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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH DEPUTY WOULD ! DM1 HIES News Notes Its a Privilege to Live in J Utah I OF COAUTHORS RESOLUTION SEEKING ABOLUTION OF WAR-SHIP- S GIVES HIS VIEW . Salt Lake Flying low to keep beneath the heavy bank of clouds that clung to the western horizon, the huge multimotored Fokker monoplane, sister-sh- ip of the Josephine Ford, winged inJapanese Admiral Expresses Optimism to the Salt Lake airport Sunday afterOn the Proposed noon at 6 o'clock. Accompanying the Conference ship, which is a replica of the famous craft that took Commander Richard E. d Byrd over the north pole, was the Paris Naval dlarraainent may well United States mail plane. be. accomplished apart from general planes from Woodward field disarmament in the opinion of Jean le met the Fokker on the edge of Cour Grandmaison, coauthor In the and accompanied It to the landing chamber of deputies of a resolution field. seeking the abolition of battleships and Salt Lake Opinions of Utah beebattle cruisers by International agreein Salt Lake Thursday of last ment. Mr. Grandmaison said the plan keepers week honey marketing probtalking of M. Paul Boncour, French representlems is that the outlook is good for; ative at the preparatory disarmament the 1927 honey flow. Bees in practiccommission, to make naval disarmaall sections of the state have win-- ' ment part of a general scheme to limit ally well and spring nursing of weak tered armaments, was seductive, but that colonics has been at a minimum. This the problem was to vast and complex means tbe bees will be able to take for the preparatory delegates to risk full advantage of the spring nectar "drowning themselves in generalities flow. at the risk of bringing to birth unpleasant scepticism and confirming the Provo It Is evident, says Dr. WilImpression that tt will be impossible of liam Stuart, potato specialist with success., of agriculture, that It would be better to realize a parrun of farmers who grow potial acord under the resolution intro- tatoes in the United States do not duced by him and his colleagues callmake efficient use of the available ing for the limitation of naval arma- knowledge on increasing per acre proments, than to depend on an all in- duction. Last fall a firm of California clusive conference, M. Grandmaison potato growers harvested an average-othinks. 1000 bushels from nine acres. The rest of the Country harvested approxiL, A. Welcomes Italian Flier 113 bushels to the acre. FarmLos Angeles Commander Frances- mately ers of Great Britain have been proco de Pinedo, Italian aviator, whose ducing an average of 200 bushels per flight was interrupted acre for a number of years, cites Dr.. last Thursday when his plane burst Stuart. . into flames at Roosevelt dam, Arizona, was given a rousing reception upon Ogden The route to Fish lake from his arrival here from San Diego. De Salina will be shortened thirty miles, sixteen-milPinedo, accompanied by his two flight by the construction of a companions, came by motor and was dirt road between Gooseberry and met' at the outskirts of the city by d Fish lake, it is shown by forest servdelegation of representative members ice officials who gave evidence to S. of the Italian colony. The visitors were M. Jorgenson, speaker of the house of escorted to the city hall, where' they representatives of the last legislature-anJ. M. V. Crandall. were officially welcomed by Mayor George E. Cryer. A crowd of approxiLogan Production for March In the mately 10,000 persons, mostly Italians, third annual intermountain greeted the air heros arrival with the contest, sponsored at Logan by fascist! salute and then stood with Agricultural college, was 20.1 bared beads In a drizzling rain while eggs for each bird, an average produca military band played the American tion of 64.8 per cent, it is reported by and Italian national anthems. Professor Byron Alder, station poul- tryman, In charge of the contest The Death Threat Sent U. S. Officials pen entry of - the Imperial Poultry Washington High officials, diploFarm, Manti, continues to hold first matic and consular officers of the Uniplace In the contest with a record of ted States have received death threats 852 eggs. The pen of the Sween Poulin a world wide plot of terror planned try Farm, Redmond, Wash., placed to halt the execution of Sacco and first for March with a record of 232 Vanzetti, it was learned here. Symeggs. pathizers of the two radicals, who are Spanish Fork By placing first In under sentence to die In the electric chair for murder in Massachusetts, high school students livestock Judghare already launched their drive ing at the recent Intermountain Stock through which they hope to intimidate show, the Spanish Fork team has a officials Into commuting the sentences free trip to the American Royal Liveto life imprisonment. Ambassadors, stock exposition at Kansas City half ministers and consuls In almost every won. The high school judging coaches country where there are radical groups In conference with L. R. Humphries, state supervisor of vocational decided have received letters either threatenthat the winner in students Judging at or lives unless their harm bodily ing the Salt Lake show and the Utah state they intercede for the two condemned mea, tt was learned. Many high of- fair this year would be sent to Kansas ficials in Washington have also re- City. ceived anonymous letters either threatBeaver Measurements of snow at . ening or appealing to them. the five United States weather bureau snow stakes on the Beaver river watSupreme Court Record Expected .. ershed recorded on the last day of Washington When the supreme March Indicate an ample ' supply of court meets after a recess of three water for irrigation purposes for the weeks, It is likely to make a new recWhile the depth of snow at the year. ord In the number of cases beard and different stakes does not greatly exdisposed of. Heretofore the coart was cell the depth recorded for the same working at top speed when case 300. day of March, 1926, the water content, was reached for argument. This term is considerably greater than It was a it Is believed that case 378 will be takyear ago, the snow being more comen up and, should that be disposed of, pact the court may make the astounding Denver Total sheep receipts from record of reaching case 500, as only eighteen cases between that and 378 Utah to the Denver livestock market have not been disposed of. Not long for the first three months of 1927 toago It took three years for a case to taled 76,787 head, compared with come up In its regular (urn for oral head during the same period ot argument. Within the last few years 1926, it Is reported by L. M. Pexton that time has been reduced to approx- traffic manager of the Denver union imately a year and a half. Now tbe stockyards. From Idaho were 29,855. court has brought Us work to nearly head for the first three months of 1927, up to date that every case' it finds on against but 1768 head for 1926. Montana had 6033 head on the Denver marthe dockets when it meets next will be reached tor argument be- ket during the first three months of fore the term ends in June, 1928. 1927, and none in 1926. east-boun- Three-privat- the-lak- e the-gener- f . four-contine- e d xozr w&sc&m&CKATiD rz&zzrj OZX2T Q r TJjC itUV&LZS AO-JVU- Z& TgAzvsS SCOTT WATSON VALLEY t What visions of those words conjure up In the of one who knows anything this fumous spot in southern California visions of an Inferno of heat and thirst, a narrow vulley shut In between black-wallemountains and lying below sea level, the lowest point on the American continent; visions of a white plain across which the heat waves shimmer and dance, of mirages of cool lakes which appear before the eyes of. dying men to mock their thirst, then vanish, of a desolate, barren land, whose terrific heat literally dries up mens blood In their veins and drives them mad before they die; a plague spot to be shunned by all living creatures. Such was Death Valley of yesterday. Hut the Death Vulley of today Is different True, the heut and the thirst are still there, but It la no longer a place to be shunned by mun. Instead. It' Is now actually being opened to tourist sightseeing traffic and Is being advertised as a new playground!. And the InvItHtlon for tourists to visit Death Valley comes from no less a host than the United States national park service. The following announcement was recently made by Stephen T. Mather, director of the park service: A hotel for the accommodation of visitors ts Just now being completed on the very edge of the desert, a few miles from Ryan. A magnificent view of the valley with Its frame of Jagged mountains and fascinating colored cliffs may be obtained from the hotel. Arrangements have also been made for side trips to various points of Interest One of the most striking of these Is Dante's peak, where from an elevation of 0,000 feet the visitor may look Into Death Valley, which at this polut lies 800 feet below sea level. Travelers will be able to get on a train In Los Angeles about 0 p. m. and reach the hotel the next morning." The new playground has already been opened on Februnry 1, to be exact but If you expect to visit Death Valley this season you will have to do so before May 15, for on that date the last tonrlst must be out of the valley. Hereafter the season win open In the fall, but always Mny 15 will be the deadline," For Death Valley, pleasant as It Is In the winter, becomes an Inferno with the return of the summer sun and the temperature runs up as high as 140 degrees or more. As the familiar saying goes, "It Isn't the beat. Its the humidity," only In the case of Death Valley its the lack of humidity that kills The average humidity Is only .01 of 1 per cent. will tell you that If you souse a blanket In a tub of water and pull one end out dripping, tt will dry thoroughly while you are scrubbing the other half. Or dip your handkerchief In water and hold It np. It Is dry In a minutes time. Jump Into water fully clothed and you will be bone dry to the last thread In half an hour. Lay an egg on the sand and In ten minutes It will be baked hard. Alfalfa cut In field Is cured and ready for stacking in less than two hours. Yes, Its nOT In Death Valley! Death Valley got Its name during the Days of 49. In the spring of 1849 a party of emigrants 100 wagons strong set out from Galesburg, III., for the California gold fields. Late that summer the emigrant train reached Salt Lake City. Utah. There they were told that the regular mountain route to San Francisco would He beneath twenty feet of Sierra Nevada snow before they could teach the mountain passes. They were warned, too, of the awful fate that bad overtaken the s Donner party, most of which had perished of hunger when !t was caught in a bllsznrd near Donner lake In northern California. r.ut the gold seekers were Impatient to reach (teir gonl and. Joining with other argonauts, they t out under the guidance of John Hunt who By ELMO DEATH d Old-time- now-famou- contracted to take them over the old Spanish trail to Los Angeles through San Bernardino. Progress was slow and some of the emigrants became dissatisfied. Having heard of a short cut leading west that would 6ave 500 miles of their Journey, they decided, over Hunts protest, to nmke the venture. The result was that shortly ufterwanls they found themselves In whnt Is now Death Vulley, hemmed In by mountains through which there appeared to be no opening. . There the party split One group, 3(5 persons In all, young bachelors from Illinois who called themselves The Jay hawkers," pressed on toward the mountains to try to find a way out of the trap. Some of them died of starvation, some of thirst and others went mad and wandered away to their deaths In the vulley. In all, 13 of the 86 perished before they fought their way through to safety. In the meantime the rest of the party, men with families, had found a tiny stream nnd there they camped to rest But their food supplies began to run low. Their oxen began to die and their wagons to fall apart tn the blistering sun. So the lender, Asahel Bennett, sent two young fellows. Will Manley and John Rogers, forth to find a way out of this living hell. As they departed Mrs. Bennett gave Manley a double handful of rice half of all she had and silently pointed to the hunger-pinche- d faces of her children, lie understood her meaning. Upon the success of his and Rogers efforts depended the Uvea of all the emigrants. Then the party sat down to wait for the return of the two scout. A week passed two three and still Manley and Rogers did not return. At the end of the fourth week all except Asahel Bennetts wife had abandoned hope. "They will come back," she maintained steadfastly. But they did not aud the party resolved upon one last desperate attempt to esrapa. They began stripping the canvas cover from the prairie schooners and making pack saddle upon their emnclated oxen. And then Manley nnd Roger returned! They spoke but briefly of tbs day of horror spent In struggling from one waterliole to the next across the 250 miles of the Mojave desert; of the dead of the Jaylmwker party whom they had found along the trail. But they had found food and. most vital of all, they had found a way out of the valley. They guided the party on the long climb to the summit of the Panamlnt range which frown down upon the valley. As the emigrants reached the crest and looked back Into the trap from which they had escaped, Asahel Bennetts wife raised her arms In a gesture of furewell, Good by. Death Valley!" she cried. And so it was named. a , of Although this occurred three-quartecentury ago, echoes of this tragic event have been heard from time to time In recent year. As late as 1918 the two survivors of the party Col. John B. Colton of Galesburg, Dow Stephens of .San Jose, II1 and Calif. met once more to talk over their thrilling experience, but the last living link with the tragic past was snapped on February 12. 1921, when Stephens died In Oakland, Calif., at the years. Last November, howage of ninety-thre- e ever. the story of the Jnyhawkera was recalled dined and again when a crowd of merry-makedanced in celebration of the opening of a new 24,000-barrartesian well at Stovepipe Wells In Death Valley. It was on this spot that Manley nnd Rogers, the two scouts sent out by Asahel Bennett, on November 23, 1S49, first sighted the waterhote and members of the party sipped from the tiny depression, where now a great volume g of water gushes forth, the few draught which gave them the strength to struggle on. Scarcely less dramatic than the story of the naming of Death Valley la the story of how borax, which, forms the basis of an Industry that helped make this spot even more famous, was discovered there. In the year ISS0 Aaron Winters rs Jay-bawk- rs life-savin- ef lived with his wife, Rosie, In a frontier home In Ash Meadows, a tiny oasis east of Death Valley. To their home one day came a wandering prospector who told the Winters of the borax deposits In the state of Nevada and how a great fortune awaited anyone who could find more such deposits. Winters asked many questions, including the question of how a person could know borax If he discovered It. He was toldthat the best test was to pour certain chemicals over .the supposed be rax deposit and then to fire It. If tt were borax the chemicals would burn with a green flame. Winters had made many visits Into Death Valley, and after talking to the prospector was convinced that there was borax there. So he set ont Immediately, accompanied by his wife, and soon afterwards encamped on Furnace creek. In the marsh (which appears on Furnace creek In the spring) he gathered the most likely-lookin- g deposit. That night he made the test as the prospector had told him. There was a breathless moment of suspense and then Aaron Winters cried Rosie, she burns green 1 Were rich ! The borax Industry of Death Valley had come Into existence. The next problem was how to get the rich borax deposits out of the valley. Out of necessity came the famous team wagons which are Inseparably associated with the name of Death Valley. For years this unique transport system brought the borax wealth out of Death Valley. Then the modern tractor wrote ftnfs" on another chapter of American transportation one whose like the world hns never seen elsewhere. That was written last year and It marked the passing of another era In the history of Death Valley. But borax Is not the only wealth which It contains Gold was discovered there many years ago and tt has been a favorite haunt for the prospector, the lure of Its wealth being all the more attractive because of the dangers which guard It Remember the picturesque Death Valley" Scotty, whose find" there made him rich and who gained nation-wid- e notoriety by the freedom with wljch he "blew" his wealth? Even more picturesque was another prospector who became known as the "Good Samaritan of Death Valley." Lou Westcott Beck wa one of the great .number who rushed to Death 5 allay. at the new of Scottys find. He nearly lost his life on Its barren wastes and when be finally escaped he resolved to devote his life to saving others from the fate which be had so narrowly escaped la that dread region. . Each summer Beck made a trip. Into the valley of purple mist and great thirst, piling up rocks and placing signs on them to guide prospector to wnterholes, searching for lost travelers and guiding them to safety. For 13 year he did this work and during that time he and his companion, a Newfoundland dog named Rufus," saved the Uvea of between three and four hundred travelers In the great American deserts the Colorado am! the Mojave as well as Death Vulley. Then In 1917 Death Valley got him" at last. During one of his trips he came to a spring which he had always used and drank from It He offered some water to Rufus, but the dg refused to drink. The spring had become Infected. After a terrible trip to hi home In Pasadena, where Mrs. Beck awaited their return, the Good Samaritan" went to bed ill and never rose again. The work which Beck Inaugurated has been carried on by the United States geological survey until Death Valley Is now supplied with enough sign posts so that It is safe enough to travel for anyone who will vae ordinary common sense and not take foolish chance. Those who do not aoon learn the truth of the prophetic warning of that you cant fool with the desert now If you d she'll get-y- ou every time."-An- d the latest announcement of the- - United States park service means that even those who fool with her" have better than an even chance te escape the dangers of this lead of thirst' 20-mu- old-tim- e old-tlme- egg-layin- g the-Uta- 29,-44- 0 Oc-obe- r Seven Injured In Fascist Riot Paterson, N. J. Red and Black tbe scarves of antifascist! and the somber black shirts of fascist! clashed in the streets his afternoon to shed blood In one of the most exenstve foreign political battles in American history. After the police, twice beaten back by the fury of the antis attack to drive the fascist! from their midst, had restored order, one Mussolini man bad been stabbed severely and six others injured. Paterson, American capital of anarchism, was beipg patrolled by every available policeman to prevent another bloody battle over politics. Police expected trouble. The Fasclo Roma, Paterson Post, has invited the black shirts of New York and Newark to join them Fliers Challenge Nonstop Record New York Clarence Chamberlain and Bert La Costa plan to hop from Curtiss field at Mtneola In an attempt to break the bonstop, nonrefeul record. The test la to determine If the Beltanes monoplane which they will Qse Is capable of making the long hop from New York to Paris. They will over New Attempt to remain in the York for fifty hours or longer. When they hop off they will carry with them four quarts of soup, two quarts of cot fee, one mattress, two parachutes, two life preservers and 390 gallons of gaa af Nephi Nephis first annual Rabbit. Poultry and Sheep show was held Saturday, and Included animals that would receive a high rating at any livestock show in the state. Among the exhibits were Rambouillet sheep that originally came from the John S. Seeley & Sons herd at Mt. Pleasant, and Lincoln sheep shipped from Canada. According to Professor Alma Esplin, of the Utah Agricultural college, who judged the sheep, they are of excellent type. Roosevelt Supposedly originating from the stove, a fire completely destroyed the Cedar View Mercantile company and an adjoining home, both the property of R. AJhjjrqU.-- - Tfrvr" store building wajeehiedat ffiOOO and was Insurance on the building, fixtures, furniture and stock was 350,000. wett-stoc- ed. ( Richmond Black and White day, April 29, will be a big day for the dairy Industry of Cache valley. The program for the day is as follows: Cattle on grounds at 9:S0 a. m.; lunch, 12:20 to 1:00 p. m.; meeting 1:00 to 1:30 p. m., at which Secretary of State H. I . Crockett will be the principal speaker ladles' milking contest at 2:00 p. m.. studonts judging contest at 1:30 p.m.; horse pulling match, 3:00 p. m.; banquet at North Cache high school, 8: is t- m.; dance at opera house at 9:50 P- - m. Music for the day will be givea by the Utah Agricultural college band |