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Show THE BINGHAM NEWS, BINGHAM, UTAII klPIIIA lll'or.nii I ." I tj2f - V; Vi,k" . itr vjhY J hJ J tsWAj: 1 American school boys, touring Europe, mylng wreath on the Cenotaph In Iioudoi- - 2 Congressman Momlell of Wyoming speaking at s of opening of the lloback Canyon highway, at Jucksou's Hole. 8 Pennsylvania state troops mainta uing order at Okeburg iu the heart of the mining region. WA8HIN3T0N I'rohihition nirector Car! JarksoB of Wyoming reiwts to Conimisslonei Haynes that from AuKu8t 1. 1921, to last June ISO, there were C40 arrests in Wyoming for violation of the Vo-lstead art and fines Imposed arexat-ins- ; lJ.17.v- - During June alone there were 121 arrests and eleven complete itills, S:2 gallons of moonshine and !"!00 gallons of mash seized, with fines collected amounting to ' Typewriting inan airplane flying among the clouds, with radio machin. Ji-- duplicating the letters at a ground station miles away and reeling the aesaage off in print, is a development announced hy the navy department as riving to naval aircraft "a means of oiumimlcaticn in advance of radio altigraph and telephone systems now :n current use." Successes .already attained by experts working in con-junction with the navy,' the depart-me- nt asserted, ass ire the practicabil-ity of the new scheme. That such a development will be of incalculable .alue to all forms of aviation, com-mercial and military, follows Inevit-ably on the heels of the work now-bein-done by the navy, it is predict-ed. The much heralded series of deci-sions of the supreme court of Mex-ico, relied on by some Mexican oft'i-ial- s to meet American objections to confiscatory publications of the Mexi-can constitution, now appear to be liased in the main on a process of rea-soning with which state department officials already have indicated their disapproval. v W Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World i WESTERN Tatrlarchs and tong leaders of San Francisco's Chinatown, after 17 I months of intermittent warfare, have I ratified a new treaty to maintain I peace. But, contrary to precedent, I the resting place of this I agreement will be not in the secluded retreat of I some powerful tong, but in the arch- - I ives of the police department. ' Xot less than 700 acres of Glacier National park timber was burned I when the fire .spread north and I east from the southwest corner of the t park. ' I The forcible ejection from Colorado by state rangers of William Z. Foster, leader of the big steel strike two years' ago and nationally know n labor organ-izer, was "for the best interests of the state" and no law was consulted." Adjutant General Ilamrock announc-es. Foster, who was characterized as a "dangerous radical" by the adjutant general, was taken from a hotel shortly after his arrival fro;i Salt Iake, placed in an automobile and Bumper crops In general this year, resulting from highly favorable grow-ing conditions during July, was indi-cated by the government's August crop report. A 3,000,000,000 bushel corn crop, for the fourth time in the his-tory of farming in the United States, ivas forecast. A record crop of hay .estimated at D.1,100,000 tons is being '.arvested, surpassing the record made n 1010 by 1,:;00,000 tons. The second argest crop of white potatoes ever ;rown was reported in prospect, the total production being forecast nt 140,000,030 bushels, or 2,000,000 bush-els less than the record crop of 101". New policies of hospitalization for IisaMed veterans of the world war are 'o be taken up at once with President larding. Director Forbes of the vet-erans bureau announced after an in spection of nearly al of the veterans" .ospitals in the country. Use frf United States marines to oust' the Mutual Oil Company from the Teapot naval reserve In Wyoming was declared at the White House. to have bet--u "lawful and efficient.' A final vote on the tariff beforo September 1 is hoped for by Republi-can and Democratic leaders under the operation of an unanimous consent agreement entered into by the senate. FOREIGN , Mrs. Doris Beck of London, Eng-land, was granted a divorce on tes-tifying that her husi and cut off her young daughter's hair. Militar rule has been extended to the provinces of An ona, Parma and Leghorn, Italy, where In the last few days there has been sanguinary fight-ing between the extreme Nationalists and the Communists. Pope Pius has Dxpressed deep distress at the increas- - n hatred between opposing factions, which moves the people "farther away nun the tcuchins of the Divine Mas. ter." Foreign Minister Unchida notified Qiarles I'.eoiher Warren, the Amerl-,n- n ami assador, that the treaties dia vn at the Wnshin ton arms confer-ence had been oTiclnlly ratified and sanctioned by the prince regent, said lai an was ready to deposit the rati-fications at Washington on being ad-vised by President Harding that the other signatory governments were prepared to do likewise. A great part of the cocaine smug-- , Jlnu from Germany into France is Relieved to come In aeroplanes which cross the frontier at nlj;ht. s'notnn, China, has been devastat-ed by a violent typhoon. The death roll Is estimated at over four thou-sand. The strike which has tied up Phil-ippine shipping for some time contin-ues, with both s!Jc8 standing pat. The o'Tbeis anil crews who walked out on the lo al esaols still are determined that their wane demands shall be met. A general slampele to the Cold I'.ay, Alas!. a, oil fields since the that large interests have planned to drill there fore asis the Brin. in up of a mushroom city, 'oiist merchants are prapnring to tal;e !n Bto-k- s I y way of Kodiak island. tis overy of en uplift formation along ;lie Made river north of Anchorage os re'ivc'l interest in the oil possi-bilities of this field. Alllel aud Greek military delegates have sUmd a protocol establishing a nei;tral r.one three and three-fourth- s miles wide between tho Greek and al-lied (ones alonir the Tchatalja fron-ti- r, a fsw miles outside of Consianti-nople- . Dr. Sun Yat Sen, former head of the Southern Chinese government, is suffering from a mental trouble, which has already required the attendance of two foreign brain specialists. escorrea t,y the rangers to a town on the Kansas state line, Ilamrock an-nounced. " His mind upset by Joy over sudden news that he had fallen heir to $:!0,-00- Henry Russell of Pueblo, Colo., committed suicide. Earl E. Patterson, teller in the Lum ermen's Trust bank, Portland, was arrested, charged with embezzlement of $34,000, has made a confession, to police officers The state-ment from the police said Patterson had admitted shortages extending ov-er a period of 18 months and had said J. C. Oster, an automobile dealer, re-ceived the proceeds of them. The team of horses which William .Tuliffe, a Berthoud, Colo., farmer, was driving to a load of hay, wao stung to death when a swarm of bees descend-ed on them. JulilTe was also attacked by the bees and he is in a serious con-dition. A possible wreck on the O. W. R. & N. near Baker, Ore,, w as averted by Patrolmen Heiupe and Huggins, when a woman whose name was not learned, telephoned the police that a horse was fast in the railway bridge over the Powder river in South Baker. Know-ing that passenger train No. 19 was about due the officers Jumped on a motorcycle and sped down the track to flag the train, which was stopped a short distance from the obstruction. GENERAL The American women are the smart-est dressed women in the world. They are simply marvelous, whether at home or altoad." Such is the verdict' of the Maharajah of Ralpipla, said to be the richest man in India, who sailed for his home after visiting In New York. Candidates favoring wine aad beer and progresslvism within the Repub-lican party went down to defeat In the statew ide primary election in Ohio, ac-cording to returns. Fruitgrowers of Western New York, who have the largest early apple crop In fifteen years, are becoming alarm-ed over the rail strike situation, fear-In- k lack of rolling stock will serious-ly affect transportation. The peach belt of the state Is also enjoying a bumper crop. . A slight frost was reported at sev-eral points in the Adirondacks last week. With nearly thirty feet of Li' 1 a mass of torn and twisted steel the Admiral Liner If. F. Alexander, which crashed into Cake rock off the coast of Western Washington, was towed Into Elliott Bay. Surface and ele-ate- railway em-ployees at Chlcaro voted, P0"! to 0"rt. to accept a 10-ce- an hour slash in wages and return to work thns end-ing a strike which paralysed the city s transportation system for six days. A touch of novelty will l e the drab buslncm of the pnnMaI con ventlon of Maine undertakers at Au-gusta, when, on tr-- r inoile's will display funeral pons. Chicago women are now having their little Uk's remo.ed in order to wear smaller shoes. Apyrnvlowfpjy 100 engineers, fire-men nad conductors and brakemen of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern "big four," brotherhoods walked oit at Joliet, 111.. In protest against the sta-tioning of troops around the yards. There were no disorders. The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Is the Chicago freight terminal "Belt line," rsed by n number of larger roads for switch-ing and terminal purposes. The line Is the principal artery of freight traf-fic in ond out of Chicago. Pithy News Notes I ; From All Part of U UTAH t i ILtfMMUUji. n ' b If ' ... Salt Lake. Arnold Hanson, sW year old son of Mr, and Mr. II. 8. Hanson, was knocked down and killed by an automobile said to have been ? driven by C. II. McDonald of Evan. ton, Wyo. ' , '. ' ...- , Springville. Clifford Marsh, 20 years of age, of Mapleton, was foittea by a rattlesnake, but is out of danger, t The young man was walking through an alfalfa field when he stepped on the rattler and was bitten. Richfield. A .0. Young, contractor on the Mute road project between Marysvale and Junction, a distance of twelve miles, reports that the heavy grading on the project is completed and that surfacing will begin at once. He expects to have the work complet-ed before cold weather. The project calls for gravel construction and the. grade is twenty-fou- r feet wide. , Spanish Fork. Over 5000 people at- - ,; tended the Indian Wara Veterans week. Salt Iake. An action to recover $41.1X18.05 alleged to be due as 1915 and 1016 taxes on stock of the McCor-nic- k & Co., Rankers, has begun by the state, county and city in the Third district court A penalty of 3 per cent for delinquency and interest on the or-iginal assessments are asked for la the complaint, which was filed against the Assets Realization company, the Securities Realization company, Me-- ' Cornlck Investment company and Walker Brothers Bankers, which ab-sorbed the assets of McCornick & Co., Bankers, and against the stockholders of their estates. " Ogden. George Goshen, the 2 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Gosh-en, foil three tsorles from a window in the Stillwell apartments and es-caped without any apparent serious . Injury. Ogden. Warren O. Binford is 4 charged with having kept his horses tied up without feed for six days. Bin-- . ford entered a plea of not guilty. Ogden. After pleading guilty to a charge of hauling pipe in his wagon without a red flag attached to the projecting pipe, Harlow Bell was sen-tenced to pay a fine of $.1. , Levan. Fall wheat Is being harvest-ed and alfalfa cutting is proceeding. Randolph. Hay harvest Is being de-layed by heavy rains Tremonton tSugar beets have great-ly improved by reason of recent good showers Moroni. Wheat harvest is proceed-ing fairly well although rain has bin- - . dered to some extent Salt Lake, Canadian Highlander, wounded in the World war making trip across United States on foot, ar-rives here. He plans to sail from San Francisco and finally work his way around the globe. Brigham City. Peach day, Septem-ber 20, will be elaborately celobrated at this city. Logan. The waterworks depart-ment will be credited with $1000 a year for water used by the fire depart-ment and street department, accord-ing to resolution passed by city com-mission. Moah. Two new schools will be es-tablished in Grand county this fall. One will be at Weetwaler, where four-teen children of school age reside. The residents of that place hae . agreed to fit up a school building at a minimum expense for the school district The other school will be lo-cated on Danish flats, thirty-tw- chil-dren of school age residing In thnt section. ' Salt Lake. Ernest E. Wilson, albs Blackie, codefendant in the las? against Walter Woodmanee and liig Yee, charged with violation of the Mann act, was arrested in Butte. The three are allaged by the department of Justice In Salt Iake to have trans-ported Josephine Young from ono state to another In violation of tho Mann act. Wilson ll be brought to Salt Lake for trial. Parowan. The Utah Public Health association's traveling clinic has Just dosed an engagement at l'arowai, and during the four days that it u erated hundreds of persons aailel themselves of the service an,! lo-j-physical examinations. Interorit In the clinic ran high, and targe num-bers of the citizens of this community visited the health exhibit carried and displayed in connection with tho cllnl . Richfield. The county comm!n)oi-er- s have been considering the reduc-tion of valuation on lands that were Inundated during the flood season and which rendered these lands nonpro-ductive this season. The lands had been listed and the commissioners de-cided on a f0 per cent reduction in the assessed valuation. The commis- - sioners will visit the lands to verify ' the listing of the lands, 'Several hun- - ; dred acres of farming lands were In-- j (cluded In the list NEWS REVIEW Railway Executives Refuse to Accept President's Plan as to Seniority. STRIKE SETTIEEHT FAILS Federal and State Control of Coal Dis-tribution Gets Under Way Chicago Traction Workers Quit Results of Some Interesting Primaries France Warns Germany. In Kansas, W. Y. Morgan, Hutchin-son editor, wns leading former Gov. W. It. Stubbs for the Republican gub-ernatorial nomination when about 75 per cent of the returns were In. , Phil Campbell, veteran member of con-gress from the Third district, failed of renomlnatlon. Senator Howard Sutherland was renominated by the Republicans of West Virginia. Republicans of Iowa, in state con-vention at Des Moines, warmly In dorsed the record of Senator Cummins and pointedly neglected to mention Smith W. Brookhea.t, the party nom-inee to succeed Cummins. This waa pleasing to the Democrats, also in con-vention, and their candidate, Clyde I Herring, predicted he would win wIUV out any Republican opposition. r KRMANY has been trying to post-pon- e the payment t debts to French citizens contracted by Germans before the war, and last week France grew tired of this and brusquely noti-fied Berlin that unless assurance of the payment of $10,000,000 by August 15 were received within four dayi Fiance would Impose penalties of an economic and flnanclul character. It wns stated In Paris that these penal-ties would Include the seizure of such Gerinun Industrial enterprises as are Rtill tolerated In Alsace-Lorrain- It may be some lnduitrles In occupied Germnny will be seized. A still more elaborate scheme wns proposed by members of the French parliament to Premier Polncare, This Is nothing less than the separation of the Rhlneland from Germnny, giving It a parliament and government and a financial regime supervised by the allies. All Prussian officials would be ousted. , Great Britain sent a note to all the allies explaining that America's atti-tude concerning war debts made It nec-essary for Britain to collect from her debtors unless all the Interallied In-debtedness Is canceled. The other European nations Interpreted this as directed solely to America, and In Washington It was stated officially the note would cause no change In the pol-icy of the United States toward Its foreign debts. Premier Polncare and members of bis cabinet are In London this week, the date of the conference with Lloyd George having been advanced. Pre-mier Theiinls and others of Belgium also are there. The general subject of reparations and war debts will be considered. without the services of the striking shopmen. Roads unable to do so, par-ticularly carriers reaching Into the producing bituminous tields, may be taken over nnd opeiuted by the.fed-eru- l government pRKSIDENT, LEWIS of the mine workers maile a definite move for settlement of the coal strike by calling a Joint wage conference of operators ami miners of the central competitive 'jltumlnous field, to be held In Cleve-land August 7. Unfortunately, the op-erators, or most of them, refused to attend. Meanwhile Henry B. Spencer, who wos appointed federal fuel distributor, and bis committee and subcommittees began functioning actively. According to Mr. Spencer's plun, the federal or-ganization will cover the distribution of avuilnble supplies among the rail-ways, federal institutions and states, and the governors of the states will handle locnl supplies. State fuel com-mittees were called on to report at once the consumption of coal In their territories by utilities, Industries and households and to submit a list of those who should receive priorities. These state committees are also made entirely responsible for the prevention of profiteering and extortion. In the sale and distribution of coal within their respective states. Governor McCruy of Indiana took the most vigorous action yet reported In the mutter of getting out coal. The Milners of the state refused to Issue permits to sufficient men to operate the mines for emergency purposes, so the governor opened two strip mines In Clay county under the protection of 800 state troops as a preliminary measure and declared a state of mar-tial law to exist in that potf of the county. These mines are In the hands of a receiver appointed by the federal court, and the governor called atten-tion to the fuct that this places the United States government behind them. Mr. McCray also called a con-ference of the governors of Pennsylva-nia, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky nnd Wisconsin. Governor Preus of Minnesota says the coal situation In the Northwest Is more threatening than ever, and he has asked the gov-ernors of Iowa. Wisconsin and North and South Dakota to meet with blm In St. Paul August 10. In Wisconsin the bottom of the coal bin is In sight and, at the request of the state fuel commission, all ornnmcntat and dis-play electric lighting has been discon-tinued. By EDWARD W. PICKARD , for the ending of NEGOTIATIONS were at least temporarily halted again last week when the plan of President UanllnR falb'd of complete acceptance. Optl- -' mlstlc prophets of Immediate peace were confounded. As expressed by himself, the Pres-ident's plun comprised these stipula-tions: First Railway managers and work-men, are to agree to recognize the validity of all decisions of the rail-roa- d labor board' and to faithfully carry out such decisions as contem-plated by the law. - Second The carriers will withdraw all lawsuits growing out of the strike and railroad tabor board decisions "which have been Involved in the strike may be taken. In the exercise of recog-nized rights, by either party to a rail-road labor board for rehearing. Third All employees now on strike to be returned to work and to their former positions with seniority and other rights unimpaired. The repre-sentatives of the carriers and the rep-resentatives of the organizations espe-cially agree that there will be no dis-crimination by either party against the employees who did or did not strike. The railway executives were the first to act on these proposals. They accepted the first ; agreed to the Sec-ond with the urdersiMiiding that the strike be first ciu&O off and thnt the representatives of the strikers pledge themselves and the strikers against violence In any form against the men now at work ard the property of the carriers; declared It was Impossible for them to agree to the first sentence of the tb'J-- proposal. " Having placed themselves In a strategic position by awaiting action by the executives, the representatives of fie striking shopmen met In Chica-go and voted, though with expressed reluctance, to accept the President's proposals. This was conditioned up-o- n recognition of the union Interpre-tation of the plan, which, among other things, would require the Pennsyl-vania railroad to abandon its fight for tin pe-- i s.iup. The shop crafts also liiMi, on the ffctubliftiiuiciit of a na-tional board of adjustment which would relieve the labor board of all llsputes except those Involving wages. Some roads have agreed to regional boards, but probably all of them are apposed to orM national board which would prescribe uniform condition re-gardless of needs of various localities. Seemingly the r ill executives are In Jead earnest In their refusal to aban-don their stand m. seniority rights. They notified their local employe; and other workers thet they would be protected and guan tevd permanent employment, and we;.-- ahead with the task of filling the pit vs of the strik-ers. In New York It was said their decisive stand resulted In a rush of applicants for Jobs. Public opinion Is widely divided concerning this attitude of the railway executives. Many per-sons feel that It is only Justice to the men who have remained at work and those who have responded to the call for workers to take up the tools the strikers laid down. Those who sym-pathize strongly with the demands of organized labor take the position that the action of the railway beuds Is a part of a campaign to destroy the unions. It wus predicted In Washington that President Harding would do nothing more In the mntter at present, giving the railroads an opportunity to prove Uut thej eouli rperate effectively DOINGS of the Greeks In Turkey disturbed the allies. First, King Constnntlne formally asked per-mission to iecupy Constantinople. This was probably "for home con-sumption," but the allies, much excit-ed, refused the request and sent a lot of troops into Thrace, forcing the Greeks to withdraw to six miles from the Cliatnlja lines Then Constan-tin- e suddenly proclaimed Smyrna and Its hinterland an autonomous state un-der protection of the Grek army, de-claring the occupied regions In Asia Minor should not bo returned to Tur-key. He thus upset the pluns of the allies for a peace settlement between Greece and Turkey, possibly believing that In this way only cun he keep the Greek people from again driving him from the throne. "NE offer another the strongholds of the Irish rebels in the south ore being taken by the nationals, and the Irregulars so far have not made a determined stund. despite the reported pleos of De Vulefa. Harry Roland, one of De Vulera's closest friends and who was with him In America, died of a bullet wound. Llam Mellowes, Sean O'Malley, Rory O'Connor, General Qulnn and other Sinn leaders are pris-oners. The final triumph of the pro-visional government seems near. nOR one minute Inst Friday every telephone and telegraph Instru-ment In America was silent. This was the Impressive tribute to the memory of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone, who died In Buddeck, Nova Scotia, at the age of seventy-fiv-e years. The great scientist perfect ed many other notafile Inventions, and also wns untiring In his efforts to aid the deaf. United States Senator William E. Crowe of Pennsylvania, who succeed-ed Senator Knox, died at Ms horns, after an illness that began last De-cember. He appeared In the senate only twice before that Us ' CHICAGO'S street car strike came to schedule. Some 20,000 employees of the surfuce and elevated lines quit curly Tuesday morning and no attempt was made to take the cars out of the yards. Motor vehicles of all descriptions were called Into service and on the first day there wus a terrific congestion of trufllc. By Wednesday the police, motor clubs and Individual motorists had worked out a system that brought the situation almost to normal, nnd many a Chlca-gon- n began to wonder If the city couldn't Pet along without the noisy street and elevated cars. Also they learned the worth of one-wa- y street regulations In the business cetiter. Toward the end of the week pence negotiations were resumed, but the lo-c-president of the employees said be saw no prospect for an early settle-ment. The men are fighting not only a proponed wage reduction, but a nine-hou- r day. Chunces of an order by the state public utilities board reducing fares and politics enter Into the Chi-cago situation, ond It was frequently and openly asserted that the strike was a "put up Job" to prevent the fare reduction and to deal a blow to Mayor Thompson and bis organization. The mayor has long promised a fare and last week tried to take steps to-ward the establishing of a munlclpa' bus line to supplant the street cars. AT THIS writing It appears prob-able that United Stutes Senator James A. Reed has been renominated by the Democrats of Missouri, defeat-ing Breckinridge Long In a fight that was hot and even bitter. Mr. Long bad the support of former President Wil-son, during whose administration be wns assistant secretary of state. The dislike that Mr. Wilson and many oth-ers have for Reed dates from the years of the World war. fhe Republicans of Missouri nominated R. R. Brewster of Kansas City for the senate. |