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Show THE BEAVER COUNTY WEEKLY PRESS, BEAVER, UTAIf S UTAH BUDGET 'While unloading beet pulp, John Carlos Strong, aged 44, dropped dead at Sprlngvllle. - ilrs. Laura Barker, charged with tie murder of her husband,, Charles Lee Barker, will be tried at Ogdea,-Februa- ry 2. Contracts totaling about. 181,000 have already been awarded under the direction of the Bonneville Irrigation T fe llQyf7 T. fLM I IW ft 0 CM flrfV? iNA VwlH. r -- lH I " - li ' ----- - . - - i J 'i i wti: irl - I J TT:7r m S 1-- Vu j district directors and Its engineer. son of Mr. and The " Mrs. William H. Lowder of Ogden was seriously burned when he overturned pan. of bolllug syrup upon his arms and neck. The home of Thomas Leonard at Provo was practically destroyed, by fire. The cause of the iirels thought "to have been either a defective flue or defective wiring. a well As the result of a cave-ho- f being dug on the Jenkins farm near JJephl, Samuel Tolley, aged 1 an expert well digger, met death, hk body uot being recovered for some. time. Burglars worked the combination of the safe in the office of .the Utah Transportation company's garage n Mil ford, taking $150 In cash and a number of valuable papers, including checks. Robbers entered Browning Bothers tore at Ogden and escaped with $2500 d revolvers, pistols, .worth of etc,, guns, making their escape In an ble from the automobile they also building. Frank T. Hines of Salt Lake, who recently retired from the army to engage In the shipping business, has been nominated by the president to be a brigadier general In the officers' re serve corps. The trial of Gus Burr and Jack Pass,1 charged with, the murder of Darrell Wilson, will be held at Ogden Wilson was shot Oc, In February. tober 31 and died In the Dee hospital . November 9, 1020. Sixty-liv- e men of the Southern Pacific shops at Ogden, who were laid off on rtcember 20, were put back to work last week. It is said that the other men will probably be In the near future. Lyman L. Smith, W. C. Roache and A. C Hatch, have been selected by the University of Utah to represent the state Institution in a debate with : the Columbia university, the date for the debate being set for March 23 in i high-price- . : ,, Salt Lake While cleaning a skylight at Salt Lake, Charles Kuntx, aged 19, fell through the skylight a distance of thirty feet to the floor below. He was taken to the emergency hospital, where examination revealed an injury , N to the back. , , Nallas Boga, known as "Navajo Dick," a medicine man on the San "' reservation tn southern Utah, has been, found guilty by a jury in the United States court of misIndian girl on treating an ' ; Juan-Navaj- o' the reservation.' When a loaded pistol fell from a trunk In which she had placed it, Mrs. Ana Perkins, aged 61, of Price, was . rlonsly wounded, the bullet penetrating her abdomen, but following an operation it is tolleved she will soon be well again. When Deborla Rasmussen, aged 8, stepped out from behind a wagon in front of a street car at Salt Lake, she was struck by. the street car and Instant) killed, bee body being dragged ,me distance before the car could be stopped. In an endeavor to reduce the tax levy 'J. for 1921 from eleven mills to ten mills, the various members of the Salt Lake city commission are making an effort to trim down their requests for appropriations which will be submitted shortly to the budget community. Whft la probably the most extensive experiment yet made in marketing In Utah is now being tried by the 600 farmers of the state who have pooled 4.000.000 pounds of alfalfa , teed and 1,000.000 pounds of clover ' seed through the state farm bureau. Jennie cardlno, who killed Mike Termaln 20, 1020, at Ogden, ' must faceFebruary trial In the " district court on a charge of second degree murder. -This Is the ruling of Dan K. Sulll- . . court, whom the,, preliminary hearing vaarjudge-of-th-Juveni- . le be-Jor-m was conducted.. Since the first appearance of rabies in Utah, seTeral years sgo, 125 cases have been treated. All but one of these cases were successfully bandied, and in the one case the treatment was not started In time. One man refused the .treatment and the (llscnue developed fatally In sixty days. County commissioners In ninny of the counties having county crop pest "inspectors have gone on record as lu favor of legislation widen would combine the Inspection duties of crop pest inspectors with those of county agents, and tbst would place oo the shoulders of the sheriff and county attorneys the police duties now handled by the ; crop pest inspection Tentative plans for the Oaden "armory are now In the hands of the national guard officers Ip Salt Lake and w ill probably be acted upon at an early date. The original Idea was for the state to spend $100,000 on the atrue- ture, If Ogden should furnish, the site. - Belief that the live stock market conditions will soon become stabilised and that within six months there will be a material betterment la expressed by D. N. Beal of Ephralm, vice president and chairman' of the livestock committee' of the Utah state Farm rtnw&a Sufferis After Lex Mrs. Siefert Retorea to HetM by LydiiLPbUun'iYeteUM- ev Compeari : auttered with Pottaviue, ra.- -i female trouble for four or five years and was very irregular. I waa not fit to do my work at tiroee; aua wo meaiciDo from a doctor amt got no benefit I saw Lytha E. Pink, ham's Vegetable Compound adver- tised v in the and took, it " and gxt all right I news-pape- gained 13?- - msMM vz&vm HE ALASKAN fljlug expedition of the army ajr service mude history. It traveled" the 9,000 miles from New York ta Nome and return in 110 flying hours. The four DH-planes were flying their original motors upon their return. The flight ranks with any aerial event attempted anywhere. The bird-me- n flew over at la(rt 2,000 miles s of virgin territory, without or lauding fields. They landvd fifty times on strange fields, often almost Impossible as lunding places. The British Inst spring attempted to fly from Egypt to the cape, over the wllds of Africa. One pilot readied the destination, but only after he had replaced his machine and motors, and after much delay and Inconvenience. In the transcontinental reliability test last autumn. Lieut. Belvin Maynard, the winner, broke his motor near Omaha, and had to change it entirety before proceeding. Only one Liberty motor succeeded In making the journey both ways. Compared to the non-stoflight made by the Englishman, John Atcock, which gained for him recognition from the British government In the form of knighthood, most filers will agree that the Alaskan flight Is a greater feat The Alaskan who had some wonderful spruce timber. He flight was a steady grind of over three months' duration. framed up the wing for us, built ribs and spars . .The personnel of the expedition was as follows: for the stabllleer and the aileron. Of course, each Plane. No. 1, Capt. 8t Clair Street, In command; one of us had p piece of linen for patching; we of expedition ; Sergt Edmund Henrlques, mechanipooled our supply and covered the wing. The cian; No. 2, piloted In turn by First Lieut Clifdope Lieutenant Klrkpatrick, the only chemist we ford C Nutt and Second Lieut. Eric C. Nelson, had In the party, waa able to concoct from cellulose nitrate, unrefined bannirn oil, and several engineering officer; No. 3, Lieut C. H. Cumrlne, photographic officer, Sergt. A. L Vlerra ; No. 4. quarts of amyl acetate, proved not very effiLieut B. G Klrkpatrick, Information officer, Jocacious as the linen was about as flabby when It dried as It had been before wetting. But, we took seph E. English. Capt. Howard T. Douglas, went ahead of the flyers, making preliminary arrangea chance on the new wing anyhow. Still another ments and blazing the trail. delay held us at Prince George, however, for alHere are some "close-up- " most ten days In all, and we got our first acpen pictures secured from Lieutenant Nutt: quaintance of a real frontier town. We got acminers of the old type? "We cut across the international line when we quainted with hard-boile- d with lumberjacks great tall Scotchmen and little landed at Portal From Portal to Saskatoon was French Canadians, who came in about twice a the only leg of the Journey In which we had week for the fun of spending their money. the wind with us. We made the 310 miles In at Haxelton; at the "Our next stop wV three hours, end at Saskatoon got our first taste of that Canadian hospitality which added so trehead of navigation on the Bklna river, and at one time the main point of distribution for the region mendously to the enjoyment of the long journey. d Almost of the population, though Ameribeyond. Hawlton Is right in the mountains, and can born, are now Canadians in spirit. these are covered with high timber. Due to the "About 100 miles from 8askatoon we left the frost, even when the timber la removed and the land plowed level and cultivated during the sumprairie country, and got Into a region of forests and lakes, with rolling hills, some of them 6,200 mer, when It thaws out again next spring, it Is feet high. At Edmonton, Captain Street's maas rolling and rough as the waves of the sea. chine had a leak In the gas tank, and we were Knowing of these conditions, we went on by train held up there for three days, getting that patched to Inspect the landing field before making the up. The people at Edmonton are. Intensely injump in our planes. Finding Its dimensions interested in aviation as a means of developing the adequate, Captain Street arranged to have the country. They talked of getting planes to survey grain cut from a field adjoining to make room the Peace river country to the north of them, a for us to alight with safety. big stretch of arable land now wholly undevel"Our next jump was to land us in United States oped, pack mules being the only means of transagain, but to reach Wrangell, we had to territory portation. The transportation to mines of the over the Coast Range mountains, at least Jump region also offered another opportunity for avithat Is what we thought we had to do from our ation to exemplify Its usefulness. maps, which showed the trend of a river or of a "Our first attempt to leave Edmonton was unmountain system, and depicted everything else as successful because of clouds. Taking perfectly smooth, level country. In point of fact off at 1,000 feet, we had to drop to 900, and when the region has never been explored or surveyed. about 100 miles out Street motioned us to reFortunately, we had a clear day for our take-of- f. turn.- The next day, In spite of a stiff wind, we When we began to ascend for our hop over the made the Jump to Jasper park. This Is a Canamountains, we found that the mountains rose too, dian national park, 400 miles long by 100 wide, and higher than we had. .Instead of being 5,000 abounding with game and fish. Here we found and 7,000 feet as shown oo our map, when we one of the best landing fields on th whole route. reached a height of 7.000, we found we needed Colonel Rogers, warden of the park, met us and 3,000 more to get over the top, and when we tried extended courtesies and hospitality. Teuta were to skirt the rang, we found It wasn't really a provided for our accommodation with a Chinese range at all with a valley on the other side, but cook In the mess tent Gas and oil were on the Just close packed mountain peaka filled with snow field, and after cleaning up our "busses" and get- -' and Ice between. These glaciers looked like level ting everything In shape for the next day, we felt .seas of dark green water, i At Wrangell,. the only, decidedly as If we "needed a bath. We set out. landing field available, was on a little Island In expecting to take a dip In the Athabasca river, the Stlcklne river, which, at high tide, wasn't an but were warned that we should find the water Inland at all. We landed In about six Inches of too cold ; so with a guide, we set out for a little water which had grown to A foot before we took lake about a half mile away, which, we were told . otf. 7 waa a good bathing place. When we were ready ' we "From went ty way of Chllkoot Wrangell for the dip somebody stuck his foot In the water Pass snd Skagway to Whltehorse. This is the reto try the temperature. Well, all I can say la. made so famous In the early days of the gion U. .Titer that. Athabasca than., little, .colder, if the ' "' ' gold discovery. record-breake- r Formerly "If took abouf three for temperlake was, then ifa a, months to make the trip; In winter, travel was ature. But it waa a choice of two evils. We were . in summer, on foot or by by In we to a either the had for get bath; ready once famous mines The Innow are of this region as be or cold It was, water and take It lltfrally active. Their surface veins have been stripid, eaten up by mosquitoes. We chow the water. It and mining In this country la too la Impossible to conceive the multiplicity and because of Inadequate transportation faInIn ; and. this the of moequltoee region ferocity cilities. . deed, to the very northernmost limit of our flight "block so are numerous, traffic' almost "From Whltehome to Pawaon we flew over the they Tbey and they certainly block progress, preventing work route patrolled by the Canadian mounted police. at some sessona of the' year. The trail runs In almost an airline that shows up a "Soon after the hop-of- f practically all of the way, dotted with the neat Jasper, Captain little rosd liouren at Intervals of 40 to 50 miles Street's machine caught on fire, caused by the oil The police, in full regalia bright-feapart. tanks being too full and overflowing down the jackets snd blue trounors are snappy looking exhaust pipe. Henrlques, who was driving, put fellows, well disciplined 'and,. .giving wonderful the plane Into a side slip and was goto? to land service to the country. They wre of tremendous In the river, but as. they descended, the change aHslstance to us wherever we encountered them. of balance stopped the flow of oil and the fire exWe crossed lake La Barge, so well known to readtinguished Itself. We got Into Prince George Just ers of Service's poems which breathe the very ahead of a rainstorm, and without Street We ' lighted flare t aW him In finding, ihe landing - soul end spirit of lhia far northern region. lake Is at once the basin of the White river and field. Outline of the field was, however, of course the source of the Tukon, unless, Indeed, It be Indefinite; so when 8treet alighted he came In one and the same river with, different, names in with great speed and overshot rolling out of the r different localities. stretch where he struck a field Into "Crumrtne had blown out 4 tire at Whltehorse, stump that took off about four feet of the end of his left wing, breaking both main spars and tearbut filling his casing with rope packed tightly, he ing all the ribs out, also the left half of his horl-tontwrapped the outside "wltli rope, taking off with stabiliser and the aileron. To get a wing us to Dawson, and landing safely despite the hard sent to us la the quickest possible space of time, Jolt from his mended tire. W arrived at Daw-sowould take eight days from Mather field, Sacraby chance, oo August 17, the gala day of the mento, Cal the nearest point available. So we country. "Discovery Day" It Is called, for Just got basy on the job ouraelvea, with the help of - 23 years before, the first Alaskan gold waa disa big Swede carpenter who waa a wonder and covered on Bonanta creek. The ptovJe made ns rs twenty pounds or more ant am now able to do my work. I recommend the Vegetable Compound to my friends and you may use these facts a a testimonial." Mrs. Sallte Siefert, 813 W. Fourth Street ' Pofctsviller Pa. The everyday life of many housewives is a continual struggle with weakness and pain. There is nothing more wearing than the ceaseless round of house-boduties and they become doubly hard when some female trouble makes every bone and muscle ache, and nerves all on 4 ld land-murk- r'HJr Wm p rbe one-thir- g dog-sled- high-grad- lyou are one of these women do not suffer for foot or five years as Mrs. Siefert did, but profit by her experience and be restored to health by Lydia EL Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. pack-train- e d cut-ove- n, welcome to their festivities gave us the town, in fact. "The principal meat supply of this region is its wild game, chiefly the moose and the caribou. We were there at the season of the caribou 'runs,' as they are called. It seems that, as autumn approaches, the caribou begin their" annual migration or run. The herds bunch together under a leader, apparently, and, to the number of 200,000 to 300,000, begin their run that stops at nothing, that never turns aside, and that leadB nobody knows where. The method of hunting is quite simple. The huntsman selects a spot that is as near to the trail as he dares to get takes his stand, and picks off his game as It passes on the the game being run. As It la purely killed for food the biggest and fattest bucks are usually the ones killed by the gunner. Nature has provided ample cold storage, so the meat is "easily kept "The flight to Fairbanks, the northernmost point reached, was over the most desolate region of the entire course. - For miles- - there was no sign of a trail, not even an Indian trail. Then, suddenly we picked up a trail that appeared here and there We along the route, quite clear and afterwards learned that Gen. William Mitchell of the air service, had led an expedition into this country and cut this trail 20 years ago In making a survey for the purpose of establishing a telegraph line to connect with a cable to Siberia, which project was later abandoned. "Fairbanks, with a population of 2,000, Is the largest town west of Alberta, and the whole town, reinforced by the mining camps of the vicinity, was out to meet us. The route to Ruby was over low hills and swamps. There are no maps of the country, because there has been no survey. It has been Impossible to make one. In winter the country Is covered with snow and Ice, and the only means ot travel Is on skin. In summer It Is tundra, and travel Is Impossible. "At Ruby we landed on a sand-ba- r which conveniently appeared In the river at the right time, and proved better for our purpose than the landing field first selected by Captain Douglua. "We made the hop to Nome, skirting the Bering sea, with weather conditions changing every hour; keeping in touch by wire with the wireless at Nome, as oon as we got a flagh reporting the weather clear, we Jumped In our 'boats' and hopped off. We flew at an altitude of 1,000 our way to avoid rainstorms. feet, When we saw a fairly clear spot ahead we steered for It, but for the roost part It was Just steady pushing through black .clouds. "At Golovln bay, we saw a herd of reindeer, snd in Bering sea we spotted a number of white V whales and seals. "Our only actual hunting on the trip was to bag a hundred or more ducks, and to kill a black bear." We might 'have "killed caribou,' moose, "iiiouhfalh"CAti knd 'sncp,"bUf tber was ho reaT mm for It as we had no means of carrying the '"me- .., ..... "At Fairbanks and Nome we were given many souvenirs. In the way of gold nuggets, and so on. EHch one of us was presented with a reindeer hide parka, such as the Eskimo wea(, Most Interesting, however, of the gifts are our Alaskan dog. My two were given roe by Ben Derrick of Itntiy. who has carried the mall In that part of the world for years. The dogs are. a crosa between tle gray wolf and the Alaskan husky. . "t'aptuln Street's doge .were presented ta him by Sepalla, one of the Laplanders who came to Alaska with the reindeer which the government Imported from Siberia sbont twenty-fiv- e years ago nnd have multiplied end become W numerous In Alaska." Captain Douglas, to whom Is due the credit of making all preliminary arrangements for the ""flight;' rbnflned Ills remarks to expressions of appreciation for the cooperation and' courtesy extended throughout his journey, and that of the expedition, by the Canadian government, by. the signal corps and weather bureaus of both countries, by munlclpalltlea and individual citizens from one end of the route, to the other. '. , f Wherever I went," Captain "DouglaT said," "I got acquainted with everybody. I know them-- ? they are my friends. . At Dawson the entire party were made honorary, members of both the Tukon Pioneers and the Alaskan Pioneers, and at Whlte-- horse the same dlstlactton was conferred upon us by the Squaw Han's Union.' " ,.?r Vaseline ot Rtou s.pat Carbolated An antiseptic dressing for cuts; long-haire- d -- 7-- A necessity where there; arc children. soo scsnnuiss ca cnrsrrncriinxi. York few Street mmm 1 Clt pot-hunti- well-define- d. etc sores, Bad Stomach Sends Her to Bed for 10 Months EstionJo Gets Mar Up! "Over a year ago," says Mrs. Dors Williams, "I took to bed anB for 19 would live. months did not think Eatonic helped me so much I am now up and able to work, I recommend It highly for stomach trouble." Eatonic helps people, to get well by taking up and carrying out the excess acidity and gases that put the stomach out of order. If you have Indigestion, sourness, heartburn, belching, food repeating, or other .stomach distress, take an Eatonic after each meal. Big box costs only a trifle with your druggist's guarantee. CuticuraSoap SHAVES Without Mug Alcoholic Anthology. ever see any sense to that old song, 'Drink to Me Only Wltn Thine EyesT" "I never did," answered Uncle Bill BottUrtop. 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