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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-11
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|s Tn is4a-4 General John c. Fremont made his famous trip across the Rock,
 Mountains towards the Pacific coast Tn writing of his trip he used this Ian. guage: Just beyond the Missouri River lies the Great American Desert
 Those plains are too dry and barren
 to support life. and will never become
 habitabie." Commenting on this state-
 ment The Topeka (Kan.) Herald says How time has given the lie to that statement every one knows. The dcso- late waste is replaced by stretching
 has slunk Away to the westward. and
 the lordly buffaio has resigned his an oient domain to the Jersey ana the
 mild faced Hereford. Long ago the cactus perished. and over its grave rose. The tent of the Indian IS gone forever and in it's place stand shops and mills and foundries. The silence that once reigned almost unbroken IS now forgotten in the whirring of ma chinery, the shriek and rumble or the !. locomotive and the ceaseless hum or
 throbbing human life. The oesert was ! but Is not. Civilization has ciaimd the empire of the West. and only tue fool or the mad man will talk or the restoration of the desolate silence of
 the prairies.
 The Herald is speaking only for
 Kansas, but that tells but A small part of the story. It has been but little over sixty years since Fremont cross
 ed this region which he declared was
 "too dry and barren to support life" and predicted that 1t would never be- come habitable. General Fremont was in many respects man of strong iL- tion and good judgment. How com pleteiy he was at sea in his predictions is plainly aparent to any one who will glance at the map. One half or more of the United States lies beyond the Missouri River" The half of ne State of Missouri itself. and the entire States of Kansas, Nebraska. Nevada, Idaho and many others lie in the region proclaim ed uninhabitable. They are numer- ously populated and among them can be found some of the richest and most profitable agricultural and horticultur- al lands in the Union.
 'The desert shall rejoice and hlos- som as the rose." said the prophet and this prophecy has been literally full filled by the hardy. pushing. indon = table spirit of Americanism which de- fies even the barriers and obstacles of nature. Some of the finest grain reg ion on the continent is located Tn that same desert" that Fremont crossed. There are yet living many men who were grown-up men when thar sweep ing prediction or verdict was made, by the Great American Explorer." as Fremont was called, and who, in a single human life have witnessed the complete refutation of his judgment
 If Fremont could come back Q earth now and take railway trip across the continent from St. Louis to the Pacific he would wonder if he were still on earth, or if he had gotten to some nth- CT planet The fields of waving grain, the great farms. the fine homes the thriving cities, the herds of cattle--all would be to him Q revelation and he would then realize how falllble Is lu- man intelligence and how vain are hu- man prophecies. In good truth the change has been almost miraculous.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-11
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There was time when dogs did the roasting-at least they kept the meat turning, so 1t would not burn. Spit dogs" they were called. and their de- scendants are called "spltz" to this day. Spit dogs were trained to turn the spits on which roasted chickens, beef, ducks and turkeys. The little fellows did their work well, They were never known to let fowl burn or to snatch mouthful or two from 1t. As late as ls16 spit do~s were employed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-11

If men will stop to think for q brief moment they will conclude that the question sprung in the State Senate of "a possum with his tail through a split stick" might have some application to the conditions existing in the Alabama Legislature just al this time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-11

dersd, The Improvement of our WIKI: weys % that they may be profits41y navigated In the iowest stage of Wstsr IS the most important problem a, s3e h no better way can the .permanen! Improvement of navigation be secpreu than by requirinT as a part of the sur. sur. the dams and locks constructed should secure such depth of water at the lowest stage of the stream so utilized as will permit of profitable naviga-
 The bill recently introduced in Con- gress by Hon. William Richardson de- mands these conditions. so that the great obstruction caused by the Mussei Shoals to the profitable navigation of the Tennessee River will be. entirely overcome, with guarantee of six Ieet or navigable wa.er at low tide. and as l am informed. 1t is to contain an amendment that no privileges of using the waters Of these streams for pur., poses of Irrigation should be permitted after this low. stage has been reached. now under way in the gorge through Look Out Mountain, near Chattanooga, will not only furnish power sufficient to run thousand fac c-ories, but re- move forever the great obstruction to navigation which has heretofore ex- isted at this point What Is true al Lookout Mountain and Mussel Shoals IS equally true of Colbert Shoals, in igation of any of the rivers of Ala bar1a-
 The time will come, and come soon, when capital will eagerly look for the possession of these privileges, and locks and dams will be inserted at all points where navigation is inter- fered with by shallow water.
 In my opinion, no wiser method of controlling railroad rNIcs Scan be adop- ted than by deepening our rivers so that water navigation may always be held as a check upon overcharges by money which the general government has already expended for the improve ment of our partially navigable streams in cutting canals and removing ob- s.ructions had been used for the con struction of locks and dams, these ob- overcome and paid for in the value of the electrical energy which these dams would have provided.
 It is matter of surprise how long man has waited to utilize for his own purposes the law of sravitation. For all these years the euergy in the rush or waters along our streams in their journey to the sea, has been allowed to waste. Properly controlled and con- verted into electrical energy, there is power in the streams of our native State to furnish factories enough to attract and give employment to mil Hons and millions of workmen; to run people heat and light.
 Speaking alone of the possibilities of the Mussel Shoals enterprise, I am of the opinion that If properly direc- ted, the energy which can here be controlled, should build up at or near
 Sincerely yours,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-11

Things are really in q bad way. If we have war with Japan it will be unfortunate in many respects, and If we don't have war some of Inc yellow war EowIers will collapse. and there Yeu are
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-11
SIDEWALK PENCILLNGS
Pleased at Growth of City.

Montgomery seems to be right in the midst of building boom, and l was visitor from Birmingham to the Capital City who spoke. And as he contemplated the city, past and pres ent during number of years that his observation has extended, he grew en- thusiastic.
 Do you know" he exclaimed, that 1t was only a few years ago that the Moses building. that you are tearing down now to make room for a sky scraper,' was the biggest building In the city. And we people from over gomery, and sand around there on the Square, and gaze at the building, which was one of the very largest and hand somest anywhere in the State.
 Tt seems almost Impossible, when tinued, ruminativeiy, "that such someTy asd have m ftet sksn m PSse o2 the in s of Alabama, could have occurred in the short span of years that they have, o,,os. ao. ,-ao,. .o ..o. ping at one of those little old hotels on a chance visit to the Capital City, and believe that 1t Is all a dream. But look around me, and here, there, every where are the buildings that tell me the wonderful advancement of the State l and of its bautiful Capital City is not a dream, but reality of the bright est and best kind" 9s $ Ss Thaw's Clever Counsel. "Delmas demonstrated his ability as a lawyer by his method of instruc- ting the sensational testimony or Eve lyn Nesbitt Thaw," said a member of the Montgomery bar yesterday. "The I unlque that it has caused considerable comment.
 Under ordinary circumstanees. such evidence as that of Mrs. Thaw, of | such nature and dating so Tar back, would be absolutely irrelevant and imma. erial But. Thaw having plead mas to have Mrs. Tuaw say on the stand that the story She was telling the, jury was that which she told her husband, the inference being that her repetis ion of the story to her husband l caused him to become insane, the re- suit eventually being the killing of White The hem method thS of getting this yer, will be recognized is very shrewd and clever. I doubt if one out of ten of us would have conceived such plan, and the pretty part of 1t all is that 1t will stand the test of the law
 MT: W: J. Leppert. posmaster at | was for a long time engaged in the newspaper business at New Orleans.
 ;s % se
 MT. J. H: Edwards, of Decatur, is a visitor in Mon -gomery in connection l With the sessIon of the Legislature. | % < 5s
 MT. Theo Lacy of Selma Is visiting | Montgomery, accompanied py his wife. | ss Ss Ss
 Captain r; M; Maddox of Mobile | spent yesterday in Montgomery. l < st Ss
 Mir. W. T. Edmondson. Jr.. of An nistOn is visiting the s9 si'S'
 Major E. NJ: Robinson of Mobile. is | visitor to Montgomery. l $ $ IE
 Mir. J. B. Sanford of Sylacauga Is
 x $ %
 MT. o. c. ToOmbs of Tallassee is at the Mabson. +.
 Mir. Cary O. Wright of Auburn is in the city
 Mir. J. NJ. Mills Of Linden is fin l Montgomery.
 Hon. J. N. Miller of Camden is at the Exchange.
 Hon. W. O. Muiky of Geneva is in the city.
 MT. L. c. Adler Of Selma was in the city last night.
 MT. O. s. Lewis of Tuskegee is in the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-11
Electrical Power. New York City, Feb. 9, 1907

Editor The Advertiser:
 Though for many years voluntary exile from my native State. my love for the place of my birth the home of my younger days and the burial place of my parents is as deep as if my life work had still been cast there. I g ate this as an excuse. if any were needed, in offering through your widely circu- lated columns, any views I may hold in regard to the material affairs of Alabama and the South
 I write you upon subject which l relieve to be of far-reachng impor- tance. no only to my native State and the South but in fact, our common country, viz; The use of the water ways in the development of electrical energy.
 which may now not be fully apprecia- ted by our people, is ines-imable. Once controlled and directed by the con struction of the proper mechanism, it is an earner of money for all time. If the adage that Money is Power be true, the converse that Power Is Money is equally demonstrable,
 The disposition of these franchises belonging to the whole people should not be made without a return in val Ue which will in some measure com uensate them for the privilege surren .
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-11
JANUARY CIRCULATlON,

The AdveEtisers January Circulation fig The figures given below represent the ac- tual bena-fide circulation. from day to cay. fes arc deducted in the final result The Advertiser's circulation is unquestfonaoIy tne larxesf of any morning or Sunday newspa- per printed in Alabama:
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-22
George Webb and President A

George Webb and President A. j.
Evans
Pyof. a. II. Lund and others rem.
dered appropriate music, The beau
tiful white casket was laden with
lovely flowers. and the tabernacle was
filled with the sorrowing friends ana
relatives. Deceased leaves wife,
two children. mother and Gather,
seven brothers and two sisters, beside
n host of other friends and relatives
to mourn his untifnely death.
Members OF the Lehi choir pre-
scented "Phiilis.' the operate can
tata this AFTERNOON and evening to
large and nppreciativc audiences
Proceeds to 20 to the new organ.
Messrs william Knight and Gay
Whipple, with party Of surveyors,
were up American Fork canyon this
week looking over and measuring for
power plant. the site for which the
canal companies propose purchasing
from Charles Earl OF this place. Pow.
err generated there will be used TO
run the pumps at the head OF Jordan.
July u. Mrs. Leroy Lott presented
her husband with a boy; Sunday a
girl WAS born to Mrs A. Powell.
Tuesday the son OF Reuben Davis
fell from q load of hay and broke his
arm which was set by Dr. Holbrook
ana he is now doing nicely.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-22
LEHI.
PIONEER DAY CELEBRATION.
Impressive Funeral of Marshal Taylor
Choir Presents "PhilIis" Cantata.

Impressive Funeral of Marshal Taylor
Choir Presents "PhilIis' Cantata.
Lehi. Utah Co. July 20.-Every
preparation has been made for an
elaborate celebration of the Twenty
fourth. After the salute of guns and
the serenading of the town by the
bands, the following program Will
be given In ting new tabernacle at 10
a. m.
Opening chorus. Lehi Tabernacle
choir: prayer by the chaplain, Robert
Zion" by John Y. Smith and chorus.
Grafton, orator of the day. Fred ID.
Worltorf: song. Miss Lulu Dorton;
resolutions. Francis Child, selection.
Silver Band; How | Crossed the
Plains" Grandma William Ball; reci>
tntion. How Rube Played" Miss
Clara Bone; speech, THE Mormon
Battalion Margaret Salmon; quar-
tet Isaac Fox and COMPANY; speech.
organ solo. Prot Joseph r. smith.
speech. EARLY Days in Lehi" Jacob
Cox: toasts and sentiments, A. u
Anderson Closing by the choir;
prayer by chaplain.
In the afternoon there win he
sports in the city park for tho chill
dren. Baseball game between Lehi
races, horse races. otc. Fire workA
and grand ball Will wind up tho
days festivities
FUNERAL OF MARSHAL TAYLOR
Funeral services over the remains
OF City Marshal Robert Taylor who
died OF perltonitls July II. resulting
from a gun shot wound received while
hunting rabbits two days before.
We're held In the new tabernacle Fri
day last at 1880 p. m. Bishop An
drew Field In charge Bishop Field
spoke Of the life and labors OF the
deceased and Rad Biographical
sketch.
Mr., Robert Ball. In behalf OF the
Lehi FIRE department. Of which the
deceased was assistant chief, read a
set Of resolutions.
City Atty =. w. Ross In behalf or
the mayor and city council read n set
OF resolutions and spoke Of the high
esteem he was held as city official
and or his visilence IN keeping order
and his kind henrtedness and Interest
In working 10 keap the young men
from breoking the laws. The other
speakers were Senator John =. Smith.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-22
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

Pioneer Day at Pleasant Grove
July a will be duly observed here.
The day viii be ushured in with the
usual salutes and serenade aud the
following program will be given Ia the
grove: Song by choir; prayer by
Chaplain John w. Gardiner: solo and
chorus. choir; "The Pioneers" (speech)
Hon. Abel j. Evans, cong, Mary Ad-
kins. reading Clara Williamson; over
ture. concert band; talk, Bishop SVEN
sen; solo, Mary West Halliday: THE
Handcart Company" by a member;
song from Manila ward; reading, Hat
tic Hayes: SONG by congregation. In
the afternoon similar program will
be given, followed by children's dance
and sports, the day ending with grand
BAN in the evening
Child Drowned art rarowan--T'he
little2-year-old daughter OF Alvin A.
and Dottie Benson was drowned at
Paroman Thursday evening last, in an
irrigating ditch. After falling in the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-22

inery at the tunnel. on which work Will
then be pushed with great rapidity.
GARDEN CITY NOTES.
Mayor Robinson OF Logan is here Wis
iting relatives.
c. w. Barnes came down from Ogden
Saturday TO spend Sunday with mis- fam
ily.
Mrs. K. A. Graham OF Salt Lake Is
here visiting her sister, Mrs. c. w,
Barnes.
u. f. Corfman has returned from trip
TO Iowa. Mrs Corfman will be back in Il
few days.
Mrs. j. d. Billings and Miss Florence
Billings have returned 10 their homes in
Uintah county.
Rob Curtis has gone to Nebraska to
spend the vacation with his family.
Frank Sharp has returned from several
weeks visit TO relatives in Chicago.
Joseph Rawlings and his mother, Mrs.
Mary Rawlings Of Vineyard have been
charged with assaulting George Good and
his son. The defendants will nave a hear
ing this week.
Mr.. and Mrs A, v. Robson have re-
turned from visit to relatives In Mil
lard county.
John Homer has gone TO pennsylvania
to visit his old home. which he left when
a boy, abou: 30 years ago.
VIM. NJ. Roylance and j. B, Jensen
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-22
AERoNAurs COME TO GRIEF.
Balloon Trips End Disastrously for Mr.
and Mrs. Garda.

Ogden, July 22.--Aeronuaut Garda and
his wife, who during the past week
have been giving balloon ascensions ex-
hibitions with parachute drops at Glen
wood park. both had exciting exper-
fences. the man on Saturday night and
his wife last night Saturday evening
Gartia made the ascension all right and
came down to within short distance
of the earth all right when suddenly
the parachute was started rocking and
when It came to earth 1t came with
such force he sustaintd wrench of the
hip and sprained ankle.
Last night Mrs. Garda when coming
down tainted and fell some distance
into a peach tree and then to- the
ground She suffered several cuts and
bad bruises especially of the hip. She
was picked up in helpless condition
and placed into vehicle and brought to
a doctors Office where her injuries were
cared for which are painful but not
serious.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-22
WEBER STAKE
CONFERENCE
interesting Addresses in Taber-
nacIe Made by Elders Whitney,
Hyrum M. Smith and Others.
DEATH OF MRS. JANE sMUIN.
o,d Resident OF weber Goes to Her
Rest at s5--Sunday Funerals
News Notes.

ogden. July 22.--The quarterly
confarsace of the Weber state oc Zion
was h. Id yesterday in the Ogden tab
crnacle with sessions at 10 a. m. and
D. M. President l., w. Shurtliff pro-
y siding, The tabernacle choir rem.
dered some very choice music, con-
slstlng of clroruses, solos and duets,
president Shurtliff reported that
during tho past three months the
teachers have visited II per cent of
the people. He stated that beginning
next month the presidency will again
hold ward conferences. The summer
meetings of the various organizations
he reports are doing a good work.
Elder Andrew Jensen spoke at
length on Pioneer day which comes
next Wednesday, and admonished its
observance among the people. He
reviewed the coming of the pioneers
! 10 this valley in 1S4T. Just 60 years
ago.
/ the people on the gift Of the Holy
Ghost whose mission 1t is to lead and
guide its posseSsor into all truth.
At the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion, the general and local authorities
were unanimously sustained.
Elder j. IL. Carbon. OF the presidency
OF the Cache stake expressed his pleas
lure in attending the conference and
hearing the good counsel given and the
beautiful singing. He spoke of the sac
rifces the Latter-day Saints have
made, and the influences of the same
developing the character of the people.
Elder Hyrum NJ. Smith spoke to the
people on the growth OF the Latter-day
Saints, of the homes they have been
driven from. which after their depart
ure have remained practically the same
as when the saints left them, while
the state OF Utah has grown rapidly
in population. The hand of the Lord
has been over His people for good.
through their labor and skill they have
made this state ono of the garden spots
Of Gods creation
Elder o. F. Whitney also spoke of
the growth of the Church which now
numbers nearly 100000 and In Zion
there are 55 or Sc stakes. AS the
Church progresses, each member must
keep pace with its growth or they will
die a spiritual death. Those who are
not prepared to grow with IT fan.
Those who live the laws OF God grow
stronger In testimony and more en-
thusiastic in the work Of the Lord
In the evening an interesting con-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-22
WORK ON TUNNEL,
Funeral OF John Il. HiIls--Carson
Divorce Suit Dismissed.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Provo. July 22.-In the case of Heber
McNiel VS. Adolph w. Wetberg. suit to
quiet title. Judge Booth has rendered
decree in favor OF plaintiff
The divorce suit OF Harriet Carson vs.
Henry Carson has been dismissed without
prejudice on motion of plaintiff.
]. f. HILLS FUNERAL
There was a good attendance at the
funeral services held In the Third ward
Saturday. over the remains OF John IL.
Hills, The speakers were Bishop Otis L.
Terry Of Timpanogos ward. M r. Kartch-
ner, Pay v. Wentz and II. NJ. Arid.
WORK ON TUNNEL SUSPENDED.
Work on the tunnel OF the Strawberry
valley Irrigation project has been sus-
pended and all the force possible put to
work on the power plant. 1t will be com
pleted some time In November and will
furnish an electric current OF 4Oo-horse-
power to be used in operating the mach
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-22
LOGAN.
WEDDING PERMITS.
School Board Still Wrestling With
Building Proposition.
Special Correspondence,

Building Proposition.
Special Correspondence,
Logan. Cache Co., July 2o..-The city
school board has not yet got through
with its building proposition. It met
Thursday evening, and after consider
ing the reduced bids on an eiEht-roomed
addition to the Woodruff threw them
all OUT and decided to advertise for a
siX-room addition.
Mrs. Samuel Anderson of Rexburg,
Ida, was operated on yesterday at
the hospital ana her condition Is con-
sidered favorable
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. w. II. Evans yesterday
WEDDING PERMITS.
The following marriage licenses
have been issued by Clerk Larson the
past week.
Franklin Samuel Beck, 81. of Paris.
Ida. and Elizabeth Susan Burne, 20,
OF Lanark. Ida.
Hyrum Lewis Hall, 81, and Luitta
Stoddard, 90. both of Wellsville
William II. Reed. 81. and Ztna
Ekstrom, II. both of Logan.
Thomas r.. GledhilL "a. of Vermil-
lion. and Rebecca A Evans. 20. of
Preston. Ida.
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SHERIFF CAPTURES THIEVES.
Typewritcrs Taken from Salt Lake
House by Culprits.

Ogden, july 22.--Deputy Sheriff Sey-
mour Clark made a good arrest Sat
urday night when he took In custody
G. A, Stone and Harry Hammesfahr,
who are wanted In Salt Lake City on
the charge of stealing from the Breed
en- Supply company four typewriters.
The two men came to Ogden Satur-
day. shipping the typewriters as bag
gage. They sold one of the machines
to l.. H. Becraft of this city. Deputy
Sheriff Clark observed the mems ac-
tons which &c him were quite sus-
picious, SO he struck up an ncquaint-
ance with them and went to restaur-
ant to have a meal with them. From
their conversation he learned that their
dealings had been crooked, so he went
to the telephone to get assistance when
Hammesfahr bolted out of the lack
door but the officer was too quick for
Stone and held him At the jail he con-
fessed to having stolen the typewriters
and implicated Hammesfahr who was
later arrested. They were taken to
Salt Lake yesterday to answer TO the
charge.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-22

Peterson. The ceremony occurred at
The Mant temple Thursday.
Freddy Bell was severely injured this
week, by falling from load Of hay
His face was badly cut, but no in
tcrnal injuries were inflicted.
win Bell is slowly improving.
The heavy rainfall yesterday dld not
prevent the hay haulers from continu-
Ing their work this afternoon.