The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05
FENCE
) y IN BAD SHAPE
'le Dsition Cutworms Are Like
exp wise Playing Havoc in
. Many Districts.
IL CROP IN MANY
STATES Is In DANGER
"a :ow in Congressional Ranks
DIVER Bad Outlook in Po-
Iitical World.
~ RALPH M. WHITESIDE.


81 RALPH M. WHITESIDE.
eascd Wire TO The Tribune.
ASHINGTON, June 4.-It will be
aiddle of July before congress will
bic to finish up its work and go
according to the best opinion
o the statesmen, and there is sor'
In tho ranks because thereof
in the memory of man have so
congressman and senators had
), and hard fights, on their hands
is year, and the fences of some oil
who are anxious to come back
4 disgrace an abandoned New Eng
! farm. Not only are their fences
but opposition cut worms, to say
ng Of political San Jose scale;
lilo, chinch bug, army worm ana
Weevil, are playing hob with thelr
crops. All OF which makes the
ng on al Washington source OF
A agony, but the necessary business
us TO drag In spite of everything
||!or a congressman to leave his post
' not only destroy his Priv
Of "pointing with pride' to his
a but would lay him open to at
Verify Scylla and CharypGis pre-
d no such terrors TO the old time
ier as the present situation does to
-Jtesman who is compelled to fight
aeep in. If it were possible TO
an effective law making it fel-
TO 90 cunning for seat In con-
81 while the incumbent was stuck
Washington it would be grady vel
Nj, but alas and alackaday, such
Is impossible. So there Is nothing
Il hut stay on and pray that things
4not be quite so bad as they look
4 Stretched Himself an Inch.
Zen the president sent TO the SEN
Che nomina tion Of Second Lieuten-
Luther K. James to be first lieu
ut in the Sixteenth infantry, a
u many people Immediately jumped
4e conclusion that the officer IN
Non was the former cadet by the
A name who, by some means or
a; stretched himself full inch in
q to pass the physical examination
s,sary to entrance at West Point. 1T
3ot happen to be the same Luther,
9vcr. Just the same, the nomina"
fecalled the story of the youun who
'9ppointed to the military academy,
who fell just one inch snort of the
1t requirement when the prelimi
Dexamination was made. This Lu
flames, who was, by the way, a
lew of the famous Jesse and Frank
~s of Missouri. set about Increasing
Jcight, and within two months he
stretched himself JUST far enough
-easure the requisite number OF
u Want Panama Exposition.
Sw Orleans is in earnest about get
Vthe Panama exposition in 1915 and
mas practically the entire south
of her. Hardly a day passes that
n Influential delegation of Loulsian
are not in Washington telling Just
u they should have the exposition.
Crescent City has enlisted the gov
3 of other southern states, the
Drs of cities, commercial bodies and
1e. In fact, the solid south is back
br claim for the big show. In the
Time San Francisco is not permit
ANY grass TO grow under her feet,
Nhas let it be known she simply
J have the exposition. It's n very
'y fight as it stands. and congress
4 be compelled to decide it a draw
lauthorize two exposirIons, one In
4 Orleans and the other in San
cisco. AS the show is intended to
ATntc the cutting assuncer of the
nents, it is suggested tina, a double
gled exposition. one at each end of
big ditch, would be pccunarly ap-
riate.
Established His Honor.
'eter n fight for thirty years before
ress TO establish his honor and
name, Joseph Dobson, Ken.
inn charged with descrtion from the
:, has won. Seldom in the annals of
,glslation has so persistent an eff
\ been made to correct a man IS mill
y record. Hundreds Of applications
3nade, granted CT turned down in a
We session, and forgotten. Dobson.
fyer, kept up his fight for haIf n
lme in the face of ever recurring
/st. Representative Thomas az
iucky became interested in the sim
case, examined the record himself
decided that an Injustice had been
his. fellow citizen. He at once
ped into the fight himself and in
{ppea on the floor of the house, he
giaded the body into agreeing TO n
ure completely viudicating Dobson
ne old charge.
= Using Stored Energy.
colorado is taking leading part in
lace OF power, as IT has been so
named, . said Michael NJ. Cas-.
OF Denver. Colo, who was here re-
~. Following the first natural
v forces-falling water and pro.
eng Tind-came the age of steam.
mratively modern, in which the
y 'htion OF the stored energy in fuel