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Show QtMl First Class Job ' . Fria&j An Tra a SuUcriker? At living prices. Let us jsre your next order far anything you want print ed. Rich County News printing is synonymous with art ond efficiency. Knot please remember will our subscription help make this paper strong a thing necessary lor an unsurpassed news service. BBACHES BTE3T ITSOS AND CORNER OF RICH COUNTT TWENTY-FIFT- YEAR. H RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTYr JJTAH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 20. 1921. KXTER S. BATTLE IS OPENED NUMBER 11. MRSTHECOf MONTGOMERY UTAH STATE BE II DELEGATE Ill DENVER. COLO. IIElJS Senator W. H. King Tuesday asked the secretary of agriculture to extend TWENTY STATES JOIN FORCES IN MOVEMENT TO LOWER FREIGHT RATES . V ' f Rates Prohibit Producer From Marketing Products Above The Cost of Production Owing To Cost Of Distribution High Washngton Business and financial conditions In states served ' by the' Tenth federal reserve bank, Kansas . Oily, are deplorable due to high cost of production and distribution of ag- - , ricultural products and prevailing low prices, A. E., Ramsey, chairman of the federal reserve bank at Kansas City, told the interstate commerce comrais-- , sion Monday in hearings on freight rates on grain products and hay. The complaint against present rates was made by the Kansas state railroad commission joined by twenty othei states and various grain producers ' ' . associations. ; Producers are unable to sell theit products above the cost of productiyi and distribution. Ml. Ramsey said. Rale expert, statisticians and economists were on hand to testify before the interstate commerce commission as to the necessity for reductions in freight rates on grain products and bay in the Western states. In the cast scheduled for five days of hearings twenty states, through their railroud commissions, have joined with organizations representing grain producers, stock 'exchanges and grain dealers, fis well as, many Western bankers, in urging reductions on the ground that present rates' are too high for producers to realise a reasonable profit. They also declare that grain and hay prices have come down to prewar prices, and therefore should be accorded prewai freight rates. The hearings will be before Commie-aione- r Lewis. Briefs, It Is understood, - 'tf e FORMER SENATOR SUTHERLAND MAY BE flAMED ON DISARMAMENT COMMISSION IDAHO FALLS MAN. BUSINESS SUPPOSED VICTIM OF AUTO WRECK RECALLS IDENTITY President Names Secretary of State Hughes to Head Commission Woman May Be Named To F.ill Personnel Rolad R .Mason, Unable To Tell How He Reached Denver; Registers Under Name of R. R. McLaughlin But Givea No Addreta ar fBjtnsL-yistfterth- h' hear Thecommission, it is known. Is anxious, to lose no time in deciding whether- - the present alleged geney In the grain industry justifies Ihe reductions asked. FATHER OF PRES. HARDING WEDS At Age Of 76 Years Dr. Harding Takes As Life Partner His Office Nurse Monroe, Mich. Dr. George T. Harding, 76 years old, father of President Harding, was married here Thursday Alice Severns, 511, by the Rev Frank T. Knowles, pastor of the Monroe Presbyterian church. Miss Severns has been a nurse in the office of Or. Harding at Marion for many years. The couple drove to the home of the Uev. Mr. Knowles, where the ceremony was performed. Immediately after the ceremony, Dr. Harding anil his bride left the city. Their destination was not announcer! They were accompanied here by a Their younger couple from Marion. names were not disclosed. After obtaining the license, Dr. Harding asked to be directed to a Baptist parsonage. As there is no resident Baptist minister here, he was directed to the home of the Rev. Mr. Knowles Dr. Holding made an ineffectual at ss empt to withhold anmmcenient of lili marriage. When asked by Dr. Knowles if he wa the father of the president, he deilined to answer. SMALL OUT ON $50,000 BOND Come Over Proposed Change Of Venue Springfield, 111. A legal battle ovei n change of venue may be the next phase in the fight of Governor Len Small against charges of embezzlement during his term as state treasurer in HUT and 1918. His arrest Tuesday after Sheriff Henry Mestei had beselged the governors office in the statehouse lessened the tension at the capltoi which has been at high pitch since the indictments were returned Jnly 20. The governor Wednesday went about his executive duties as usual having begiven bond for $50,000, and it was r lieved in many quarters that no action would be taken until the governor and his indicted associates Lieutenant Governor Fred Sterling and Vernon Curtis, the latter a banker of Grant Park, Hi., appeared in thr Sangamon county circuit court on the first Monday In September to answe to (he indictments. Battle May fur-flie- Williams To Westrn Pacific San Francisco Colonel J. W. Williams. chief engineer of the Northwest rn Pacific railroad, has resigned thai position to become chief engineer ol the Western Pacific, it is announced Sere. Four are dead as the toll of a collision of a street car with an automobile at Twenty-firSouth street, on State street, at Salt Lake which occurred iate Thursday evening. , st Washington. -- President Harding has made up his mind on the personnel of the United States commission, to participate in the Washington international conference in reduction of but he cannot foreclose the subject until exchanges with- the participating powers have defined some regulation as to the number of representatives each nation wHl have at the conference table. Speculation as to the probable membership of the American delegation has not changed the list as published in the Chicago Tribune several weeks ago after the president had told some of his advisors that he had In mind the men he would like to name. Secretary Hughes has already been designated to head the commission. For his colleagues the president is said to be considering today, as he was two weeks ago, the following: Eiihu Root, former secretary of state. Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the seni ate. Philander C. Knox, former secretary f state, and Republican member of the enate foreign relations committee. Oscar Underwood of Alabama, Democratic senator and friend of the president. -- George W. Sutherland, former Republican United States senator from Utah and International lawyer. If more than five Americans are to be named It is possible that the president may appoint a woman on the commission or i homa-o- fThat the rep reach faliVes. president win appoint Mr. Root is believed to be certain by those who have discussed the subject with him. Senator Lodge, by virtue of his position as chairman of the foreign re lations committee is obviousiy entitled to head the representation from the senate. Senator Knox, the president believes to be eminently qualified for membership on the commission, not because he is a senator, but because of his familiarity with diplomacy and International relations. Senator Underwood is being considered as a representative of the minor, ity political party. The president is known to admire Underwood and to have great confidence in his ability. Former Senator Sutherland Is regarded by the presSdent as eminently qualified for the delegation. He was at one time seriously considered for secretary of state. Whether the president will appoint a woman to the delegation no one knows. The president himself does not know. He would like to, it is believed. Agitation for this by womens organizations continues daily. The National asked League of Women Voters has the president for an opportunity to present resolutions urging the name of a woman on the commission and women on any advisory committees which may be formed during the conference. ama-ment- s, - Denver, Colo. Roland R. Mason, Idaho Falls tnsuranee man, found in a local hotel Tuesday night followig a search of more than a week, planned Wednesday to return to his home as soon as he feels able to travel, he told friends. His father, A. G. Mason, Missouri Valley, la., arrived Wednesday and will probably accompany his son home, it was said. L. E. Gillespie, assistant secretary a life insurance company of with S. Dexter Kimball, dean ef the colin Omaha, who is In lege of engineering in Gemell univer- headquarters Denver as a contestant in the sity, who was elected president of the tournament, read golf American Society Of UeohuilMdfea about Mason in morning newspapers f. gineere. and is taking personal care of him. Gillespie said Mason is state agent for thd same life Insurance company. Gillespie said he could not accoul for Masons disappearance except that it must have been due to a nervous A movement is on foot among some of the citizens of Bingham to have the city disincorporated at the next municipal election, according to country of--, flcials, inorder to effect a reduction in taxes. , Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery of San Francisco, national president of the American Baptist Foreign Mission society, has hold that offioa since 1914, Walter A. Ken, associate professor of modem languages at the University of Utah, isnow in Europe aod will leave from France soon, sailing for Lake, where lio will take up his duties at the university this fall. UPPER SILESIA IS N A . ' , iJ INVITED TO DISCUSS DISARMAMENT AT WASHING TON WITH LEADERS . k POWERS t r Bids To Gathering To Bo Presented To Ambassadors For Various Nations Taking Part , ' - . In Parley. . a, Steps, which it is hoped will mean beginning of construction within thirty days on roadwork estimated to cost approximately a quarter of a million dollars, were taken by the stale read commission recon-ly- . the Entrance fees lor tTie University of Utah and the Utah Agricultural college for the coming si liool year were fixed at $25 for residents of Utah and at $30 for nonresidents, by action of a joint committee of the governing bodies of the two institutions. BRITAIN AND FRANCE GREAT . breakdown. ON PARTI-TIOMason registered at the hotel as REACH AGREEMENT OF UPPER SILESIA Robert R. McLanghlln last Friday. He declared he could not remember his identity. In going through his effects Compromise Boundary Line Drawn In Cla ron Nelson, manager of WoodConference Between Premier Wednesday, however, he found a slip ward field at Salt Lake, will become of paper advising anyone to notify Lloyd George And assistant superintendent of the west-er- n Mrs. Roland R. Mason of Idaho Falls, - Briand division of the air mail service on Idaho, in case of accident. He made 15. Notice of the appointment the long distance call, he said, as a Paris Premier Briand of France August was received by Mr." Nelson in corresresult of finding this and asked Mrs. and Mr. Lloyd George, prime minister from Washington last SatMason to send for him. of England, have decided at a private pondence urday , His belief that his loss of memory is meeting upon a compromise partition due to an accident through which he of Upper Silesia, it was declared here With the support of the Price cham-- , must have gone corresponds to the Tuesday on good authority. bar of commerce, the Rotary club and of Mason, The compromise boundary line is un- -- the - American mysterious disappearance . .Legion,,, solder, who whose. wrecked automobile was found derstood to have heen.wn.appro Ian .re prepay .... : Ogden, Utah; mately as foilaws to seek admission ''to The Price ing Mason, a prominent business man of Beginning west of Piess. on the Vis- River irrigation district. This organIdaho Falls, was listed as missing when tula river, aud west of con- Washington President V Hardi Jig's formal call for the disarmament and Pacific conferences at Washings November 11, was sent outto the vaW ,oug powers IhWted t0 the parley Thursday, ' After presenting the invitations to his automobile was found wrecked at embank, the ambassadors, the text of the in- the bottom of a thirty-foo- t vitation will be made public by Secre- ment on the edge of the Weber river. No trace of his body could be found tary of State Hughes The invitations are being sent to and it was believed he had been Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan drowned in the river. and China. The invitations are understood to be APPLICATIONS BEING RECEIVED identical and brief. They will be sent directly to the foreign offices and cop- Stock Men Of Eastern Idaho And Utah To Be Benefited ies handed to the diplomatic representatives of the powers here. Salt Lake Announcement that apPreliminary negotiations have made plications for loans to the Stock Growcertain the acceptance of the invita- ers Fiance Corporation of Chicago ortions and of agreement to open the ganized to handle the $50,000,000 pool v conference on Armistice day. raised for the benefit of live stock men It is expected that the acceptances will be made through an advisory Comwill make clear how many representamittee appointed for this section, contives each nation expects to send. sisting of T. W. Boyer, E. O. Howard, Upon receipt of this information, de- C. S. Burton, of Salt Lake City, and tails of caring for the visitors can be Patrick Healey of Ogden. This comworked out. Question of housing the mittee is now organized and ready to missions and selection of a building receive applications. Dean F. Bray-ton- , for the principal conference meetings a local attorney, with offices in and the many minor conferences are the Kearns Building, Salt Lake City, is being studied here., Secretary and forms of application and Further exchanges of opinion on the instructions may be obtained by callagenda will probably continue. ing upon or addressing him. All loans All thought of preliminary confer- throughout this locality (all of Utah ences have been abandoned. The final and southern and eastern Idaho) arrangement of the agenda, however, should have the approval of this comprobably will be made only after the mittee before being considered by the conference meets. Corporation In Chicago in order to Subjects relating to the disarmament avoid delay. negotiations were talked over for an Applications cannot be made direct hour by President Harding and by the borrower but must come through Senator Borah, author of the resolu- a bank or Live Stock Loan company MAY BE LOCATED LOST MAN tion requesting the executive to call a and bear its endorsement.- - Loans will disarmament conference. be on Chattel Mortgages on live stock Ambros Small, Missing Theatre The meeting was arranged at the having a valuation sufficient to provide Thought Found in Iowa a margin of security of at least 25 per presidents request. Des Moines, Iowa The man of mysMr. Borah is understood to have de- cent and must otherwise be eligible for tery, who Frank Harty, former assist- tailed his views regarding the stand rediscount in Federal Reserve banks. ant chief of police, claims Is Ambrose tiie United States should take in the It is indicated by the Coropration Small missing Toronto theatre owner, preliminary negotiations that are to deno loan for less than $5000, nor that may be brought from his place of hid- termine that subjects will come before than six months will be consid longer He the conference It was also Indicated ered. ing soon, said Harty Sunday. says he is sure that the man he has liffd that the Idaho senator urged all pracunder surveillance for six months Is ticable publicity for conference meetFind Giant With Horna a ings and that every appearance of secthe Tronto millionaire for whom Tenn. Workmen of the Knoxville, world-wid- e search has been made since ret diplomacy be avoided. Keene-StrunCoal company at Helen-wood- , his disappearance in December, 1919. The question of negotiations for a have found buried Scott county, with Harty aays he has been in commun- treaty of commerce and amity a giant 6 in the and earth petrified, ication with tha Toronto authorities, Germany also came into the discus4 inches tall- - About its neck was feet what sion. will someona Borah be here from the Senator and that inquiring a beautiful chain. The fingers are Canadian city soon to verify the Iden- steps had been taken In that direction. perfect, with long, tapering nails. The not would Borah Afterwards Small man. Mrs. He the Senator of says tity hands are folded across the breast. presiindicate what information the may come to Des Molnea. On either side of its head are two that to condihim dent say to had refused discuss the except given Harty in length. tion of the man he claims to be Small. in his opinion events were moving to- horns each about four inches 450 Its about Is pounds. weight a It has been reported that he Is legless, wards the conclusion of such treaty. It developed in other quarters that to mentally fncapaclted and unable Taka Up Western Tariff Bloc talk as a result of gunshot wounds suf- the issuance of a formal declaration of Washington Formation of a West fered some time ago. peace with Germany might be delayed ern tariff bloc within the recently until the treaty had been signed. organized and unofficial Agriculture Says Germany May Win in the senate- - was announced Arrives group Russian Envoy United States Senator Washington William E. Borah believes that GerQuebec, Que. One of the passengers Wednesday by Senator Gooding (Rep) of Idaho. The new group is composed many, despite her crushing defeat in of, the Empress of France arrived Wedsoviet entirely of Republicans from Western the world war may win the economic nesday was Leonid Krassin, Otta- states, Senator Gooding said, allied to will visit trade Krassin the unless envoy. world of the supremacy treatment for the West other big nations curb their enormous wa and later go to the United States, fight for fair in bill. it is said. armaments. for expenditures he ''-Tn- until next spring the time in which stockmen may pay their forest reserve grazing fees for 1921. fliaartraifef uir k the-tari- running west of Tost and Gross Strehlitz north to between Rosenberg and Kreuz-berand thence to the frontier of northern Upper Silesia. This line, while by no means a straight one, approximately bisects the Silesian plebiscite area. The reputed agreement must be formally ratified by the supreme council and the possibility of this action at the late afternoon session Tuesday was forecast. At this time the laternational geographical experts were expected to have ready their reports. It was upon the private settlement being reached, it is understood, that the council decided not to send to Upper Silesia at present, the British and Italian delegations voting against the sending of French troops for this purpose, as France had desired. Sir Harold Stuart, the British Silesian commissioner, and General Marinis, the Italian commissioner, declared they believed both Germany and Poland would accept the council's ooundary decision. The conviction of General Lerond of France, head of the commission, was that trouble might occuf, even if there were an immediate deeision. The British and Italian view prevailed and the council decided against the sending of reinforcements for the Glei-wit- time being. The new line is accepted in principle as more nearly representing the real meaning of the plebiscite vote than anything previously proposed. The division also splits the disputed indus- ization contemplates eventual struction of a dam at Hale, Utah. Selection of David H. Cannon of Price, member of the law firm of Stewart, Alexander & Cannon, to be assistant United States district attorney for Utah was annouced Wednesday by Charles M. Morris, United States district attorney. Mr. Cannons nomination was sent to tiie attorney, general of the United States. Dr. M. C. Merrill professor of horticulture of the Utah Agricultural college, has been asked by the government of Portugal to consider the acceptance of the position as agricultural director in the Fomento General ae Angola, a colony of Portugal on ttie. west coast of Africa, according toi President Elmer G. Peterson of the lnslitutio. Hugo Trice of Provo was named as state road agent for Utah county by the state road commission Thursday A telegram was ordered sent to the Iron county commissioners, requiring that they sign the cooperative agreement covering county support of the Cedar Long Valley forest road at once otherwise work on this contract will be stopped by the state. Tiie commissioners of Boxelder county have made petition to the state engineer, It. E. Caldwell, fof a water allotment for the proposed Plymouth-Fleld-indistrict, which, if accomplished, will bike water from tiie Bear river and arise It in two stages to supply additional water to part of the lauds in the and to supply water to ianda ovv without irrigation water. g trial district. At the opening of the session, Mr. Lloyd George took occasion to declare the position of the British government a upon what he called the nicacing The federal government, through the Silproblem to the peace of' Europe. college, has rented the Agricultural Gerto the had belongell he said, esia, farm of Olaf Cronqulst at North man race for 700 years a part of that large Logan on which it is proposed to give to 177 for to but years Austria, period 00 vocational students actual expert, Prussia and the British government ence in farm work under competent would not consent to any division not supervision, while at the same time g based equitably upon the votes of the laboratory work and acquiring the Poles and the Germans in the disputed scientific theories that, combined with region. the actnai work of farming, create the the Discussing security of France, scientific and successful farmer. British prime minister said in substance that the British government The troops now forming the garrison keenly sympathized with the French at Fort Douglas, Utah, will, under ordesire for safety, knowing what France ders issued by the war department, had suffered in two wars. That securat that post, but they will cease ity, however, he declared, ought to rest to form a battalion of the Twenty-firs- t upon the moderation with which the Infantry, and will after September 1, victors used their power and upon constitute a battalion of the Fifty-thirequity in apportioning Silesia. The Infantry, which parent regiment is now British empire, the prime minister detatloned at Camp Grant, Illinois. is clared, would never be dragged into Theoretically, the whole Twenty-firs- t another war caused by the oppressive to go lo Hawaii, as originally ordered ; use of superior force or the abuse of actually none of It will go. not even the five companies stationed in Alaska. justice in a time of triumph. The allied supreme council decided Thee troops, in the general reorganilie consigned to other regU today not to send reinforcements for zation, the allied troops in Upper Silesia. ments. ct, do-lu- fn d |