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Show jJEWtin,1 UTAH TIiE-TtM- ' YANKEES ARE--; if! .BIG TITLE HOLDERS AMERICANS DEFEAT NATIONAL PLAYERS FOR WORLD S TITLE Cash Receipt of BY WINDS rwffXT tW hut miu. m a, in CONFESSION n time-honore- d SOLQNS ASKED OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE SESSION AFTER STORMY PERIOD 5. U. S. German Commerce Treaty Draft Washington, A draft of a treaty of amity and commerce between the United States and Germany has been transmitted to Berlin and actual negotiations will take place In Washington in the near future. It was announced at the state department WedThe treaty Is' similar to nesday. those recently submitted to Spain, Austria, Finland, and a number of the Balkan states to facilitate commerce. lke Bridge Project Under Investigation Federal postal inSan Frani-iscofractor's, 'are Investigating the promoters 'of V purported project to bridge San Francisco bay, ' who have been ',circulartv.ia' respe41v - "Investors," as'iins plefljres tt 'not less than $.1 the work which "will monthly.": been start when $1 0,000 ,0rMJ"-lm-a pledged, Chler Postal Inspector Calne announced Monday. The headquarter of tb enterprise, wag found to; be an ' abandoned shack. Former Mayor Aecldently Killed Salt Lake City, Edmund A. Bock, formerly mayor of Salt Lake City and from that office wlxise resignation followed d'Bclosures of shortages In his accounts during his administration as city auditor, was aecldently slmt and killed Sunday morning while The due'; hunting near Stockton. Mr. Bock's charge which caused his own gun. Jut d'th came from was bow the weapon exploded Is unknown. Fiance Minister Reaches U. 8. San Francisco, Calif.. Dr. Huang IIua-Fena member of the finance ministry of the Chinese government, arrived here Tuesday aboard the liner lie President Lincoln from Peking, Is to spend eight months touring the United States, South and Central America and Europe In a study of economic conditions and finance. lie Is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and of Columbia unlver-slty. , ; Will Talk to Governors President Cnolidge, Washington, together with representatives of the treasury, Justice and labor departments, will address the governors of the several states a week from Satur. day, when the state executives gather at the WJilte House to discuss law enforcement. Coolldge fr Ptomains May Prove Fatal S"ntt'e. Wash, Seven women may die as the result of ptomains poison-In- .' following a luncheon Saturday of a King county branch of the I'arent-'richer association nt the Itonald s hool north of the city, eerordlnl to reports received here from physicians who were sent tn the Ronald sth'Mil t take care of the patients. be More than fifty other peron came 111, but doctors declared late Saturday night these would recover. T Sin Fran "Isco, Zero hour fur th fif'h nni'fl convcn'l n of the Amprt vi'irr mm nt t o"cbk icndiv 8SCOWE xp los on K III S Tw el v . Moscow, At least twelve persons I M t r nr-moif and TTafcTorw a 1o terrific ei plosion Friday Hunting goods store on trie Ncgltsnnl cmcId1 streets Prospekt, one of th V ed by a of Moscow. shattered and cartridges and hurled among T TO FIGHT KLAN Dynamite Wrecks Dry Agents Horn Streubenville, Ohio, The nome of Charles I'earee, prohibition enforcement officer at Smlthfield, Ohio, west of here, was blown up WednesPearce, his wire day by dynamite. and baby escaped serious injury. The blast partially wrecked the city hall opposite the I'earee home, a restaurant, the home of Mrs. Mary Merry-ma- n and broke windows in three score residences. Thugs Kill 'Police Officer Salt City, Mounted Patrol-mn- n David II. Crowther, for many years in charge of the chain gang and trusties nt the city Jail, was murdered sometime Friday afternoon by unknown assassins, and his body, Concealed in bushes near the west bank of the Jordan river Just three Mocks north from the Crowther liome, was found Sunday morning, lie was shot in the back of the bead. It is believed that Crowther was shot while sittinsr in bis automobile and the body was then dragged into the bushes ml concealed. Detectives are of the opinion that the crime was committed by members of a gang of yeggs, liEs!My. by. one who had a grudge n ainst tba patrolman as he had been raitlcrilarly active in ridd:ng the city of undesirables during the past six ; weeks.,; Two building" wet debris and exploring cartridge belts were J passers by." Seattle Honors Harding Seattle, Wash., Olive Street nnd Olive Way In Seattle are Harding Way under an ordinance of the city these Among council Wednesday. two thoroughfares the late President Harding greeted thonsnnds of child ren on a visit to Seattle less than a week before his death. --- . of Oklahoma City, Okla., Holding in abeyance recommendations of Governor J. C. Walton that they consider at once legislation affecting the Ku Klux Klan, the lower house of the state legislature vote a resolution empowering the speaker to name a committee of investigation nnd impeachment which would be empowered to inquire into the official acts of all impeachable state officers. Martial law, in effect throughout Oklahoma since September 15, was lifted by Governor J. C. Walton In a proclamation mad pub lie Thursday. The Oklahoma legislature, called into extraordinary session by Governor J. O. Walton, convened ThursThe house was called to order day. by D. A. Stovall, representative from Choctaw county, who was chosen majority floor leader at a caucus Wednesday night The senate convened and both branches then recessed for a Joint session to receive the message of the governor. A committee of the Joint session Informed Governor - Walton that the legislature was ready to hear Mm. The governor did not appear personally, however, and Aldrich Blake, executive counselor, brought the mes sage to the Joint assembly and de livered It to the clerk of the senate with the brief statement: "Gentlemen, herewith is present ed the governor' message to the legislature." The clerk then began reading the message. In his message, the executive charged the klan with responsibility for hundreds of outrages. and most de "This moralizing 'super government' Is undermining the very cornerstone and foundation of our goverment and sapping the life blood of our citizenship," Governor Walton declared. "It must either be killed or the government Itself must finally giva away to anarchy and revolution. There Is no alternative or middle ground." The governor reviewed' at length the chain of events which have kept the state In turmoil for a month and conclued his message with a plea that the legislature Immediately pass a bill, which he himself prepared, "that the peopl may be protected forever In their person, property and fundamental llbertia." Two bandits who Hilts, Calif. boarded the southbound Southern Pacific San Francisco express, as it entered a tunnel near here shortly after noon Thursday killed three trainmen, stopped the train and threw a bomb into the mail car, killing tlie mail clerk and wrecking the car. The explosion wrecked the mail car so completely that no loot was obtained by the bandits. Four cars besides the mail car were damaged so that Uiey were removed Iroiii tae tunnel only with difficulty. Hallway employes said they saw two men board the train Just as It entered the tunnel. It Is believed that the bandits either were railroad employes or former railroad men and killed the trainmen when they were recognized apparently before they had stopped School Bus Hit by Train Atwater Ohio, Eight children were killed and several Injured Thursday when a bus crowded with school the children was demolished by Clevelander," the fastest train on the Pnnvlvanla railroad between New The accident Tork and Cleveland. occurred at Ijimbert'S crossing, t short distance from here. International Bridge May be Closed Washington, Advisability of closBank Closed; Cashier Held Kr!r Pa. The Citizens bank of ing at night the International bridge Albion, Erie county, the oldest bank at El Paso, Texas. Is being considered ln Institution In that city, was clos- by treasury official as a result of re quests from El Paso citizens that ed., by state bnnk examiners Wednesbad that tt.i. he done In an effort to curb they reported They day. discovered a shortage of Jfii.OOO. smuggling. , r,1lr 't J: BLOWN UP; ENGINEER, FIREMAN, BRAKEM AN AND CLERK DIE Explosion Sets Fire to Coach; No Hurt; Posse in Passengers Bandits get Pursuit. n it BLOW UP CARS IN COACH Stlnnes at Hesd of New Group r.orlln Hueo Stlnnes' 'Industrial commission which l nothing but a private committee which Stlnnes end M friends organized for the purpose Tuesday sent Chancellor ftrrsemann ultimatum demanding a four-hou- r .Mv'H rpsi n ' I ti If Mrsbi iisnj Mgh jwrsonatoe virtual control of Germany. TliP It ..MiKiU U. (TIk chancellor promptly pigeonholed f'lli' tliO. ate bsli'HeJ . M'r ssr ftv wrl iJ:'Vtb m I f!nsV limit after Is time n the Koumnnian expire, and government. fPt present ? th his rsblnet had agreed "that even to rd fie rhnrced ntmopher. that fillr conservative, having overturned ' fTn' frf 'ommlTd'st Wccrnfi!-hlcTi--p- r. r?rT leji negotlstf ovr sitch an tilUmstura would be equivalent to abdication. ceded it. lv 1 ROBBERS Bitter Attack on Invisible Government Reviews Events Which Have Kept the State in Turmoil Roumanian Plot Bared Tendon The J'.uchnrcst police have discovered a plot to nsnssinate the With '"f'e'atci filling lh pn cabinet, said a Bucharest j,Upiiraanian ? d:t r'um en' t'lonfin-to the Pnlly Mali Wenes. -. ralV-Ci'it- i dfKpatrh fj:j!r? the j, ! arrests have been made, Many nn fP in? i the day. er (Voi in r" r';'l ! -he ring r":dv'V 'ii'f Crrnl Stident'aiy'T aW f Ogden, Fay Summerill, 20 years of age, was fined $15 In the city court on the charge of driving an automo- the-Lowe- g $1G0.-170.2- .. NEPHEW BY UNCLE, bile in a reckless manner. Eight ears of ore crash r Other Murders Were Conceived and edBingham, into a loaded ore train in Wills Drawn in Favor of Apex mine yards and scat Slayers; Accused Famed tered ore for considerable distance as Astrologer No one was injured. With one dead, Puluth, Minn., five towns threatened by fire, navigation on the Great Lakes and bus line service alike hampered by a pall of heavy smoke, several settlers' cabins burned out, and thousands of dollars in property loss, forest fires raging in the northern part of three states started their second day of major destruction Wednesday. Hundreds of fires which have been all burning for sometime fanned " Tuesday by a west wind, reached proportions, uniting and sweeping onward with renewed vigor. Mildred Koivu, 3 years old, who wandered into the woods near Mohawk, Mich., and was burned to death, was the first person reported killed by the flames. Late night Governor Tuesiiay I'.latne of Wisconsin ordered out the Suierior units of the Wisconsin national guard to fight the fire raging through the state park at Manitou Falls. Hundreds of men are back-firinthrough heavy brush to try to save the villages of Blueberry, a small Douglas county community, nnd Lake Hawthorne also is in Nehagamon. Three farms north of Jeopardy. Brule have been burned out and all cattle destroyed. gladden the heart, the Yanks brought the first American League wo. Id s title to New York by beating the Giants in the sixth anil final Mime of the world's scries Monday The s ore was six to afternoon. four. The Yanks fought us only truo fight-Ican when backed flush j men wall, rising against the high on a wave of five runs in the eighth inning just when defeat at the hands of Art Nehf and the (iiants la 'general seemed inevitable. Nehf only ' made two mistakes during the name and his Mow up in the eighth behind a throe run lead and the fact that lie had not allowed a hit for six is the second of them. lie was nothing less fian, losing a curve in Ruth's groove with the count two an 1 three in the opuning innings. The net result was a home run Into the right field stands. ltuth's third of the scries, breaking all records for a. post season classic. No other play. r has ever bit three home runs in a sin 'lea series. The ''Million Pollar" world series became a reality, when with the paid receipts of Monday afternoon's game between the Yankees and Giants at the I'olo Grounds, the receipts at the six games played reached $1,00.1,815. This is the greatest sum ever taken in at any world's scrips in the history of the game. The official figures or Monday's afternoon game were announced as follows: Attendance, .11,172. Receipts, $i::9,'Jo2. Commissions share, S20.SS7.S0. Club owner's share $1 IS,:!", (.20. The figures for the entire scries are as follows: Attendance, 301,430; receipts, $1,0(11,R1." ; players share, Commission share, 2fi1.7S1.01. dub owners share $."i.1o,170.-2- : Notes News From All Parts of t UTAH KILLS STEPMOTHER Sixty Square Miles are Burned Over; Scores of Farms Destroyed; Lumber Loss Very Heavy I'.nd STATES WAS HYPNOTIZED BIG AREA Polo Crounds, Jew York, Coming from behind in tlie eighth inning witli a rally so inspiring as to fill the eye H ORGY OF CRIMES s Vets Open Convention CRIPPLE PLANSi it AIDED FLAMES DESTRUCTIVE BY WEST WINDS, SWEEP Series Vcll Ove. One Million Dollars; ruaje Ruth Swats Three Homers in the Series Wc.-'d- I miL SPREAD NEW YORK Tot.-- .l FIRES AQt I FO ''r'('M' lno J Big Events tt the Lives of Little Men '"I at l- no Loot Plans for the Marshfield, Ore., deliberate slaying of prominent residents of Coos county with their families were laid by Arthur CovelL 47, a crippled astrologer, according to his reported confession to authorities here. With his nephew Alton Covell, he Is held in the county jail because of his indictment by the grand jury on a murder charge in connection with the death of Mrs. Fred Covell September 2, last. The nephew, it is said by the authorities has confessed that he killed his stepmother while under the inThe fluence of his crippled uncle. confession it is declared tells how the youth, hypnotized by the bedridden man, crept up behind his stepmother on the morning of September 2 while lie was at work In her kitchen, and clamping an ammonia-soakecloth over her face, Bmothered her to Then the death with the fumes. confession describes how the youth still acting under the overpowering will of Ids uncle, carried his stepmother to her bed, there arranged her clothes so as to remove any signs of a struggle and carried the dead body to the front porcn of the house. Famed as an astrologer throughout the Pacific coast Arthur Govell, according to his purported admissions and to the confession of the nephew, based his schemes for the killing of Mrs. Covell and for wiping out at least a dozen persons of Coos county upon the stars. d ot d Tanker Fate Unknown West Fla. Just as mysterious- -. ly ns the TiWted States navy collbsen swallowed up by tne Cyclops was a few years ago, tho fat" of the Cit of Everett, tanker, whbh Thursday sent out frantic S. O. 'A. calls that she wns ''sinking stein first" may never be known. This wns the be-- ! lief expressed In shipping circles here Friday when rcae vessels reported all efforts t locate the sinking tanker had failed. tt ' - January. Moab, The Moab Pipe Line company, which furnishes the city with Ks domestic water supply, as filed application with the public for an increase In rates. utilities-commissio- Logan, Maurice Peterson, 8 years-oage, suffered a broken arm and a dislocated shoulder when thrown, from a Shetland pony which he and two small Jlaters were riding. Ogden, TJnder the supervision of Chief George A. Graves, fire drills were given daily at the city school in celebration of fire prevention week. Bingham, Voters of Bingham have approved an Issue of water bonds In the sum of $30,000, by casting 11 ballots for the Issue and five afjalnst. lt Joe Ritchie, who killed Tooele, Pablo Rodriquei at Dunbar station in Tooele county, April 10 last, and wounded two others, was sentenced" to serve ten years in the state prison. Provo, Following the announcement of the escape of Robert James Carroll and Travening Crittenden, comes verification of that Charles E. Price consid ered a desperate criminal had ea caped from, the mental hospital about ten days ago. Mt Pleasant, J. P. Larsen an aged resident of this city, was badly hurt when he stepped thru a trap door and tell Into the basement of a furniture store. i Ogden, Federal Judge Tillman D. Johnson in court here sentenced J. L. Henderson to six months in Jail had been found guilty of forging the name of W. D. Gurwell toa postal money order. Pleasant Grove Four persons were Injured last week in an automobile-acciden- t on Provo bench, a short dis tance from Provo, when two cars collided. Springville, A $G5,O00 water sys tem, which will supply various establishments m Ironton and Immediate territory for culinary purposes, has been completed by the Steel City In vestment company. Frovo, Robert McCord, Inmate of the state mental hospital at Vtovo and formerly a prisoner at the state prison, escaped with two other inmates of the hospital. Brigham City, Two cows were killed and one wns knocked down by electrical current from one the city wires had been blown down on Eighth West street. Ogden, Clifford S. Potter, Tleasant View, in this county was adviced that his cow, Sarah Ann Duplicate, had. for the third time won the state-faiwith a milk and butter record. d, the-rumo- r Plot Discovered Assassination Budapest The confession of three leaders of the Rumalnian FascistI, arrested Friday following the discovery of a plot to assassinate the cabinet leaders and overthrow the government involved several prominent politicians, according to secret advices smuggled past the RumanThe ian censor and reaching here. Bucharest police profess to have learned that the college boys had asked for an Interview with Premier the train. Bratino Intending to assassinate him The mall car had been barricaded In his office. Other students Inby the clerk, who refused to let the tended simultaneously to gain admitbandits enter. Attempting to force tance to the other cabinet ministers' an entrance, they threw the explo- offices and shoot them also. The rail sive through the window. road employes at the entrance of the Swollen River Floods Town tunnel, seeing the train stop and Okla. All stores were flood Enid, hearing the explosion thought the ed and numerous residents were boiler of the engine had exploded. wall partly submerged by a nine-fostarted to Investigate and of They water which swept through parts meantime the bandits disappeared. of Woodward, Okla. Saturday, when Sheriff Calkins of Treka who ar the Northen Canadian river over rived at the scene shortly after the flowed from recent heavy rains, acholdup, found the tracks of three men cording to reports reaching here Scoree of per. leading over the hill away from the over crippled wires. wreck. The belief that the holdup sons are said to have been made men were familiar with the operation homeless, although no lives are beExtensive of trains was strengthened by Indica- lieved to have been lost tions that the bandits first killed the damage as yet nnestimated, was engineer and fireman and then stop, caused. ped the train. French Flier Killed In Crash Food Rioters Wounded The French Lympne, England, Sollngen Rhenish Prussia, Several viator, Maneyrol, competing in the persons were wounded when the po. motor glider contests here, was killlice resorted to firearms In checking ed Saturday when the wings of his riotous activities by food demonstra- plane leave way under pressure of tors here Thursday night After mass the wind. He was attempting at meetings held to consider the high the time to better an altitude record prices parties of demonstrators began of 10,000 feet established earlier In attacking shops where the prices the day. were broken and considerable damage done. Nogales Fire Destroys Block Nogales, Ariz., An entire block of Asked on Road Bonds residences and business Foreclosure buildings Des Moines, la., Foreclosure of have been destroyed by fire which $2,750,000 bonds of the Keokuk & broke out Saturday night at the edge Des Moines railroad Is asked In a of the main business district of Nopetition filed In federal court here by gales, Sonora, Mexico, across the Inattorneys for the Farmers Loan anil ternational boundary. No lives have The been lost, according to reports. Trust company of New Tork. road Involved runs from Des Moines to Keokuk and Is leased and operated Coaches Overturn, Six Hurt by the Chicago, Hock Island & Paci Six were Hill, Mo., Pleasant The lease of fic Railway company. after midshortly Injured slightly the Rock Island expires January 1, night Friday, when the Missouri 1924. '. ; Pacific passenger train Kansas City to St. Louis was wrecked a mile west Soldiers are Withdrawn m of here. Tuesseldorf, The Belgium troops have evacuated the railway stations Burning Bost Arrives at Dulsburg, Ruhrort and Hamorn, The steamer StanFranclsco San It Is announced by the German news- ley Pollar, whose cargo was reported French afire and the papers Friday Tuesday night while, en route soldiers have been withdrawn from to the Far East, arrived In port Satthe North Essen station, reopening urday with the 'cargo still smoulder-ng- . line traffic ovpr the German-operateThe vessel has been docked between Essen and unoccupied Oer. near the harbor fir boat as a pre many by way of Porsten. caution. Ki-- Midvale, The Jordan Valley Potato Growers' association has beea formed, according made al the offices of the Utafl. statefarm bureau. Headquarters will beat Riverton. Ogden, For the fifth time Charle H. Barton was reelected president of the Ogden livestock show, to beheld here during the first week la President of Nicaragua Dies The state depart. Washington. mnt wns advised Sunday of the Manuel Cbamorro, death of Pies-- o nreld nt of Nicaragua. He died In Managun, the Nlcnrsgunn capital, at President 0 n'rlock Saturday nluht. Cbamorro was s member of the famous Cbamorro family whic h has governed Nicaragua almost without m t,reak since 1!10 and has ben f d for bis friendly v attitude the I'nlted State. not-bac- 1 after-Henderso- r garage at Logan, The Canyon Wcllsvllle wa entered by way of a bi.ck window and eight new tires. four tubes and a quantity of tool were taken. Ephralm, Ephralm was again successful this year In winning the, drlnk-tn- ? fountain, offered by the !anpote) Cftunty Fair association, for the town carrying off the most prizes at th county fulr. Price, Frank Waterman of Castle-gal- e fatally shot himself by ac-1 cident while hunting rabbits Clark's valley. He lived for two hour aftnr the accident. Moab, The Moab Garage companj has hauled five trrckloads of hogs to The Thtmpsons during the week. hog are all feeders and will be taken to Omaha to be fattened for the market Lrfiyton, Billy Cowley, the young on of Mr. and Mr. Murray Cowley, fell from a freight car near the V. S. L. station and suffered a broken leg. Kysvllle, Three hundred nd for students were registered at the Pavis county high school last ty-fo- weel;. h Lou's Cowlr. 10, of died nftor twenty suffering nt, thtee hours from Injuries receive'I last week In an automobile wreck. Cedar City, The new bridge over t'oal creek, on the Salt Ike-Zlonational park highway hns bev completed fnd the samq has ben'ao eepted by the state road commission. Es-en- Tooele, n |