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Show f IooBmcPdbHc H?enawow Celebrated 'Moon Hoax a Sensation Here and Abroad. ! The Cardiff Giant Took in Credulous Public number of temblor victims on mediterranean islands BELIEVED GREAT and Much Cash. NewoNoteoi Privilege to Lho Utah In i! Balt Lake Formal recommendation that tha road, a distance of forty-fivmiles, be lnclud-eIn the 7 per cent federal aid system 8y PROEHL HALLER JAKLON the T. of dollars P. curious. of the highways was made by the state AN gets a big kick out of Barnum tried to buy It. but a local Earthquake Shakea Arkhangelo, An road commission Thursday at a meethis fellows. There fooling Arnimea, Apolakki, and Mono ing attended by all three members of syndicate already had obtained conseems to be something litbo; More Than 2000 Homes and his was trol, offer the commission, Ira R. Browning, chle? rejected. delicious In baiting a trap Are Destroyed This new company,, one of whom engineer of the commission, and B. Jj seeing someone bite. The Is said to have been the original Finch, district engineer of the federal Stone age and the age before It from which the character of David bureau of publio roads. It Is underprobably had Its practical Jokers, Romo- A great earthquake has do stood that Mr. Finch will concur in tha Ilaruin was drawn, paid $30,000 and all history Is full of Jokes and for a Interest. The troyed more than 2000 houses on tha recommendation. hoaxes, perpetrated to the delight success Island of Rhodes, In the Aegean sea. of the exhibition led Barof some and to the embarrassment Myton Sumslon & Clyde, contracnum to have enrved a similar The villages of Arkhangelo, Arnlma, of others. tors, who are building the which was likewise exhibited figure Apolakkia and Monolitho suffered Sometimes the fooling Is for gain, unit of the federal aid road, as the Cardiff giant." The owners most severely from tha continued sometime for fun, and often for have located their camps near Myton of the original sought to obtain shocks. both. Individuals Indulge In It, and and have a force of men and trucks at a restraining order against the .Athens. A disastrous earthquake oJ work even nations have been known to grading the roadbed through that Barnum counterfeit, but it was re- unprecedented violence is to town. reported attempt a hoax on other natlona. fused. Both giants, therefore, conhave occurred at midnight on the isWitness the wooden horse of the tinued to draw the crowds. Salt Lake Decision to continue enland of Crete. The shocks were folGreeks and the tulip craze of the forcement of the Utah plant and Insect lowed loud the had Now, landby assumption always rumblings, with Sixteenth century, when all Holbeen that the discovery of the slides and the collapse of houses, quarantine, despite the fact that tha land set cut to make the world supreme court of the United States refigure had been .accidental, but causing many fires. rave the tulip, which. It was were there The center who doubted those cently held that the law of a norththis of the disturbance was lenrned, would thrive on certain version. Residents of the county at Candia, important coast city, where western state similar to that of Utah types of Dutch soil useless for In which the well diggers worked the entire population was thrown into was unconstitutional, was reached at anything else. Soon all the world to a a about recall that began panic. Similar experiences are re- the quarterly meeting of the state year wanted this new flower, and bulbs A Scene on the Moon." in Connection With the New York Sun's Published before the a from Kanea, on the other end board of agriculture, which was Just aiold for as discovery mysterious ported high as $3,000 apiece. Celebrated Hoax of 1835. team was observed of the Island, and from many of tha adjourned. The Dutch growers waxed rich, and then the fad waned, drawing a wagon which carried smaller towns and villages In Crete. Ogden All previous records In the membrane, without hair, lying snugly upon their leaving purchasers all a. huge box. It was headed In the over the world with The number of victims is believed handling of acks, (yom the no of to calves their shoulders the top expensive bulbs but sheep were broken thl direction of their legs. of Cardiff. to be great. Accurate information Is month at the market. Centuries later Americans were to fall Ogden union stock yards. The Professor face, which Marsh exwas of a yellowish of Yale, a paleontologist, for ginseng, alfalfa, mushrooms, and silver foxes. still lacking. were more than 120,000, conv a Receipts of amined the figure and asserted that It was clear- Improvement upon that the orangIts a great game. It is believed the earthquake extend- pared with 39,000 for June of 1925. n, being more open and In Its expres-o, Intelligent of recent ly origin and a most decided humbug. ed over a large area. Tha Athens oband having a much greater expanse of fore-.a. Perbaps the most celebrated honx In history a Salt Then, Lake Maintenance of of lawyer Fort was the moon hoax, conceived the highwas Iowa, mouth, Dodge, seeing however, very prominent, servatory states that the center of tha by Richard Adams figure at Syracuse, wrote back home: I believe thUilowerBomewhat relieved by a thick beard upon g Locke, a newspaper reporter, and was between the Cyclades ways in the state cost $63,503.88 earthquake by Jaw, and by lips far more human than perpetrated It Is made out of June, according to the monthly the those block of the New York Sun In 18.15. Its success depended great gypsum islands and Crete, probably originatth ape. . . . These creatures were fellows got at Fort Dodge a statement of the disbursement of road upon mkns Interest In astronomical phenomena, ently in conversation; their gesticulations, year ago and sent ing in the Sandorinl volcano. ore particularly back east." funds Issued by John E. Holden, state the of varied hands action that Insatiable curiosity to know what lies bethe Other shocks are reported from tha u arms, appeared Impassioned and emphatic. We The report also shows that Gradually the story came to light. In the sumauditor; yond the veil of space which surrounds the earth. Ionin islands in western Greece. m,Ce ljerreI that .hey were rational beings, and, mer of 18(58, two men arrived at Fort Dodge, $7415.96 was spent for administration Science today Is convinced that the moon has ough not so high an order as others which we Latest Indicate tha that reports and attempted to make a bargain for a block aiscovercd the next month on the shores of the no life upon It, but a shocks which rocked the Island came and $12,370.12 for equipment during century ngo, before the y of the month. Total amount spent on are at that gypsum anhows, 12 of 4 least produc-2 they of capable by day feet, explaining by in powerful telescopes, the public knew little works of art and contrivance. . . . We entirely without warning, and lasted roads that they wished to exhibit it in New York. They for of the heavens beyond what It could see with Jhe sc entlflcally denominated during the month was $205,730.-3them as vespeEtillo-omfully five minutes. leased some land and hired a quarryman to get The largest disbursement in any or manbat; and they are doubtless Innocent naked eye after dark. Speculation was always The famous archaelogical museum and happy creatures." out a block of the required size. Its owners keen as to whether or was in Tooele, where existed on the at Candia was destroyed. The quake one county announced It was spent. Five of the counties that to moon. was be to New York, was felt all over Greece and the shipped The Astronomers Get Careless Today we wonder the same thing about but freight office records showed that It was had no disbursements. the planet Mars. islands. Aa late dispatch states The next Installment, totalling 11,000 words, billed to Chicago. that serious damage was done at was printed on the three Myton Sunday was the warmest Moon Hoax Fools Two Continents days. In It Here a German stone cutter carved the gigantic Rhodes. so far this year, according to the was revealed the discovery succeeding day of the great Temple And so the New York Sun chose a very fertile from figure the block. Great care was taken to record of the kept at the government station Moon, built of field In 1835, when It began the polished sapphire, with a give It an ancient appearance. From Chicago the publication of in Mytdn. The thermometer registerroof of some yellow metal, supported by columns Supply Bill In House Brings Battle Lockes fantastic imaginings with all the seriousfinished statute was shipped by an Indirect route ed 95. The highest during the month seventy feet high and six feet In diameter. In ness of a great scientific to Union, N. Y. Here the discovery. For a time mysterious of June, 1925, was 92. The highest the valley of the temple a new species of man-bin one of team appeared, and the giant, encased In an the credulous public of two continents, and even Washington. Indulging ever recorded in Myton at the station was discovered. Then one night, when the the scientists, were completely deceived. This stubox, began his wandering In search of a Its favorite pastimes of the present was 100 on July 15 of last year. astronomers finished left work, the house session, they carelessly Monday participat pendous feat brought the Sun Uk largest circulalikely grave. the telescope ed in a round of prohibition debate. facing the eastern horizon. The tion In the world, und In the opinion of Edgar AlSalt Lake Due to dry and unusualThis Hoax Paid Big Divider. Js rising sun burned a hole through the reflecting Consideration of the second deficiency ly warm weather during the past week lan Roe established the penny as on newspaper chamber, and ruined part of the telescope. When One of the men was George Hull, a relative supply bill, which among other items thorughout the state, irrigation water institution. the damage was repaired the moon was Invisible, of William Newell, the farmer on whose property carries $2,686,700 to supplement the is low and rain is badly needed, alLocke could write about almost Ills anything. and the great moon narrative came to an end. fund of general Information was huge, and he the giant was discovered, under the personal di$10,635,685 already provided for prothough most irrigated crops are still Ry this time New York was tnlklng of nothcould turn out prose or poetry, politics or hibition rection of enforcement Newell. Both the men fiscal doing well, according to the weekly during made thousands pathos, ing except these astounding discoveries; they of dollars out of their unique venture. anecdotes or astronomy. In 1834 Locke heard 1, served as the crop and weather report ot J. Cecil Alyear beginning July were the sensation of (he day. French and Engof an astronomical expedition to South Africa. Another hoax which goes on from generation vehicle for bringing up the subject. ter, in charge of the local office of the lish papers abroad translated or to generation Is one concerning the copied the Suns While Representatives Gorman, Re- weather bureau. A detailed statement Now, during July and August, 1835, things were original fabrication, and the sensation In Europe was equal a bit dull on the islund of Manhattan, und the log of Columbus. Despite the fact that the only publican, Illinois, and La Guardia of conditions is given. to that la this country. The Sun, founded newspapers were running short of material with only authentic New York, vigundoubtedly handwriting of Columbus, Progressive-Socialist- , two years before, saw Its circulation Increased Ogden In the midst of one of which to entertain and attract their readers. a Is In the possession of the letter, orously assailed the dry law and conto 10,3(50, periods Ogden has experiexceeding by more than 2,000 the cirLocke needed money, and so he laid a plan before king and queen of Spain, the original Columditions under it. Representative Up- enced in ten culation of the years, R. E. Gary, assishitherto Times, Mr. Day, the Suns editor. On the largbus log turns up every few years. In 1024, It shaw, Democrat, Georgia, urged his August 21, the foltant est In the world. turned up In Mexico. Strangely enough, It' was party to come out with a ringing office district forester, returned to his lowing Item appeared on the second page of the Tuesday, with the news that Run : Meanwhile, Sir John Ilerschel In South Africa written entirely in German pronouncement in support of the eight- eight inches of snow fell in the Challis was with his busy Celestial Discoveries The Edinburgh Courant telescope entirely unaware of The literary hoax seems to be the most popular eenth amendment in the 1928 presi- national forest of Idaho, June 18 and . the discoveries" credited to him. When he nt says: Ve have learned from an eminent dential campaign. form of fooling and almost the easiest of perpe19 and did much to decrease the fire of this city Sir John Herschel, at the Cape publisher last found out, he was overcome, saying that he of Good tration. A recent one fooled the literary editor Hope, has made some astronomical discoveries of hazard. never could expect to live up to the fame that of the New York Times, who conceded that while the most wonderful description by means of an Final Vote On Farm Bill Soon had been heaped upon him. Immense telescope of an entirely new principle." Salt Lake The sheep industry of The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion, 1764-6Of coupe, niany jpersons suspected the hoax, Idaho is in a more stable condition Then after four days the Sun published what had not any of the Importance that atWith the hope that than it has been Washington. but the detail of the story was so minute and for years, and will taches to such a monumental record as was left farm legislation can be purported to be a reprint from a supplement to ' disposed of lavish no one that dared the Edinburgh Journal of Science. behind by Pepys say anything. the author "did throw the this week, Republican leaders of the prove profitable for years to come, In Many There had of the rival papers were fooled along with the W. H. Gess of Home-dalbeen such a publication a few years before, but beams of her candle here and there on the feahouse and senate are preparing for the the opinion of The Journal of Commerce was on the who has been engaged in the inpublic. It was not generally known that It had tures of her times. Now the New York Times ceased adjournment 'of congress next Saturpoint of reprinting the Suns story in Justice Itself discovers that a nineteen-year-olIn three columns on page one the dustry for a number of years. publication. miss Is day. This program contemplates the to Its when Locke Sun carried the astonishing announcement readers, himself gave the the author of this successful hoax. of Price With a crew of more than postponement until the next, and short hoax away. "recent discoveries which will build an ImperishSome hoaxes go unchallenged until the author sessions, of the rivers and harbors 200 men, the construction work on the ro In words the of Allan able monument-Edgar the age In which we live. Poe; From the can refrain no longer from Informing the public bill, cal spur of the Denver & Rio legislation, the French debt new epoch of the hoax the Sun shone with unmitigated how he has fooled It. Such Is the history of the settlement and a number of mat- Grande Western railroad from Helper other They Describe the Telescope success Its splendor. firmly established the bathtub hoax, put over several years ago by ters of importance now on the calen- to Price is progressing rapidly, accordA technical description of the '"lpFany 8Jste,11 throughout the country and telescope followed Mencken, now the editor of the Amerinenry'L. dar. A final vote on the farm relief ing to the contractors In charge. and a hypothetical account told of the channels (through the Sun) we are Indebted to the genius can Mercury. Mencken wrote a short, Informal bill In the senate is looked for by Salt Lake Matters pertaining to tho of Locke for one of the most Important steps through which this remarkable nows had traveled yet account of the origin of the bath-tuIn AmeriTuesday, and, with that idea in view, distribution of water from the Price In the taken of from Cape Town. human Thus was laid the foundapathway progress." ca. The first tub, he said, was Installed In the house leaders are leaving Wednesday river were gone over thoroughly by tion of what was to follow. To queries as to home of a wealthy Cincinnatian. He traced the Cardiff Giant Hoax of 1869 open for action on whatever measure George M. Bhcon, state engineer, and where It had obtained Its supplement to the Edinrise of the tubs popularity, and declared that at the senate puts through. Administra- W. H. Wayman, water commissioner ' Today, with our rapid means of communication burgh Journal of Science, the Sun declared in an first physicians were violently opposed to its use tion leaders, are to press the on the river, during the state engin-eer- s and transportation, a hoax of such gigantic proeditorial that It was very politely furnished us on grounds of health. Several states were said to amendment to the house covisit south, It was announced upportions could not long endure the light of such by a medical gentleman immediately from Scothave passed laws against the Installation of the land. operative marketing bill, with the on his return. Mr. Bacon left Saturpublicity. On the contrary, the public seems all new sanitary equipment. too willing to stamp any unusual bit of news as No great excitement had been caused so hope that President Coolidges ap- day afternoon for Carbon county for far, but a mere newspaper yarn," thnt Is, If they do not the next day the town was Jolted by four columns proval of this farm relief plan can that purpose. Mencken Exposes Bathtub Hoax a to believe it. This for this as a substiwant of actual description of the landscape of swing er Salt Lake The gruond water investhe Only recently Mencken exposed his trick. No tute for majority Is a powerful factor with the human' moon. defeated the Sir Johns telescope was so In now being conducted in the he all commented. the one, since years powerful, tigation this mind. If It makes ycu feel better to believe the story asserted, that it brought objects to Milford vailed by Walter N. WTiite of bit of Imaginative history has been current, ques- measure. within a few feet of the observer. This Is what something, psychologists tell ns, you are likely tioned the facts he cited. Ills original story has the United States Geological survey to hold It so ; If it disturbs your peace of mind to In astronomers Town Germans Condemn Prohibition Laws are Cape the, been quoted all over the world, and Incorporated providing information which will to have seen: as true, you are likely to wave accept something In solemn treatises. of great value to those who inprove It aside as foolishness or heresy. "The trees for There are Eisenach, Germany The conference tend to develop the agricultural posperiod of ten minutes were of One of the most celebrated literary hoaxes was one unvaried kind, and unlike any In America who refuse to subtoday persons except the lamthat of the Scotch school teacher Macpherson, of German physicians meeting here, sibilities of the region, according to est class of yew In English churchyards scribe to the theory that the earth Is round. They which Included, as well, prominent H. were followed by a level green plain which They who, having learned a little old Stabler, chief of the conservation like to think of It as flat, and flat It Is to them. have been more than half a mile In breadth." must and temperence advocates, adopted a reso- - j branch of the survey," and RalT r! forth his Poems literature, language brought Whats the difference? of Ossian." It aroused the world, and has been lution Saturday against all forms of Woolley, local hydraulic A column farther on. In a wonderful engineer of of A famous hoax of ISCSI was that of the Carvalley cited as one of the causes of the Romantic moveprohibition laws, declaring, that legal the survey, who returned this wonderful moon, life at last burst recently upon Well the diff near diggers giant. N. Cardiff, on personal freedom from a Y., ment in literature that swept Europe In the late restrictions scene : trip of inspection of the work one morning came upon the stone figure of a man would lead to race demoralization. being done by Mr. White. Eighteenth century. "In the shade of the woods on the southeastern ten feet tall, with shoulders three feet In breadth. There Is the eloquent hoax known as Patrick The conference almost unanimously side we beheld continuous herds of brown Quad arm and Salt Lake City Until 8 oclock Sathand The right lay across the body! rupeds, having all the external characteristics of Henrys Give me liberty or give me death" voted in favor of an educational camt the bison, but smaller tian any species' of the boa while the left was pressed against the back dl! carloads of urday speech, thought to have been delivered by the paign against intemperance by prop- cherriesnight, genus In our natural history been had It had on opposite. The legs were slightly contracted out of the rectly shipped in 1775 orator St. la at the schools, the promotion Johns church near aganda great distinctive feature, which we afterward found comstate so far this season by express, as If by pain, the left foot resting partially upon mon to nearly every lunar of and written Va., the but Richmond, of his treatthe sports really by curbing biogquadruped we have to Information received by the right discovered; namely, a remarkable rapher, William Wirt, years after Henry died. ing habit The physicians expressed according appendage over the eyes, crossing the wholefleshy Paul chairman of the agriculran as rife to Kelly, breadth of tha the origin of the Speculation And all of us know that beloved fake known the belief that the Swedish system of forehead and united ?o the ears. It Immediately oc tural of the chamber of committee some of and the visitors were as hatchet the Washington and cherry tree story government control of the sale of ligiant curred to the acute mind of Dr. Herschel that this quick to commerce. Until the corresponding its value as an exhibit. Before long was a protective covering for the eyes recognize invented first was most by entirely Washington's the quor in tne biographer, tha noteworthy great extremes of light and darkness toagainst the farmer on whose land the figure was found Parson" Mason Weems. Lengthy explorations' world, but asserted that even It was date last year, twenty straight carall the Inhabitants of our aide of the moon arewhich loads had lft Utah. a teut and set up nerioH. charge admission. The ordihave been made into the facts surrounding both wrong In principle. lcally subjected.' nary visitors were usually content with the bethe foregoing fictions, and the Inevitable conVernal. At a hearing before the Find Humans on the Moon lief that this was a petrified human being. Nothclusions have been In agreement with those given Flood Victims Toll Mounts utilities commission Wednesday public The issue of August 28 satisfied public ing in the world can ever make me believe that here. on matter of grantnig a franchise curiosity the a Mexico once not Burial was he of City. the several as to the presence of human creatures on living being," declared a Edgar Allan Toe once announced In a Baltithe to an auto freight line from woman who viewed the colossus. operate moon. a hundred of on The astronomers were looking at victims more the flood at Leon, certain day he would Why, you newspaper that the can see the veins In his legs." to Vernal Salt cIlfTs and crags of n new Lake City, a compromroof a the from of a make In in his of trip building the satellite: part Guanapuato state, trenches and Geologists, however, thought differently. One flying machine. Several factories without identification if necessary has ise was effected between the Sterling "Rut whilst gazing upon them we were thrill. declared it to be the work of the Jesuit fathers Transportation company allowed their workers time off to witness the been ordered with astonishment to perceive four successive and tho by the authorities as a smaller two or three hundred years before. flocks of birds descend with a slow, even and on the appointed day a vast crowd Another of tho trucking event, companies motion from the cliBs on the western side and precaution against epidemic. Difficult basin, whereby it was agreed between geologist emphasized the antiquity of the statue ' awaited in front of the building for the spectacle. UDon alight he plain . . . About half of the communication still makes It impos- the parties that the former called attention to the corroding or attriToe, seated in an upper window, sent down bulpay and had passed from our view, but of all first company the to obtain a nacurate estimate ol should others sible tion of of the under rart we had a perfectly distinct and surface of the body letins giving excuses for his delay. After several operate between Vernal and deliberate view the casualties, the latest figures rang- Salt Lake City over the by the solution, he declared, would have required they a erased four feet in height. wtre covered' hours he announced the flight was off because Strawberry except on the face, with short and glossy coDnerJ a long period of years. ing all the way from 100 to 1000. The route, and the latter companies would one of his had wet. Tradition got wings It has colored hair, and had wings composed of a In the meantime, the giant continued to draw maximum is given by El Universal's operate from Vernal to Price. thin that be escaped through an alley window. correspondent in the stricken zone. Duchesne-Castlegat- e e d - three-fourth- s Myton-An-telop- e four-hors- e -- Iron-boun- d . flesh-colo- r, n, 5' dur-in- S 0. o, 833,-911.- not-lif- Dod-ecan- four-hors- e at iron-boun- four-pag- d e ! 5, e, d six-mil- e i b Fess-Tinch- McNary-IIauge- Celtic-a-nd-Gae- n lic . fifty-eigh- lately-invente- d |