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ished in the Topeka Advocate and News, 

 it promises to be a meeting of more than 

 usual interest to farmers. The Kansas 

 railroads will probably grant the usual re- 

 duced rates. 



County Treasurers in this state say that 

 a very large number of tax-payers are pay- 

 ing their taxes promptly this year and in 

 full instead of letting half of it go over un- 

 til next June. 



UTAH. 



Thomas H, Cavenaugh, manager of the 

 Lake Bonneville Irrigation company, of 

 Utah, closed a contract with the Utah 

 state board of land commissioners for the 

 reclamation, under the Carey act of 300,- 

 000 acres of land in Millard county. About 

 $2,500,000, is involved in the contract. 

 Morton B. Hirsch of Philadelphia, is 

 president of the company. It is claimed 

 that this enterprise when completed will 

 nearly double the irrigation lands of the 

 state. 



A $3,000 wreck occurred near Ogden, 

 Utah; the Oregon Short Line passenger 

 train collided with a switch engine of the 

 Southern Pacific. No one was injured, 

 but the engines were badly broken up. 



Towns in Weber county are offering in- 

 ducements for sugar-beet factories to lo- 

 cate there. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



WYOMING. 



The Badger Canal company has been 

 incorporated by T. P. McDonald, Arthur 

 Barney, Joseph Smith, James Broadley, 

 Hiram Pierce and others of Carbon county, 

 Wyo. The company is organized for the 

 purpose of constructing a ditch for irriga- 

 tion and manufacturing purposes from 

 Rock Creek to Dry Creek and from Dry 

 Creek to Sand Creek, Carbon county, 

 The capital stock is $20,000, and the 

 shares have a par value of $10. 



DEVIOUS DEFINITIONS. 

 Nobody A prominent woman's husband. 

 Gossip A deadly gas that is often fatal 

 to friendship. 



Statistician A man who can prove that 

 figures always lie. 



Thunder The only reliable weather r 

 port yet discovered. 



Hammock An article used as a spoon- 

 holder at a love feast. 



Matrimony A sort of trust for the pro- 

 tection of infant industries. 



Perambulator A good thing that but 

 few men care to push along. 



Pedestrian A person who is always 

 getting in the way of a bicycle. 



Because Eve's legacy to her daughters 

 as an excuse for the inexcusable. 



Experience Something everybody gets 

 after it is too late to make use of it. 



Definition Something looked up in the 

 dictionary today and forgotten tomorrow. 



Faith The thing that makes a bald- 

 headed man invest in a bottle of hair re- 

 storer. Chicago Daily News. 



A FEW SQUIBS. 



Old widows are looking for youth and 

 the youth must be careful. 



The sugar trust has been in pretty hot 

 water lately, but it hasn't been dissolved 

 yet. 



Mrs. Lease says that "the man of the fu- 

 ture will go on all fours." "Will it be eas- 

 ier then for the new woman to force him 

 into a bridal arrangement? 



Tom Watson says he "sees eight lions 

 right ahead of McKinley." If Thomas 

 doesn't leave Georgia "moonshine" alone 

 he'll proluibly see the rest of the menage- 

 rie pretty soon. 



The Kennebec Journal tells of a wed- 

 ding serenade that ''fushed out." We 

 don't know what that serenade did, or why 

 it was done, but "fushed out" seems to be 

 good enough to save. 



A Michigan girl confessed to the pas- 

 tor that she has received attentions from 

 seventeen beaux and that fifteen of them 

 had kissed her. The two milksops who 

 failed to do their duty deserve to be 

 tapped for the "simples." 



