The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-28
QUESTIONS AND Answers

parties have good ranches with good
water rights: would II be considered
gambling should they divide 1t up into
equal parts OF forty acres each and
number 1t and sell numbers or chances
for drawing numbers II II should be ad-
vcrtised through some paper? Please an
swer ard oblige-J. T. Ketcham, Bur-
bank, Milard county, Utah,
We arc afraid that II would be so con-
sIdercd though that Is practically what
the Government Itself did when II threw
tho Cintah lands open TO entry. But II
you have such scheme under serious
consideration, you had better etate your
case to the Postofficc department, and
get a ruling on II. II YOU do -, We
should liko TO know what that ruling l..
CABLE. Mercer Co, ILL.,, Jan. 21.-Wnl
YOU give an account or the Mormon rcUel~
lion in Utah in 1887 What was II ABOUT?
IL Is a matter or record OF Mo.mCn re-
bellion. and stops at that. l am taking
history OF the service or the army known
as the Rlackhawk soldiers OF C,an,
when organized and by wnom enlisted
| the length OF time they served, and
! whcre2-A. r Tomlnson.
% That rebellion was so called on the
report OF the Federal officials or Titan and
ence made at the Fourth OF July QSyO
| celebration at the head OF Big Co ton
wood (2D The Blackhawk soldiers of
! Utah were those who fought the hostile
! Indians in Utah at the uprising under
! Chief Blackhawk of the UteS-not the
Blackhawk OF the Sacs and Foxes whose
war In northern Illinois and southwest
! crn Wisconsin is SO well known IN the
| history OF the old Northwest. AS 10 rhe
! terms of service In the Utah BlacknawS
war they were various. and the records
| kept OF them are not as satisfactory "a
they should be. In individual cases. but
| there is no doubt Of the service, and OF
! the deserving nature of IT.
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 4-Will YOU
| please answer the following TO sctue
| dispute: w says there is not state
| law or any other law saying a train snail
| have q conductor or brakeman or both
! on. / says there iS. and a tram, pasSen-
| ger or freight. must have BOTH Is there
! Il law against an engineer ana hrtman
taking out an engine with train without
| either conductor or brakeman? If ! Is
right please state whore we can read
| the law. & l.
We do not find any such law
| SANPETE, Utah. Jan. lS-Pleasc an
swer what race French Creoles spring
| Erom?-Joseph Nonguin
The French.
KAMAS Jan 2i-Please answer in your
next Question and Answer column the
| follow ing question Has the time been
| extended TO those who have entered land
| on the Uintah Indian reservation for get
! Is the time allowed? (g Have the medals
| been issued to the Blackhawk warriors
| John O'Driscoll.
Congress has passed the extension bill.
! and no doubt the President will approve
| 1t. II Is safe to be the law.
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 24-Wnl you
| please answer In your Question and An
| swer column of Sundays issue the fol-
lowing questions; said that the coun-
try of Norway was not any larger than
. - -snh lou a
is II larger than Denmark; and what Is
the population7 Is 1t as thickly settled
as the United States?-A Reader
Norway has lalss square miles; Den
mark has Is. sSs; Utah has 849I0- The
population OF Norway is 22t0,oS2 II Is
not as thiokly settled as the United
! Statos.
MURRAY. Utah. Jan. S.-Please an
swcr the following questions In the Cues
! tion and Answer column In The Semi
Weekly Tribune. a Does a lady, whose
husband gets a divorce In Idaho after
having been parted from his wife one
year before divorced. have to walt six
months before she can marry aenin In
| Utah2 (2 In Oregon? (0 In New NeXi-
co? (D How much of her husbands
estate does q, widow get In Oregon CSl
| children In New Mexico marries again,
would his estate go to his children by his
A., former wife when he dies. or would his
| last wife receive n portion of 1T 90 And
| what portion would she GET 0l Is New
Mexico a Territory or a State?-An Old
| Subscriber.
| State (6D The last wife would receive
her portion, one-third G0 A Territory.
PoCATELLO, Ida, Jan. 25-In your
! sundays issue (of the 2sth) VIII you
kindly answer the following question; Do
! YOU know Of any process br which one
! mot an eXperp may be able to determine ne
| Idaho? Also II you know of no pro
| cess" can you state where I can get the
/ desired Observation-Disclosures
We cannot give You the tests, but You
| con no doubt get full information by In
ouiry OF the United States Department
/ OF Agriculture, at Washington, D, c.
GREEN RIVER. Utah. Jan 2-WIn
! you please answer In Sundays paper the
/ following: A sells r an acre OF land
| and gives deed for same but In this deed
no mention is made of the water which
had been previously and continuously
used on this land. Can demand from
| 4 that transfer be made from \ to b OF
/ sufficient stock in the canal to provide
/ water for the land as had been the Gus
/ tom the canal being separate and indc-
| pendent organiZation?-Q
We don't know whether he can or not;
1t depends on the agreements and con-
| tracts.
PRESTON. Ida. Jan. 22-Would YOU
! kindly give us the following information
and greatly oblige one OF your ardent
readers: Does IT require two-thirds ma
iority OF the entire population OF the
| United States to effect en- amendment in
the Constitution Of the United states, or
! can the Senate accomplish II by two
/ thirds vote? Ia there n provision In the
| Constitution Of the United States Drohib-
! itng man from having more than one
| wife or In other words, going into polyg-
! amy7-Bcrbman e Maroon,
! O No: amendments to the Federal
| Constitution arc not made that way; tncy
| must receive q two-thirds vote In ench
| House OF Congress. and then be ratified
! BY the Legislatures OF thrce-fourths OF
! the States, (2) No
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan, 22.-lf a per-
| son boarding at Il private house mot n
| hoteD for several weeks should go away
| without paying for board or room, could
| be be arrested and brought back II To-
| Gated in an adjoining Statc2 II so who
Is the proper person 10 see about lts?-E.
| Il Mark.