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THE OMATTA SUNDAY BET: DKCEMBKTl 4, 1910. American Fork, Utah; and the Chipman Family Grow Up Together; AMERICAN FORK, ftah. lee. I (Hpe-I Hal Thejr tall h story. j4 I ru It's tni, that 4 trher In on of th Provo P'iMIr schools askad her class In ge- j irrar.hr: '"W hat la the population et America , A FLOUR ' i'rV'y..sww ' "' ' ' ... ... ..... .... irj J 1 Tim answer, riven br "th brightest boy n th clam," wa Illuminating. He said eit I am hMj of my story. We'll have to go hack a few centuries; back to im, to be exact Those were the years of rr Unions and civil turmoil In Eng land; the years of renewed Interest In the problenm of human freedom; for tn;nd tardy and muI. It was the year of the com' In of the Pilgrims to the eh ore of New England. An1 with them cam John Chipman, forebear to the Chlpmans of tfil country; tha common forefather of tho'e h live In Iowa. Kansa', Mlcsourt, N branska, Illinois and throughout all of tha middle west. II wan a dlesenter from the Meals of thoea Pttiart Java and camo to this country seeking th freedom of unex plored lands. Tears arter, on of his (Treat grandchildren was to do the earn. Ths tattle genealogical history or tha Chipman family here at American For relate how turty a character was that ef John Chip man. An earnest disciple of untrammelled thought, political and religious, h was also devout believer 1n Ood and an earnest worshipper of Dlvtn mercy. Half adven turer; with tha temperament of the dartns: aplorer; half preacher, John Chapman Ski on wandered away from tha folds of New England, his steps turning northward to tha outposts of English speaking civilisa tion. Wherever tie went h left s memory f his name; strong, stalwart earnest, his eharacter Is that of a man who walked aJojs. and feared not. Early Joined the Mormons. Amons thorn who war tha first to arn hrace ths belief of tha Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Lay Paints was Stephen Chlprr.an. (hen a reMdent of N'auvoo, III. "With tha Imleratlon of the people of that hellsf from Illinois. Stephen Chipman, like his rreat grandfather of th days of the Restoration, was prominently Identified. With the second body of theie picneers he left Illinois and. making th tlx months' Journey overland, finally came upon Palt Lk City, t'tah, In tha spring of 1S4S. With him oama his foirr sons and two daughters and tha entire family later located on tha American Fcrk river, less than two miles from Utah lake, one of th moat beautiful bodies ef fresh water In all tha IntermountaJn west. Aooordlng to the custom of that time, now no longer practiced, three of these sons had. two or more wives. Tha daugh ters also married and thus a chain of posterity was established which has re sulted la a family numbering more than 800 Chlpmans, the greater number of whom yet Uva In and around American Fork. Tha principal store in tha town, tha larg est bank, tha lumber and coal yard, tha flour mill, the electric light and power plant are all owned by the Chlpmans. At tha head of the family today Is Stephen t,. Chipman, named for his grandfather, And he la a director in tha reservoir company. In the Brlgham Young university, In the Chipman Mercantile company and also the manager and treasurer of this great de partment store. It has nlna departments and last year did a gross business of 2S5.000. This year ha says It will go over the IMO.OOO mark. The bank of which he Is a director had deposits exceeding $600,00), with almost MOO.OOO In loant. Ha Is presi dent of the Utah County Light and Power Co., of th Cedar Valley Development com pany, now farming J3.000 acres of land, and of th Utah Lake Irrigation company. He has been a county commissioner, a repre sentative from his district Jn th state legislature, a city councilman and a school trustee. He Is a great big man. brosd. physically and Intellectually. His various affairs are so organised as not to take all his personal attention, but to leave him time for his church work and his social duties. Hn Is the president of Alpine f-'take of tha Mormon church, a high ec clesiastical position. And everything that he takes hold of has been and is a success. What the nay Answered. "What Is the population of American Fork?" aked the Provo school teacher. And the brightest boy in the class an swered: "Ch'pmans." Stephen L. Chipman is tt years of age and a grandfather twlc In the same place. He has lived at American Fork his entlrs life, sav th time h w a student at tha Brlgham Toung university at Provo, th third city In the stata of Utah. Ha is a country toy, pure and. simple, sired of country boys from the time of the Pilgrim Fathers. II 1 an American In every thought and at of his being, alert, snter . prising with as old-fBshloned sense of honesty, truth and right living. According to tho tenets of th churoh of which h Is an high exemplar, he neither drinks alco holic liquors, tea nor coffee, nor does he eruoko. It may be said that h does not know th tast of any physical Intoxicant Th result Is th most potent argument for prohibition that may be adduced. His busi ness Is managed with th acumen that Shedd give to Marshall Field A Co., and th comparison Is not half bud. II has not a grey hair In hi head and nervous 'spells" are unknown to him. II Is on of the most ardent reliever In th future of Utah and of Ameiioiui Fork that Is to bo found In a day s Journey throughout tha whole of this Mormon stata, HK Ilea Dors Held Bark. "Utah has never had Its share of west ern development." said Mr. Chipman. This ha been due. partly to th prejudice against living In and amid th Mormons and partly to the conxervatism of our own people. In ths beginning It was the In- I lntlon of President Brlsham Young to found hr an asylum; a plac of refuge for his people. W had been driven from pillar to post throughout Missouri and Illinois; w had been persecuted: Urlvtn. killed and slaughtered by people as fanaua, to say the leat. In the practice of Uislr religion as w wer In purs. And when I In LSil a4 cam to this country when he President Brlgham Younir came hi.ru hi.'wm i . , ,j la reported to have said " 'If they will give us ten years her, wo will ask of thm no odds.' " "By this he meant that we would then t strong enough to defend ourselves against nub vlulence. of which we hud boen th victims in th tniddl west. Vou can Imagine that after the treatment w had w did not feel like taking thos asm pop, nor tli uus of thstii to our bosom. Perhapa some of our people gave hatred, If they did It was only to be expected as that was what had been dealt out tuem. And so w bau ben loth to accept sn ang ers at their own valuation; we hv been backward about InMtlng those oilier peo ple to eutn to us. Now, however, w are elwnging out attitude; as th world i. ehansmg toward us. Liberality toward us begets libtrality toward others. This hss en so, always. I res..do. Keso.ro.. "Mattrlally th state Is not to b ex ualled by any state In Uie wast. It Is a fact that th tt of Utah provide every sustanca. organic and Inorganic, known U science. Our tremendous advantage over , any othtr state In all of the slatss of the union He in th fait that we aupply not only our own produc but our own markets. Th vast mtiicrul son of which Utah is a part provides an lnitble market for eery singls pound of produce that the agricultural lands of this slate can p o- t t i '.. - ii -,.i T ." , y ." . l. - '.-ss3 J.- ' v -- "mAmrnu im usim njii ijgstwiiji jjiMUMssr::! n is m ism si i i iisiimw h miniiiimnwiw, un - ;, . J 'I ' I ' .' II i !H 0fl St, THE CZVIC CENTER - AMERICAN-FOAJt. UTAH mg$ "mm n ffrrH Tnirfirr"''T'"Tr"'" 1 T '"r'lininiiiiiiinti'ii'i itw rm m iiiiriiiTfisssiiisfTiiii"-' wiVs'siii'isisrswsri i ? I f - . - , I x 20AUr STSXEr-AKE&ZCAtf IXUUK.UTAff IB 11', A '' '. i dues. At this time wa Import chickens, poultry products, butter and many food commodities. As our lands coma under th great Irrigation projects and plans for re clamation which ar on foot, this importa tion will cease and we will be autonomous. Commercially Utah Is almost equally di vided between those who produce and those who consume. "Take this valley and the district around American Fork, for example. Within six miles of whers you sit thers are beds of rock from which the finest quality of Portland cement may bo ground, within one mile of those beds there Is a power plant producing 4,600 horsepower; enough to turn the wheels of a dosen plants of ths six required to make of this rock a cement that will not be excelled In this country. The people of this city would help in the estab lishment of such a plant Inasmuch as th contractors of Salt Lake City, with a popu lation of 10C.000 people, lens than thirty miles away are now bringing in all of their ce ment from the east and from plants on the Paclflo coast, paying a good round price for tho product, plus tho freight Cb.a.BC (or th Farmer. "That Is but ons Instance. For another, wo have about tho qity of American Fork not fewer than 20,000 acres of tho finest fruit land In the west. This vast tract of land Is being reclaimed, and within tan year will be producing tho finest grades of commercial apples. On every tree, however, ther ar at least two boxes of apples or other fruit that had better go to a cannery. This means that within ten AUSTRIAN MAKES THREATS Sayi He Will Kill All Connected with Case if He Gets Out. IS GIVEN SENTENCE FOE LITE Orders Ills Friend Not to Pay th Attorney Who Defended Hint for Kllllngr Two Fellow Coantrymcn. Convicted of stabbing to death Anton Cancer and John Nlkollo. two fellow Austrian section laborers, Mike, alias Nile Arallca, on the eve of his sentence, in the county Jail Friday night, declared that as soon as he le released from the peniten tiary after service of his sentence he. will siny County Jailor Osborn. County Attorney Fnglish, J. M. Macfarland, his own at torney. Judge Estelle. before whom his case was tried, and tho twelve Jurors who returned a verdict of ' guilty of second ilevieo murder two weeks ago. Ufe Imprisonment at hard labor was th senteiic given Arallca by Judge Estell when th prisoner was brought up for sentence In th criminal court room Satur day morning. The court ordered that on Augunt 7, 1S11, the anniversary of his double murder, th prisoner shall be kept in solitary confinement Sheriff Iti alley and Jailor Osborn closely guarded tho Austrian from th time h was taken from th Jail until the time he was returned ther after sentence. While th sheriff and his deputle ar not afraid of the man. they realize that he must b handled wtth th greatest car. Refuses to Pay Attorney. Arallca han ordered his Austrian friends Leading Payson PAYSON, Vlah. Dec, J. -(Specie. I.) -George Uertclson of the firm of Bertelson Uro. of this place. Is an lowan who has made good In Utah; enviously and envlabjy good. Mr. Beltelstn was born la Denmark AJited to th natur ally admirable character of the Dan h Amer can. Mr. XJertelson, who cam to thi country so young, has acquired the enter prise and the hustle of the natlv born American. When h first cams to this country he localtU on a farm near Dennl son, la., where he lived until about 11 yoars of a. Then he removed to Lin coln Center, Kan., where' he had his homo foi ten years. Dur n this time he was a travel ng salesman, and a such acquired a liberal education In mercantile methods and ths problems of American merrhandla ing. "or four years he lived at Denver Colo., after which he removed to alt LnUe City. During this t me he had traveled and lived ;n California, and afier four years' residence In) Suit Lake Citv h came to this place to go into business with h S trother. The firm Ii prospering to an abat ing degree. On a capital of KOt the an nual volume of bus nass exceeds f il).OU, sni the profits are proportionally satisfactory. Air. bertelson has lived all over the west. He kaow the Ut and the worst of it. He says that In all the great section west of th Mississippi river there is none to compare with the Itah valley. With the reclamation of the 60.f) acres of fertile farm lands which ths I'mted Slates gov ernment is reclaiming In this valley, th value of lands and businesses will grow over night. Mr. Uertelson thinks ther is years ther will be an opportunity for some man or men to poxk almost 4.000,000 boxes of apples for tho canned goods trade. This, of course, will stop the Importation of that much canned stores from eastern packing companies. American Fork Is th ideal location for this sort of industry, in somuch as we havo two transcontinental railways passing through our city and Utarti lake, thirty mllej long, at our very door. Seven cities In this county, with an approximate population' of 80,000 people means a close, Inexpensive market for such wares. "Then again the United States govern ment Is reclaiming 60,000 acres of fertile farm lands in this county. This land will support a population not at this time cal culable. It will mean the Increasing of land values here by over 18,000.000. There Is not a chance that this will not corns to pa-. This country right now offers mors oppor tunities for the young man, the capitalist tho man with an Investment to make than any other section of ths whole new west tai-ch Factory Needed. "Right now w ar most aagar to secure the location of a starch factory at this place. Wo raise more potatoes hers than any othsr section n the west Wo havo well authenticated Instances where 600 bushels of potatoes havo been rallied on a single acre, year In and year out Some say that 600 bushels Is a good average, but to bo conservative, the man who docs .tot get 300 bushels to tho acr year after year la not doing well. The record in this county is where one of our men raised W0 In South Omaha not to pay his attorney, J. M. McFarland, tha 1400 they raised for their fellow countryman's defense. Mr. Macfarland has commenced a civil action to collect tho sum. Arallca ordered th Austrian who raised th money for his defense to send it to his father In th old country. Arallca since his arrest for the double murder has sent his father $,S00. When Judge Eatelle asked Arallca If ho had anything to say why sentence should not bo passed the Austrian, half weeping, declared that he killed his fellows In self defense; that his father is aged and blind; that his brother was sick In the hospital at the time of th killing, and h does not know where ho Is; that he had to kill Cancer aud Nlkollo to sava his own lifs, else his loved ones would starve. Tho Judx said all of that story was told the Jury. "Thy did not believe you," ha said, "and I don't Tou shou'd not have killed those men.' Vou didn't have to. I think there was no excuse." County Attorney English suggested that Arallca be given a life sentence. He said it was for such crimes as these that the btate legislature provided that the maxi mum penalty tor second degree murdor should be life Imprisonment Attorney Macfarland said ho had filed a motion for a new trial, but did not wish to press it "I don't think ha stiowld be tried again," h said. "1 should Uk to liav it entered on tho record that a mo tion was made and overruled, and excep tions taken merely as a protection In case something should oomo up that would cause him to want to appeal. He Is hot headed and perhaps his ungovernable tem per, for which he Is not responsible, should be taken Into consideration. Aialica is nt satisfied w ith his defense, and ther also Is soma (InaucUl difficulty, but tUu Mini- Business Man l'ayson, I' lull. l no place like Utah for oixrtunlttrs for ,11 e young man anxious to make good. j ... . , ! ' ' ' ' ' . " ' ; ' . . ; - i : ...';'. v r ' . . .-' f - ........ . s. , V i I -I V . - . m j h:l ' --".i. - . m ri:'! -i!- Jii-'Vi V!r I t-uEMJuatMMaasajssiiia'ii ;iitwijjwsiism'ssiiitiiiis I bushels to a single acre. Cheap power, proximity to market, and certain consump tion make sure returns for the man with a great deal of eiperleno' and' a 'llttl capital, coupled with Industry. W are but ' an hour's ride from Rait Lake City, and but two miles from Utah lake. Re sort men could make a fortune out; of the ters are not for consideration at this Urn." Arallca Is the first man Judge Estelle over sentenced for life.' A Fortunate Texan, E. W. Qoodlo. Dallas, Tex., found ft sure cure for malaria and biliousness In Dr. King's New Life Pills. 25c. For sal uy Beaton Drug Co. THREE SENTENCED FOR THEFT Proprietor of Loosing- House and Two Roomers-Draw Losg Jail Term. The testimony of H. S. Habens of South Omaha In police court Saturday morning that ho had been robbed of a suit case containing $30, a gold watch and lomt valuable clothing, convicted Sam House, tho proprietor of tho Omaha lodging house. Twelfth and Dodge streets, and Lee Bloom field and Tom (Inch, roomers at the place. Judge Crawford Imposed ninety-day sen tences upon the proprietor and JBloomfleld. Finch was given a sixty-day term. Detectives say th lodging house hss been responsible for a number of small thefts during tho last few weeks. D.Bi7d f Baiuey. Sanatorium This Institution is tli only on In the central wont with separats buildings situated lu their own ii.pl rounds, yet entiroly dis tinct and rendering It posstbto to classify caaea. Th on building bWng fitted for and devoted to the treatment of noutotitagious ami lciilu;iUI diseases, uo others be ing admitted. The other, Rett Cottage, being designed (or ami iievotsd to the exclusive treatment of select mental cages, requiring I or a time watchful earn and spe- in.rsihg i rr. arsrsss u esse Hu lead In Idaho cheap, on and arable, with here and there areas of volcanic ash, provide here the Ideal hay. grain, alfalfa and winter-keeping appla district of the world. Ifcn't take our word for It, write for our free booklet and U tters of Information. OAKLEY INVESTMENT CO. OAKLEY, CASSIA COUNTY) IDAHO. The first Investor la the townsite of Twin Falls, I'aho, hav aold out, in so ne instances, mt a profit of over 10007a. The land on which the Twin rum Hank itu.l to. u.o.r -a sUol roustruclion hank hulldlng Unlay IS Wt'.tTH TEX THOlHAilD TIMI-a WHAT T1IK FlltST ri'KCllAtfEli PAID FOH IT. Ther are opportunities Use this at Albion. Let us point the way. Wa can double your money If yoa will let ns. ALBION REAs-TY CO., Albion, Idaho the opportunities afforded by this beauti ful body of water. "Jn fact, I may say that any Industry re quiring power would find her a tremen dous advantage over any other location In the west. Our people ar. becoming awak ened to the fact that we have all these resources at our ' doors' and we will giv the fact publicity." ' : Brlgham Young's ten years have long ago passed away. And ths great president of this Mormon people Is sleeping peace fully under one of the hills In Salt Lake City, The golden poplar leaves, transmuted by the nocromancy of th autumn sun, uiiO bu&hels of Po tatoes to the Acre X always stayie. potatoes aro tie gold. The market tluctualo try HiU on potatoes. Ana If you have UOUU potatoes yoa CAN ALWAK3 KiAJj A AlAtt KET t'OK 'IHfciM. This Is ths most remargable potato country In ALL THE WtWLJLL TUn bnake Hlver Valley has Leeu known to produce KiGliT HU. UKED AND FIFTV UeiHtUi 01?' POTATOES TO THIS ACKhi. ' You can HAitD POTATuiCd i.v THIS VALLEY. RAl&V IllESl AND OKI MONEY 'OH THJSJU. Writs to us about tnls. Wa hav the most handsomely lllustratea booklet wrlusn aoooi thin, TUti i WIN i'ALLS Tit ACT tu ooulli. ern luaito. lust lias Lesn printed lor s loug Willie, it U migiity in loriiiin. too. it' is r iid, A.Nu Wli WILL Si-NL UMl Cupl' TO YOU IF VOL W1L.L JUol Wrtliol A 1'UbTAL CAHD it. WCS-ail WHlisi TODAs". J. E. WHITE TWIN FALLS, IDAHO. Ton don't "GUESS" nor "HEOaTON" nor "CALCVtm" whea you are farming a th Oakley project. A glxautlo Irrigation system wnich Impounds aU of Amii Creek, larnuag as wesiey sieeay. sais, sure. credit. A fine, aandv laaiu. dau I fcWsf imm J B W aro flying Ilka troplo winged birds, agalnat tho close cropped green of his last resting place. H!s people, now mighty Jn achieve ment and wealth, are Inviting the eastern men of capital. Industry, to come and make his home there. Times hsve changed and men have changed with them. Stephen L. Chipman, president of Alpine Btake, high ecclesiastlo of his church, and a man of mighty power lh the second wealth iest county of his stata, sits here, eager for this development to coma. L. F. Everyone California No region in the world can offer such wonderful all-the-year-'round attractions, or can be so easily and comfortably reached. 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