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Show WeWKry-wnyi- . .. - . - r y-- ' J,?; ? - I ,;. J"M J' 2 V 1'h!,,U 4, $ , 4 4 V '- -: ; : Ti, -' i i if J FirstAt Oats Job Printing - ( , 3 Are Ton a Subscriber? living prices, Let t SJc your next order for anything you want print ed. Rich County News printing is 'synonymous with art and effiriency. If not pleue remember your subscription , will help make this paper strong a thing necessary for an unsurpassed news service, t 1 REACHED EVERY NOOK AND CORNE3PF RICH COUNTY .. v "vr " " j ,iyft - TWENTY-FOURT- " , '" ' i i. j i RANDOLPH RICH BOUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1920. YEAR. H fwjiwa.1 ,'r,l - r NUMBER 27. r 1 A Christmas Problem ISolved (U. S. Bureau of Markets ) Washington, V. C. For week ended December 3, 1920: a r and Feed Most markets report heavy hay receipts. One hundred sixty-fiv- e cars in Cincinnati terminals and until congestion is cleared hay emhas been on all western bargo lines Cincinnati placed inbound to Pennsylvania road. Prices especially for low grades, which heavy, are dull. Demand remains light In principal markets. Chicago reports active demand at firm prices, with No. X timothy selling at $31; No. 2 prairie $23 Quoted1 No. 1 timothy. $30 Philadelphia, $30 50 Memphis, $22.50 Minneapolis, $28 Cincinnati, $23 Kansas City. No. 1 alfalfa, $26 Kansas City, $31.50 Memphis, $23 Omaha, $32 Cincinnati. No. 1 prairie, $15 Kansas City, $19 Minneapolis, $16 Omaha. Prices of several feedstuffs tered new low records. Within theregispast few days bran offered at northeastern markets at $36 for December-Februar- y shipment; middlings, $33; 36 per cent cottonseed meal, $38.75. The trade appeared reluctant to stock up at these figures and middlings were almost Unsalable. Linseed meal offered at $41 Buffalo; about $46 Philadelphia and New York. Western and- Pacific coast markets heavy. Bran declined $5 per ton in Minneapolis. Bran, Quoted: $25 50, middlings $23, linseed meal $40 50 Minneapolis; 36 per cent cottonseed meal $30 Memphis; 43 per cent meal $31. Texas common points; beet pulp, $44 Chicago; white hominy, $32 St. Louis; gluten, $51 Philadelphia; No. 1 alfalfa meal, $29 Kansas City. Grain During the first half of the week grain prices trended downward, but there was a sharp reaction on the 1st and 2nd. Although a decline set in on the 3rd, due to selling by traders, the market resisted the pressure and advanced as soon as selling stopped. Feeling became general throughout the grain trade during the week that grain prices were too low and a reconstruction of sentiment appears to have taken place. A Buy a Barrel of Flour campaign was started on the 2nd at the Chicago convention of the Farmers National Grain Dealers association and " has been taken up by millets. It is , hoped by the association that this will have a stabilising effect on prices, i Country offerings of wheat continue light. Five steamers with one million fifty thousand bushels Canadian wheat reported bound for Chicago. Report that British commission and Belgium purchased wheat on the decline on the 3rd for shipment via the Gulf and New York. Bids from Black sea and Mediterranean ports also reported. For the week Chicago March wheat gained closing at $1 65; May corn. 16c, at 76c. Minneapolis March wheat up 16 at $161; Kansas City. 18c at May. 13c at Winnipeg $161; $1., 77. Chicago December wheat closed at $1 70; December corn, 72c. Fruits and Vegetables Potato prices continued to decline at northern f. o. b. markets, losing an additional 20 22c per 100 pounds sacked' at $1400163. Chicago carlot market, lost 1520c, closing $1 6001.75 ns compared with the seasons high prices of $2 3002 40 on November 3. Jobbing prices lost 1535c in other markets at $1 852 15. 2 Baldwins' A Apple prices steady, $4 004.25 per bbl. f. o. b. western York New shipping points. Eastern -Jobbtng marketJaslow and dull, mostly '$4 000 Northwestern e7Ura.,fa,ioy Winesaps, $2 25 per box f o. n.7 New" - ' York lobbing range, $2.503.00; Boston, 7 , $2 7503 25. Virginia sweet potatoes slow and eastern consuming markets weak, ranging $17503 00 per bbl. Chicago down 50c at $3 5003.75. , Carload shipments week ended De2: 3745 cember Potatoes. cars, barreled apples 1826, boxed apples 1292, cabbage 484, onions 364, lettuce 326, sweet potatoes 288. Shipments preceding week: Potatoes 4090 cars, barreled apples 1487, boxed apples 1256, cabbage 431, onions 388, sweet potatoes 381. Livestock and Meats. A sharp decline in practically all grades of cattle featured the weeks Chicago livestock market. Beef steers lost $150 0 2 50; feeder steers, 50c; heifers, 25c ; veal calves, $1 00 per 100 pounds Fat lambs advanced steadily, gaining a net of to $1 25 per 100 pounds. Fat sheep up 75c. Trade in feeding lambs, dull at a 25c decline. Hogs fluctuated within a narrow range and net advances 20c per 100 pounds, iveraged about lecember 3 top Chicago prices: Hogs, 10 30; yearlings steers, $15 50; good eef steers, $13 25; heifers, $12; cows, 10 25; feeder steers, $10; westerns, $10.75; veal calves, $12; fat lambs, $12 75; feeding lambs, $1125; fat ewes, $5 50. With the exception of lamb, practically all classes of fresh meat showed declines for the week. Pork led. the decline in loins ranging $4 000 10 00 per 100 pounds. Veal weak at $2 0003 00 lower; beef quoted $1 000 3 00 lower. Trade In lamb showed some improvement and prices advanced $1.0002 00. December 3rd prices on good grade meats: Beef, $17 00018 00; veal, $17 0002000; lamb, $24 0027 00; mutton, $11 00013 00; light pork loins, $18 00022.00; heavy loins, $14.00 $18.00. weakness Products. Further Dairy developed in the weeks butter market. Uncertain supply of fancy butter has caused many buyers to turn to other grades or to Danish, of which there are iberal offerings This action withdrew nain support of market At present myers are holding off except for slight speculative demand on medium grades offered at low prices. Storage butter extremely weak; some storage ofas good 48c.v quality reported 92offered as low score: New York, Closing prices 54c; Chicago, 50c; Philadelphia, 54 c: Boston, 54c. These prices are 30 6c lower than a week ago, eastern markets having suffered heaviest decline. r Accused of Robbery Complicity. St Louis. A warrant charging complicity in the mail robbery of a Missouri Pacific train here August V last, when $35,000 In cash was stole y two men, was Issued Saturday gainst Alfred A. Oliver, an airbrake inspector. . ( PRESIDENT-ELEC- HARDING T 18 Urges Senate to Make Remaining Three Months of Wilson Admlnistra- tlon a Fruitful .Time Heavy Work Ready for Members. Washington. Congress is again in session, the two houses meeting at .noon on December 6, Speaker Gillett calling Jhe house to order promptly at Marshall let noon, while bis gavel fall a moment later. , A new precedent in American history was established when President-elec- t as Harding addressed the senate ' ' , a member of that body. . He told his colleagues in a brief, informal talk that while he would always be .mindful of the senates place and responsibility in the government, lie would also remember, and expect the senate to remember, that he was president ' , . deHarding requested claring that it was not necessary for either the congress or the executive to surrender to the other. ' He also urged the senate to make the remaining three months of the a fruitful Wilson administration time instead of so' much waste.. " ? His speech was made at the suggestion of Senator Lodge,. Republican ' leader, who asked the chair-- ti recognize the senator from Uhlo. . V This short session has been looked on in prospect as a rather routine session, devoted largely to passage Of the fourteen appropriation bills. But indentions are that It will be" crowded with other important business. "Not i'eAJywill (he 'inass of routine be tre- -' mendo put there is, to be considerable fOunJon laylng.fbi the Sixty .seventh coograsjwheri the Republl-T- h completecontrol Of both and execdSve branches of the ' nFj V,- - eg-iti- ,al, p'trpdsvltlous some of 1 pro-- ? the work which this EXPLODING SHELLS ON AN MUNITION BOAT CAUSES TERROR TO PEOPLE. Proposed Measure Designed to Eliminate Present System-o- f Trading ' In Necessities, Placing Heavy ' - Tax on Futures. - Boat Laden With Death Dealing Shells Is Finally Removed From Res- ervation Wharf by Daring Commander of Naval Tug. Washington. Senator Capper' of Kansas On Saturday made public his proposed bill to stop gambling in foodstuffs and cotton. A tax of 10 per cent, designed to be prohibitive, on . future 'trading on grain and cotton, except by actual owners or a limited Class of traders under federal Ucensfe, is the basic feature of the Capper bill, which is to be introduced in the senate by the author and in the house by Representative Tincher, Republican, of Kansas. The 10 per cent tax would apply to options and the measure would affect grain products as well as raw grain. The bill will stop gambling In wheat, corn, cotton and other farhi It products, said Senator Capper. will eliminate the wheat pit and the blackboard. It will put out of business the thousands of wire houses and bucket-shop- s by making it impossible for gamblers and speculators tq deal on boards of trade. i The bill undertakes to preserve the legitimate hedge, but cuts orjt all , gambling and manipulations. ,f, Farmers, dealers and manufacturers buying or selling grain o$ cotton for actual delivery, would not be restricted by the proposed law, Senator .Capper said. Penalties of 50 per cent of the federal tax, a fine of $10,000 and one years Imprisonment for violation of the bills provisions are incorporated.in 14 the Capper bill. Sellers of grain products and cotton, who at the time of sale would be owners of the actual, physical property, and traders regularly engaged in growing, dealing in, or manufacturing, and registered wifh he in- New York. Hundreds of homes In the Fort Hamilton section of Brooklyn virtually were under heavy artillery bombardment Sunday afternoon resulting from intermittent explosions of h and shells on a steam lighter which caught fire while moored to the army reservation wharf. Gathering together their belongings in a belief that the naval arsenal at Fort LaFayette, a small island near Fort Hamilton, was ablaze, terrified scores fled their homes for safer zones, driven to frenzied haste by the series of detonations which were heard for miles around. An official statement from Fort Hamilton said no lives had been lost and that only four persons had injured. One of the terrifying incidents of the d barrage was the flight of a h shell clear over the reservation and in a house' in Fort Hamilton parkway. The projectile tore a huge hole in the roof of the dwelling, passed through two floors and buried itself in the cellar. The house, occupied by the family of August Galtem, all of whom escaped injury, was shaken with the violence of an earthquake. The lighter, which was laden with 900 shells for shipment to Boston, was tom from its moorings by the violence of the first explosion. Two men were on board, but they escaped. A naval tug soon reached the scene and, in a desperate effort to prevent the flames from spreading to the wharf, the commanding officer deliberately headed his craft for the blazing lighter and its exploding cargo. He stuck her nose against the side of the lighter and pushed her away to a sand tar In lamUoont periief bia.iqwu craft being blown from the Water. The naval tug had scarcely withdrawn when a heavy explosion occurred which tore the lighter apart. , -- - their' Seating1 fcov three tfmM'M their actual transactions "during the preced- xptfaX'r:.- at Aattohal'bedget KANSAS 8ENATOR HAS PLAN TO PREVENT SPECULATION IN . FOODSTUFFS AND COTTON. - FIRST TO GIVE UNUSUAL SPEECH TO BODY. , bill. A bill. to amend the Volstead prohibition enforcement law to make prohibition less stringent. A bill to make the Volstead law more stringent, and to give the prohibition commissioner a bigger force, more money and wider powers. A demand for a sweeping investigation of prohibition enforcement. Some measure of tax revision, although the mSin program of tax and tariff revision is to be undertaken at the next session, according to present plans of Republican leaders. A soldier bonus bill. Measures to lower the cost of living. N , ' Proposed amendments of the rail- ing year and would be required to report all dealings to the internal revenue bureau. HARDING WANTS GREATER NAVY six-inc- GOVERNORS -- 0::.I ARTICLE PLAII TEH AID FOR Fi -- , ten-inc- h been-slightl- IT lt4NTIMATED BY DELEGATES SUCH ACTION MAY BE v.TIvT TAKEN AT GENEVA. WILL RECOMMEND, THAT GOVERNMENT LEGISLATE IN OF AGRICULTURALIST. PA-VO- R Vi f- - 4 Federal Refunding of Debts of Farm-,'er-s Presentation of and Adoption for One Year to Be Asked' of. "solution Having Such Effect Congress in Order to Re-- , t scussedEarly. Adjourn- lieve Unparalleled Situation.'! merit of Sessions Expected. ' , v Pa. Governors 'and Harrisburg, governors-elec- t representing . more than half the states of the union voted at their annual conference on Wednesday to begin an inquiry into what i was variously - called ' '.the acute, alarming, and tragic situation facing farmers of the country with a view to recommending federal legislation to assist them" As a first step toward carrying oq" ' ", . $ . j s a. Presentation and adoption iff solution eliminating article X frcA the covenant of the league of V&$oni before the end of the present swrdoii of ,the assembly would occasion', no surprise here, it was declared In some quarters when the began its session Priday morn-Jn- g as-ef- - Assertions were made that the de- the committee on the admis- new states, which held, In the article does not guaran-Jis- ' territorial integrity of any ef-th- Governpi; W. L. Harding, the; a committee ' conference appointed . consisting of Cjoyetnors 4 f X6wa, gordin antt Goodrich of Indiana, to make a preliminary survey and report back before the conclusion of the conference. After that it Is contemplated to send the committee to Washington to urge legislation before congress, which convenes this month. The object of the state executives, which is said to be without parallel In the history of the American government, is for the organization of governors to suggest to congress and actively advocate passage of legislation necessary to refund the debts of farmers who are pinched by falling markets with heavy stocks of surplus production on hand so as to give them a year or more in which to recoup losses and wait fof a strengthening market. It Is proposed to do this through extension, or adaptation, of the federal reserve system. A second proposal also scheduled to receive consideration by the committee is another by Governor Harding that a foreign trade corporation be formed to finance purchases of American farm products by foreign countries unable, through present lack of funds, to come into the American market. Act- the present meeting. This interprets tion, and the postponement of the consideration of certain changes in the covenant were the principal topics of conversation. These changes, which were proposed by Scandinavian countries, was said in no wise to prevent consideration at this session of any other amendments. N. W. Powell, a Canadian delegate, brought this out clearly by questioning A. J. Balfour of Great Britain. The committee to which was referred the question of how to choose the four elective members of the council of the league had not reported. The question is whether these members shall be elected for four years or two, and it is still being debated whether their terms of office should begin from the first entry of the council into operation, or from the present If the latmeeting of the assembly. ter Idea prevails, the four representatives must be elected here. The chance of Brazil returning to her place on the council is considered excellent, but Greece, it is thought, will lose her place. Pleads for Merchant Marine and Navy Competent to Defend Mercantile v ' Interests, i An America Va. preemiNorfolk, nent in maritime commerce, cultivating friendly relations but jealously determined to defend its rights, was Harding pictured by President-elec- t on Saturday as he ended his vacation and turned to the task of formulating ' policies of his administration. ' In a half dozen short speeches he asked for a government aided merchant marine that would make the United States the greatest martime road law. A treaty with Japan covering land nation on earth, and for a navy fit line of defense for a ownership by Japanese In California to be the first people everlastingly determined to and. other states. defend its commerce and its rights. . A treaty with Colombia, settling the He .also spoke for an international old controversy pver the Panama canal understanding that should not peace and Istablishing' American oil interREV. H. J. KREHBILL on Governor Hardings suggesAmerican sacrifice nationality, and ing ests in Colombia. tions, Governor Bickett introduced a Measures to improve bousing condresolution providing for appointment ARTHUR CAPPER itions. , of the committee to act under instrucProposals to curb the power of grain tions of the conference and take the exchanges to control the price of wheat propositions up with congress direct. ; and other grains. One voice, that of Governor EdA large number of welfare measwards of New Jersey, was raised in t ures. objection. The.eastern executive, who In addition some new investigais a banker, said be thought federal tions doubtless will be undertaken. The legislation such as is contemplated by senate campaign fund Investigation his colleagues would be economically committee is expected to make a parwrong. Conditions should be lef to tial report, and will also continue its adjust themselves, he declared. Inquiry. Having asked how candidates China Declines to Assent. and parties raised the money, the Pekin. China declines to consider committee now will ask how they spent it. A final report may also be made proposals by the diplomatic corps in Pekin for the joint administration of on the Newberry election case. the affairs of Russians resident in China. In replying to the diplomats REAL HOME FOR note, the government claims the treatment accorded Russians has been enWest Virginia Senator Proposes $350,-00- 0 tirely correct and will continue to be Government Mansion. so. ' President-elecVice t Washington. Must Denature Plum Puddings. Coolidge will not live in a $35 per month frame house, but in a $350,000 flavoring of Washington. The home-mad- e government mansion If a bill prepared Christmas plum pudding, by Senator Elkins of West Virginia is mincemeat and branched cherries and passed by congress. peaches with alcoholic spirits is in It is humiliating to the American violation of the prohibition enforcement law, and such foods are liable people that .the second highest official to seizure, it is stated at the bureau of this government should be comof internal revenue. pelled to live around in hotels or privately owned residences, spending half of his salary for rent, said the senSixty Killed In Meeting. received ator. A committee of two members message Shanghai. A from Kankow reports that sixty perfrom each house Is authorized by the Rev. H. J. Krehbill of Reedley, Cal., Kansas senator who will introduce sons have been killed in the mutiny df who was bill to put its provisions immediately recently elected president of future Chinese troops at bill designed to prohibit a treaty the General vMennonlte Conference of lnt effect ' speculations in food commodities. North America. port Li Hu Peh province. ' AM- . 4 , 440-yar- ten-inc- HUNS WOULD COMPEL LABOR. Women and Girls as Well as Men and Boys to Render a Year of Service. Berlin. Conscription of labor to increase production in Germany, a law for which is being drafted, would apply to girls and women'as well as men and boys, all of whom would be compelled to render a year of service in mines, factories, on farms, in hospitals, or wherever the state directed. The proposal, credited to Mathias Erzberger, former minister of finance, has become the storm center of a discussion which has run the scale from invective and threat to ridicule, and now, with the law nearing completion, its proponents have made it apparent they will seek with deadly earnestness to force its passage through the reichs-ta- g. On the other hand, the opponents of the measure, including the powerful Socialist faction, have declared they will oppose the passage with every means at hand and should they fail, wi later seek to vitiate the Frontier Is Closed. London. In revenge for the crushing by the boisheviki of the bands of General Semenoff, the Cossack leader, Japanese have seized the sea coast and closed the Manchurian frontier to the Russian far eastern , T Colby Sails for, South. s Newport News, Va. Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state, sailed from Hampton Roads on the battleship Florida Saturday to return the visits to the United States of President Brum of Uruguay and Pessoa of Brazil. Leaves Fortune to College. General Li Shun, military Nanking. governor of Kiangsu, who recently committed suicide, is said to have willed a fourth of his estate, estimated at to a college In Tientsin, $2,500,000, and another fourth to the famine relief fund. Caterpillar Tractor Inventor Dead. Stockton, Cal. Benjamin Holt, of the caterpillar tread applied to tractors, died at a hospital here Sunday after a brief illness. The tread he invented was applied to the tanks developed as a major weapon in the great war. , ' 4c v Will Remove Russian Refugees. Constantinople. The French government has granted permission for the removal of Russian refugees from Crimea to Bizerta, a fortified seaport of Tunis. It is estimated that more than 100,000 refugees will be landed there. Negro Hanged by Mob. Tulsa, Okla. An unidentified negro charged with an attack upon a white woman, 67 years old, was taken from Ihe Hughes county jail at Holdenville Sunday by a mob of about fifty men and hanged to a telephone post r - , , - |