The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-19

ne uses IN ordinary conversation, much
TO the amusement Of the members. In
cldentallY Foster is an enthusiastic fol
lower of sports. in which pursuit he
does not differ from members of con-
gress.
Attended King s Funeral
81 happened to be ip London at the
time of the funeral of King Edward. /"
said Isaac Newell Powell of Denver,
Colo, "and shall never forget the
grandeur of The solemn pagcants and
ceremonies, a part of which | was for
tunatc enough TO witness. The English
people love and veneration for the
dead monarch was touching. and il pre-
sented food for thought to one coming
from the greatest republic on earth
Many in this country have thought the
newspaper accounts Of the solemn grief
of the British people for Edward IS end
was exaggerated, but such was not the
case by any means. One thing / could
not help noticing before | left England
and that was the sort Of panic that in
vaded the colony of rich Americans af-
ter the demise of Edward OF course, |
could not see this myself at first hand
not being fortunate enough 10 be one
OF the class Of wealthy persons | refer
TO; but ! learned enough around the
fashionable hotels and in some of the
leading clubs TO which | frequently was
a visitor to know that the word panic
but mildly described the condition
OF those who aspire to royal recognition
merely on the strength Of the fatness
OF their bank accounts. It is absolutely
true that the new queen viii not grant
the favors of the court TO the merely
rich: something besides wealth must 90
with their claims to royal favor. But
what IS worse still for these anglIczed
Americans is that the queen does not
hike Americans anyway OF course the
bulk OF us over here will bear tins bur
den with pIous fortitude, but il is
terribly hard blow to onr brothers and
sisters who left our shores TO bow to the
royalty and nobility of foreign ma
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Lakes Of Mountain Region.
George S. Myers of Salt Lake City.
Utah, in speaking of the lakes OF his
country, said that in the great basin
between the Rockies and the Sierra Ne;
vadas lie the ghosts of many dead
lakes. ''Rivers still flow down to the
dry edges and are licked up by evap-
oratlon and the chinook winds. OF all
The lakes that once lay there, only Salt
lake, Tahoe and Bear lake are left. The
Southern Pacific rolls for l65 miles
across the bed of what was once Lake
Lahontan. and passengers gazing idly
from the windows may see the terraces
and wrinkles in the crust of the fossil
lake which nature destroyed ages ago.
90 A Kin to these ghost lakes are the
lost rivers of the southwest.' contin-
ued Mr.. Myers. Rivers that flow with
all the swiftness and clenrness of other
streams nearby, then disappear into the
earth as mysterlously as If they were
spirit streams. In the valley of the
Rio Grande there are many little riv~
ers of this kind Just south of Santa
Fe is the River Hondo, which flows
broad and deep for many miles, then
suddenly spreads out over sandy plain
and disappears. A few hundred feet
from where it goes out of sight there is
only sand, as dry as dust itself. Some
of these streams end in tiny brackish
lakes, hut most of them disappear In
the sand beds. On the coast of Mexico
there are clear water streams that dis
charge into the gulf from underground
channels many feet below the level of
The sea. thought to be the same waters
that disappear farther up in the
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