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Show TIIE SAUNA SUN, S A LINA, UTAH I News Notes I Its a Privilege to Live in A APPREHENSION GROWS AT WASH. INGTON; SITUATION OFFERS GRAVE PROBLEM and India Ready For Embarkation to the Scene. in England in London Nothing has developed respect to China apparently to cause wetry to the British government or accentuate the anxiety of the people. The void from the British foreign office Sunday was that the conversations at Hankow are proceeding normally, but that it would not be vise to speculate on the future. The government is being kept well infoimed by the British minister. Miles Lainpson, but 8emngly no definite stage in the Hanchow negotiations has yet ben reached. In fact, the cabinet mm h ters appeared to be In doubt whether anything except verbrl conversations has been exchanged yet. Hankow evidently is regarded as a test case in tiie belief that it is necessary to discover how tar the Cantonese leader is 'n a position to redeem hia promises. The ministers consider the military preparations as only precautionary in case things go wrong. Press advices from Hankow confirm the previnous announcement that the British banks, and shippers had agreed to reopen for business and that they would continue to function as long as they felt secure. It was hoped that tins would facilitate negotiations between Charge O'Malley and the Cantonese foreign minister, Eugene Chen. s By ELMO SCOTT WATSON LTllOUGil Unde Ram Is nominally nt ponce with nil other nations, there Is one war In which lie 1ms Jf 3 engaged for the last ten years and which is still going on. That Is tiie war that is being waged ceaselessly and relentlessly by a body of picked men, the federal hunters of the United States biological survey, against the varmints the mountain lions, . wolves, bears, coyotes, lynxes and vvlldeHy vlileh prey upon not only the live stock on tb stern ranges but also upon other wild game tbh Uncle Sam would save from extinction. T'oeglnnlng of this war dates back to 1915 when the Inroads of the varmints' upon the live stock industry becume so serious that the government appropriated $125,000 and handed over to the biological survey the Job of protecting the herds and flocks. In the West by a campaign of extermination against the marauders. Rtute, county uiul private Interests were linked up by the bureau and the resources of all pooled In a oinuiou cause. Prom that beginning has grown the present organization of nearly 400 .of the most expert hunters and trappers In the stock country, hired by chiefs of districts In 17 states to carry on the work of extermination. They receive $100 a month, free ammunition, traps and poison and they are on the job In every season, pitting their craft and their skill against the cunning of the wiliest type of wild animal. If you would see the last traeea of the vanished frontier, look for It among these federal hunters, for It Is la their war on' the beasts of prey Mint you will And the West that Is still wild, and woolly. The other day Denver newspapers carried the news that a two year enmpalgu to kill a mountain lion which laid been killing deer in the Camera creek country jiejir Monte Viste, Colo., ended when the animal was slain by Hunter John' W. Cook. Two years may seem a long time to carry on a war against one animal but this Is by no menus unique in the work of the federal hunters. Just us It Is proverbial of the Canadian Mounted police that they always get their men,' so Is It becoming proverbial among these hunters that they always get their wolf, or cougar, or hear, and sons of the stories of their long chases uftr these animal killers" are as thrilling as the yarns of man hunts In the old days of the West. Outstanding among these is t lie story of the Custer wolf and of II. 1. Williams, the government hunter who finally ran him to earth. For nine years the Custer wolf eluded every effort to trap him and although often sighted, no nmrksiuun was ever able to bring him clown. He would eat nothing TmtTitS own kill so It was InijHKssihle to poison him. At the beginning of Ids depredations among the live stock cm ranches for a hundred miles around Custer, S. I)., u reward was raised until a price of S500 had been et upon Ills head, lie and Ids mate killed wantonly, wustefully, maliciously. Finally his mate was killed, but he did not take another and' carric-on a lone- war for awhile. Finally the ranchers around Custer appealed to the government for help. The biological survey sent H. I. Williams, one of Its best hunters, Dike up the chase after the outlaw. Williams last y In March, 1020 and at once . arrived nt begun pitting bis cunning against the wolf's. All greatetMimnior long they played a game of with the wolf having several narrow escape's from be tiaps which Williams set. The end came etc her 11, 19;X, when the Custer wolf stepped one of Williams' traps, lie tore It from ,ts A hundred and fifty yards away It ng. in an arl'-vl.- t cm a tree, hut the frenzied strength of the nv.l broke the swivel, in the meantime Wll-- . Laws in was Imt on the trail and three Hides from e Urate. , jjj,, in( )0rn jie nime upon the imates tcpc'! tmimjl. One shot from Ids rifle and c.uecr of the Cctatex wolf that had cost the r - Cu-te- r hide-and-see- ... jj-.j- animal fur ten or twelve years because of her raids on (lie herds ami flocks in t ho Belt mountains country which had cost tiie ranchers more than $20,NN), finally met her fate at tiie hands of a government hunter. Barney Bmiinin was on Old Cripple trail for eighteen months tint all of the tricks of his profession were of no avail against tin cunning old cattle killer. Finally he located her den in a rough mountain country. Iliigging up the entrance he began to dig down into tiie den from above. Scarcely had an open:KR&p &7?zmr ing been made when Old Cripple Foot sprang through the new hole arid made a da-l- i for liberty, ranchers of South Dakota more than $25,000 In only to tumble dead as Brannin's rifle cracked. live stock ended. Down In Arizona only a few months ago a wolf It Is not often that a wolf gets nn extended known as the" King of Arizona Cow Killers was "obituary" in Mm Congressional Record but such shot down by a government hunter, thereby saving was the ense with Old Three Toes, another South tiie ranchers in that slate thousands of dollars. Dakota wolf that was an even more remarkable And so it goes, in every part of tiie West. The animal outlaw than tiie Custer wolf. During outlaw wolves whose depils-giv- e .them more than his career in Harding county, S. D Old Three local renown do not last long af.er one of tint Toes is known to have destroyed more than biological survey's hunters gets on their trail. $50,000 worth of live stock and although more Since they went on the job of systematic extermithan 150 men bad been on his trail at one time nation of these animals, tiie number of wolves or another. It was not until Junior Inspector killed each year has steadily declined, showing Clyde E. Briggs of the biological survey went . that those beasts are fast disappearing. In 1025 after him In 1025 that lie was finally run to earth. only .52 wolves were killed by the federal hunters, Here Is the story of Old Three Toes as tiie report ns against 424 ill 1016 ami 52.' in 11)21. Only one of Inspector Knowles, printed In tiie Congressional each was taken In 1025 In the states of Colorado. Itecord last year, gives it: Utah and Wyoming and tione nt all In Idaho and The history of Three Toes Is a difficult one to South Dakota. These figures are based upon t lie trace. His htllinK career Is known to have begun number of scalps brought into district offices of In 19 ,. thirteen years ago. Legend has him killing at a still earlier time. Mr. Briggs states that the tiie biological survey by the government liunters. animal Is nn old one and he Is certain that he was The 31 killed in Arizona, the 31 in New Mexico fifteen years old and believed him to have been and tiie 33 in Montana for the most part came noarly twenty years of age. across tiie international boundaries from Canada . Legend has it that this wolf came to Harding rcyinty from Montana, hut his actual birthplace , and Mexico. The figures for 11126 are not jet seems to have been In or close to the horse pastures available hut it is probable that they will show of Charles Wilson, located In the bluffs on the east a further decline from those of 1025. side of the Little Missouri river some eight of ten miles northeast of Camp Crook, S. Dak. What is true of Ixlo Is true of his younger With the stockmen of this wolfs early days the coyote. In 1916 only 11.800 coyotes brother, a reckoning of his depredations of. mostly gone, were for hut In 1925 a total of 25,622 accounted he was even then those years, beyond the fact that of the little wolves met their deaths at the hands notorious, cannot be made. In 1923 the Harding of the federal ninirdds by gun, trap and poison, County Sheep and Wool Growers association and the bnnks at Buffalo, S. ilak., gathered information mainly Mu; latter. In addition to the work of the of his killings, and nt that time they advised me federal hunters, others accounted for several thoukills Ills value known the that if equaled fully sand more and the grand total for the year was $.0,000. During six weeks of May and June of tills" year, 1925, he killed sheep to the value of $2,000 37,255. So It Is beginning to look a though tiie belonging to Devltt Bros Jt was near the Devitt coyote as well as the lig gray wolf will eventually Bros.' range that he was taken. He killed for other he wiped out. men during the spring of 1925, but I have not yet been furnished with the numbers or value of these Mountain lions have never been so plentiful In total they exceeded Devltt Bros' killings. as wolves and coyotes so that cougar record of losses, so ttiat his known depredations in 1923 the biological survey 'Is not so Impressive as it alone amount to more than $4,000. Ills largest kill A total of 14i!l of In numbers of sheep for Devitt Bros, was made In is for wolves and coyotes. two nights during May, when 04 sheep were deI'hese animals have been killed since the govern They were valued at $3S0 and were a stroyed ment hunters went on the job and 1925 was the mixed bunch of ewes and lambs big" year with a record of 22S. Of this number. The story of attempts to capture Three Toes Isas interesting as Is the history of his depredations. more than half were killed In Arizona, where More than 130 men have tried for him besides the tederal hunters accounted for 127 of the hlg In mndo were several drives that men engaged big rats. one seems No even have to had the Formerly cougars were traiked with dogs, by stockmen. remotest chance of taking him aside from the traps driven into a eitve or treed anil then shot. Trapthat pinched off his toes, and these were, no 'dolibt, ping was difficult because no scent could be found set for coyotes amt the happenings, no doubt, octo smear upon traps to lure them Into Its jaws of his to in the caieer curred Failing early dsys were on him for hunts Then the biological survey hit upon a Imppy Idea. and this put wolf, trap Individuals attempted to run him down. On a night ' .Catnip, .which Is proverbially attractive to (ills, following one of tiie hunts or drives made for him wild felines. Tiie might lie attractive tot hose-b- ig he killed one of the best saddle horses of the of industiv bureau the division of a On occasion when was plant hunter another drug region. with the survey. by developing oil of attempting to run him down and had a relaydur-of some seven top saddle Jwirses the wolf stopped catnip on a large scale ami the use of this scent ing the afternoon at a sheep cot rat HPd killed 13 has been so successful that it now appears as j sheep. The stories of ills adventures with various hunters and groups of stotkmen are Interesting, though the cougar Is doomed to go the way tf amt one soon comes to believe that Three Toes was the wolf and tiie coyote. I much better versid In human lore than were his One of. Mngjimsi. famous uml -- successful of lit Mr as tt in wolfoiogy, Bliggs puts hunters veised federal hunters of cougars is Old Ben I.iy, vvli.i Mr. Bilges' taking this wolf in 13 days work was an achievement that men who knew the animal . ranges over the Attache forest preserve in Arizoin consider the greatest event in- the annals of wolf and wlio has tin record of having in four yean on the stationed was National Harney hunting tracked to death 154. lions and hi !ears. Lilj forest curing Rll but the lest two weeks of the was a hunter from h.'s childhood days in Louisiana career of the Custer wolf and know the history, written and unwritten, both of his depredations has hunted In all parts of tiie world. It was and and his capture, and from this Intimate acquainta hlg hear.' Old Club" Foot, a giant silvertip who ance of both animals, tY Custer wolf was not even had beeii killing stock In the Blue river country in this Harding county wolfs class of Arizona, which first brought Lily to that state. lender Out In Colorado Big I efty, ii three-leggeHunters down there said that Old Huh Foot of h wolf pack In the crested butte section of the could not be killed. But Lily proved that they state, terrorized a wide range of country and were wrong. After his success in getting this anieaued the stockmen losses running: up into the mal he stayed in Arizona nml turned his attention thousands. In BUT this wolf was caught in u to the mountain lions, tor which th ranchers trap but eseied by gnawing off his left front of that state are devoutly thankful. , foot just above the ankle unl for the next eight Bears are not sought by the federal hnnters Mils he maintained Ids handicap, jears. despite except when they go had" and become killers. supremacy over his pack and left a trail of parity I .ears of this class seem to be on the Increase. eaten carcasses wherever lie roamed. Then In From 1915 to 1920 the government hunters were 1021 H. A. Huberts, a government hunter, took up called upon to kill only 317 "bud hours" but In the task of rutting an end to Dig Leftys nefarious 1925 alone they had to put nn end to the cattle and career, lie was on the wolfs trail for three weeks activities of 201 hears. Grizzlies sheep-killinbut finally the animat stepped Into n trap which are tiie worst offenders and one big fellow, killed he hod set And this time Big Lefty did not by a biological survey ruin In 19.", bad killed escape. 32 head of cattle during the spring which preceded Up In Montana Inst summer Old Cripple Foot, a "wolf queen" who had been a much sought-afte- r his death and some 56 the previous yeur. sfepjnrjl . 1 . 1 d g Inflated Franc Causes Distress Baris The high frarc is flattering to the pride of Frenchmen, but high prices are deflating his pocketbaok. Unemployment, politics and th hone. Government statistics show that 35,000 pc sons, chiefly in Paris, are drawing ioles, bat 35,000 more applicants fur work are not satisfied. The government and employe-ersay the situation Is fir from critical but woikinginoii retort that many thousands are earning just enough to keep from being hungry. lied and yellow posters flaunt "evolutionary appeals all over the workmens district and extremist agitators are capitalizing unemployment' and tne threat cf more of it. Ohio Flooding Low Country above the O. Rising Columbus, flood stage,, the waters of the Ohio river at lomercy adn Marietta invaded the business districts of these two cities. A fourth of the residential district of Maiiet.a and half the bud ness scct'on was under several feet of water. The inhabitants of Pomeroy were kept to the hilly ground, where ihoir homes are located, as the water (limbed to the stores along the river front. AH business in Pomeroy was suspended and movable properly curried to high ground. Pomeroy homes probably will not be affected even flood stage has though the fifty-foo- t been passed and the prediction is far a crest of sixty feet. In Marietta, however, seven hundred families in the lowlands moved up to the second floor of their houses. Belief was expressed that the water would recede without forcing the adhandonment of ry homes in the low land st Sacasa Ready to Step Aside Puerto Cabezao Or. Juan B. Sacasa, heatl of the liberal government who is oust the Diaz conservative ready to step aside if a new president is chosen under conditions He outlines. In a statement to the Asks iated Press he said he would gladly elmquish claims to the presidency to any one afiiliated neither with the nor the liberals; and suitable to tin Nicaraguan people, chosen at an lionesL an supervised election, or to any one chosen through the of the United Slates, and the powers of tne Washington pact with the final approval of the neu Iral members of the present congress, or by a new honestly chosen c.coigiss. .it vvr-- ugi.ne. to is 1 mod-itrtin- sia-mt- ory Congress Will Pass Along Major Issues Washington Most of the major problems which faced the congress two years ago will be passed along to the seventieth congress which begins its first regular session next December. These include farm relief, disposition of Muscle Shoals, develop ment of the Colorado river, strengthening of the prohibition law, return of alien, railroad consolidation and ratification of the French debt. Radio and branch banking legislation still are in the balance, but those In charge of these nnasures hope to get thc-through before this congress expires by constitutional limitation at noon sixtj-nint- h on March 4. American Ships Lose in Freights Washington Ships flying the American flag received only about a thir of the freight revenue paid for the ocean transportation of cargoes in American foreign trndn, said an announcement by tb.3 shipping boaid. Thb total freight revenue paid cn the nation's foreign trade In 1225 is placed at $398,890,553, of which $198,721,331 or cbou-- t 3 per cent went to American ihips. During the same year American hi;-fc' engaged in the lnturronntal b mosi'e trulll. earned $84,248,998. 1 a vaa Salt Lake During the coming year the mills of Utah will grind 2,SuOT10i) bushels of wheat, half the state production, and in addition will grind 2,- 000.- 000 bushels from Idaho. Salt Lake The twentieth annual the Utah State convention Wool-grower- and the department of s' agri- culture's national forest grazing fee conftronce contest for honors on the . calendar for stockmen Monday of this-week- Leuding woolgrovvers and cattlemen from the western national forest and range states are here far fbo conference and Utah woolgrovvers are here for both events of the day. Both events aie scheduled for the Hotel Utah. Duchesne A meeting of the Duchesne county commissioners and citizens interested in road construction was held with the atate road commission Wednesday afieruoon to discuss the federal aid project from Duchesne to Dead Ox flat, a distance of ten miles, which will ba started in the near future at an estimated cost of $140,000. Salt Lake Motorists desiring to be accommodated In securing their 1927 license plates without the necessity of waiting their turn in a long line of applicants are advised by the motor vehicle department to the state to apply for the license before February 1. Application received up to Wednesday totaled 3918 passenger cars and 619 trucks, with the balance of approximately 92,000 cars yet to be registered. Salt Lake There were 522 real estate transaction in Sait Lake list year, representing a total value of $2,381,825, handled by members of the Salt Lake Real Estate board, according to figures couptlal by Weiner Kiepe, see-rotar- y. Vernal Residorts of the Ouray valJam section are reaping tiie annual ice harvest on Green livtr that streams having frozen to a thirk- ness of one loot at a point twenty-fivmiles south and west of Vernal. Ouray valley has reported the lowest temperature of any of Uintah countjs lower levels, the mercury having dropped to 22 degrees below on three nights. Tams drawing heavy loads are crossing the' Green river regularly the past ley dry e two weeks. Logan Blustery weather was experienced here last night and this morning, with approximately threo inches of snow, about half of which has melted. There v.ore indications of heavier snow on the mountain watershed, the barometer was slightly lower. Salt Lake A survey of apple trees Uiah will ba made thi3 summer to ietermine the total number, as well us the number of specified age and variety, according to announcement on Thrrsday of M. R. Cooper of the federal division of farm management cf the department of agriculture. Mr. Cooper spent the day in conference with Frank Andrews, local statistician for the depaitraent. ;n Price Boy scouts of Carbon county will be given an cppoitunity to make money during the coming summer in the sugar beet fields if plans now under way are sucesfully carried oui. With an anticipated acreage the coming yerr of 12,0u0 ceres of beets, it will be possible for the Seoul s to earn approximately $10.0o0, all toid, by taxing over the contracts for thinning the beets, it is Raid. Ve. nal Veinal and Ashley valley, since the evening of January 11, have been afflicted with nightly vlsHdtions of fog, steadily growing in density until on Saturday night it was so thick as to obscure objects less than a half block distant. Old timers state that (lie f g was the densest noted here in more than twenty years. Freezing temperature is the rule and every treu ar.d shrub tn the valley is coated with crystal ilt corations. Milford A delegation from Beaver county met with the state road commission Tuesday afternoon for discussion of the legislative bill proposing road construction for the year and the ' designation of road locations. The Beaver dclgeation is desirous of having the Milfoid via Newhou.se to the Nevada state line at Garrison route improved in lieu of the proposed Millard county road west from Delta to. the state line. West Jordan Fifteen thousand layraised by ten poultry-nuof .Geiinrtntovvn' an area located between the Jordan river ai.d the Seventeenth South street and California avenue. This district, it is re- tuns will ing be n - ported, is developing with rapid as a poultry center. Most of the poultrymeu are specializing on egg production, and have flocks of white leghorns. Most f the poultry man have farms, upon which they grow tits greater part cf their thicken feed. strid'-- s Salt Lake- - -- For the first eleven dnjs the month of January the preeipiti-tio- n was better than a half inch above aoiucl, ftcord ng to reports made id, kite lo.al weather bureau. Wednesday there v, rm a precipitation of .35 of an reh. so Font with lira precipitation of .Go for the day beRra the total for the Enow-6f3rtwo-dawas 1.03 inches. ;ti!s brings tho total for the month to 1.03, whlih la better than the noiniul piec pit.itirn tor tho first third of the month. While much of tha snow ban melted, en inch and one half depth vu measured by the weathor ohsurvera. of y |