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Show fc- fc'V r . - f - , CAJyiyuX. r First Oui Job Pristiof A t v 4I jf x I V -' f r rWV - At lining prices. Let us Mte your next order lor anything you want prinU ed ' Rkh County News printing is synonymous with art and efficiency. S BEACHES J5VEET NOOH YEAR RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY, urn The Most PC- 1 ACCOMPANY VIOLENT ERUP-TIOOF MT.' ETNA N Leave Region Refugees Loaded Down With Household Treasurers; Shocks Recorded Eome. The little village of Lingua Gassa, on the slopes of Mount Etna, Is reported to have been destroyed by a torrent of lava Cascading down the side oPthe vblcano. Inhabitants of the town evacuated their dwellings Sunday amid earth quakes and subterranean rumblings r a fire bad wiped out the neighboring hamlet of Loseoragata. News of the destruction of Lingua Gassa came from Naples and was unconfirmed. Residents of the nearby town of Castllgione fled from their homes Monday staggering under the weight of such household treasures as they could cany, as the river of lava approached to Within one kilometer. The eruption of Etna Is Increasing. With deafening explosions new craters have appeared In the mountain. Vast clouds of dense black amoks are visible for miles. Hot ashes are sift-- " ing from the sky overv an Immense area. , f , Scores of refugees are trooping down the whole region terrified. Several units of militia have been rushed to the doomed village of Lingua Glossa from Catania to assist the population In removing furniture and cattle from- - homes and stables being destroyed by .the hot lava flow; Four eruptive mouths have opened on the northeast side of Mount Incessant streams of molten, Java are rushing down to destroy fertile vineyards and farms. af-te- 1 -, Etna,-whenc- - LI FLEE8 FROM PEKIN WHEN H08TILE ARMY ' DEMAND8 HI8 ABDICATON YUAN-HUN- - Terrified , Unions Threaten Strike ' Berlin Following many new raids on food shops throughout Germany as the result of the increased cost of living the federation of labor unions Monday warned the government and municipal authorities that a general strike would be called in Berlin if no action were taken soon to allay the sufferings of millions of workingmen who no longer are able to buy enough food to keep them from straving. In Its letter the federation declares that this is the last noice which will be given before the workingmen take matters In hand themselves. German Police Recover Stolen Oars Salt Lake City Recovery of nine stolen automobiles, the location and partial identification of at least sev- ( G . - mmmmr . t Are Too SsWofttr! U not please remember your subscription will help make this paper strong a thing necessary lor an unsurpassed news service. , C7 BICH COUNTY Axil Girl of if, " CJ "s AH, SATURDAY, Sj. .1 9 v JUNE 23, 1923 te Seasons NUMBER 32 fl ILI Newo Notes UTAH - FIREMAN AND VOLUNTEERS SUC CEED IN EXTINGUISHING GREAT CONFLAGRATION , . Chieftains Warning of Invasion Un - Gasoline Tank 8howers Exploding Buring Oil Over Neighborhood; Thoueande Camp on Hill; Damage Exceeds Million less Abdication Took Place Results in Perclpitate Flight Pekin. President Li Tuan-Hunwith a hostile army of his country men at the gates of his capital, ready to enter if he refused to vacate 'his office, yielded to the pressure of the militarists Wednesday and left for Tientsin on a special train. An hour earlier General Feng Yu Hsiang, military Inspector of $he metropolitan area, had Issued a final warning that he would iuvade Pekin ' nnless the president left President Li made a spectacular dash from his residence to the station in a motorcar, followed by care containing his personal guards. The train, already under steam, having been prepared for such an eventuality, pulled out immediately. The minister of war and a few faithful adherents waved goodbye to the president The flight of Li Tuan Hung left the Pekin government not only without a president, but without a cabinet. The cabinet of Premier Chang Shao-Tsen-g resigned June 6, ostensibly because of a disagreement with the president over the appointment of petty oficials, but actually, it was said, because of the financial impasse and the, other difficulties faced by the Chinese government, Packers Begin ftate Fight Chicago A Tate fight between Eastern and Western packing, companies vfaSvbegui'''Wedfte8day at - an interstate commerce hearing on the petition of John Morrell & Co., packers, Ottumwa, la., for equalization of rates on meat products and livestock from Interior points to the Atlantic coast. Sixty-fiv- e packing companies had filed intervening petitions, taking the same position as the Marrell company, alleging that the freight rates virtually prevent them from competing with Eastern packing concerns. Prisoner Succeeds In Escape Salt Lake City. Eluding the officers in whose custody he was while being escorted to the Utah state prison, William A. Farr, 20, who with Rex Aylett, 21, was bound over to the third district court Friday on a charge of murder for the fatal shooting of Miss Roylance Fitzgerald, made a sensational escape. Farrs escape was made shortly after Judge Noel S. Pratt of the city court bound the two men over to the district court after hearing the final evidence In the preliminary hearing. Together with Aylett Farr was being taken to the state prison by Warden James Devine and Deputy Warden Claude s Russell. enteen more and the breaking up of Js declared byj police as the utmost effective organization for disposing of stolen interstate in the West was revealed Monday by James H. Woodward, head of the police automotive bureau, police department. Two men, one identified as Joseph J. HanSouthwest Wheat Harvest Begun na of the Salt Lake and the other Kansas City Mo. The wheat harknown by the name of Litvin, provest has already begun in southern Twin prietor of the Central garage at of the southwest and will refields arrest. nnder are Ida., Falls, quire the labor of 50,000 extra men as It swings northward to Nebraska, Coast Brokerage Firm Falls George E. Tucker, field director here San Francisco The Pacific coast of the United States labor bureau, esbrokerage firm of A. W. Coote, which timated Wednesday. Mr. Tucker said announced temporary suspension fol- this did not represent an unusual delowing the failure of Knauth, Nachod mand. Demand will probably begin in and Kuhne in New York, its eastern Nebraska July 5 and in eastern Monconnection, did not reopen its doors tana and the western part of North Monday, as was expected. It was an- Dakota early In August. nounced that a petition In bankruptcy bad been filed in Los Attgelesa and Stowaways Suffocate In Bunker pending the offices of the conoein in Marcus Hook, Pa. The British a number of Pacific coast cities would steamer Santa Theresa, which arrived remain closed. at Quarantine Wednesday from Havana, reported that five stowaways Bandits Ask Million For Captives suffocated in a reserve coal bunker Rome. Chinese bandits surrounded and were buried at sea. Two other the Roman Catholic mission near Han- stowaways are in a serious condition. kow China, and captured Faher Malot-to- , There were nine stowawys on, the the missionary, and 500 Chinese ship. converts, according to cables received, Law Reported III. The brigands demand a ransom of to klU the 81,000,000, threatening London The condition of Andrew once. Bonar . Law, which seemed to have priest if this is not paid at Pope Plus has cabled Father Wilhelm improved after his resignation from Leufers at Hankow to do his utmost the prime ministership, does not conto effect the release of the captives. tinue so favorable, according to reports circulated among his friends in parliament. It is believed that he Train Hits Auto; Six Hurt has grown worse during the past few Los Angeles Two unidentified perkilled were woman days and that he is now seriously a sons a man and and at least six injured Monday when 111. a two car Pacific electric train en Belgium Cabinet Reelgns the Sawtelle line crashed into a Hills The Belgian cabinet at a car Beverely Brussels heavy touring 200 headed by Premier George Theunis, crossing dragged the automobile feet long the tracks into a telephone resigned Thursday in consequence of pole, causing the forward car of the th controversy over the legislation electric train to leave the rails and providing for the use of the Flemish overturn. language In Ghent University. what " f r From All Parts of CARTH 8HOCK8 AND RUMBLINGS i T ' - OOCr i H $ ' i., " ;., fS;t , t (r a I it .:lL f4 . TWENTY-SIXT- -- I Pittsburg, Pa. Firemen and hundreds of volunteers Saturday succeeded in extinguishing a spectacular oil fire in the Lawrenceville tank yards of the Atlantic Refining company after a fight lasting thirty hours. The damage will probably reach over a million dollars, company officials estimated. , , Over seventy-fiv-e persons were Injured in fighting the flames, some seriously. Hundreds of residents along Butler street who fled to the hills with their household effects, returned to put their homes in order again. The entire oil and gasobne supply V' f in the tanks was consumed by the BLOODY FIGHT EN8UE3 AT 8EA COMPLETE OUTFIT, INCLUDING flames. Firemen made no effort to WHEN SKIPPER ABSCONDS K FOUND IN EXPLOSIVES, put out the fire after four successive WITH MONEY ESTABLISHMENT explosions Saturday afternoon. Only the tanks, about ten in all, were destroyed, and the remainder Survivors on Board Hull Ship Loaded Experienced Safecracker Believed of the plant with its costly machinWith Booze and Orientals For in Attacks at ery, was not greatly damaged, comImplicated J Smuggling Tell-Talpany officials said. Sprlngvllle end on Tire Chinamen Resist After the gasoline tank exploded, Company which showered flaming oil over the neighborhood, firemen were content to New York. A strange story of' a Salt Lake City. Possible solution let the oil burn itself out. fight on the high seas. In which five and arrest , of guilty persons in Chinese, two white men and , two Key to Mount Death Found with an alleged' attempt to negroes were slain aboard the storip bow the pate in the Denver & Rio Chicago. The key to the Leighton Mary Beatrice, was told here ThursGrande Western railroad station at Mount alleged murder mystery has day by one of the surviving hlijesef been found, it was believed certaip Spgvia tHe Jiight of June 6, the at States The Mary Beatrice. a 'Attorney CroweS- - offices .bhle..' iwf e oi 'Wrto .British and George' TSbarbarO Saturday. off New York bay without captaizf oh theSorseahoe Tire company on South Charles S. Wharton, assistant state's crew, and with fifteen Chinamen Main street Tuesday night and the attorneys, announced that B. H. Rouw ' . burglar Thursday night of the of Clifton, Ariz., had wired that he aboard. . One of them, whose name Is with- Western Co-Ostore, 950 west Second witnessed what is declared to have held, made a statement to immigra- South street, lies in the arrest of been the death of the Northwestern tion authorities asserting that after George Baldwin, 38, according to po- university freshman. Mount disaphe and his felloy orientals had paid lice. J Baldwin was found 1921 freshman Thursday peared the night of the $500 apiece to be smuggle into the sophomore class fight at Northwestnigh by Detectives C. W. Rosen-kranlUnited States from Cuba, the skipper and W. G. Madsen in the act ern. His body was found under a absconded with the money, the crew of p store after the Lake Michigan pier near Evanston a robbing the tried to hold up the Chinamen, and front window had been broken, ac- few weeks ago. the ensuing battle the Chinese, whites cording to police report. The lookand negroes died. Bond Given Priest On Booze Charge out, whom police believe was work-inThrough an interpreter this ChinaDenver. Father Walter A. Grace, with Baldwin, made his escape, man told how he and nineteen com- The were advised of the mans pastor of a Catholic church at Arvapolice panions embarked at Havana May 8. activities by a man who telephoned da, Colo., a suburb, Indicted by the They were assured that they would that he saw a light in the store recent federal grand jury at Pueblo be transported rapidly to American which, had excited his suspicions. on charges in connection with alleged soil and landed without delay. Workmen in the store found a com- violation of the prohibition laws surThe twenty Chinamen were packed for cracking safes, to- rendered Saturday and was released plete lay-ouaboard, together with the skipper, two gether with a .38 caliber revolver on $2,500 bond. Warrants for the arwhite sailors and two blacks. They hidden behind a box when they open- rest of Mrs. Katherine OConnor, were jammed in like negro slaves on ed the store The daughter of J. K. Mullen, millionaire morning. Friday African slaver, and an Walsh, paraphernalia is thought by police to Denver miller, and John R. brother-in-laso they set sail for New York. The have been hidden Baldwin when former Colorado ranger and by boat is only thirty feet long and with he saw his chances for escape were of Father Grace, also named in its heavy human cargo It wallowed connection with alleged violation of hopeless. low in the waves, shipping much the prohibition laws were received at water. Conditions aboard were terthe office of tire United States mar Prohibition Ptnchot Will Enforce rible. shal. Harrisburg , Pa. Although disapIn addition to the Chinamen, the of the general skipper had a cargo of whisky, ac- pointed at the failure Pumps Stopped; Miners Drown as a cording to the story told immigration assembly to provide $250,000 Three hundred Chinese Shanghai. officials and this he sampled himself special fund for law enforcement, coal miners were drowned at Tsaoch-wan- g in liberal quantities, afterward beat- particularly the state prohibition law, Saturday when meddlesome Governor, PInchot Friday let it be ing his passengers for amusement cut off the electric power, soldiers in wavered known, that he had not stopping the pumps, according to adthe slightest degree In his views whole, French Authorities 8elzs Arms the dry law. The money vices here. The scene of the second the is Bochum. The French authorities for its enforcement, sale largest fatality administration here have seized eighty rifles and leaders declared, would be found in mine in China. It is owned and opfifty pistols in the Bochum prison. some other way and the governor's erated exclusively by Chinese , the The director of the institution claim- program carried out. The fight over only two foreigners at present in the ed they were nsed merely for guard the enforcement item threatened to plant being two 'Germans who are purposes. The French assert there delay final adjournment of the legis- installing new machinery. , were more arms than legally permis- lature Thursday night when the lower were inflicted. house refused to agree- - to the appro- Socialists Oppose Military Program sible. No penalties conGerman civilians at Angermund have priation and the bill was returned An extraordinary Brussels reported to the Freneh having found gress of Socialists held here Saturan automobile containing dynamite day adopted a resolution expressing Strike lof Shopmen Called bombs which aTe believed to have to any government advoopposition Denver. A strikp of railroad shopbeen intended for placing on railfourteen months military sercating & Rio roads or for other sabotage uses. The men over the entire Denver vice, which is a part of Premier Grande Western railroad system and Theunis car owner escaped. program or menacing the on the Rio Grande Southern, effecsocial and trade union laws. present tive and affecting, nearly 5,000 men, The Robber Takes Jack Pot congress also approved a policy e men were held np was called Saturday by George F. of direct action and seizure of the Park brotherthe at the point of a gun in a miners Mount, vice president of, the workers. hood of ralway car men; George A. government by boarding house Wednesday night and of forced to stand with their faces to Doyle, international representative Simple Rites Mark Wedding H. and the machinists organization in robber the while wall the gathered Berlin. Simplicity, a touch of of the shop the stakes for which they were play- Hammons, chairman marked the wedding Saturday board. crafts executive Woodslde in of a cards, of Amalie Ebert, only daughter of the game ing The robber escanyon near here. president of Germany, to the son of Women Give Up Town Administration In the former kaisers bootmaker. caped with about $1,000. Thayer, Kan. The administration striking contrast to the recent wed of Thayer, first of its kind inaug- dings of daughters of heads of EurBeoney Elected Delegate to opean states, the civil and religious San Francisco Tom Mooney, serv- urated in Kansas, has returned ing a life sentence in San Qnentln civic and domestic pursuits, with one ceremonies were conducted in humble prison in connection with the San exception and is content to return surroundings, almost in secret. Francisco preparedness day boipb ex- control of the town of 500 inhabitants plosion in 1916, was notified Thurs- to masculine control. Two years ago Herrin Riots Damage Suit Filed III. The Southern Illinois day of his election here Wednesday, Abby Howe was elected mayor and Marion, by Local 164 of the Molders Union with her elected five council-wome- n Coal company late Saturday afternoon as a delegate from that body to the and a police Judge. - This year then filed suit for $175,000 against WilliamUnions national convention in Cleve- declined reelection, except Mrs. Hat- son county, for damage to their prop-ertland next September. Five outer del- tie who had no opposition for police during the Herrin massacre a egates wer named. judge and was reelected. yew ago. S es; con-necti- 6vo-nat- O p Co-O- City--FIv- , shab-blnes- s, y Bingham. Members of the Bingham Kiwanis club and business men of this city conferred with the Salt Lake oounty commission, asking to have four additional miles paved with bltulithlc on the road to Bingham. Beaver While Charles Oakden was working at his sawmill at Britts Meadows his shoelace became entangled in the machinery of the mill, which caused his left leg to become wrapped three times around the shaft, nearly severing the member. Ogden. No candy or soft , drink stands will be allowed in canyon upon or near the highway, according to the action of the county commissioners. Midvale. Raimundo Santona, a Spaniard, was instantly killed when struck by the Orem northbound train No. 8 on a crossing near the Jordan high school. . Provo. The third annual Jersey show of Utah was held in North City park, with some of the finest of the strain in the west on exhibition. Moab. At a meeting of the San Juan oounty library board, Mrs. Lizzie Halls was appointed county library and arrived. Tremonton. City Marshal Galley arrested four youths from Fielding on charges of assault and aiding in assault, the victim being a Tremonton name is withheld. girl wbr-sMoab The body of 13 year old Helen Gray who had been missing for a week, was found by searchers. It is thought the girl became lost and died from exposure and hunger. American Fork. The lower passageway of Timpanogos cave has been made., .passable according-- , to Parkinson,, su; pervisor of the Wasatch national for-est, and opens up a long corridor of new wonders. Cedar City. Cedar City welcomed its first passenger train Monday with ppen arms. Prac6eally all business stopped when N. A. Williams, general superintendent of the Los Angeles 4 Salt Lake railroad, brought the first train over the branch line from Lund. Logan. Impressive ritualistic services and eloquent addresses marked the dedication here of the new home of the Elks. Provo. Edwin Smart, 6, sustained a broken right leg when he was run over by a truck. e , Muray. Notices are being served on property owners by Inspector Fred Peters warning them to rid their premises of weeds in compliance with the law. Brigham City. By unanimous vote of the county commissioners, it was decided to remove the large fence and base in front of the county courthouse Ogden. Ground was broken for the ten blocks of paving in the southwestern part of the city by the Union Construction company. Provo. There will be 2,000 carloads of peaches, pears, apples and other fruits shipped out of Provo this fall and 1500 carloads of lettuce, said T. B. Kooser, after a survey of the field. Ogden. Failure to agree upon the verdict was the report made to Judge Roberts by the Jury which ' heard the case of the city against Kay Makai, propritor of a noodle parlor, who was charged with selling liquor. Logan. A. H. Powell, in charge of the work on sate roads in this county reports that a force of men are still busy at the head of Logan canyon clearing away anowdrifts from the road. Kamas Work has commenced on the Provo River highway from Kamas to the head of the watershed, according to Dana Parkinson, supervisor of the Wasatch forest ML Pleasant N. S. Neilsen and F. C. Jensen were acted president and vice president respectively, of the Mt Pleasant Commercial and Savings bank at the annual meeting of the directors. Price. Benjamin England, 18, charged with robbing the postotflce at Winter Quarters of $650, a year . ago, was released on a verdict of not guilty, directed by Judge Collin Nebie in the United States district court. Ogden. An outing for ail old folks of Weber county who have reached the age of 70 years will be held under the auspices of the committees of the Weber, North Weber, Ogden and ML Ogden stakes. r-- j |