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Show I THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH W ' f I News Notes f O It a HELP FOR sick a Privilege to Live in Utah Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound Has Restored the Health of Thousands BOISE Assurance has been given Idaho onion growers and shippers that Senator Frank K. Gooding wtll make every ..effort to induce President Coo-lidgand the tariff commission to put an emergency tariff on onions, according to a telegram received here by the chamber ol commerce in response to a message sent him asking for. his cooperation. CEDAR CITY Road In southern Utah, and the improvement program being carried on, won the praise of E. C. Finney, assstant secretary of the Mr. Finney is returning to Interior. Washington. L. O.. trom Zion national la n park, where he visited his son-iand daughter, Supeiintendent and Mrs. E. T. Scoyen. near the BLACK FOOT Farmers Fiugal beet dump two miles northwest of Aherdcen, have formed the Fingal Potato Growers asociation. Officers ot the association are as follows: President. H L. Lowe: secretary. Ben niouds. Other members of the new Brooklyn, New York. Mrs. G. Hermann of 228 Schaeffer SL, was in a rundown condition and. could not do hen e Johnson; manager, A. E. are. Otto G. Risser; R. J and Dick Slaugh, Ben' C. Johnson. C. . housework. e McCav-organizatio- n Jackson AlcGhey, A. E. McClyomnds, H. L Lowe and L: H. Phillips. DUCHESNE Contractors A. G. Young & Co., who nave the' contract for building the road from Duchesne s to Dead Ox fiat, nine and miles, are making god progress, having completed the grading of about half the distance. The rock crusher will be in operation this week. The contractors are making every effort to finish the project before winter. SODA SPRINGS Members of the Caribou County Hampshire Sheep club are to have an exhibit u their sheep in Del Panting building. Soda Springs, The county . commit sinners recently. have shown that they are backing the club work by offering premiums for the five classes to be shown. 'The First, 3; prizes will be as fnllwos: second, 2; third. $1. Ribbons will be given to the fourth and fifth winners. HEBER CITY Openingof the upper Provo river highway extending be-- , tween Kamas and Mirror lake Wednesday was announced by E. (J. Shepherd. supervisor t the Wasatch forest. The work of completing the road, which was done eDtirelv.Jrom 'forest funds as a forest development project, has taken five years. The road was built to make accessible a great stand of timber. BOISE Noxious weeds are not confined to any one county- or section of Idaho, according to C. B Ahlson, Field Agronomist and State Seed Commissioner, of the University Extension who has been conducting Ser.viee, weed control demonstratipnsLhrough out the southern and eastern part of the state. The' four most persistent perennial weeds: Morning glory. Can ada thistle, white top or hoary cress and Russian knapweed - are present' in a majority of Southern Idaho counties. The patches vary In size from a square rod to a considerable acreage. merSALT LAKE chandise to the approximate value ot $325,000,000 was produced in 1926. and during the year Utah industrial workers received more than $50,000,000 tn wages. AMERICAN FALLS- - Plans for the dedication of the American Falls dam and reservoir, second largest artificial body of water !. America and completed at a cost of $3,000,000. have been completed, and will occupy the entire day on Septembei 28. TREMONTON "1 feel sure that the coming session of congress will pass an appropriation ot $350,000 for the construction of dykes necessary to make the Bear River bay one of the great bird preserves of the country. David H. Madsen, state fish and game comraisioner. said Wednesday on returning from a trip to the northwest, where he attended a national confer ence of fish and game commissioners of the eleven western states. BOISE) Bids will be received here September 80 for the construction of two concrete bridges, each twenty feet long, on the old Otegon trail highway north of Payette, the bureau of high ways announced. The estimated cost of the two bridges, which will span ir rigstion canals is $6000. PROVO Thotisandr of people from every section of the county visited the county fair. From early in the morn-inthe crowds began io arrive and continued throughout the day. Dur ing most of the afternoon the auto traffic to the fair lecame so great that University avenue south of the railroad crossing hec'-ma one-waroad BOISE Producers of variegated al falfa seed in the province of Ontario. Canada, will have a negligible quantity of seed for export this year, John S Welch, commissioner of agriculture announced from advices furnished him during his recent trip to Minneapolis. met the Jewish official, Isaac Abravanel, who, It the first steps toward financing the first expedition. The fact that Columbus first public appearance was In Portugal, that he mar-rled a Portuguese woman, Felope Monlz de the daughter of an explorer, and that he lived in that country also are regarded as strengthening Portugal's claim. Of all the countries, however, Spain seems to be most desirous of establishing proof of the fact that the man known as Christopher Columbus was Cristobal Colon, a native of Galicia in the northone Madrid newspaper west part of Spain. has offered a prize of 50,000 pesetas ($7,500) for anyone who can bring forward Indisputable proof. Although the Spanish Academy of History is not yet satisfied that the attempts made thus far are . satisfactory, the Spanish populace still hopes that It can be done, because it would enhance the prestige of their country If it can be shown that it discovered,' conquered and civilized the greater part of the American continent. The first attempt, made was by the Spanish historian Don Celso Garcia de la Riega in his based upon docubook, Columbus, a Spaniard, ments found In the peninsula of Pontrevedra in Galicia, dealing with land transfers, money payments, etc., from 142S to 152S which indicate. that the family of Colon or Columbus was well known there and that Cristobal Colon was born there. Although the Spanish Academy is not yet convinced that Don de la Riega made out a complete case, there Is strong evidence that he Is on the right track. Among these are the fact that Columbus was never known to speak Italian, that no paper remains on which he wrote In Italian; his autographs clearly show that his handwrititg had the Spanishand not the Italian outlines of those days; his records are in Castilian, with now and then a colloquial Galician word ; all of the maps he used had nothing but Spanish words and signs; he named his son Diego, which Is not an Italian name; and perhaps most significant of all Is the fact that In naming the places of his discovery he used Spanish names and not a single Italian name. The little town of San Salvador on the peninsula of Pontevedra claims to be his birthplace and proudly shows the house where he was born, and it Is Interesting to note that Columbus named the spot on which he first landed In the New world San Satyador. More than that, Spain has a perfectly good explanation to offset the claims of Genoa. Italy, to being the birthplace of Columbus. While admitting that he may have lived, In Genoa and changed his name from Colon (the name which Columbus himself always signed in his letters and documents) to Columbus, there was a good reason for his having done so. That reason Is concerned with his Jewish descent. Fearing that if that fact became known in Spain, where great Intolerance toward his race still prevailed, his chances of getting help for his projected voyage would be lessened. he deliberately tried to convince the rulers of Spain that he was an Italian and took .the Italian name of Columbus to aid In the deception. So out of all this contradictory evidence there emerges the uncertainty as to his nationality. Everything considered, the Spanish theory sounds most plnuslhle and the combined Spanish and Portuguese elements seem to offset the Italinn. The province of his birthplace is near the border line of Portugal, which would explain his marriage to a Portuguese girl even though a native of Galicia, Spain. His Jewish ancestry would make possible a close connection with both Portuguese and Spanish Jews. As to Columbus last resting place there are two places that lay claim to that honor Santo Domingo, Haiti, and Seville, Spain, Columbus died in Valladolid. Spain, May 20. 1500. and was buried in a monastery near Seville. In 1530 his remains and those of his son were removed to Santo Domingo and buried in the cathedral there. When Haiti was ceded to France In 1790 the bodies were removed to Havana, Cuba, and at the close of the war were taken back to Spain and placed in the magnificent tomb in the cathedral at Seville so familiar to tourists. At least the latter Is the commonly accepted belief. However, in 1SS7 workmen repairing the cathedral at Santo IVmiingo unearthed a leaden casket bearing an inscription which rend Illustrious and Noble Man, Christopher Columbus. Inside this was a smaller casket bearing a similar inscription, in which it was satd the remains had first been buried in Spain. It is believed that some body, other than tTiat of Columbus, had been removed from Santo Domingo to Havana in 1790, and then to Seville a century later. So it Is possible that Columbus still .sleeps ir the lnnd which he discovered." Is said, took . Pere-strell- t ffn? cAzzAxZ,s o. t cozxrzBuis By ELMO SCOTT WATSON A S OCTOBER 12, Columbus day, comes around aguin to remind us of that r hold navigator who Is universally' -credited with discovering the New world. It brings to mind once I Aniore also the Innumerable questions about the life of Columbus which still arise after these 435 years and which have never yet been satisfactorily answered. It would seem that four centuries of Investigation should have cleared up any mystery about him, but the fact remains Jhat. hlstorlnns are not yet ready to agree upon at least three Important facts connected with his career and almost every year sees some new theory advanced about one or more of the three. The three questions which are. yet unsolved are the following: Was Columbus the real discoverer of the New world? What was his paternity and nationality? Where Is the last resting place of Ids bones? For many years the best historical scholarship f the times credited Columbus with being the first European to reach the shores of America. Then later Investigations brought forth other claimants and some of these are backed by what appears to be conclusive proof that more than one man looked upon the New world In the dawn of modern history and have a right to the title of "discoverer which antedates that of Columbus. Does It belong to some Norse sea rover who pushed out from Iceland about the year 1000 and reached the shores of Vinland? Was It some member of an expedition from Brittany which reached the const of what Is now the United States some time In the Fourteenth century? Or was It some of the peoples living In Northern Africa who crossed over to the western continent at an even earlier date and In what Is now South and Central America gave rise to the Aztec and Maya civilizations which still ere a puzzle to the scholars? Even In Columbus day there may have been some who felt the urge to sail on, sail on, until they reached the new land long before Columbus did. There is the story of some unknown sea captain, either a Spaniard or Portuguese, who discovered the West Indies before 1433 and of still another unknown, who eight years later, sailed from Cnpe Verde to South America. Then there Is the theory recently advanced by Marius Andre, the distinguished French historian, that Columbus was successful in his historic voyage because he had the use of maps and other papers of an unknown captain who had reached fhe Antilles near the coast of Centrnl America, but who was shipwrecked on the return voyage. He was picked up by a Spanish ship on which Columbus was serving in some minor capacity and was cared f r on his death bed by the young Columbus, who, .nknown to bis captain, took possession of the vipers of the dead man and from them got the inspiration for his expedition. 'n its main details this story Jibes with the -- .vomit of a voyage of one Alfonso Sanwhez, a 'fertuguese, who sailed from Lisbon in 11S0 for L' west coast of Africa, stopped at the Canary pjy Th . islands and there heard of a new land fur to the west. So he set out for this land and Is said to have landed on an Island which he called San Salvador on August 0, 14SC. In a battle with the natives Sanchez and several of his followers were slain, but the others made their way back to the Madeira islands where Columbus became acquaint-- , ed with one of them. This man, realizing that death was near, gave the log of Sanchez ship to Columbus, who made use of it on his voyage. Even more bafTling than the question of Columbus right to the title of discoverer is the question of his paternity and qationality. No less than five nations have claimed him and three of them, Italy, Spain and Portugal, apparently have a good right to do so. The fourth, England, has only a shadowy claim, based upon a treatise written by Charles Mallay In 1CS2 in which he refers to n discontented native of this Isle, the famous Columbus, born In England, but resident In Genoa, and It may be dismissed as of little consequence. The fifth, France, has an equally shadowy claim based on the assertion that he was born In Cwsicaonce a French possession. Italys claim, agreed to by many historians and apparently accepted by popular belief, dt dares that he was born In Genoa, the son of Domenico Colombo, a cloth weaver, and Susanna Fontana- rossa, a Jewess, and Is based principally upon the wording of his will in which he wrote in two different places that he was horn In Genoa. Up to 25 years ago the accepted biographies of Columbus were based upon two works the "Life of Columbus, written In Spanish by his son. Ferdl-nand- o Colon, and the Critical History of the Enterprise of Christopher Columbus. by Henry Vlgnaud, for years counselor of the American embassy in Paris, based upon documents which gathered together over a. long period of years and which have recently come into possession of the University of Michigan. Both books place his birthplace at Genoa and the date between August 2G and October 31. 1451. Portugal recently came forward with her claim as the native land of Columbus through the Investigations of MaJ. Santos Ferreira who has announced that In the archives of that country he has discovered documents of an old Lisbon convent. contemporary with Columbus, which show e that the explorers real name was Salvasor Znrco and that he was the grandson of the famous Portuguese navigator of the same name, who discovered the Madeira Islands in the Atlantic off northern Africa. In furthering this claim Putrodnia Ribeiro, a member of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences, develops the theory of Columbus Jewish origin. Documents have been discovered which show that the money for Columbus expedition was advance by Spanish and Portuguese Tews to Queen Isabella, who had not pawned her jewels (as the familiar tradition has it), and that the Spanish name for Columbus, Cristobal Colon. was wot an uncommon one among the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of that time. It was also learned that Columbus had had personal relations with Joseph Veelnho, physician to King Joao of Portugal, and with various learned Jews of Lisbon. Vecinho gave him the astronomical tallies of Abraham Zaeuto and at Salamanca Columbus met the author ldmsclf. At Malaga he Vig-nnu- d Gon-calv- Spnnish-Amerioa- n o, . DONT INFLAMED LIDS It increases the Irritation EYE Uie MITCH KLL SALVE. simple, de safe remedy. peodable, 25e at all druggists. HaH A Rocket lew Tort Cite Deafness d Head Noises RELIEVED BY LEONARD EAR OIL Rub Back of Ears INSERT IN NOSTRILS M All Dniirgists. Prlre $1 . Voider about DEAFNESS on request K. .0. LEONARD, INC., 70 FIFTH AVB . N. T. For Barbed Wire Cuts Try Hanfords Balsam of Myrrh Money back for first bottle if not suited. All dealers. Books In 192S -- In spite of the economic upheaval, 12,799 books only 403 fewer than in 1925 were published last year, in th British Isles. 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