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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-27

roughness of the canyon leading down
TO East Canyon creek.
Three miles over the hills brought
him farther up that stream, at point
known as the mouth Of Tavlor creek.
The present road, instead OF following
the old pioneer trail over tine hills,
passes around the point Of hills the
pioneer passed over, and strikes East
Canyon creek some distance below the
mouth OF Taylor S creek. From this
point of the route the great Davis and
Weber county irrigation reservoir is
in full view, and another side diverg-
ence from the triangle route of half an
hour auto driving will bring the tourist
10 one of the most wonderful little
canyons in the west being a break in
mountain, which rises several hun
dred feet upon each side. - is Orson
Pratt's field note description OF IT, Ii
should be added that the cliffs, which
form its almost perpendicular sides. are
highly colored, looking like red. yellow
and varlouslY shaded ochers, and these
in high contrast 10 the dark pines ana
other greenery of the "break in the
mountain create most charming
pleasure to the sense Of sight. while
the gorge itself suggests the forces
that nature uses as hands TO fashion
her works.
We BASS up East Canyon creek eight
miles. leaving Colonel Nephi CLAYTON g
hospitable ranch on the left. In pass.
ing, and parenthetically, it NAV be said
that East Canyon creek is one of the
pest trout streams in Utah. After eight
miles We are at the mouth of Little
Emigration canyon and begin our four
mile tourney up its parklike slope. The
assent is very gentle, and brings ug 10
the summit of Big mountain. where n
scene OF unsurpassed prandenr-bor
hone-onrsts upon our yiew-the point
Wnere, from the pioneer trail. the 6rgt
glimpse OF the Salt Lake valley Is Oh.
tanned From that eyric, 5000 feet
above sea level,' writes Cautain Pn,.
ton in his "City Of the Saints,i-1sSo
the weary pilgrim first sights his
shrine; the object Of his long wander
lngi5, hardships and perils, the ham,
'ailey ftL,, OF the Great Salt Lake
ne western horizon. when visible is
uoundea oy p broken wall of light blue
I.ouii ,i...h AIMS, tne Oauirrh range. whose
lr. noa 'nerhinost binf bnttresses the south.
hank sinks in stems ana tooso.e1 c.u
river basin, yellow with tbn .r,,l;.
Eoiaeh corn, and somewhat mini, ,,;,L
,s earpetlng o. heatblike moss In Nc
L!iI. ouha semi-circular syeen ~
n ana an inverted nrcb oF rooty
S'I shnts out all but n few snans 30
ths valley. These beigb.s 1t
WIN n shaggy forest I'm sor,c LUZ Luz
3l"es green. IN others OF b-ovvr; X -
~ otuers OF the lightest ash color bosoS
upoh ruddy soil; while a few siI~o-r
roci-,. s low stiIl streak the bare grav
IL hanks or the loftiest peak ,,
may stop an hour-and 7
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-27

ade and weed. grown patches Of garden,
down the east shore of the lake through
what is now Davis county, crossing the
Jordan, then called the Utah Outlet,
TO Black Rock; thence around the south
end Of the lake and northwesterly to
the California road down the Humboldt
river.
The Donuer- Reed company of eighty
seven persons-thirty-si OF whom were
able bodied men, twenty-one women,
thirty children, FIVE being infants
turned southwark from Hastings S tral
AZ the point where the village Of Hen
efer now stands, and sought out the
route along what is now called Little
Emigration canyon, up East Canyon
creek. over Big and Little mountain.
into Emigration canyon; thence down
into Salt Lake valley, where they
camped a week on the Utah Outlet.
From this point the Donuer Reed com
pany followed Hastings s trail, 10 De
overtaken by the fierce snowstorms in
the Sierras, in which the terrible fate
overlook them that forms one OF the
most gruesome chapters in western his
tory-one half of their number per.
ished OF starvation.
Il was O year later that Orson Pratt
lead his advanced company Of Mormon
pioneers over the Donner Reed trail 70
the mouth or Emigration canyon
thence 10 the site of Salt Lake City;
being able 70 make that last stretch OF
the celebrated pioneer journey in about
four days. because the Donner- Reed
company the wear before took four
weeks in searching out the possible
passes and in working the roadway over
the more difficult points. 1t was over
this road that the rest of the pioneer
company came day later, Brigham
Young's group arriving on the never
to-be-forgott oath of July.
A few days later the contingent of
the Mormon battalion-l40 in number
that had wintered at Pueblo, and the
COMPANY of Mississippi Saints -
numbering l00-came over the pioneer
road Later 1000 other Mormon emf
grants from Winter Quarters came over
that route arriving in September and
October. and two years later-the IA
nous year of ls49-the gold seekers on
their wsv to California, passed over
that route--from $4,000 TO 10000 OF
them. Indeed, IL was not until 1850
that there was any variations from the
pioneer route. as Farley p Pratt s
"Golden Pass Route mp the Weber;
thence via Parley's park, and down
Parley's canon. was not opened until
the fall Of 1850; and even after the
opening of this route the old pioneer
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-27
YEE FOO LUN, C. II. D., CHINESE HERB
TREATMENT CURING CHRONIC DISEASES

Nr q Pstsu.a a, Fs~ntrE,s, utah hoz
80 80 aas Elif,fes f'r 9,iEiy 'Aissa years -l,h
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couElins azIc hres;hisg saA choking ssa1G.
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tho Y-r 700 Lua chirsss Esg. Trsa,zsai -
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-27
NE roo LUN A REALITY

Yee F5e Len. c. II D. Is an ietuii psrsoa. Il
u aos a12s ASSUMED b. l. America, 10 deceive
TIE publ!e. Yes Foo LGo . Chinese eo-n aot
EDUCATED "a China. ase = Eow u salt Lake City.
He nay 9e seen IN Person a. the CAueis Herb
iartitu'e At lie South Mair, over the HirtcAman
shoe S,crs - a. Hotel Utsh. iuut he appears
81 20 nfvcrtlssmerf Nhirh you fcs q ths uo0s-
rlpcru. vhies Wa maze fron in actual photo
E-apH. though the yss Foo Luu. C II. n.
Ckinste Hero Institute has been established IN
pssver ard othfF e!tirr '5r uaay y-aru the Salt
Lake ersaeh has Ncsn opened 10 the pubuc since
NaT. 1914 However. th> ruccsaI attained ~ that
tine has pa fsnafkab!s
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-27
BLEssI%o 70 THE SICK.

zee Foo Lu5. c. Il D. Cz!aess hesbs sgs
blessing 70 ;so sick They a-s 30 harmless tha'
even child oAn take them. You may have tricd
coctou ard medicines Or many other me;ho5f
may have faisd-svsa HOMO doctoys might have
told you thst Jour vas incuTabla that
ehanrs OF climate or operation was your only
cope Some toctorN nay have tsid ihty could
care. but eid not 90 So Nine out Of
vho have taken ny herbs alG have been cured
hsa inst tri,d do-toTa al. many other means 20
regain health s-d .GMeG.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-27

Original Chinese heroalist and founder
OF the Chinese Her5 Institute, Denver.
MA herb treatment curing the sick. hy
thousands salt Lake Branch. iis South
Main street, upatair. over Eirschran
shoe store. Phone Wakatch 6s3O. Spe-
cial appointments az Ho.ci Utar. Hours:
Daily, a. m. 20 .. M. Sunday. 10 n. m.
20 3 .. m; evening. 20 o'riock.
Tncuttnts tgtteTirr from catarfh hraurhir
treltls, ttTcat truzs's. ll-E t-51sIr chroa.-
e11Eh. tutsrrui11lt o. cu1r1frptlg1. arftr1s EsT
'rvsr. fuhitf-h stomach tr1stif l-sizl-tlzn. c-a-
ttipatt1z torplt lrsr. Ea1.-if!F rfics. tIErrso~a
rtfzia. Arsrt tisetsr. rff1 disease s-fs-a sort
lla female f-rltt-T rr-r1=F-~fr l-r1-r.r
e1TtitT- ki-zsy rcahs. tittfsr 'ro1t,e Ium-
btgo. hrtEst'a ttes1s. tittrfrr fsr.-n.t1-. rs,I-
rairia s-ssaT. tiEsir-t1. heatt-se rs-v1-- estr-
~ O. -rl t-t many ~fhfr rrfori- rLtsta~s have
eera rer-rre- 70 erElih n-t ArFrl-frs vithr-t
t5if1zola Gr1Es. o. ths kr!fe bT t1s Trp Fo8
Lgz. G. II. D. CEf1ere Here Tfstf-C1-
Co,rziiaiirs free a. tEs zee Fro iun C. D
chirss- HsTa !r1tlfu-s "a s5gfa Nair uns:airs
- p-sss-tirE al as.ics.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-27
wbe, voY feel lazy. out

Mheh WI ! yy0o5 yOS ' geai IN tbs -
can charge IL 20 q to'psa -, - NJ
allowed the system to III
puTities , HeTbiDe .ll, salsiI Ii,si. ~
produced by an inaet,,ss ~ o.,, ~ o.
tbens that organ, ci Il ~
condition. Price oVs;, sS;,rha M;
Johnson, Drugs, "LnS lee 70
yntors' : 1tTs% Five (5) cooo
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-27
Daniels Here Thuna''

Josephus Daniels, seeIe',
navy, will be a SAT- Lans al
few hours next THURSDAY. -.
rive before noon and WIZ y 4,
east in the afternoon o''
& Rio Grande.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-27

Yee Foo Lun, c. n. O.. In American
clothing which he nov wears daily In
the Institute. Note the earnest expires
Aion % tne face. denotlro sincerity and
studiousnesa. He speaks English nu-
emily, No difficulty In understand ina
him.
Wee Foo Lun, c. ~. D. Is post.
graduate of tire Imperial College % Medi-
cine Of PeSin, China. Besides ne haa
made special STUDY In fcreign coun.
tries OF many of the nos; serious dis
eases which are considered difficult 20
cure BY al leading physicians of tire
world. IN California ard other places he
stUcied medicine ard many specIai
courses 20 Inform himself of :he Anaert.
car peeulisrities ard their different all
r1ents.s
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-27

road continued TO be used for some
wears.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-27

~, HEN the Utah legislature az
Mi its last session passed The law
wv declaring the old Mormon pio-
neer trail into this valley
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-08-07
THE LOCAL FIELD
Brief happenings of Interest Concerning People and Events
in and About Sank Centre.
gEEEEa.assgsssa OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

Mrs. Josiah Wood Was a. Grey Eagle
visitor Friday. :,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe. Kusba Jr visited
with friends in MeIrOse Sunday.
Miss Lottie Brant arrived Tuesday
for few days visit with her mother.
Miss. Clara Carr returned Thursday
of last week from a visit with friends
in MINNEAPOLIS.
Miss Nettie SINNERS who has been
sick the past week with the mumps
is slowly recovering.
Mr. and Mrs. John Larson of this
city are the proud parents of a fine
baby boy born on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Sheedy of Lit
tie Falls visited at the home of Mr..
and James Maloney the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Cole and chill
dren returned Friday from a ten days
visit with relatives in Alexandria and
Evansville.
DR.. Rich and family who have been
enjoying an outing at their summer
cottage at Cedar Lake broke camp
and returned home Saturday.
Mrs, Fannie French Morse, Super
intendent of the Girls Home School.
returned from her Pacific Coast trip
on Saturday, and on Monday left for
the cities to attend meeting of the
State Board, returning Tuesday eve
ming.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-08-07

Melons on ice at Bishops. ADV.
Ed. Myerkirk of Willard is the
guest Of Ross Shaw this week.
Mrs. II. A. Deters left Saturday for
visit with relatives in the twin
cities.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover who have been
absent for some weeks returned home
Tuesday.
Mrs. Judith Elliott left Tuesday for
Lake Milo Wisconsin to visit her
daughter.
Mrs. Ed. Jasperd and family left
Saturday for visit with friends in.
Minneapolis.
Be it ever SO assumptions" there s
no place like-The Stearns Co. Fair.
Sept. II, II, Ii.
Miss Loretta Maloney who attended
summer school at ST.. Cloud returned
home Tuesday.
Our line of guns and ammunition
of all kinds is very complete. Hill
lerud & Co. adv
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank MyOtt left
Monday for visit with friends and
relatives in Little Falls.
Mankato Commercial College. Man.
kato, Mimi, is in session the entire
year. Now is the time to enter. adv.
One of the old landmarks. the
frame building next to Dahlem's
grocery store on Third street, is being
raZed this week. The Herald has not
learned what sort of a structure will
take its place.
Jesse Rose, formerly with George
Butler, has opened new barber shop
on Third Street in the building
formerly occupied by Ed. Evans.
Jess is first class tonsorial artist,
and will, no doubt, secure a fair
share of the public patronage. His
card appears in this weeks Herald.
Mrs. Augusta Scherffius and son
L. w. of Miles City, Mont, spent
the latter part of last week with old
friends in Sank Centre. Mrs. Scher.
t1ius came here from Iowa Falls, Iowa,
where she had spent some weeks visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. E. A. West
bury. The family moved from Sank
Centre about five years ago.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-08-07

H. 5. Halverson, Mrs. W. +. Sand
erson and guest, spent Sunday a.
GlenW O0d
A. II. Grover and family returned
Tuesday evening from a months visit
with relatives and friends at Zum-
brOta. Mimi.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-08-07
Fresh Bread every morning at Bish-
ops. Adv.
Pictorial Review, big style book
for Fall has come. Fair Store. adv

L. w. Ne'"S ~ .'i'''"S an 'eu ,i'.
w
Pow Ja,ooc Watcher If s. Auuns1a
was ,Ie ,rnes4 If his narenrs and Rev
r. Arr T>rrcdav If lasr yeek
,;...o,.,Iir l.,o,- co+,,,(,o,! 49,, CIV,
dav wi, i lis family in Sank Centre
w., y Co o3
1ra.o,,, aaa D,,t1, ,,oa.
1 NV cI,ua vyadnonda,.
"" ~ '''p ~ y '
IL! our ~ cent Japan 'ed' d" g.
, ~
Henry CrandalI and wife are guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. hlr>her at their
cottage at Zig Birch Lake this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. {. Gingery and
daughter Mrs. ". EoEefs arrived IN
Sank Centre TUESDAY Tor a VISIT at
the home OF their son ana brother l..
W. Olnsefy.
Be sure and see the new front
laced corsets now, Fair Store adv
DIR. Lewis reports the arrival Of A
little son at the home of Henry Eben-
steiner. residing near Rishon,s Grove
10 miles south of Sank Centre. Nom
dav evening.
=. w c,ono,,to,a ;to a
,.,,., >,;.. ,,.,;o $500 -.
DaaIas.or N;,n uho o,o a,,,.;nr ~
o,,o ,o,.o 81 ,o.,l,o., N;u,osot. a
~a.,n n,,,o+o ,,o,,oa a,o. ,C,,oa.,.
,,;,,,,, q, -ho po1,,ar
W.T. "".e' - o0e psy 20
'"o"~eS WIN '''so. ."'uo"
""e" ~" .e "e 'es" "e
o.' W. e' "" ":s
"~ es. g." Ss.s "s's'
's"' W q w. soS
Howard Ihacker, Glenwood's pop
ular and efficient Mayor: with his
wife and two children autoed over
from Glenwood on Wednesday. They
were accompanied by Mrs. Fossen and
little son OF Yakima, washington.
The Sank Centre Civ council held
thoir reoular monthlv meetino at tho
office Of CITY Clerk Cooner Wednesday
evening with all members nresent
Tho editor of tho Herald submitted
nronosition TO publisb the nroceedinps
Of the council at a rate satisfactory to
the council and the nroceedinos were
ordered published for the balance of
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-08-07
The Winchester shot gun shells
are acknowledged to be the best.
We handle them. HiIIerud & Co.
adv

Or. and Mrs. II. L. Lamb expect to
leave Sunday morning for a week :
stay at Spring Valley and Rochester,
Mrs. Lamb will remain for a visit
"ith her parents in tile former city
while tie doctor goes on to Rochester
to attend the famous Mayo clinics for
several days. They expect to return
in about 10 days.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-26

What we call matter is made up of
molecules. Ten thousand molecules
might get into your eye and you would
not know they were there. The mole
Guile is divided into atoms. If you were
the size of an atom, you and your wife
and the whole population of Greater
New York if suddenly reduced to your
atomic size could all dance on the point
Of needle and have plenty of room for
the band.
The atom is divided into eIectrOns. The
electron is an infnitesimal fragment of
electric force. And that which we call
this universe-with its power, weight
color, light, motion, touch, taste, smell,
everything in it from the brain of
genius to the hOof of a hOg-is made up
of electrons gathered in atoms, they
gathered in molecules and the molecules
gathered in ''the mass
Millikan, of the Chicago University,
has isolated the atom, suspended atoms
in vacuum, captured them in the field
of the telescope, made them visible,
PROVED THEIR EXISTENCE. He has
measured the infnitesima! which makes
up the infinite that we call the universe.
This man has proved the constant mo-
ton of matter. He is pioneer of cos
mic knowledge. Beside this man are
working III. ]. Gale, developing import
ant new discoveries in spectroscopy-
working out problems of the compost
ton of light which reveals the universe
to us through our eyes-and ]. u. Nef,
professor of chemistry, who has mapped
out new lines of thought discovery in
organic chemistry-which is to say the
chemistry and composition of living
bodies
Plate asked, "What is truth?''
Science to-day asks, what is Iife?"
Nef is one of the thinkers working to
answer that question. He studies the
secret of consciousness, as Millikan stud
les the composition of matter.
7. c. Chamberlain and with him +. r.
Moulton are working in the geological
and genealogical field of Mathematics
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-26

child knows the name of some military muir
derer instead.
Nicholson. of Chicago University, is the man
who won the Nobel prize-an honor much
greater than any ever won on the field of battle.
This man, working in the Chicago University
for considerably less than we pay some first
class newspaper reporters, is beyond question
the greatest physcist-that is to say the great
est student of physical phenomena now living.
1t would take several newspapers as big as
this, with considerably more knowledge than
this writer possesses, to give even feeble out
line OF this MANS work.
1t was he who told the scientific world what
it did not knOw-the speed at which light trav-
els through space Upon that speed is based all
our knowledge of distance throughout the uni
verse. AS very young man, teaching his stu
dents at Annapolis, he corrected the supposed
speed of light and made every scientist his
debtor.
Besides measuring the speed of light and
thus furnishing to scientists cosmic yard
stick with which to measure distances of bill
ions of miles, Nicholson gave to the people on
this earth scientific yardstick-absoIutely in
variable, with which to correct earthly dis
tances-and cheating merchants
The French have their absolute metre which
is the basis of all decimal measurements
So many times the length of this metre gives
the distance around the earth.
certain number of cubic centimetres of
water Welgneu al certain temperature at q
certain distance above the earth gives the
French kilOgram which is the measure of
weight-thus the French measure all money
based on the weight of gold.
Having got their exact metre by spending
milons-which included the effort to measure
the earth's circumference eXactly-the French
took every precautiOn TO have their metre safe
forever so that there could be no mistake and
cheating
They have their metre made of platinum, a
precious metal that resists the action of heat
and cold This metre is supposed to represent
one forty milOnth part of the earth's crcum-
ference, and ii is kept buried forty feet under
ground in order to escape variations of tenn
perature, by the International Bureau of
Weights and Measures, at Breteuil, near Sevres,
just outside of Paris
Nicholson made all of that precaution UNI
necessary by giving to the world the exact
measurement or length of a light wave Gin
terms of a standard metre" That is to say, he
measured exactly, which any scientist may do
hereafter the length of the red radiation from
cadmium vapOr. This was an intricate proc
ess. No one had ever done ii.