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Show I - v THE PR1ESSBULLETS M VOLUME 48 . BINSHAM CANYON.UTAH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1918 NUMBER 17 letters From Binflham Soldicr J. C. ILeiser, of Upper Bingham nas i received a letter from his .brother, First Lioutenant Bruce iC. Lciser, 14th Field Artillery, which is now sta-tioned . Bomewhere in France, The letter was dated August 2, and' reach-ed here August 24, It reads as fol-- lows: - ; "We have been on the front for some time now, and our regiment is having some pleasurable adventure and is gaining come honorable ad-vancement "I myself have seen battles in the air, balloon observers jump for tbeir lives in parachutes, while their bal-loon came down in flames, seen dead Germans and Americans, been shell-ed, and know the feeling inspired by the big ones going over your head and exploding a hundred yards or so away, and wondering where the next one would go. "Got in this a. m. at 4:30 after con-voying a, bunch of ammunition trucks all night from a dump ! the' Boche planes were trying to ,bomb. Cannot say that I'm stuck on this night work all in the dark over strange French roads," congested with truck . trains, ambulance trains, artillery, cavalry and infantry. All trucks are like a box car to handle and take a ten acre field to tura around In. Jams occur and a wheel cannot be moved for hours. A truck breaks down or gets In the ditch and has to be towed out, causing weeping and walling and gnashing of teeth to all concerned. "We are all busy and I can see where in a short time there will be much fatigue. While we have been at it only a few weeks when I think of It in terms of months. I feel tired and have the dropsy, still the system of men can ad?rt itsolf to many strange conditions. I can go to sleep with the guns roaring end with one ear open to hear the mighty gas alarm. "Most of us sleep with our clothes on, of course, which I believe Is an Improvement on the more convention-al habit ot""disrobing. 'When we arise we smooth out the wrinkles, take a wash as far as possible, and we are ready for breakfast or to more which ever the program may be, ' "Same day, 7 p. m. Started this epistle about noon. 'All t& quiet. They say our infantry gained about seven kilometers this a. m. early, That ac-counts for the stillness of our guns, and means no doubt a nitve forward fo rus. Mere's hoping they tell me there are a goodly number of Ger-man dead In the woods we' gained," The following letter was received a few days ago by H. N. Standish from his grandson, Lawrence Moore, who Is in the navy yards at (Pensacola Florida; , . "Well here I anr in old Florida, where its pretty hot. J am in the navy yards and they are located right on the beach. The Gulf is just straight out from us so we always see a few ships, submarine chasers, etc. The air is always filled with sea-planes. They have some very large planes here. The largest are about 100 feet from one wing tip to the other, and carry about . nine men. They are equipped with two liberty motors and weigh about seven tens. Some 6t the smaller planes go up so high that they look like a speck ' It is a common slight to see them fly-ing above the clouds. "In the yards are all kinds of schools for the different branches of aeronautics so there Is quite a bit of training going on. If you were here and could , see these men train-ing in gunnery and bomb dropping you would know that the Germans are sure going to catch hell when Uncle Sam gets his air fleet over therw "The town of Pensacola is a pretty nice llttlo town, and so far I like the, navy life well, because we get to see a lot of these towns we never would see otherwise, ' "Well, I will close for this time. Hoping to hear from you soon, Law-rence Moore. U.: S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla." iiis mm umm I ' Upper Part Of Main Bingham Totally Destroyed By Fire Of Unknown Origin-Prope- rty Carried Very Little Insurance ; Notorious "Redlight". District Completer Wiped Out Some . Business Men Planning To Rebuild If New Buildings Are T Erected They Will Be Fireproof Fire Departments Did 'Excellent Work And Prevented Flames From Tievouring The Main Business Section Of The Town I""--- : The people of Bingham were ed about 4 o'clock Tuesday morning by the greatest and most disastrous fire in the hlBtory of the town which entailed a loss estimated all the way - from J150.0OO to $300,000. The fire originated shortly before 4 o'clock in the Union rooming house or the Union pool hall. It had gained con- -' siderable headway before it was dis covered and wiped out the entire upper end ,of the town, burning prac--' tically everything on both sides of the street fronrthe Europe rooming house ; to the last building on the street The fire alarm was given at 3:50 ' , and by 4 the fire companies had the water turned on the blaze. However, by that time the fire had gained such headway that s Impossible to save any of the buildings nearby and attention was directed to Bave the lower part of town. iBy desperate ef--l " forts it was checked before reaching the Europe rooming house' though most of the furniture there was jirac- - 4 tically ruined by the flood of water. . -- ? The buildings burned on the west side of the street were the Union "4 . rooming house, the Bingham bar, the ' S Great Greece coffee house, the Bing-ham rooming house, the . California bar, the California rooming house, an unoccupied pool hall, Arcade candy store, a two story building in the rear, small building belonging to the town, the Colorado bar, the Colorado ' rooming house, Utah copper cafe, the Chinese laundry, ten ciibs and the w HydroElectric copper plant. On the T ' east side were two resident"! Le-- . onging to ' S. S. Jones,' --tit Atlicns roomies house, the Paris rooming house,' the Paris pool hall, the New, Life eol'fe-- o house, unoccupied res-taurant and bar with rooming house overhead and the old California board-ing house. The big losers on build-ings were Johi. Contralto, James Ro- -' lando, p. H Pitchios, Jlmpson and Bunker, Pete Murano, John and Jerre fc - Caraghlno. ) f In addition to the loss of buildings a great number of tenants lost all their household furnishings and a number of the rooming houses wore . , elaborately furnished with very cost ly material. Also a great number of poor families lost all they had and were left homeless. The fire spread so rapidly that few people had time to carry out any of their belongings. , All the buildings with the exception of the California and the Athens buildings wore wooden structures. These two buildings were of concrete and brick and wee modern In every respect, but owing to their location the flrement were unable to save them, . Fortunately no Uvea were lost, but many people escaped from -- their, rooms with only theif. night clothing . and a number had to escape through windows. As a result of the fire sev-eral hundred people were left home--, less and penniless and a great many employees were thrown out of work. When the fire first started the wind was blowing down the canyon, but soon shifted in the opposite direction and this made it possible, to save the . business "wctlon of the town. The ' firemen fought with the most heroic r"" courage and by their efforts the fire was checked at the Chinese laundry, although this building was adjoined by other wooden structures. Among the places which art desig- - nated as parlor houses, all wire wiped out with the exception of two and cne ' 'of them was badly damaged. Many of the occupants of these places went to Salt Lake. . The loss in all cases was very great as only a few people carried insurance 'and tboflb who did had only small amounts. But the greatest losers were the tenants themselves because they lost everything they had and . they carried no insurance. - . It Is understood that mot of the structures: will be rebuilt and some are now making plan's for th!g pur-pose. There is a great demand In town for some restrictions In regard to the kind of buildings that shall be x , erected. The hope that this end of . town may next have modern fireproof buildings. In this connection it may be necessary to have the charter of the town changed in Buch a manner as to grant the municipal authorities power to regulate this matter. A number of the people in business there say that they will not reopen as many of them will be liable for military service and they would hard-ly have t'me to get well started again before being called into service. The origin of the fire is unknown. Some were inclined to the belief that it vaa c' ir.;.er.dlary origin, but ho far nothing hns been brought tc light to Y uimUiit.ute tlila theory. Those who are left da t'tute rhnu!d and doubtless will receive substantial aid from the gonerous pegple of the cam p. 'I , SUBSCRIPTIONS MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE : .. The War Industries Board has ordered that all subscrip- - 4 4 Uons to newspapers be paid la advance. In order to save paper this method has- - been 4 adopted, rather than- - ask the small papers to cut down the number of pages of their ; paper. . , ;..rv Please come In as soon as ' ' soon as possible and get t 4 the paid In advance . lift as. ordered by. the War Board. 'v.- ,- vt-.- .!, FOUR BINGHAM SOLDIERS SERVING THEIR COUNTRY m J 'j Reading from left to right: Tavis Williams, now en route to iFrancej Howell Davis, somewhere in Florida; Dick McConnell, en route to France, and Harold iMayne, somewhere in France. BIIIGIIMJ PIOIIEEIi DIED IHESDAY ' John Brunton, age 62 years and 8 months, and one of the oldest and best known of the pioneer mining men of the camp, died at his home here early Wednesday morning of general debility. . lie web a native of (England, but came to lAmerica when, he was 13 years of age and was a' resident of Dingham since 1870. He was a noted mining man and was well known to a number of the big mining men of the west of years ago. He lived for many years in California and among his in-timate acquaintances was Mark Twain, and or many years after their separation he and the great writer kept up a correspondence. He was a very intelligent mun and was well informed in the history of min-ing d other matters In the west He was here when this great camp was In its Infancy tt'probably knew more about iBingUaih and Its history than any other man who ever lived in the camp. Hie served as mining recorder for more than twelve years . and was justice of the peace for four terms. In his palmy days he made and lost much money In the mining business. ' .' In the camp here he was loved and esteemed by all who knew him. and he had a storehouse of information,, jokes and anecdotes about mining in ' the old days. lie was indeed an old timer here and was one of the land marks of this great camp. In 1871 he was happily married to Mrs. Adeline Houston, and to thi. union were born two children, Walter and Frank, both of whom tre dead. Walter died when two years old, and frank died about four years ago of Bright's disease. Mr. Brunton wor- - ried a great deal over the loss of his only remaining son and after that time declined rapidly in health. He is survived by his widow who has , , the sincere sympathy of a great number of friends in the community.. The funeral services will be held at three o'clock Sunday afternoon, from Society Hall. I.W.W. S BLOl'l UP FEDERAL BUILDHIG III CHICAGO . Court Room. Of Judge K. M. Landis Was Bombed While Big Bill Heywood Was In The Building ' Chicago, Sept. 4. A bomb explod-ing In the entrance of the federal building this afternoon killed four persons . and wounded seventy-fiv- e others. ' :'.., The blast was attributed to the I. W. W. by Phillip J. Parry, acting chief of the local federal Investigation bu-reau, t The list of dead follows: - TWilliam "H. Wheeler, a mail rler. XK ladd, saflor from the Great Lakes naval training station, whoAO home was in Sallna, Kan. i 45. R. Kolkow, a postal clerk. Miss Helen iMichike of Chicago. While the city police were rushing the wounded , to hospitals, federal ugents hurried from the ouildlng And made , two raids on l W. W. head-quarters. Nine men were bagged . at these places by office building. Their Identity Is being kept secret The explosion wrecked the entrance of the uilding and shattered every window --in the first three floors of two buildings across the street. The court room of Judge Kenesaw M. Lan-dis, where ninety-fiv- e I. W. W. lead era were given prison . sentences a few days. ago. Is on the sixth floor of the federal building. William D. ("Big ill") Heywood "uncrowned king" of the I. W. W was in the building at the time o'f the explosion. With his lawyer he was planning to seek a writ of error to stay the execution of the twenty year prison sentence given him. lie deplored the outrage and ad mitted he thought the I. W. W, wouh' be blamed, but denied emphatically that any member of the organization had committed the act. ' SCHOOLS OPENED WITH - - iA GOOD ENROLLMENT The Bingham schools opened !a..t - Tuesday and started off in good shape. - , The faculty list is not quite complete . yet as no one has been selected to fill the place of Prof. iP, S. Martha- - ' kls, who is now In the army. Th teachers are" unusually active to get as large enrollment us possible dur-ing the first two weeks. A number of new students from Lark cntmred th high school this week. EUBEflE TAYLOR. i.GE 5Uiill5iS Eugene M, Taylor, a well known' citizen of (Bingham who will be 55 on his next birthday has enlisted with the colors and left Wednesday for Salt Lake to be assigned to his du-ties. ' - Mr. Taylor has been anxious to get fnto the service and when the age limit was raised tc 66 he at once went to Salt Lake and offered his services. At the rocruitlng station they asked Mr. Taylor what he could do, and he replied that he could do most any kind of work that other men could. His only request was that they, did! not work him in the kitchen. . 'Mr. Taylor is a good man and a good citizen. e Is one of the men who help immeasurably in making this a grut country. He stood the physical test and was pronounced a good man for hU age. CLUB ORGANIZED HI COPPERFIELO One of the latest additions to Cop-perfiel-d of a social nature is the or-ganizing of a club which would be a credit to any community. It was brought Into life last week under the name of the Athena Club, and it is located In the Murano building. The club has a spacious and attractive hall. The furniture is all new and of the best material The chairs, cojs, lounges, tables, etc., are very pretty and the artistic arrangement of the ball is at once noticeable. ' John Pappas Is president of the club and id iBolotas is secretary. The latter has charge of the club and he look after the matter in a most commendable, manner. He is Justly proud of the organization and is very courteous to the visitors. The Athena Club is a credit to Cop-perfle-and will prove a great bene-fit to that important community. As an evidence of the lntereet taken In the club it is only necessary to state that the organization has 110 'mem- - bers. And from the way it has start-- I ed off it Is most likely that in a short while it will have a membership many times larger. The club is supplied with the best current reading matter Including the leading magazines, daily papers and the local paper. It Is a place where any one could spend a few hours pleasantly and profitably. The pro-moters of thtf club are to be congrat-ulated on the splendid work they have accomplished. NO COUNTY COURT In the absence of the county attor-ney Wednesday morning, all county cases were continued until nest week. A SAFETY FIRST COIIOCIE FOR UTAH A safety first council for the state of Utah was organized " at Salt (Lake last week, and among tho prominent people of the state selected to fill the various offices It fa Interesting to note that Mayor Q. O. Kelly of Bing-ham, was chosen as first vice presi-dent. The choice of Mayor Kelly was par-ticularly fitting as the counoij might have searched the state over without finding a more active and able work-e- r. Of course he is a busy ma- - as bankers usually are, but in the'faat he has had time dn addition to his regular duties to serve efficiently as chairman of tho council of do'en president of the Commercial Club and render substantial aid In every phase of the war work, nnd the safety first council will find him a most helpful officer in furthering the benefits of the organization. There were many Interesting devel-opments in the meeting and the speeches showed that .during the past few years great things have been ac-complished in the matter of saving life In the great industries of the country. And according to the sta-t'Bt'- erno'lf-- by tnen n chage of the big companies the work of svtpir llfo ba. been a bg financial gain to all employers whe have put Into ef-fect the safety first methods. Representative? from the Industrial sections of the state attended the meeting which was held in the New house Wotel and all appeared enthus-iatit'- a over the organization. Owing to the great mining interests here Bingham was considered ss one o' tl.e important sections of the state. MUNICIPAL COURT NOTES Thomas Hales, driving auto over fire hose, was fined fl0i...... . .. William Martin, charged with dis-orderly conduct, was fined I0 , The case against Pete Loar, charg- - . ed with disturbing the "peace, was WILLIAM E.HOCKEN continued until next week. WOUNDED IN FRANCE 'WClliam Fdgar Ilocken, son of Mrs. B. D. Ilocken, one of the Bing-ham boys who entered the service a little over a year ago, has been wounded on the battlefield in France Recording to ' information received here a few days ago. In the casualty list he was referred to as wounded. ' degree undetermined. j His mother now lives In Salt Lake and so far has no definite informa-tion concerning the nature of his ; wound. FIRE DEPARTMENTS V THANK CITIZENS The captains of the Bingham Volun-teer Fire Department take this means of extending to 'Messrs W. H. Myers, j Henry Weiss, Jerome Bourgard and John Mussile who made cash dona jt'ons to the department, And . to Messrs. James Byers, Jerome "Dour-- i gard, Julius Krogh, F. V. Clute and J. Yokoyama who furnished sand- - wiches and coffee to the firemen dur-- ; ' Ing tho late fire, the thanks and ap-- ! preclatlon of the companies for their ' thoughtfulness and liberality. We also ' ; value highly the material assistance , t given us by the citizens of the com- - mimity and the great service fender-- r ed by the poHce force of the .town jand the sheriffs force of the county ' in maintaining splendid order, , " (Bingham Volunteer Fire Depart-ment, Company No. 1 - W. F, Thompson. Captain. , BinghAm Volunteer Fire Depart-- , ment Company No. 2. I. iM. Gauchat, Captain. (. Wllhelm will not be in a tower when peace negotiations are signed, but he will be In one shortly there after, and for keeps. MR. J. E. CREIGHTON SELLS THE BUTTE J. E. Crelghton, who for the past seven months, has owned and operat ed the 'Butte soft drink establ'ahment has sold the business to Louie Dunn During the time Mr. Crelghton had charge of the Butte it enjoyed a splen did patronage. Recently Mr. Crelgh-ton purchased a handsome residence in Salt Lake where his family now resides. Mr. Crelghton himself will again enter Into the jitney business which he was engaged in before he too' charge of the iButte. He has manv friends In .RInp;ham and they will be glad to learn that he will continue in bushier In this community. Mr. Dunn, the new proprietor of the IButte, is well and favorably known in Bingham, and having worked with the Butte for many months is well prepared to carry on the business suc-cessfully. ,'He will assume the debts and obligations against the Butte and Mr. Crelghton says that there are no surh things against the Butte at thlr time. It has just occurred to us that may be those raincoat profiteers had a notion that what our army -- really wanted was portable bath tubs. I VOTE OF THANKS TO THE RESTAURANTS After the big fire had been brought under control Tuesday morn'mr an'! while the firemen were exhausted 'rom the dosp-ra- te fight Jerome Bourgard decided to treat the fight-ers to coffee and he ordertd a libernl Tpnt?tv from the Vienna Cafe and --nrn .Tim's Place, but to the cred't of these two restaurants neither of them would accept a cent of piy for the coffee furnished the firemen. The community wU agree with Mr. ftourgard that the restaurants d"erve a vote of thanks for their generosity. MR. BLOCH LEAVES FOR CALIFORNIA Henry Elocb. well known business man of this place, left yesterday for San Francisco, where ha will take charge of the rice department of Ro-senberg Brothers & Company, a con-cern which bas a large business in t'nHrn'K srd Oregon . Mr. r.loch has resided Jn Bingham for two years and was well connect-ed with the biuiness. Interests here and woa held In the highest esteem by the people of the camp. In addition to his other business interests he was manager, of the Tiger Copper Com-pany. - ("ore coming to Bingham he was engaged 'n the rice business In Louis-iana and Texas In which he was very uocessful and for some time he has been anxious to get back in this lipe of buslnoss. Mr. 'Bloc'h is a mighty good . man an'l he will be greatly missed here. He was p.l ways known to be on the square and In all matters of bulnes Hfi word was as gcd as his bond. In h's leaving the town loses a valu-able' man. His. many friends here w' ;li him the b't of success 'n the rice industry oa the west coa."t. CHIEF REDWOLF WILL GIVE SHOW HERE Chief Redwolf, who has traveled all over the world and for a long time one of the big attractions with Buf-falo Bill's world "famous shows, will entertain the people of Bingham and community at the Monarch Theatre, Saturday and Sunday. Hie is a real live lnd'an and has a show that will p'ease the people? of this camp. A few years ago he was the center of at-traction at one of the largest theatres in London. In connection with his special fea-tures will be appropriate moving pic-tures of western life. It will be on Saturday, afternoon and Saturday night, Sunday afternoon and Sundny night. Every one should avail him-self of the opportunity to see this b!g entertainment. It will be someth'ng new and out of the ordinary both In pictures and special features and it will be something you will be pleased wth and will remember for a long time. The b'g Indian chief speaks good English, and no one will have nny trouble understanding what he has to say. EXPERT INSTRUCTION IN FOOD CONSERVATION More than a hundred cooks in the j Fenway section of Boston, Msm., ; . have received expert instruction in I food conservation from one of - tho : ! icily home demonstration agents. A !i house to house canvass was made iu J. i ithat part of the city to Invite hOuso-- , vj keepers to enroll their cooks for a V i ; course of five lessons in war cook'ng. A ; Five classes wore organised wltht , i '" 25 to 30 cooks in each claas. Tii .'--' lectures were given In the liv'g ? rooms of different homes In the d s- - tr!ct. In the South many women . bint their colored cooks to the home; demonstration kitchens to receive In- - ; ! Btructions n carrying out the food ' - regulations. ' j In Cedar Rapids. Iowa, the agt'ut i f giving help to a group of cookw w!r .. j are preparing a cook book which tlicy ;xptct to sell. , , . i : REV. T. J. TRAMEL RETURNS TO BINGHAM The iMethodlst conference which was held in Salt Lake last week re- - turned Rev. T. J. Tramel to B'righam for another year. The conference was well pleased with the work he hap done here during the past vear. The people here are glad to know th'nt Mr. Tramel is to still have change of the local church work as during the pant year he has mot with unusual success in promoting the Interests of the organization. Rov, Thomas F Manwaring. form-erly rnistor of the church here, and for the past year at .Murray and Mid-vfil-was .assigned exclusively to .mdvale. ISOLATION OF ' HUNS'- FAVORED BY SPEAKER Dr. L. Hinkovlch and Dr. Leonllch. Ii'go Slovaks, spoke in Bingham Thursday evening on the war. Dr Hlnkovich was at one time a member of the Croatian parliament and was banished from Austria. Dr. (Leontich also is a man of high attainments. Dr. Hlnkovich spoke in Rnglfsh and was listened to with marked atten-tion. Respecting the outcome of the war, he raid tb"t whn np.ace comf Otrm?Ey should not be destroyed y ..isolated from the remainder of the world. Dr. I.eontieh snoke In Serbian nnd elso dlsciRsod the war from the standpoint of the aliiea. , |