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Show THE REIMS PLANT IS LOSi pglSElSISEEIBISiaEElElSISlEiaiSI The Spring Drive JUDGE LINDSEY VISITED BY BLAZE NEPIII, UTAH TIMES-NEW- GRIP Jr. vi i7': an WORKERS DRIVEN P iiif COAL MINE News Notes From All Parts of UTAH ONE IS KNOWN TO BE DEAD AND MANY MISSING AS RESULT OF FIRE FORMER JUVENILE JUDGE SETS IN COURT AND HEARS CASE8 AS RECOUNT GOES ON GUARDS Fire Departments of Many Cities Fight to Save Magazines; Girls Seek Safety By Jumping Through Windows Penoll Marked Ballots Develop and Outeome With Reoount, Graham Appears Muoh in Doubt surpass the celebrations of past fears. To date ten high schools of Several Have Narrow Escape From tae state have entered students la the contests to be conducted, and Injury by Flying Bullets; Only One of Trespassers Is competition in the typewriting contest which Is being featured, has grown; Injured from three schools to ten. Hanover, Mass. One man is known to be dead and several other emFireworks ployes of the National company's plant here are believed to have lost their lives when a series of explosions followed by a fire destroyed a large part of the plant. The fire departments of seven towns were struggling to save the magazines and surrounding houses. Several other employees in the same building escaped by Jumping through windows into the Drinkwater river. It was estimated that 100 of the 300 buildings had been destroyed. The number of dead will not be determined until a checkup has been made. The explosion in the mixing shed nas followed almost immediately by a long series of detonations as building after building went up in fragments. Frantic girls at work in the sheds dived through doorways or windows to seek safety in the river. So severe was the concussion that all the windows were blown out in the factory of the Hanover Rubber company, 1000 feet away, and many workers were thrown to the floor. A high wind drove the sparks far and wide, starting grass and brush fires over a large area. With a large part of the plant already destroyed, the firemen strove to save the company houses, occupied by workers, many of which caught fire from the sparks. The factory was established in 1901. The explosion occurred immediately after the resumption of work for In the mixing shed the afternoon. the work of blending powder in 300 pound lots for the manufacture of fireworks had been done by hand, but a machine was introduced as a labor saving device. Officials believe that a spark from this machine fell on twenty-fivbags of black gunpowder, causing it to explode. The plant is situated in a wooded area in North Hanover, and the sheds are placed from fifty to sixty yards apart among the saplings and brush. A brush fire, discovered soon after a mile from the spot, 'was believed by firemen to have started from the same explosion. Many other brush fires were started by sparks. The explosion and fire, passing from one building to another, affected an area of about 640 acres. AND MINERS CLASH AT 08AGE, W. VA. MINES IN BITTER GUN FIGHT In Juvenile Judge Ben nationally famous as an Denver, Colo. B. Lindsey, authority on Juvenile delinquency, is losing his grip on the bench seat he has ocucpied for more than two decades. A total of 206 votes included in the original election returns last November, that showed him a winner for the Judgeship over Royal R. Graham by 117 votes, were lost to Judge Lindsey when a recount had been completed in thirty of Denver's 211 election precincts. The recount was ordered by Judge Julian H. Moore, in district court, after charges of fraud at the pells had been made by both sides in the ouster suit being pressed by Graham. ballots Nearly 300 pencil-markeare in contest and these, attorneys on both sides predicted, may decide the outcome of the contest. At least ten days yet will be required to complete the recount, it is estimated. Judge Lindsey's counsel argue that Graham cannot assume the bench even if their client is declared to have been defeated. They contend that he did not have the residential requirements necessary for office at the time of the election. Judge Lindsey does not appear in the courtroom, but busies himself with children's affairs in his famous court. He charges that his avowed opposition to the Ku Klux Klan was the motive behind the attempt to unseat him. That both men might be disqualified for the position and the county commission authorized to appoint a Juvenile Judge was an eventuality that was widely discussed by persons clearly observing the case. MINING BOOM IS CONVICTED GIN SENTENCE VISITING OF WEST ARE BEING CONDEMNED TO DIE FOR KILLREVIVED AT GILBERT, N EV., ING WOMAN AT PARK CITY, AS TOWN GROWS. PLEADS INNOCENCE OLD DAYS Strike Brings Back Scenese Similar to Goldfield, Manhattan and Rawhide of Twenty Years Ago. Gold Bandits Make Big Haul Los Angeles. Rene Marx, wealthy utomobile dealer and three compan-on- s were robbbed of Jewelry valued it 130.000 by two armed men who met them in the driveway of the Marx nome here as they were returning Vom a party in Marx's car. Navy Tbe Turkish naConstantinople. tional assembly at Angora has voted an extraordinary credit of 15,000.000 liras for the navy, to be used over a period of five years. It also voted 3.000.000 liras for the air forces. The Turkish lira is equivalent to about $4,39 American money. Gilbert. Nev. Days of the old western frontier were recalled vividly by this new mining camp, a gold boom town that has sprung up at a place where only rocks and sand and distant mountains were visible a few weeks ago. Scenes here are reminiscent to of such camps as Goldfield, Manhattan and Rawhide twenty-odyears ago. Gilbert now has a Main street, lined with wooden structures of all sizes and sorts. There is even a weekly paper, the Gilbert Record. The hillsides are dotted with 100 or more tents. Almost hourly big trucks arrive from Tonapah and Mina, the nearest railroad points, loaded with and sup lumber, coal, machinery plies. New houses are going up, and almost every line of business inci dent to a mining camp is represented. There are stores, restaurants, an assay office, law offices, a garage and service station, a dance hall. The real story of Gilbert starts in 1896, when Charles Lampson, a desert prospector, picked up a piece of rich gold quartz near an Indian camp in the Monte Cristo range. Lampson the spent many months searching hills for the outcropping from which the gold had come. Finally he gave up and wandered away to other fields. J. B. Gilbert took up the search. He met with no more success than His sons, however, perLampson. sisted in the hunt. The older Gilbert died many years ago. Nearly twenty-thre- e years later, his three sons, Fred, Herman and Logan, located the Last Hope. They had called it that because they had planned to make It their last effort to wring gold from those hills. The Gilbert boys began to get values from the surface. They took out a shipment, and the excitement started. A few days later Dick Raycraft a veteran prospector, working for the Gilberts, discovered the "Jewelry shop" in a badger hole on top of a hill, now known as the Black Mammoth. Some of the rock assayed $1 or more a pound. This started the stampede. The exposed rock on the surface of the Gilbert holdings is so rich that an armed guard patrols the place night and day. Thousands have visited the strike. It is estimated that not less than (5000 has been given away in specimens. Hundreds of prospectors are In" the surrounding hills. Many new strikes have been reported. Every day the Interest grows more intense. goldseekers are coming back from Mexico, from Canada and elsewhere. While the Gilbert's Last Hope first drew attention to the new gold field, it is the Black Mammoth and the Homestake that bid fair to make lie camp world famous. The Homestake Is Just beyond Black Mammoth, and recently it gave up a ledge 1000 feet long which pans gold the entire distance. There are eight different locations where gold specimens may be taken from the surface at random. Much development work Is in progress. Laundry Hides Opium Den City, Mo. A Chinese opl-iden, operating under the guise of laundry, was raided here, resulting in the capture of a quantity of opium ind the arrest of John Chung, proprietor. In addition to having a well fitted room for opium smokers In the rear of the laundry, federal authorities said the drug was retailed over ,'ne city in laundry parka Ron. Chung in thought by officers to be a representative of a gang of opium Import-tr- s on the Pacific coast. Twofold Trouble Strikes Man Denver, Colo. While Thomas I Irwin was nt the bedside of his wife in a hospital he received word that his daughter Bertha 4, Elizabeth, was dying of Influenza it the Children's hospital. Hurrying to the he found the Children's hospital, child dead. There he was rafted on the telephone and Informed that Ms wife was dpad. Mother and daughter were burled tn the same fravs In local cemetery. Tucker Refuses Salary Increase Washington. Following the policy of his grandfather, a member of the fourth congress. Representative Henry St. George Tucker, Democrat, Virginia, declined to accept the full value of his March paycheck because it carried an Increase of $208.33, an amount he holds he is not entitled to because he was elected to a position carrying that much less. He mailed his personal check for that amount back. e fifty-poun- d Dr. Cook To Prison Forth Worth, Texas. .Dr Frederick A. Cook has said au revoir, but not good-bye- , to Fort Worth. "I'll be back some time," the promoter-convic- t told the friend who gathered to bid him farewell as he boarded the train for Leavenworth prison. "Texas has been the scene of my bitterest trouble, but I like the state and plan to make it my home when I am a free man His departure for the fedagain." eral penitentiary, In which he is under sentence of fourteen years and nine months for fraudulent use of the Republicans Carry Wisconsin Detriot. Republicans overwhelmed mails, marked the end of another inDemocrats in the biennial spring stallment of Dr. Cook's astounding election for minor state officers. career and also terminated his soWith returns from virtually every journ of more than sixteen months populaus county in the state, a Re- In the Tarrant county Jail. Through of Federal District publican plurality for all offices ex- the clemency ceeding 100,000 was indicated. The Judge James C. Wilson, the time total vote was small. The offices spent In Jail awaiting for a new trial filled were two university regents, will be applied to Dr. Cook's sententwo members of the supreme court, ce. two members of the state board of Mine Blast Kills Two agriculture, one superintendent of public instruction, a state highway Cripple Creek, Colo. Two miners commissioner and a member of the were killed and another was fatalstate board of education. ly injured in an explosion of unknown origin in the Portland mine near Babe Ruth III here. In the premature explosion of New York The Evening World a shot on the thirtieth level of the Portland gold mine at Victor, Paul says that Babe Ruth, professional baseball's premier slugger, collapsed Yonke. 40, and Harry Dawson, 38, in the railway station at Asheville, N. were instantly killed and Fred Hana, C, as the New York Yankees and 50, was seriously injured. Hana is the Brooklyn Robins reached that in the district hospital at Victor city for another game of their exhi- with a probable fractured skull. Yon bition series. The newspaper's base- ke and Hana were machine men aad i ball correspondent, traveling with the Dawson a trammer. teams, said that Ruth fainted and that he apparently was suffering from Great Smelt Run At End influenza. He has been ailing for Portland, Ore. The greatest smelt 'he last few days of the strenuous run In the history of the Sandy barnstorming tour. Troutdale residents say in the history of the world is ended. The annual Arizona Pioneer Called melt run this season lasted Just Phoenix, Ariz. Mrs. Lizzie Warn- twenty days. Heretofore it seldom er, widely known Arizona pioneer Unfed a week. During the run tons nd the last of the five charter memof smelt were taken by amateur and bers of the Order of the Kastern commercial fishermen. They were so Star in the United States, died at her thick they could be scooped up easily home near here. She was 86 years in nets and baskets. Goes physician-explorer-writer-o- old. KaniKis Turks Enlarging IN d Old-tim- e Is Sentenced for Third Time For Crime Which Was Committed Early in 1923; Will Pay Man Penalty on May 15th. Morgantown, W. Va., A rifle and revolver fight lasting nearly an hour was staged here between guards at the Osage mine of the Brady-Warne- r Coal corporation and trespassers, alleged by the coal company to have been striking miners. April 6th marked the sixth day of the strike of bituminous miners in northern West Virginia and, as asserted by mine officials, the holdout has been unsuccesful to date. Less than 25 per cent of the mines in this section have been affected by the strike order, mine owners state. Guards brought to the Osage mine several days before the miners left the workings ordered a group of men from the mine property. Later noises of talking and what guards state sounded like hammerings were heard beneath the coal tipple. An investi gation followed and the mine guards were met with a volley of shots. The fire was returned and a running gun fight ensued, which lasted for near ly an hour. Finally all of the trespassers were forced outside the company property lines and the guards returned to the mine buildings. Several men experienced narrow escapes from injuries. O. B. Barnes, an officer in the mine guard was burned by powder, when a pistol was exploded in his face. The bullet passed through his hat. Bullets pass ed through the coats of several other Logan. The third annual High School day, to be held at the Agricultural college May 7, promises to Salt Lake City. Dr. E. G. Petee--so- n was reappointed president of the Utah Agricultural college for the coming academic year by the board of trustees of the institution, which met at the capitol. Monticello. Emil Zwicher, president of the Eastern San Juan Telephone company reports that his com pany will soon have its line extends ed to Dove Creek, where it will connect with the Colorado lines and give the people of eastern Utah a direct telephone connection with Co orado. Heretofore the only way messages could be sent to Colorado was to Thompsons an'l by telephoning then to Grand Junction. Richfield. A real estate transaction of some magnitude was consummated when the city of Richfield transferred the fair grounds to Sevier county. These grounds are situated within the city limits and embrace twenty acres, together with all the buildings and appointments of the fair grounds. Salt Lake City. The next Utah state fair will be held from October 1 to October 7, inclusive, It was decided at a meeting of the new board of directors of the State Fair association at the state capitol. Coalville, Utah. Pedro Cano, convicted as the murderer of June St. Clair, will expiate his crime before a firing squad in the state prison at Salt Lake City the morning of Friday, May 15. District Judge William M. McCrea passed sentence of death on the condemned man. Twice Cano evaded the death chair, first by appeal from the trial court Judgment and then by re- guards. An Investigation is being made of prieve granted by Governor George H. Dern the day before the execution a report that one of the trespassers date. was injured in the fray. Cano, facing the court reiterated Hundreds of men are idle and the his claim of innocence end, in ans- fences surrounding the grounds of the wer to the query as to what reason Osage mine are lined with women there might by why sentence should and children, while guards patrol the not be imposed replied that he would interior as well as the surface proplike moro time in which to search erty of the mine, fearing, they state, for Refugia Alemeda, whom he as- an attempt to damage the property. serts committed the murder. June St. Clair was killed the night Doukhobors Plan Parade of March 14, 1923, in her shack in the hundred Nelson, B. C. Twenty-fivPark City tenderloin district. Her assailant stabbed her several times Dougbohors, a religious sect, which in the abdomen. Cano, who occu- several times has manifested its of Canadian laws by staging pied a nearby house, was arrested, "nude parades," cheered at the prostried and convicted. Following conviction, John Tobin, pect of a new demonstration when a counsel for Cano, took the case on demand was made that their children appeal to the state supreme court. be sent to school. "You have the Meanwhile Cano divulged what he power to seize our property for payclaimed to be the true story of the ment of fines, but if you do, we take killing. Refugia Alemeda, he said, off our outer garments," one spokeshad been his sweetheart, and she be- man said. The leaders declared that came enraged over a fancied affair the school laws were contrary to the between himself and their neighbor. Doukhobor interpretation of the "law He returned at midnight to find her of God." Educated people, they said, leaving their place dressed in some were responsible for the death of of his clothing and she returned laPeter Veregin, Doukhobor leader, ter and told him of the killing, es- who was killed last October when a caping before the arrival of officers bomb exploded on a Canadian train. his story held. The supreme court denied a new In Rodent Campaign trial. The date originally fixed for Farmers Profit Idaho farmers were Ida. Moscow, his execution was in September, 1923. The appeal to the supreme court aut- saved approximately $829,000 In deomatically stayed this, but when that vastation by rodent pests last year body denied the appeal he was re- through the extermination work carsentenced to be shot on January 30, ried on by the University of Idaho extension service, it has been inti1925. Meanwhile Cano's stubborn fight mated by officials of the service and farmers. to escape the death chair, attracted cooperating Cooperative many supporters to his cause. The campaigns for the control of the rocase became the subject of notes ex- dent pests were carried on in thirty-eigh- t counties, it has been announced changed between the American and Mexican departments of state. Fin- from the office of E. J. Iddings, dean ally, upon the representations of of the college of agriculture and diCano and his friends that if given rector of the extension. A total of time he could prove Mrs. Alemeda 306,027 pounds of poisoned bait were guilty, governor Dern granted the re- distributed and 27,085 pounds of calprieve which was terminated at the cium cyanide were used on 2,003,783 last session of the board of pardons. acres of land. Attempts to locate the Alemeda woman were futile. Recently Sheriff Davis Is J. C. Clark of Coalville received a New York. John W. Davis, who to have lengthy letter purporting resigned as president of the English-speakinbeen written in Ophlr, but postmarkunion of the United States ed Salt Lake and carrying the signathe presidential ture, "Refugia Alemeda." The writer when he entered candidate corroborated Cano's statements as to campaign as Democratic the crime, declared his innocence and last summer, has been reelected. William II. Taft preceded Mr. Davis as accepted full blame for the murder. president of the union. New Corporation Is Formed Chicago. A new $119,000,000 corporation to take over Wilson & Co., packers, now In receivership, by sale under a federal court order within four months is contemplated la reorganization plans announced here and unanimously approved by representatives of all groups of creditors and security holders. Coolldge Gets Gold Pass Washington. A season pass to the National league baseball games in the form of a half a small gold baseball was presented to President Cool ldge by John Heydler. president of that league. The president's name Is engraved on tho flat surface, and the pass Is numbered one. Oregon Man Due for Appointment Wallace McCamant Washington. the of Portland, Ore., who upset plans of the Republican leaders by stampeding the Chicago convention in 1920 to Calvin Coolldge for vice was recommended to president, President Coolldge for a federal Judg-shlSenator Stanfleld took the recommendation to the White Home, suggesting that Judge McCamunt be named to the vacancy caused by retirement of Judge Rose of the Ninth circuit. Old American Settlement $500 Offered For Religious Play a town of Rapides parish. Washington. A prize of $500 has Is I'lnevllle, one of the oldest settlements In been offered by the federal council Louisiana, and It wns the stopping f churches for a "religious . play of place nnd portage for the enrly social significance." The winning plorers and traders on the upper Red manuscript will be published In a vol- river. ume of religious drama now in prepBrother William aration and may be produced before wort De ain't In no hurry 'bout cora. conference autnext representative umn. The suggestion was made that In' to a end. Ie fact is It's got so the play deal "with such themes as much ter answer for dat It ain't hsdi time to make out de specifications, Industrial, racial or international Atlanta Constitution. e d g Provo. The wonders of Timpano-go- s cave in the American Fork can-- , yon are to be exploited through the medium of the Fox Film corporation according to information received Harrison R. Merrill of the Brigham Young university, who, with Professor Lowry Nelson, has been negotiating with the movie concern to have pictures of the famous cave broadcasted throughout America. Salt Lake City. Gasoline imported into Utah, placed in a Utah station and subsequently drawn from the supply at that station and shipped into another state, must still pay the y Utah tax, it is held in an opinion Harvey H. Cluff, attorney general. giv-enb- Murray. Entering the state high school debating competition for the first time in its history, the Murray high school carried off the honors e decision fn the first by a debate of the triangle against the Cathedral high school of Salt Lake, in the Murray high assembly room. two-to-on- Cedar City. The Utah Iron Ore corporation is making excellent headway at the Desert Mound west of this city about sixteen miles. This company which has been shipping ore to the northern smelters at the rate t of 800 tons daily, finds the call that it is compelled to strip a larger area of overburden so that 500 tons daily can be maintained. Provo. A new business block is to be constructed on East Center street by Alex Hedqulst. The contract for the structure has been let to D. W. Davis. The building will have a frontage and a depth of 100 feet, with a full basement. thlrty-eight-go- Coalville Pedro Cano, convicted of the murder of June St. Clair In Park City, March 15, 1923, will die at the hands of a firing squad at the state prison on the morning of May 15. This date was set by Judge Wil liam M. McCrea, sitting in Coalyie, the scene of the trial. 4 Salt Lake City. All transportation, equipment and automobile busses, in tha recent fire at Mam- moth Hot Springs, Yellowstone Park., will be Immediately replaced, according to an announcement from Horace M. Albright, superintendent of the Yellowstone National park. The motor equipment has already been and delivery guaranteed by June 18, the date fixed for the official opening of the park. Ogden. The intermountain district of the forest service is a veritable paradise for nlmrods and fishermen, it Is shown by the statistics contained in the game census for 1924 of the district compiled by S. U. Ixxke, for est examiner, in charge of public re lations. The district comprises Utah, Idaho, western Wyoming and northern Arizona. |
