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1 1 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1907.
I SSe0PuKS young blood IN CONGRESS I I
f FORTY miffl 3, JUSME BACHE - , Hl&M,de
I " ! 1 Xfl -
i Congress has got a new baby. T-Hs
name is Harry B. Wolf, and lio Is only
27 years of ago. Ho Is a lawyer by pro
fession, a Democrat In politics, and halls
from the city of Baltimore. It Is par
f cularly noticeable Utat tho percentage
of youth In tho now congress la much
mora than ordinarily high. Talcing till
of the now members together, they aver
ago considerably leas than 40 years of
ago. It la a great Influx of young: blood
that has poured Into tho national legis
lature. Naturally tho rnoBt interesting of the
' new members of the house la Richmond
Pearson Hobaon of Greensboio, Ala., tho
horo of tho Morrlmac. He describes hlm
eclf In the Congressional Directory, Just
out, oa "tenth In descent from Elder
Brewster of the Mayflower," showing that
he Is bo old an American an to he almost
if?L aborigine. When It Is further rccord
fTed that Mr. Hobson was elected by S.i08
( Democratic votes, against one vote for
Ignatius Green, Republican, It will bo ap
' parent that tho G. O. P. does not have
'' much of a show, politically speaking, In
tho good old state of Alabama, where the
gentleman waa born only as far back as
1870.
Charles D. Carter, new member and
Democrat, from Ardmore, Okla., Is ac
customed to describe himself aa "eeven
sixteenths Chickasaw and Cherokee In
dian, and nlno-slxteenths Scotch-Irish."
His grcat-grandfathor. Nathan Carter,
was captured as a small boy by the Sliaw
nees at the Lackawanna valloy massacre,
all the family except one sister being
killed. He was traded to tho Chcrokees,
and married a. full-blood Cherokee woman.
Tho father of the now representative,
Benjamin W.. was a captain In tho Con
federate army, and married a quarter
breed Chickasaw woman, sister of the ,
famous Chief Guy- Charles D. wa3 born .
In a loir cabin near Boggy depot, an
old fort In tho Choctaw country. In 1S69.
Ho began life as a cowboy and bronco
buster on tho Diamond Z ranch, where
the city of Sulphur now stands.
James Sanord Davenport, Democrat,
from VInita, Okla., another new member,
has himself had two Indian wlvos, both
of thorn full-blood Chorokee squaws. lie
was born on a farm In Chorokeo county,
Alabama, In 1SC4, and Is a lawyer.
William Joseph Gary, new Republican
member from Milwaukee is 42 years old.
At tho ugo of 13 he was left an orphan
with llvo younger children, who wero sent
to an asylum, while he got a Job as mes
senger boy. He learned telegraphy, bo
camo an operator at 18. and a year lator
took his brothers and sisters out of the
asylum and gave them a home.
Tho testimony which members of Con
gress, especially new ones, glvo In regard
to themselves In the Congressional Dlroc-
trsrswvj?'.7?-?
tory Is always lnteretlng'. Somotlmes It
Is entertaining aa, for example. In the
case of Goorgo Wlnthrop Fairchild. who
has freshly arrived from OneonUi. N. Y
nu a Republican. In tho longest "obit
uary" contained In tho dlroctory, he
states that ho began llfo as a farm boy
and printer's dovll, and goes on to de
scribe himeelf as "a closo observer, a
man of exceptional business ability, and
of firm Integrity." He adds that his resi
dence In Onconta Ib "one of tho most at
tractive In that part df tho Empire
State," and explains that he has been
"ever ready with substantial aid to as-
IN ALL PARTS OF THE CITY I
I . IMPROVED and UNIMPROVED
I Business, Prospective Business, Indus- j
: I trial and Residence Properties
: 1 There is more money to be made in Real Estate now than ever before. Dou't delay.
! I If you have cash we will sell on monthly payments. Mone.y to loan on real, estate.
SURPLUS - $75,000
I 1 WE WRITE FIRE INSURANCE
I 251 SOUTH MAIN STREET. PHONES 27.
slat overy enterprise for tho good of the
community and the public welfare."
It Is a curious colncldcnco that Andrew
J. Peters and Joseph F. O'Connoll, both
of thoin now members from Boston, and
both Democrats, wero both born In that
ltv In 1S72. and arc both lawyers by pro
fession. Equally striking, however, Is the
fact that Eugene W. Leako and James A.
Hamlll, both of thorn new members from
Jersey City, wero both born In that town
In 1S77, and aro both of thoin lawyers
and Democrats.
Lo Oajje Pratt. Democrat, and a new
member from East Orange, K. J., Is vice
president of an Insurance company. Ho
says that he was "married In San An
tonio to a lady connected with many lead
ing families m tho Southland, and known
to every member of tho Southern society
of the Oranges." Which, as everybody
must realise, llxcs hl social status at an
enviable mark, tho Oranges being famous
for two things mosquitoes and first fam
ilies How much more humble is the condi
tion of rare Ben Johnson, a Democrat
newly arrived from Bardstown, Ken
tucky. True, he 1h president of a bank
In that little place, but, as ho himself
says, he "still lives In tho samo room In
which he was born."
Or ono may tako tho case of Daniel
Webster Hamilton, a new-fledged Demo
cratic member from SIgourney, Iowa.
Having been born on a farm, taught
school and "worked on tho farm sum
mers," he deliberately sacrificed prospects
of wealth, after he became a lawyer, by
marrying, In 13S5, Elvira Gibbons, a
Quakeress, and going in for the antl-raco-suloldc
propaganda, At tho present tlmo,
he says, he "has a Roooeveltlan family of
nine children."
Nevada und Montana, each of them,
send only one Representative to Congress.
From Tonopah. In tho formor btato,
comes, newly, Gcorgo A. Bartlott, lawyer
and Democrat, who la 38 years of ago.
Montanu's contribution is a mere boy;
Charles X. Pray, of Fort Bonton, a Re
publican and lawyer. He may bo aa
much us 30 years of age, but ho does not
look It. Nevertheless, as Sheriff, ho made
not long ago an envlablo record by put
ting down a lawless elemont which was
threatening1 serious dangers to tho com
munity. Thomas David Nlcholls. now Democra
tic member from Scrnnton, Pa., is 37
years old. Whon he was only 12 ho be
gan to study mining by correspondence,
and later on took up tho roal business as
breaker boy and slate picker. At pros-'
ent he In president of District No. 1 of
tho United Mhio Workers of Amorlc.
William B. Cralff. new member and
Democrat from Solma, Ala . Is only SO
years old. After being graduated from
tho law department of Cumberland uni
versity, at Lebanon, Tenn., ho became
an approntleo In tho machine shops of
tho Southern railway at Schna. Event
ually, however, ho sought the law aa hla
profession.
It la surprising how many men who1 got
to Congress began llfo on the farm. John
A. M. Adair, new member from Portland,
Ind., who Is a hank president and Demo
crat, was born on a farm In Jay county,
same Stato, forty-four yoaru ago. Wil
liam A. Ashbrook, Democrat, and new
member from Johnstown, O., who la 40
years old. was a farm hoy, and still Jives
In the village where ho was born. Ho
is cashier of thrco banks and owns a
newspaper, iho Johnstown Indapendent,
which ho started before was 18 years of
oge.
Charles A. Lindbergh, new Republican
member from Little Falls. Minn., wan
born In Swcdon. and came to this coun
try when ho wan only a year old. Liv
ing on a farm near Melrose, Minn., ho
found "school advantages so limited that
his early education was noglcctcd and
much of his boyhood was given to hunt
ing and trapping." After ho grow up,
however, he gave up llvo wholo years to
acquiring an education and studied for
tho law.
Charles Gordon Edwards, Democrat, a
new mombor from Savannah, Ga., Is only
28 years old. Nevertheless, in addition to
being a Ropresontatlvo In Congress, ho
runs a farm, manages a bank, conducts
a sawmill and deals In naval stores. He
Is. he says, "tho fifth of seven sons, all
of whom are grown and prosperous. It
must bo nice to belong to such a suc
cessful family-
Charles A. IConnody, now Republican
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s
mombor from Montrose, Ta., was born of J
Irish parents, and la a nurseryman. Ho '
Is 3S years old.
George W Kuuch of Marlon. Ijid., Id
.11 years of ago, a lawyer and newly j
elected as a Democrat. (
Daniel R. Anthony. .'IS years old. Is a
now Reupbllcnn member from Leaven- ,'
worth, Kan. He edits the Leavenworth '.
Times, which ho Inherited from his ,
father. !
Henry Stewart Caulfleld Is a new mem- I
ber from f't. Louis and a Republican,
lie Is a lawyer and 31 years of age. I
James T. McDcrmott, new Democratic I
mombor from Chicago, is 40 years old. ,
He began life as a telegrapher, but aban
doned that occupation for the more profit
able business of dealing In cigars.
Adolph Sabath, new member and demo
crat from Chicago, was born in Zaborl,
Bohemia. He Is a lawyer.
Youth of lato years has Invaded even
the United States Senate. But In the
House It Is coming more and more to tho
front. Not for many Congresses has there
boon so high a percentage of young new
members as appenrs In tho Sixtieth. It
Is a big Infusion of young blood, such ns, j
In the nuturo of things, should be quail-
fled to push ahead with vigor tho affaira j
of this great Republic,
Salt Lake Fire Department 11
Salt Lake takes a justifiable prldo in
Its flro department. While the fire fight
ing force la not as largo as tho ordlnanco
colls for and the equipment Is not as
complete aa that of some Western cities
of the same size, the department Is the
moHt efficient In tho West, and Is more
effective In lighting fire than many larger
Eastern cities with more apparatus.
Tho department has just finished a
busy year. It responded to 2S3 alarms,
traveled G1PJ miles, stretched C1.500 feet
of hose, used 185J& gallons of chemicals
and was In actual flro lighting 323 hours
and six minutes.
The value of the property Involved In
tho flres was S3.0GG.923. The Involved
Insurance was $1,426,915, the paid $72.
794.76. The actual losses were $130.6138.00,
with an average insurance of $62,992.30.
Tho expenses were $59,295.72, as follows:
Salaries, $50,123.75; operating expenses,
$SS72.09.
The number of fires and losses ran
higher in 1907 than In the preceding year,
tho latter because of the Redman Van
and Storage company flic, which entallod
a loss of 3omothing like $200,000. It la
doubtful If tho losses this year actually
were higher than last, however, as many
of the articles lost In tho Redman Are had
no Intrinsic value, but were prized highly
by the owners because of association.
The number of flros In 1906 was 221;
tho losses were $57,427.60. Only five
Arcs in 1907 ran higher In losses than
15000 each. Tho total expenses In 190C
wero $52,829.49.
Fire Alarm-System.
The Are alarm system now In use Is a
material Improvement over the old sys
tem and prevents much confusion and
consequent Iosh of valuable tlmo In reach
ing flres. With tho present system all
alarms In tho city, whether box or still,
come dlroct to tho operating room, on the
socond story at headquarters, where an
operator Is on duty day and night. Tho
operator plugs In tho station In tho dis
trict In which the fire la located, disturb
ing nono of the other stations unless tho
fire is such .a large one that help Is need
ed to subduo It.
The operator keeps a record of tho
tljr.e of the alarm, to tho second, the
number of feet of hose stretched, tho
amount of water and chemicals consumed,
and the water pressure.
The department consists of one station
and throe sub-stations. Headquarters
is located on First South streot between
Stale and Second East streets. The ordi
nance calls for sixty-four firemen, but tho
numbor Is slightly below that now. The
department 13 equipped with thirty head
of fine horses, well trained and valued
at $300 apleco, and carries 12,850 feet of
hose.
At Oontral Station.
At headquarters are thirty-four men
and eighteen horses The equipment
consists of an eighty-five foot aerial
truck, double tank chemical engine com
pany, hose wajon, two metropolitan flro
onglnes. with n capacity respectively of
900 and 1100 gallons, a Sllsbury flro en
gine, .and 7500 feet of hooe.
Station No. 2 has ten men, carries 1000
feet of hose, four horses, hoso wagon,
hook and ladder truck, and a small chem
ical extinguisher. The station Is on Sec
. ond West botween North and South Tom
plo streets.
It is nearly two years einco S. D.
Evans erooted tho abovo handsome
three-story brick and stono building at
48 South Stato St., which is nowhoro
surpassed in tho Undertaking business
for its complote equipment.
Modoled after the Gothic style of ar
ehitocturo; its outward appearanco is
imposing, and inu'wlu it h 80 arranged
aB to heat meet the convenience of those
in need of such attention.
It oon tains a Chapel for religious ser
vico with a seating capacity of two
hundrod persona, and which, with its
Hubdued color touu and Cathedral win
dows, i3 pleasing and especially adapted
to tho purposo for which it is designed.
There are private rooms for tho ac
commodation of immediate relatives and
friends leading from tho main chapel,
and thero is also accommodation for
music.
On another floor of tho building aro
robo rooms where an ostousivo lino of
burial clothes of tho best materials and
make aro found.
Adjoining this is tho Casket depart
ment, where in closed glass nhow cases
are very fine grades, and a varied stylo
of enskats.
Mr. Evans has been in business in
Salt Lake nearly a tscoro of years, and
during that time has served tho best
class of its citizens.
He keeps abreast of tho times in his
methods of embalming and other details
of mortuary work.
No. 4. on I street, between Fourth and jill
Fifth avenues, In manned by nine men lil'i
and equipped with five horses. 1200 feet twl
of hose, hook and ladder truck and 'n taji
steamer. The Pi.eamcr was the first ever f
used hero, being presented to the volun- m I
teer fire lighters in 1873. There Is a si- 1 1
gallon Babcock extinguisher, too, at this ll I
station. (J
No. C. on Ninth South, between Tenth 1 1
and Eleventh East streets, is equipped II I
with a combination hose and chemical, 1 1
tnree horses, and carries thirteen men. 9 I
This station Is Intended to accommodate vl 9
a hoso truck and a steamer. It carrle r ll $
1550 feet of hose. No. 5 was occupied ill I
first In February.
At headquarters arc the chief's and '-M 8
assistant chiefs buggies. Upstairs are 9
the secretary's and chief's offices, ts-ji W
large dormitories, sitting1 and reaaing r.l
rooms, library, gymnasium, toilet and If
bath rooms, and battcrv room. The-1!- 'ji
brary will hold 3000 or -1000 volumes, but JJ
has only 500 now. In the gymnasium the Iff
firemen may play handball, wrestle, 4 i
punch the bag or indulge themselves at 1 i
the pulling machine through the tedious '1 !
hours of Inactivity. if I
Accldent3 During the Year. . m
No serious accidents occurred to the !
force In '1907. Fred GuJbransen. hurt In 1
a severe windstorm In 1H0C, In responding 1
to a false alarm on East Flm South T
street. la still In tho doctor's care, auffe:- J
ing from Injuries to the spine from a fulU
Ing troo, but eventually will recover,' U i :
wears a plaster cast about the bai'k, but !
Ik able to render service In the operating i H
room. SI
W. E. Cahoon, senior captain a I head- lflH
quarters, suffered a broken lee' in Hit ' M
latter part of 1906. but Is bnck at work. M
Officers of Dsn '-nent.' Km
Charles T. Vail l. c? . id l.ypm :;. IK
Crosby assistant. Mr. Vu.I Is rf-roi!y'd ' Wf
as one of the most ofTlccnt. i-edoubtabl- H
flro fighters In the country. He Ik In- W
tropld, daring and strategic, and docs not K.
send his men where he will not go him- flK
self. Crosby Is a second edition of his IK
chief. Both aro experienced. Vail h:iv- f 91
Ing served eighteen years as fireman. 9c
while Crosby has had five or six veans" " MB
experience. Vail became chief In '.lanu- itM
ary 1906. Crosby was made assistant WL
In May of tho same year. Wm
Jessie I. Burnett Is secretary. lie Ij
efficient, genial and accommodating. Bur- w
nett waa appointed by Vail In April I IB
of 190G. II'
Tho other officers are: i A
Headquarters Senior captain. WiHIair JjBF
Ayland; junior captains. W. F. Caliuor Jim '
and A- R. Williams; lieutenants, Jamci K;
Murphy and Andrew Elklen. iB:
Station No. 2 Captain. Amos Morotorii H
lieutenant, Harry Robins. K
Station No. 4 Captain. Julius Soien. ' JM
son; lieutenant, Walter Knight. ; H
Station No. 5 Captain, William Fits lfm
gerald; lieutenant. Roy Lancaster. ;f VM
Tho fireman's life Is made up of day; it s'
of twenty-two hours' service each. lh ' Bj
Is allowed two hours to his rneals. Usually ; HM
he divides tho two hours and goes lo ; HI
meals twice a day. Ho goes to bed al t' W
9 In the evening and rises at 5 in tin VI
morning. Each crew attends to Its par- 'j Kf
tlcular horses or apparatus. Each even- . BH
ing at 7 o'clock there le practlco In hitch- f, Hi
Jug, and training stunts are Indulged ii j Cfl
almost every day, I I'MM
Former Uintah Reservation 'j!
Over in Uintah and Wasatch counties
is a body of land larger iu area than
the State of Ehodo Island. It contains
more agricultural land than all tho rest
of Utah, has a most delightful climate,
is splendidly watered, and the predic
tion is mado that within ten years ou
this body of land will bo a population
which will exceed tho present popula
tion of Utah and Tdaho combined. This
is what was formerly the Utntah res
ervation, which was opened to scttle
lfn'iit September 1, 3903.
The total acreage exceeds 2,000,000.
or more than 11200 squaro milos. Of
this vast acreage in two counties,
100.000 acres have been allotted to tho
Indians. Of tho renmincr, one-sixth, or
nt-1.000 acres, has been taken up by
2150 homestead entries, and all this
within tho past two years.
This region is divided into districts,
viz.. the Theodore district, tho own of
Theodora beimj the metropolis, and
which is located at the junction 0f tho
Strawberry and Duchesne rivers. Its
altitude is 5500 feet. In this district
25,000 acres of land havo been takcu
up by homesteaders, 13,000 acres woro
given to Poor Lo. Throe irrigation
projects are now under way in this lo
cality. Tho land is a sand and gravel
loam, and is adrairabl' adapted to tho
raising of small grain and fruit. There
is a large area well adapted to grating,
and upon this 115,000 head of sheep
are feeding this winter. One of tho best
homesteads in this region, and which is
HANDSOME BUILDING
ERECTED BY S. D. EVANS
near tho town of Theodore, is that of RH
Miss Lulu Hood. She is an Oklahoma - : M
girl, and when she drew her lucky num- . tfl
bor in tho drawing at Provo. accoin- 'In
panied by her mother, she took up hei Hj
claim ns stated. She has proved up and ! IH
has her det'reo of ownership from Uncle V mm
Sam. ?; 19
Thirty .fivo miles from Theodore up j' M
tho Duchesn1? ri vt r is Stockmoro. a small J Jfl
town, but which is in the center of n IH
splondid agricultural country. In this j 9
p.eotion 50,000 bushels of grain were .7 Jl
raised, iho bulk of it upon dry farms. 'Wm
The Alyton district, named "for Ala.ioT -4' HQ
Mytoa of Salt Lake City, and former I' 71
Indian agent of tho Wltite Hocks ifttm
agency, is tho router of the agricultural i Hu
area of this great basin. Tho climate f Si
is ideal, the summers are long, but not H M
excessively warm: the altitude is 5000 m
foot. In tho vicinity of the town of H U
ATyton this year corn was grown, many
of tho ears measuring fourteen inches. j' H
Tho town of Mvton is splendidly lo- Vi IH
cated. and while 20,000 acres 01 the r H
land in close proximity to tho town is h H
owned by tho Indians, this land can bo ; U
leased, and s Poor Lo passes away ' ' J Sjffl
and crosses lie great divido to the 9K
happy bun grounds the lands al- 1H
lotted to i will be for sale. Im- v 0 IK'
proved la 11 an now be leased for H
$2.50 to $2. r acre; unimproved for .1 H
S1.50 cash, .or improvecients to bo ' fli
made. On t. sr lands 300 bushels of . H
potatoes haw been grown to the Ecrc. ' H
These lands arc all in Duchesne valley. 1 IB
In tho Roosevelt or Dry Gulch dis- :! )jM
trict thero are more actual homestead- .vfl IE
t-rs than anywhere else ou the reserva- 'Jft'lH
upon their homesteads and cultivate S&
them. In the Eoosevelt district is in- 1 Hn
eluded tho White Ilocks country, whore- I Dja
in is located the Ouray and White i; HM
Jocks Indian agencies, and Fort IJij- I IHH
chesne, the nrmy jiost. This region ..is ''tin
well watered. About Ronsovelt thji I nH
ground was cultivated 1t tho first iJui' N ffiH
this year, and the vm M uf outs :ind ! SH
barlov- was 55.000 biisliols. Tlio other i flB
town ::i this district is Independence. , ( UH
The .Mo (Tat district oouI.-imis Uiearcii ,
of t'o old strip, also the lauds nlonir '
the Uintali rivtr known as tho D.'cp
Creek country. This region is watered ,aB
j by two eana.is the Indian and the
That 7Kir:iu tit the oll reservation : HI
botveen Iho Duchesne and Green river HH
and including the Ouray valley is '' MH
knov;n as the Rundlett district. Piftceu Nfll
thouH.ind acres iu this section have M
been homcsteailed. Sugar beets, fruiis WH
and melons grow to perfection. JRand- HBH
lctt in tho Govornmont town, and will be ' lnj
reuched by the MolTnt road. Jlero was I jffil
the locution of the old Indian school. : an
now abandoned. The buildings nre to ) Off
be converted into a homo for old and l'fiRfl
infirm Indians. Ono milo from rlie . yfllS
town the Duchcsuo and tho Uint;i!i riv- , atWja
ors unit o. j WH
At, White I?ocks the Indian school is , isaS
located Lighty pupils nro in attend- Dfofl
anco, I ho ages ranging from 0 to 25 alili
venrs. Manual tisiuing is included in . IH
the eouac. T!ie agency is nlso located 'Sail
at White Hocks. (JmSL
Con.crres appropriated .600,000 to irtH
construct a fcci'ys of oanuls to water " 1','Hl
tho 100.000 acr-?s of land alloteld to' SjgM
tho Indi.uns. lur years' time was . fjjjSl
givon to complete the system, which iBWl
will bo finished in August. 1910. Half . i illBff
of tho work has already beeu com- "! luilma
plot od, at a cost 375.000. The sys- ' fiffi fflKB
tern includes twenty-eight main ennuis, j' hI jam
each of which will have a Intcrni sys- 'ibMK
tern. Of tho fGOO.000 appropriated, the YISSS
Government is to u:i reimbursed by .jliSlI
money derived fn tu tho sulo of India'ti VSttfi
Tor Over i'ifty Yearn. '( feff
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mothorc for their children wliile teeth- J j m
ing, vrith perfect succcsa. It eoothe.i ' ( ul
tho child, softens the gums, allays j,U ; f I W
pain, cures wind colic und is the be?t ' I ml
remedy for diarrhoea. Sold by druij- I HH
giBtrt m every part of the world, :ir ' I jg
uuro to ask lor Jcfrs. Wiuslow'a itx:n J ImH
iug Syrup. I 1m
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