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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-27
Discussing Details.

While the complete details of disbursins
ard accounting for the immense sum OF
money already contributed have not been
formulated. they have been thoroughly
discussed In committee and may be briefly
stated as follows All expenditures viii.
be authorized by the finance committee of
the citizens relief and Red Cross funds.
The members of this committe are repre-
sentative bankers. business men and Jur-
lists OF San Francisco. and DR.. Dcvine Of
the National Red Cross society. This
committee Will audit all accounts and
make detailed report to the War depart
mont, where a final audit and statement
Will be mazda
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-27
Fewer Patients in Hospitals.

The reports from the large hospitals at
the Preside and at Golden Gate park TO-
day showed that the number of patients
is less than yesterday At the general
hospital In the Preside there were $50 pa
tients today which is 300 less than yes
terday The decrease is probably due to
the fact that the privilege OF free trans
portation over the railroad to any part
of the state expired at noon today, and
many OF the patients who were suffering
the hospitals in time TO take advantage
OF the generosity of the railroads A
statement by DR. James w. Ward. presi-
dent of the Board of Health. made to the
Associated Press today showed that there
are now thirty hospitals In use. all the
smaller institutions established during the
confusion Of the first few days following
the fire having been abolished. and the
patients removed TO the larger establish
ments,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-27
Inspection Is Rigid.

Inspection Is Rigid.
The garbage OF the city is being taken
out to sea on barges. and all unsanitary
camps have been removed and the ground
which they occupied quarantined. The
medical supplies of the city have been
concentrated at the Presidio general
hospital and from there distributed TO
the various hospitals and relief camps.
most rigid inspection is maintained and
any case OF communicative disease Is
promptly Isolated and quarantlned. The
prompt and thorough measures taken by
the health department has served TO pre-
vent any sort OF epidemic, and the general
average health reports are almost normal.
Will Be Careful Distribution.
The finance committee OF the general
relief committee met this afternoon to re-
celve reports from the heads OF the
various sub committees The questions of
Chairman James d. Phelan and his asso-
ciates OF the finance committee indicated
contributed TO the relief OF San Francisco
shall be economically expended and care
fully accounted for, There will be no
granting of largo sums In bulk While
none OF the committees were in n position
to report in detail Its expenditures and
only one or two were able to give even
an approximate figure as to the total. the
questions put to them indicated clearly
ar intention to see that there was no
waste.
What have You been paying per day
IOr leaHlS
what IS the per diem of the
stenographers in your employ. and how
many OF them are there? When can
you dispense with their services7''
What is the daily wage of the men you
have hired?"
What is the rental you are paying for
your offices?"
Close Supervision.
These were some of the questions that
were put to the chalrmen. and IL there
had ever been any idea that the over
seeing OF accounts would be lax and the
claims readily passed, this idea was dis
slpated al once.
Only Fair Claims Allowed.
1t was explained to the committee by
Allen Pollock, chairman OF the sub-com-
lnittee on audit and accounts OF the
finance committee that complete sys-
tenn had been perfected for the audit
ing and payment of all claims. The
checks provided would eliminate the pos
sibility OF error, and the careful scrutiny
To which each claim would be subjected
would insure that none but genuine, ac-
curate and reasonable claims would re-
ceive the Endorsement of the finance COM
mittee.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

punued on Page Three.
The Holt County sentinel., 1906-01-26
Less Danger at Sea.

Figures show. so far as past expert
ence can, that life on the deep is grad
ually growing safer. Seamanship is
improving: vessels are more stanchly
constructed: safety devices are added
constantly. Communication between a
vessel in distress ami other ships by
wireless telegraphy is playing its im-
portant part in the rescue OF threat
ened lives. The London Chronicle
writer notes also the patent sounding
machine, Lord Kefvin's compass. i'm
proved speed measures. better methods
of determining a ships position. better
lighting and submarine signaling. "by
which q ship may oe warned Of the
proximity to land in the densest fog at
a distance certainly Of ten miles The
passing of the sailing vessel has also
contributed greatly to the safety of
crews and passengers.-Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Holt County sentinel., 1906-01-26
BLOSSOMS QUEER CLOCK.
Freak Timepiece with Hands That
Went Around the Wrong
Way.

Don't hear much of Bryan or
Dowie or Ingersoll or anarchy nova
days." remarked Capt. Bill, relates
the Newark News. Il suppose there
run down. like a clock | once saw
when l was a boy. Ever hear about
Blossoms clock?
We'll, Closson was q matchmaker
in Springfield avenue. and one year
when business was dull he made this
clock I'm telling you about. 1t was
a good clock in its way. with an eX-
ira strong handspring; its wheels
were sound and healthy. and you
couldn't tell it from a regular clock.
But CloSSoE put II together backward,
for he enjoyed his little joke once
in awhile. although lots of people who
claimed to know him best would never
admit that he had sense of humor.
so his clock started ont In life
with a click and u buzz. 10 do great
things. | suppose: ami ills hands went
round the wrong way. People that
had time To waste would loaf in front
uf the window all day and watch the
hands going wrong: and lot of busy
folks set their watches 10y II I'LL they
learned better. which they did pret-
~ quick. because Il clock that has
only -four lucid moments in u hours
isn't going tG hr standard very Ions.
There were a GOOD many folks. too
who stood up for tue clock and gov
.rned their movements by IL. maxine
"a complicated ar:thnytICal ,alculai TO-.
always Ia find what the real Tim,
was; but That cot to hr Il nuisance.
and one by one they dropped away m
returned 10 The Oh clock over til"
church that had served chem pretty
steady before ClosScn'S ciorh appeared,
After that tn" new clock waved It's
hands the wrong way AMI chirird r"t
olutions all The harder. and wondrr''
why it's trade was falling on And 10y
and by II ran drnn. ana Nobody tool,
the trouble 10 wind IL mp again.
AS was remarkinr. the skipper
concluded. this seems io he the safes;
and sanest year In all history. Got
any tobacco"
The Holt County sentinel., 1906-01-26
PREMIUMS FOR GOOD ROADS.
The Oregon Business Mems Associa-
tion Offers 500 for Good Roads.

The Oregon business men want better
roads leading to our city, and to en-
courage those living along the highways
leading into Oregon. at a meeting of
their association Monday evening. Of
fered 500 in premiums three prizes for
the best road made by dragging.
First, to the person or persons making
and caring for the best mile of road.
fifty dollars.
Second, to the person or persons max
ing and caring for the next best mile of
road, thirty dollars.
Third, to the person or persons max
ing and caring for the third best mile of
road, twenty dollars.
The above offers shall be limited TO
roads made and cared for by the King
drag. or similar drag.
The above prizes shall he awarded
only for roads. upon which Oregon
Rural Free Delivery Mail Routes are
established ur roads within one and q
half miles thereof. and no prizes shall
he awarded for any road not included
within seven miles of Oregon. Missouri.
The s'.id premiums shall be awarded
during the month of April. l0O6. And
shall be awarded by judge to he,
selected by the Oregon Business Mems
Association, tho said Judge Ia he
recognized authority and expert upon
the qurst,on of ::eood roads AMI who
shall hc uon rcr ident of the territory
included in the terms ~ this road con
test. and in awarding prizes the proper
ton of hr amount Of work required To-
make such road shall hc ruus,drrrd by
the judge.
Respectfully submitted this 10Th day
OF May, 1905.
GEo. SEEMAN, Il. &. BrNroN.
Secretary. President
The Holt County sentinel., 1906-01-26
IF You Are q Stockman

IF You Are StOckman
who is independent Of Commission
House money We want to hear from you.
We are Strictly Commission Firm, and
deal with the Free and Independent
Stockmen Exclusively. Write to US for
r. & l. S. Badge.
CHARLES DIXON COMMISSION co
Stock Yards. Kansas City, Mo.
The Holt County sentinel., 1906-01-26

-Lost-On the streets of Oregon, No,
during the Xmas holidays. one gold seal
brooch. with the initials L z. on it..
Finder will be rewarned by leaving the
pin at this Office.
The Holt County sentinel., 1906-01-26
Tremendous Possibility.

Among the tremendous possibilities
of future wars is that there is likely
to be regiment of rough riders COM
posed exclusively of namesakes of
Col. Theodore Roosevelt - Chicago
Tribune.
The Holt County sentinel., 1906-01-26
Sarcasm.

How'd ye like to hire out to me
this spring, Jabez?
III do it if you'll hire my two boys
Kin We do that?"
II kin. but 1'don't perpose 10. I'm
running farm. not life insurance
company" - Louisville Courier-Jour.
nal.
The Holt County sentinel., 1906-01-26
CRIME RIFE IN LONDON.
Eight Million Dollars Year Sren,
to Keep Criminals in
Check

London is paying the penalty paid
her gates. In round numbers she has
to pay nearly $S0O0.0 900 year to
keep criminals in check: for that is
the sum paid out to her police courts,
prisons and prosecuting officers. II
fails to include stolen property. losses
due to idleness of criminals. losses
to injured parties. etc. Serious
crimes, such as burglary. housebreak-
ing. counterfeiting, etc. are increas-
ing.
Arrests are more frequently than
formerly. and each arrest adds TO the
expense and loss account of the city.
Estimates put the, bill Of the city's
expenses as high as $10.000.00e. In
other words. each taxpayer or head
nf a household of five persons pays
1851 a year for LOndon's crime. Nor
do these millions make up tho total
loss. There are the hundreds of
thousands taken. consumed by the
criminals, hidden away. lost or de-
stroyed Add then to these the
amounts paid by private parties to
prevent burglary. etc. watchman,
caretakers. burglar alarms. door and
window fastenings safes. revOlvers.
life protectors. dogs. etc. and one be-
gins to get a fairly good idea of what
are the losses due to crime in a large
city.
A table prepared in London puts
the police and courts down for So
$4,000. the prisons for $5s3,9SO. lost
property for $l216.625. loss by in
juries. assaults. ETC.. $4,000; loss
in labor of criminals. etc. $l,167.960
or a total of .1s.deo.ss5. These ap-
pailing figures cover often only the
well-known items. How many hun
dreds. thousands or even millions
escape the vigilant eye Of the ex'
merits. No millions like 13 or IA are
able to measure the real losses.
The Holt County sentinel., 1906-01-26
Side Issue with Him.

Who is that dusty chap in the blue
pveralls?"
That's our leading author"
why. he doesn't look literary"
Not now He's spendin' his vacation
diggin' wells for a livin'. n'.'-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Holt County sentinel., 1906-01-26
Little Fighting Necessary.

Senator" asked the inquisitire
girl, would you accept railroad
pass"
NO. always insist on having
mileage books. They make II so much
easier for me to figure up the mileage
I charge against the government
Chicago Tribune.
The Holt County sentinel., 1906-01-26
AND STATIONS

! have the winlrr,. nf "ll th" Splui>h
medals and the Grand Sweepstakes
championship iu spain IN ,hr past
two ~vaNunS. ih'adu S"mhrtn. bprr>or.
Festive. Gatlar.in, Hrnma,nr, l,u'"u
The Holt County sentinel., 1906-01-26

Your name and d:sad-
dress on a postal to
Geo. W. Best, Tribune
Farmer Office, New
York City, will bring
you a free s a mpI e
copy.
The Holt County sentinel., 1906-01-26
Orderly Retreat.

Madge-Why do you think she was
passed the age of 30?
Millicent-BecauSe she invariably
says ''us girls. Puck.
Amador ledger., 1906-02-02
Malt Coffee as Food,
Colored Children
Picking Tea.

A Russian army doctor attached to
the ed Turkestan Rifle Battalion has
been making some interesting expert
ments in the matter of nourishing sol
diers. DR.. Cyrillus Koljago admins
tered to ten men for ten days malt cof-
fee as their sole beverage, with the, re-
suit that their weight increased during
the time to the extent of 832 grammes
a man. A like experiment was made
by giving tea to the same number of
men of similar constitutions and for
the same number of days, and in their
case the doctor certified a decrease of
weight per man to the extent of $40
grammes. He then put the twenty men
together back on to tea, and those whose
weight had been so signally increased
by the malt coffee had within ten days
lost Go grammes a head. The doctor
now states what is very important to
note, namely, that his experiments have
led him to believe that it is not merely
the nourishing attributes of the malt
coffee which mark this increase, but
that its effect is mainly to increase the
action of the digestive organs, enabling
them to draw from all other food taken
the utmost quantity of nourishment
each may contain.
Amador ledger., 1906-02-02

when docked, and another set main
tains that it is really a comfort to a
horse to remove the heavy useless mass
of hair. City horses do not Craze in
pasture, so the argument that the
switching of the long tail keeps away
mosquitoes and flies has no value in
this argument; but decided objection
may be voiced against the nuisance
switching tails would be to horse or
pair in heavy harness. All style and
grace in front action, a pair with hang
ing tails would look as untidy other
wise as a woman in bedraggled skirts.
So said coaching amateur, and he had
plenty to add to the plea for docking.
Essentially docking is not a painful
operation" continued this driving man.
"We do not feed the horse on the
morning of the operation, and when it
is brought into the operating stall the
horse at once begins to munich eagerly
on the oats in the manger A canvas
hammock is flung under its belly and
the horse is hoisted to its tiptoes by
pulleys, when a gate is stuck across the
stall close to its heels and the tail pull
ed over, the fiat top rail making an
operating table. A stout twine is tied
tight about the tail at the point to be
severed. The hair is turned back and
bound, exposing the bare skin.
"A few short jabs with surgeons
knife and the tail is severed. Mean
while, cauterizing iron has been
brought to a white heat in charcoal
hand fire, and the next act is to scar
the cut with the iron. The horse
winces, but it does not take the tenth
part of second to seal up the wound.
AS soon as the iron is taken off the
horse will resume its rnunching of oats,
and except while the cauterizing iron is
applied it feeds without check through
out the entire operation.
No one knows what the horses think
about it. That docking is cruel may be
granted, but the gaias to the horse
seem to counterba1ance the hurts. All
of which sounds a good deal 1ike an
argument made by an interested party
as an excuse for a continuance Of a
practice almost universally condemned.
Amador ledger., 1906-02-02
The Docking of Horses.

Agitation is promised to urge the pas
sage of laws against docking horses,
and owners of horses are being petit
toned to join in the crusade. Dealers
never dock horses, except at the re-
quest of buyer. To offer horse for
sale with bob tail is to create the sus-
picion that it is Second hand" one that
has seen service before in the city, in
stead of being fresh from. green past
ures. Yet the dealers rarely sign such
petitions. They declare that the opera
ton of docking is not excessively pain
full and is atoned for by the easy life
it leads to. To have the tail shortened
is the initiation the rough horse pays
to gain the comfort and light duties of
a private stable.
Fashion is not the only reason to act
uate the buyers in having their horses
docked, but it is the principal one. A
few say that the shortening of the tail
makes for cleanliness, as the tail does
not become draggled with mud and dust
Amador ledger., 1906-02-02
Death.
C. e. ND

am a microbe of vast and fearful power.
My name is Death where e'er I'm found.
float through the air and sink
into the vitalS of the sons of men:
The youth in joyous spring of life;
The man, mature in years and strength;
The newborn babe and she
Who watches tenderly his breath OF
life:
The coyish maiden, and the sage
OF tottering steps and silver locks;
All alike grow faint and liStleSS,
Weak and wan, and sink at last
To their eternal rest beneath my glance.
Quietly at first I work, mid jest and
laughter,
But not more surely does the sun sink low
behind
The western hills
Than make felt my power
Through every limb and fibre of my VIC
TINS frame.
'Tis said that he laughs best who laugheth
last;
And laugh last yea many million time
AS perceive my victim gaze with hollow
vacant stare
And note his breath come short. and
gaspNand-cease.
Hal Hal Another triumph of my prowessi
And now float away to murder once
To snatch some maiden from her lovers
arms;
To strike youth, his mothers all:
Ceaseless my work. know not pity.
Greedy am 1, and each one whom I slay
adds fuel to my greed
So do live and reap my harvest day by
day of Death.
Amador ledger., 1906-02-02
TEA TABLETS

in these tablets is not imported, but,
on the other hand, is grown at the
experimental tea gardens of the De-
partment of Agriculture at Summer
vile, S. G. A few weeks ago DIR. B. T.
Galloway, chief Of the Bureau of Plant
Industry received large box Of sam
pie packages from Summerville.
Each box of compressed tea contains
twenty tablets about the size of cent,
but probably twice as thick. The
various kinds of tea such as Oolong,
American Breakfast, black and green,
ETC., are all prepared in tablet form
ranging from sepia to dark green in
color. The tablets as heretofore stated
are made from tea grown at the Pine
hurst tea gardens Summerville, S. G.
and contain the purest of leaves
thought to be unsurpassed by any i'm
ported tea. The tablet form is accom-
plished by compression with machin-
cry. The directions furnished for US
ing the tablets are as follows:
Drop one tablet in teapot for each
cup of tea desired. Pour in freshly
stand four minutes, stir gently, strain,
and serve. If made in the cup, use one
tablet. Tea will Immediately settle to
the bottom of the cup, then strain the
liquor into another cup, ard sugar and
cream as desired"
While it is explained by officials of
the Department that this new form Of
tablet does not improve the flavor or
taste of the tea, the chief value lies
in the fact that the product occupies
less space. A pound package of or
binary tea, it is stated, would occupy
about twenty-five times as much room
as one of these little packages of twen-
ty tea tablets prepared by the Agri-
cultural Department.
Amador ledger., 1906-02-02

water power, against the unique and
unnecessarily elaborate functions of the
Chinese manipulation. On the up-to-
date British tea estate almost the whole
process of tea making from the trans
portation of the plucked leaf from the
gardens to the factory, to the final
boxing of the finished product, is per-
formed by machinery. With all this
machinery, however, it is necessary
that two processes must be performed
by human hands-the plucking of the
leaf from the bushes and the cutting
out of inferior leaf or accidental ad-
mixtures such as stems, straws, etc.,
from the finished product
The intense activity in the tea in
dustry of other lands awakened like
Amador ledger., 1906-02-02

interest in the United States. A hun.
dred years ago the first tea plant was
introduced at Middleton Barony on the
Ashley River near Charleston, S. G.
Mr. Junius Smith in the forties made
experiments in tea culture at Green
vile, s. c. and in the fifties the Uni
ted States Government collected in
Asia and distributed tea seed by the
Patent Office through the south Allan
tic and Gulf states, which later gave
rise to many thrifty little gardens
capable of supplying all domestic
wants While these experiments prove
the adaptability of the tea plant to the
United States they did not prove the
possibility of a lucrative industrial un-
dertaking. The United States; Depart
ment of Agriculture, however, in the
last quarter of the 10Th century un-
dertook an investigation along this lat
Amador ledger., 1906-02-02
He Had Had Experience.

As the fearless white man entered the
kraal of the native king, salute was
sounded on drum of serpent skin, and
six warriors with necklaces of human
teeth rafting about their throats, led
him before rough ivory dias, on which
sat majestic and formidable figure.
Hail." said the white man. And with
out loss of time, he took out one of his
brass watches, wound it up, and showed
its works to the dusky monarch. "This
MARVEL" he said, Il will give your
majesty, making you the envy of ali
men, and in return for only six tusks
of seventy pounds weight each. The
king took the watch, produced mo-
nocle from a. pouch hidden in his shield,
and, after a moments study of the
brass trinket, returned it with languid
smile. Last year," he added, Sin Lon
don, exchanged an old wooden war
club for a bushel of these things, and,
by Jove, don't you know, there wasn't
one of them that ran above week."
Amador ledger., 1906-02-02
The American Tea Garden.

The Pinehurst gardens embrace at
present about 80 acres of tea plants
in various stages of advancement and
| produce from considerable variety
of seed over 10000 pounds of dry tea
annually. The original seed for the
Pinehurst tea gardens was procured
through the Offices of the United States
Department of State and the Chinese
Government from the celebrated Drag
on's Pool estate near Hangchow, China,
whose output commands too high a
local price to admit of its expectation.
Picking tea at Pinehurst is done by
carefully trained and well superin-
tended corps of colored children who
show great aptitude in this direction. In
stances have occurred Of fine plucking
by one child in q day Of over so
pounds of greenleaf whereas the aver
age in the Orient hardly exceeds 20 to
80 pounds. Experiments at the Pine
hurst gardens show that tea from all
modern climates could be made as pro-
ductive here as at their source, a
change in climate and the difference in
cultivation and manufacture having a
tendency to affect the quality of tea
when prepared for the table. This is
IhO AOdoOh doo15AOQ IllO
in the American grown tea from that
of imported. The Pinehurst early sea-
son tea is considered more delicate
and milder than that of cooler climates.
The autumn season tea is stronger in
color and taste and resembles the
product from the more southern re-
gions of the Orient.
| The Secretary of Agriculture believes
that there is an excellent field in the
United States for a home tea indus
dustry for we consume approximately
75,000,000 pounds of tea annually or
little less than one pound per capita
Our people, he says, pay at retail about
$4O,000,0000 a year for tea as against
$150, 100000 for coffee and $1,2OO,O0O,-
900 for alcoholic beverages. 1t has
been calculated that the American peo-
pie drink 4O0,000,0OO gallons of tea an
nuany. We are primarily a nation of
coffee drinkers; in proportion to our
population we consume only about one
sixth as much tea as the Britain,
whether at home or in the colonies.
While the United States does not i'm
port the cheapest kind of tea, never
theless our importations are chiefly
of inferior qualities The first demand
of the American consumer is cheap
ness, and often-times he will purchase
tea of poor quality on account of ac-
companying allurements of crockery