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Show s H ! " ' i THE SUN'S RATES i The Buns display advertising rites are forty (40) eenls an Inch per issue or $1.60 an inrh by the month four (4) a fir local advertiser. Transient, fifty (60) cents an inch per issue. Position la 26 per cent additional No display advertising accepted for the first (front) - Pace 1 readers are twenty-fiv- e See, cents per line an Issue. MVTON STATE BANK CREDITORS GET DIVIDENDS is-ur- si i It takes but one stepping stone to Volume reach the altar its a diamond. 12, AN Number 39 INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Week Ending February 19, ('hocks for the second dividend to the creditors of the Myton Slate bank arc being mailed out by Kruest Cl Robbins, deputy bank examiner in charge of the bank, niuking 40 per cent paid the creditors to date. Advices to this effect went received by 1926 the slate banking dejairtirient thu week. Bingham Canyon Suffers From a Big A valanche One of the worst snow slides that ever happened in the history of Utah occurred Wednesday of this week at Bingham Canyon,- in which some iersona met death while thirty and forty are reported missing. ;The following from yesterdays Salt La'ke Tribune tells of the feet They were toably twenty-fiv- e wheii Gibb Campbell, one of gether the night rescue crew, cut through the debris to them after having heard them call. Jimmy McDonald aiid hia wife yesterday purchased the boarding house from his inohter, Mrs. J. T. McDondisaster: ald, who was in Salt Lake City when BINOIIAM CANYON, Feb. 17. the slide wrecked the house, and owes This morning shortly after !i oelock her life, she said tonight, to the fact seventeen dwelling, housing families she had sold out. She came to that of miners einploj in the several when ahe learned of the avliingham properties in this&fiHi, anil a three alanche and was overjoyed when instory frame - bAftYthneKipse, were formed that her son had been found swept from thep !. jnhndations and safe. buried beneath Qie !on fishing thousMrs. McDonald has a broken left ands of tons of ipck.snow, iee and arm and is suffering from shock and other debris. This morning there come husband complains af Iler ex)Msure. a rumble, an 'all enveloping white his The extent of his inhip. right mist, a terrific crash, and the lives of juries has not been determined. nearly two score persona had been As a rule there were aliout a hunsnuffed out under the tangled wreck- dred and twenty boarders in the house age of splintered homes and tons of and of which fifty were night workclammily cold snow. ers and fifty day workers. The heaviest toll of life was taken The rescue work of the men who when the slide, which hod started from into the scrambled mass were not dug the top of what is known as Sap more heroic than the fine collective Gulch, some two miles distant, term- work of the and nurses who inated its precipitous rush in the main examined allphysicians bodies attended the and Bingham canyon after making match-woo- d injured. The physicians on duty inthree-story McDonald cluded Dr. F. . of the Straup of Bingham, boarding house in which more than in charge; Dr. Paul S. Richards and sixty persons, mostly miners, were Dr. Asa Dewey. Dr. Straup is also trapped in their rooms. In this frump of Bingham. The nurses were house more than fifty miners, just off mayor in charge of Miss Adeline Kunz, nurse the night shift, were in their rooms. of the Utah Copper company. The suddenness of the crash of the Resuscitated. Women is avalanche believed to have snuffed out thp lives of many of these men Mrs. Marvin A. Cay wood was taken without warning. The breaking out out unconscious ami owes her life to of fire . in the tangled ruins of the resuscitation work of the medical boardinghouse added horror to the staff. There was a flutter of her catastrophe and many of the bodies pulse as she was carried into the em were badly burned before the rescuers ergency hospital and rapid and effee- tire work saved her life. She is now conld extinguish the blnze. in the Bnigham hospital, suffering Rescuers Begin Work. from shuck and exKisure and is Work was immediately susjiended to recover. x in the and the Death resulted from suffocation in mines and more than 200 men a majority of the cases, anil most of started the harrowing task of remov- the dead succumbed before help could ing the living and the dead from the reach them. The bodies of some of ruins. Workmen of all nationalities, those in the boarding house were had Americans, Mexicans, Finlanders andljy burned, but death is believed to the scene of hnve resulted from suf fooaliou . and Spaniards, rushed-tchaos in what apjteared to be a futile not from burns. effort. The I Killies were first taken into the Two hotels operated by the mine einergeney hospital for purH)ses of company, the Boston No. 1 and No. 2, identification and then wrapped in escaped the slide, contrary to resrts blankets and placed in sleds lor the reaching some quarters that both were three-mil- e journey to the O'Donnell ' There destroyed. No. 2 is close to the scene mortuary in lower bingliam. of disaster and No. 1 is a quarter of was a certain grisly humor evidenced a mile away. in the trip to and from the undertakThe rescue work was courageous. ers. A group of men were riding up Workmen dared the flames of the to the mine in one of debris to rescue men, women and chil- the horse drawn sleds that had dren. Stretchers were rushed up the brought three bodies down. steep mountain wall and brought back Dead ones f asked a man passing with their pathetic inanimate forms. on the road. Miners drove shovels deep into the Yes, I guess so, hut they haven't snow in the hojic of rescuing a room- been notified, rescinded the driver mate and companion from suffocation of the team. or the fire. The task looked hoiieless Improvised Lights. to a witness, but not to the workmen. Frank A. Wardlaw Superintendent Rescuers drove their sharpbitted axes of the mine anil Dr. through pieces of housing that en- Straup curlier in the night had abanmeshed the snow and shovels dug deen doned hoe of anyone alive into the debris in search of comrades. from the ruins,recovering but llie work of Gne of the best stories of the disiu for bodies continued unabated aster was told by J. II. Rents as he under a flood of light hastily installed looked anxiously out of the door before dusk. Superintendent just through which the bodies were being Wardlaw and his1 assistants have reparried into the mine company office mained on the job at all times and building. ITc was hoping against through their efforts the work has hope, for he knew that somewhere in boon systematic and fruitful. those ruins were bis wife, his sister Today's snowslide is the most damand his brother. aging in point of lives taken in the Resembles Earthquake. history of the district. The slide is There was no warning other than believed to have been caused by a a thump and a trembling of the build- snowfall of a foot and a half in the he said. I twenty-fou- r hours preceding the time ing as in an earthquake, was buried beneath bedding, snow and of the disaster. This new snow, loose the walls and ceiling of iny room. and light on the crusted snow layer of Somehow or other I managed to drag the mountain towering above camp, is myself from the suffocating snow in- believed ot have been started by wind. fo the light and air and I was pulled The slide started gathering momentum as it descended and crashed down the free of the wreckage. My wife, Rents rontinued slow- mountainside. Coffee and sandwiches were served ly, was in the boarding house. The McDonald boarding house was by volunteer women workers in the owned and operated by Mrs. J. T. Mcoffice building. This Donald, who was in Salt Lake City service was of material value in keeplast night and today. In her absence ing up the morale of the workers and the house was managed by Mr. and the women who served and cheered Mrs. Jim McDonald, who were in the the men who were on duty from noon house at the time of the crash. Mr. until late tonight Among these woand Mrs. McDonald were taken from men were Mrs. D. Adams, Mrs. Wilthe ruins of their home alive and con- liam Eddgington, Mrs. Carl Grenning, scious at 10 :45 o dock tonight They Mrs. George Peterson, Mrs. John Gilwere pinned in the debris some dis- mer, Mrs. C. R. Fager, Mrs. James tance apart After he was brought to Jenson, Mrs. Maurice Bee, Miss Marthe emergenry hospital McDonald said garet Riley. Order Is Maintained. it took him several hours to dig his way to the place where his wife was Deputy Sheriff William Eildgingpinned down by a timber across her ton, in charge of the Highland Boy left arm. district, has maintained strict order at the scene of the disaster. In addition Cant Keep a Good Man Down. I did everything I could for her he has organized the two parties paMcDonald said as he lay on trolling Frisco Gulch to warn of any there, an improvised operating table. You other slides. Members of the party are armed with sawedoff shotguns cant keep a good man down. The rouplo were found under debris and are instructed to fire in the event and splintered timbers. McDonald of another slide. said that after the slide he called to List of dead, hurt and missing in hia wife, and then liegnn to dig Ms the Bingham snowslide: way through the snow and debris to THE KNOWN DEAD where she wus, being guided by the Sam Lahti or Saari. Sound of her voire. lie estimated that it took him five or six hours to dig Mrs. Bonnie Lillian Cole, 19, survivthrough the debris, a distance of prob- - ed by her husband, J. B. Cole. thir-tv-fi- The Golden Bookmark ve lav-twee-n 'v i . ' -- - 4 I . ft - ed Utah-Delawa- Utah-Ape- re o Utah-Delawa- re Utah-Delawa- re dig-in- g Utah-Delawa- '1 re At a luncheon held at noon today Friday), at the Castle Inn there was a large attendance, the Chandler of j CLUFF RULES Commerce annual membership drive Emery County School Board Is Viowas discussed ami put under way. lating the 8tate Law. George J. Constantine acted as chairman of the meeting while the followEmery county school Imard is vioT. lating the state law in holding donees ing committeemen were present, Brooks, L. A. McGee, Claude J. Em-pe- and giving shows in the school build- (. y, lien Stein, Ray Walters, Arthur L Smith, J. F. MaeKnight, L. R. Fullmer, Frank Grosso) It. C. lteeil and Secretary Ijaninnt Johnson. It was agreed 'lhat the fees for liiemlier-shi- p should be representative of the eommunity as a whole and not merely of the citys business interrots. For the drive Chairman Constantine divided the city into four districts as follows : Northwest J. F. MaeKnight, chairman; Claude Emjicy and Angus John- ing at Hiinington, says Mondays Deerct News. This was the opinion given Monday by Ifurvey II. Cluff, attorney general under a stato of facts presented by R. A. Howard, Emery rouuty attorney. Mr. Howard that shows were being given in the school building for which ft to thirty-fiv- o charge of twenty-fiv- e rents was made and also that ftt dances given in the building an admission of $1 was being collected. son. The money was being devoted toward Northeast Arthur N. Smith, chair- the eiipiort of the school and also man ; Jack K. Sotrey ami Bracken for building up student activities and Lee. was augmenting the funds realized Southeast L U. Fullmer, chair- from a $25 tuition fee. and It. C. lteeil. The comity attorney declared tbs man; Fred Lan-heSouthwest Ben J. Stein, rhainnan; school had refused to iay the license tax required by city ordinance on Ray Walters and Stylian Sines. The drive will cover a period of two the advice of the district Rujierintend-en- t weeks at the end of which the final that this ordinance was unconstireKirt will lie made, fees credited for tutional. the pronirlionate amount paid to date The state law expressly prohibits and the names obtained listed as the the use of the M'hoiil buildings for 1926 membership of the chamber. It commercial puriosea and the question is cxierted to get five hundred new .f whethtr the entertainments are members in this drive. The fees will fur commercial purioses is the deterlie $2.50 fur each individual mcmlier, mining factor in whether the city is while the business houses will lie as- entitled to collect the lieenso tax, sessed according to their business ca- aceiiiliiig to the opinion. Chairman Constantine anIf dances are simply a form of pacity. nounced that every man who had been school entertainment lor students and asked to serve in this drive had con- their iiarenla or if the shows be given sented to act, this promising well for by the students or as an entertainment the success of the nrganixat'on this for them the city would not be authorized to eollcct the Iiecnse fee. year. A motion was passed permitting Under the facts presented by the each committee to sign its own mem- county attorney Mr. Cluff declared L. A. it his opinion that the school buildbers regardless of division. McGee moved that each member on ing is being used for commercial This is in violation of the law, payment of dueg, lie prrocnled with a membership card, projierly signed by hut if the selioul authorities take the the secretary entitling him to admit- risk incurred and persist in holding tance to any Clinmher of Commerce in these entertainments the city would ' the country. The chairman of each he fully justified in insisting upon committee was supplied with appli- navinnet of the license tax, said Cluff. cation curds, receipt books, etc., in Answering a further inquiry Mr. preimratinii fur the work which is to (luff declured it was not required begin at once and pushed vigorously that a person pay apy projierty tax until the final rexrt date, two weeks before he was entitled to a seat on lienee. the city council at Hunington. The membership is open to anyone living in Price, Carbon county or the HARRY CUSHING SPENDS THE state of Uliih. DAY IN OUR CITY do-clnr- eil r Lloyd Nelson. John Falcon, 35. Leonard Van Newland, 10, sun of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Van Newland. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Van Newland, Highland Boy district, formerly of Chicago, survived by Elbe Van Newland, daughter, 2252 Clinton avenue, and Alice Van Newland, daughter, now in Bingham hospital suffering from shock and exjMJsure. Elsie Van Newland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Van Newland. Tom Dobeck, 33, Austraiu, single man, Highland Boy district. Mrs. .William Rimby, widow, four children. son of Mr. Thomas Tibhy, and Mrs. A. (1. Tibhy, Highland Boy district. Fred Matson. Mrs. Mary Davis. Tony C as caret, 40, wife .ind two children. Mr. and Mrs. Jose Atencia, cooks at the McDonald boarding house in the Highland Boy district. Mrs. J. H. Rents, Highland Boy district, survived by her husband, J. 11. Rents. Alderman Clawson, 41, Sjiriug C'ty, Utah, survived by a wife, mother, two daughters, two brut hers and tw. sisters. Sam PrimeR, Aus train, Highland Boy district, employe Miners Home KKlliall. Janies Sanderson, 22, single, Gunni son. Ben Benson, 40, PIcasHni Grove, survived by wife and one son Frank Miller, 34, single, Butte. Mrs. J. A. Caywood. 50, Highland Boy district, formerly of Colorado, survived by her husband and three sons, Marvin A. Caywood, Carroll Caywood and Rodney Caywood, all of Highland Boy district, and two daugh-erVirginia Caywood of Delta, Colo., ' and Artua Caywood of Denver. Frank or Joe Moneta. Rudolph Matson, single, 28, father at Hock Springs, Wyo. Frank Garhart. Dan Sullivan, 3!), single, Clarksdale, D. Dugan. Isaac Keranan, 50, single. ' Ariz. Mrs. John Beitia, and son, survived by her husband and four children, two of whom, Conchita, daughter, and John, son, are in the Bingham hospital. Purdell Caywood, 3, son of Marvin A. Caywood. Two men and one woman unidentified. Wallace Preator, 29, single, Murray. THE INJURED Mrs. Marvin A. Caywood, 25, Highland Boy district .shock ami eximsure. Tony Valasic, 22, Highland Boy district, ruts and Abrasions. Luther McCandless, Highland Boy district, hack anil head injured. John Perry, Highland Boy district, injuries to head, hack and leg. Mrs. Joe Vanovick, Highland Boy district, internal injuries and laceration of arm. Conchita Beitia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Beitia, exposure and frozen leg. son of Mr. John Beita, s, PRESIDENT A. W. HORSLEY IS TO HEAD RELIEF DRIVE President A W. Horsley of Price was yesterday apKiiiited by Governor George If. Dern to head the drive for funds for the Bingham disaster suf- ferers, receiving a telegram from the governor advising him of his appointment. CarUin countys quota will lie $3000 and President Ilorsley says he will lay all matters aside and get busy at once. He has named his committee for the various camps of the county and each man named is to act as chairman and can have as many on a committee as is needed to act with him. The ammintinent for the camps of the county follows: William Littlejohn, Clear Creek. Emil Austlund, Winter Quarters. William Bell, Scofield. James R. Ruche, Rolapp. E. E. Jones, Castle Gale. .1. E. Pettit, Heiner. Walter F. Clark, Kenilworth. Robert Howard, Peerless. George R. Murphy, Spring Canyon. W. J. El wood, Stnndardville. George C. Ntultz, Lntuila. B. F. Glenny, Rains. Walter Sliaw, Mutual. IL R. Kirkpatrick, Sunnysidc. J. I). Forrester, Hiawatha. A. E. Gibson, Gibsoninine. Thomas C. Harvey, Columbia. E. E. Branch, Wellington. Silas Rowley, Spring Glen. Glen Ballinger, Helper. W. J. Wetzel, Walt is. L. R. Fullmer, Prire. John Bcila, exposure and frozen foot. Jimmy McDonald, 27, Highland Boy District, injured hip, Bhoek, exposure. Mrs. Eva McDonald, 25, wife of Jimmy McDonald, fractured left arm, shork, exKisure. Miss Alice Van Newland, 17 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Van Newland, Highland Buy district, formerly of Chicago, exposure and shock. Wayne Hakalo, Highland Boy disanil Mrs. trict, fractured leg. Miss Vivian Rimby, 17, daughter of Mrs. William Rimby, Highland Boy district, feet injured and right leg frostbitten. MISSING These are believed to have been residents of Sap Gulch in the district, and thought to he buried under the wreckage: A. Van Zanton. W. O. Smith. George CozzeL J. E. Ferry. Leslie 0. Chappie. R. F. Mackey. A. F. Vale. George Williams. F. F. Morgan. W. R. Morgan. J. J. Carter. L. F. Jordan. Carbon Estey. M. C. Allen. James Bailey. Ernest Christensen. Lawrence Harper. Claries Lee. E. Folton. E. J. Johnson. Mrs. Ed Halvorsen. Ralph Halvorsen. pur-Imisc- s. FORMER PRICE LADY MARRIED Hurry Cushing, general passenger AT SALT LAKE CITY agent of the Denver and Rio Grande Western, sttipix.il off in Price today Miss Jennie Branch, formerly of (Friday) between trains, on his way Price, but of late years residing at to Salt Lake City from a trip to DelSalt Lake City, was recently married ta, Colo., where he attended the eev- on her return from Oukland, Calif., to enth annual farmers spree in that city Gerald C. Scliring of that city, depot Thursday. Cushing was traveling in n train agent for the Salt Lake Superintendent Stacks private car and Yellow Cali company. and came in mi No. 1 and laid over Tu their honor the company gave them until No. 3. Accompanying Cnsliing a wedding reception at the Fourteenth were Mayor Chiron Neslen and J. (. ward amusement hall where the even- II. Mandcrfield of the Salt Lake stock ing was spent in dancing anil a musi- yards and young Harry Cushing, Jr!, cal program. The company present- a nephew. Messers. Neslen and ed them with a beautiful chest of going on to Salt I.nke silver. There were around a hundred did not stop. Cushing reKirts aCity, big and fifty guests present. Miss Brunch time at the farmers meeting, somewas the honored guest at a number of thing lige one thousand being in attshowers, among which was the follow- endance. Each member of the party ing. A beautiful a pointed luncheon made talks at the meeting and an inand shower was given Thursday at teresting program was carried out. In the home of Mrs. George Lee, in honor every way it was a big success. of Mrs. O. C. Sebring, a recent bride. Valentine decorations were used. The BLACK HAWK MERCANTILE IS hostess was assisted by Mrs. F. Ark. WIPPED OUT BY FIRE The guests present were Mrs. G. C. The Black Hawk Mercantile, locatSebring, Mrs. J. E. Galloway, Mrs. I. B. Powell, Mrs. C. A. Guiwitz, Mrs. ed about a mile from the main town W. M. Scainunt, Mrs. Olive Millburn, of Hiawatha, was totally destroyed Mrs. F. R. Clark Anil Mrs. II. Lund, by fire early Monday morning of this all formerly Prire people; Mrs. M. week. The fire was discovered around Moroney, Mrs. George Doyle, Mrs. E. 5 o'clock a. m. and in a few minutes T. Mylar, Mrs. E. Wicker, Mrs. W. was a total loss, the Sealzo family McBratncy, Mrs. Nora Hughes, Mrs. barely escaping with their lives. The P. J. McKenna, Mrs. U. A. Hunt, Mrs. stuck, amounting to around $75,000, F. Ark and the hostess,' Mrs. George was covered by insurance totaling about 70 per cent of its value. The E. Lee. store was owned by Sum Sealzo who BOY SCOUTS AT KENILWORTH will rebuild at once a fireproof buildARE MAKING GOOD ing. Owitig to the inadequate water supply the building burned in about Last week at Kenilworth the Boy two hours. Books, accounts and other Scouts of that place held their meet- valuable pnix'rs that were in a fireing in the scluxil house and were as- proof xafe are thought to he in good sisted by Executive William B. Hawk- condition. Mrs. Kcnlzo and baby have ins who found them well up iu their gone to Salt Lake City to be with her work and taking on new life ns iu the mother until the business gets under past. The work wns put on hv Scout way again. Master J. M. MePliie, assisted by Tlu two year old daughter of Mr. Barru Jones, Ralph Young and Lester Blackburn. First came the allegiance and Mrs. Valton Tucker of Clear to the flag, song, Star Spangled (reck, died recently at Fuirvicw from Banner, and a safety first demon- pneumonia following whooping cough. stration by J. M. MePliie. The fire The family were visiting at Fairvicw drill was given by the school und a when (he child died, funeral services were held iu that city last week. good many oilier interesting things. Trans-ortatio- Man-ilerfie- lil L |