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Show ' I SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH NEWS OF A WEEK III RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. The Midwest Refining company, principal purchaser of crude oil iu the Salt Creek field, in Wyoming, has announced that acceptances of oil would be increased from Go to 75 per cent on the fields production as the result of the completion of additional storage at the Casper tank farm. A prune shipment, believed to be the biggest fruit shipment ever sent from the Northwest, will leave Portland this month for Germany, according to announcement at Salem, Ore. It comprises 1,450,000 pounds of Italian prunes grown in Oregon and Washington. The body of Jack Lindermood, aged 42, night marshal at Fontaine, Colo., was found there early Friday. He had been shot through the heart. It is believed Lindermood was killed while attempting to frustrate a robbery in a grocery store. The hip pocket sandwich will soon replace the hip pocket flask, according to backers of the discovery of V. II. Cranlear of Burlington, Colo., who announced he can convert a watermelon into a still that needs no watching while it makes a fine grade of liquor. Longmont, Colo., will have no Sunday baseball games. By a vote of 914' to 722 advocates of no Sunday baseball won at the city election. Members of the American legion and practically all young people' were in The baseball.favor of Sunday churches opposed it vigorously. Hooch fruit as a substitute for home brewed liquor will result if the erperiment of V. N. Chanlear, prominent watermelon grower at Burlington, Colo., proves a success. Chanlear, who has made hundreds of experiments, declares he has found a way whereby , every watermelon can be made into a natural still. DOMESTIC. An attempt to poison Judge Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the board of directors of the Union Pacific system, was revealed at Omaha when a maid employed at the Fontenelle hotel told Captain of Detectives Candu-seshe had been offered $500 by a foreigner to slip poison into a glass of water and serve it to Lovett. n A jury the circuit court has returned a verdict holding invalid the will of Mrs. Mattie Marble, under which the girls industrial 'home of Bloomington, 111., would have received $125,000. The verdict is in favor of. Mrs. Mamie Marble, and she and her four children of Seattle, Wash., are to in. receive $S7,000. Miss Gussie Learner, 18 years old, stenographer, admitted, police said, (hat the holdup at the Hayman Brother jewelry manufacturing establishment in New' York, was staged by Harry IIeyman, with her assistance, after it had been thoroughly rehearsed by them for the past two weeks. Wedding guests of Mrs. Earl of Belvidere, 111., tried to kidnap the bride following the cefemony. In the tussle that followed she was thrown to the sidewalk and her skull ' injured. Removal of the prohibition on beer and light wines will be one of the law league purposes of the anti-blu- e of America granted a charter in Delaware. Eleven persons were injured, two of them probably fatally, when a motor stage operating between Bakersfield and Taft, Cab, was struck by a train. Carl Hendrickson, 17, of Newark, N. J., has been sentenced to finish his present school year and serve his vacation next summer in the reformafor mantory, after a conviction a small in boy iu an killing slaughter automobile accident. David J. Grauman, veteran theatrical man of the Pacific coast, died at Los Angeles, aged G8. He and his vauson established the first deville theatre in America in San Francisco eighteen years ago. The soldiers bonus bill, the most issue of Moimportant state-wid- e ndays election in Michigan, carried the state by a 3 to 1 majority. The bonus question vote approves an amendment to the state constituion which will 'authorize the issuance of $30,000,000 of bonds with which to pay and nurses a reward amounting Ho $15 each, i Cop-ping- 10-ce- nt er legalizing the practice of Science was passed by the house by a vote of 53 to 3S. subjects Christian Science practice to state quarantine laws. son of Enton The Honzolak was drowned in a bucket of water at Dilworth, Texas, while his mother was outside feeding chickens. Ie fell head foremost into the bucket. The first indictment at St. Louis charging a woman with voting illegally lias been returned, by the grand jury in its investigation of alleged election frauds. Damage approximated at a quarter million dollars was done at Clarendon, Tex., when a cyclone struck the main .street of the city, smashing plate glass windows, wrenching awnings and signs out of place and leav big debris in its wake. Fire broke out, business buildings!' destroying WASHINGTON. Representatives of the owners of $12,000,000,000 worth of railroad securities have asked President Harding to arrange a conference between employes and railroad managers and at the same time to take up the question of effecting economies in railroad operation. Wages of common labor on the railroads of the country must not be arbitrarily slashed, the United States railroad labor board has ruled. Both sides of a wage controversy must come before the board and present their cases and a ruling of the board given before a wage cut can become effective, it was declared. Forecast of a winter wheat crop of about 021,000,000 bushels was made April 7 by the department of agriculture, basing its estimate on the condition of the crop April 1, which was 91.0 per cent of a normal. The doom of the treaty of Versailles so far as the United States is concerned, was pronounced definitely by President Harding on April 5. In unmistakable words, the president, speaking to newspaper men, made it clear that he was convinced there is no practical way in which the United States can consider ratifying the A bill Christian Nebraska The bill tlie treaty. Shortage of funds in the appropriation for transportation of personnel caused the war department to issue an order restricting the movements of enlisted men in foreign service until after July 1. FOREIGN. Fifty pistols and 30,000 rounds of ammunition, all American made, were seized in Juarez by customs men under command of Rafael Davila, when a house on a main street was raided. The ammunition, packed as if for shipment, was intended for bandits in southern Chihuahua. Investigation of the attempted return of former Emperor- - Charles to the Hungarian throne has been demanded at a meeting of agrarian members of the Hungarian national assembly. Contracts for the lease of oil lands in the state of Tabasco will not be recognized by the Mexican government unless they receive the sanction of the department of commerce and industry, says an official announcement issued at Mexico City. Consideration of the British mandate over Mesopotamia will be begun at the next meeting of the league' of nations, which, will be held June 6, Mr. Lloyd George has written to Sir J. D. Rees, member of the house of commons, who inquired regarding the subject. Such degrees as doctor of cheese and bachelor of butter making may be conferred upon churning graduates of the University of Alberta, Canada. A professorship in butter and cheese making has been added to the faculty. The National Union of Railwaymen of England have unanimously decided to support the coal miners in their strike. The executive body of the rallwaymens union decided to consult immediately with the transport workers organization for the purpose of taking the most effective and immediate steps to assist the miners. Fire which swept the Asakusa district of Tokio, destroyed 3 GOO buildings and rendered a total of 5000 homeless, a survey of the fire zone showed. The fire was the biggest in Japan since 1912. Germany will submit to the allied supreme council specific proposals for the reconstruction of the devastated regions of northern France in a note which is now being prepared and which will be dispatched before May 1, it was announced officially at Berlin. . Owners of the gambling concession in Juarez have received a telegram from Governor Ignacio Enriquez of Chihuahua, ordering them to close their gambling places within thirty days. Nine survivors of the famous hunger strike conducted in the Cork jail by Skin Fein prisoners last autumn have been removed from the jail to the detention barracks connected with military headquarters. UTAH NEWS REVIEW Friday, April 15, ims pocn named by Governor Mabeyas Arbor day. A commercial club lias beeu organized at Soldier Summit, starting out with forty-eigmembers. Ieter Mu ran go, 5G years of attempted to kill himself at Ogden, has been adjudged insane. The annual couveution of the Utah State Pharmaceutical association will be held at IiOgan May 20 and 27. Arthur Purser suffered a broken arm and Martin Woolfe a cut and severly bruised hand as the result of an auto collision at Logan. The county crops and pets inspector estimates the peach crop loss in Salt Lake valley as a result of the freezing Weather last week at GO per cent. Irwin Davis, aged 20, employed at a cafe in Salt Lake, suicided while on duty, shooting himself through the head, following a fit of despondency. A tottal of S2.000 acres of land in Millard county is to be drained as a result of a favorable vote in two bond elections held recently in that county. Approximately $2000 has been received in the last month by the state from board of land commissioners leases on lands under Great Salt Lake. Of the $40,000 in bonds voted b.v Wasatch county for school purposes, $33,000 lias been set aside for a new school building to be erected in Soldier . Summit. n Miss Vina Nielson, daughter of on a died Nielsen of Huntsville, train between Scofield and Salt Lake while being taken to tie capital to un' dergo an operation. More than $300 has been realized in the drive being condjieted by the Phillips Congregational Christian Endeavor society at Salt Lake for the Chinese famine fund. Hereafter electric light globes purchased by the state of ttah will be inscribed Property of tiie State of Utah, frosted indelibly on the glass. This is done to prevent tiieft of globes. Alexander Gordner of Provo was cut on the right slieek, and his brother, Samuel Gordner, also of Provo, was slightly injured when their automo-mobilran into a street car at Salt Lake. Matthew S. Browning, capitalist of Ogden, was elected president of the Amalgamated Sugar company, to succeed the late Anthon if. Lund, at the held at meeting of the directors, Ogden. Reports from various points in Utah county with regard to the condition of orchards indicate that up to the present time no material damage has been done by the recent cold weather and storms. The Logan chamber of commerce has received a communication from Major B. M. Atkinson, commanding officer of Mather field, California, asking for information for a landing field for airplanes in or near Logan. The state ,board of equalization has about completed the assessment of mining property in the state, and plans to begj on a tour of inspection of the railroads which, as public utilities, are assessed by the state board rather than by count assessors. Notices have been sent out by Collector or Internal Revenue D. C. Dunbar to proprietors of soda fountains, calling attention to the provision of the special tax levy which requires the keeping of daily records of the sales and the tax paid thereon. Professor Orson Ryan, for many years prominent in educational work in Utah and former head of the Jordan school district, has been selected by the board of education of Logan City to succeed Professor Henry Peterson as city superintendent of schools. Hereafter boys and girls committed to tne state industrial school at Ogden will, before being actually sent to the institution, be subjected to tests in mentality and other psychological activity by experts of the University of Utah, engaged in such work. , Appointment by Governor Mabey last week of a state welfare commission, in accordance with a lawT passed by the last legislature, marks what advocates of the movement hope will be an important step forward in the cause of a proper organization of welfare work in the state. The body of an unknown man was discovered last week by a sheepherder on a rocky ledge beneath an old pinion pine tree overlooking Carbonville, which is about four miles northwest of Price. The mystery of the discovery is the inaccessbility of the place, there being a ledge below and one above where the body was found. W. J. Bliss, sheriff of Grand county for several terms, was declared again (9 be sheriff of that county by a decision of the supreme court of the state last week. Sheriff Bliss had received a majority of five votes at the election last November, but his Democratic opponent, 'John B. Skewes, was able to have Bliss ousted, on a charge of violation of the corrupt practice act. ASTORIA For Infants and Children. ht age,-wh- An-tho- e , ,, Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Mi? 1 '' AclahleRcparatiaiBrAs similatinthclood byKcgula . Always Bears the Ym Signature fits) fiKKSS&H 5" In Use oiSfiSSgg- -l mdtindtherefroffl-fo- US For Over 3 Thirty Years $-41- . Exact Copy of Wrapper. BUILD IGLOOS FORGET PASSAGE OF TIME Indians No Longer Satisfied Neither at Work or in the Hours of the Primitive Houses of Play Does It Pay to Watch Snow of Their Fathers. the Clock. Eskimo With It OF CONCRETE THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. a matter of government recognition that the Eskimo Indians of the Pribilof islands are rapidly gaining in sophistication, as the prices of the sealskins and blue and gray fox pelts they sell mount higher and higher. Those bits of frozen land in Bering sea, whose total area is Jess than seventy square miles, have only about 350 inhabitants, yet they are being assailed by all the aspirations of prosperity and 'are ' beginniifg to buy the most interesting items the catalogues offer,- - So United States engineers are building them igloos of concrete, says Popular Mechanics Magazine, thus substituting the most substantial of materials for what seems, from the temperate-zon- e viewpoint, the most ephemeral. The builders, however, are careful to adhere closely to the native style of architecture. At only one time does the average human being measure time with effort, and that is when he is goaded by fear. Scare a man with impending disaster, with bodily danger or with death and he becomes really active. Time doesnt drag then. The clock hands, if he took time to look at them, would seem like racehorses in their speed. Dont be a clock watcher. Work while you work with so much energy, so much interest that time doesn't matter. Play when you play with so much abandon, so much enthusiasm that the day passes without your measurement. ' The man who measures time in cycles or circles is wrong. Time must be computed in a straight line along which there is no backward ' motion. You can never have yesterday again. Needn't Worry About That. If you wasted it, try and make' today A western man advertising for a do double duty. But you cant do that wife says he wants a woman with if you watch the clock. F. A. Walker ideas. Hell get that no matter what in Chicago Daily News. woman lie marries. Boston Transcript. Awful Blunder: What cured Cholly of flirting? 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