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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SALIN A, UTAH I News Notes Live in It a Privilege to Utah A DOWNPOUR COVERS AREA SIXTY MILES LONG AND TWENTY FIVE MILES WIDE Richfield Despite the dry season, Sevier county is not bad off agricub With the eception of sugar mrally. beets, which received a body blow, the outlook is interpreted as satisfactHeroic Work Done When Cloudburst of the agriculory.- A Almost Submerges Comtural situation, as gained at the annual county fair, which was held here munities; 15 Inches of Rain Fell September 8, 9 and 10, shows a harvest not up to expectations, but equal r to a average. , rainKan. The heaviest Burlington-Carbon County Repair work on the storm in years, amounting to a cloud- Carbon canal is under full swing, acburst in many localities, Sunday sluic- cording to George M. Bacon, state enmiles gineer, who has just returned from ed through a section twenty-fivwide and sixty miles long, from Em- - Carbon county, where he has been porla toward the southeastern corner superintending thef beginning of the of the state, leaving in Its wake three work. The improvement, is being done known dead, untold losses in crops, under the authorization of the state livestock and property damage, hun- land board, which voted the expendidreds of homeless families, broken ture of $20,000 in the work. railroad communications, and InundatOne hundred and Sevier Count ed fields and towns. in the cowforty-twcows registered ' Starting at the headwaters of three of Sevier county avercircle testing Cottonwood rivers, the Verdigris, the 770 pounds of milk and thirty-on- e and the Neosho, the flood swept down aged of butterfat during Augthrough Emporia, Madison, Burlington ust, pounds month the circle has the sixth and intermediate points, swelling in been in according to a reoperation, came. threatened as it volume Water S. R. Boswell, county agriculport by '.ouseholders fled for their lives. cows in the tural agent. Many, taken unaware, were rescued more than group thirty produced in rowboats from roof3 and second the of butterfiat month, during pounds stories of their homes. Gunnison Gunnison valley yesterThe chief fury of the storm, how-- i ver, seemed to have been visited on day witnessed the worst downpour Netfsho Falls, a town of 800 people, of rain and hail in many years. The The which, according to early reports, was rain and hail in many years. hail was so strong that even the completely inundated by a leaves were stripped from the alfalla rain. and trees. cross-sectio- n ten-yea- e o Sixty-thre- e , h Rail Mail Men, Shoot To Kill. Price A cooperative agreement for the construction of a new road below Scofield was made yesterday by Carbon county and the Price River Water Conservation district at the monthly session of the county commiss;oners. A. W. Horsley, president of the district, and II. G. Mathis met with Li e boara in regard to the agreement. Washington A command to shoot to kill was sent out Saturday by the department to its army of 22,500 railway mail clerks to protect from bandits, even at the cost of their own lives, the millions of dollars worth of treasure handled daily in the United States mails. The command, which applies to the thousands of other postal employees, also constitutes a warning to the underworld that the postal service means war and any one found attempting to rob the post-offic- By ELMO SCOTT WATSON NE hundred and twenty years ugo this month the little village of St. Louis was aflame with excitement. A horsemun had ridden furiously from Fort Itellefontuine to carry some wonderful news. A. little fleet of boats, carrying a party of men who had long been given up for dead, was sweeping down the Big Muddy and would soon be pu'.llnj up to the water front. And this was the scene which followed the description is from the pen of Emerson Ilough: Laughing, talking, ejaculating, weeping in their Joy, the people of St. Louis hurried out to meet the men whose voyage meant so much. At last they saw them coming, the paddles flashing In unison In the horny hands which tirelessly drove the boats along the river. They could see them men with long beards, dad In leggings of elk hide, moccasins of buffalo and deer; their those of the Indians, their long hair braided. And see, In the prow of the foremost craft sat two men, side by side Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Two young Virginians had returned from their magnificent adventure! On that same day, September 23, 1800, a resident of St. Louis sat down to write to the Baltimore Federal Gazette these words, When they arrived three cheers were fired., They really have the appearance of Robinson Crusoe dressed On that same day Merii ntlrely In buckskin. wether Lewis wrote to President Jefferson the first report of their expedition that he had been able to send In a year and a half. Here is what lie said, "In obedience to your orders we have penetrated the continent of North America to the Pacific ocean and sufficiently explored the Interior of the country to affirm that we have discovered the most practicable communication which does exist across the continent by menns of the navigable branches of the Missouri and Columbia rivers. A modest report, that! Could lie have looked Into the future he might have added, We have blazed the trail for civilization across half a continent. We have Joined the Oregon country to your Louisiana Purchnse. We have given to our nation the rich territory of the Pacific Northwest and California. Despite the proverbial Ingratitude of republics. It must he suid to the credit of the United States that in the case of Lewis nnd Clark, at least, their achievement brought the reward It so richly deserved. Their return to Washington was a triumphal procession. They were guests of the nation, feted nnd honored everywhere. Captain Lewis was made governor of the new Territory of Louisiana. Captain Clark was made a general ami agent for all the Indian tribes in the West Besides these commissions, congress granted them 1,000 acres of land. Nor have these valorous young captains been forgotten during the hundred years that have Intervened since their exploit. Cities, counties and automohlle trails bear fheir names. Their memory was honored at the Louisiana Purchase exposition In SL Louis In 100-- and when Portland, Ore., held an exposition a little later It was named the Lewis and Clark exposition, and their names were on the lips of every American. I.ast year, at the Inspiration of Ralph Budd,. president of the Great Northern railway, the Upper-MlssouHistorical expedition, composed ft a number of eminent historians, visited five historical sites In the West. One of them was at the town of Meriwether In Glacier county, Mont., where a tall shaft had been erected to the memory of Meriwether Lewis, commemorating the farthest north point reached by the Lewis and Clark expedition. A deed for the site of this monument nnd the monument has recently been presented to the state of Montana by President Budd and It Is now state property. Last year, also, the Bitter Root chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution unveiled a tablet at Travelers Rest creek, near I.olo, Mont., where t'i Lewis nnd Clark expedition camped on September 10, 1805. ' Montana proposes to pay further h nor to the pathfinders nnd at the present time several cities are competing for the privilege of being the site of a state memorial to the explorers, authorized at the last session of the Montana legislature. Y ' This year the idea of the Upper Missouri River . Historical expedition was repented In a Columbia River Historical expedition, sponsored by the governors of the six Northwest states and Presi head-dresse- Myton N. L. Peterson, president of the Uintah Basin Cooperative Seed Gr wers association, recently called a meeting of 'the directors in Myton. It was held for the purpose of consid mails may expect a cold lead recepIn Issuing the tion and no mercy. command, it also was indicated, if this means of protection should fail, the United States marines again might be called to guard the mail3 as they did late in 1921, when banditry was prevalent. This drastic move was determined by Postmaster General New at a council of war with his lieutenants' as a result of the recent holdup near Chicago, In which bandits stole $135,000 in currency. ering the financing and" marketing o'. the alfalfa seed crop ol those who are members of the association. It ii believed that united action will provr beneficial along many lines. rl e ican history. In September, 1809, Governor Lewis left St. Louis for Washington. Unattended he made his way through the Chickasaw country of Tennessee and one October evening came to the on the old tavern of Robert Grinder, a Natchez Trace. Lewis engaged a room at the tavern. During the night a iftiot was heard and he was found dying with a pistol beside him. Historians dlsugree as to who fired the shot. There Is one theory that In a fit of melancholy he committed suicide. Iresident Jefferson is said to have accepted that belief and It persisted for mnny years. But later research supports the belief of the settlers on the Natchez Trace that Lewis was murdered for his money, and the name of Old Grinder Is linked with the crime. Lewis was burk'd near the tavern and It was not until 40 years later that the Tennessee legislature honored his memory by naming a county after him and erecting over his grave a monument at a cost of $500. The ravages of time have seriously defaced the monument, however, and now citizens of Tennessee are planning to build over It a shrine, supported by Grecian columns, each representing one of the states of the Louisiana Purchase, to shield the old monument. Several years ago the federal government authorized the purchase of the tract of land upon which the monument stands and Its maintenance ns a memorial park. Plans for the new memorial cal! for statues of Lewis and his companion, Captain Clark, nnd one of SacaJawea, the Indian girl who was their guide and who did so much to Insure the. success of the expedition. Mention of the name of SacaJawea recalls one of the most romantic aspects of the Lewis and Indian Clark expedition, that of a mother with a tiny babe strapped on her back, who, as the Journals of the expedition record, guided ns unerringly through mountain passes. Intelligent, cheerful, resourceful, tireless, faithful, In view of the value of her she Inspired us all. half-bree- dome-shape- d slxteen-year-ol- d Lehi, A special mass meeting of the taxpayer of Lehi was held last evening at the Memorial building, hav-- ; ing been called by the local committee for the purpose of obtaining the senti--o- f the Utah Taxpayers association ment of the taxpayers relative to the construction of a municipal lighting Crowds Cheer Mussolini At Scene Rome II Duce was acclaimed Sunday by adoring crows on the spot hours before he where twenty-fou- r had escaped death at the hands of a would-bassassin. The calm courage of Premier Mussolini when his life ws threatened by a bomb hurled by an anarchist roused popular admiration to a high pitch, and thousands cf persons stood for hours in the suffocating heat, unprotected from a burning sun, before the Chigi palace to catch a glimpse of the fascist idol as he entered and left his offices. Sitting alone in his automobile, the premier insisted that he be driven past the spot where yesterday morning Ermete Giovannini hurled the bomb at him. As the car passed by the scene of the attempted assassination, the crowds gathered at the spot cheered wildly. e jmrwC nr iSAZAGAMZA, ByAIIas Cbojoer services to the expedition, It Is altogether fitting that she should be held In grateful remembrance Her memory is preby the American people. served In two notable statues. One by Alice Cooper (shown in one of the Illustrations of this article) was one of the most admired bits of statuary at the Lewis and Clark exposition in Portland and It now stands in the city park there. Another stands on the state cnpitol grounds in Bismarck, N. D. It Is plant. Granger, Construction of six miles of county road connecting Granger with the Redwood road is now under way. The work is progressing rapidly. Fifteen culverts will be installed along the road. The culverts, manufactured at the county shops at Murray, are being delivered at the rata ' of two a- day. Myton, The Uintah Basin Seed Growers association plant located in Myton has opened its warehouse and already has received 300 sacks of alfalfa The rule the association seed. U. S. Holland Selects New Envoy to has made' for the season of 1926 is Handels-hlaHolland The Amsterdam, that it will store only the seed that is learns that Herman Van Roljen, cleaned at its plant. The association the Dutch minister in Rome, Italy, does not to sell sacks this year. plan will be appointed minister to the Unit- One hundred and ten seed growers ed States, succeeding Dr. A. C. D. De are members of the organization. to been who has Graeff, promoted Salt Lake. Articles of incorpora-- j governor general of the Dutch East Indies. Mr. Van Roijen is well known tion of the Iron Mountain Railroad in the United States. His wife was Company of Utah were filed with the Albertina T. Winthrop, daughter of county clerk Wednesday afternoon, the late Robert Winthrop, assistant and it is indicated by the company secretary of the navy in the Taft ad- that this action presages development ministration. He was mentioned for of some of thb important Iron deposthe Washington post as early as 1917, its of southern Utah. when he was minister to Spain, and Myton Contrcat for .the construcagain in 1921. tion of the federal aid highway project between Myton and Roosevelt, a Greece Again Enjoys Peace. distance of 9 miles, has been award-- 1 ed by the State Road Commission to Athens, GreeceandCalm prevails proof of the the Lyon Construction company of throughout Greece, confidence In the future Is seen in the Ogden, it was announced yesterday. fact that the party leaders will leave Under the bid of the company the proj-- I Athens the coming week for the eleo ect will cost $151,706,336. ' The engin-- , The preliminary in- eers of the commission estimated the tion campaign. vestigation has proved nothing againsl project total at $167,900.62. M. Vozikis, former minister of instrucKane County A tract of land lotion, and some of the journalists and in western Kane county will be cated in connection arrested politicians thrown open October 27 for entry by with the recent revolt, and they hav been liberated. About thirty others former service men, according to anwill be tried with Colonel Zervas and nouncement Tuesday of Eli F. Taylor, Colonel Dertillis, commanders of ths register of the local land office. The two guards corps which mutinied, foi land will be open to former fighters open conspiracy against the govern until January 25, 1927, after which it ment. The hearing will begin prob will be subject to entry by the general public. ably on Wednesday. interesting to note that, ns In the case of Meriwether Lewis, there Is a mystery connected with the denth of SacaJawea. According to one account she died on the Wind River reservation of her native people, the Shoshones, on April 9, 1884, and was buried In the Indian cemetery ' there. A monument was erected over the grave In 1900 but since that time there has been a controversy among historians as to whether this grave really holds the bones of SacaJawea. Finally, the bureau of Indian affairs appointed I.r. Charles A. Eastman, the Sioux Indian author and historian, to make an investigation and determine if possible where site w buried. s After a among Investigation three tribes, the Shoshones, Gros Ventres and Comanches, Doctor Eastman reported his belief that the woman who was hurled near Fort Washakie, on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming, was the girl who guided Lewis and Clark. Tills supports the conclusions readied by Dr. Grace Raymond Ilebard, historian of the University of Wyoming, from evidence which she gathered while making e similar Investigation. David Ililger, secretary of the Montana Historical society; L. F. Crawford, curator of the North Dakota Historical society, and Doane Robinson, superintendent emeritus of the South Dakota department of history, however, do not concur In this belief. They contend that she died December 20, 1812, at Fort Manuel on the river in South Dakota. If they are correct and they believe that their evidence is Indisputable, Just as Doctor Eastman believes that he is fully Justified In his conclusions the grave of SacaJawea can never be marked, for the Missouri river has long since swept away the site of Fort Manuel and with it the spot where the Indian girl was burled. The controversy was started last year when the French Warships Threaten Turkey proposal was made that congress appropriate Paris French warships are beinj $5,000 to erect a suitable monument over the supheld in readihess for orders to rroceed posedly authentic grave near Fort Washakie and to Constantiople and force the releasa this was followed by Doctor Eastmans Investigaof Lieutenant Desmond, now1 held In tion, authorized by the Indian department. custody by the Turkish authorities In view of all these conflicting opinions, it Is Premier Poincare Monday called difficult for the layman to decide just when nnd in the Turkish ambassador and delivwhere SacaJawea, or Snkakawen, died and where ered an ultimatum that the charges she was buried. Perhaps It doesn't make much against Lieutenant Desmond be referdifference. Wherever she lies, her name has a red to The Hague court. Desmond permanent place in our history and her memory is commander of the French boat Lo is enshrined with that other Indian heroine. Pocatus. Some ten days ago his vesse' hontas of Virginia, in the hearts of all Americana was in collision with a Turkish craft I Nephi, Plans' are now complete for Nephis diamond jubilee and home coming, which will be held in' connection with the second annuhl Juab county fair. The celebration will take place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, September 15, 16 and 17. s dent Budd of the Greut Northern, whose members made their pilgrimage In July, dedicated three monuments and held memorial celebrations In honor of several pathfinders, missionaries and traders at different places en route. The final celebration was at Astoria, Ore., where a tall 6haft, the gift of Vincent Astor of New York, was unveiled. This monument was erected principally to honor John Jacob Astor, the man who looms largest in the history of the American fur trade. But upon the column, which towers 120 feet In the air from Its position on a hill G20 feet above the river, Is a ribbon-likfrieze, depicting In fresco the historical events connected with the name of Astoria. The pictured story of John Jacob Astor and the fur trade Is there, as Is the story of Cnpt. Robert Gray, who discovered and named the Columbia river in 1792. It also bears the names of Lewis and Clark, who first saw the Pacific and realized that they had come to the end of their quest, near Astoriu. Four miles away and easily In sight of the new Astoria monument, they built a winter camp. Fort Clatsop, and stayed. there until March 23, 1S06, when they 'set out for St. Louis. But Montana and Oregon are not the only states that hive thus remembered Meriwether Lewis. Tennessee, where he is buried, also has done honor to Ids name:Xnd' thereby hangs the tale of the tragedy of the brave young leaders untimely denth and one of the mysteries of Amer- 4Y. . d well-know- n three-month- MIs-sou- rl j j Salt Lake City More than or thousand delegates from Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico and Texas will gather in Salt Lake, September 9, 10 and 11 for (he fifth annual Pacific States Savings and Loan conference George E. McKinnes, president of the U. S. League of Local Building and Loan associations, representing invested capital of five and one-hal- f billion dollars, will make one of the principle addresses of the convention The executive committee of the national league will also meet in Salt Lake 4 j . |