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Show jr , wO iii V' js 1 J HrJ Cza y ftj Let An Tm w have Ttwracst ft&r far aofdittj yu wsal print A Ekh County News printing is synonymous wfch art and efficiency. C YEAR H If not please remember your subscription will help make - this paper strong a thing necessary for an unsurpassed news semcci , x BEACHES EVERT NOOK AND CPRNER OP RICH COUNTY TWENTY-SIXT- i SstsoiWT .t j RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1923 NO. 44 - w . i VJHIPPIIIG BAUD Across the Scuthrm Frontier VESSELS WRECKED SUSPECTS HELD OFFICIAL AT KOBE ADVICE STATE DEPT. OF MOVEMENT OF U. S. DOCTORS MANY PROMINENT CITIZEN8 ARE MENTIONED AS INVESTI GATION PROCEEDS Mora Than Million Dollars Is Ex. ponded at Shanghai for Materials for the Stricken District: Fear Epidemic, Dentist, Court Official and Salesman Arrested in Macon Georgia on r Charges of Rioting; Klan OFF P NewoNoteo From All Parta of UTAH COAST MEN t NAVAL Woods Cross, A fire that broke LOSE .LIVES WHEN DESTROY- out In the mail car of the Los AnERS HIT ROCKS TWENTY-THRE- E geles Limited as it approached Salt Lake destroyed $500 worth of second-class . ' Washington A dispatch from Consul Diskover at Kobe, forwarded to the state department Saturday by Consul Davis at Shanghai said medical supplies from Rea Cross branches in the orient would be received at Kobe and probably it would not be necessary to send such supplies from the United States. Consul Davis said he had not been .able to communicate with Tokio to ascertain the relief needs there, but he suggested that a cargo of rice, preferably California Japanese rice, and medical stores, drugs, chemicals, vaccines, be sent to Yokohama. There was unconfirmed rumor, he said that cholera and dysentery had broken out In Tokio and Yokohama. A delayed message received by the navy department from Admiral Anof the derson, commander-in-chie- f Asiatic squadron, said that destroyer division 38 nad arrived at Yokohama minus the John D. Edwards, which was diverted to Kobe. . The message made no reference by name to Mr. Babbitt, whose safety heretofore has been in some doubt. The personnel of various other embassy and legation staffs at Tokio nlso was reported safe. The text of the dispatch follows: "American ambassador, wife and staff all safe, except Miss Doris Babbitt, killed in Yokohama. Embassy building totally destroyed by fire, jmtfarMassador, his "family ni s&fC aft safe. Embassy building parlSy destroyed. Belgium ambassador and his family and staff all safe. Embassy building partly destroyed, Brazilian minister and his wlfs safe. i Chinese charge daffaires, ills family and staff all safe. Legation building totally destroyed by fire. Miners Reach Settlement Pa., Representatives Harrisburg, of anthracite operators and miners Saturday agreed .upon the terms of a proposed hew two-yewage contract. The union scale committee immediately approved the agreement and fixed September 17 as the date convention at Scran- for a ton, at which it will be submitted for Favorratification by the miners. able action by the union officials said, would result in a reopening of the mines closed under suspension orders since The new contract September 19. will be signed by representatives of the miners and operators in Harrisburg, but the union leaders said it would not be necessary to await the formal signing to resume work. The new contract will cover a period of The scale committee two , years. was called to meet immediately to approve 1L ' ar ct cbn-venti- ct -- Canada and U. 8. to Have Conference Washington, A formal agreement between the United States and the to confer at Canadian authorities Ottawa in the near future on the liquor smuggling problem was announced Saturday In correspondence made public by the state department. secretary Mckenzie Moss, assistant of the treasury who has Jurisdiction over prohibition enforcement, will represent the American government at the conference and will be accompanied by several expert assistants. is i v v i' K A J Destroyer Goes on Rocks Los Angeles. Five United States destroyers were aground two miles of west Arguello light, seventy-fiv- e miles 'north of Santa Barbara, and one, the S. P. Lee Is said to be a total loss, according to a message from the Southern Pacific operator at Hondo. The Ho lives were reported lost. ether destroyer said to be aground were the Deiphy, Young, Chauncey and McDermtt. The destroyers are members of sqaud 11. s Involved er Macon, Ga With the arrest here Tuesday of Dr. 0. A. Yarbrough, a dentist; J. S. Patrick, a court official and W. F. Delemar, a salesman, on warrants charging assault and battery and rioting In connection with the recent flogging activities in Macon, city poliee and country officials Wednesday believed they have reached the peak of their Investigation and are now preparing to bring their prisoners to trial. In the arrest of Dr. Yarabrough, the police believe they have secured the brains of the whipping band, A sensation was sprung at a recent meeting of local civic clubs, 'when one of the speakers openly charged a "local dentist with being a "whip- STEFFANSON URGES THAT E ping boss of Macon in that he speciBE SOUGHT BEFORE EXfied the men to be whipped. PEDITION IS UNDERTAKEN Dr. Yarbrough, police say. Is a ranking official in the local Ku Klnx Klan. Doubts Regarding Possibility That Dr. Yarabrough Tuesday night deExplorers Crawford, Galle, and clared liiq arrest came as a complete Maurer are Alive. Authorities ( Think Party Failed. surprise to him and maintained his Innocence of the charges brought against him. London, Grave doubts regarding Will Not Recognize League the possibility that the Artie explorGeneva, Stirred by reports that ers, Crawford, Galle and Maurer are (he Italian government haB notified alive, after their desperate attempt Greece, It will ignore the league of to cross the Ice floats beween Wran-ge- l nations decision on their dispute and Island and Sibera, exist among that Italy's representative at Geneva authorities on Artie conditions. has been Instructed to abstain from Villijalmur. Steffanson, - the noted IftscdSBlng the mattelr there. Great Artie explorer, stated Thursday that Britain has announced that she will the whole matter of the search for give every ounce of her support to the Crawford and his companions should league. Should the league fail it has be left for decision by the men now been hinted that Great Britain is pre- in northern Siberia, who are best pared to take some other action to able to judge the chances human behowsettle the controversy. Greecef ings would have had In surviving the ever has accepted the Jurisdiction of ordeal the missing explorers underinter-allieambassaof d council the took. dors in addition to the league of naI especially nrge those who contions and Paris anticipates that the a relief expedition, said template Rome government will also heed the to secure the advice of ambassadorial decrees, if there are Steffanson, Arnaut Castel and Harold Nolce, beany. Although Greeks attacked the cause they are on the ground and Italian legation in Athens Sunday having traveled through the territory quietness prevails over the remain- would be able to direct such efforts der of the Hellenic kingdom, includalong the most practical lines. ing the Italian occupied Island of Cor"Castel explored the Kolyma river fu. district only last winter. Therefore he should be able to give a definite Tulsa Forces Confiscate Stores opinion as to whether Crawford won Tulsa, Okla., The military and through to the coast. civil forces consolidated their forces Other authorities declare their behere Monday night In a drive against lieve that the party must have fail500 gallons ed. bootleggers. More than Otherwise they say, Siberian of liquor were seized and more than would have heard long ago twenty suspects arrested. The town traders of Skiatook was occupied by guards- some inkling as' to their whereabouts, men Monday. They brought in six- even though they were quartered at teen flogging suspects, nine of whom a most isolated point are held by Adjutant General MarkStolen Painting Recovered ham under guard at the armory. No San Francisco, Cal. GuUdo Rents Information was filed against the famous painting, "The Entombment suspects. of Christ, stolen on August 25 from 10 Million to Enforce Dry Act the Crocker art gallery in Sacramento, Cal. has been returned. The paintWashington Appropriation of for federal work In enforcing ing, which was on wood, was sent prohibition next year, an Increase of through the mail to a local afternoon $1,000,000 over last year, has been newspaper, with a note saying: God You will find my requested of the budget bureau by has forgiven me. in The lake reStowe lake. Prohibition- - Commissioner body Haynes in the note was dragged An increase of $500,000 additional for ferred to The enforcing , the narcotic drug laws without discovery of suicide. famous painting is more than 300 also was asked. years old and Is said to be worth ' $100,000. Powder Train Explodes; 48 Hurt unSouth Amboy, One dead, an Legion Members Drown identified man, and 48 men and boys Ore. Pat H. Allen, some Astoria, tnem ot burned and injured of post No. 1, American was toll the early fatally, probably Friday of explosions and a fire which legion, and William Adams, a salesThursday night wrecked a train of man, were reported to have been night when powder cars on the Pennsylvania drowned Wednesday Five of the their speedboat Miss Portland, in railroad trestle here. powder-beann- g cars exploded, shat- which they were en route to the tering timbers and boxes of unexplod- American legion convention at Seaed power over an area of an acre. side, filled and sank here. Two other Some of the blazing boxes fell ih the members of the party of four, Frank midst of A fine of motor cars whose A. Moore, Portland business man, occupants were watching the burning and state commander ot the Forty train, setting fire to the automobiles and Eight, and Ed Barroth, pilot ot the boat, were reported saved. and Injuring all of them. AD-VIC- - ' Both Accept New Plan Paris, It was learned from an authoritative source Friday afternoon council of ambasFres State Assured League Seat t that he Inter-allie- d in drawing up succeeded has was sadors state free Irish The Geneva, Is which of settlement a acceptable to In the league assured membership war nations Saturday when the ilxtb both Italy and Greece, averting will details The in southern Europe. Paul Hymans with commission, unanimously' approved Ire be communicated to the League of Nations at Geneva. lands applications. pre-sidin- t , mail. Passengers and Members of Crew ol Liner Cuba Rescued After Dia. Kaysville Frank Bennett of Kays-vll- le was accidentally shot In the aster; Dence Fog Blamed for Wreckings. ltfp with a rifle in a can- -' yon three miles , east of here while hunting chickens. Santa f Barbara, Seven United , Park City, J. F. Keyson, who was States navy destroyers and the Paci- arrested by Deputy Sheriff Jefford in fic mull liner Cuba were wrecked Ogden, charged with petty larceny, Saturday morning and Sunday night, pleaded guilty and was fined $100.' the nay vessels crashing on the Park City, Work on the spur line in a, dense fog off Arguello miles north el of the Union Pacific is progressing light, seventy-fiv- e Santa Barbara . and the.' passenger rapidly and the steel is now being steamer on, a reef off the southeast laid. Those tin .. authority say that trains will be running to the Park-Uitend of San Miguel island, thirty-fiv- e miles off this port mine by December 1. Twenty-thre- e enlisted men of ths , Ogden, La 'Forge Dastrup, of destroyers lost their lives in the Duchesne county, is at a local naval disaster and all the destroyers hosgital suffering from a" bullet were reported as total losses. wound in his right knee. The wound The liner Cuba was reported to was accidentally inflicted n. by a have sunk during .Sunday night, but , all passengers' and members of her Ogden, On charges of stealing 12 crew either Were' landed at Los Anof sheep belonging to Ludovic head geles by the' destroyer Reno or are on their way to San Francisco on Isoard, George M. Donald a butcher board the Standard OH tanker W. S. of Ogden valley, was arrested. Niller, with the exception of Captain Bingham, Bingham town board C. J. Holland, the purser, steward has decided to call a special election and eight seamen, who remained on to vote on the issue of $30,000 bond board to guard a shipment of $2J00,-00- 0 issue for the piping of water from in silver bullion. ; Dry Fork canyon. Dense fog was the cause of both - was Walter Cox,'Farmington, disasters. felh behe when Injured seriously The destroyers Chauncey, Woodneath the wheel of his gravel wagon bury, Fuller, S. P. Lee, Nicholas, near his home here. Young and Deiphy were all bleached Salt Lake City, Alex Geros, was within a few minutes of one another, shot and probably fatally wounded according to naval officers. The flotilla of which the wrecked by Deputy Sheriff John Harris, when craft formed a part was in command he attempted to escape arrest. ot Captain Edward Watson, comTooele, Two hundred and twenty manding officer pjjhe Deiphy, and .gallon whisky wag"3n' IpractJce cruise. when local government an Sj TbdiZf The dead were all trapped in their authorities raided the Moonshine bunks on the Young when that vessel Ranch in Rush valley. struck and were drowned when the The home of Rufus tSpringville, craft capsized within two minutes Averett was damaged by fire to ths after striking. More than 500 men were rescued extent of $400. from the wrecked destroyers, which Logan, Bryon Whitney, 21, years Sunday night were reported to be of age, suffered a badly burned hand pounding to pieces on the rocks, all while etching a glass weather gauge total losses. with hydrofluoric asfid. Of the survivors fifteen of the sePark Fire starting from a riously injured were brought to tiie defectiveCity, flue destroyed the two-atoSanta Barbara county hospital here. boarding house at the Little One hundred others were cut and Bell mine with a loss estimated at brtcished in their swim to safety over The destroyers $8,000. the jagged rocks. were traveling in formation at twenRichfield, Harry Woods, a garage ty knots an hour in a heavy sea and employee, was badly injured in Sevier dense fog when the leading vessel canyon, when a Ford car he was drivcrashed. ing struck some loose rock on a dug-wa- y and plunged into the river. Carried ahead by a strong tide, the others piled on the beach In succesRichfield, A ca airy unit of the sion. Lying in line along the shore at national guard is to be established intervals of feet, the boats were here, to H. E. Beal, county according One of them slowly breaking up. attorney. the Chauncey, was resting high on Vernal, Efforts to keep the federal the rocks. and highway between Castlegate be will winter Duchesne this open Coal Profits Pinchot Probes state and Governor Pin. made jointly by the Harrisburg. Pa, Duchesne county. chot, successful In his efforts to bring about a settlement of the anthracite Ogden, Weber county commissioncontroversy, Monday turned his at- ers will begin immediately to comply tention to the question of coal prices. with the rules of the state board of His four-poiplan for adjustment of health regarding the county jail at A new heating plant will be the differences between anthracite Ogden. operators and union miners formed installed together with a proper venthe basis of a proposed new two-yetilating system and other improvecontract agreed upon Saturday night ments. by members of the operators policy Heber City, Sheriff William Murcommittee and officials of the minhas returned from Soldier Sumray ers union. He took up the price mit, bringing with him John Karros, problem in a letter Sunday night to a Greek, and two stills. Karro3 was President Coolidge, in which he sug- arrested and the stills seized near gested federal and state action to- the town. ward readjustment of freight rates will Provo, Utah fruit hereafter on anthracite and announced his own purpose of calling upon the governors be shipped in boxes marked to show of all anthracite coal consuming that the fruit is from this state and states to investigate profits of deal- is of superior quality. The label bears wholesalers, brokers, a beehive trademark in the upper ers, In coal, d corner and below this the jobbers and retailers. Utah Fruit words, Woman to Confer on Equal Rights Ogden, Hot winds of the past few Salt Lake City, Utah Women from days and dry winds during July, have ten wester states will gather at damaged tomato vines resulting in a Colorado Springs, Colo., the latter crop which will fall short of the forepart of this month for the Great cast, according to local canners. Western Equal Rights conference, Fire of unknown origin Ogden, according to word received by the destroyed the residence of John LemColorado Springs chamber. The dele- on, of this The family Is In city. gates will represent California, Ore- Wyoming. gon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Ogden, Responding to a petition New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming from business men, the city commisand Colorado. sion has instructed the city engineer Passive Resistance Ordered Stepped to take steps to have all stores and - London, The populations in the homes in the city numbered. Fire destroyed the garBeaver, occupied areas of Germany have been ordered to discontinue their passive age and woodshed at the rear of the resistance to the French and Belgium county court house causing a loss of authorities, according to a correspon- several thousand dollars to Beaver dent in Berlin. county. er v. ah TIES IRE oonl-panio- FLAMES REACH POINT THREE MILES OF HEART OF SANTA . BARBARA i Men to Fight Blaze-- All Conscripted Houses Near Gibraltar Dam Are Destroyed; Fire Crosses Santa Ynez River , Santa Barbara. Calif., Columns ot smoke, spared with streaks of flame, had reached a point but three miles from tae heart of Santa Barbara Friday as the huge forest fire in Oso Canyon swept beyond control. Th fire .hq crossed the Santa Ynezfcsnf four( placer - and colony, IhTMbision canyon are- in Immediate danger, reports here Btated. Burning fiercely along Buckhorn Creek and , on LaCumbre peak, the forest fire on the Santa Ynez river In the Santa Barbara National forest Friday morning had destroyed the citys plant at Gibralter dam, behind which Is Impounded the Santa Barbara water supply. Flames were eating their way deeply into the brush and Umber of the water shed. Care takers at Gibralter dam were forced to flee when their cottage with all other buildings at the lake were destroyed. Throughout the night the flames burned within plain view of this city, white ashes fell like a light snowstorm on streets and house tops. The fire on the crest of the Santa Ynez range was within three miles on an air line of the heart of the city and preparations were being made to establish a line of fire fighters between the flames and the suburban disMore than 100 men, the tricts. majority of them conscripted on the streets of the city, were fighting the fire under a corps of rangers. Many citizens of Santa Barbara volunteered their services. Hardings Will Give Estate to Wife Marion, O., The will of the late President Hardingf filed for probate here Friday leaves to Mrs. Harding a life estate of $100,000, the home in Mount Vernon avenue here, and a in the building owned by the Marion Star. The total of the late presidents estate cannot be determined until the appraisers report. Dr. George T. Harding, the aged father of the late president, was given a life estate of $500,000 and the residence in which he lives here. Upon his death this property will revert to Dr. Hardings son and daughters. half-intere- st ' Civli War Install Saltzgarbar With all the of the regular United States army, the officers of the national G. A. R. elected late Thursday were InPast stalled here Friday morning. Commander in Chief Willett handed the gavel to the new commander-tn-chie- f, Gaylord M. Saltzgarbar after a brief speech in which he retold his comrades the pleasure which had been his during the year he had successor all the good fortune posBoston was unanimously sesible. Explosion Blows Worker to Bits Pinole, Calif. One man was blown lected as the 1924 convention city. to atoms and 10 others were injured explodHarding Proposed as 'Peace Recipient when a ton of ed at the Hercules Powder companys The late President Copenhagen, plant Thursday.' The dead man is Harding is included in a list of about believed to be William Haggerty. 30 persons who are being proposed The explosion shattered windows as recipients of'" tlio Nobel peace within a radius of five miles from prize, says the Christiania Alien here. nitro-glycerl- Milwaukee, yets Wis., ty Jf T , J V-- . y. 'K. ry ar left-han- T 7 i |