The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-11

from Utah to California by team, and
| which way do they 60 to strike the middle
| OF Calfornia2-An Old Subscriber.
| % We shall be pleased to publish tho
| fact If any one knowing 1t VIII let us
know (2) We do not know of any such
| travel but no doubt the trip could be
made with no great trouble, nnd II the
| enc making 1t should go to Deep Creek.
| Gustin and thence TO Mono pass, he would
probably mako no miss.
OGDEN, Feb. 7-Will you kindly answer
| the following in your next Sundnys Issue:
| lf man standing on a railroad track
was 10 fire a pistol at an engine coming
| toward him at o speed of sixty miles an
| hour, does the bullet stop when IL hits
| tho front of tho engine? Could tho bullet
| start going I'm the opposite direction With
| out stopping? How could the bullet stop
| without tho train stopping?-Two Readers
| bullet or the train. When a hound starts
/ after n rabbit no must catch up half the
| distance before he catches the rabbit;
| then again he must gain half of the re-
| naming distance; and so on, tho hound
! always having hnlf the remaining distance
| to gain How does he ever catch the
rabbit?
OGDEN, Utah. Feb S-wnl you kindly
tell me I'm Sundays Tribune in questions
and answers What is the Salton sea ?
Where is II and is II something new3 Is
II salt like our lake. Tell us something
about it.-Readcr.
1t is the nning up Of tho sink In southern
California by the waters of the Colorado
river, which cut passage through when
small ditch was dug. The depression
was a sea ages ago and Is now filling up
again.
OGDEN, Utah. Feb. 6-Please give the
correct answer I'm your queries column TO
the following controversy. a SnYs that n
Joscphitc and n BrIghamitc or Lattcr-day
ent species. II says that a Josephite Isn't
Saint, are both Mormons only OF differ
a Mormon Who is right2-An Unenlight-
encd Reader.
The term 'Josephlte" is one applied to
the members OF the Rcorgauized Church
OF Jesus Christ OF Latter-day Saints,
whose president is Joseph Smith, eldest
son of the Prophet" Joseph Smith The
term BrlghamIte'' applies TO 4 communl-
can't In Brigham YoungS church, or the
Mormon church officially called the
Church of Jesus Christ of I.atter-day
Saints" Both churches believe In the di-
nickname Mormon" which has been ap-
piled TO both churches. The nickname has
been accepted by the dominant church OF
Utah, the BrIghamites." as the signs on
Ihcir publishing Office and other buildings
show; but the name Mormon" has al
ways been rcpudiatcd by the "JOsephites -
who claim to be (and the courts have so
declared the true "Lattcr-day Saints"
the name by which they are known,
-ho4N L rSl~lGIlt, l1d-s teD. S--hindly let
me know through your Question and An
swcr column how many silver dollars were
coined In lSG--A Subscriber.
S,Sl2. $50.
STOCKTON. Utah. Feb S-Please an
swer In next Sundays Tribune the follow
lEs questions; J. To receive a Tribune
talking machine must the twelve d2) dol
lars be paid In one payment or con 1t be
paid In moro than one payment? . When
does this offer CNpIre2-A Reader
l. Payment for The Tribune may be
made monthly at $1.O0 a month Better
write the office for particulars 9 The
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SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 5.-Would YOU
kindly inform me in your next Sundays Z
edition what the following described min
cral IL called; whether or not IL IS indl-
cation OF oil or not:
A yellow substance oozes out of the
yellow powder, and gradually ae It is
stance on top of 1t. The yellow sub
stance looks like billpostcrs' paste, the
water below is covered with olly-like
substance, which Is the color OF castor
oil.
When this yellow substance is put In a
bottle 1t settles in the bottom OF the bot
tie, and n substance like oil raises and
noats on top When this yellow substance
Is put on stove and heated II forms
banks of the springs, II has an oily SUBJ
heated looks Ike blistered paint
SUBSCRIBER no. 20.
If oil is present. May be a hydrocar-
bon. Would advise to have samples ana
lyzcd by competent chemist