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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH HISTORY'S MYSTERIES iTO fir iJ 300,000 FOR PARKS i Unsolved Riddles That Still Puzzle Authorities Here and Abroad NOTABLE ENTRIES IN SHOW 30 The Riddle of the Casket Letters 3&fi 1 I i mm Jrw lL 1 1' vf i $&$ m, jlr ' r-- s 4 ;'W 'i w? h v'viw 7t; til: 1-- - y r ajt ijira sft i. tots v':: -- - -- - r- - 1 Statue of which was presented to Venezuela by the United States rienry Clay, father of and unveiled in Caracas on Decembet 9. 2 Scene in Paris during the recent floods that tnad(j some streets Impassable. S Mail sorters in the New York post ofilce tieek deep in Christmas packages that were mailed early in response to the appeal of postal authorities. HEWS REVIEW OF 8 President and Senate a Warfare Relief Vordy Measures Passbd. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. IlOOVKIt and the sen-- ' pRESIDENT ate, or part of that nominally august body, came to verbal blows over legislation. The Chief Executive, who seemingly doesn't feel so restrained now that the election Is over, was vexed because of the introduction of measures which would impose an ex-- , pendifure far beyond the sura he had recommended, and mostly under the guise of giving relief of some kind or as he said to the White another, House correspondents. lie directly some members of congress of playing politics at the expense of human misery. The President obviously referred to the proposal for Immediate payment in cash of the soldiers' bonus and. the Shipstead plan, a $"00,000,000 bond Issue for river and harbor work. Ilis statement also was regarded as directed at Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, who Imd criticized Mr. Hoover for the inadequacy of his relief program. When this statement reached the senate the war broke out fiercely, anil the President was bitterly attacked by Senators Itohinson, Caraway, Glass, Harrison and other Democrats. Next 'day In a prepared speech Senator of Tennessee scathingly assailed Mr. Hoover for what tie called his tirade of abuse and declared the President owed an apology to every member of .the senate. His reputation and his sincerity were impugned. .., Senator Reed of Pennsylvania alone came to Mr. Hoovers defense, and lie showed little enthusiasm in his task. The senate on Tuesday passed, without a record vote, the drought re lief loan fund hi!" amended to ap propriate $00. 090.000. which is more than twice what the administration considered necessary and which in tiiai form provided not only for seed purchase loans but also for loans for the purchase of food for tiie distressed farmers. To this latter feature Secre tary of Agriculture Hyde had objected on the ground that it was perilously near the dole system, and this elicited caustic comments from the istration senators. anti-admi- n the house WITHOUT theopposition bill appropriating for an emergency public fund, which is the ad ministrations cldef step in the reliei of unemployment. It had been revised .to meet the objections of the Democrats, who opposed the granting of blanket authority to the President In the expenditure of the fund, so that he could only transfer funds from one of the specified purposes to another. The senate removed even this authority, added $S,000,000 to the total, and passed the bill. Of the total, is for advances to the $S(),OCO,0()0 states for federal aid highway projects and is to be paid back within five years by deductions from federal contributions. Rivers and harbors gets $110,000,000 construction $22,500,000. congress, both and Democrats, expressed a fear that the submission of the world court protocols to the Semite would result in a legislative Jam that might make necessary thq calling of an extra session of the new congress (n the spring. In his message transmitting the protocols the President asked for early consideration of the question. He said that the protocols as revised free us from any entanglement in the diplomacy of other nations and urged that the United in tills States lend Its effort of the nations to establish a great agency for pacific settlements. It may he the appropriations legislation will be completed in time to give the senate a few weeks to take up the world court mutter before March 4, but the radicals are likely to filibuster unless their pet measures SOME leaders In are acted on also, and thus an extra session might he forced. r'UAN'K B. KELLOGG, former sec-o- f I retary state, received the Nobel peace prize for 1929 in Oslo, Norway, Wednesday, in the presence of King Haakon and a distinguished gathering. At tiie same time the peace prize for 19.10 was handed to Dr. Nathan Socd-erblo- Mr. Kellogg, in acknowledging the award, asserted there Was no indication of war in the world, but rather tiie prospect was for continued peace. Should tiiere he a war. however, he gave warring, western civilization could not withstand it. Among the other Kohel prizes handed out was that for literature to Sinclair Lewis, ' American novelist, who received it in Stockholm from the hands of King Gustav of Sweden. LTAVIN'G adopted an outline of a TT general disarmament treaty, the preparatory disarmament commission of tiie League of Nations ended its sessions at Geneva. This draft convention will lie tiie basis for the deliberations of a world conference that probably will meet early in 1912. Ambassador Hugh Gibson, who represented tiie United States, in a closing statement told li is colleagues that the outline treaty falls far short of our hopes and expectations," failing to include the various methods which Americans regarded as essential to real .disarmament, lie said, however, he consoled himself with the belief that tiie scheme adopted would permit at least tiie stabilization of armaments, dbe setting up of machinery to receive and spread information on armaments, and to prepare system aticnlly for the work of future conferences. transmitted to the IVjR. house of representatives a formal request for tiie immediate appropriation of another $150,000,000 to the fed eral farm hoard from its $500,000,009 revolving fund. Tiie money is needed, be said, in order that important operations of the board, now in prospect. may be carried through promptly. and it was understood this oieant further outlays for the stabilization of wheat prices. HOOVER Shoals by organization of farmers was asked by the American Kami Bureau federation at its con vention in Boston, it also voiced op position to amendment of the agricul turn I marketing act at this time. Tiie federation also recommended stricter regulation of grain and cot ton exchanges; that funds to be loaned to farmers in tiie drought area be made immediately available: that eon gress appropriate money to insure im mediate .carrying out of tiie authorized development projects, and that the federal treasury have a revolving fund to he used exclusively to stabilize fed eral land bank bonds. Muscle OPERATION of a TWO hundred men and women rep dry organi- thirty-thre- e zations field an annual conference in Washington and asked that congress provide more men nrni more money for enforcement of prohibition. A convention of wets also was held in tiie National Capital and agreed on a unified substitute plan for prohibition. ERE Is one record of achievement to brag about. The forest service reports that fire damage to national forest lands tills year was held down to $237,370, a reduction of nearly 95 per cent from last year. This despite the fact that tiie season has been the driest on record. Forest area burned over amounted to 195,905 acres, only of last years acreage. one-fift- h of the Chicago & which since the time of tiie Civil war has operated 1,023 miles of track in Illinois and Missouri, were sold at public auction in foreclosure proceedings of the federal court, the sale taking place at Wil niington. III., the first station outside of Chicago actually owned by the comTiie railway, valued at pany. was purchased by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, which owned a majority of the Alton's honds. The Alton company had been in receivership for eight years, brought to PROREUTIES ), that condition by financial difficulties that started with Hie failure to pay dividends on mortgages imposed by the Harriman interests in tiie '90s. Strikes and bad business in tiie bituminous coal region helped tiie company on the downward path. D USSIA'S picturesque trial of eight T'- engineers accused of an conspiracy in which foreign nations and notabilities were declared to be involved ended as expected in the conviction of all the defendants. It could not he otherwise, since all had confessed. Five of them were sentenced to death and three to ten years in prison, and ail the applauded. Next day the central executive committee of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics commuted the five death sentences to ten years imprisonment, and two years were taken off the other sentences. The press of London and Paris' looks on the whole affair as a put up job. anti-Sovi- Co'm-munis- ts MO 1 SATISFACTORY explanation " has yet been given of the poison fog which killed 67 persons in the Meuse valley of Belgium and France, The Belgian authorities tried to belittle the uffair but Queen Elizabeth ruled otherwise and appointed a commission of physicians to make an investigation. now stands, in HENRY CLAY the center of a wide plaza in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, and lie is labeled tiie Apostle of fraternity between the countries of America. Tl,e statue is the present of the United States to Venezuela, given in return for one of Gen. Simon Bolivar, hero of South American independence, which was unveiled in New York in 1921. It was dedicated on Tuesday by James R. Sheffield, former ambassador to Mexicri, and received by the high officials of the Venezuelan gov- ernment. In his address Mr. Sheffield said! In speaking to the people of Venezuela, I am trying to Interpret to all tiie republics of South America tiie friendly attitude of my country and its faith in the complete triumph of free institutions and governments in the western world. We aspire to no leadership in your affairs. We only wisii to help you in attaining the highest development of your national consciousness and sovereign rights. CEtRHTARY of the Navy Adams in Itis annual report points out file perils in. the administrations policy of reducing navy enlisted personnel to a minimum. He says that during last year there were not enough enlisted men to man fully all types of ships in tiie navy, to operate the navy with the remaining 79.800 men it will he necessary to decommission a number of vessels. Appearing before the house naval committee. Mr. Adams HSked that congress approve a $34,000,000 construction program designed to start our country on the way to having such a fleet as Is authorized by the London treaty. Chairman Britten of the committee thereupon Introduced a bill authorizing the construction of seven new cruisers and submarines and one aircraft carrier, the only vessels on the navy program not now authorized. annual report of the internal commission shows that ten states with an aggregate population of less titan one-haof the total for the country pay more than three-fourtof the federal tax bill. These states. In their order, are: New York, North Carolina, Illinois, Pennsylvania. California. Ohio, Michigan, Massachusetts, Virginia and Missouri. Few of the southern and western states, except those with large Industrial cities, tax percentages approaching paid their population percentages. The total international revenue receipts for the fiscal year were set by the report at $3,010,145,733, of which $2,410,259,230 was paid in income taxes and $629,8S0,502 in miscellaneous taxes. THE il S. OVERMAN, veteran senator South Carolina, died in Washington after a weeks Illness. He was LEE seventy-si- x years old and had served in the senate since 1902. . 1930, Western Newspaper Union j tragic and pitiable ONE of theofmost history, Mary Stuart, dowager queen of the French and reigning queen of Scotland, is surrounded by much that is strange and mysterious particularly in the events which marked the closing days of her career, for it is here that historians come up against the blank wall of the problem of the "casket letters, one of the unsolved riddles of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Mary Stuart was only nineteen when, heeding tiie pleas of her people, she sailed from France and returned to Scotland after the death of her French husband. Hardly had she landed, before her insistance upon adhering to Catholicism brought her into conflict with many of her own subjects, while the controversy with Queen Elizabeth over the succession to the British throne added additional fuel to the flames of dissension on both sides of tiie border. But Hie principal troubles of the young queen were due to tiie efforts of her uncle to secure for her a second husband. Lord Darn ley, son of the Earl of Lennox, being finally selected for this honor. It did not take the queen long to discover Darnleys true character and marital discord of the most intense nature ensued, culminating in the accusation that Mary had become enmeshed in an Intrigue with David Rizzio, her secretary, and the assassination of the latter under the very eyes of the queen. .The death of Darn ley followed under circumshortly afterwards, stances which pointed toward tiie complicity of the Earl of Bothwell, a close friend of the queen, who, after being tried and acquitted of the charge of murder, carried Mary off to his cas tie at Dunbar, where he married her a few days after securing a divorce from his former wife. The storm of indignation to which this action gave rise was so widespread and so intense that it became necessary for Mary to flee from Scotland and take refuge in England, where she sought the protection of Elizabeth, her cousin. Tiie Good Queen Bess, however, had by no means forgotten tiie efforts which Mary had previously made to secure her own throne and, therefore, of the ordered an investigation charges made by the Earl of Murray that Mary Imd been involved in the conspiracy to murder her second husband. Lord Darniey. Here it is that the casket letters make their appearance. for Murray introduced as direct evidence of his accusation a silver casket which Mary had given to her first husband, the king of France, and had later presented to Bothwell, containing. in the latter Instance, a number of love letters and sonnets and two documents, one of which was supposed to have been in her own handwriting and the other to have been dictated by her.1 If the genuineness of these letters Is not questioned, they form Incontestable proof of the queens guilt in conspiring against the life of her husband, as well as in acquiescing to the plot by which Bothwell was to carry her off to his mountain fortress. But tiie queen of Scots paid so little intention to this evidence, which she declared was nothing more than a bare-face- d forgery, that siie instructed her counsellors to ignore it completely and to huild her defense on other grounds. Tiie adherents to the Earl of Murray, illegitimate son of King to James, and therefore Mary, maintained, on the other hand, that tiie intimacy of certain passages in tiie letters and the great amount of detail which they contained was sufficient proof of their authenticity, despite tiie fact that they were couched in terms so vulgar und in language so unschooled that It seemed impossible that the queen could have written them. The combination of the casket letters, tiie constant stream of underground intrigue nnd the hatred ol Elizabeth culminated In the sentencing of Mary to Hie scaffold hut the casket letters vanished as mysteriously as they had appeared and the question of whether oi not they were genuine has t" be listed among the mysteries which surrounded the reign of tiie queen of the Scots. half-broth- I bv tha Wheelar Syndicate. Germans Lay Fancy Walk frames or stenWelded sheet-stee- l cils are being used In Germany. In laying- - garden and park or; other walks in patterned colored concrete, Tiie frames, or forms, are ten bj fifteen feet In size, with upright sides and interior divisions making a pattern of any design and for any number of colors. The form is set on the usual foundation and the colored concrete poured Into the proper spaces until the whole frame is filled, when it is moved ahead. Two men can handle the frame and can lay 200 square yards a day. Popular Mechanics Magazine. True Belief Do you believe ull you say In your speeches? ' answered Senator Every word, Sorglium. In order to make some, of those speeches my greatest mental energy has been devoted to the task of convincing myself." WORLD WAR YARNS Drainage Law Upheld BANDS TO ENTER JUNIOR SCHOOL BAND CONTESTS OPENING VEIN OF GOLD HIGH by Lieut. Frank E. Hagan conditions SALT LAKE Range in Utah are above the five year avThe Greatest Hero erage- according to the agricultural The soldier named by Gen. John authorities. j Pershing as the individual NORTH SALT LAKE Livestock hero of the World greatest war earned a Coshipments out of this city have inngressional Medal and a bucketful of creased one hundred per cent over other decorations without suffering shipments for 1929. scratch but when lie started to m;weti LOGAN Six thousand gallons of into Germany after the fighting was gasoline escaped when freezing of a ended, he broke his leg! pipe line caused a leak in a storage Lieut. Samuel Woodfiil, Sixtieth tank. was the soldier. His special OGDEN Entries have been receivfeat of glory was the annihilation of ed for two outstanding herds of cattle something like 19, (or was it 22?) of for the twelfth annual livestock show, the enemy. Also, the destruction of 10 15. 20 to include They a series of machine gun nests in that January of owned head Shorthorns, by C. J. busy sector of the Argonne north of Broughton of Dayton, Wash. This Nantiliois. will be the first time this herd has exOld Sam Wood fills company helped hibited at Ogden. Mr, Broughton's relieve tiie Eightieth division, herd has won numerous prizes at one foggy morning in October early and, stock shows and fairs. The other exwithout any artillery assistance whahibitor, whose entries has arrived, is tever, launched an attack. Mrs. E. L. Knight of the Wiliow Anyway, .old Sam Woodfiil seemed Meadow Jersey farm at Willows, Cal. to realize the entire job was up to Mrs. Knight showed the grand chamhim. So, whether the total was 10 pion Jersey bull at the last Ogden or 22, it is definitely known lie stock show. Her herd is one of the j the ast three ()f his km with a got jtk tnier Jersey aggregations of the west. ax when he jumped into their emMORGAN Morgan county now has placement and found that his pistol a poultry population of approximately would only snap futilely, which 75,000 hems, which will be in producwasn't surprising, since hed emptied tion during the winter and next sumall iiis clips long ago. mer. They made Woodfiil a captain, over MORGAN A sauerkraut club is in the Sixtieth. He was in charge of functioning in this county. Five boys a company when the are in the tlub and each kept records march toward Germany began. Not en one-haacre, each of cabbage. li:e a scratch on him. Woodfills a lucky boys soid 14.9 tons of cabbage to tue guy, the doughboys said. saueiiu-uufactory from the half The first time the regiment pitched acre plots. The average sale was camp, Woodfiil, who came into the and expenses of around $38, leaving a army man and went out profit of $80. the same way. cliallmiged one of his CASTLE DALE F. Ungrcit of soldiers to a wrestling bout. And just this city, on his way home livm Sait as we told you in the beginning, the Lake, driving a heavily loaded trucx, hero who won a Congressional Medal turned over when he became uaevu-scrou- s without so much as a scratch, promptfrom gas fumes which blew m.o ly fractured a leg. his cab ironi a hoie in tire flooring. OGDEN The Weber County ,..h The First American Killed and Game Protective association uas first American citizen killed in The organized a rabbit drive vest ol his life on Febtiie World war to procure food for the poor. 27. 1915, more than two years ruary LOGllN A community Christmas cheer chest has been organized uy a before this country formally entered the conflict. He was Edward Mandell club at the Logan junior high Stone, a native of Chicago, who was school. The club is part of the comtwenty-seve- n years old at the time of munity program arid was organized by his death. tue student body. A star is given any Stone's sacrifice Is remembered. student who Liangs in toys, boons, Each year his death is the inspiraclothing, food or any article available two separate ceremonies. The tion for cheer the to for Cfirsimas needy. his passing, February 27, bus of date BRIGHAM CITY Sixty persons, been designated a3 the time when the seven couuties northern representing Assoc' tion of American Volunteers of Utah, expressed themselves .here, each With the French Army, as being in favor ot the early conFlame on Eternal the reanimates year of an struction around highthe tomb of Frances Unknown Soldier way arouud the northern end of the the Arc Je Triomphe. at Lake. Salt Great On Memorial day every year the SALT LAKE Constitutionality of American Legion directs a rite at the th$ Utah drainage district law is upof Stone in the cemetery oi grave held and the authority of the board One of the interRomilly-sur-Seinof superivsors of Millard county of this latter ceremony features esting drainage district No, 3 to levy taxes woman who, as voFrench Is the that for drainage district purposes, inlunteer nurse, wrote the last letter for cluding the addition of 15 per cent of Stone and was beside him when he the total levy for contingencies, inShe is now died, is a participant. cluding possible delinquencies, is afschool in La the of schoolmistress firmed in a unanimous decision of the Villeneave-au-Chatelo- t. state supreme court. The district is Stone lived in Paris and was in one of the largest of its kind in the American diplomatic service when the state, including, 43732 acres. AssessHe enlisted in ment of benefits, at $15 to $70 an acre, the World war began. Legion, August 24, French the Foreign total $2,530,000.73. 1914, with the first group of American SALT LAKE Construction of the citizens. $400,000 veterans hospital at this city Less titan six months later on Feis expected to start tarty in the a 15, 1915, while serving as bruary spring according to Col. Radcliffe, Second RegB, Battalion in construction engineer for the U. S. private was iment of the Foreign Legion, he veterans bureau at Bale Alto, CaL he died 12 days so wounded severely Mi. FLEAS ANT The Noth Sanlater. pete board of education, by unanimous Stone was in the trenches near action, passed a resolution calling in in the Aisne when wounded. Craonelle $2U,i,oo of bonds outestanding against He went west In the military hospital the district The redemption will take The first AmeRomilly-sur-Seinat place in February. posthureceived, die to MiDVALE $30,000 egg candling rican citizen both the Croix de Guerre and mously, and grading pmnt is opened with a Medaiile Militaire. celebration, BRICE A new classification to The Cited Captives junior higa school entries in the somAs a tonic for morale which first annual invitational school band German the etimes needed stiffening, wj.11 which be sponsored April Cintest, ot 10 and 11, by the Brice Cimutber of ail highest adopted a policy divisions commerce, has been created, accordpraise for certain Austrian ing to William H. Toy, secretary. A on the Western Front Americans Among papers seized by total of five divisions will now compete p. c. near regimental Austrian an in the meet, and cups for first place from German a was war the end of tiie winners and plaques to bands, placthe praised which highly order corps ing second will be awarded. Approxdoc The division. First Austrian imately 30 bands.from Utah and Wesheroic meat mentioned especially the tern Colorado are expected to enter the tne work against wonderful and contest. regAustrian Yankees by the Fifth PAYSON Application of the Strawberry Water Users association for iment of infantry. A short time later, the order permit to store waters of the Cold to the front to be read to troops sent An Springs area in Spanish Fork canthe Fifth Austrian infantry. yon, in a regulating reservoir of 37 of acre-focapacity in connection with Austrian othe "reaVnks the operation of its power plant on foared with laughter-t- or the docu the Spanish Fork river, caused the Ameran ment was read to them by visit to the state eapitol- of representan Ame in leafed as they ican captain atives of the association and of variThe entire Fi ous users from the Spanish Fork, who lean prison pen.. 800 men and officers, intent. Including may contest the approval of the applihad been captured by the Yanks. cation by George M. Bacon, state enSeveral days later a messaf gineer. American a rp dropped from an command-containePANGUITCH The national park for the German high reassuring nforatn. the service plans on spending $150,000 reFifth A us the of members that the road from of the floor building their go Zion canyon, from the Mount Carfantry would continue roads and mel bridge to the lodge, and $250,000 -m- ainly in building which prison for commencing work on the new other construction to assfgne commonly were road tliut is to run southward along of war Up n' 1930. Western Newspaper the west rim of Bryce canyon to the Dew park area. Work on the Zion road Keep on the Toe pro j can he advertised in January and the The development of synttietic , Bryce road a month later, with the ucts as the result of almost m S assurance that construction can begin at achievements Is going on afford on both projects during the winter and rate that no industry can the full apportionment spent during back In snug satisfaction w th its the next six months. 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