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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH Government construction of a flood condition dam at Boulder canyon on the Colorado river was $30,-000,0- TELEGRAPm'j ISLES FOR Busy READERS California. Samuel Gompers, who for nearly a half century led the labor ranks A RESUME OF THE WEEKS of the country was buried near the DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER graves of some of the wealthiest COUNTRIES and most prominent men of America. The Gompers plot in Sleepy Hollow cemetery at Tarrytown, N. Y. is Important Eventa of the Last Seven within 200 feet of the grave of And Daya Reported by Wire and drew Carnegie and about the same for the Benefit of the distance from the mausoleum of WilBuay Reader liam Rockefeller. Also near by are the graves of John D. Archbold, once president of the Standard Oil comWESTERN pany, and Carl Schurtz. Mr. GomMatthew Decker, held as a suspect pers purchased the burial plot about 1000 square feet in area, five or six In the slaying of Walter W, Power, ago. No member of the family years Automobile salesman, was postively has heretofore been buried in the identified in Los Angeles by Mrs. plot. Ethel Garcia as the man she saw Representative Colton of Utah inrunning from the scene of the killing, troduced a measure under which jurit was announced at the district attor- isdiction would be conferred on the neys office. court of claims to adjudicate all claims between the United States and Two more large Nevada wool clips and White River tribes the Uinta have been disposed of, according to of Ute Indians. word received in Elko, the first bringA bomb explosion demolished the ing the top price so far recorded of 48 cents, and the second bringing 43 front porch of the home of Franklin cents. The top price clip is that of Lorraco, who had received threatenAdams and McGill in White Pine ing letters demanding $5000. Orlando who lived on the first county, amounting to approximately Morganti, had received floor a warning that he 200,000 pounds and is one of the largshould move, as the building was to est in the eastern part of the state. be destroyed. The U. S. S. Idaho football eleven Charles II. Burke, commissioner of won the United States battle fleet Indian affairs, was charged with malchampionship for the fourth time in administration of the esthe last five seasons, defeating the U. tates of three Indians of the Creek S. S. Melville, 13 to 9 at Trona field, tribe In a sworn statement inserted California. in tle Congressional Record by RepEffective immediately an embargo resentative Howard, Dernoeorat, was declared by the California state department of agriculture on the imSenator King of Utah, a member of an portation into California of live poul- the senate naval committee, try consisting of chickens, turkeys, nounoed he would oppose passage of geese, ducks, pheasants, pigeons and the bill for additional cruisers when pea fowl from the states of North Dat is brought up again In the senate kota, South Dakota, Kansas, Illinois, and that he planned to introduce n Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. resolution calling for a thorough inof the navy, witli a view Choking her daughter, Martha, 5, vestigation of obtaining sufficient appropraitlons to death with a roiie, Mrs. Freda to put It In first-clas- s condition. Toulsen, 42, went to the barn on her Selma ranch home near Fresno, Cullf., The city of Philadelphia was put a rope over a rafter and around given permission by President Cool-idg- e her neck mounted a barrel and shot to retain Brigadier General herself through the moulh the wo- Smedly D. Butler of the United States mans husband told police. Both died marine corps as Its director of pubalmost Instantly,' It Is believed by lic safety for another year, but was Svend Toulsen, the husband, who reminded that locol found the bodies when he returned cannot he furnished from the out to his home from work on the ranch. side. FOREIGN Bloody finger prints on a water faucet and washbowl supplied the William Van Anden Hester, presionly clues the police had to the mur- dent of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle corderer who killed Nels Anderson and poration died of heart failure at his bis wife In their combination barber summer home at Glencove, after an shop and beauty parlor at Billings, illness of several months. He was Mont., by splltlng their heads with 66 years of age. Mr. Hester was the an ax. The two were found dead In son of Colonel William Hester, fortheir place of business, with the mer president of the corporation, and lilood smeared ax nearby. nephew of Isaac Anden who founded The mercury dropid 8 degrees be- the paper in 1841. low zero on December 9th, at Bock The red flag of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, as Russia Springs, Wyo., the first time It has been below zero tills year. A light now is officially named, was ceremonsnow preceding the drop In tempera- iously hoisted frdm the Russian emture materially alleviated drought bassy at Paris. Leonid Krassin, the conditions which have been threat- ambassador issued a note saying that the cermony took place in the presening the sheep Industry. ence of the embassy staff and every GENERAL citizen of the union who is in Paris. a INTERNAL REVENUE BUREAU IS LOOKED INTO BY SPECIAL COMMITTEE Pro-pare- II. Jalmar Branting, premier of Sweden, is seriously ill, according to advices reaching Copenhagen. It was said that he had developed inflama-tio- n of the lungs and that grave fears for his recovery were entertained. A dispatch to La Nacion from Rio The Missouri Pacific railway, which, Janeiro says the Brazilian governthrough recent acquisition of control ment has decided to lift the state of in the Gulf Coast lines and the In- siege in the state of Sao Paulo. ternational Great Northern railroad Assurance that the United States became the largest transportation would be represented at the proposed system on the United States announ- conference on the traffic in arms, to ced the purchase of fifty additional lie held in Geneva In April or May, locomotives, 3000 freight cars ana 1925, was expressed in a reply to forty cabooses at an aggregate cost the league of nations invitation reof about $9,000,000. ceived by the secretariat a't Geneva from the American state department. James Higgeson, 62, of Oklahoma After a City, conductor on a St. Louis and hearing in camera San Francisco train, was suffocated Judge Iilil remanded the Rev. Dr. while directing passengers to safety Anton liast, American Methodist when fire destroyed two coaches of Episcopal bishop of Scandinavia, for a period of three weeks without bail. his train. Dr. Bast was arrested on a charge of That provision in the house infunds In serted by Congressman Cramton of misappropriating charity Michigan, which requires settlers on Prince Alexander TrubetzkoJ, the the new Salt Lake basin irrigation project to pa.v Interest on deferred adopted son of a Russian admiral, Wladimir has TrubetzkoJ, payments, will he stricken out when Prince lieen to in sentenced three I he hill years reaches the senate, if It is not eliminated by the house," said prison for a, series of sleeping car Senator Reed Smooc, and the sen- robberies. ator is in a position to speak auAfter a summary court martial at thoritatively because he is chair- Khartum, following the recent mu. man of tho senate subcommittee that tiny of the Sudanese battalion, four will handle the Interior department officers were sentenced to death and hill. But Representative Ieatlierwood three of them were executed by intends. If possible, to have this in- shooting. The sentence of the fourth teresting feature stricken out before was commuted to fiftteen years thii bill passes the house. Statements by a number of university law school deans indorsing the child labor amendment to the constitution were made public by the headquarters of the national organization associated for the ratification of the amendment. six-ho- The House committee investigating the rhipping board received testimony showing the board held 643 claims in its deferred liquidation division $117,0900,0000 on which it is estimated on! I 5,000,000 could be V collected. The Brand Trunk elevator at Fort nnron, Mich., containing, 000.000 bushels of grain was destroed, and the barge Alexander Maitlart l, with a cargo of liarlev, wag buned almost to the water's dge by fl-- e of undetermined origin. Early 'v estimates placed the loss at moje thai $500,000. I-- 1' Notes News From All Parts of UTAH proposed in a bill introduced by Representative Fredricks, Republican ot rash" is Europe's newest affliction. It is an eruption of the tender skin of the ears of wireless devotees, resulting from the constant pressure of the hard rubber Use of soft rubber ear muffs" which fit over the hard ear pieces, "Radio head-piece- measure. Ofelia Rivas, famous Cuban actress went to a horrible death in a vain effort to save the life of her pet dog when the Ward liner Esperanza piled u on the rocks on November 21. Both thA actress and her dog were devoured Jjy a shaiic, it was isvealed. ,1 Mortroe. Bids will be askd in the near future for construction of a new municipal power plant for this cuy, to replace the one now functioning with more modern equipment ana a doubled capacity. The present plant Couzens Committee Finds No Dishas a power load alone equal to the honesty, But Errors Due to Lack of An Approved capacity of the plant, and this virmeans that fhe lighting load tually System may not be used until the power load has been discontinued or diminished. Mount Pleasant. C. A. Clark, 82, Chairman Couzens Washington. a native of England and a resident of the special senate committee inof Mount Pleasant for the past twenvestigating the internal revenue bu- ty years, died at his home here folreau declared in a statement that the lowing a few days illness from pneucommittee had found much loose- monia. ness in the execution of the work Salt Lake City. A directed verdict of the bureau, resulting in the ap- in favor of the United States in its parent loss of millions of dollars of case against Nephi M Keel and others revenue to the government. for rents alleged to be owing two Inthe dian wards was granted by Judge In some of these cases, chairman declared, the department Tillman D. Johnson in the United officials have admitted errors, and States district court. Two cases were while the committee charges no dis- consolidated was and judgment honesty, it finds much looseness in granted Rosetta Cesspooch in the the execution of the work. amount of $116.48 and Alberta CessNoting that a review had been or- pooch for $184.80. Both are land dered of one case, involving an on the Uintah reservation. overallowance of $600,000 in A petition for the release Ogden. taxes to one company. Senator Cou- from the state mental hospital of zens said special investigators were Maridros Mausigan, Armnian now working on other cases which who became mentally unbalwill be taken up this week by the anced while in Ogden and fired a committee. He invited the public shot, which wcunded one of his dauto send suggestions for simplifying ghters in July, 1923, was filed in the the procedure of the bureau as well district court by' Samuel G. Dye, as the statutes. guardian of the estate. This lack of uniformity, SenaSalt Lake City. All departments tor Couzens declared, worked great of the city administration are being injustice to some taxpayers and ex- asked to submit estimates for next cessive reductions in taxes to others. budget without any regard for The injustice arose, not because tne years the expenditures this year, in letters evidence showed that many taxpayers being sent out by City Auditor Alpaid taxes they should not pay, but vin Keddington. The basing of the rather the taxpayers were relieved coming years expenditures on past who should not have been relieved. expenditures is not the best method For example, a large concern on of getting at the real needs of each the Pacific was allowed a claim by Mr. Keddington points department. the United States shipping board in- out in his letter, asking for estimates volving $800,000 and the same claim to be sent in early to be in for its was allowed by the internal revenue meeting January 12. bureau, thus losing to the government The state of Salt Lake City. some $600,000 in taxes. It developed will have a net deficit of Utah a clear case of lack of proper workin the general fund March 3, ing arrangements between the two 1925, or a smaller amount than for departments, the responsibility for the past ten years, Mark Tuttle, state which was upon the internal revenue estimates in his annual reauditor, bureau. to Governor Charles R. Mabey. port The committee has been assured Ogden, Plans for enlarging the that an effort will lie made to collect this $000,000, and if it is collected, as Ogden Union stockyards for the sixth show to be held next the committee believes it should be, annual livestock were made month, by Lester F. Whitfully ten times the cost of the comof the mittee's work will have been collected lock, managing vice president S. Richards, secreand Jesse show, In one case. tary. The expansion is necessary beThe committee found other cases cause of the fact that a much larger where claims were allowed for amor- show is anticipated this winter. tization on plants and equipment purThe East High school Salt Lake, chased before our country entered the is to have a real Christmas present World war, and yet it was clearly this year in the shape of a brand provided by statute that only amortifield, with a zation was to lie allowed on war new sodded athletic quarter-mil- e standard running track plants and war equipment which were Such was the deciit. surrounding purchased after we entered the war. sion of the board of education of Salt The committee also found that tax. Lake in accepting the recommendapayers received advantages over other tion of the buildings and grounds taxpayers because of the methods committee. used in keeping their books. The oases Salt Lake, The second appeal of that the committee have examined in Pedro Cano, under suspended sentence this connection represents a loss to for the murder of June St. of death the government, if the committees on March 15, 1923, Park at Clair interpretation is correct, of many was dismissed City the state supreme by millions of dollars of revenue. court. The case will be remanded to The committee has come across Third district court and the decases of what looks like what is the fendant again sentenced to pay for termed in Wall street as washed with his life. crime the sales for the purpose of tax evasion, a well attended meeting At Provo and it appears that the bureau nas not given sufficient consideration to held in the district court room the these attempts to evade taxes. Tax- members of the Irovo Fish and Game association went on record payers have made excessive claims protective for amortization, alleging that they as being opposed to the abolition of commercial fishing for catfish in purchased excess facilities for war lake until such time as compurposes. Laxity in fixing the ex Utah mittees from the separate fisli and tent of the use of these plants to the war has developed in game protective associations of Utah and Salt Lake counties can assemble our hearings. and from cooperative Investigation determine what action will lie fair Mrs. Byfield Gets New Trial and right to all parties concerned. Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. Clyde Byfield Salt Lake Inclusion of the state was granted a new trial In her suit Industrial school as a part of the for $100,000 damages aghinst Walter state school system is favorCandler, growing out of an alleged at. general ed by the state welfare commission tack on the steamship Berengaria held at the capitol. The commission about two years ago. The Georgia that the children court of appeals reversed the finding takes the iosition are of school age at the Institution of a DeKalb county jury which found and that they should receive the in& verdict for Mr. handler. The court width would have heen of appeals interpreted certain instruc-lon- s struction if they had continued to them given of the presiding judge as faattend the district schools. vorable to the defendant. Provo, Leland Kirkwood of Provo, who evaded apprehension since last Bandits Hang Watchman summer, when he is alleged to have Denver, Colo., After hanging W. P.. participated in the dynamiting of the Keller by the wrists from a concrete Provo river, was arrested recently pillar so that his feet barely touched when he returned to his home in the floor, four bandits robbed the Provo, according to advice received Denham garage here of $323 and by the state fish and game departdrove off In a stolen car. Keller, night ment. He was placed in jail in deman at the garage, was found uncon- fault of bond and will be prosecuted scious two lKiurs later by a policeman. on a complaint sworn to by witnesses. Salt Lake Receipts from sale of Will Probe Editorial lands in Utah for the quarter public Washington, The senate judiciary of the year ending last September committee in executive session, apa 30, totaled $10,026, according to pointed a subcommittee to Investigate report in the I.and Servpublished the Washington Herald editulal at- ice Bulletin of which a copy was retacking Senator Underwood and Ms ceived by Eli F. Taylor register of Muscle Shoals bill. Agreement was the United States land office. readied unanimously by the commitOgden E. J. Milne, superintentee. An investigation of the editorial dent of the Nevada industrial school, was ordered by the senate, under a was appointed superintendent (f the unanimous consent agreement obtainUtah industrial school at a m eiing ed by Senator Underwood after he if the industrial school board. The had denounced the editorial and its appointment will become writer on the floor of the senate. January 1. es EUER a thing to make you mad, bacter-ioligis- t, Tleuer a trouble to make you sad, tteuer a pain to hurt or kill, Tleuer the need of a dollar bill Tleuer a worry or neuer a fear All I through tv WMwt the days a happy year. MawApaperUaloA.) KATHER1HE EDEUtlATl ' ARRIVAL OF THE NEW $122,-797.5- YEAR Newlfcar BONNER service the midnight BEFORE would usher In the New Year there was an organ By MARY GRAHAM recital. The chnrch was very quiet, Derain Grau everything was very still. Only the beautiful chords of the organ sounded. A glorious, lighted star hung down, and the Christmas greens were still wound around the pillars and the pulpit and the Bible reading desk. Sometimes the notes of the organ were deep and low, again they were high, clear, thrilling. And to every person came new ambitions, new resolves. As they all Joined In the opening hymn of the New Year midnight service they all felt better. The beauty of the organs music had touched the 6oul of each. (. 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) was not always New and even now in and Russia it does not arrive until twelve days after the new year has started. It took longer to agree upon a common day to celebrate New Years than it did to select a common Christmas. It was late in the Sixteenth century before January 1 was accepted uniThe more ancient nations versally. had always had a preference for this 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) date, and Egypt, China and Rome celebrated the day with public rejoicing. In Russia the day was made sacred to Janus and was a time of special sacrifice and prayer at his shrine. He is pictured as a god with two faces, A one looking backward and one forward one youthful and one very old the B1 Emth) Surki Adams Old and the New Year. In Derbyshire an old custom still prevails. At twelve oclock the doors are flung just WAS New Years Eve and Uncle wide open and the New Year is ushBen everybody called him Uncle ered in with shouts of welcome. Ben said he didnt think hed There are places In England, also, make a resolution, and then hed have where the Old Year Is still swept none to break. Well," said Mrs. Smith, his neigh- out, according to an old custom. Men bor, who had brought him a loaf of and boys with blackened faces and bread, "if I were you Id make a res- dressed to look like chimney sweeps, olution to marry before another year. go through the streets with brooms, Im going to quit sewing your buttons, sweeping. The practice of burning the Old so youd better think about it." Year out with huge bonfires still preUncle Ben did think about It, and mused to himself: Well, if I had re- vails In some places, while in many solved long ago to get married, I'd be married. Other folks keep their resolutions. By jolly! I'm going to resolve to marry before a year and I wont break my resolution, either." New Yenrs day Uncle Ben put on his best bib and tucker and started to church. As he turned the corner he met Widow Bender. Well, Uncle Ben, Happy New districts It Is rung out by muffled bells, and just at midnight the bells Year, said she. Thnnk you. Mrs. Bender, and Hap- are unmuffled and the New Year is In with joyous peals. py New Year to you. Mine will be a rung In no other country Is the celeBut happy New Year, for Im going to be bration of New Year's made so Impormarried." tant a festival as In Japan. The Oh, fine!" snld the widow, with a streets and byways of Tokyo, as well look of disappointment. My New as other cities, look like a vast playYenr resolution Is to get married. If I ground. At a certain time In the day can. the emperor receives the princes and Well. said Uncle Ben. that Is a the princesses of the blood. At anprovision in my resolution If I can." other hour all royalty and cabinet members and their wives. The scene They looked at each oilier, kltten-llktalked a short time and went on Is marked with great ceremony. But all over the city the young peoto church. are having quite as good a time as ple one was Every surprised to witness royalty: a festival of pleasure is bea wedding that morning. held. Sometimes the faces are When they were congratulating Un- ing with paint or ink scarlet smudged cle Ben he said: Well, a resolution is white silk and brilliant gold a fine thing if you make a good one crepe, flit through nil the streets. Very litand stick to It." tle religious ceremony is observed ((), 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) New Years day, but upon the third of January the day .is given over to New Year Eve worship In the pulace, and upon the Prosperity begins to shine; fourth of January the emperor opens The business joutlooks bright; the council chamber and state affairs For everywhere I went to dine are begun for tba year. Then boost the price tonight. 1 fANUARYDay, (, GOOD RESOLUTION 3T e, sub-seuqe- nt en-oi- .e i A, I U 3 , |