Show x - jv - - Pi p ( V" SK - ' TTTfe v V - ' h p’ ? ? HEBALD-BEPT- PLOT RELEASED - ' - ' ' 1 - - ' ( : S" V" i Curtail Telephone ’HEN Is a' man practicing medl- - that the Justice of the peace will have to ’consider in the case of the state cine without a license? Andrew A Allen charged " ' 'against This Is the problem that Is con- with practicing - a medicine - without ' 7 v- O Justice Peace of the fronting Hugo license and on which point he is The state contends that Allen eold digging deep Into the opinions of the ah alleged medical book to a woman supreme courts of various states Jus- on the east side but that when he enrul- tered the house he told the woman tice Anderson has discovered-oning of the supreme court of ' Utah In that one of her children was' sufferwhich It Is declared In substance that ing from a certain and that anyone - who prescribes for any sick- the book would tellcomplaint her how to cure ness and accepts a' fee without having It a license Is guilty un$er the law even goes farther and alBut supposing someone informs you leges that the book told the that you are 111 and tells you what woman what to do foragent the child medicine to get but does not sell it When A J Weber counsel for the to you? accused was 'j informed by the court Or supposing that a neighbor or a that Allen might be arrested on the stranger after' convincing you 'that charge of practicing medicine without you are suffering from this or that a license he said: Induces you to go to such and suoh a “Why If I fell one of my friends doctor or tola certain drug store to that he Is suffering from Insomnia get ascertain drug? and ' that onions will make him sleep Or supposing' a man comes to your can I be arrested for practicing medhome and tells you that your child Is icine without a- license? Even If I suffering from a certain ailment and tell him where he can buy the opions that he Is selling a book that will tell am I' guilty of violating the law? Or you Just how-ttreat It? to go farther If I tell him that I have Or again’ supposing that you are some onions at my home and that I suffering with Insomnia and a man am willing to sell him a few am 1 tells you that onions will cure It and supposed to have a license to practhat he knows? a place where you can tice medlclneP get onions? The court puzzled took the- matter These are among some of the things under advisement Tete-a-tet- EXE1FTI0NF0R LENDffilPLOYES FEWEIFLOYES DURMGHARVEST - - V 'n r P03JMASK :DEffin)IS6N fc : LAKE CITY UTAH SATURDAY AUGUST 4 1917 wy jff! AW SALT T V PLASTER SELLER : v s Joe Bergerman Is Identified by Drug Store Clerks as Regular Peddler TETANUS GERMS ARE : FOUND BY CHEMIST Dr T B Beatty Warns Pullie Against Using Plasters - ::Until After- Tests - - The-stat- e ’ Takes Lead- - in City Conservation ComDepartment ' Freeing Yaluable Workers ' mittee Has Plan to Relieve Farm Labor Shortage 7 for Military Service WILL ASK BUSINESS MEN TO GIVE PLEDGE STUDIES INSTRUCTIONS UTAH APPEAL BOARD : Draft Starts in Garfield 18 Campaign Will Be Started in Time to Gather the of First Hundred Pass - v ° v Earliest Crops Examinations - Suspected of telng one of the peddlers who for the past few months have been selling court plaster Infected with the deadly tetanus germ Joe Bergerman 21 years old of 1X111 Creek was picked np yesterday and taken before Sheriff John 8 Corless for Investiga: tion was r released several i '’Bergerman honrs later when he proved an alibi He stated that he had no criminal indent when 'he ‘sold the court plasters He was Identified by clerks at the Z I CL IX L drug company as the man who ! frequently bought court plasters In wholesale lots to peddleu The investigation ' of Bergerman’s case followed the announcement by Dr T B Beatty secretary of the state board of health that court plasters sold by Bergerman under analysis i showed of the tetanus the presence : is a' Polish farmer germ Bergerman I working a large fruit and vegetable farm In Mill creek He said that while harvest he took up the waiting for his peddling of court plaster to earn expenses ‘A nationwide vigil Is being kept by government agents to apprehend dispensers of the poisoned plaster which deaths and already has caused several which are distributed to German plot- ters A warning was Issued yesterday by Lakers to Dr T B Beatty to all Salt refrain from using any-- ' ' court plaster had been until a thorough Investigation — made Will Test Plasters Analysis of court plasters from the stock of all Salt Lake drug stores will be made before the public will again to buy Many of the stores have promised willingly that they will refrain from selling the plasters House-wivare also asked to- notice any peddler who has court plaster to dispose of" They are asked to obtain a sample of the court plaster and turn It over to the sheriff’s office together with a deof the peddler scription Dr Beatty found one of three samples of the court plaster submitted to :him laden with tetanus bacilli The sample Impregnated with poison germs was examined also by Dr George 'F Roberts bacteriologist of the county be inhospital staff Guinea pigs will oculated with bacilli taken from It at the University of Utah'- Several other samples of court plaster sold In Salt Lake are being examined Bacilli Are ' Fatal Tetanus bacilli act only In the ab- sence of light and air and the plasters are therefore It Is said very effective ’transmission of the disease of The infection is absolutely lockjaw fatal unless the subject Is given Immediate serum treatment Dr Beatty said ' o - -- - - - - - DM MAMMOTH BAYONETED AND TAMPERED WITH JAILED L W W EXPERTSREPORT FACING CHARGE I - - - ’ 1 s - be-advis- ed es - - - - in-the ’ IS DEAD POLICEMAN ' Joseph CL Armstrong for- eleven years a member of the Salt Lake police force died yesterday In St Mark’s hosbrain Mr pital of an abscess of the a native of Salt Lake was Armstrong 40 years old He was the son of Thomas C Armstrong an early resident of Utah and his official service and his personality earned him the respect of his associates ' Mr Armstrong Is survived by his widow Mrs Millie Christensen ArmC strong and three children Thomas Armstrong 15 years old and two small sons 5 and 2 years old Thomas the oldest boy' left home ten ago and bad not been heard from dhys until yesterwhen a letter was received from day' him at Tremonton Utah stating that he was working on a ranch near there He has been notified of his father’s death In addition to hls wife and children Mr Armstrong Is survived ' by two brothers James H Armstrong1 of Salt and Truman C Armstrong of lake Pasadena Cal: four sisters Mrs Nellie Couton and Mrs Frank Htrickley- of Mrs Harry Bobson of Hollywood CaL and Mrs Joseph Couton - - - r- r ¥ - ' V' f ’ - - - - : : - - - - in' hls fackv when ii1 resitted - ' '- - EXPERT TELLS HQW TO CONSERVE FOOD “Prevention of Food Waste’ was the subject of a talk by Miss MeV Homer at the L D S:U community center yesterday The canning of carrots was demonstrated: Yesterday afternoon before the members of the Liberty stake relief society demonstrations of the cherries with other fruits canning of more pectin were given " containing - f ' Court for Custody F)R prfetty cur ly-halr- 4 ed 'Wanda L Guynn getting ' settled In life appears permanently to of those interesting lit- ' tie matters which the movie serial scribes refer to' as continued in our' next” When her father and mother Mr and 'Mrs Leonard V Guynn: were divorced October 14 1914 the child was given into the custody of her mother—but the arrangement may not be settled for the father began re-- a fight to have the youngster moved from her control The claims of both parents were spiritedly' argued in court yester-da- y while the demure little guerdon of the legal : battle looked on In bewilderment' And then Just as Wanda was on the point of learn-- she was to “put up” for lng where of the rest her girlhood 5 o’clock came ' and court' adjourned : and 'announced that Judge J I 'Brown the hearing would have to be continued until Monday ended Thu the while the small heroine of next week's sequel left with her mother be-one ‘ 85 - ME - held two divorce J L' Brownmorning and after- sessions yesterday noon rAa the result seven women and two men were' granted interlocutory v rS divorce 'decrees The decrees granted with the cause for divorce were: Lena Murray vs Harold Murray desertion Willie KL Tanner vs William J Tanner cruelty and K J drunkenness: Dora W Teuber RobertTeuber desertion: Estelle G 'ys‘ son vs Paul W Robertson desertion Sarah 3 Stewart vs Eugene Stewart nonsupport: Lillian B'Backhaut vs Nathan E Backhaut desertion Harry Benney vs Ada Benney desertion Carrie Irwin vs R B Irwln nonsupport Roy Calms vs Mabel Calms desertion ' V'V v - im - : and enlarged store " is a mighty convenient and comfortable : place ' to buy Books and Stationery SUimY SCHOOL union - bookstore — missioner 'Warren Stoutnour is tigating the conditions involved and will make a report within a few days i MASONIC NOTICE Wasatch a Lodge No 1 F A A M will hold special meeting Saturday the afternoonv at 1 o’clock - to conduct W funeral services of Brother R No Lucy late of South Pueblo Lodge at Pueblo Colorado Aug- A F who died In this city Thursday - v v ust 2‘ W' M ’By : order ' A-of- Jthe LOWE Secretary V81 A M & - - ' ? - ' - 7- - y r ‘"'K - ’ r ' 7-- - i' Inves- tete-a-tet- es - J COLONEL DASHIELL ASSUMES COMMAND - - One Hundred Thousand Dollars Will Be Paid to Troops This Week ' ’ emergency committee of Salt Lake now under construction are ‘carried out the business men of Utah's capital city miy- - pledge themselves to release as many of their employees as possible for work In the orchards and fields of the state so that the entire fruit' and grain crop can be harvested R’ T Thurber director of headquarters for the committee said yesterday unthat the committee had der consideration- - and would reach some conclusion regarding tfie adoption of such a pledging campaign in plenty of time to assure the needed labor for crop harvesting He expressed the belief that Salt'Lake business men would be glad to to the best of “ With the arrival at Fort Douglas today of 613 recruits from Fort Logan Colo there will be 4294 enlisted men In the three' regiments at the local post To complete the regiments to the required War strength there are approximately 2300 more men required LoThe rookies to come from Fort gan today will be assigned td the regiments as follows: 19 6 to Twentieth 227 196 to th4 Forty-thir- d to the Forty-secon- d scheduled to armen ere The 1 over m the Denver & Rio rive at p Grande railroad and will' ‘probably march direct to Fort Douglas where they will be asslghed to regiments un- UTAH’S QUOTATO r - PRESIDIO CAMP INCREASED TO 88 co-oper- ate their ability In assisting the farmer to relieve the labor shortage “The fruit crop " especially peaches War Department’s Increase and pears will not be ready to harvest of 30 Per Cent Will Allow until about September 10 said Mr Thurber “By that time or before the 20 Additional Men committee will have completed its Investigation and decided upon the best amountUtah’s quota for the second reserve of officers’ General- Crowder has suggested to methods to secure the the Presidio training camp at eighty-eigthe governors by wire that each as- local business men The plan adopted in San Francisco will be semble the full membership of all dis- in Colorado wherein the business men men Instead of sixty-eigaccording trict boards in hls state for a' general permit as many of their' employees as to advices received yesterday from conference to insure uniform proced- they can spare to work in the fields Washington The increase of Utah’s ure regarding appeals was is a fine one” brought about by an increase quota ' The cost of drafting America’s first Greeley Colo' Is' one of the many of- 80 per cent in the number of candigreat national—army-- from registration Colorado cities' and towns in which the dates to be ‘admitted to the second to enrollment was placed by Secretary business men and ’manufacturers have camp’s opening August 27 ordered Baker- today at 98660480 in his estithe plan of allowing their em- yesterday by the war department Sixmates to Congress according to Wash- adopted ployees to help In harvesting during teen thousand men were to have been ington advices This amount includes the fruit picking season In Utah it admitted Into camps throughout the all overhead expenses of registration Is proposed that the city employees United States The number has been examination and selection It Is based also assist In harvesting the grain Increased to 20800 on registration of ten million exami- crop ' It is believed that army officials realnation of approximately fiye million ized a is That there considerable shortage that the army was in a greater and enrollment of 1187000 vrThe or- in labor for the farms and orchards la need of officers than at first thought ganization Includes a personnel of more generally admitted by all in position and that the logical way to bring about than 18000 personsan Increase in the corps of officers was to know Maiy plans have been to Utah Appeal Board Meefa remedy this shortage but to Increase the number of ellglbles for the farmers fear that many valuable the camps Furthermore the response The exemption appeal board met In the cannot be harvested successfully to the- nation’s call for men in anthe office of Governor Bamberger yes- crops was Has than been come to assistunless their camps greater the cities to1 consider terday afternoon lengthy in some most substantial manner ticipated and the government has detelegraphic instructions received- from ance That this without the cided to give more men a chance to they canont dobusiness General Crowder Parley L Williams men and show their worth' The “cream” of the the of H Lamont chairman and James and i country has applied for the training labor of conceded Dr Robert' 8’ Joyce the latter of Og- employers It is pointed out ' den were present Another reason given for the In'The question of the appointment of crease is the great success of the first officials to act in the double capacity camps coupled with the great number of government' challenger and special of men that are rejected after arriving counsel for such as dispute the verdict at the camps It Is pointed out that apof a local board denying their exempone-ha- lf of the' men have proximately tion claims was taken up- Appointthe camp The while at been rejected ments covering the state’ will be apaccrued to the have results that great proved by Governor Bamberger within who have men' enough ’ a- few days-- ' entire the camp to stay throughout Word was received that General officers remarkable been have army Crowder has definitely refused to The first camps will be over one exempt 'miners as a - class from the se- Evergreen Highway Tourists say from Wednesday August 15 week : No lective draft class exemptions of men will bring joy The Route Through to the Increase will be made' it was stated Mapping number of men who apgreat received Instructions "'Following second camp for the from Utah plied Great Northwest from President Wilson Governor BamIn charge of the Ball R Louis Capt berger yesterday delegated to each than recruiting station received morewas member of each local draft board the to 400 applications from which he Making the trip In the Interests of select sixty-eigauthority to administer such oaths as the past During In the execution of the an route for automobile tour- week he together with hls assistant selective service law ists which will take more motorists Captain King has visited every district a party of in the state Copies of a ruling relative to the Into the great northwest from which applications ' status-o- f missionaries of the Mormon officials of the new Evergreen high- had been received He had contemchurch under the selective draft law way arrived In Salt Lake yesterday plated finishing the task of selecting are being sent out to all local boards They will remain here until Monday the final number some-tim- e this week from the governor’s office Mormon and will endeavor to effect a Utah or- but it is belleyed the work will not be missionaries whose ordination ante- ganisation of the trail association now until next week dates May 18 the date of the passage Capt I M Howell of Olympia Wash completed of the draft law and who were then secretary of state of Washington A J and are still engaged In ministerial Elrod of Seattle secretary of the Ever PARCELS FOR SOLDIERS duties may claim exemption on the green Highway association Chadwick producing director of the Aniground that they are ministers of re- Ayres mated Educational Film company of however all like must ligion They and W E Hudson-o- f Seattle other ministers be physically exam- Seattlecamera CAN BE SENE BY MAIL man comprised the party ined by local boards and let forth the Pathe which in Dr Ben facts' In their respective cases where- F Hill got yesterdaythe Today president of highway will upon the boards will render Yerdict train back to hls gone arrlve'by having i Garfield 'Starts Draft at home in Walla Walla after making a The local postoffice received word The draft board at Garfield yester- week’s drive from A S Burleson postyesterday Today-a- s day entered upon the work of examthere master general-- ' that packages not planned tentatvely with J David exceeding 20 'pounds In weight may ining the first drawing of registrants will be a as to physical fitness for military Larson secretary jot the Commercial now be sent to the United States exservice Out of 100 men who appeared club and other local road boosters peditionary forces In Europe but may before the board 50 were alien resi- While the highway Is not definitely not be reglatered Insured or sent ' dents and 'therefore exempt Of the mapped as yet It is hoped to have It C O D should be addressed giving the remaining 60 there were 18 who quali- completely designated as soon as ‘the They fied physically and made no claim for trip Is ended with Salt Lake an Im- name of addressee the official desigbeexemption-portant control point nation of unit to which addressee Exexaminations are In official's The “American will words and the Physical begin highway traveling ' 'the Second municipal district at 9 In Overland automobiles relayed for longs peditionary Forces” Under no cirWillys-Overlaa m today-a- t the draft board head- them by the company cumstances should the location or staquarters rooms 811 and 818 Atlas new machines and100drivers being sup- tion of a military organization be Inmiles The next cluded in the address on mall for any block Seven a m Is set as the start- plied about every hour In district No L Districts Important stop will be made at Provo member of such forces ing No S and start work Monday The tentative route through Utah Is Word was received yesterday that Save-Ifor the case of alien enemies and south to Nephl- through Nephl canyon the addition of five more carriers aualien residents all registrants sum- to Mantl' on to Richfield and to St the Salt Lake postoffice has been moned to appear before the local George thorised They will be put on after boards must be examined physically August 16 before filing exemption claims f f It has been announced that men who AGED CONTRACTOR seek to evade' service by refusing to report for examination will be drafted AND WARRIOR DEAD at once Into the military service and will lose their right to file exemption William G Evans pioneer contracclaims tor and Indian war veteran- died yesct Thrift develops at hls home 1024 S First West terday street He was born In England in 1844 confidence -RADIO OPERATORS ARE and came to Utah In 1862 character Honey Those surviving are hls ' widow and nine children 'William H Evans and in’independence C T Evans of Logan and Mrs Thomas 1 stills - courage in Hansen Mrs William Miller Mrs WillNEEDED BY UNCLE SAM iam Jones Mrs Charles Mills Miss en-your heart— puts 'i Polly Evans Lawrence Evans 'and behindJ’-Vera Evans of Salt Lake your Joseph ergy Jyx J Funeral arrangements will be made A' hurry up” call was made upon ambition'' later the local army recruiting station last the police but nightr— not Now is the time' to form of a iby received from the t: ( telegram ACID BOTTLE BREAKS ' of the central' departheadquarterf start Open Savingment of the army BOY SEVERELY BURNED an account here TO“Urge expert radlo operators to join was the substance the army DAY with $100 or Carl Dockstader 15 years old 452 of the teiegrpiin According to: the disr W Seventh South street was severely are Intended more for patch the operators burned Yesterday when a bottle of nitimmediate special service v acid ric wlch Ishea was carrying brokea ofbe made at the Application 'may ’Dockstader delivery boy for fice of Capt' James D’ Watson officer local firm : He was delivering- a bottle in eharge of the local army recruiting Salt Secority of nitric acid to the capitol building station As he Jumped from hls bicycle In the The' Salt Lake navy' recruiting office 01rnst Company state capitol grounds the bottle broke was thirteenth in the ‘number of reagainst the handlebars throwing the cruits obtained for the navy during the acid upon him He was taken to the month ending July 20 according to a Emergency hospital where it was received ' yesterday There are report he was suffering from severe found fifty-on- e naval recruitng ' stations in burns upon the left leg and arm -- 7 ' the Unlteg Statea - - - ion - ht ht ' - - — - ’ -- : -- considered : - - ion - TRAIL BOOSTERS REACH SALT LAKE - been-fortunat- e - ht all-ye- ar are-necessar- - ‘ ’ - ' - get-togeth- er - - - nd - - direction of Captain and AdArrangejutant Elliott M Norton ments may be mode to transport the men on street care The batch of recruits to come today Is the largest number which has come at one time to the local post since the reign of local military activity der - dry' In-th- - ' ' Because flhe: has n new Hotpoint Electric Iron " ‘ Power & 7 Iiight XJfcah Co:7 Efficient PuUic Service - : -' ' waih? ' : - - ' V Why doed thelady smila when the lanndry man de- liven that large handle of-- ’: 4roagh ' 4 at-once- - ” ' -- - late - -- - the- - which began May 25 Colonel Dashlell Arrives CoL William R Dashlell who arrived Honolulu took comThursday fromForty-thirmand of the regimentDa-at Fort Douglas yesterday Colonel shlell was formerly stationed here havbeen In command of the post from ing 1896 to 1899 He mustered Into federal service all the Utah Volunteers for the war Spsnish-AmericLieut: R P Hartle of the Forty-thir- d complaced In yesterday infantry was casual or rqcrult camp to mand of the succeed Lieut Karl Engeldinger d' an re-Ii6y- 0d the First aid Instructions began in This infantry yesterday Forty-thir- d is an innovation In post circles and Is one of the mtny features outlined for hls regiment by MaJ L B SImonds Tuberculosis examinations continue at Fort Douglas The examining officers look over the men at a rate of thirty an hour Yesterday the officers of the Twentieth Infantry were examined On account of the examinations beon at the public' safety ing carried draftbuilding for men who have been ed the boxing wrestling and other athletic stunts planned for the soldiers In the building have been called off until Tuesday August 14 instead of Tuesday the 7th This announcement was made yesterday by Captain and Adjutant EL M Norton Vomeral for ' The funeral Private' of Private Fallo company E of the Twentieth Inpost chapel fantry wasmheld from the All officers 330 p at yesterday and enlisted men off duty were present The funeral sermon was delivered by MaJ Edward Fitzgerald chaplain of the war prison barracks Interment was In the post cemetery Commanding officers of regiments will no longer be permitted to Issue leaves of absence or furloughs to enlisted men of their commands accordthe westing to orders received from ern department Only the post commander may now grant special leave to men and then only under circumstances of an urgent nature Orders received at the post yesterday are to the effect that In regiments with two field officers one of them will be Cele-don- lo - present at all times during the drill and military Instructions of their rewill take genspective regiments andsame throughout eral charge overa the the regiment been Although no official word has that soldiers given out it Is expectedsome time next at the post will be paid week Considerable “red tape” Is attached to the departure of Capt Walter B Elliott and the taking over of the accounts by Capt John II Stern The office force la being rushed In an effort to pay the Sammies at an early date Distribution of pay for the prisoners Interned In the prison camp continued yesterday under the directlonof Capt Albert J McDonald prison quartermaster Sergt Stanley Dixon was yesterday assigned to the medical department of the Forty-secon- d Infantry and Sergt Frank G Gardner to the ’“medicos” of the Forty-thir- d the 619 recruits Transportation for the for regiments at today arriving Fort Douglas will bo provided by the local branch of the Red Cross Major W G Williams adjutant general of a member of the national guard Is committee and ( the Red Cross executive cars the street for obtained special has occasion In the past large consignments of recruits for the post have been compelled to march to the post Two New Player Rolls You Ought - ' The Salt Lake Garfield & Western company has asked the public Railway commission fdr permission to utilities extend its lines from Saltalr to Garfield a' distance of three miles Com- 619 Newly Enlisted Men Will Arrive Today 2300 More Required -- - EXTEND GARFIELD LINE ' it' ’ - " ASKS PERMISSION TO lENSOR conversation and help win the war This is the appeal msde-t-o persons In its territory by officials ' of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company They ask especially that the long rambe’ bling ‘telephone v curtailed' and that all- but lmpera- tlve calls be restricted to the less ' burdened hours between 1 and 5 P m and after' 8 9 m “The great problem that con- -' fronts the telephone company Is to handle an enormously increased number of calls In a reasonably no great satisfactory manner with a sufficiency prospect of securing of new or additional equipment ' declares a statement Issued yesterday by the officials “The greatest surges of calls come during the business hours of the forenoon If s6me of these could be postponed until afternoon operthe terrible loads upon the ators could be lessened And the unusual congestion of equipment could be prevented “Business conversations are necbrief but social conversaessarily long tions are often continued over or time causing vexatious periods i subscribers and delays to other service by tytng hampering the up trunks between exchanges” self-respe- - Our remodeled - If plans of the conservation and the-mstte- AT POST TO 4894 ' - ' -- ' Child Oblivious as Parents Battle in - Judge -- - Cal - : - e have been heard from - - ‘ Funeral arrangements will 'not be completed until relatives in California ‘ - - - Salt-Lak- arrest - by national - guardsmen' at Bingham- Wednesday ' ’J nighL ' In one of hls pockets was found a registration card which showed he' had been registered at Salt Lake and an I W W card'- showing ' membership In that organization In Spokane Wash 7 Longf ars since his ' incarceration In the Salt Lake county 'jail has been in conference with the organization’s Salt Lake counsel ' He has demanded a jury trial which has been set for August 8 His case was referred to atBingham LeQh Bone special agent for the departhe ment of justice but it- - Is will 'be ' prosecuted in the probable state court only1' While In Bingham on 4 Wednesday night it Is alleged Longf ars startedre-a tirade against the goverhment In' sisting arrest- he received a bayonet wound In his back the peace r is" the only Disturbing charge now pending- against him but the case Is being further investigated' - NINE COUPLES county-Jai- l ? : : - deep" bayonet wound received- - he declared - 9647-527- Longfars an unnatural- yesterday with' a ' - LW ized Dane was taken to the : - - Gustaf - - ' - ’ Intimation Is made in a statement of the board of directors of ’the Price River Irrigation company just issued that L W W agitators may be responsible for the destruction of Mammoth dam Thls Is based on the reports of B Pratt J ' C Wheelon and whom deboth of consulting engineers clare that the ? dam ' must have been tampered with George F- McGonagle-statengineer reported that - the damn went out as the result of faultycon-structloThe final report to the board of directors ? which has- - been 'prepared by Attorney Mathonihah?: Thomas follow-tV of the two consul ing the deductions the break in lng engineers states-tha- t the dam came at a time when the I W W’s had launched serious labor difficulties at Butte Mont1 and Blsbee Arlx ' and were desirous ' of tying up the industries of Utah Attention further Is called that the path of a flood caused by the destruction of Mammoth dam would seriously damage the railroad holding' the key to the coal fields V of Carbon county Directors Feared Trouble That the board of directors of the company feared trouble before the dam went out1' Is Indicated in the presentation of coplies of two letters in These connection with its report' were sent under date of April 12 and May 2 directing C N Christensen dam to- deputise two men superintendent for special i watch " duty and to ' light both ends of the dam at night It Is declared that the dam superintendent did not follow the orders Mr Pratt- charges directly that the was disprimary cause for the failure and' caretaker orders the of by regard watchman He also comments that none of the watchmen wero present when the Initial damage was done to the dam and that he had found that the dam had been left unguarded for periods a long as five hours Artificial Causes Cited Engineer Wheelon declares that two actions must have been necessary anent the failure of the dam both of which must have been artificial He adds: In addition to wrecking the ll at spillway a section of the core-wathe point near the center of the dam must have been blown' out The two as they were sounding wells located on either side of the - core-wa- ll opposite each other and about four : feet from the wall would offer a mine for any quantity of explosive without any work or disturbance of the surrounding qonditions In conclusion the report of the board of directors calls attention that the assets of the company are stated as Its- capital and liabilities' as 964983286 including a mortgage ' of 980000 to the State of Utah Its revenue as $2784693 Its expenses as $2744693 and permanent expenditures r as $935623 by the postoffice department at Washington shows that department officials will make few ’requests for the exemption of postal employees from military service Postmasters are- - Instructed not to ask exemption for carriers or laborers or for clerks In second class offices below the 81000 grade clerks In first class offices below the 81100 or any above these grades unless gradearethey qualified distributors of mall The ruling is the first formal action by an executive department In compliance with President Wilson’s order directing that department officials indicate exemptions and that the requirement of lndlspensahlllty be rigidly enforcedAs generally constructed the postal ruling shows the purpose of the administration to make the government departments leaders in freeing valuable employees' for war service To Limit Exemptions for Dcpntrsta Provost Marshal General Crowder took steps today to reduce the number of exemptions because of dependent families Instructions were sent to the governors of all states pointing out the" minimum pay of soldiers is that' now $80 a month and that local boards must' consider whether a man’s dependents could not be supported on that ' INCREASE ROLL Tar - Consulting Engineers Inti Gustaf L Longf ars Has Wl Agi- mate That I a Clashith Giiard After tatorsWere Responsible Alleged'" Outburst- - 7 ¥ A ruling ’issued yesterday ''' - x the '' - - ‘ IVin 4 : and es Help 7 FTLOGAN ROOKS f to Have ‘Where DoWe Go From Here? - and ‘For France and Liberty "Where Do We Go From Here” 80c 5c “For France and Liberty” for add 5c mail each If ordered by and packing ' postage ’ Send for FREE catalogs sent postpaid Daynes-Beeb- e Music Company tf 1— 3— 3 Mata SL Salt Lake I tah vr |