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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-29
Three Other Persons Seriously
Injured, One, Mrs. Mary Diss-
meyer, Probably win Die.
OCCURRED IN SAN FRANCISCO
Ctuse is Mystery as No Gas Was
Used in Housc-Storc and Saloon
Were Soon in Flames.

San Francisco, June 29.--Four persons
are dead and three others seriously in
jured as result OF an explosion, fol-
flowed by fire, which occurred at an
early hour today in the grocery store
of John Sweeney in Diamond street
THE DEAD.
John Sweeny.
Mrs. John sweeney
Ella Sweeny, aged TO-
Anton Dismeyer, Jr,, agen 2.
THE INJURED.
Fred Sweeny.
Anton Dissmeyer ST.,
Mrs. May Dissmeyer, probably will
die.
About 10 others escaped.
Sweeny, proprietor of the grocery
store. lived with his family in flat
above the store and adjoining the lat
ter was the saloon of S. f. Johnson.
with the Dissmeyer family occupying
the fiat above It, The store and saloon
had not yet been opened and the ocou-
pants of the flats in the second story
of the building were still asleep when
the explosion occurred. So terrific was
its force that Fred Sweeny, aged %,
who was sleeping near a window, was
thrown through the window over the
roof of one-story building adjoining.
The grocery store partly collapsed and
Immediately caught fire. Before the
first fire engine arrived on the scene
the wrecked building and adjoining
saloon and fiat were enveloped I'm
flames.
The cause of the explosion is mys-
tory which the police are trying To
solve. There was no gas used in the
brildin~ and 1t is said that there were
but five gallons of Kerosene IN the gro-
Gerry store. The only theories advanced
are dynamite or an accumulation of
gas under the building from leak
In the mains.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-29
CL0UDBURST IN KANSAS.
One at Wellington Results in Seven
Deaths from Drowning.

wichita Kan, June pa cloud
burst at Wellington, Kan, last night
resulted in seven deaths by drowning.
Five inches of rain fell within an
hour and five feet of water flowed
through town, taking houses from their
foundation.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-29

IL IS everywhere concefrl that the
News" bas larger circulation than
any othsr paper ip this Geld.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-29

Never before have such good things
been offered In the WANT Ads.
Rchd them.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-29
DELEGATES VISITING BRYAN.

lincoln. Neb.. June 29,-The mem,
hers OF the Illinois delegation visited
w, j. Bryan at Fairyiew today They
were shown through the house ana
grounds by Mr.. Bryan.
The party. bound for Denver In iiye
Oxford Democrat., 1908-05-05
Health of Farm Animals.

1t is better to keep farm animals we'll
and thrifty than it is to make them well
after getting out of condition. This is
done by watchful attention on the part
of their keeper. The care of animals
might well be made course of study
and training at colleges of agriculture.
The Importance of skilled herdsman
on a stock farm can hardly be over esti-
mated. Unnumbered farmers would
be ready to give liberal salaries to herds
men skilled in thorough knowledge OF
cattle, or horses, or other domestic ami
mails, and thousands of others would be
only too glad to invest money in the
business were there skilled men avail
able to handle and care for them. This
is district branch of training that un-
til recently has received no special at
tention in college courses. 1t cannot be
mastered by a study of books alone.
Proficiency can only be reached through
trained eye, and by studied attention
and watchful care of the animals. The
eve must be trained to promptly see
varying conditions. Every movement and
motion of an animal means something
and reveals the cause which prompted ii
TO the watchful eye OF the skilled OBJ
server.
Feed and care are the principal agents
in maintaining the health and thrift OF
animals, and also are the chief remedial
agents called for in bringing disordered
conditions into their natural and health
full function. Hence the necessity for
the trained eye to detect results and the
skilled judgment to apply the needed
remedy. To efficiently meet these re-
quirements is a qualification OF high
order, and one that any young man may
feel assured will lead to positions OF
honor. Skilled hsrdsmen are appreciat'
cd in stock circles.-Maine Farmer.
Oxford Democrat., 1908-05-05

limiting that 1t won't be the worse for
you if for once you've used those
| fine eyes Of yours to some useful pur,
pose"
Egon was genuinely astonished AT
this turn Of the conversation, as he had
been carefully arming himself against
a personal attack from any one or sew
eral directions. He sat pointing the
sharp ends Of his mustache one after
the other and trying to remember
some striking incident with which to
adorn a more or less accurate nara
tive.
What would you call useful?' he
inquired at last.
The chancellor answered, but indi-
rectly. HAS the emperor been play
ing the fool at Lyndalberg these last
few days"
do you want to make me guilty OF
leze majesty" Egon raised his eye
brows, but he was recovering presence
of mind. "If by playing the fool.
though, you mean falling in love. why.
then, brother, should say he had
done little else during the three days.
and perhaps even the first Of those
was not the beginning"
The chancellor growled out word
which he would hardly have uttered
in the imperial presence, particularly
in the connection he suggested. Let
me hear exactly what has been going
OH from days end 10 days end" he
commanded.
Egon grew thoughtful once more
Clearly here was the explanation OF
the summons. He was to be let of
easily, it appeared. But. suspense re-
ieved, he was not ready to be salts
fed with negative blessings.
"Are you sure it isn't bit like tell
Ing tales out of school?" he objected.
"Schooboys with empty pockets
have been known to do that said the
chancellor. But perhaps your pockets
nren't empty-eh?'
They're in a chronic state OF empti-
ness" groaned Egon.
"On the 10th day Of October your
quarterly allowance will he paid" re-
marked his brother. 81 would increase
the installment by the amount OF
5000 gulden If that would make II
worth your while to falkland forget
nothing but your scruples."
"Oh, You know I'm always delighted
to please your exclaimed Egon. Its
only natural, living the monotonous
life you do when you're not busy with
the affairs Of state, that you should
like to hear what goes on In the world
outside. OF course I'll gladly do my
| best as q raconteur."
my dear young man, don't lie,' said
the chancellor "The habit is growing
on you. You lie even to yourself. BY
and by you'll believe yourself, and
then all hope for your soul will be over
What | want to know is how far the
emperor has gone in his infatuation fol
this English girl. I'm not afraid td
speak plainly to you, so you may SAFE
ly-and prohtably-do the same with
me. In the first place, I'll put you al
your ease by making Illuminating
confession. The other night the WON
an Won Lyndal tried to draw me-, as
she would express 1t, on this subject
and I'm bitterly mortified to say she
partly succeeded. She suggested ar
] ENHANCEMENT between Leopold anC
Oxford Democrat., 1908-05-05
They Had Hard Luck. Sure.

Ii was Josh Billings, we believe, who
remarked that when man started to go
down hill everything seemed to be greas-
ed for the occasion. We were reminded
of the remark the other day when We
overheard on the train the following. A
Young man with wife and small child
boarded the Boston train going east, and
when he met an acquaintance he seemed
glad of an opportunity to unbosom HIM
self lie said he was induced to leave
Hampshire to work in factory at good
liberal wages. He gave up his rent and
sold the most of his furniture at sacri-
flee, and taking his young family moved
to the Granite State. He concluded to
board for the winter, and so secured a
room and board near his work, but the
landlady said she had had such hard
luck taking factory hands that she must
have his board, IS each week in advance.
All went well the first week, but the day
that he paid his second weeks board he
was informed by his employer that he
would not be needed longer, as he had
man for his place that he liked better.
Going to his boarding place he decided
to return to his Maine home, and he ask
ed his landlady if under the circum-
stances she could not refund the weeks
board paid in advance that very morning,
but she refused, saying that such a pro-
cedure always brought bad luck to a
landlady and her boarders.
The family started back home only to
get left at some junction point where
they failed to get close connection, and
the babe took cold and was prostrated
with tonsilitis in strange town for
two days before the parents dared to
risk travelling. While waiting there
they learned that fire had destroyed
the building where their few unsold
household goods had been stored.
There did not seem to be anything
more that could have happened to them,
and vet the fellow related the sorrowful
tale of i'll luck with wonderful COM
posure, considering what it must have
meant to him and his.-Turf, Farm and
Home.
Oxford Democrat., 1908-05-05
Rife and Smooth Bore.

The main difference between a rife
and a smooth bore gun Is that the in
ner surface of the rife barrel has one
or more spiral grooves cut into It The
object Of this is to permit portion Of
the material Of the bullet or projectile
to sink into the grooves. As the pro-
jectie Is forced out Of the barrel these
projections into the grooves tend to re-
main there. thus giving rise to spin
ming motion. In fact, 1t is not only
going forward. but Is rotating rapidly
as it goes The axis will tend-in ac-
cordance with the gyroscopic principle
to maintain without change its direc-
tion But that is really saying that
the projectile will tend to remain In its
true course. So this is why n rifed
gun shoots stralghter than smooth
bore.--St. Nicholas.
Oxford Democrat., 1908-05-05
A Permanent Place.

There was not even standing room In
the 6 o'clock crowded car. but one
more passenger, young woman,
wedged her way along just inside the
doorway. Each time the car took a
sudden lurch forward she fell help
lessly back. and three times she land
ed In the arms Of large, comfortable
man on the back platform. The third
time it happened he said quietly,
Hadn't you better stay hereT-New
York World.
Oxford Democrat., 1908-05-05
Cook Stove Advice.

Statistics show that the cook stove Is
the most prolific incendiary of all stoves
used by man. People do not realize
what an easy matter it is for an over
heated stove to ignite wood work and
nearby objects until the thing actually
happens and they suffer for it. A wood
stove generally sets the wood work on
fire in the absence of its manager and
within three feet of it will do so If given
a fair chance. Laths from which the
plaster has fallen ignite frequently. At
three feet distant wood work is not safe
from an overheated cook stove. When
the heat reaches Ala degrees Fahrenheit
the wood will scorch and few degrees
more are only required to put 1t In
flames. Despite the newspaper accounts
of many deaths through starting fires,
there are people who scott at advice in
regard to the practice. Kerosene may
be safely used for kindling II the stove
is cold or if the kindle is blazing. Hea,
without blaze converts 1t into gas which
will explode when blaze starts.-Turf,
Farm and Home.
Oxford Democrat., 1908-05-05
Getting Good Profit from Poultry

One great secret of getting a good
profit from poultry, as well as cows, Is
the wedding out of the Improbable ones.
A good many recommend the trap nest.
The trap nest to the average farmer is
about as practicable as would be line
of trolley cars to carry him around his
farm. In order TO trap nest flock OF
hens an attendant must be on hand to
release the hen after she has laid and
give her credit on the book. A farmer
cannot do this. A set of trap nests is
all right in it's place, and that place is
where hens are kept in sufficient num-
bers so an attendant is continually about
the hen house up TO three or four O'Clock
in the afternoon. How then are we to
Judge which are the layers and which
the drones? My method is to judge by
their looks and actions.
There is as much difference In the
shape, disposition and appearance of
individual hens as there is in individual
cows or horses. This difference in
characteristics can better be accurately
Judged in pure bred flocks than in hocks
of mongrels, for with the former, when
Won have studied the breed you have
adopted, as everyone should, until you
have the shape imagined in your head
and can recognize it anywhere, you have
more uniform individuals to Judge;
while with mongrels and crosses after
the first cross especially you never know
what you are going to get either IN
shape, color, eyes, comb or general
characteristic.
A hen that is soonest off the roost in
the morning and the last to retire at
night is what we call a hustler. She is
looking for something to eat from which
to produce an egg. A hen to produce
eggs in large quantities must have good
capacity to take food and good digestive
organs 10 digest and assimilate the food
eaten. Yon naturally, therefore, look
for a long keel, apparently heightened
by a full breast filled out square with
the keel BY a good full crop. In such
hen the abdomen while not bagging
down much will be we'll distended
showing egg capacity. You seldom see
a hen. narrow between the legs, giving
her squeezed-in appearance from be-
hind, that is heavy producer. She Is
like a dairy COW built on beef lines.
prefer a hen with legs well apart, ful
breasted, with well developed abdomen
This indicates stamina and vigor. II
she has bright eye, red, healthy look
ing comb and head adjunct, and has tha
alert carriage, coupled with the Other
cbaracteristics mentioned, she is pretty
surely a profitable hen, and watchini
will prove her the bird for the breeding
De, to increase your egg production, ant
at the same time carcass built on thes'
lines is capable of supplying trade 10
fancy table food.-D. j. Ryther in New
England Farmer.
Oxford Democrat., 1908-05-05


pecting to find you. didn't. think
shouldn't have gone had ! known
Every one believed you were at Me
linabad, but when tumbled down and
you saved me l looked up and-of
course I'd seen your picture, and one
reads in the papers that you're fond Of
chamois hunting. 1 couldn't help guess
ing. Oh, I'm sorry you asked me this!'
"Why"
because one might have to be afraid
of an emperor If he were angry"
"Do look angry"
Their eyes met again, laughing al
first, then each finding unexpected
depths in those Of the other which
drove away laughter. Something in
Leopold's breast seemed alive and
struggling to be free from restraint.
like a fierce wild bird. He shut his
lips tightly. breathing hard. Both for
got that question had been asked.
but it was Virginia who spoke first,
since It is easier for woman than a
man to hide feeling.
81 wonder why you kept the ring
after my-impertinence."
81 had a good reason for keeping 1t. "
won't you tell me?"
You're quick at forming conclu'
sions, Miss Mowbray. Can't you
guess?"
ITO remind you to beware Of strange
young women on mountains"
"No"
because your own picture is In.
side?"
ut was better reason than that"
"Am l not to ask it?"
ION that day you asked what you
chose. All the more should you do SO
| now. since there's nothing I could re.
fuse you"
"Not the half of your kingdom, like
the royal men in fairy stories"
AS soon as the words were out VIZ,
ginia would have given much to have
them back. She had not thought OF
meaning they might convey, but she
tried not to blush lest he should think
of II now. Nevertheless he did think
of it, and the light words, striking a
chord they had not aimed to touch,
went echoing on and on till they
reached that part of himself which the
emperor knew least about-his heart.
"Half his kingdom?" Yes, he would
give it to this girl IL he could. Heav'
ems, what it would be to share II
with her!
ASK anything you WILL" he said as
q man speaks In q dream.
Then tell newly you kept the
ring"
Because the only woman l evei
cared-to make my friend took 1t from
her finger and gave it to me-"
"Now the emperor is pleased to pay
compliments"
"YOu know l am sincere"
"But you'd seen me only for an hour
Instead of deserving your friendship
I'm afraid r.
"For one hour? That's true. And
how long ago is that one hour? A
week or so, l suppose, as time counts
But then came yesterday and the
thing you did for me. Now I've
known you always"
"If you had, perhaps you wouldn'
want me for your friend
81 do want you."
The words would come. 1t was true
already. He did want her, but not al
q friend. His world-a world withou
women. without passion fiery enough
Oxford Democrat., 1908-05-05

young man Of q rock netted with the
sprawling roots Of ancient trees. He
had just time to recognize the writing
as that of Adalbert, crown prince OF
Hungaria, whom he knew slightly,
when keen eyes curtained with furled
and wrinkled lids glanced up from the
letter.
"It's coming" thought Egon. What
can the old chap have found outT
But, to his surprise, the chancellOr's
first words had no connection with him
or his misdeeds.
$50 our emperor is amusing himself
at Lyndalberg?"
Egon's face frightened. He could
be cunning in emergencies, but he was
not clever, and always he felt himself
at a disadvantage with the old states
man. Unless he had a special favor to
ask he generally preferred discussing
the affairs Of others with the chancel-
lor rather than allowing attention to be
attracted to his own. "Oh, yes," he
answered brightly. "His majesty Is
amusing himself uncommonly well.
never saw him in as brilliant spirits.
But you, dear Lorenz-tell me about
yourself. Is your gout"-
"The devil take my gout"
Egon started. "a good thing If he
did, provided he left you behind" he
retorted, meaning exactly the opposite,
as he often did when trying to measure
wits with the chancellor. But you
sent for me-
Don't tell me you supposed l sent
for you because wanted consolation
or condolence?"
MOO" laughed Egon uneasily. 81
fancied there was some other more
pressing reason. But I'm bound In
common courtesy to take your sin
cerity for granted until you undeceive
me-"
Hang common courtesy between
you and mew returned the bear. i've
nothing to conceal. sent for you to
tell me what mischief that witch cat
Mechtilde Won Lyndal Is plotting.
You're on the spot. Trust you for
seeing everything that goes on-the
one thing would trust you to do"
Thanks" said Egon.
Don't thank me yet, however CRATE
ful you may be. But don't mind
Oxford Democrat., 1908-05-05

According to T. B. Terry, the man
who saves the solid manure from his
animals, and let's the liquid manure,
worth more a pound, run through a
leaky floor to 20 to waste, and then buys
artificial fertilizer to get the elements
that were in those liquids, is very much
of the same kind of a fool that man
wonld be who saved skim milk, threw
awav the cream and bought butter.
Oxford Democrat., 1908-05-05

| she might have prepared some pretty
answer; but. there being no time, her
response came, as his question had
from the heart, 81 couldn't help doing
It."
You couldn't help risking your life
to- He dared not finish.
ut was to save Nor was there
any end for her sentence.
Then perhaps 1t was not strange that
he forgot certain restrictions which
royal man in conversing with COM
moner is not supposed to forget. In
fact, he forgot that he was royal or
that she was not, and his voice grew
unsteady, his tone eager, as If he had
been some poor subaltern with the girl
Of his first love.
"There's something must show
you" he said. Opening button Of the
military coat blazing with jewels and
orders, he drew out loop Of thin gold
chain. At the end dangled q small
bright thing that flashed under a stal
Of electric light.
"My ring!' breathed Virginia.
Thus died the emperor's intention to
ignore the day that had been theirs to-
gether.
"Your ring! You gave It to Leo
He kept 1t. He will always keep 1t
Have l surprised your"
Virginia felt it would be best to say
"Yes," but instead she answered 'No,'
for pretty white fibs cannot be told
under such a look In a mans eyes by
a girl who loves him.
Il have not? When did you guess the
truth-yesterday or
AT Alleheiligen."
Silence fell for minute. while Leo
pold digested the answer and It's full
meaning. He remembered the bread
and ham. the COW he could not milk
the rucksacks he had carried. He re.
membered everything and laughed.
You knew at Alleheiligen? Not Oh
the mountain when
"Yes, I guessed even then, l confess
Oh, don't mean that went there ex'
Oxford Democrat., 1908-05-05
Field Peas for Forage and Hay.

If one has fall l-plowed field the best
results are generally secured from field
peas, but they will do better on spring
plowed land than any other leguminous
annual I know of and they should be
seeded now as soon as possible. 1t Is
we'll to give good preparation of soil,
but as they are vigorous, hardy growers,
they will stand more neglect in this re-
spect than the smaller seeded grains.
We prefer, however, to SOW oats with
the peas; they are more easily harvested,
because the oats bear up the pea vines
and allow the machine to run more
smoothly. When we need a green for
age rather than cured hay, they may be
sown at intervals, however.
The Cornell New York; Station
speaks as follows in Bulletin 135 regard
ing this combination crop: Ranking
next to corn as forage crop and close
second, comes oats and peas. In the
years which we have been conducting
experiments in the production of forage
this combination proved itself we'll
worth place on every farm where stock
is kept. II is valuable either for past
ure, for cutting as soiling crop, or
cured for hay, making most valuable
crop. When planted in succession of
about two weeks, the first planting being
as early in spring as conditions permit,
succession of highly nutritious forage is
produced which is greatly relished by
stock. II more general use was made
of oats and peas for summer feeding, it
would greatly reduce the expense of
production of milk and cost of maintain
ing cattle and economize land very ma
terially. 1t is very rich in protein and
nearly balanced ration for milch cows.
A large amount can be grown per acre,
and it may be grown from early spring
to late fall. A slight freeze does not
affect it. For sowing after July 1st sub
stitute barley instead of oats, as barley
makes more rapid growth in late sum-
mer and is less liable to rust and other
diseases than oats"
As peas are in themselves nitrogen
drawing crop only enough of this ele-
ment need to be applied to stimulate the
oats OF barley later on, but the peas as
well as the oats and barley need also
plenty of the minerals, phosphoric acid
and potash, because if the straw is not
stiff enough to hold the pea vines up
right there will be considerable trouble
in cutting, and that is one of the func-
tions of mineral plant foods, particular
ly of potash, to give body to, or stiffen-
ing growing plants.
Oats have the popularity of apparent
ly ceasing growth shortly after they ap-
pear above ground, and it is then We
apply our fertilizer, mixing 100 lbs. of
nitrate of soda, ITO lbs. of acid phos-
phate and so lbs. of muriate of potash,
and applying 200 lbs. per acre, broad
cast. Some farmers SOW bushels OF
oats and l-2 bushel of peas, but We SOW
| 1-2 bushels of peas to the acre.. A.
Season, Ohio, in Maine Farmer.