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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-12-22

justment. All over this state there are
cities, towns and villages that are be-
ing Disseminated against, but which
in many instances are ignorant of that
fact.
Railroads can reduce or raise rates
within the state at a moments notice
which enables them to favor one ship
per as against another. They should
be required to give advance notice
OF all changes the same as is required
by the interstate commerce commits
sion on interstate traffic.
There should be some method out
side of the railroads through which,
disputes resulting from excessive
weights could be adjusted. At present
the weights arrived at by representa-
tlves OF a weighing association estab.
lished and controlled by the railroads
are final unless the individual lines are
disposed to consider favorably the evil
dence in support Of weights claimed nv
consignee. ~
There exists today a Local Utah
halfway association" commonly known
as a Pool association" formed for tbe
purpose OF maintaining rates between
important Utah competitive points
winch would be subject for investi,
saIion by railroad commission.
free transportation except as ALL
lhoIlzed by a commission should ha
prohibited. This has been one of tho
greatest evils of determinations. Iargo
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such business be regulated, limited or
restricted by laws"
Article XII, Sec. ~. "All railroads
and other transportation companies
are declared to be common carriers
and subject to legislative control, ana
such companies shall receive ana
transport each others passengers and
freight without discrimination or un
necessary delay"
Article XII, Sec. Is. "The legisla-
ture shall pass laws establishing reas-
enable rates of charges for the trans
portation of passengers and freight,
for correcting abuses and preventing
determinations and extortions in
rates of freight and passenger tariffs
by the different railroads, and Other
common carriers in the state, and
shall enforce the laws by adequate pen
alties."
The state legislature which is soon
to meet in Salt Lake City will be
asked to enact such laws as will Gre
ate state railroad commission and t.
invest that commission with power to
take steps to correct the evils at
which the constitution of our state
aims.
This association considers it its du-
ty in the interest of its members ano
the public, to thus call attention to the
great problem and it's related subjects
which naturally grow out Of 1t, hoping
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ted themselves to perform well and
faithfully, without discrimination, GER
tain duties toward the public. Those
include good service, reasonable rates,
and equitable treatment of the public
and in demanding this there is no in
tention or desire to work any hard
ship on the railroads.
Long ago congress recognized that
the railroad condition could be improv-
ed by proper legislation and we are
all more or less familiar with the re-
suits of this legislation.
The national laws, however, only ap-
ply to interstate traffic, and do not
affect the conditions within the states
themselves. The national laws ought
to be sustained by state laws, and thir
ty-one states have already created rail
road commissions.
There are many important reasons
why Utah should have a railroad COM
mission, few of which are here re-
cited.
The present shortage of coal togeth-
er with the exorbitant price is an out
rage, and under present conditions
where is the remedy?
Each winter sees the same intolera-
BILE situation. Under our very feet
there are coal deposits suffic ient to
supply the people of this state for a
thousand years, while the price exact
ed by the railroads for its transporta-
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to so arouse public thought as will re-
suit in reaching some speedy remedy
The railroads themselves as well as
other powerful interests, strong corpor-
atoms and well-meaning but misguided
friends, will perhaps answer the ques
ton in the negative, but what will you
say?
This association has no desire to
wrest from the railroads in the state,
or from those knocking at our gates
for admission, the management OF
their own affairs or property, but we
submit that the people cannot longer
afford to be not only passive but ST.
lent on the subject while these collos-
sal corporations not alone continue,
but increase the wrongs which we feel
so keenly today.
There is no question but that the
railroads have been very important
factor in the development of our state.
They have helped us to become what
we are and it is the plain duty of every
citizen to encourage their growth I'M
til every city, town and hamlet in the
state of Utah is united together in
bands of steel, but in turn the railroads
have derived and continue to derive
their very existence from the people
who have granted them franchises and
other powers, which are so valuable
and far-reaching, that even our very
homes may be taken for railroad pur-
poses under that old and respected un
written law "of the greatest good for
tho praatact numhoro and in return
for all this the railroads have obliga-
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RAILROAD COMMISSION
GOOD OR BAD?

The Manufacturers and Merchants
association is unqualifiedly in favor or
a railroad commission in this state.
The Real Estate association is against
it as strongly as the M. e M. associa.
ton, is in favor of it. We don't know
which is right or whether either 10
right, in its contention. We do know,
however, that the real estate associa-
ton is in large measure composed of
grafters and hot air dispensers. We
have not been particularly favorable to
the idea of railroad commission and
this without any specific and certain
knowledge of it's modus operandi, but
because in many other states it has
been found unsatisfactory to the in
terests of the people, The fact, how.
ever, that the Real Estate association
opposes the commission is prima ia
Gle evidence that 1t Is good thing
for the people, who are neither graft
ers nor hot air peddlers and for that
reason we give space to the address
of the M. and M. association as fol-
lows:
An Address to the Public.
Why Utah should have railroad
commission. This subject is one of the
most important confronting the cit
liens of this state at their present
time.
The constitution of the state of Utah
provides as follows:
Article XII, Sec. 1. "All corporations
doing business in this state, may as to
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Blue Book (Society Directory.

The Salt Lake City Blue Book 1907
is now in press. We will be Obliged If
all interested parties will notify ne
promptly of any recent changes made
in their residence addresses. No
changes will be taken over the
phones.
r. L. POLK & CO.,
w. P. COOPER, Sec. & Mgr
617-620 Dooly Bldg.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-14
EYES AND
EYEBROWS

able and radiant with the light of hui
man kindness.
No argument is needed to prove the
Importance of beautiful eyes. Look
into the eyes of your friend and read
the message they give out. Gaze into
the eyes of a wondering little child,
and what do you see there?
Beautiful eyes will glorify the plain
est face. Without beauty of these
soul windows, the face cannot be per-
feet.
The physical beauty of the eye de-
ponds more upon its size and elonga-
ton than upon the color. If it is not
well set in the head or if the eye is
small and cold, no color can make it
beautiful. The white of the eye, the
sclerotic, should be quite clear and
of violet-white, rather than blush.
The cornea is sometimes spoken OF
as the white of the eye" but it is
tough, colorless, highly polished sur
face, as transparent as crystal,
through which the iris and pupil are
seen. 1t is inserted in the sclerotic
as a watch crystal is inserted into its
case. The brightness of the eye de-
ponds upon the perfection of the cor
meas essential qualities, and perfect
vision upon it's normal curvature.
Nothing in the world can change or
alter the color of the eyes. The color
is deepened or intensified by emotions.
and a joyous frame of mind is the
greatest thing in the world to make
a soul window shine up and be
sparkling. The use of belladonna to
brighten the eyes cannot be too
strongly condemned, and feminine
vanity should never take one to such
extreme methods of identifying.
The practice is invariably followed by
injury to the most delicate organ OF
the human body.
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in the money and lets the widow and
orphan go to the poorhouse, or the Of
ficer of a savings bank who borrows
the money of the poor and when they
hear that he is flying high, demand
their money, and he closes the bank.
and eventually pays seven cents on the
dollar, and is looked upon as a great
financier. 1t has been pleasure to US
TO have this kindly old man visit us,
and by his example of the Golden Rule,
to do to others as you would be done
by, make us contented with our lot.
We are not the kind of business men
who try to ruin the business of COM
petitors by poisoning their wells, or
freezing them out of business. If any
other train robbers want to do bust
ness in our territory, they have the
same rights that we have, and the
world is big enough for all to ply their
trade. Now l am going to call upon
our friend, Buckskin Bill, my associate
in crime, who was wounded by a mis-
directed load of buckshot in our latest
raid, which bucksnot were so ably re-
moved from his person by our distin-
guished friend who is so soon to leave
u.s. and the leader again passed the
loving cup and gave way to Buckskin
Bill. who said:
Pals do not know if you have
ever suspected that before | joined
this bunch was stepped in crime, but
| must confess to you that was Chi
cago alderman for one term, during
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A Portrait Contest.

4 hostess noted for her originality
sent out Invitations on red cardboard,
written up and down the page "a la
Chinese" having the usual date and
hour and also portrait contest In one
corner. When the guests arrived each
one was presented with the figure of
a man in conventional dress, but with
no face. On the back was written the
name of a man whose features were to
be portrayed. Pencils were furnished
and half hour was allotted for the
task. Each artist was to keep his SUBJ
ject a secret.
When time was called the creations
were pinned up for the edification OF
the company, who were to guess the
originals and put them down In their
catalogues. Then the hostess read the
list of people who were supposed to
have been drawn and the result was
most amusing. The artist VINO had
made the best ILLNESSES of the subject
was awarded q. prize, and to the one
who rightly guessed the most portraits
a second prize was given.
A chatting dish supper was served.
and for place cards there were tiny
palettes with a little brush. The
whole affair afforded the keenest
amusement.
MADAME MERRI.
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felt like Robinson Crusoe on the
island.
Some times for q couple of days the
robbers would go away to rob train
or a stage coach, and leave us with a
few guards, who acted as though they
wanted us to try to escape, SO they
could shoot us in the back, but we
stayed, and fried bacon and elk meat
and sighed for rescue.
One day the robbers came back from
a raid with piles of greenbacks as big
as a bale of hay, and it was evident
they had robbed a train and been re-
sisted, because one man had a bullet in
his thigh, and pa had to use his know
ledge of surgery to dig out the shot,
and he made big bluff at being sur.
geon, and succeeded in getting the
balls out and healing up the sores, SO
the bandits thought pa was great.
When he insisted that the leader let
him know how much it would be to
ransom us, so we could send to the cir
Gus for money, the leader told pa he
had been such decent prisoner, and
udu De6u SuCu SOOu COmpduy, anu udu
been such help in digging the bullets
out of the wounded, that the gang was
going to let us go free, without TAX
ing a cent from us, but was going to
consider us honorary members of the
gang and divide the money they had
secured in the last hold up with us.
Pa said he wanted his liberty, and
thanked the leader for his kind words,
but he said there was a strong feeling
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-14
UNCLAIMED INSURANCE FIND
Illustrative Instance of the Careless
ness of English Com
panies.

Anyone who can rake up insurance
company scandals is sure of an
American audience nowadays, and this
state of mind seems to be spreading
to England. A British law firm tells
the following story in support of it's
contention that insurance companies
and other fiduciary institutions should
be required by law to make an annual
statement as to all unclaimed property
in their possession.
A testator died in the year 1866
holding 80 shares of well-known fire
and life assurance company. Twenty
of these shares were sold by the ex-
ecutors. The remaining ten shares
were entirely forgotten. The ex-
ecutors' names and addresses were
registered in the company's books and
the dividends accruing upon the
shares were, in the words of the secre-
tary, "held in suspense since Mr.. IS
death, in accordance with the COM
pany's articles" No intimation was
sent to the executors that the divi-
dends were accruing and were I'M
claimed
In the year 1904 the executors re-
ceived a letter from the solicitors OF
a company whose business it is to
trace dormant funds stating that if
the executors will agree to pay the
company so per cent. of any sum
which might be recovered informa-
ton would be given which would prob
ably lead to the recovery of unclaimed
funds belonging to the testators es-
tate. The communication was put into
the hands of the firm which tells the
story, and they, after an examination
of the testator's and executors papers.
succeeded in locating the missing
shares.
The assurance company made them
over in due course with the dividends,
but absolutely refused to pay the 3S,
years interest which was claimed on
the latter.
The lawyer suggested to the COM
pany the desirability of making in
uuiries as to how information not
available to representatives of their
own shareholders had been obtained
by a company trading in unclaimed
property.
The only reply the company vouch-
safed was that they didn't know any
thing about it.
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in the east against truly good people
like himself taking tainted money,
and while he would not want to make
a comparison between the methods
men adopt to secure tainted money, in
business or highway robbery, he hoped
the gang to which he had been elected
an honorary member would not insist
on his carrying away any of the faint
ed money.
You are all right in theory, old
man." said the leader of the gang, "but
this money, which might have been
tainted when it was shipped by ex-
press from Wall street to the far west,
has been purified by passing through
our hands, where it has been carried
over mountain ranges on pack horses,
in billiards.. till every tainted germ
has been blown away. Now. We pro-
pose to give you banquet tomorrow
night, at which we shall all make
speeches, and then you will be provid-
ed with horses, supplies and money,
and guided away from here blindfold-
ed, and within As hours you will be
free as the birds, and all we ask is
that. you will never give us and our
hiding place away to Billy Pinkerton.
Is it go?"
Pa said it was go all right except
taking the tainted money. but he
would think it over, and dream over It,
and maybe take his share of the swag,
but he wanted to be allowed to return
it if, after calling a meeting Of his
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Civil Service Commission.

Senator J. ]. McGillivray, one of the
candidates for the Republican nomina-
ton for governor, was in Madison and
called on the civil service commission
and charged that some of the state en-
ployes are manifesting considerable
political activity throughout the state.
His charge was not specific, but it is
thought that the objection was aimed
at some of the game wardens and oil
inspectors. Senator McGillivray was
told that the civil service commission
discouraged this sort of thing, but that
the commission was only in it's infan-
cy and did not know how much au-
thority along the line of control was
vested in the commission. The COM
mission fixed June 10 as a date for a
hearing on the following petitions: BY
Secretary Of State Houser for q reduc-
ton of rates on livestock between Mon
dow and Milwaukee on the Omaha and
Northwestern roads; by A. H. KrOs-
kop, of Richland Center, against the
Milwaukee road for a joint rate-on lum-
Der between northern points in the
state and Richland Center; by Bob G.
Hall, of Stevens Point, against several
roads for discrimination in hauling
private cars; and Edward GuiIder, of
Lewiston, Columbia county, for the
erection of station and sidetrack at
that place.
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drink, and then he spoke as follows:
Fellow Highway Robbers: We have
with us tonight one who comes from
the outside world, with all it's wicked
ness, this old man, simple as a child,
ana yet foxy as the world goes, this
easy mark who is told that the dinas-
orus still exists, and believes it, and
comes to this valley to find it. II
some one told him that Adam and Eve
were still alive, and running stock
ranch up in the Big Horn basin, he
would believe it, and if it came to him
as q secret that Solomon in all his
glory was placer mining in distant
valley over the mountains, he would
rush off to engage Solomon to drive
chariot next year in his show. Such
an ability to absorb things that are
not So in a world where all men are
suspicious of each other, should be en-
couraged. This old man comes to our
quiet valley, where all is peace, and
where we are honest, fresh from the
wicked world where grating is a sci
ence respected by many, and where the
bank robber who gets above million
is seldom convicted and always re-
spected, while we, who only occasion
ally meet train with a red light and
pass the plate, and take up a slight
collection, are looked upon as men
who would commit a crime. Why
gentlemen, our profession is more re-
spectacle than that Of the man, who
is appointed administrator Of the es-
tate of his dead friend, and who blows
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board of directors, they should refuse
to receive the tainted money. Pa add
ed that the board of directors of a cir
Gus might not be as particular as a
church or college, and he thought ne
could assure the gang that the money
would not come back to bother them.
The leader of the gang said that
would be all right, and for pa and |
and the boys to begin to pack up and
get ready to return to civilization and
all its wickedness. We worked all day
and played cinch for hundred dollar
bills all the evening, and the next day
arranged for the banquet.
When night came, and the pine
knots were lit in the cave, about Is
bandits and pa and | sat down to a
course banquet on the floor OF the cave,
and ate and drank for an hour. We
had few dishes, except tin cups and
tin plates, but it was banquet all
right The first course was soup,
served in cans, each man having a can
of soup. with hole in the top, made
by driving a nail through the tin, and
we sucked the soup through the hole
The next course was fish, each man
having a can of sardines, and we ate
them with hard tack. Then we had a
game course, consisting of fried elk,
and then a salad of canned baked
beans, and coffee with condensed milk,
and spoonful or two of condensed
milk for ice cream. When the banquet
was over the leader of the bandits
raped on the stone floor of the cave
with the butt of his revolver for at
tention, and, taking canteen of whis-
ky for loving cup, he drank to the
health Oh their distinguished guest,
and passed it around, SO all might
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SUGGESTIONS FOR NOVEL AND
PLEASING ENTERTAINMENTS.
Appropriate Quotations for a Fare
well Dinnsr-At Bride shower
A Character Party-Por-
trait Contest.

Quotations for Farewell Dinner.
Here are some appropriate QUOTA
tons for use at a dinner given in honor
of guest who is about to depart upon
a long journey:
Though lost to sight, to memory
DEAR"
Absence breaks slender ties, but nv
cts strong ones.'''
81 count myself in nothing else so
happy,
AS in a soul remembering my good
friends
Where e'er 1 roam, whatever realms
to see,
My heart, untraveled, fondly turns to
thee"
Farewell; a word that must be, and
hath been;
A sound that makes us linger; yet
farewell"
Though the deep between us rolls,
Friendship shall unite our souls;
Still in fancy's rich domain
Often we shall meet again."
What shall 1 do with all the days
and hours
That must be counted ere / see thy
facet"
The place cards may be painted with
bunch of or-get-me-nots, or tie
spray of artificial ones onto 1t with a
bit of true blue" ribbon.
A correspondent asks for an enter
tainment' for linen Shower" and a
luncheon menu.
Make cards in shape of heart out
of pink cardboard, punch hole and
tie pink pencils on them. Next write
the transposed letters of the words of
the articles in a brides trousseau like
this: "hseos," rskit," etc. Transposed
these letters become "shoes" and
skirt" Allow 20 minutes for this con-
test. Then for the Shower" l should
hide the packages all over the rooms
and make the bride-elect hunt for them
to music, played cloud" and "soft."
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USE THE BATH BAG.

pose four ounces Of sweet almonds
and pound them till they are quite
smooth, add the yolks of three eggs,
and mix with fresh milk or cream;
boil as you would custard, stirring;
all the time, and remove as soon az it
thickens; then. add the perfume you
prefer. Seal while hot
Every night before retiring Is the
best time for devoting just a little
while to the care of the complexion
and hands. Ten minutes can be spared
and no more should be taken. 1t would
else be time wasted. We cannot give
our energy and hours to beauty work
when so many more useful pursuits in
vite attention. Apply any inexpensive,
harmless cold cream to the face and
neck to remove the CRIME of the day,
wipe with a soft old cloth, and wash
with pure unscented soap, using the
hands instead of a wash cloth. Rinse
with an abundance of warm water and
dash of cold water, and apply fine
white cream for the night.
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BEAUTIFYING THE CAPITAL.

Gradually Washington is evolving
into a city of architectural splendors
such as have never been arrayed in
any other city of the world. 1t Is to
be a city not of one or two palatial
structures but there will be before the
end of the decade a score or so of great
buildings at the American capital
which it will be worth a journey
around the world TO view Many cities
nave one and sometimes two buildings
world famed for their architectural
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How to Prepare and the Beneficial
Effects-A Word About Daily
Beautifying.

Wise women wonder why their sis
tiers do not more generally use the IN
valuable bath bag. They are male by
filling a thick muslin or thin calico
bag with two-thirds of bran or oat-
meal, bits of soap, and orris root, just
to give a sweet SAVIOR. Let this soak
in the water before entering the bath,
and make a splendid lather all over
the skin; if you use this only two or
three times a week it will make the
body smooth.
But each bag is good for only twice
using; once sour it does more harm
than good. 1t is a great secret in most
toilet preparations to use them while
fresh. There is a most delightful
cream which works veritable wonders
il employed as soon as it is made. and
never after it has been mixed more
than a week or so. Blanch for the pur-