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Show : Pint Qail Job Printing 041. a ed. Subscriber? Are Yoa At living prices. Let us have your next order for anything you want print If not please remember will youf subscription help make this paper strong a thing necessary for an unsurpassed news service. Rich County News printing is synonymous with art and efficiency. BEACHES EVERY NOOK AND COBNEE OF BICH COUNTY : TWENTY-THIR- D YEAR. rr : RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1920. NUMBER 49. EIGHT MEET DEATH UTAH BUDGET E TO BE PROSECUTED TRIUMPH OF REVOLUTIONISTS FORECAST BY EVENT8 OF -- PA8T FEW DAYS. Greater Portion of the Country in the Hands of Rebels' and Carranza Seeking Escape from Enemies, if Not Already a Prisoner. El PaSo. i . ' All of Mexico except the Campeche and Chiapas and the northern part of the territory of Lower California, is in the states of Yucatan, hands of the revolutionists, according to a bulletin given out by the local consulate of the Liberal Constitutionalist party. - The claim Is also made that Presl-- . tleut Carranza' is now a prisoner, In the hands of the revolutionists. On the other hand it is asserted that President Carranza, whose train was stopped at Aplzaco by revolutionary forces on Saturday, has succeeded In breaking through the rebel 'lines and has come twenty miles nearer Vera " Cruz. ; . . General Alvaro Obregon has ordered Carranza returned to the City of Mex Ico, with all consideration, lordering all commanders not to kill nor mistreat any one of his company. The City of Mexico Is quiet, according to a statement by a revolutionary leader? Orders have been issuedi by Governor Adolfo de la Huerta, executive of the Liberal Constitutionalist government, in compliance with his statements that all gambling be stopped In all territory controlled by his government, which practically is the whole republic, for only three states had failed to recognize the movement headed by the state of Son . ora. . - . From all reports, Tampico, Vera Cruz, Monterey and Puebla, as well as Mexico City, are held by rebels. Meanwhile the American government, while continuing'' a 'policy oI watchful waiting, is taking measures to afford refuge to Americans. There are estimated to be 6000 or 7000 in Mexico, some draft dodgers and radicals who fled to escape the law. For the most part, however, that class probably Is far in the. interior, and .Americans who might avail themselves of aid are principally oil men and planters along the gulf. . WATSON GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE Admits Murdering Nine Women, ,Yet Escapes Death Penalty. Los Angeles. A total of nine mur--' lers of women he had married has been confessed by the man who, under the name of James P. Watson, was sentenced on May 10 to life imprisonment for the murder of Nina Lee Deloney, according, to Thomas Leo Woolwlne, district attorney. The alleged confessions, according to the district attorney, accounted for all those missing among the twenty or more women the man was said to have married. In addition the man asserted - his true name was Dan Holden, and that lie had been born of a "respectable family in Arkansas, where he was reared. Like the original Bluebeard, Watson, or Holden, took one wife too many and through her was turned over to the authorities. She was Mrs. Kath-Ty- n Wombacher, formerly of Tacoma, Wash., whom he married last Novem-- . ber in Seattle, under the name of Walter Andrews. VILLA GIVES ARMY TO REBELS Career of Noted Bandit Declared to be at an End. Juarez. Francisco Villas days of banditry and constant menace in all attempts to establish stable government in- Mexico and to the relations between this republic and the United States are ended, according to a report reaching here. Leaders of fhe new revolution displayed visible relief at the announcement that Villa had laid down his arms and turned his men over to General Ignacio Enriquez, revolutionary commander of the Chihuahua district. It is announced that Villa will settle down on a plantation. Villa was one of President Carranzas first supporters and later one of his most troublesome enemies. It remains to be seen whether he will remain quiet ' ' upon his plantation. DISREGARD FOR ORDERS SAID TO HAVE CAUSED HEAD-OCOLLISION NEAR PORTLAND. PROFITEERING Train Action Of IN IS CHARGED COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST SUGAR COMPANY. Come Together at High Rate Speed, Passengers Being Piti-- r fully Crushed, Few Escaping ' Injury. Brought Under the Lever Act Against the Utah-ldah- o Sugar Company, Three Instances of Excessive Charges Being Alleged. . Portland, Ore. Eight persons were killed outright and seventy others, two of whom were seriously and five critically, Injured when two electric trains on the Southern Pacific railroad collided head-o- n at Bertha station, ten miles west of here, Sunday. ' The accident was apparently due to disregard for orders by the crew of the incoming train, according to a statement made by C. W. Martin, assistant superintendent of the Southern Pacific. , The train is said to have had orders to pass the outbound train at Bertha station, but instead of stopping there, it passed on through at a high rate of NEED HALF BILLION speed. Just as fhe train neared a curve beyond the station limits, which swings around a high bank, the train from Portland came in sight two or three hundred feet away. Despite emergency brakes applied on both the with speed trains, they met head-on- , practically unchecked. g The forward car of the' train bored Into and the tnrough the vestibule of the forward car of the train and plunged .on through Into a coach filled with men, women and children. They were caught there and pitifully crushed as the trains crashed. Virtually every person in this car not killed outright was Injured in some manner. out-bou- fast-goin- ' - :- -V RAIL HEADS ARE ASKING 'FOR SHIPPING BOARD DENIED DIRECT IMMENSE SUM TO PURCHASE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE NEW EQUIPMENT. ENSUING YEAR. Serious and General Car Shortage This Action of Congress May Result in Exists and Roads Have Been Failure to Recondition German Unable to Borrow Money oit- Ships and Cause Them to be Their Own Credit ' Sold at a Sacrifice. FOR COVENANT 8UPPORT President Declares Honor of Nation ia at 8JUke. '' Washington. A call to the Democratic party to gq into the campaign In favor of the tending our-squa- Railroad executives Washington. Washington. By strict party votes, have asked congress for an additional the house on May 7 approved the pro$500,000,000 with which to buy rolling vision in the sundry civil approstock during the coming year.' i . priations bill, which the administraAppearing before the senate Inter- tion officials admit will force the sale state commerce committee on May 6, of the former German liners and ships representatives of the railroads de- owned by the shipping board as soon clared that a serious and general Car as the merchant marine act, now pendshortage existed through the middle ing, becomes a law. west and that they were unable ton -- The bill denibs any direct approprlf Vfc. borrow, money on. tbclr wn-crlplug . board freight 'Caraneeded to remedy the silt3 Itles during the ensuing fiscal year i uation. , ' Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsylvania system, speaking for the roads, said that the government, if it furnished the money, should take equipment trust certificates for security and hold them until they could be sold advantageously to general investors. Some idea of what the roads needed in the way of equipment was given the committee by E. N. Brown, chairman of the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad, who declared the present shortage amounted to 226,000 freight cars, 3l90 locomotives and 6000 passenger cars. He believed they could get along for a time with 100,000 freight cars and 2000 locomotives, the total cost of which was estimated at - qrj-thes- ed treaty of Voraallles and against the senate's reservations was Issued May 9 by President Wilson In a telegram to Oregon Democratic leaders made public at the White House. Declaring that the party had the honor of the nation In Its hands, the president said that the Lodge reservations were utterly inconsistent with that honor, as well as destructive of the role of world leadership which the United States must assume. The only true Americanism, the president said, was that which puts America at the front of free nations and redsems the great promlees which we made to the. world. It would be a violation of such promises, he said, to attach reservations to the treaty $616,000,000. Mr. Brown testified that the carwhich whittle it down or weaken it riers had paid as high as 7 per cent senas the Republican leaders of the on equipment funds in the Interest ate have proposed to do. open market and finally had beqn told Iowa 8enator Makes Charges. that $150,000,000 was all that could Washington. Major General Woods be borrowed for that purpose. Western railroads need an additional presidential candidacy was the vehicle for another shower of fireworks In $352,893,000 to bring their net income the senate, Friday, when Senator Ken- up to the 6 per cent on their propyon, Republican, Iowa, charged that erty investment of $8,963,883,000 prothe DuPont Interest virtually had vided by the transportation act, the threatened to attack the Wood boom interstate commerce commission was unless Senator Moses of New Hamp- Informed by Samuel M. Felton of Chishire, one of the generals campaign cago, chairman of the western execumanagers, desisted in his opposition tive rate committee. To provide this sum, freight rates in to the pending Ijill to protect the the territory west of the Mississippi American dyestuff industry. must be increased 24 per cent, he said. JOSEPHUS DANIELS Woman Convicted of Shooting. Tacoma. Julia Smith, charged with e assault for shooting Prosecutor W. D. Askren on April 3, was found guilty by a jury in superior court Saturday. Askren had prosecuted the woman and she was to have gone to the penitentiary after Askren was shot. -- first-degre- - Uncle Joe Celebrates Anniversary. Washington. Former Speaker Cannon was 84 years old on May 7. Members of the house gave the Illinois representative, an ovation when Representative Mondell, the Republican leader, announced that this was Un- cle Joes birthday anniversary. ' Pitchers Released for Gambling. San Francisco. Casey Smith and tom Seaton, leading pitchers on the SaU Francisco ball team In the Pacific Coast league, have been unconditionally released, following charges of gambling made by the manager. Slavs to Continue Parley. London. Authorization for the continuation of direct negotiations with Secretary Josephus Daniels has Italy on the Adriatic question has launched a vigorous counter offensive been given by the Jugo-Sla- v governRear Admiral Sima In his tesment, according to a Rome dispatch to against before the senate timony investigating the Exchange Telegraph company. ommittee. - League Budget Million and Quarter. The budget of exWashington. penses of the league of nations from its organization up to July 1 will total The figapproximately $1,250,000. ures will be presented to the league, council at Rome. This sum Includes both direct and Indirect expenditures, the latter covering preliminary tfosts of numerous commissions and other bodies, and the total represents the complete organization period of the league machinery. . - Unusual Fatality Reported. Sioux City. J. W. Lyftogt died here hours after he put Friday, twenty-fou- r a stone the size of 4 golf ball in his mouth. The stone became lodged In his throat and could not be removed. HENRY CABOT LODGE cruiting. Jack Vincent, aged 7, of Garfield, was run down by an automobile and' so severely injured that he died, an hour later. Mrs. Caroline Carlson has disappeared from her home in Pleasant search is beGrove, and a. state-wid- e ing made for her. The senate has confirmed the selection of Mrs. R. E. L. Collier to be eollector of customs for Utah, with offices at Salt Lake. Sixty carloads of sugar have been shipped out of Utah in the past few mouths by speculators, according to unofficial reports circulated about Salt -- Socialists Attack President. An attack on the administration of President Wilson and a prediction that the Socialist party would poll more than two million votes in the presidential campaign were made by Morris Hillqult, temporary chairman of the Socialist national convention, at its opening session New York. here, May 8. Dempseys Trial In Juno. The United States district attorneys office announced Saturday that It was ready to proceed with the trial of Jack Dempsey, world's champion heavyweight, and bis manager, Jack Kearns, on charges of conspiracy to evade the draft laws, and hoped to have the trial conducted in June. San Francisco. Ukraine Capital Falls to Poles. Warsaw. Polish army headquarters received word that Polish cavalry occupied Kiev Saturday morning. The infantry was less than six piiles from Kiev with the advance continuing virtually without resistance by the Convicted of Girls' Murder. Bolsheviki. Pontiac, Mich. A jury in circuit court found Anson Best, a Flint, Mich., Forecast Shows Wheat Decrease. youth, guilty of the murder of Miss Washington. Winter wheat producVera Schneider, a telephone operator, It is announced that Senator Henry tion this year was forecast at whose body was found on the porch Cabot bushels, or 83.8 per cent less Lodge has been selected as of an unoccupied dwelling here April temporary chairman of the Republithan last years crop, by the depart-me25. of agriculture on May 8. can national convention. 484,-647,0- 00 nt f Lake. Bids are being sought for the drainage of 5000 acres of land included in the Benjamin district. The district gives promise of becoming good sugar beet land. Indications point to an increase vn the acreage of alfalfa in Cache county this year, in spite of the higher prices being paid for the culture of sugar beets. Good work has beeu accomplished by hunters for the state and federal government in the southwestern tier of counties this spring by '? for coyotes. A citizens committee at Salt Lake has Issued a plea to the teachers to sign contracts for the school year with the hope that provision may be made for an increase in salary. will not appre. Prices of lumber ciably decline in the next six months, wras the consensus of opinion expressed at a meeting a few days ago of the Salt Lake Lumbermen. Great preparations are being made g for the of B. Y. U. students at Provo, May 26, 27 and 28, and It Is expected an immense crowd will' be in the Utah county metropolis, ' Until the winter season arrives, the clerks and "business ' men of Spanish Fork will have a half holiday on Fri- balnea? men ddys ' having agreed to the proposition-,- ; Motor equipment for the quartermaster corps of the Utah National, guard to be assigned to cavalry and field artillery, has been provided to completion of a few formalities. ; John Williams, living near Spanlsn ' Fork, suffered serious injuries when a jack which he was using to raise a car gave way and the car ran over him, his shoulder blade and collar bone being broken. Miss Jennie Anderson of Thatcher was run down by a motorcycle at Brigham City, where she was attending school, and o seriously injured Miat fehe will be forced to give up her school work for this year. The Farnsworth Canal & Reservoir company of Mountain Home is applying to the state engineer for the priviof water, lege of storing 2500 acre-feto be nsed in watering 6480 acres already nnder ditch. Juab countys valuation this yrr, as fixed by the county assessor, Is more than $1,000,000 greater than the valuation on which the county paid Its taxes last year. This is an increase of about 15 per cent In one year. The state road commission has decided to with the Union Pacific Railroad company on a fifty per cent basis in the' construction of a viaduct over the railroad companys tracks at Rlverdale, Weber county. That Walter Anderson Watson, the Los Angeles Bluebeard, was iu Ogden for some time, going under the name of ,E. E. Heese, after he had murdered one of his wives at Tecum-seh- , 'Neb., is the belief of local officers. The awarding of a contract by the Union Pacific .Railroad company to the Utah Construction company for the building of a stretch of thirty-fiv- e miles of grading for double track between Leroy, Wyo., and Wasatch, Utah, Is announced. Mystery surrounds the disappearance of Lee Sherman, aged 43, who failed to return to his home in Ogden after cashing a check, his checkbook being found on the bank of the river. It is feared he was murdered, robbed and his body thrown into the river. Five of the ten leaders of the illegal switchmens strike, arrested at Salt Lake several weeks ago by government agents on charge of violating the transportation and Lever acts, have been bound over to the November grand jury of the United States district court The department of justice, unable to understand the advance in the Utah-ldahsugar price fnom $13.50 per hundred to $22.75, has directed United States Attorney Isaac Blair Evans at Salt Lake to make a thorough investigation and report his findings to the attorney general. g - home-comin- . 1 making an unjust and Unreasonable rate and charge in handling and dealing in sugar, by selling to the Anderson-Taylor company 100 bags of sugar at the rate of $23,838 a hundred pounds. In the third count the same accusation Is made on the sale of 125 bags at $22.75 to the same company. In both Instances the charge is made that the sugar did not cost in excess of $9.50 a bag to manufacture. Death Closes Romantic Career. Budapest. Death has closed - the romantic career of - Baron Ernest Wallburg, born to a peasant girl and acknowledged as son by the late Archduke Ernest. The late Emperor Francis Joseph gave him the title of baron, a princely allowance and liberal education. The allowance was reduced when he married a poor girl and was cut off entirely when he attempted to obtain restitution. . , l5 or d ASKS Salt Lake City. Charges of selling sugar at an unjust and unreasonable' price are made against the Utah-ldah- o Sugar company In a complaint filed with the clerk of the Second judicial district court of the United States court on May 8. The action Is brought uuiler the Lever food control law. Immediately following the issuance of the complaint a warrant was Issued for the arrest fit Merrill Nibley, aa vice president and assistant general manager of the company. He appeared before Henry V. Van Pelt, United States commissioner, and furnished bond In the amount of $5000. The complaint, which wag sworn- to before Mr. Van Pelt by Floyd T. Jack-soacting special agent of the department of justice, accuses the sugar company of selling aqd delivering to the Anderson-Taylo- r company 100 bags of sugar at $23,838 a bag May 1, and bags at $22.7& a bag Sh May 4. It Is set forth In the complaint that this sugar cost the Utah-ldah- o Sugar company approximately $9.50 to produce and, therefore, the price at which It was sold to the Anderson-Taylcompany was an unfair, unjust and unreasonable rate, and in consequence the manufacturer, by making this sale at the prices named violated the federal act prohibiting ' an unreasonable profit on foodstuffs. The sugar company is charged In three counts with violation of the Lever act. ,.In the first two counts the company is accused of knowingly The Salt Lake, navy recruiting star tion has received a mQving picture! machine, which wlU be used to aid re- fuhirc.-i.irt&rtu- a o |