Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-05
Probabilities Are That Stewart
Will be Selected as West
ern Terminus.
REVENUES ARE ADEQUATE
Committees of shippers and Nanurac.
turcrs Intend To Fight Proposed
Increase In Railroad Rates

| Chicago, Aug I'D. ID. Mann, one Of
tho builders OF the Canadian Northern
railway system, will reach Chicago soon
from Stewart, the new mining camp at
the head OF Portland canal the bound.
airy between Alaska and British CO.
lumbia. to make official announcement
whether Stewart will be made the Pa
| cihc coast terminus of the Canadian
| Northern lines He went to Stewart To
| personally examine numerous mining
| properties In which within a few
| months he has invested millions, and To
| which he Is now building a railroad
| The probabilities that Stewart even a
| more northerly port than Prince Ru-
| pert VIII be chosen by the Canadian
| Northern largely are dependent upon
the grade to be had in the pass from
| Bear river valley. I'm which Stewart il
| located, TO the Mass river valley. an
| unsurveyed but fertile valley to the
| east The other engineering problems
| In getting through the Rocky noun
| tains on a prairie grade to Edmonton
| have been settled. Tho building Of a
| railroad into the great fertile region
| OF the Peace river, now unpeopled ex-
| cept by fur trappors and Hudson Bay
| company factors and their families.
| long has been looked forward to i'm
Canada as epoch-making. because II
| Is known that these prairies will sup
! port large population and that coal
and iron deposits are there in huge
amounts The dykes of gold, silver
copper and galena ore which have been
opened up in the Stewart district of late
| contain huge quantities and Of corn
parativcly high values. one Of the
mines purchased by Mr.. Mann contains
| a vein over so feet In width Tho
| town has sprung into being within a
~ oF he nrfcr fnu1
| townsitc lots, which the province of
| British Columbia sold at auction
| brought $4,000 As port Stewart
has the advantage practically OF fresh
water harbor is four days nearer to
Japan than is Frisco and Is some 500
miles nearer to Halifax than is Van
couver.
BOOM IN BUTTERM1LK.
For a summer drink buttermilk. the
old fashioned beverage Of the farm, has
had a clear lead in Chicago this sum
mer Even in the beer gardens the
patrons have been calling for butter
milk and over the bars high balls ana
beer have noticeably lost In favor I"
the dairy drink II Is beginning to
worry the brewers. for II people don't
drink beer by the barrel in summer
they are not likely TO drink II at ali.
At the athletic clubs. soda counters
and hotels the demand for buttermilk
has been unprecedented. The swagger
set who go to Ravinia mark have con-
sumed so much Of IL that frequently
cans Of Il have to be rushed to the
park In automobiles. whether the
doubts about the wholosOmcuCss Of
soda water have had effect or not II Is
certain that its gain In total sales has
not compared with that by-nroduct or
the churn. However, much Of the city
buttermllk never sees a churn but II Is
manufactured from unskimmed milk by
use Of Tactic bacilli tablets. Some en-
thusiastic scientists have pointed out
that the best summer drink Is butter
milk n pure and cool. that Is cooling
instead Of heating liRe alcoholic bever-
opes oven beer And II there has been
any one thing universally sought by
millions in tho middle west this sum-
mer IL was some easy way to keep or
get cool.
WAR ON RATE INCREASE.
Proof that railroad revenues are al
ready adequate without the advances
OF rates proposed will bo submitted in
detail by the committees OF shippers
and manufacturers which have de-
clared war upon the rate increases.
The decision at Chicago conferences TO
attack the railroads on the tundamen-
tai point. the suffiCiency or revenue .
promises to disclose some facts re-
eardine railroad profits that argue for
sweeping reductions instead OF the
drastic advances which rail executives
are after Expert accountants Will be
| employed to go In great detail INTO
the bookkeeping and finance or tne
roads, the result OF which VIII nc 10
mako puhiic the actual earnings IN
stead Of totals designed for publica-
ton The general plan OF campaign OF
the shippers was decided upon nj
conference Of men from 10 scattered
cities including Minneapolis, 81.
cago. cincinnati. Rockford. Columbus,
indianapolis, Pittsburg, Bufalo and
DAYTON Sweeping advances or rates
I'm any section OF the country until
the interstate commerce commission
has passed on their reasonableness Will
be opposed. The case VIII be laid be-
fore the commission by n committee
OF seven, of which #. n. Montgom-
erv of the international Harvester
company IL chairman. The three IN
special charge for the west VIII ne
p J. McVann Of Omaha, w. =
Trickett Of Minneapolis, and n. O.
Wilson Of Kansas City. For the cast
the case will be particularly In charge
Of J. G. Lincoln Of st. Louis, III. c.
Barlow Of Chicago and +. II. william
son Of Cincinnati
THE ORIGINAL JOKESMlTHS.
There are only 20 bonaflde original
anecdotes in all literature including
the congressional record-count them,
25-according to one Of the speakers at
tho Methodist Episcopal conference
near Chicago, Rev. DIR. William Maca-
fee He made the sweeping allegation
against after dinner orators and joke
smiths that all Of their best EFFORTS
were chestnuts They may get on one
that seems brand new and a dandy
to them but DR.. Macabee maintains
that a painstaking search VIII prove
that Luretius or some one OF the
other Greeks had the same idca
working centuries ago. There Is Moth
ing new under the SUM- he sara
''T'he common stories that we pass are
centuries old. There are not more
than 2b good original anecdotes ana
these according to DcQuincy. can
nearly all be traced 10 the Greeks The
wise and witty aphorisms OF Chester
field. Disraeli. maker OF phrases.