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Show f Pint CUu Job Printing Are You a Subscriber?. At tiring prices. Let us have your next order for anything you want prints If not please remember will your subscription help make this paper Strong a thing necrs y for an unsurpassed news service. Rich County News printing is synonymous with art and efficiency. cd. a-- REACHES EVERY NOOK AND CORNER OP RICH COUNTY TWENTY 45IXTH YEAR RANDOLPH, RICH, COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1923 OPEN NUMBER 36 SWITCH News Notes From All Parts of UTAH i FOUR 'Washout Two Miles South qf Sandy Causes Heavy Train to Lurch Suddenly, The Engine and 3 Cars Rolling Over Rock Salt Lake City. Sam K. Runswick, engineer and Kenneth E. Bennett, student fireman, also of Salt Lake, were killed, and six others were injured when the Los Angeles Limited, leaving Salt Lake at 11:55 oclock Saturday night, was ditched three miles south of Sandy at 12:40 oclock Sunday morning. The wreck is believed to have been caused by an overflowing ditch, causing the embankment to become undermined. The engine and three cars rolled over. Five of the Injured were taken to the Holy Gross Hospital Considerable difficulty was encountered in notifying the railroad officials and getting medical and .other The ambulance .aid to the wreck. which was dispatched at once, met with an accident on, the way to thex wreck, which added to the delay. One man was taken unconscious to the L. D. S. hospital. Because of his condition it was Impossible to ascertain his name - and address. He is not expected to live. He is thought to be H. H. Howarth, the missing Butte, Mont Four persons were killed and three injured when the Northern Pacific train numbed 41 ran into an open switch four miles east of Whitehall late Tuesday. Those killed, excepting Engineer Tarry, were riding in the tender with Beardon. Engineer Barry died a terrible death. He was pinhed between the stoker plate and elevator of the engine and for three hours life was slowly crushed out of his body despite efforts to release him by use of The train was acetylene torches. running several hours late on account of a rock slide near Livingston. The engine was derailed when an open switch leading to Blackstone spur was struck. Bail officials said that ACTION BY ALLIES AND FIXING are emptied by deposit boxes there were evidences that the switch ' ROBBERY OF AMOUNT OF REPARATIONS yEGGS; TAKES had been tampered with. BRITISH POLICY KEYNOTE V ( PLACE IN MORNING James Beamer, Barrys fireman, said that the engineer threw on the brakes as soon as he saw the open Pacification of Europe and Recovery Citizens Recall Hearing Auto er Moswitch but the heavy train only of Exhausted World Aim Behind torcycle Leaving Town Just slightly hesitated and then plunged Before Daylight; Phone Proposals Asserted; Italy 1 upon the switch and was wrecked. 1 In Agreement Beamer jumped apd escaped with 3 slight injuries. OPEN . fireman.' A" ifc ... v. .. SWITCH as Fly at City Building Mayor and Congressman Head Raid on Municipal Bullets Slide Near Livingston Caused Delay of Several Hours to Speeding Train; Engineer Dies Under Wreckage . Treasury - i Doctors and nurses were quickly Storm and Heat Take Toll called and- - sent to. the wreck in two Chicago. Lists of deaths caused by vSpetiai trains, which were made up the excessive heat in many parts of 1 wt&iif, halt;att hour, after jthe wreck the country were added Wednesday :'was ' reiof 4: fcerre, -- Seye.ral, doctors pith regorts of casualties resulting : storms which brought relief to autos amThadto t h- havevVeTldTefTf of the' than a mile from the highway to where the engine and coaches lay on their sides. Darkness added to the difficulty of walking and also of finding the injured and caring for them. The first Intimation that anything was wrong with the train was telephoned to the O. S. L. offices by E. E. Dewey, janitor of the Jordan school, who had started to walk to his home about a mile from where the wreck occurred. Mr. Dewey had been in Salt Lake and left the train at Sandy. He heard the crash and Fight Backerss Bank Closes hastened to a telephone and reShelby, Mont. Beports of banking ported. 'The railroad company at examiners working on the books of once called out a wrecking crew and the First State bank of Shelby, which sent a man to Investigate. closed its doors Tuesday, were exNo time was lost In getting the pected to be available Wednesday. doctors and nurses notified and when Meanwhile depositors in the instituthe need for the special train was tion, of which Mayor James A. Johnapparent everything was in readiness. son of Shelby, treasdrer for the promoters of the Dempsey-Glbbon- s fight, No was president, marked time. Fire Wipes Out Towns Wallace, Idaho. Fire that swept statement was forthcoming as to the up Burke canyon Thursday and Fri- exact amount of cash on hand. Closreday night, destroying the little min- ing of the bank was an immediate of the Stanton the of sult the all Mace suspension and of except town ing eastern residence section of Burke, Trust and Savings bank of Great Idaho, was brought under control at Falls. George H. Stanton, who aided 3:30 a. m. Saturday after having in the financing of the fight, was Great Falls Instituwrought damage estimated at $1,500,-00- president of the The homeless estimated at up- tion. wards of 400 persons, were contem' Powder 'Plant Explosion Fatal plating the ruins of their towns, thankful that no lives either of those Alton, 111. Twelve persons, seven who fought the flames above ground of them women, were killed qnd or several hundred miners who bat- twenty-thre- e Injured in the explosion tled their way to safety from the in the plant of the Western Cartridge depths of the Hecla mine, had been company at East Alton Tuesday. claimed. Two persons were burned, Buildings within a radius of five miles were rocked by the blast, which neither seriously. occurred in the building at the plant where the men and women were Germany Admits Liability Washington. The German govern- working at machines for decapplng ment has admitted to , the United and removing the powder from shells. States that it accepts full liability Expect Strike, Raise Coal 'Prices sinking of the great for the Coal prices were liner Lusitania, the incident largely Philadelphia. responsible for American entrance raised fifty cents a ton in anticipainto the World war, It was learned tion of the threatened coal strike by authoritatively . here Saturday. Ad- dealers here Friday. Prices on coal mission of full liability has been under the new rates at $15.50 for stove coal; nut $15.00; pea $12; egg made by the German representatives before the mixed claims commission $15, with fifty cents extra carrying meeting here to adjust all American charges. war claims against the former enemy '. country , Firpo Wins From Willard City, N. J. Jess Willard Jersey went crashing down to defeat in the Biggest Gusher In History Long Beach, Cal. What was said eighth round of a scheduled to be the largest oil gusher In the affair in Jersey City Thursday night history of southern California fields when Luis Angel Firpo, the tigerman was brought in Saturday in the Signal from the Argentine, unbuckled a Hill district by the E. K. Miley comrightband swing which landed flush on Jess' jaw. pany. Tle Initial flow was variousbetween 28,000 and ly estmlated-a- t . i . Forest Fire Threatens Hospital 32,00 Q barrels a day. San Diego, Cnl. A forest ftoe broke Culebra Cut Suffers Slide out in the mountains near Alpine FriPanama A slide of 13,000 cubic day afternoon and is menacing the disyards of dirt occurred In the Culebra abled war veterans hospital there, accut Friday. Shipping has not been cording to brief telephone messages that-thInterrupted and it is expected from the vicinity. Every able bodied earth can be removed in three person in that section has been called to fight the blaze. days . ;w,:. BLOOSHED ATTEMPT FOLLOWS OF DEPOSED OFFICIALS TO TAKE TREASURY KILLED AND THREE WHEN TRAIN HITS 'FIREMAN AND ENGINEER KILLED WHEN LOS ANGELES LIM. ITED LEAVES RAILS waTTonr7jf 0. at . - London. Great Britain, through' Premier Baldwin in commons "ijsit Marquis Curzon in lords, Thursdf demanded that occupation of tfie'JRul come to an end and that the aljteji unite in fixing a. fair amount "of r4 paratlons and asking GerAanyfo'Eay , . it. This was the gist of the statement of British policy towards the reparations 'Stanley problem. Baldwin was cheered to the echo as he pleaded for allied cooperation as well askan end of the Buhr venture. A break with France is considered averted if the French government returns a favorable , answer. The essential factors of settlement of Europes ills, Baldwin told a crowded house, are: First, payment of reparations. . Second, settlement of interallied debts. Third, security of Europe. Italy, ihe prime minister said, is understood to be in agreement with Britain of these points. J long-waite- d Nations Fix Indemnities of five Peking. Representatives foreign countries have cabled to their the home governments stating amounts to be asked for individual victims of the Linching bandit outrage and requesting approval of (the proIn posed demand for indemnity. addition to a demand for a fixed amount for each victim of the Pinching bandits 'there is a computation in each case of the number of days spent in captivity and the business and property losses. The British make a claim for the loss of one life and the American claim demands restitution for the permanent injury of a woman. Five & t oni Yeggs forces entrance to the;, iBank of Moroni early Friday blew the vault and .. pried morning,, ' opet 20 of the 50 safety deposit bofe, escaping with the contents, the of. which is not known as yet. that offieials'oLobtside towns 7 be notified of the robbery as the criminal had cut the telegraph line at the depot and sawed off the telephone cable at the local exchange. A temporary telephone line was stung. The robbery took place sometime betwen midnight, when the marshal goes off duty, and 4:30 a. m. when a farmer passed the bank en route taka his water turn and reports no one was outside the bank. It is evident from the traces left by the robbers that there were three in the gang. One remaining outside as lookout while two worked on the vault and safety deposit boxes.' After forcing the front door the yeggs pulled down the front window curtains and drilled the yault door aftor knocking off the combination, before placing a charge of explosives. The only tool left in the bank was a large sledge hammer. No one has been found in town who heard the explosion, but a number report hearing an auto roaring north of town before 4 a. m. Mexicali, Lower California Police, state and federal authorities expressed confidence Monday that there would be no resumption of the vio- lence of Sunday night when three wefe killed and several woundd, five seriously, as a result of a battle between police and a group of deposed councilmen headed by Mayor Juan Loera and Congressman Aieardo Co. carrubias. The trouble started when Loera, Covarrubias and their followers were alleged to have assembled Sn the city hall with the asserted purpose of seizing the offices of the city treasurer. The treasurer, having heard rumors of. such a plan, summmoned the police. Reports differ as to how the violence started. One report was that Loera, believing Covarrubias was about to be fired upon by the police, shot, at yihief of Police' Guillermo Guillen, who fell with a wound in the abdomen. Governor Jose Lugo of the northern district of Lower California, called out the troops and declared martial law in the troubled district, but the order was withdrawn when quiet apparently was restored, although there was an occasional threat of reprisal. Wyoming i Midvale The Vienna soft drink parlor, was closed following the conviction of Joe Plise and Albert Michluin, lesses for operating a bootleg establishment. Provo Albert Easier, 16, almost severed, his right thumb when he caught that member in a band saw, at the Ahlander plant here. Vernal Capt. Maiachi McCoy, 91, only Mexican war veteran residing! in Utah, died at his home near here, from ailments incident to old age. of age, Logan. Maxine, 6 years daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Watson, was severely scalded from her waist down when she attempted to remove a pan of boiling water from a stove. Provo. Probably the largest cargo of Intoxicating liquor yet taken, twenn barrels of hard ty one cider, which was being shipped from Frank Speucers farm on the west drive to a Salt Lake vinegar works. Logan. The assessed valuation of Cache county for 1923 shows a decrease of $89,851 under that of 1922, according to recapitulation figures. American Fork. Three boxcars on a westbound freight of the D. & R. G. W. railroad were derailed by unknown cause near Bonilla station, between American Fork and Pleasant fifty-gallo- Grove. Logan. Levi Hansen and Ronald Jeppeson were brought before Judge Bullen for preliminary examination ' upon a charge of sheep stealing. Brigham City. Fire destroyed the barn of Mrs. Annie Christensen, of Solons In Extra Session this city. The cause of the blaze has Wyo.-- The Wyoming notT.been determined. session Mofadayiof ws4ndthe siato, farm! loan act hr sucna'.way as. "to 5 reduce the interest rate from-'per cent and increase the maximum loans to individuals from $5,000 each to $20,000. These amendments (were passed at the regular session last winter, but later were declared nullified because a clerk had failed to include them in the enrolled act as it was sent to Governor Boss for his signature. - Nine Injured In Subway Crash New York. Nine persons were Injured, none fatally when two subway trains of the Interborough Rapid Transit company crashed in a rear end collision at two hundred and seventh street and Jerome avenues. Six of the injured were rushd to Fordham hospital. The others were given emergency treatment and taken to their homes. Many other passengers suffered minor bruises. Sydney Strike Situation Tense Sydney, N. S. The tension in the steel and coal strike area was inUnion Head's Home Bombed creased Monday when the authoriPittston, Pa. The homes of four ties revealed that a rail had been miners were dynamited here early removed on the Sydney and Louis-bur- g Friday. Among them was the home railway shortly before the passof Alex Campbel, a leader of the in- age of an express and that a boy surgent element of the United Mine had been arrested while jamming a Workers of America in the Pittston switch with a piece of iron at a spot section. He is also a member of the nearby. The tampering was discovscale committee which Is negotiating ered ln time to prevent an accident. with the anthracite coal operators at Atlantic City. The front portions of Washington Descendant Dies the houses were blown out. Announcement was Philadelphia. Deputies and Marshals Indicted made here Monday of the death at Oklahoma City, Okla Indictments Charlestown, W. Va., Sunday of Grasshoppers Take Town have been returned against two depSamuel Walter Washington, a desthe Okla. by Enid, Grasshoppers uty sheriffs of Cado county, a town thousands descended in an army upon cendant of George Washingtons two marshal and two citizens of Anadorka Enid comlng ln such numbers that brothers, John Augustine Washington and Duncan in connection with pedestrians experienced considerable on his father's side and Colonel grand jury investigation of alleged annoyance. In Garfield Samuel Washington on his mothers Farmers Samuel Walter Washington shippings and other lawlessness by county have reported the insected In side. masked terrorists in that section, it large numbers in the fields this sea- was 70 years old and a lawyer. was' announced Thursday by M. W. son, but this is the first invasion of Runaway Train Leaps Track McKenzie, assistant attorney general. the city Enid has suffered in years. San Bernardino, Calif. The wreckage of 30 freight cars burned Monday Gale Runs Ships Aground as a means of clearing the track afStage Protest Strike Montevideo. Five steamers are five-da- y of ter a Union Pacific freight train strike Los The Angeles hundreds and this port aground off ran coal and branch cement workers marine with the loaded transport been of houses along the coast have Workers of the away (Sunday night on the Cajon of the Industrial that storm violent the ln destroyed second Pass, and, at a speed estimated up has raged for the last three days over, World went into tayj was to 80 miles an hour, left the track. South America. Due to the unpre Los Angeles harbor Friday. the'?nn-victio- n were killed. cedented rise of the river La Plata, started as a protest against twenty-seve- n Two trainmen of here Wednesday been has part of the water front Six Convicts Escape alleged members of the L W. inundated. Six convicts escaped Philadelphia W. on charges of criminal syndicalfrom the Eastern penitentiary Saturism. Franco Celebrates Fall of Bastlle They day after beating a guard. Paris France Saturday celebrated escaped over the wall, held up a moBattle Thieves Watchmen and with Stage Bastile day, its national holiday tor truck and fled. All are said to Peoria, 111. Jake Szoid, a night be armed. the traditional open air entertainments, public dances in the streets, watchman, was killed and Mike Hunt in scores of another watchman, was wounded in Sabotages Must Face Firing Squad free performances I Aix La Chapelle. A Belgian court-martimotion and theatres picture houses, a gun battle with four bandits who here Saturday imposed the more The Old Majestic and fireworks displays. attempted to raid the Germans strenuous forms of amusement how- - distillery Friday. Hunt told police he death penalty upon three and Von Counts Keller, Ludwig of h5 the when because was beaten and bound abandoned ever, were at life and imprisonment Kingender, heat from which the country tempted to rescue Szoid. Hunt is on has been suffering for the last eight detained for further questioning, po. hard labor upon a fourth, Lobeer, conviction of sabotage. j lice said. dav . al kf&ThaSetMEdwards . ,.a broke to'jwton ut of a anting at the playgfmd. 'l " son Is 5Sr. and - safferingp-isqJ Delta. Naida Larsen, 16 age, daughter of Albert Larsen, real estate dealer, was drowned in a somewhat shallow auxiliary pond above toe sugar factory. Salt Lake- City. Scoring in the state clean home clean town contests, will be started July 16, according to officials of the Chamber of Commerce under whose auspices it was conduct ' . YwjS ; 1 i' .Tv J? 4 ' iV - ed. Logan. A Holstein Friesian breeders association, with a membership of more than thirty-fiv- e breeders, is now complete in Cache valley. Clarence Harper of Smith-fiel- d was fined $10 for speeding at the rate of thirty miles per hour in Logan canyon, by City Judge Asa Bui. len. Logan. Brigham City. Hull of this city was appointed county game warden by State Game Commissioner D. H, Madsen. ' The Rev. Thefidore had a narrow escape from death when a horse owned by Mr. Johnson ran away and tipped over the buggy in which the men were riding. Richfield The necessary contracts and agreements for the road projects in Sevier county were signed at the regular meeting of the county commissioners. Heber City L. N. Richards had the fingers of his left hand nearly severed while working at the Neff saw mill. Smithfield Two liquor stills were found by City Marshall R. H. Richardson .and his assistant, Samuel Thomley. One was In operation. Moab. The town board at its regto purchase ular meeting decided firefighting equipment In was tentatively agreed to buy a hose cart, a hose and a quarter mile of four-inc. hand lump. Woods Cross M. H. Mann was scalded on the arms, shoulders and head by hot water and steam at the Woods Cross canning factory. St. George When the auto in which he was touring turned over at a sharp turn in the road near Des Spanish Fork. Lee, and Elga Johnson, h , ligan of Grand Junction, Colo. Killed. Salt Lake City- - will be begun about Nov. 1, agreed by prison officials.' son of Vernal The seph Windward is in a critical co: tlon as the result of a frighi horse knocking him down and ling anon him. 73.''; sva), 1 ? h . - rU- - , ,, |