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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-15
Sewer County Items.
COMMITTEE.

Regular correspondence of the"News."
Richfield, Nov. 12.-This is the coun-
ty seat of Sewer; it has nearly two
thousand inhabitants. and they live
at an attitude of 5,3OS feet. They are
healthy. thrifty and prosperous; their
temporal requirements are met from
their twenty-one supply stores, con-
sisting Of fourteen general merchan-
disc, two furniture, two hardware, two
druggists and one book and stationery
store. There are also two saloons for
those who need them, and one bank for
the safe deposit of their cash. Fo''"
hotels care for the sojourner in their
midst. one steam planning and snwmiil
owned by j. c. Anderson Is running
full time to supply the demand of the
citizens who are building this season.
They are now busy on the flooring of
the new opera house which viii be
danced on tonight by the participants
in the grand military ball. Andrew
Poulson has built a large elevator ad-
dillon to his steam flour mill, his in
creasing business demanding it.A small
force of men are working on the taber-
nacle which, completed according to the
design On view at the Cooperative
store, win give 1t rank with the finest
stone structures of the State.
The new opera house. owned by the
Richfeld dramatic association, Will
open tonight with a grand military
ball; J. s. Horne, Ole p. Borg, l. *.
Wright and II. p. Hansen are its chief
stockholders.
Judge George w. Bean is in poor
health confined to his room.
ole z. Borg fell drought the 1olsts
Of the new opera house and received a
severe shaking up.
George NJ. Jones, n musician of abil-
ity, has been imported from the north
and will be installed as leader of the
choir.
James Keller. an active youth of 81
years, is busily engaged as carpenter.
Your correspondent saw him at work
shingling a roof in the south part of
town.
The railroad has furnished a neat lit
tie depot for the convenience of the
citizens here, also one of the finest
stockyards and chutes for loading
sheep and cattle on the cars, that Is
to be found in the State.
As an evidence of the Growth of
Sewer county one of the hardware
firms has sold three carloads of barbed
wire this season for fencing the rich
field adjacent to this city.
The Gold Hill and Marysvale mining
districts are near here, and quite n
large amount Of produce raised In this
vicinity is marketed there. ~ j.
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Countless attempts have been made
to deal with the rust problem in iron
structures. A new process has been sug
gested which consists in treating the
iron with solution of ferrocyanide.
This forms coating of cyanide of iron
that is stated to be uniform and imper-
meable and of such n nature as to effect
lively protect the iron so covered. The
solution is mixed with flaxseed var
nish to which has been added little
turpentine or benzol, so as to cause Il
very homogeneous emulsion which can
be applied without difficulty The evap-
Grafton of the alcohol leaves the flaxseed
varnish, which forms coat and pro-
tects the cyanide of iron which is de-
posted upon the metal, The iron re.
quires no preparation for this treatment
beyond removing any rust that may al
ready have been formed, and which
may be too thick to admit of the action
of the ferrocyanide. Industries and
Iron
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Brigham Bugler: A small boy,
rocket full of powder and match got
slightly mixed up near the bakery
Sunday evening. \ number of boys
we're smoking the deadly cigarette
and otherwise amusing themselves IN
a most edifying manner. Willie
Knudson son of Peter Knudson. was
there armed with a pocket full OF
powder that he had neglected to un-
load since his last duck hunt. His
companions were aware of the con-
tents of his pocket. Finally when
Willie was Off his guard mischiev-
Gus youngster dropped lighted match
into the powder laden coat pocket
Instantly there was u fash, a Duff and
the whole side of whites 1ew coat
was blown to atoms. The garment
caught fire and was Hoped into the
ditch to extinguish the blaze. The
surprise is that the boy was not seri-
ously injured.
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FIRES AT BRIGHAM CITY.
Thirty Tons Of Hay Destroyed-W. ]. Mel
sens Loss.

brigham Bugler; At o'clock Thurs
day morning a fire was discovered in
the tithing office hay stacks west of
town. lust south of the Big Pond.
Nearly 100 tons of hay We're stacked
there and big blaze was expected.
The alarm drew quite crowd to tho
Mace, and the fire was confined to the
south stack. 1t contained 30 tons. all
Of which were destroyed. TWO other
stacks of nearly equal size were UNI
touched. The fire was undoubtedly
started by careless tramps who burrow
numerous holes in to the hay stHcks
and sleep there by the dozens.
About o'clock Saturday evening the
Ere alarm, together with great bright
biaze. drew "a big crowd out into the
second ward. The fire was in the barn
If M. Nielsen, one block south of the
ward meeting house. How II started
no one knows. A short time before the
flames were first seen several boys
smoking cigarettes passed the barn.
which Is next to the sidewalk. II Is
thought that they carelcssly tossed a
lighted match or a cigarette stump
against the building. In few minutes
the barn was a mass of flames Near
lv everything was consumed in twenty
fve minutes. \ buggy, several calves
and some machinery were saved. Mr.
Nielsen estimates his loss, including
light tons of hay. at $500. It was in
sured for $500 in the Continental The
fire boys got out, but 1t being off the
watermains they were unable to do
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The Largest Steamship,

Mr.. A. Croil. Of this city. sends the
News" an illustrated article from the
Weekly News of Dundee. Scotland, of
the date of october 20, ON THE Biggest
Steamship Ever Designed" We cannot
reproduce the pictures, but the desorip-
ton is Interesting. and it is given here
with:
The crowning achievement of the
century in marine architecture WIN pe
the construction, under plans OF frol.
j. II. Biles, designer of the hoatlhs
palaces of the American Line, OF
rans-atlantic steamer lOOU rect III
length, which will make the trip from
New York to Southampton in -FOUR
days. What is of equal Importance TO
many transatlantic travellers Is thht
this vessel will make the journey over
the stormy Atlantic with no more ron,
ing and pitching than can be observed
ON an ordinary pleasure steamer some
enthusiasts say that the 1,0OO-foot long
boat will be mere ocean ferry, and that
the Journey will be attended with
scarcely any unpleasaptness. a Nessel
1000 feet in length reaches over across,
or through three ordinary AlanuS
Ocean waves, and In its progress VIII
always be sustained by two of them'
with the result that there will be none
Of the "pitching" motion that in the
days of 200 and S00-foot boats MADE
an ocean trip an ordeal which mas
since been happily modified win me
gradually Increasing length OF the
liners, vet still is fraught with terror
L. the weak.
When the Great Eastern COL feet
long, was withdrawn from the ocean
and sent to the scrap heap having
proved unable to earn the cost OF her
coal the pesslmists declared that IN
Cat nn1aI the theory oil
large boats. There was, however, the
established principle that Increased
speed in vessel can be secured. an
other things being equal, by an IN
crease in its length, and year by year
the contest has gone on, until the
other day the glory of the 620-foot
Campania was dmmed by the arrival
Of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse,
with It's length of $50 feet, Just as
that number viii next January in tura
glve way to the new White star
steamer Oceanic, which from stem TO
stern will measure $40 feet. All the
transatlantic steamers that are built
In the future will be lonPer, not shorter
than those now in existence, ana the
limit viii be pushed to the extent OF
commercial utility. There may be boats
500 feet and 900 feet long designed and
built before the launching of the LOCO
loot American liner. The Cunafd
Steamship company has on hand the
plans for a steamer 100 feet in length,
The difficulties of docking that may
suggest themselves at Liverpool, South
amnton, Hamburg, and Havre can be
readily overcome. A much more seri-
GUS matter is the accommodation Of
the harbors to the increased draueht
Of the enlarged vessels. The 1,0O0-foot
liner has y designed draught of 80
feet. 1t viii, be 100 feet wide The
n"oepted proportions of an Atlantic
tteamer now are breadth one-tenth of
tn length,
II was in 1898 that Professor Biles
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In the North American Review gave to
the lay mind an idea of the possibilities
of transatlantic navigation in paper
entitled. Thirty knots an hour to
Europe" Sanguine as he then was MS
10 the future. he discussed the four
day boat In manner somewhat ten
tative. He referred to the necessity
first of certain improvements in ma
ehinery and structural material. which
have within the four years that have
elapsed been measurably realized. AT
TINT time he spoke of oil or fuel
lighter Than conl being a desideratum
and discussed the use of water tube
boiler as hope. The latter has been
adopted. The fuel question has not
been solved as yet but the conditions
are improved. There are eminent en-
gineers who expect that electricity will
be the motive power Of the liner of the
near future; but equally eminent en-
gineers are going ahead in the work of
adding to the utility Of steam.
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Suits Filed.

The following suits have been filed
in the Fourth district court:
II. ID. Bentley vs. L. j. Wightman and
w. c. Wlghtman. Plaintiff sues for
1926. 20, with interest at $ per cent per
annum from December list, 1896. for
goods, wares and merchandise sold and
delivered.
George Patten VS. Payson city.
Plaintiff alleges that in 1858 he diverted
from payson or Peetetneet creek sufil-
Gent water to irrigate thlrty-ive acres
of farming land and 165 acres of
meadow and pasture land, and that
the defendant corporation now denies
plaintiffs right to such proportion of
water and refuses to distribute the
same to him. He asks that he be ad-
Judged the owner of sufficient of the
waters of the above named creek to
irrigate the area of land set forth in
the complaint.
MARITIME Lundquist has brought suit
for divorce against o. N. Lund9uist
on the grounds of cruelty, consisting OF
knocking plaintiff down. using abusive
language towards plaintiff and scorn-
fully ntimating that she had been un-
chaste. The parties intermarried in
Salt Lake City April 8Oth, 1894.
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A new and interesting use for graph
lite has been discovered in connection
with brazing, and it is now largely used
in some of the bicycle factories 1t is
found that by mixing certain quality
of graphite with water or turpentine to
the consistency of thin paste and ap.
plying it to those parts of steel tube
which it is desired that the melted brass
shall not adhere to the graphite effec-
tually prevents this adhesion, and there
by does away with much filing and 9TH
er work formerly necessary to remove
the brazing material, This seems to re-
suit from the fact that the graphite has
a strong affinity for metal surfaces and
at the same time is not affected by the
heat. Thus it simply keeps its place
upon the tubes during the heating and
prevents adhesion of the brass. Amer
lean Machinist.
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The origin of. Natural Gas.

An experiment of some Importance is
reported, made with view to deter
mine, if possible, the origin of natural
gas irrespective of theories hitherto
prevalent. For this purpose dried sea-
weed was stepped in water which had
been freed from air, and ON the third
day gas appeared, continuing to be
evolved in diminishing quantities until
the tenth day, when SOB cubic cent?
meters had been collected. The evolu-
ton had evidently ceased, though after
standing two years and half 30 cubic
centimeters more of gas collected in the
apparatus. The second gas differed from
the first, consisting, it is recorded, al
most entirely Of methane-the chief
constituent Of natural gas--from which
it is inferred that this slow secondary
decomposition of vegetable matter may
have some relation to the origin of nat
ural gas, Boston Journal of Commerce.
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Plenty Of EireWood.

Brigham Bugler: Considerable fire
wood has being hauled out of the
mountains. Fire wood in Brigham is a
luxury. 1t costs Sc for a cord of wood
and an additional $3.50 to get 1t sawed
and split. Total cost $3.50. There are
places in New York where the farmers
viii cut wood from their own land, saw
and split 1t and deliver 1t for $l.25 n
cord in the winter when they are not
busy on their farms. one reason why
they can afford to sell wood so cheap
is because they are onto" the wood
chopplng curves. Here 1t takes a man
from two to three days to saw and split
a cord; there a fairly good chopper
will cut down. saw and split three
cords in one day. Last summer Bug
Ter reporter met many men who could
do this and they did not consider them
selves extra choppers either.
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Saloon Hold-up at Eureka.

City Marshal Henriod of Eureka tele-
phoned Sheriff Storrs yesterday that
two strangers entered Gustaldi 6, Co.'S
saloon in Eureka Saturday night about
IL o'clock and at the point of pistols
relieved the place of about $500 in cash.
Then they stole horses and left town
The robbers are stout young fellows,
each about % years of age; one Is
dark complexioned with a pug nose,
the other is Of Il ruddy complexion
The officers here believe the robbers
were discharged foIn the Utah county
iail last Monday. They were supposed
TO be connected with the robbery of
the springyille depot. but no evidence
was found to hold them on, They
served a five days sentence here for
peddllng without license.
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Although many physicians advocate
the advantages derived from long periods
of fasting and some even go far enough
to say that no serious change of tissue
need result, the question arises, Why
the invariablo loss in weight? Food of
some kind is necessary to maintain the
body and mind in a healthy condition
and TO restore the inevitable waste AS
n result of continuous abstinence from
food the blood becomes Impoverished
and diminished and cerebral anemia
often follows,
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terrible to the dog If used by skilful
hand and terrible to the user II he be
a novice; for he is sure to half strangle
himself or to hurt his own face with
the business end of the lash. Tho
whip | measured had q handle nine
inches long and lash thirty feet, and
weighed four pounds. The lash was
OF folded and plated seal hide, and
for five feet from the handle meas
ured five inches round, then for four
teen feet IT gradually tapered off,end-
ing in u single thong half an inch
thick and eleven feet long Wonderful
the dexterity with which a driver can
pick out a dog and almost spot on
dog with this lash. The lash must
be trailing at full length behind, when
n jerk and turn of the wrist causes it
to fly forward, the thick part first, and
the tapering end continuing the mo-
tion till 1T Is at full length in front,
and the lash making the fur fly from
the victim. But often IL is made to crack
over the head of the dogs as a warn
ing.
The eleven dogs are harnessed to the
front of the sled. each by separate
thong of seal hide, all of different
lengths, fastened to a light canvas har-
ness. The nearest dog was about IL
feet from the sled, and the leader, with
bells on her, about 80 feet the thongs
thus increasing the length by about 3
feet. When the going is good the dogs
spread out like the fingers Of Il hand,
but when the snow is deep they fall
into each other's tracks in almost sin
gle file. AS they continually cross and
recross each other, the thongs get
gradually plated almost up to the
rearmost dog, when a halt Is called,
the dogs are made to lie down, and
the driver carefully disentanFles
them, taking care that no dog gets
away meanwhile They are guided by
"arrah," to the left. and "holt,"
straight on. But often one OF the men
must run ahead on snowshoes for the
dogs to follow him.
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Note and Persnnal.

Saturday Mrs. Jakeman county
treasurer paid 5000 school tax money
to the county superintendent Of schools.
NJ. H. Kartchner of the Provo Bench
has reported to the sheriff's office that
he has had set and Il half of work
harness stolen.
Joseph William Jackson, aged 90
of Castle Dale. and Ida May Van
Leuven, of Mqpleton, aged is, have re-
ceived n marriage license.
O. II. Berg returned from Salt Lake
Saturday where he has taken sue
cessful course in the Champion college
of embalming.
Stake President Partridge attended
ward conference in Lake View yester-
day, and Counselors John and Smoot
attended ward conferences in Tim
panoEos, and Pleasant Grove Second
ward, respectively.
Quite a large crowd Of people Wit
messed the football game last Saturday
on the west square between the Y. NJ.
c. a. of salt Lake and the Il. Y, A..
team. The victory was with the salt
Lakers on a score of IL to a.
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PROVO.
PROVO, UTAH,
CHARRED BONES RECOVERED.
Remains Of viii Young, Killed in Railroad
Wreck

H. A. Barton returned from Idaho
Saturday, bringing with him the re-
mains of VIII Young, who was killed
in a railroad wreck near Montpelier
two weeks ago. All that was recovered
of the body Of the young man was a
few charred bones. They will be in
tered with Masonic honors by the
members of the Provo lodge.
MIR. Barton says that the wreck &C.
CURED at place away from water and
was still burnin when he left. Mr.
Young and "A lady We're riding in the
caboose of a freight train, which was
overtaken and run into and thrown
from the track by another freight train
that had become uncomfortable. The
runaway train had a large quantity
of oil on board, which was ignited and
destroyed both trains. The lady had
stepped out at the station where the
first train was stopping at the time of
the accident. and saw the approaching
train, but did not have time to warn
Mr. Young of his danger. The man
with whom Mr.. Young was boarding
notified Mr.. Barton of the death of his
friend, and Mr.. Barton commenced to
make inquiries of the railroad officials,
They informed him, so he states, that
no one was killed in the wreck, but he
determined to go to the scene of the
accident and learn all the particulars.
The coroners inquest which he attend
ed left no doubt i'm regard to the iden-
tity of the man who was killed.
The engineer and fireman on the
runaway train saved their lives by
jumping before the collision took place.
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Agricultural Notes.
Logan, Utah, Nov.

Logan, Ilun, NOV. 10.
To the Editor:
Mid-term examinations are practi-
cally over, and the results show an
excellent grade of students.
Lieut.. Dunning is back from the
East whittier he went to bury sis
ter.
A club devoted to the study of Plato
has been organized among the younger
members of the faculties of the two
colleges. The club has weekly meet
ings.
Professors Foster, Linfiel' ', Merrill and
Widtsoe are holding series of Farm
ers' Institutes in the settlements of
Cache county.
The experiment station has just pur-
chased large herd of young cattle
for governmental feeding. Thirty-slN
head were purchased from one farm.
The athletic association gave ball
Saturday evening. Parties in the gym
naslum are not so frequent as in pre-
yious years. this being only the second
so far this term.
The library is now fully settled in
its new quarters. The number of books
drawn, and the number of students
visiting the reading room, indicate
that the talks of the president and the
professor of English on the use of books
are not without results.
The Lonsfellow Literary society IL
again we'll under way. The last pro-
gram had this novel feature: Debate.
"Old bachelors should be made to pay
n special tax" An old bachelor and a
married man from the faculty were
among the debaters
Mrs Bessie Brewer. wife of Professor
Brewer Of the department of biology,
died suddenly Saturday morning of
heart failure. She had been ailing for
several weeks, but was not considered
dangerously i'll until Friday. She was
nearly fifty years old but very
young spirited, cultured and active
woman. She leaves one child, boy
about 8 years old. She will be much
missed In college society. Nj,
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Mrs. Tuttle's Death.

Manti Messenger: Died on the 9TH
inst. from typhoid fever, Flora futile,
beloved wife of Milton futile, and
daughter of Fred w. and Mary Fail of
orangevire, Emery county, Utah
Deceased was young, bright. intelli
gent lady, was married only FIVE weeks
ago. and now lying in the silent tomb.
The grief-stricSen husband Is a son
of Azariah futile, sheriff Of Emery
county. who was wounded a short
time ago while in pursuit of despera-
does. The bereaved husband has a
numerous host of relatives and friends
in Manti who share in the loss of his
beloved wife.
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Driving a Team Of Dogs.


[From the London (ont) Tlmes.1
Well, here we are down ON the ice,
and the dogs impatient to start Let
me describe. The sled consists of
narrow box four feet long. tie front
half being covered or boxed inlnount-
ed on floor eight feet long resting
on runners. In this box the passen-
ger SITS, wrapped in rabbit skins so
that he can hardly move, his head and
shoulders only projecting. In front
and behind and on top Of the box is
Placed all the luggage, covered with
canvas and securely lashed. to with
stand all the jolting and possible up
sets. and our snowshoes within easy
reach.
An important item is the dog whip,
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pEsERET EVENING NEWS. MONDAY, NOVEMBER IS,

session of them and moved some of
the machinery. There was some talk
of replevylng the wagons, hut this was
not done. Sunday night. however,
some burrs were removed from the
wagons, which were on the road in the
canyon. and as similar burrs could not
be obtained In town Mr., Nunn's peo-
pie were left in 4 bad fix so far as
moving the machinery was concerned.
When Mr.. Watson came down the
differences were all amicahly settled,
the burrs returned and Mr. Mum will
have the use Of the trucks till the ma
chinery is moved
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a meeting Of the taxpayers Of the
Fourth municipal precinct Is hereby
called for Wednesday evening in the
Eghteenth ward hall at half past Z
o'clock. The members Of the board OF
education for this precinct are expected
to be present and render an account Of
their labors. The school question will
a ~ be considered.
COMMITTEE.
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Dispute About Drayage.

Mr.. ]. C. Watson. of Watson Bros,
Salt Lake, came down yesterday to
look into some trouble between his
firm and Mr.. l.. L. Num- in regard to
hauling the machinery for the Provo
power plant from the depot to the can
yon. The representative of Watson
Bros. who came down to superintend
the hauling refused to do the work on
the terms agreed upon on the grounds
that some OF the machinery was
heavier than had been represented.
Mr.. Mum then claimed that under the
agreement he had the right to use
watson Bros trucks 10 do the trans
fer..rs, ana FRIDAY night he took pos