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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER- HYRUM, UTAH - R. n. Alshton, regional director of railroads for the northwestern region, in his annual report for the year ended December 31, 1918, shows that a total BRIEF REVIEW OF saving of $34,233,282.46 was effected In the operating expenses of the lines under his control, as a result of the unifications and economels due to government operation. The Western Fruit Jobbers associaRECORD OF THE IMPORTANT tion at its fifteenth annual meeting at HAPPENING8 IN. ITEMChicago adopted resolutions condemnIZED FORM ing the service of the American Railway Express company operating under federal control. Horn and Foreign Newt Gathered Hospital reports from the expeditionary forces show there were 95,962 sick Prom All Quartere of the World, and wounded among the American fend Prepared for Buay Men soldiers on January 16. This was a net decrease of 97,486 from the total on December 19. INTERMO'JNTAIN. WASHINGTON. Seattles general strike, the first of By a margin of one vote, equal sufIts kind ever attempted in the United States, ended officially at noon Febni-ar- y frage met its fourth defeat on FebNo further 11. Officials of the metal trades ruary 10 in the senate. council, 25,000 members'of which still action at this session is now possible, are on strike, refused to comment on but advocates announced that the now old campaign for the effect which the end of the sympa- nearly thetic walkout would have on the submission of the Susan B. Anthony status of their strike, beyond saying constitutional amendment to the states that it "undoubtedly would have some would be renewed when the sixty-sixt- h bearing on the shipyard workers fu- congress convened. Secretary Glass has asked congress ture movements. The trial of Norman E. Burnett, to increase the amount of Liberty murder of his wife bonds authorized but unissued to apcharged with-thand two small sons, whose dismem- proximately $10,000,000,000 and to give bered bodies were found buried in the him broad powers to determine the inwoods near Olympia early last month, terest rate and other terms of the Victory Liberty loan, to be floated late has begun at Tacoma. Colorado coal mines In 1918 pro- in April. A temporary military establishment duced 12,648,403 tons, 133,098 more of 28,579 officers and 509,909 enlisted than in the previous year, according to the annual report of James Dairy mple, men is provided for in the annual army appropriation bill reported to ;the house state coal mine inspector. The fourth annual western dairy by the military committee. The meascarries a total of $1,117,289,400. products show and meeting of the ure For the first time in their history Western Dairy Instructors asssocia-tio- n resources of the national banks of the opened at Boise, Idaho, February the country at the last call, December 10, with a large attendance from Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, 31, 1918, passed the $20,000,000,000 mark. . Utah, Arizona, California, Oregon, In solemn services within the house and Idaho. Washington From six to thirteen persons were chamber on Sunday the nations leadwashed overboard and drowned from ers and representatives of foreign govthe cannery tender Uwanta of the ernments paid tribute to the memory Pacific American Fisheries company, of Theodore Roosevelt. The annual postoffice appropriation ten miles south of Bellingham, Wash., as the boat was making its way from bill, carrying a total of $400,000,000, the companys plant on Eliza island. and providing for the expenditure of The Colorado senate passed with one $200,000,000 additional for road builddissenting vote a resolution memorial- ing in the next three years, was passed izing the peace conference at Paris to February 8 by the senate without a adopt an international bimetallism record vote. The measure now goes to conference. standard of finance. FOREIGN. DOMESTIC. The eye trouble with which Viscount Fifty-fou- r members of the Industrial Workers of the World passed through Grey, former British secretary of state Chicago Monday night in a special for foreign affairs, has been afflicted '"train under a heavy guard on the way for years, now has culminated in total to an Atlantic port where, it is said, blindness, says the London Daily Mail. they will be deported at once by the Viscount Grey is learning to read by the Braille system of characters for immigration authorities. E. O. Glyenchue, a discharged soldier the blind. ' and R. A. The German national assembly Rustad, hotel proprietor, passed the first reading of the proviare in custody at Los Angeles, in the death, by shooting of sional constitution by acclamation. M. L. Brink, a rancher of Homer, Neb. Advices received from Kovno assert An urgent appeal to American citi- that as a result of the success of the zens to unite in support of President Lithuanian troops and an advance by Wilson in ' his fight for a league of Finnish and Esthonian troops, anarnations was made by prominent speak- chists have evacuated Vilna. ers at the opening session at Chicago, President Wilson and Secretary of of the Great Lakes congress of the State Lansing, attended a memorial service in honor of Theodore Roosevelt League to Enforce Peace. Investigation of charges that Mrs. at the American church in the Rue de Naomi V. Campbell, head of an or- Berri, Paris, Sunday forenoon.' The two outstanding points of the phans home at Marietta, . Ga., had traded a girl inmate for $30 and a cow, Polish elections in the early part of was begun Monday by Solicitor Gen- the week were the energetic work of eral Dorsey. The charge developed the women, notably against the socialafter the arrest of the woman in con- ists, and the defeat of the socialists, nection with a general Inquiry relat- despite the large sums of money they ing to the treatment of children in are said to have spent. v the institution. Villa followers in command of RaSimultaneous conventions of metal mon Veka, entered Pearson, Chihuatrades councils have been called for hua, Monday night, killed a Chinese February 17 in New York, Chicago, merchant, looted his store of $20,000 Philadelphia, Galveston, New Orleans, worth of goods, robbed the store bePortland, Ore., and other cities for the longing to the Madera Lumber compurpose of discussing new wage agree- pany, an American-Canadiacorporaments to supplant the Macy scale for tion, and hauled the loot to the hills shipyards workers. on mules. Bragg Williams, negro, under death White Russia has proclaimed its sentence for the murder of Mrs. union with the Russian soviet republic, George Wells and her child at Itasca, according to a dispatch from Kiev. The was taken from the Hill county jail bulk of the White Russians, who numat. Hillsboro, Texas, by a mob and ber 5,500,000, live in Lithuania, which burned at the stake. recently was invaded by the Bolshe-vikWith labor and materials available, the government Is preparing to rush There has been a fresh outbreak of work on the Alaskan railroad, and Sec- Spartacan activity in Hamburg, where, retary Lane has asked congress for after a distribution of arms, the $13,800,000 to complete the job. The carried the town had by storm, Alaskan railroad commission estimates according to a dispatch from Berlin, it will take threfe years. quoting the Fraukfort Gazette. The death of Edward Ratzoll, 17 Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of in death list increased the old, President years Wilson, who had been ill an explosion and fire at Platteville, in the American legation at Brussels, She reWis., which wrecked a three-storhas completely recovered. score of was a she concerts which persons sumed the building. Nearly were injured by flying debris. in Belgium. giving Total casualties in the American Railroads should be kept under government control until congress has de- forces in the Archangel region of Rusveloped a permanent plan for their sia up to and including January 31 management, Glen E. Plumb of Chi- werelSl killed, died of wounds, sickcago, spokesman for organized rail- ness or from other cause, or missing way labor, told the senate interstate In action, and 299 wounded or injured, commerce committee. making a total casualty list of 410 out Scott Nearing, one time professor in of a force that numbered 4925. The American Red Cross hospital at the University of Pennsylvania and To-candiSocialist a Neuilly, organized in the first week oil ledo university and date for congress In New York last September, 1914, by several prominent fall, was placed on trial, in federal Americans, including William K. Vancourt at New York on Tuesday on a derbilt, Mrs. Vanderbilt, Robert Bacon and Mrs. Bacon, was closed last week. Charge of sedition. A Quaeens WEEKS EVENTS half-centur- y e " -- n i. . y v Spar-taca- SENATOR DESIRES CHANGE METHOD OF DRAFTING PARTY PLANKS. IN HiL BILL PUTTING UPON THE ANARCHIST SNAKE HAS NOW Party Conventions. BOYD PARK GONE TO GOVERNOR. -- Committee Would Be Expected to Prepare Platform Before Holding of Election of Delegates to Anclant queens, with all their fabled wealth, never had more than Is here for your selection. Our reliable prices ease the v. ay. a FOUNDED . Five Representatives Battle Vainly to Throttle Measure Defining Criminal Syndication And the Word Sabotage. Ktt BARGAINS Salt Lgke City. Political platform committees will come into existence in Utah if a bill introduced in the senate on February 10 by Senator George II. Dern should become a law. Such committees would be selected at least two months before the holding of the election at which delegates would be chosen to the state convention called to adopt a platform. The measure, if successful, will do away with the present practice of formulating the party platform after the convention has assembled. With but one dissenting vote, the house on February 10 passed a measure placing a heavy fine or imprisonment upon persons or corporations who use any false or misleading or deceptive statements in advertisements of any kind. The bill is designed to further strengthen the law already on the books. Senate bill No. 30 was passed by the house on February 10 without debate and by a unanimous vote an unheard of procedure. The bill makes proof that a fire was caused by sparks from a locomotive prima facie evidence of neglect upon the part of the railroad. The house also disposed of house concurrent resolution No. 3, by Morris, killing the measure by a vote of 28 to 12. The resolution proposed an amendment to the state constitution to permit the monthly instead of the quarterly payment of state officers. Another amendment to the state constitution is proposed in house concurrent resolution No. 7, by Morris. It is designed to modify the limit of bonded indebtedness which may be incurred by cities and counties. The present law provides for a percentage that was based upon a partial valuation of property, while the .property valuations for assessment purposes are now the full amount. Salt Lake City. Anarchy, under the guise of Bolshevism and I. W. will be very unpopular In Utah in fu-- . ture. Despite desperate efforts on the part of five members of the lowen house of the Utah legislature to de--i feat it, the bill by Senator Chez dei fining criminal syndicalism and the word sabotage was passed oil Feb-- , ruary 8 and will now go to the governor. Those members who sought to, defeat the measure, first through an effort to strike out the enacting clause ; second, through an effort to kill it by amendment which would have had the same effect as striking out the enacting clause and last by voting against the bill were: R. E. Currie of Salt Lake, William Kelly of Tooele, F. E. Morris of Salt Lake, Francis E. Nalder of Davis, Silas' E. Tanner of Wayne. Currie and Morris are labor representatives from Salt Lake county. Besides this one bill of Importance passed at the Saturday session of the house, four new measures were presented: One providing for the can cellation of state warrants not presented to the state treasurer for payment within a period of two years from date of issue; another relating to bounties for the destruction of certain, wild animals; a third pertaining to highways; and the fourth measure authorizing the purchase by the secretary of state of a portrait of Brig. Gen. Frank Hines. . - non-payme- CARS Oldsmobilej, Na. d Auto Co, Salt Lake citr RADIATORS like new. ACETYLINE WELDING iu all ita branched,. We save you time and money. H. & E. Radiator & Welding Co. 382 Edison Street, Salt Lake City, Utah THE ARMADILLO AS In a A DIGGER With a Boy ths An. mal Won Out In Quit Easy Manner. Tug-Of-W- ar One day I was standing on a mound when an armadillo bolted from his earth and running to the very spot where I was standing began vigorously digging to escape by burying himself In the soil. Neither men nor dogs had seen him, and I at once determined to capture him unaided by anyone and imagined it would prove a very easy task. Accordingly I laid hold of his black d tall with both hands and began tugging to get him off the ground, but couldnt move him. He went on digging furiously, getting deeper and deeper Into the earth, and I soon found that Instead of me pulling him out he was pulling me in afbone-case- ter him. It hurt my small boy pride to think that an animal no bigger than a cat was going to beat me in a trial of strength, and this made me hold on more tenaciously than ever and tug and strain more violently, until not to lose him I had to go flat on the ground. But It was all for nothing. First my hands, then my aching arm were carried down into the earth, and I was forced to release my hold and get up to rid myself of the mound he had been throwing up Into my face and ail over my head, neck and shoulders. From Far Away and Long Ago by W. H. Hodson. f TREE PUZZLE TO FORESTERS Peculiar Formation of Spruce Hal Caused Speculation Among Men Learned in That Lore. A cross section of a great old spruce tree from Alaska tells the story of a tree which executed a spin, like a ballet dancer. This cross section show a most peculiar spiral structure, which has caused a great deal of speculation among the various foresters throughout the country and a very Interesting explanation is advanced in American Forestry. It is known that a tree growing at a slant forms on the lower side of the trunk a dense reddish wood known as rotholz. This spiral In this case Is of such sort, and ns It is a continuous formation, winding from the center to within half an Inch from the circumference, It is surmised that it was growing In an Inclined position on the edge of a glacier, where by some shifting It was caused to rotate, so that all sides of the tree were successively on the downward side. Thus, as the tree grew, and its rotation con tlnued slowly, the rotholz developed Into a spiral. - Ce patomtegoatatu ring.' Schoolmasters have often serious note, problems to solve. The following recent was containing only one word, ly handed to a Thanet pedagogue: "Cepatomtegoataturlng.' The missive was tendered by one of the boys on behalf of a neighbors Bevan-Parke- d In, SEND US YOUR FROZEN, LEAKY, DAMAGED We pay transportation one way. Returned , side-tracke- IN USED llenil--25WOO. 0 Guaranteed fl rat dan ' termi II wanted tvnalnt condltlon-ea- ry br llfht parties. Write lor detailed list and dtscrla-tlon- , Used Car Dept., Randall-Dod- LEGISLATIVE NOTES. McKinneys bill providing an additional judge in the Third judicial district, which has passed the senate, is having hard sledding in the bouse. As originally introduced in the senate, it provided for two additional judges, but an amendment cut this to one and it now looks as if even the one additional judge may be cut out by the house. Fearing Senator McKinneys bill proAT THE CAPITOL. viding for the' election of city commissioners by wards in cities' of the first A card of thanks from Mrs. Theo- and second class, may go the way of dore Roosevelt and family, expressing his bill elections, abolishing their appreciation of the sympathy ex- residents of the westprimary side of Salt Lake tended by the legislature, was read in are strenuously lobbying in support of the session of the house of Febru- the measure. ary 10. Lauding Brigadier General Frank T. Three new measures were intro- Hines for his service as chief of emduced in the house on February 10. barkation of troops for overseas In One provides a plan for publishing no- the European war, and because he is tices of constltutiqnal amendments the highest ranking officer from this and for placing them upon ballots ; an- state in the regular army, Representaother proposes to compel dealers in tive C. M. Croft of Morgan has called cold,storage goods to make known the upon the legislature to purchase a fact that the goods have been in cold painting of General Hines, to be hung storage when placing them on sale; in the state capitol. and the third prohibits the sale of Owing to the increasing labors of fruit trees that are not pure stock the various committees of the Utah of the variety which they are adver- legislature and the lack of space in tised to be, and bonds nurserymen to the rooms originally designated for obey this rule. committee use, Steretary of State Mount Pleasant people are anxious Harden Bennion, official custodian of to secure an appropriation of at least the capitol, has offered them the use $25,000 to aid the people of that sec- of the offices at present occupied by tion in protecting themselves from the state council of defense, the state floods such as they have had in the printer, the public utilities commission past. It is said that an expenditure and ,the state livestock board. of double that amount will be necesIf the measure proposed by the Salt sary to insure safety to that section Lake real estate board providing for from flood waters. state control of the real estate business Two measures paramount to loyal through the medium of a real estate citizens have been passed, one a house commission, and the licensing of permeasure and the other originating in sons engaged in the business, together he senate, which puts the heel on the with the filing of a bond with, the secreanarchistic snake," to quote the words tary of state guaranteeing faithful perof one of the members. Five members formance of duty to clients and the of the house voted against the public, has successful passage through measure. the legislature, Utah will be the first A bitter fight is being made against state in the union to adopt such a Senator Olsons measure which relates measure. to the industrial commission, providing Representative William W. Seegmil-le- r of Kanab, famed in the legislature several amendments and fixing monopolistic state insurance, and the con- of 1915 as the senate floor leader in sensus of opinion is that it will be de- the bitter prohibition fight, is recoverfeated. ing from what threatened to be a seIt is' evident that there will be a rious attack of influenza. r warm contest over the February 11, under the senate rules measure In the senate, relating to the was the last day for the introduction powers and duties of the state board of bills, except upon unanimous conof equalization and assessment of sent of the members. On February 8 there were eighty-fou- r mining property. Practically nothing has been done In bills on the records of the senate, the way of road legislation at the though three of these measures have present session. Road measures, in been withdrawn for various reasons which practically every person in the and will not have to be considered. state Is interested, have been tied up, Senator Dern has a measure on the bills' made special order on this sub- second reading calendar providing for in var- an extension of time in making payject having been, ious manners. ments on state lands. It provides that While the members of the legislature when a contract of sale has been forhave been in session but half a day at feited for of Installments a time since the opening session, all it may be reinstated at any time prior day sessions are a probability in the to reappraisement or resale by the paynear future. Many of the members ment of all arrears of rental, principal feel that such action Is necessary in and interest and a penalty of 8 per order to complete the work on sched- cent. The 8 per cent penalty is the ule time. new feature of the measure. ad to M iptendM W-lsr- n, 1A43 MAKERS OF JEWELRY main STm salt lake city child. . The schoolmaster was nonplussea for the moment But he had received too many weirdly worded notes In hi time to allow this one to baffle it was not till tLe work of the school was. over, and much tobacco a had been consumed that the word last yielded its mystery : n "Kept at home to go London Chronicle. him-Albe- I Playing 8afe. a letter to Santa Clan wrote Billy and when he finished he asked his fa ther for a check. Cause, said the little fellow In way of explanation, of course Santa Claus has te pay his helpand strike ers or maybe thed go jga Christmas eve.. |