The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-04

caught fire. She couldn { be saved
and he ran her ashore on the Fernan
dina bar. with shore six miles TO the
westward. When the boats were put
off it was found they would not hold
all the crew. Taking the long chance
himself, the captain jumped overheard
and swan il. That was many years
ago, Seamen still point out the decay.
ing frame of the F'ranconia and tell
now harbor pilot at Havana. When l
asked him if he had any idea of fol-
lowing his old side partner, Senator
Broward, to the United States Senate,
he laughed and said: "No politics for
me. | like n quiet life. -
Fears War With Japan.
j. c. II. Reynolds, a fruit grower,
who lives near Portland, Ore, thinks
war with Japan is only matter of
time. 81 am not an alarmist, and new.
er was he said, last night. "But |
am only saying what nine of ten think
ing men of the Pacific coast will tell
you. that we shall fight Japan before
ten years have passed.
Japan wants the Philippines, wants
Hawaii, and wants Alaska. She needs
the Philippines for her, natural overflow
there Is no such thing as race suicide
in Japan, You know-and she wants
Hawaii for very important naval base.
Alaska would be luXlry to the Japa-
nese that would put her out Of debt
in dozen years. And suppose war
does come sooner than most people
think. Japan would find the Pacific
coast practically unprotected. She
would find a feet in the Pacific that
she could dispose of in two weeks, and
It would take four months for the. At |
antic fleet to reach within striking dis
lance. Moreover, Japan can muster |
100000 veteran fighting men in 4 week. |
We have $50 600 trained soldiers, all |
old, and 1t would take six weeks TO
yet half OF them across the Rockies.
And you can bank on it that Japan
sn t going to wait until the Panama
anal is finished to start something
Quick Construction Work.
About the quickest bit of construc-
ION work IN the telephone business
hat / know about was done last spring
n Omaha. The Omaha company didn't
o it on a wager. They had to get an
n six weeks or get into all sorts of
rouble with the courts and face the
ossibility of losing their franchise. On
ccount of the big stock yards bust
ess there the franchise is very val.
able. Early in April the court order
nthorizing the construction was issued ,
nd then the fun began.
The architect drew up pencil sketches
the general plan, and these were used
or the beginning of the work The
etaIls were figured out and added ,
ter. Within two or three days more
ian month a two-story steel frame
hiding was completed. This is not so !
markable as buildings are rushed in
g cltes without exciting much com.
cnt, But The work of making the con q,
'ctlons was more important and in !
lived much more labor. Trenches had 6
be dug and conduits laid. Some of
e time it rained. very hard, and work.
en- could not be induced to stay on the
b. The trenches ran through the clay "
H., and there was danger that the rain !,
ught lot of canvas and protected
e trenches with awnings, and the men C
mt back TO work. The first connection
tween telephones was put in forty o
Us after the work started. and within
weeks after the court had issued the p
ler the complete switching equipment p
r at least thousand lines was in op- v
itlon. AS telephone exchange usual :
occupies months in building, this
1T IS regarded as remarkable one /
men who knew what it means'
Gou own Country. N
Southwestern Missouri is God IS OWE :
lntry, declared Marion Wilson Of
Joseph; Mo. "There the apples grow .
sger and redder, the horses. cows and -
lies are larger, and the men and WON sc
arc inner than In any part of old pi
ssourl, or any other part of the mid th
west, for that matter. In all the
thwest Missouri country, round ri
mt F,redrickstown, Charlestown. Iron co
untaln and in the beautiful Arcadia ~
ley, the farm lands have no mort.
yes plastered on them, with perhaps
ew exceptions. 1t was quite different ca
ty'hye years ago after the ravaees ne
the Civil war. and after Price s army IN
picked the country as dry as a ~
Ie. What he left. by mistake, the -
'iederate guerrlllas appropriated do
zen the war ended south Missouri was ha
cticalIy n waste