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Show mt. Mfei? latter mp Editorial and Telegraphic Section News of the World for Busy Readers TREMONTON, UTAH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1919. ROAD III BASIN CARNEGIE UINTAH A GREAT PROMISED NOTED ACTION TAKEN BY GROUP OF UTAHNS OUTCOME OF RECENT TRIP MADE BY GOVERNOR. MAGNATE And Then CLOSES CAREER AND PHILAN- - , . . Crew Killed When Engine Overturns BRITISH UNCOVER CONSPIRACY. Engineer Joseph Trinidad, Colo. Alexander was killed and Fireman S. Arrests Expected to Follow RevoluJ. Elliott seriously injured Tuesday tionary Propaganda in England. ,Vhen the locomotive of Colorado SouthLondon. At least one important arern train No. 8 overturned on the rest is to follow the details of a revoof Waisenburg. Both are Den- lutionary conspiracy directed by Len-In- e ver men. One baggage car and a comand Trotzky against the United bination coach left the rails. No pas- States, Britain, Japan and Italy, un sengers or members of the crew were covered this afternoon. hurt. Buckling of a rail is said to Thousands of books and pamphlets liave caused the accident. appealing to the workmen to revolt against the present government have Ulster Unionists Are Again Aotive. been circulated in England and ScotBelfast. After an address in which land, and many were seized in a- raid, ' Edward Carson, leader of the Ul- news of which did not become public ster Unionists, told the Ulster Union- until late Monday. One pamphlet, signed with the names ist council that it was "necessary for Ulster to be prepared to prevent any of Lenine, Trotzky and Tchitcherin mcroachments on its llbetries," it was (the Russian Bolshevist, foreign min decided to revive the Ulster political ister), was addressed "to the toiling club which have been abandoned dur- masses of America, France, Britain, ing the war and celebrate Covenant Italy and Japan ; an appeal of the day, September 28, with a speechraak-1n- g Russian workmen and peasants' soviet campaign led by Sir Edward Car- government." ;'' son. Colorado 1919 Crop Forecast. France to Retain 23 Corps In Army. Denver, Colo. The largest acreage Paris. Demobilization of the mil- devoted to crops in Colorado and the itary organization built up by France largest total production in the state's during the war is proceeding and when history is forecast for 1919 by the Colit is completed the organisation will orado crop reporting serbe (he same as ,in 1914 before tho vice, a branch of the United States The French department of agriculture, in a report outbreak of the war. v made public Monday. army, will comprise the twenty-on- s created 1914 two and of corps corps MRS. RAYMOND ROBINS during the war. - f-ii- Drouth Bond Papers Stolen in Montana Helena, Mont The room of the journal clerk of the Montana house of representatives was entered some time Monday night after the extraordinary session of the legislature had adjourned and the proceedings of the final hours of the session were taken, It became known. PALMER STARTS PLUNDERING OF HIGH PRICE PROBE ROADS CHARGED SENTIMENT IS TO BE SYSTEMATIZED EXPLOITATION OF LINES BY MORGAN AND DIRECTED AGAINST THOSE GUILTY OF EXPLOITING. ROCKEFELLER IS ALLEGED, PUBLIC " Attorney General Palmer Wires Food Sensational Statements Made Before : House Committee Administrators to Probe Retailers by Attf rney for and Publish Costs as Guide. i Brotherhoods of the Railway Congress to Investigate. Employees. Washington Leading directly "from street and from the banking houses controlled directly by the Mor gan and Rockefeller groups," informa tion whach has come into the possession of the railroad brotherhoods "shows that there has preceded a systematized plundering of virtually all of the public transportation highways in the United States" the house interstate commerce committee was told by Glen J. Plumb of Chicago. ';S3Vs i us, lonntion!vi"g-3ft-- i the presentation of the Plumb plan to congress and labor disturbances and demands for higher wages, Plumb said, replying to a question by Chairman "The, fact that both broke together," Plumb added, "was due to your invitation to appear at this time. Otherwise, our plan would have been presented in the fall." Definite information on which his charges wene based, Mr. Plumb said, would be turned over to the commit tee, "upon which it may ask for a' full congressional investigation." 'We believe such an investigation," he continued, "will reveal that there is not one railroad system dominating any part of the 254,000 miles of railroads in the United States but has suf fered and is suffering, in a degree if not to the same extent, from carefully deliberated manipulations of the sort that have wrecked and ruined the railroads I have mentioned. It will reveal that these interests are again gather ing their forces of private and secret control, and seek, after having gained fronj congress a sanction to rehabilitate their railroad properties at public expense, to begin again and follow through its corrupt and wicked cycle the systematized plundering and looting of the public and the public interest, in the nation's highways. "In view of the gravity of this situation, and in order that we may have the benefit of their counsel on behalf SEVEN PERISH IN RESORT BLAZE of the public in presenting our statement to congress and to the American Flames Sweep Amusement Park Near people, the fourteen affiliated railway Montreal. Death List May Grow. labor organizations are summoning to Seven persons were Montreal. Washington a national conference on burned Sunday night in a fire on a railroad control. scenic railway at Dominiou park, an amusement resort near this city. PRINCE AAGE ' The bodies of three men, tlfree women and a boy were recovered from the ruins shortly before midnight. II is feared several more persons lost their lives and that the bodies will be recovered when search Is resumed. It has been impossible to identify the Washington Food administrators in every state in the union will ' begin Monday the formation of fair price commissions to answer questions directed' to them by Attorney General Palmer.' His telegram to the food administrations with this request marks another step in the government's fight against the high cost of living and is in ac cordance with the desires expressed by the president in his message to i.Wheii.fair prices are arrived jat and posted by the food administrators, all of the strength of the department of justice will be used to maintain observance of these prices by wholesalers and Tetailers of foodstuffs. Any violations of the fair price lists will be reported immediately to the nearest district attorney and he will be vested with authority to proceed at once against the profiteer. Meantime investigators of the department of justice have reported that large quantities of foodstuffs have been stored in various sections of the country and United States authorities are investigating these vast accumulations of supplies to determine whether prosecution under the food act shall "be begun under Attorney General Palmer's instructions. The general instructions issued by the attorney general to the United States district attorneys and the co operating department agents also cov er the destruction of foodstuffs by holders who purpose by this method to hold up prices to the present high levels. Reports are being received that foodstuffs are thus being destroyed, and the full machinery of the law will be invoked to reach the persons guilty. In this connection it has been proposed that congress enact legislation specially designed to cope with profiteers who go so far as to destroy foodstuffs to maintain prices. Wall con-gres- - li ff: - dead. The cause of the fire which not only destroyed part of the scenic railway, but also the "mystic mill" nearby, is unknown, but it is believed it wns started by i lighted cigarette or match I y V - .' m Ally Commission Reports on Fiums. Rome The allied coiniinlsslou which Investigated recent disorders at Flume has concluded Its work( the Corrlere Bella Serra snld Tuesday., Yacht Stoten and Two Girls Kidnapped Chicago Chicago police Monday re ceived a telegram from the authorities! at Grand Haven, Mich., asking them to search tor the yacht, the Briar, which, they declare, wns stolen by seven young men In the Mich- lgan port yesterday. The men also are said to have kidnaped two girls, who are being held prisoners on the boat. Quiet Restored in Saxon Town. Copenhagen. Comparative quiet has been restored at Chemnitz, Saxony, where fifty persons were killed Friday Prince Aage of Denmark, who during food riots inspired by Spar tacan agitators, , cently visited the United States. two-maste- d j i j IfA to Mrs. Raymond the National Magus. Robins, president of Women's Trad Union ' Washington. Leaders of the fifteen organizations of railroad employees tnited Saturday in a definite assertion "that they Tiad" no desire and have had none, to impress upon the public by "violence or by threat" their proposal that the railroads be nationalized under "tripartite control." Declaring that the requests of the men that living costs be reduced or their wages increased was aside from the question of the future disposition of the railroad problem, the labor leaders said that if President Wilson and congress could not meet this request the men would "try to find another solution." Plans for the formation of a national conference for' railroad control were discussed at a luncheon attended by representatives of the bortherhoods and prominent persons from various parts of the country who were invited by the brotherhoods to be members of the conference as representatives of the public. While the labor leaders did not mention the president's address to congress it was the general belief that their statement resulted from his warning to fce labor world that strikes would only make present conditions worse and that those who sought to employ threats or coercion were only "preparing their own destruction." "Two distinctly separate considerations now confront the people, the wage requirements of the railroad employees, and the Sims bill (embodying the railway employees' plan for reorganization of tbe railroads). "In the matter of wages we have submitter', nn eminwrly jst. proppRj-tion.- a have1 said that ifve are to continue to live as Americans should live and are to care for our families as American families should be cared for, the profiteers must be restrained or our wages increased. Every fair minded man, and every intelligent housewife, will recognize the reasonableness of thi request. If congress and the presidertt cannot meet this request, it is still a living question and we shall have to try to find another solution. Two Automobilists Dead in Accident. Colorado Springs, Colo. Hubert Stevens of Jewell county, Kansas, and Miss Tressie Wiggington of Brighton, Colo., were killed and Hugh Lewis of Greenvill, Ky., and Mrs. Henry M. Jones and son, Keith, of Danville, 111., were seriously injured, and Mrs. W. R. Cobb and .daughter, Rowena, of Green-burKan., wre les6 seriously hurt early Monday, when a large touring car in which they were riding in Phantom canyon plunged off the road and Into a creek below. g, Chicago Stockyards Employees Return Chicago. Striking employees of the packing plants at the stockyards returned Monday after the last of the police guards had been withdrawn by Chief Garrity, in accordance with an agreement reached last Saturday. Every plant was said to be in full operation for the first time In more than a week. Officials of the stockyards labor council declared they would continue their efforts to unionize all the packing house employees Suit Drawing to Close. Mount Clemens, Mich. The fourteenth and last week of Henry Ford's $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Tribune began Monday with Oscar C. Lungerhausen, one of the battery of Ford lawyers, addressing the Jury. German War Brides Arrive From Brest New York. The first German war brides to come to the United States since 1917 arrived here Friday aboard Steamer Aground, Passengers Moved Boston. The steamship North Star stuck on Green Island, nine mile nciith of Yarmouth, N. S., in a fog at The removal of :40 a. m. Friday. her passengers, 2"0 in all, and their transfer to Yarmouth was accomplished without accident. j M E the army transport Great Northern from Brest. They were included among 249 young women of various nationalities who married American aoldiers abroad. j Rum Reds Arrest Former Chieftain. Copenhagen. General Vatatis, former commander in chief of the Bolshevist forces, and his chief of staff have been arrested by order of the Bolshevist government, according to a report from PMrograd. COE Statement Issued in National Capital. Appeal to "Common Sense" of the American People. Men Are Gradually Returning to Work. k, h ts NT "NO INTENTION" TO PROPOSALS ON PUBLIC BY "THREATS OR VIOLENCE." Lenox, Mass. In his great mansion overlooking a lake in the beautiful Berkshire, where' he sought seclusion when bodily infirmity overtook him and his mind was saddened by the entrance of his country into the world war, Andrew Carnegie, ironmaster and philanthropist died Monday. Although he had been in feeble health more than two years, his final illness was brief a matter of days. A severe cold developed quickly into bronchial pneumonia, the aged patient lapsed into unconsciousness and the end came as though.it was the beginning of a deeper sleep. No ostentation will mark the funeral of the man who, when he began "eighteen years ago to give away his millions, was reputed to have the second largest private fortune in America. Mrs. Carnegie was at her husband's bedside in the last hour of his life, but he did not revive'niff iciently to permit of any sign of V cognition. Their daughter, Margaret; who last April married Ensign Koswell Miller, of New York, was notified that it was apparent, that the illness would be fatal, and she hurried from her home. at N. Y., arriving a few. minutes after her father' had died. Although Mr. Carnegie, who was in juereial club. . his eighty-fourtyean had been an invalid since 1917, when he suffered Plans Navy Base at Los Angeles. an attack of grippe, the news of his Los Angeles. Secretary Daniels, death was a shock to old friends and after an inspection of Los Angeles former business associates. Since his harbor here, announced that he would previous illness he had been under the recommend to Congress that the gov- care of two nurses. ...'. ernment make a minimum expenditure Identified so lor.g with the internaf $5,000,000 to create a naval base tional peace movement, Mr. Carnegie here, provided the city would acquire was said to have .toeen more severely, and present to the navy department affected by the world war than most approximately fifty acres of land ad- men. It came as a hard blow to him joining the present naval base site of and the cause which he had so close 156 acres on the outer harbor. at heart. Mill-broo- L AND HAVE Ironmaster, 83 Years Old and Invalid Since 1917, Sinks Rapidly After Attack Friday. Succumbs When Pneumonia Follows Cold. Salt Lake. Formation of the Uintah Improvement corporation for the ex press purpose of building a railroad into Uintah basin as soon as it Is physically possible, and to develop the vast resources of that famous Utah treasure bouse to produce tonnage for the road, was launched at a meeting of several score of the state's prominent business men in the Commercial club Tuesday night The enterprise, fathered and fostered by Governor Bamberger, now takes definite shape, with the selection of a committee to represent the subscribers to stock in the corporation and the raising of a fund with which to complete surveys and all necessary preliminary work. This corporation will proceed at once to secure the right of way and make 11 other arrangements that must nec essarily precede actual construction work. The action taken is the outcome of the governor's recent trip to the basin, the preliminary surveys which he has had made, the offers of persons in terested in Uintah basin mineral prop erties to join in the railroad project, ud the promise of support of the business interests of Salt Lake given tby the board of governors of the Com Chicago Indicts 40 More for Rioting Indictments against thirty-si- x Chicago. and fouwhite men, chargnegroes ing offenses ranging from assaults to commit murder to carrying" concealed weapons, were returned Tuesday by the special grand jury Investigating the recent race riots in Chicago. W THROPIST SUCCUMBS AT HIS HOME IN MASSACHUSETTS. Many Business Concerns Make Sub scriptions and Others Promise to Help Enterprise at Meeting of Commercial Club out-kir- RAIL ROAD LEADERS WM re- Strawberries Join High Living Cost. Harrlsburg, Pa. Figures collected y the bureau of statistics, state de partment of agriculture, show th average price of strawberries In Pennsylvania this season was 21 cents a quart. The plan of distributing funds under special and federal school appropriations has been announced by G. N. Child, state superintendent of public instruction. All special activities under the funds provided must be recommended by the supervisor of each particular line of activity before appropriations will be made by the state board of education. More than 3000 coyotes have been destroyed by state hunters and government men during the present year, and the total number of various predatory animals killed reaches 5298, according to the annual report of the United States biological survey, cooperating with the Utah State livestock board. The government expended $45,002.72 during the present year to rid the state of the pests. Nellie Folkman filed a petition in the probate division of the district court at Ogden, asking for letters of administration in the matter of the estate of Joseph M. Folkman, deceased. The petition states the estate is valued at $9500 and consists of property in Weber county. The widow and eight children are the heirs. Folkman was e killed by an interurban train at on July 19. Owners of salt grass areas have been warned by Harold R. Hagan, state crop inspector, not to cut their crop until after October 1. Many states have been quarantined against the alfalfa weevil and the product may not be licensed for use in packing shipments until the frost has killed the insects. With the arrest of Nick Oblizalo in Ely, Nev., and Steve Melich in Butte, both of Salt Lake, it is thought by STieriff John S. Corless that the tw men responsible for the death of Mar-k- o Laus, whose body was found in a gulley at the mouth of Parley's canyon on August 3,. may be in custody. Grain in the Pahvant valley is ripening two weeks in advance of the usual time and harvesting is in progress. The crop is turning out to be somewhat better than at first expected. Some of the new land will yield Har-risvill- Mf antFuty,;f "'iU!els V-- e city council of Richfield has e entered into a contract with the Power company to install an electric street lighting system, with ornamental iron poles and 400 candle For the present the power lamps. lighting will be confined to Main street. Application for a charter in the American Legion and approval of a constitution and for the proposed Lehi post of the organization were effected at a meeting of returned service men held at the Lehi Commercial club last week. President Lee R. Taylor of the Utah county farm bureau reported that he had met with the state board of equalization in regard to taxes on farm lands in this county and that a raise of 30 per cent will be made in the taxes of the farmers. Ernest Mortenson, 15 years of age, of Thatcher, Idaho, who was visiting relatives in Ogden this week, was drowned in the Weber river when he took cramps in the middle of the stream and sank before aid could be secured. One of the most distinctive and ideally finished buildings on the Utah Agricultural college campus, the Agricultural Engineering building, is' nearing completion and will be ready Cor occupancy during the coming school year. In common with other parts of the state, Rich county has suffered from the scarcity of water and the crops will amount to about 50 per cent of the normal. Bear river is extremely low, but the mountain streams are holding up fairly well. Appointment of W. Karl Hopkins of Lehi to the position of superintendent of the Ogden city schools marks the fourth selection of Lehi men within a month to enviable positions in the educational field. Ogden demnnded an improvement in the telephone service of the city at a meeting recently held at which were present officials of the telephone company,, the city commissioners' and several merchants of this city. Building activity In Salt Luke shows a post-wa- r stimulation revenled in an Increase of 274 per cent over the activities of July, 1918. The county farm bureau executive committee has just finished a survey of the crop situation In Sanpete couu-tand makes the following report on Irriacreage and crop percentages: gated grains, 30,000 acres, ((5 per cent; unirrigated grains, 15,000 acres, 43 per cent; alfalfa, 23,000 acres. 37 per cent ; wild hay, 16,800 acres, 50 per cent; sugar beets, 5200 acres, 77 per cent; potatoes, 700 acres, 50 per cent; pens, 500 acres, 50 per cent. Teli-urid- by-la- y |