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Show THE BINGHAM NEWS, itlNf.HAM, UTAH Breaking of a Great Levee Daring the Middle West Fiocj ' 4 T --X J ' ' r1 Floods In the Mississippi river valley have been doing immense damage. Man towns have ben Inundated and millions of acres of iaud..are under water. This photograph waa taken Just as the 80-fo- levee at Beardstowft, 111., gave USSSlEEK A Complete History of What Hat . Been Happening Throughout ' ' the World. W , ... 1 WESTERN , ,..'..; - ascoe C. (Fatty) Arrbuckle pro-poa-to prove ibjr his. conduct' that he la entitled to return to motion plcttire work, according to a statement he la-med. Arbuckle said this was to be hie oly comment upon the canceir. tlon.of eatracta for the showing of Ilia films, at the request of, Will H. ' lUtys, head of the Motion picture Pro-duce-association. ',,;,; " WASHINGTON Appropirlatioa of $26,700 to relm-bure- e Uie state of Montana for ex-penses incurred in suppressing in 1919 forest fires which originated In national forest reserves is provided under a till by Senator Walsh (Dem.) oi' Montana passed by the senate autf sent to the house. Charging the Japanese with a delib-erate purpose to hold permanently the territory In Eastern ; SlberU which they now occupy', as well as the whola of the. coast of Siberia, north of the Arctic Tecean,' th; ftr reseoUtives In Washington of th Pur Eastern republic Chita" made" pubiiC It Wlftshlngton,'4a ,jcabie'gram-.- f ronji Uieir goveVnueni explaining the breach of aegotUUons between the Chita gov, ernmeht and .. the Japanese military commander which apparently had de-stroyed all chances of peace la that region for the present;V Farorable action by congress on the ship subsidy ii.li 'tu uijta at the joint congressional hearing on the measure by Oeone Donworth. a Rea- - " Dtstrict Attorney J. IL Dorsey at Bakersfleld, Cal, that the Ku Klux Klan and any kindred or-- faalsatloni la the West Side oil fields will bo put ont of business. The an-nouncement followed a conference with J. N. Pylei private detective, who waa beaten by a hooded and armed band of men. .tie attorney, who seld the Seattle chamber of commerce end similar or .unizutions in eight other cities in the state of Washinggon had Indorsed the administration program. Mr. Don-Wort- h reported public sentiment In the Northwest as strongly in favor of the bill. " A full schedule of summer military training this year under the new army of the United States military pollcj jl' tut. government hus been completed at the war department and is now in the hands of the corps area com-manders who will supervise the work, it covers the places, dates and pur-poses of scores of camps to be held over the country beginning June 15 if congress provides sufficient funds .n the peuding army bill. , The bill of Representative Swing, ltepuhlican, California, proposing of a dam at lioulder canyon in the Colorado river and an canal connecting that project with lands in the Imperial valley, . u.i.iui.. in Arizona for Irriga-tion purposes. Mr. Swing said It waa ioouLie Uiat tue $50,000,000 origin-ally proposed for erection of the dam ould be reduced to 4o,000,000, and the cost of the canal previously at 3o,00u.000, would finally be fixed at $25,000,000. Distribution of tho $17,000,000 auth-orized for soldier hospital construe-.Io- n under the Langley bill recently ilgned by the president probably will I .1 1. .,.., A,t ft A contract has been let for erecting a government hospital at Palo Alto, Calif. The cost will be over one mil-lion doiars. v Wages of workers on coastwise ves- - ses in the lumber and general frel;nt trade have been increased by approx-imately forty Pacific coast concerns, It was announced at San Francisco, at the offices of the ship owners' asso-ciation of the Pacific oast. The vol. tmtary Increase will be in the form to pay bonuses ranging from 5 to 10 per cent a month, in addition to JS flat Increase. A $25 tax oa bachelors, the amount to be turned over to old maid resi-dents on a pro rata hauls, was pro-posed by the town board of Itomonn, Oolo., at a' recent meeting. In its ten years of existence Itamonu, a town of 400, has never had a single J occupant of the Jail. Two drunks who I appeared In police court on one occa-sion after a fight, was sentenced to kiss and take a bath. An affidavit by the Rev. Albert H. Schwab of Omaha, formerly of Love-lan- Colo., waa filed in district court at Omaha alleging he invested more than $40,000 In cash and land in the Nebraska Clay Products company,, receivers for which were appointed on petition of Jolin D. Dutcher of Om-aha, treasurer of the concern,' charg-ing its plants are not opera tjn'g. , , Two of the youngest'- respondents ever brought at Detroit on a federnl charge appeared before United States Commissioner J. Stanley Hurd for ar-raignment on a charpe of passing counterfeit money. The youngsters Fredn Rossi, 7, and her brother, Slg mnnd Rossi, 1", vere ordered hold foi the grand Jury. Thtlr parents, Angel.' unl Lillian Ilosal, uUo were armignot: and held on the samo charge. The children v.ore arrested by secret ser-vice nsents aftoi-- , it la charged, they attempted to pass a counterfeit $20 bill In a department store. GENERAL Henry Ulhleln, head of the noted family of Milwaukee brewers, control ling tho Schlitz interests there, died nt his home at Milwaukeo as a result of a heart attack. A warning against a growing ten-dency towards speculation througn-ou- t tho country as business conditions Improve was glwn by Comptroller of the Currency Crisscnger in on ad-dress before the Florida Rankers' as-sociation. He urged the bankers to advise their client toward sound and to use their influence "to improve business." The W ind Blew inn, Chicago's chier claim to Bohemianism, and the ccn . .. . . clllnirn" Whll'tl be announced snoray, it was muieu m the veterans' bureau. Recommendat-ion1 for the construction of new, hos-pitals under consideration by Direc-- ; tor 'Forbes1 of the bureau, Include, i program for-- supporting a total of "12,-Y- j beds for veterans suffering from mental diseases .according to a re-e-report submitted by a conference of specialists on mental diseases. FOREIGN Riga dispatches announces a prodamutlon posteJ in Pekov, tiinBln, calls for army, service ull uoles from 18. to 40 years of age. The j;spatih adds that the reds are gre..t forcea opposite Pol-and and Rumania ; that during one lay seventeen loaded troop truins, all ;he men having fljjht'n.sj equipment, .mssed the railroad junction of Pekov, ,ound westward. "Wilson fourteen points" was the iroposed trade-mar- k under which an ipplknnt at Berlin sought to register in article of merchandise with tht mperlal patent office. The applica-tion was denied on the ground that "inch a parody of former J'resldont .Vllson's famous peace program was politically objectionable." American tourists are literally Palestine this season. Two thousand of them have already visit-m- l the country and 3000 more are d to arrive. It Is estimated that Palestinian will as a result benefit lnnncially by a sum of not less than Jv.M.OOO. The Swedish Red Cross contingent operating In Samara, Russia, has reen requested to distribute tho largo Dutch food conslio-me- nt receun.v shipped to Russia and calculated to eed 40,000 persons for six months. The Swedish delegation has agreed to cooperate with Midland in the work Eight persons, four of whom are iummunlsts, were wounded by tho explosion of a bomb thrown Into a cafe at Bologna. Sovh-- t Russia Is ready to waive numerous technicalities and make it, extremely easy for representatives of Auieravn itrma i reach .uofceow if they have serious intentions . and rttunl 'financial Uecklni.',' ht is more vir less "fed up" with American' pro. moters, George Tchlcherin.v commis-sar for foreign affairs announcii. . a match between Dempsey and .Car-pentie-is expected to be announced in Ixmdon in the near future. ter oi me has tyme Into prominence lately through pdlce rulds, pcdsonlncs and i- - attempted aiiicide, was destroyed by t'ire. Tho JU.ip!.lttJ. mnint two-Btor- y wood structure, situated on tho edge of an exclusive residence se" tln, proved Just so much kindling wood to tho flames. John Molntz, Rock county, Minne-sota, citizen, who was tarred and reathorel during the war as a 'pro-- Germnn." accepted $0000 cash in wit Isfactlon of all damnKes and claims aguinot monihers of the "party," Mnlntx was taken from his home hy i masked and armed night riders on j August 19. 101. disrobed, tarred and fwlh-ad- . carried across the Iowa lino and dumped oat of a machine. jiwrious damage that will cost the i fruliKtvwers of Ohio "hundreds of thousfinds of dollars" was done to the fruit crnp by a killing frost, according i to estimates made by the Ohio de-- psrtmant of agriculture. John MCormack, famous Irish ten-or, who recently was reported near affection, wh do.th from a throat sail for London early In May. He pend'the summer In England and Irelaa-J- . recuperating. All his enirage-iaeut-4 in America have been cancolle.l. Thonna Roach. 21. has confessed to the brutal murder of an unidentified M..ude whose nude body waa found in a nlug van on the south aide of to William OCon-net- . Chicago aec-rdl- ng pclk lieutenant. Lockout notices against 000,00(1 workers belonging to forty-seve- n un-ions outside the Amalgamated Knin-eerln- g union of England, were or-dered posted by engineering employ-ers. Most of the notices are sffee. tlve at once. With 1:KK) dead out of a total nf 1050, the worst Russian refugee convoy on record has arrived at the Polish bor- - j der. Many of the 1300 died of typhus although starvaMon and exposure claims scores of ethers. j tomliw Qscar V roductL ble only a syndicate Salt Laka price which thft. at the time the wool-growe- r la V clip through the m Utah State JanaX Utah State VoolgroVN at aa Increase of (27 ins to Information receive Chlcsio headquartera of the. ;can Farm Bureau federation, tu compilation, which included resyltis of the wool pool also included those of tweuty-tw- o other wool marketing pools which the farm bureau through-o- ut the nation assisted in organltlng-an-which netted 45,000 wolgrowera a saving of approximately f1,000,000, according to the national federation , figures, Brlgham City. The Ilansen Furni-ture and Music company's store was , broken Into by burglars. Entrance was gained by climbing a lean-t- o at the back of the building and pryln , open a second-stor- y window. Mr. - ' Hansen waa unable to tell Just what goods were missing. The cash draw err and a desk drawer had been pried open, but the thieves obtained no money. A stock of automobile tlrea in the Imsement, property of the lion-- . sen Motor Car company, was taken from the racks ad strewn on the floor but it waa impossible for the firm to ascertain If any were taken.: .The drawers were pried open with tool found In the building. , Price. The Carbon county achoola will close on Friday, May 6, this de-cision having been token because of a shortage of funda. A major pat of the touching force will be offered contracts to return to the Carbon schools. Contests in the four divf. sions of the district are being staged. At this time the winners In the divi-sional meets will assemble at Price. Tue art ana project wora now on dis-play at the four divisional headquar- - ' ters show the painstaking care' with which thia part of the schoolwork hna ' beea 'accbmpHshed. ' ' ., Salt Lake. City .Decoration dny will mark the first official public ap-pearance of the newly organized fire-man's hand. The decree of excellence reached In the short period of tima since Its fcrmutir n hna surprise:! pro-reslo- nal mvshl'.ns who liave attended rolienrsala. William D:enor Is baa L ", mnste. Diener acquired his mus'cal education while In t?to urmy. Cn Jan-nar- y 12 the idea w;.s proposei at the Central stntim and urn with enthn-slnsti- c response. Chfcf W. H. Bywat-e- r gave the boya every encourage- - ment ind waa made president of the organization. West Jordai .Andrew Mllos, 29, was lodged In the county Jail for vio-lation of the liquor laws. He was in $300 bond. MIIob was arredt-- d hy deputy sheriffs ut the Bateman 'arm, near West Jordan, where he la nild to have been operating a still. The still, of fifty-gallo- n capacity; 1700 gallons of mash and a small, lunntity of "moonshine" whisky were tclzed by the deputies. Provo. Anthrax is reported to the ttate agricultural department from t'rovo, where a cow belonging to Win. fray died of the disease. A number of other animals have died from a slmll-- ! ii r disease In that vicinity and ttteps have been tuken to stump but the malady. Salt IJike City. Salt Luke's muni-cipal golf links at Nlbley park, for-tn- - V"wwi nm V'Tdinrv prio- - f- - that as CalIr's park, and la pioneer days as Calder's farm, will, In th ourse of a few more years, become famous as one of the most beautifni best equipped and most attractive golf courses in the west, is the opinion of Dr". M. II. Stewart, city commission- - er of parks and public playgrounds, who spoke with enthuslusm of the natural advantages of the locality, of the work now under way, and of .th iilans foi the immediate future. IiOgnn. The city commission baa authorized erection of a new bridge. ; Ogden. Andrew Allen, county rouol sent, announces- that the road nt the Rlverdale crossing has been repaired, which connects the. two Mts of pave , ment across the Union Pacific rail- - road trucks. American Fork. May 5th hus been . set as the closing of the school term ' of the Alpine district and will mark the termination of successful school year. Lue to lack of funds, the schools are closing two weeks prior to the regular time. , Ogden. As lonx as the street is too poor to pay for its share of paving three Mocks of Hr- - rison avenue, ths property owners In, ' that district wUl pay the company's hard. MRS. HARDING' TULIP I r v The latest botanical aeveiopmenx is this tulip which' appears to be! a cross between the common tulip and ' tna tiger Wy. 'If has1 been-- named bf hot' anlsts th Mrs Warren G. Harding' v' "Scotty," Hero Newsboy, Comes Home "Scotty". sixteen-year-ol- d newsboy of Brookllne, Mass., who ran away to war and mnde the One Hundred and First, Infuntry proud of him by killing single handed 30 Germans, returned to Boston the other day In his coffin draped with the American flug. The report reads: "Private Albert E. Scott, killed In tictloii.7' This photograph shows the funeral procession of "Scoity" with a detachment of his own regiment acting as a guard of honor. i Scene in Beardstown During Flood '' I L- -l Among the towns Inundated by the Mlaslsslppi river valley iicxKls one of the worst sufferers was Beardstown, 111 the main street of which la here shown. ( J. L. MITCHELL MEDAL .' . Here Is the gold ' memorial medal, to be struck annually at the Paris mint, wnicn la to ne awnroeo mru year tr .he 'University of Wisconsin student who writea and submits the lest essay on "Industrial Relations." The n.U! has fcf n glvr n In of John Lendrum Mitchell, Wisconsin class of '17,; who died In the United States army service In France on Muy 23, 1018, is an aviator. Jazz Even in tlie Hospitals Now "It Is a pretty state" of affairs" some people will say, "that you can't get away from the coustunt Jazz." However, hospltals are now forced by compe-tition to add this to the list of attractions, and hre we see surgeons at the Providence hospital, Washington, performing ah operation to the lively st ruins of canned music. - For Thawing Motor Engines. Prof. ChurleH A. Rohb of the Univer-sity of AUierttt, It la announced, has discovered an ether mixture which solves the problem of matting motor engines i intciiaely cold weather. Opportunity for a final test of the preparation came during a recent cold spell when the mercury fell far below gero. A LIberty-1- 2 vtor of 400 horsi power was left outdoors all night and was Immovably trii by morning. The actual lime takeL to start the en-gjn- e with the new mixture was seven minutes. When the experiments were N'gun last year, it took an hour and a half to start the same engine with the mercury only live degrees below, INTERESTING FACTS An electrical method for quickly de-tecting counterfeit coins has been In-vented by a mint official In India. A new gauge for registering the ulr pressure In automobile tires replaces the valve cup and does not have to be removed when a tire Is filled. The Pekin (Jawtte, founded in A. V, (KW, was for a long time the only Journal permitted to be published In China, but within the lust sixty yea a number of others have been estub1' fished.' f The windows of the famous Sooth wark cathedral In London have not been washed In 20 years. ' Motor-drive- a new machine Into which Ua.y rar,or blades can be In-serted while It la In moth shnrpent 250 of t)iem an hour. Newindo-.- shade brackets not only can IV adjusted to 1m. Id shades of diff-erent1 widths, but are also equipped wltl'hooks for curtnln 'poles. 4 Iookc movable disk replaces the fisual slide electrode !n a new French spark plug and prevects oil and carbon rising to fonir short circuits. Shah Believes In Mascots. Pwbubly no. monarch ia u more firm bellevw In the pow er of the .Vuscot lhan tbe young shuh of Persia, hit has nearly 200 mascots, ni"t of them heir-looms, which have played some part In the hlxtory of his predecessors. Chief anu)!ig these is a cube of amber ahich, nccordinir to eastcn lore, fell from heaven In Muhomet's time. It is lupposed to ward off dengee, and the titan usually veare it round his neck. |