their cry for water
works.
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15

WATERwoRKs we must have. How
can we expect people to lay out their
money in buildings to beautify and
build up Provo, unprotected as we are
from the ravages of fire?
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15
THE B. Y. ACADEMY.


Next Monday begins the sixteenth
academic year of the Brigham Young
Academy and Latter-day Saints Normal
College OF this city. The term is short
for preparation, but it is an old estab-
lished and we'll known institution,
highly honored by the residents of
Utah, from Idaho on the north to Ari-
zona on the south, and the states and
territories adjoining, as an educational
institution, and at this writing we ven.
ture to say students are making pre-
paratory arrangements to be here on
time for the opening.
With the view Of counteracting the
tendency of modern education toward
infdelity, president BRIGHAM YoUNG
did what was in his power to Introduce
system OF training that should include
the principles of religion. Out of such
a necessity arose the Brigham Young
Academy, with ABRAHAM o. SMooT,
NIYRoN TANNER, w. H. DUsENBER-
RY, II. II. CLUFF, LEONARD
Z. HARRINGTON, WM. BRING
HURST and MARTHA j. CoRAY,
as a board OF trustees, three OF whom,
viz: LEONARD E. HARRINGTON,
WM. BRINGHURsT and MARTHA j.
COREY have since died: the vacancies
,hus created were filed by DoN. G..
YoUNG, j. E. TALMAGE, and JOHN @.
CASNoN. In the deed OF trust, exc
cuted October 10, 1873, it is expressly
set forth that the Bible and other
standard works of the Mormon church
shall be among the regular text books,
and that nothing shall be taught in
anyway conflicting with the principles
of the gospel, as believed in by the
Latter-day Saints. The genius OF the
institution is well Illustrated by the
81. Gle admonition given to It's princi-
pal. DR.. karl e. MAEsER, when, be-
lore beginning his labors, he called
upon the President for final instruc-
lions. Remember" " said be, mot to
attempt to teach even arithmetic with
out the guidance OF the Spirit OF GOD. "
During the fifteen years OF the Academy's
existence, this has been the keynote of
its labors.
The history of the instution is one of
constant increase OF efficiency i'll its
corps OF instructors on the one hand,
opposed. on the other, by series of
financial embarrassments meeting it at
nearly every step Of its progress. From
beginning with but one teacher the
faculty has been increased to its pres
ent number OF regular instructors, thir-
teen in all. The school year is divided
in two semesters, from August II, 1890,
to December IS, 1891, and from Janu-
ary ,, 1892, to May 2l, 1892, with a mid
winter vacation OF two weeks.
The Academy is open to students of
both sexes; and offers facilities in all
the branches of common English
education as well as in higher studies
in language, mathematics and science.
Special features are the normal and
commercial courses. Applicants are
welcomed at any time, but
it is strongly urged that they enter, if
possible, at the beginning of the acad-
emic year, or at least at the beginning
of term. Students on entering viii
be assigned, after preliminary exam
animation, to the department to which
they ayfhest adapted by previous train
!. " -s--Hl2 - Hl2ie,:t-- thn i
studies. Tuition, invariably payable
in advance, and no refund allowed eX
cept in cases of prUtracted illness.
mi 2 I
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15

The sensational story that has beer
cirenl'' po4ssIIY uIIsHooo
The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15
ONLY A CANARD.

The Sensational Report Concerning
the Character of b. w. briggs, Jr.