The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-12

one OF the hardest winds ever known
here. Two courts already have stated
that It was can act of providence"
A brick wall fell. The contractor said
n high wind did IT. the owner contendcd
that inferior material and workmanship
had been utilized. The wind record
showed that the wind vas light. and ex-
perts showed that inferior material had
been used,
carpenter was repairing a residence
roof and left X open one night. Water
DANA ged the interior OF the house, cauS-
ing the owner TO ask for damages on ac-
count OF rain. The little tipping bucket
which turns a somersault for every hun
drcdth of an inch OF rain that falls. and
mukes Il record OF the fact. showed no
rain. a servant In the house confessed
later that she had spilled the water.
Betrays Hubby to Wife.
Ii was this little mechanical device that
told the divorce court that the husband
had come home at a. M in the rain
and not at 10 p. m as he had stated.
Records made by this instrument al
most daily are produced to show whether
there was rain AT certain dates and ccr-
tain hours In the more or less distant
past, 10 adjust damages for goods that
have spoiled en- route by WettinG on plat
forms or elsewhere. The tipping bucket
| must tell tho truth and 1t Is for this
reason that q jury not long ago awarded
damages 10 Il woman for having been
struck by street car in this city. The
motorman said thai IL was raining and
the rails were slippery and that he could
not stop his car. She said the rails
were 40, wet. as 1t had not been rain
ing. The evidence was hopelcssly con-
| fiictjng. The tipping bucket record told
the court that the rain in question be-
gan fully twenty minutes after the acci-
dent. The motorman finally admitted
| this.
Perisbabe property has been damaged
| by cold or w3rm weather 80 often that
almost every mail brings requests for
tom tyNn,s In In nyt,y..c
between shippers and carriers. Some
times the carrier has left tho car door
! open and allowed the eggs to freeze, and
sometimes they are proven bad before
| packing In summer bananas. meat and
other products are damaged by the heat.
! Who WIS to blame?
The Shermograph writes the temper
ainre for every moment Of Time. and Woe
unto him VINO disputes its record for
| "the moving finger writes. and having
written. Moses nor all your picty nor
wit can turn II back to cancel half line,
nor all your tears blot out u word of
it," 4 strong hearted railroad will
trenIblc and pay Instantly for carload OF
celery frozen. when the thcrmoeraph
record Is produced; and II will make n
strong hearted landlord promise more
| heat at any cost
Link in Murder Case.
| One time IL street ditchcr was accused
OF murder. Mostly by circumstantIal
evidence hc proved that he was not guilty.
| However. the chain of circumstantlaI cvi-
dcnce tending TO hX upon him The crime
needed but one link. and this the thcrmo
| graph supplied. The la borer said that
he had not left the ditch for four hours
That ne began work at a. M. and at
| II a. m. he got out and got Il drini,
I from small t1o-quart tin pail en- the
bank He said hn Immediately returned
10 the ditch and had not gone to a
nearby house. asked for drIn. and af-
tcrward killed his bcnefactrcss: as was
chnrgcd.
| The thermograph, working on "a nearby
roof. showed that Ills Story was false
as the temperature was so low all those
four hoUrs that the water I'm his little
pail would have been Il solid chunk of
Ice III sorrow he crossed the evidence
lof the weather instrument, and I'm sorrow
hc is paying the penalty today in the
Illinois state prison.