UTAH INDEPENDENT
nual catastrophies; with twenty
million acres of valuable land lying idle simply because we have
no state money with wKich to
build reservoirs; with roads of
mud that tax every farmer
enough in ten years to make them
solid and straight, and the state
without the means of improving
them—in the face of these and other similar pressing needs will it
not be folly to expend every dollar we can raise in twenty years
for something that we can easily
get along without?
But "the state needs a capitol
Certainly; but it needs forests,
roads, "-modern f ci.ins, reservoirs,
fisheries, good stock, impror.a orchards and education; and th<
can be had unless we waste our
money, as certain other states
have (done, on the bui,lding of
monuments of folly and false
pride when we cannot afford such
luxuries.
Almost every man "needs" an
automobile; but he also needs a
house to live in; and which does
he choose first? First, then, reservoirs, roads, high-schools, forests, and the reclamation of 20
million acres of good dry land;
then the capitol anel no one will
object to it.
Yours for progress before display.
J. H. PAUL.
From a Traveler's Note Book
Observations In and Around Los Angales
OLDEST TOAD IS DEAD.
Rameses, II, aged 1,000 years
and more, died yesterday at his
home in the reptile house at the
Bronx Zoo. He was the oldest
living toad frog. The zoo physicians anel surgeons could not
make out exactly the disease
which caused the fir;! dissolution of Rameses II, but old age is
supposeel to have had poinethkig
to do with it.
He was born probably some ten
centuries ago, away out West.
Two years ago miners working
500 feet below the earth's surface, near Butte, Mont., came upon
a huge and apparently solid stone.
This was knocked open, and there,
in a pocket, lay Rameses II
asleep. He was alive, as told indisputably by a slight breathing.
—New York Times.
What things increase the i
you contract them? Debts.
By La Payette Lentz Butler.
Written for he Utah Independent,
There usually comes a feeling
of bcth bewilderment and witchery when I enter a strange city
at night, but on my arrival at Los
Angeles, there only came a strong
sense of relief, not that the ride
over the Salt Lake Route is uninteresting—quite the contrary, bin.
the day was unenelurably hot. The
sun glisteneel with blisterin fury
on the dry treeless deserts of Nevada, which might well be rechris-
eneel God's bake-shep, the thermometer in Barstow, California,
registered 108 degrees in the
shade. Only toward sundown
when the train had wound its way
through the notable mountains
east of San Bernadino and had
Hashed into the magic orange
groves of Riverside, did the
longed-for breezes come—breezes
that would have made Los Vegas
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SALT LAKE THEATER
seem a Parajdise—provided one
has a lively imagination.
In and Around Los Angeles.
But once in Los Angeles, the
traveler forgets the discomforts
of the journey. The balminess of
the air is only forgotten because
of the multiplicity of things to be
remembered. The spirit of modernity and the glow of hospitality-
are the first and, perhaps, the lasting impressions. Everywhere is
recorded the state of evolution—
of substantial growth. Well-lighted business streets, (with unfortunately poor-lighted residential
streets), splendid electric systems,
finely constructed business blocks,
comfortable homes, with the mission style of architecture dominating, greet and please the incomer.
Enterprise is symbolized in miles
of buildings along Broadway,
South Spring and Main Streets.
One's very blood is infected with
the germ of hustle as one threads
GEO. D. PYPER,
Manager
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Thursday, Frday and Saturday and Saturday Matinee
June 10th, tfth and 12th
CHARLES FROHMAN PRESENTS
MARIE DORO
In W. J. Locke's Scintillating Comedy
"TKE MORALS OF MARCUS'
AS GIVEN AT THE AITENA THEATRE N. Y. CITY
With a Brilliant Supporting Company
Prices 25c to $2.00
Matinee 25c to $1.00
Sale of Seats Tuesday
