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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12
BUSINESS AND TRADE.

The clear. fine weather we have had
for some DAYS past has had an import
ant influence in the revival Of trade.
1t has stimulated the bank clearances
which have for so many weeks uni
formly shown substantial percentages
of increase over the clearipgs of the
week before. This increase for the
past week compared with the CORE
spending week last year, amounts TO
$50 per cent.
The better weather mas given an im'
pulse to retail trade. Merchants re-
port increased business in nearly all
lines Department stores report con.
siderable increases as compared with
last year, Collections remain good, and
the optimistic tone is stronger,
The good weather brought improve
ment in the realty market, a notable
feature being the purchases of home
sites by outsiders, who recognize in
them both opportunities for prospective
homes and good investments. Much OF
the present activity in realty is due to
the fact that there probably was never
in Salt Lake City more advantage
the city and its immediate surround"
ings than now.
Building activity took on greater en-
erpy during the week. The promise is
that the Walker skyscraper will be in
occupancy by November lst next The
Of IL Ia, oI
annex was doubled. with view of
completing IT by July lst. the greater
portion Of the supper stories to be dc
Iivered to the management June 18th.
The Salt Lake Costumiug Company has
decided to build a business house OF
four stories and a basement on Third
South street Just east of state, to cost
approximately 100000. The f. Auer.
bach & Bro. and the kcith-O 'Bricn
store buildings at State and Third
South streets are progressing satisfac.
torily.
Rapid progress has been made on the
addition TO the Jordan River Power
plant of the Utah Light & Railway
Company. the piles for the foundation
having all been driven and the con
crete now being laid.
Builders arc impatient TO get on with
the new high school building and the
state capitol. as well as The Cuivcr.
sity Administration building. Those
IN charge OF The prciiminaricS will push
these along a. rapidly as possible, 50
that actual construction work can be.
Gin as soon as practicable.
IN the railroad world. the Western
Pacific announces rates 10 tho West 10
conventions to be held IN salt Lake
City Rails are being laid on the Ophir
branch on the salt Lake Route. I h.
promotion of Joseph H. Young to the
Hill railroad system and the success
sion Of 5 ". Eccies TO the manage
mcnt of the Guggenhcim interests in
Alaska. were both announced during
the week.
A "See Utah First excursion 10
Brigham City. Logan. and Cache Val
ley points is announced for Nav 18th.
The domestic stocks of copper on
Nav lst. as shown by the report for
April of the American Copper Produc-
ers Association. stood at 65,064 ,029
pounds. an increase of 2,6D6,i72 pounds
during the month. The total domestic
deliveries aud exports for April
reached 22,766,172 pounds, production
amounting to i25, ,i6i .644 pounds. The
report was very favorablv received by
the copper industry, aud follow ing its
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

suppose that President Taft had car.
RED MARYLAND by close majority of 3
in total OF l29. and that small ma.
lorItv had bound the whole sixteen
delegates from that State TO vote for
Taft. (as the reverse is the case in ia.
vor OF Roosevelt.) what A racket we
should have heard about political
crooLsi''
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

Tire attack or the Commerce Court
may be good way TO get rid Of Judge
Archibald, but il is a roundabout, indi.
rect way The court, it must be ad-
mitted, has not shown much reason
for its existence in its contests with
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

Another coal strike is reported as
threatening in Wales and England. the
explanation being that the minimum
wage law has broken down The local
board, il seems. found it unworkable.
Another strike would be fright
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

One of the presiding officers AT a
Roosevelt rally IN Maryland introduced
the Colonel TO that audience as "thc
greatest human being that ever trod
this earth. The next freak adulator
will probably leave out the ''human. =
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

An Indiana woman is suing for di.
Voree because her husband refused to
get her set of new teeth but offered
her an old set of his own instead What
= JOY it must he for Il woman to live
with Il man like that
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

Southern California fruit growers are
working on a scheme Of standsrdiza.
ton for fruit shipments. An excellent
idea. and one which will give the ship.
pcrs an equal chance. and the buyers
equal treatment.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

The Astor will was based on the As
tor tradition that the solidarity OF the
Astor fortune must be kept intact. And
as 1T IS composed more largely of real
estate than any other great fortune IL
Is easier to keep together
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

New Orleans is certainly afflicted;
and the whole lower Mississippi region
Is in condition of distress. Relief is
being vigorously extended by the Gov
ernmcnt with its rescue and lis ra
tlons, as is proper; and it is to be hoped
that this relief will not cease as long
ne there is need
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

The Harvester trust is said to have
made s20.000,0oO profit in single
wear. If so, it is safe to say that that
wear was also n mighty profitable one
for the farmers.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

Senator Dixon, who is Col Roose.
Welt manager, insists that pretty
much everybody is liar, and that the
only ones who never lie are Gus A
ticklish platform that, everything CON
Sidercd
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

King Victor is to make Mr.. Car.
negie a Count on account of the estab.
lishment of a Carnegie nero fund in
Italy. a fair recognition as kingly IA.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING. NAY H. 1912.

publication at the first of the week
came reports of the metal selling for
10 TO l6is cents q pound.
Utah mining men again are urged IN
a letter from Secretary Callbreath, OF
the American Mining Congress, to or
gaDize for the purpose Of protecting
their interests at Washington. Mr.. Call
breath explains that should the load
zinc tariff be left undisturbed by the
present session of Congress, still
harder struggle will be on during tho
coming session. Official Washington
seems determined to find out whether
or not the present tariff schedule Is
necessary. and il is only by statistics
on the cost OF production in Utah that
the lead aud zinc miners eau hope to
convince the tariff makers that protec
tion is required.
Utah and the country generally have
passed through An extremely dull week
in mining, a condition reelected in the
action of the mining share markets
East and West. The local market has
been unusually quiet. and the situation
was not helped by the cave-in at the
Iron Blossom property which bids fair
to embarrass ore shipments for an in.
definite period.
The Salt Lake Exchange is in need
Of new attractions, and the institution
has determined TO inaugurate an un-
listed division within which will be in
cluded many of the feature Nevada
gold and silver stocks for daily quota
tions.
Metal conditions are practically un-
changed.
There is no change in the Murray
smelling strike. The ores of the Amer.
lean Smelling & Refining company are
being diverted to other plants in Utah
and Colorado. Employees Of other
smelters of the valley seem satisfied
with their present wages, and no indi'
cation Of the Murray strike spreading
is as yet seen.
The general commercial agencies of
the country announce that the trade
movement continues on satisfactory
scale, the measurement of volume being
favorable. Rains and floods have in
terfered with Wholesale and retail dis
tribution, but these continue large
The production of iron and steel con
tinues great, the month of April reach
ing point in excess Of the preceding
high total. Continued heavy buying by
the railroads is noted, and prices show
increased strength.
The crop reports made during the
week show an inferior outlook for win
ter wheat. but the ground can still be
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

the organ lied; so. what is the use OF
undertaking to follow up its repeated
fakerics and falsehoods' Why does il
rant and bluster. and call on others to
nroyc IL a liar7
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

Roosevelt failed to carry his home
State. Let us hope that President
Taft will have better luck with his.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

The biggest and most arbitrary boss
OF all is the man who is doing the most
bowling against ''thc BOSSES
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

both of these classes of delegates as
really for tho President
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

1t seems a little late in the season
for the cool tang TO linger in the air.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
A sEFoeeEp MORAL SENSE.

A prolific source Of many millions of
bad eggs that get through to the CON
sumner and upset his stomach at break
fast is indicated in a case which was
brought to the writer's attention not
long ago. The individual in question
lives on a farm, and the merchants in
the town near which she lives have
noticed that her big flock of hens seem
to quit laying from May until Octo-
Der, but from that time on during the
winter shell eggs out at a great rate
when the prevailing prices are twice
or more what they were during the
summer months. These eggs are mar.
keted In lots Of six or seven dozen at
q time every other day, but never two
baskets to the same grocer in success
sion. 1t Is the consensus Of opinion
on the part of the grOcers who get
these eggs that she is by all odds the
worst offender against the pure food
law which prohibits the marketing of
stale eggs hat there is in the territory
tributary to the town.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
ICE THIN.

Individuals or companies that have
apples in storage would do well to
keep close track of the markets and
not be led 10 hold their stocks too long
for a high price. Prices which have
prevailed on retail markets for some
weeks past have been 50 high as to
greatly reduce consumption of this
fruit. The result of this situation is
that the total supply Of apples avail
able Is fast approaching the point
where they will be adequate to meet
consumptive demands. 1t follows from
this inevitably that price tendencies
will be downward and not upward
whenever the point mentioned is reach
ed. Should present supplies be kept
In storage for several months longer
the law Of supply and demand would
in all probability tend to operate more
vigorously and prices would tend to
slump more violently. In view Of the
above 1t would be far better to market
apples in the very near future at good
prices than to hold them several
months and encounter a serious slump
in prices at a time when stock on
hand exceeded the demand.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
Gems of Minstrelsy.

I~nterlocutor - Good evening. Mr..
Bones!
Bones-Good evening! Why Ia the
letter "F' like a million dollars to me7
II give it up. Why is the letter FL
like a million dollars to your"
ut isn't in reach. Say, why do peo-
pie wear shoes on their feetF'
why shouldn't theyT'
1.-The stores always have them on
hand"
I~nterlocutor Good evening, Mr..
Tambo! How are you feeling tonightf
Tambo-Like a picturesque old flow
er covered well curb.
you're quite poetical tonight. But
what do you mean?"
Pretty well. My brother Bill al
ways insists on buying people drinks"
Eyes; I've noticed that"
"The other day he built a henhouse
and put the nests away up near the
roof"
"Why did he do thatT'
"He wanted to set 'em up"
I%nterlocutor - Mr.. Archibald High
note, our peerless tenor, will sing that
pathetic ballad, HE Couldn't Chew To-
bacco, For His Teeth Were Out OF
Whack."-New York Telegraph.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
MUSINGS of an Old Sport.

Some of us expect opportunity to
bust In with a jimmy.
We've seen many an purchased"
man win on his nerve.
The profit that we gather by ex-
perience may be only paper profit, but
it's the solid asset.
It's odd how determinedly some Of
us condone our faults and defend our
vices.
There are times when we'd honestly
prefer to be chawed by the man whose
bark is worse than his bite"
When you have to resort to that "a
mans a man for a that quotation
you're apologiZing.
Our idea Of malt extract is the silly
tears we shed when we reach the fool
stage of self sympathy.
The man who ''can take a drink or
let it alone usually sports those lam
brequin effects at the bottom of the
pantaloons.-New York Evening World
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
Little Farm Hints.

More farm machinery of all kinds is
put out Of condition each year by neg
lect than is injured by work.
If you are going to leave hay in the
stack over winter 1t will be a good
plan to dress down the stack with q
rake and cover It with tarpaulins.
These will pay for themselves In a
single
Sorrel Is an indication Of acidity in
the soil. To remedy this apply In the
fall a liberal 500 to 600 pounds Of ba-
sic Stag to the acre. This will keep
down the sorrel and greatly improve
the fattening and milk producing quail
tiles Of the pasture.
II you will coil rope to the left twice
and then take the end AMI pass Il
down through the coil AM then coil It
once to the right you viii probably
take the twist out. This is the method
used by an agent who has handled and
sold rope for a great many years.
Never fasten fencing wire directly
to growing trees. IL you do in q few
years the wire will have become I'm
bedded In the tree and do II perma-
nent injury. When you wish to use a
tree for this purpose spike a strip of
sound board securely to the tree and
fasten the wire to that.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
HOME SUPPLY OF ICE.

In putting up the home supply Of ice
there is no need Of an elaborate struc-
ture. However, two or three general
principles should be observed. In the
first place, the building intended for
storage purposes should be so situated
that there will be good drainage. An
other point to keep in mind in packing
Is to allow about fifteen inches space
between the ice, as 1t is piled, and the
walls. Other things being equal, the
Ice will keep better the larger the
pieces are. For commercial use it is
rarely cut until it has attained a thick
ness of twelve to fourteen inches,
while for refrigerator cars it Is often
twenty inches. or material for use In
the packing sawdust gives best results,
but where this is not available chaff,
hay cut short or even shredded corn
fodder will answer the purpose. The
space above the ice should be kept well
ventilated. F2~srSss1 ~"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
PHEASANT PROPAGATION.

Much success has attended the eff
forts to introduce the Chinese or Mon
golian pheasant In southern and west
ern states, in particular on the Pacific
slope, where the climate is greatly
modified by to the ocean
Within the new year several hundred
pairs Of the common quail or Bob
White are to be shipped from Oklaho-
ma to western Oregon, where an at
tempt will be made to propagate them.
Climatic conditions will be favorable,
the birds are naturally hardy, and
there would seem to be no good reason
why they ought not to multiply rap
idly.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
4 arm ano
Garden
GETTING YOUR OWN GOATS.
Profitable Operation When There 10
Brush Land to Be Cleared.

VHeu tUeT0 70
Brush Land to Be Cleared.
IL one has a field Of brush land
which he wants TO clear there is no
other stock that brings so large re-
turns with SO little care and expense
as Angora goats. For the homestead
er in the mountains goats are the best
kind Of stock to keep. They are hardy
animals and require little care.
Last year l took up some land In the
Cascade mountains hear the Califor-
MIA line, says a correspondent Of the
Country Gentleman. Last spring
bought about ninety head Of the best
herd in the neighborhood, about a week
before kidding time. This Is when IT
pays to take the best care of the goats.
Unlike a sheep, a goat does not take her
young with her, but hides II In the
brush in the same way that q doe
hides her fawn. When kidding time Is
over the goats give very little trou-
BILE. The kids are left In the corral
to play and sleep until their mothers
come home at night. A flock Of sheep
Of the same size would have to be
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
PLANT IMPORTATION.

So inadequate are the federal laws
governing the importation Of horticul-
tural products in this country that
practically every country in the world
that has diseased plants, shrubs or
trees which cannot be marketed at
home can send them here. Here would
seem to be an opening for some am
bilious statesman who wants to pro-
mote his own political welfare and
really serve his country to make a
mark for himself. The existing sit
uation is an insult and outrage on
American horticultural interests, and
there is urgent need that it should be
righted at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
Bic cornstalks Have Value.

Among the uses to which large corn
stalks car be put is to employ them
as substitutes for poles for any kind
of twining plants, useful or ornamen-
tai. 1t is not difficult to select a
wagon load Of stalks ranging from
eight to eleven or twelve feet in
length and very firm texture, with an
average diameter of nearly three
inches at the base. After the leaves
are removed the stalks may BIO tied
into bundles Of a dozen each and piled
in some dry place to winter. If kept
under shelter they retain their bright
gloss and pale golden color and are
as beautiful as bamboo.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
QUITE UNDERSTOOD.
How Two Worms Preserved Their SELF
Respect.

How Two Worms Preserved Their Self
Respect.
II was early in the morning. The
park was almost deserted. Hen
peek and Meekhen met.
'Sir. !ou are a scoundrel." said
Meekhen.
Henpeck made no reply.
'Sir. you are an Insignificant image
Of a monkey continued Meekhen.
Then he rweaked Henpeck's nose.
Henpeck was still silent.
"You are a crawling worm, sir, and
for two pins 1 would tear you asun-
der!!" With these words Meekhen
took Henpeck by the right and left
whiskers and pulled in opposite direc-
tons until he grinned like a gargoyle.
"Stop" cried a Mortified spectator of
the ~unprovoked assault. II will not
stand by and see a fellow creature
used thus. Stop, sir, before l knock
you down."
Meekhen gave Henpeck a glance of
whitening contempt and walked away
jauntily.
Henpeck turned to his preserver and
spoke. 'Sir, you must not interfere"
he said meekly. ALLOW me to ex-
plain. The gentleman who has just
passed me is Mr.. Meekhen, the only
friend l have in all the world. We
meet here at this time every morning
as we go to business. Mrs. Meekhen
has doubtless been particularly trying
this morning, That is why he vents
his wrath upon me-. / do the same
to him when Mrs. Henpeck is out of
sorts. It's a little arrangement that
exists between us, enabling US to re-
tain our self respect. Without 1t we
should cease to be men. But you
meant well, sir. and I thank you.
Good morning"
And Henpeck moved away slowly
Tit-Bits,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22

The first sight of Sheba's queen
threw King solomon into raptures
"Divine!" he murmured.
But before he committed himself de-
fnitely he caused his secret service
men to do some investigating.
look" directed his majesty, lat the
queens throne-not her best throne.
but the throne she uses every day.
Especially the hooks and crannies-let
no nook or Granny escape YOU"
The secret service men did even as
they were hidden and came back to
the king.
"Under the arm Of the throne this!'
they succinctly reported, holding up a
wad Of gum. Solomon's face fell.
Human he sighed.-Puck.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
FEED THE BIRDS.

During these days Of deep SHOWS in
northern ATTITUDES those who appreci-
ate the service rendered by the birds
that have the hardihood to spend the
winter, or a part of it, in the north can
do them a kindly turn by putting out
food for them. The birds will eat por-
tions of scraps from the table and in
some cases wheat or cracked corn, but
there seems to be nothing that they
relish more than a piece Of beef suet.
This can be placed On a shelf or hung
securely In a tree out OF the snow, and
the birds can have access to It when
aver they like.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22

His Method,

New Parson lat rehearsal, having no.
ticed that the double bass player uses
his left hand simply to support the In
st%rument)-I see you don't use your I'M
gers when you play, John.
John-Noa, sir; We see there be some
as twiddles their fingers when they
play, an there be some as don't, an l
be one o. they that don't.-Punch.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-22
TRI PURvEY0R or CHEER.

L hummed "a snatch OF a army song
lac used & know, an 1t passed along
mn To the never do well In the village
square.
Who pursed his lips on the catchin' air
An whistled 1t far L the tinsmith's door,
A man who never had sung before.
He raised his mallet an paused again
An called the words OF the oil refrain
He used 4 know, an he sung an sung
Till all Of his pots an his kittles rung
In harmony, an the smith said: 'Whewl.
Now what on airth are We comm tew
When he cute loose?' An he blowed his
fire,
An, raisin' the pitch up high an higher,
He sung with all of his lusty might.
Though neither the words nor the tune
was right.
The merchant passed, an he caught the
tune
An TUX II home for his wife L Groom
Whilst cookin over the stove as hot
AS Tophet, an cheered her, as like as not.
1t drifted out o. the door. 1t did,
An struck on the ears Of a invulid
That longed for il, an l low II done
More good than Pillbox's medicun.
The bus driver harked t the liltin', sweet
Refrain an peddled it down the street
TIL every one whistled II, old an young,
An them as couldn't to whistle sung.
1t seemed that the leaves in the naples
stirred.
An even the s~torekeeper's kitten purred.
In yender field where the burrows turned
Their bumped backs up { the sun that
burned
The Teller who'd started the army tune
Set down t'-eat in the heat OF noon.
He thought OF his work an his heapin'
woes
An faulted Providence, ! suppose,
Like most men do, till he heard that song
A naybor sung as he passed along.
"But look" he said. with a happy grin,
What a world OF song we are Twin in!'
John ID. Wells in Buffalo News.