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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH GERlIiriST HIM : It BUDGET ! CONDEMNS AGENT GENERAL SYSTEM OF SUBVENTIONS AND LOANS TO STATES News Notes a Privilege to Live in Utah LOGAN Logan citys budget for this year was rearranged a public meeting held Friday by the commis0 sioners to provide an additional to be spent In the interests of light plant. Only one protest was filed at the meeting, which for the express purpose of hearing protests to the proposed action.. The commissioners passed the ordnl-anc- e creating the additional funds for the electric light plant because they considerer It necessary in the face of the cost of Installing meters and the supplemental engine plant. An Industry which GUNNISON promises to develop into large proportions in the Gunnison valley 13 the breeding of pedigreed rabbits. Six pens have been established in this region in the last few months and reports from breeders indicate success. Max EdIn following the venture. wards, son of J. W. Edwards, Is the largest breeder to date. He has about 150 hares. OGDEN Approximately 200 druggists from every section of Utah are expected here Wednesday morning, for the opening of the annual convention of the Utah Pharmaceutical association, according to E. E. Carr, president, and John Culley, secretary, of the association, who have thought to formulation of the program. SALT LAKE) Nearly 200 boys between the ages of 17 and 24 are expected to be in Salt Lake Friday for the opening of the annual C. M. T. C. at Fort Douglas. The camp is now practically set up, and everything will be in readiness to start off promptly Friday morning for a months work in the various branches of infantry activities, according to camp officers. SALINA Request that the state-roacommission again ask the forest service to make availavble the $10,-0tentatively allotted to the improvement of the road In Salina canyon was. made Saturday by Joseph E. Peterson, Sevier county commissioner, and H. E. Lewis, representing the Lions club of Salina and the Richfield Commercial club. The request was made at a conference with Henry H. Blood, chairman of the state road commis$105,-00- Not Lack of Revenue, Raising Expenditures That Threatens Trouble of Berlin Emphatic criticism of Germanys bugetary policies and a warning that the existing system of subventions, loans and financial relief to the German federated states without dne regard for their financial requirements, Is decidedly inimical to sound rehabilitation of German economy, are prominent features of Parker Gilbert, Jr.s report to the reparations commission covering the first nine months of the third annuity year expiring August 31. The report, which is more exhaustive than any previous accounting given by the agent general for reparations for an Interim period, states that the experts plan is proceeding normally In its execution. Payments and deliveries for the benefit of the creditor powers have gone forward regularly without interfering with the stability of German exchanges. Germany has paid approximately 984.000.- 000 gold marks of a total of 1.500.000.-000 prescribed In the plan for the period under discussion. .Three Drowned in Denver Flood Denver, Colo. Three persons were drowned and damage amounting to many thousands of dollars resulted Saturday night when cloudbursts in c was-hel- given-considerabl- this section turned small streams into raging torrents. The McNamara family were preparing to retire when they heard the roar of the aproaching waters In Dry creek. James McNamara, 21, called to his mother and two sisters to follow him. James and his sister, Mary, 17, fled, but Mrs. McNamara and Martha stayed to save a few personal b 9 neings. When, they did leave the Vse a wall of water swept them away, before James could more every case it has turned out that the discoverer than attempt their rescue. The bodies had seen, some other member of the dove family were recovered in the outskirts of Englewood, a suburb, was which is easily confused with the passenger Denver. under five feet of water submerged so are And that the rewards despite high pigeon. when Little Dry creek, which runs sion. still standing for proof that tlie passenger pigeon PRICE Loss of from $25,000 to through the town, rose suddenly after Is still In existence, a single authentic specimen a In crops this year will be felt fall of rain. $40,000 heavy next is yet to be revealed. So the time yon see by farmers, because of the water bea newspaper story stating that one of these birds ing turned into the ditch one month Bellanca Goes Under Repair has been seen. Just put it down that some amateur too late, according to Dr. William Pemistake. The made another has Berlin Munich Vienna not are and ornithologist passenger pigeon (Ectopistes mlgratorlus) IS likely to see the Bellanca plane Co- terson, director of the Utah Agriculextinct. lumbia for several days. Clarence tural college experimental station, who was a visitor in Price. Although the heath hen Is the only bird which Chamberlin, the Columbias pilot, has PLEASANT GROVE This commufound a motor defect, caused by the now seems definitely doomed to follow the passenand peaceful as its name ger pigeon Into tlie sunset, there are several other lamming of the valve mechanism. nity, pleasant becomes turbulent and frolsuggests, will This necessitate the dismounting species which are in danger of extinction. One of icsome when the day comes each June these is a close relative of the heath hen, tlie motor and laying the parts free. Specof the strawto celebrate the ial ripening wrenches this for n required repair prairie chicken.1 Only few years ago the booming constiwhich of the growing of these birds was still to be heard everywhere In were left In America on account of berries, considerable of tutes an magAs industry of instalthe type the prairies of tlie Middle West and the eastern weight. engine is nitude hereabouts. day Strawberry in led to is Columbia the unfamiliar In of Plains. Great tlie this many places part To celebration. Pleasant Groves big German more will it workers, sound Is becoming rare, and even though the prairie require chicken does not now seem to be In imminent than the ordinary time to make the it come visitors from-- all over the state. Chamberlin and Companion towns in Utah county danger of extinction certainly its numbers have necessary changes. been so greatly reduced that it can be called a Levine are going to Baden for a brief were near to depopulated, as everyone rest after their strenuous official en- trekked toward Pleasant Grove for the Vanishing American. day that has established itself snugly Not only in tlie bird world, but In the animal gagements, but they expect to meet in tradition. on wives their their at arrival world as well there are Vanishing Americans. MOAB Two artificial lakes in La June 17. There was a time when the buffalo was so numerSal mountains are some 45,000 trout ous that. Just ns in the case of the passenger War Veterans Paid Tributes by Llndy richer and some Salt Lake persons pigeon, Americans would have scoffed at the idea .Washington After another day of have had the chance to see how some lie ever could in noble minini this that danger adulation and acclaim in his home- real mountain men push trucks over of extinction. So long as the buffalo was. killed the nations flying hero slept in cow trails. Incidentally, the Moab only to supply the food needs of the Indian and land, the White House for the people have had an opporutnity to see temporary the first white settlers on Its ranges, there was for he left to go on to New that the much talked of fish planting no danger. Then the hide hunter came upon the last time, system of state fish and game departmore York to receptions and demonscene. Again two decades saw another race of ment is able to come through under In his honor. In the presnative Americans headed for oblivion. By the end strations On Saturday 5000 trout difficulties. ence a of on out that throng spread of the eighties, tlie last wild herd of buffalo had In the artificial lakes and were Colplanted lawn of the capitol, been killed off and, of all the countless millions the the west on Sunday 40,000 fish, which came all A. onel was Charles Lindbergh that once roamed the plains, only n few scattering with the Cross of Honor of the the way from the Timpanogos hatchherds in private game parks nnd public preserves United States Flag association by ery were dumped in the lakes. were left. Fortunately public sentiment was OGDEN prospects have Crop aroused Just in time and, due to the efforts of Charles Evans Hughes, senior founder of the association. The throughout brightened materially presentaseveral conservation societies during the first part last two the Utah northern was tion made at during flag vesper service, of tlie present century, the bison was saved. There weawarmer of the advent and is it estimated by that days 20,000 persons are now enough of these animals in Canada nnd were present. Simple tribute to the ther. A large and promising strawtlie United States to guarantee their preservation men who fought in the world tear was berry crop, which was slightly reand in recent years they have actually increased cold weather last week, is to such an extent that there has been an over- paid by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. tarded by fast There are berries in ripening. crowding on tlie available spaco which mankind abundance Davis, Weber, through Find Prevents Big Explosion lias grudgingly allotted, to them. and Cache counties, a survey by Rock Spring, Wyo. Possible disaster The settling up of the last West nnd the increaswas averted here by an alert employee experts discloses. Utah strawberries ing number of farms which replaced the open of the Union Pacific railway. He found are favored above those of other states range of the cattle mans day have threatened tlie 300 and 500 caps because of their quality. sticks dynamite existence of two other species of animals the in a on the side track heaped pile ROOSEVELT The greater part of wapiti or elk and tlie prong horn antelope. It Is known as No. 8 the wool of the eastern portion of the to what leading must be said to tlie credit of Americans, however, mine north of Rock Springs. The disUintah basin has been shipped out of who waited until it was almost too late before was made Just in time to stop Vernal over the narrow-guagcovery Uintah they set about to save the buffalo from annihilaa short freight train which was on Its Colo. An aggregate to Mack, railway tion, that they have taken a lesson from this way to the mine to deliver a string of' of one and million pounds experience and have taken the necessary steps empty gondolas, one car of constitutes the clip sent out through including to prevent the history of tlie elk and tlie prongj dynamite, and the dynamite car was Vernal, and this represents but about horn from being a repetition of that of the bison. !at the front end of the train. The f the basins output. Perlmps It Is not strictly accurate to Include j traci; was cleared and county and city BEAVER Heavy frosts the past the buffalo, tlie elk and tlie antelope, the heath officials notified. Later It was discovhen and the prairie chicken In tlie same category ered that two powder houses at No. 8 few nights killed practically all the as tlie passenger pigeon, as has been done In this ramp had been entered some time In fruit in Beaver and Injured the alfalarticle. But the fact remains that they, like the night and the caps and dynamite fa until it is feared its growth ts of cutting their the Indian, are vanishing races. Of course, gov- stolen. The officers followed the stopped.to Farmersa talk alflafa give it chance to make new ernment authorities will tell you dlfforently.about tracks of two men plainly seen along the Indian and point to the fact that lie is not the right of way, but later they were growth. Potato vines were blackened. Prevailing weather conditions indicate only holding his own, but Is actually Increasing tost In the brush cf A small canyon. more freezing weather. in numbers. That is true if yon take Into account the tfuct that many persons having more white Nevada Flood Has Subsided IIEBER A carload of salt is being blood than Indian in their veins are culled Indians Into Wasatch county this shipped Nev. The Browns canyon Reno, But in the truest sense of tlie word, the UBed in the eradication of be week to south of here subsided. Only Indian In nil his former glory ns a picturesque flood, noxious weeds. This salt will be disof stream coffee colored waters l thin nomad and flghtln down the bed of Steamboat tributed by Lyman Rich, county agent, man In the magnificent pageant of the. American gurgled to the various Irrigation companies creek where Saturday night, a torrent frontier is a Vanishing American, lie belongs to had roared but a wavering mud scar, and Individual farmers to be U3ed the past, tlie past of the wilderness era, ns do the along roadways, ditch banks and miles long marked the scene of desobuffalo, the mlk, the antelope, the passenger lation. The farm home of Mrs. U. S. fences and waste places, which are pigeon, the heth lien and the prairie chicken. Hanson lasted in a lake of breeding places for Canada thlsths slimy mud, What If there still are enough Individuals of each Th3 morning glorv and white top while parts of a threshing machines so that tlie conquering white man can point tc will nnt be used on cultivated salt In near-ba To tree. the right farm land where clean cultivation hung them and say See, they are not yet KXTINCTT cm ind grain, potato and pas- be replied. It is antlcipc.ted that For they are following the Indian Into the sunset ture left, alfalfa, lands were covered with silt car of Fait will be brought into and James Fresers End of the Trail Is sym iwcpt down by the raging eurrcnL the valley within a short time. boilcal of them all They ARE Vanishing American 00 pitQzr&-iiawrAznXzoi- J? By ELMO SCOTT WATSON NOTH rat nntlve American lias almost reached the end of the traiL From Martini's Vineyard oft the coast of Massachusetts comes word that the heatli hen Is facing the extinction that a few years ago overtook another American bird,, the pigeon. Despite all the efforts that have been made to preserve the rapidly decreasing numbers of tills species of grouse (Tor t he conservation of which more than $00,000 already lias been spent), the heath hen seems to , be doomed. Martha's Vineyard Is the only place In the world where it ,cnn be found and it is believed that there are now only about twenty sped- mens of the bird left on the Island, a decrease of fifteen from last year. The story of the heath hen is a tragic but by no means an unusual one In a country which lias become notorious for its prodigality In wasting its natural resources. In many respects It is similar to the story of the passenger pigeon whose numbers were at one time so countless that no one believed that they could ever be entirely killed off. So an appalling slaughter of the birds went on for years until a passenger pigeon became a rarity and before sportsmen and bird lovers realised it, it wus too late to save the species from extinction. The Inst survivor died in the Cincinnati Zoological gardens In 1014. These birds, once so numerous that within the memory of thousands of persons now living their flight literally darkened the sky," were wiped out of existence in a little more than two decades! A hundred nnd fifty years ago the heath hen was one of the principal game birds of New England nnd the middle Atlantic states. It was distributed from Capo Ann to Virginia and It was especially abundant In the lowlands of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Long Island. When the enrly settlers began to cut off the forests the decline of the heath lien started. Its straight unswerving flight made it an easy target for the hunter in the open, and it was shot and trapped at all seasons. The spread of civilization and the increasing number of cats and dogs which killed Its young further decimated the heath hen until it was practically extinct on the mainland and the few left were on Marthas Vineyard. Apparently no measures were taken for its protection until this time, but on account of the scarcity of predatory nnimals on the island, the strict fire patrol and the legislative measures which were finally taken to save the birds, the heath lien seemed to have a good chance to Increase in numbers. Such has not been the case, however. Twenty years ago there were about fifteen hundred birds on tlie Island. By 1024 that number had shrunk to less than fifty. Last year the census taken by Prof. Alfred Gross of Bowdoin college, one of the foremost ornithologists in the country, showed that there were only thirty-fiv- e left, and now bird lovers of New England arejfeilarmed to learn that this pitiful remnant apparently has been still further reduced In spite of all the efforts that have been made to' save them. The heath hen closely resembles the western prnirii) chicken. It Is a light reddish brown above, barred with black and buff. At the sides, ef the neck there are tufts of black feathers, on each side Is on orange-colore- d sac and over each coinh. Like the eye Is a small orange-coloreprairie chicken It has the curious habit of booming" early In the spring each year. This call Is said to he similar to the whistle of a distant tugboat In a fog. It heralds the mating season nnd Is n preliminary to and a part of what has been described as the strangest sight ever seen Jack-rnbbl- f d in tlie woods the dance of tlie henth hens. At daybreak the heatli hens meet on certain dancing grounds, which they have apparently picked out In advance, and there they go through a series of antics which are as curious for human beings to watch as no doubt a charleston contest would be for the heath hen to watch. Tlie birds run, Jump, bow, toot nnd cackle in their unique pastime. Their short tails are cocked forward over their backs, the black neck feathers stand out stiffly at different angles until at last they point directly forward over tlie crested heads like the ears of a Their breasts are puffed up and the nir sacs are distended until the bird looks almost twice his natural size. They prance backward and forward, flapping their wings, and from their throats come a series of squeals, cackles, clucks, chuckles nnd laughing sounds. Often, two birds will run toward each other until they ore almost beak to beak. Then they remain motionless for several minutes. Sometimes they light, hut for the most part, their time is spent In tooting and dancing. The morning dance usually lasts until the sun is high in the sky and then the birds scuttle back info the recesses of the 5,000 acres of scrub oak in tlie center of the Island which they frequent. Sometimes they come out to repeat their dance again Just after sunset. If the efforts to snve the heath hen are unsuccessful It will he a tragic recurrence of the fate which overtook the passenger pigeon, nlthough the ruthless slaughter of these birds is a more shameful record to he laid at the door of Americans than will be thetr failure to save the heath hen. The destruction of the pigeons began within forty years after the first settlers came to New Kng- - . t. The End of the Trail , . Brem-erhave-n prs-sent- Far to the west the vanished herds they followed at last unto the Journeys end; Naught have they found save bones where bisons wallowed, Naught now Is theirs nor food, nor fire, nor friend. And came Pony and man alike completely weary, Even the rainbow hope at last long fled; Sadly they face a darkness cold and dreary, Broken, they seek the company of the M. Beatrice Sumner. dead. land, and for tlie next two hundred years tlie killing continued. Finally, In 1S78 the birds, having been driven by persecution from many states, concentrated In a few localities in Michigan, nnd it was during the next two decades that the wholesale slaughter which wiped them out of existence took place. The last Important nesting place of the passenger pigeon was near Ietoskcy,- in Emmet county, Michigan. There, in 1S81, an army of five thousand men gntherod for civilizations attack on the defenceless birds which had come there to rear their young. The attack continued from. March until August and during tins period of twenty weeks it Is estimated that one billion birds were killed nnd shipped from this and neighboring nesting places. One .morning America woke up to find that the passenger pigeon was virtually extinct. It became so rare that prizes were offered for the discoxery of a single specimen. The Inst Individual definitely recorded in a wild state was captured at Bar Harbor, Maine, in 1904. In various zoological gardens a few individuals were preserved. David Whittaker of Milwaukee, Wls., procured a pair of young birds from an Indian in that state in 1SSS, nnd during the next eight years these Increased to fifteen. By 1908, however, only seven of this nflmber had survived, and at last only one, a female, was left. Tills bird, known as Martha, was sent to the Cincinnati zoo and there she became famous ns the last of the race. Since tlie death of Martha persous In various parts of tlie country have reported from time to time the discovery of passenger pigeons, but In - Box-eld- e one-quart- one-hal- i ! old-tim- e war-bonnet- first-clas- s y an-oth- tr |