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Show 1ATES iAstshs RADIO HITS THE SCREEN HARD THIS PRODUCER SAYS month-t-our Ttm- m-La M1 advertisers. tier iaaua. I addition!. No I tho ?,ceej-t-pas tor roadon d Flint lyj'JlS) cent Pr Uno T.Mancements. cv-er- al Volimio 10, Number 45 w pm- AN - p' INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Week Endng April 4, 1921 Don't borrow Tha Sun. 8ubacribo. laje,Not Coal Dust, Brought CARBON DISTRICT GIVES LIBERALLY CIU FAIROtS On the Explosions eoimty cSiiraunoftta'caM? Howard of the Mw.tMEMitire cally ia fcQOu.OO. I body of methane jwunlated an offset of CONCORSJNREPORT top ibftby the removal aause of the explosion That tha report submitted by tha Kins No. 2 of the Utah March 8th, last, mining department of tha I on state on tha in the death of a racent disaster at Castle Gate to tha is This men. of experts who have eoal operators of Utah was a fair one searehinf investiga-- - was avidancad by the remark of which resulted in Frank N. Cameron, vice president and . iai who in a report aligeneral manager of the Utah Fuel eommis-industrial f bis rub T.tiw of foal eompan-g- p company, made to the mooting of the at Salt Lake City operators held in the house of reprefcMb; afternoon gave their sentatives at Balt Lake City, WednesAt the day afternoon, when ho said: tki catastrophe. As Ik expkaion tbs mine was far as tha Utah Fuel conis company ia open light basis. In car- cerned ws agree with yon on practicys the report, rot used exclusively for ally all those recommendations and l Electric cap lamps of have already started carrying them jn approved by the United onfc. While X didnt all the n of mines had been waa mine over a I myself, good deal before and were de of and concur with it I this about six report in B the eomiwny miwi to the explosion. The every respect. X think it is about as Impi an now in service and near right as it could be." k4 hereafter in this mine, to be enough - i er al er 1 de-Ih- rea-so- ed ng T - n!S which could be opened underground wys the V" "Idling on an and relighted by means of matches or n wen Z''lhZ wrdg carbide lamp in ease the flame be,x,,luwvely for came extinguished and the igniter re"I lamps of a fused to work. re-h- ui car-!i,- a. blih,r;ve! 'hire H eotoT?:" " U thl y the Castle Gate No. 2 was considered m,,,a had the model operation of the company a nd and was generally conceded t J1 V 4 e,,n,lJ ahout very safe mine, and the news or theto but disaster came as a distinct surprise They all who were acquainted with I tali Pat and will coal operations. The fact that this m,np. while mine, which waa apparently kept well I afety Lmr r, kn,,wn as IP the sprinkled, has, says the report, . mm doubt in the minds of mina raised ' f,,r testing ing engineers and operators as to the to preefficiency of watering systems thal the vent explosions. . - The report then continues: Castle lh,!tendnf Gate No. 2 was among the best kept and mines in Utah. The ventilation was experi- - adequate and the sir properly split. h. 11 of air entered s,atp bu. Over 380, 000 cubic-feal ,l pniducea the mine The mine was minute. per mines in the MPlosive best sprinkled ,athi.,r" among the country. That state. A sprinkling hose with adc- - ? 2LJ ,C previou" lion, , An, et - d were-supplie- " A meth-Shooti- irts .:r main-reac- ex-T- he iaii PAVING AND $1101 IK-Ipe- that the explosion thia eoal dust be made inert the Utah Bom ia 2, sixth main dip Fuel company installed an elaborate of sprinkling in all its mines top coal had been shot down system no expense in the installaand before the spared the bob night body of the fire boas tion and operating of its sprinkling Th details of the system id with his flame safety lamp system. d oa the inside of this top are then given. The company, continues the rebL The bodies of two miners maintains rescue station equiptad oa the outside of the pile port, with five sets of Paul apjiaratus the nr. ped It that appears l and repairs i head gas near the roof in with necessary supplies a with and sufficient number of trainea hu examination first b ed apparatus men available at all hark with the miners to reeks hie lamp became extin-a- d times and apparatus teams are quickavailable from the eompanys when he got down from ly d top coal, opened his lamp camps in the immediate locality. ia the set of relighting it, he Then follows the story of the explof the Miners ignited the gas. sions, the details of which have been heretofore printed as have those of hired to the conclusion, i the report, that all gas ac- the rescueing ojie rations and it is addme v not reported by fire ed 90 per cent of the bodies were recovered by men wearing oxygen retleeetgas which was control was not report-e- t breathing apparatus, and considering why inch conditions or the number employed in the rescue tffn reporting were allow- work the report with pardonable pride ed n ire unable to says that an enviable record was es say. pwy which ia a most vol-n- t, tablished. ii made by B. W. The story of the investigation and Dyer, John Craw-eo- inquiry into the matter of determinmine inspector, and ing the cause of the explosion is then m, coal mining engineer, elaborated upon and the conclusion is wide under seven prin- - reached that the initial one was not uchtding the introdna-U- e caused by a runaway trip as was first first two topics treat-- k thought to have been the cause, and regarding location of the source of the explosion is believed hy ihip and the eoal oecnr-httthe investigators to have started in varying in thickneaa No. 2 room, sixth left dip entry, and nws twenty to a detailed story at length follows. The twenty-si- x dipi shout six or seven e second explosion, says the report, was north. largely a dust explosion, and the Kaethods adopted at tha for these conclusions are detailed " da 2 mine of the Utah in the report. The main cause of the where the disaster explosion, however, continues the reby means of a port, waa the ignition of a body of 7 tyetem driven from the methame which had accumulated re-in entry of the eys- - an offset in the roof left by the wd for haulage, the north moval of top coal. General safety "by rerving as a main re-- d conditions are treated by the rejsirt thc south entry thus: The plan of work- Some of the dangerous practices L? retailed, as are the which evidence shows were prevalent off the at this mine have to do with the methreport, ' i, prohibit- - ods used in handling gas accumulani'ne ,nd only tion and the laxity of gas report. In hk ivJ is used for ahoot- - addition, men were allowed to work to tne 1ltonators are with open lights in regions knownhad liad.ii ahots fired from the generate methane. Electric lamps i are all out of been ordered and were in stock at the their own time of the explosion, but had not jninere carryHtore were it in been put into service. Miners sniok-!,npi and f"r matches j allowed to that carry tL purdri11 and ing material underground, this being T'V"d Af'T the ahots the general condition in all open light flame sal'i ly snWM,n)"k?t a second mines. Those using the danrealize not did le either Pre8euc i iota' lamps limitations the and gers of methane and ventila- - of the flame safety lamp or deliberSobering tL i'.? llie Khting of ately ignored them, thus risking their at,!r to own lives and the lives of every man on 1,ie according min motoi in the mine, to say nothing of risking JJoirerate,1 a hun the detruction of the mine itself. The "rrr,Ufr,,,n trans- - flame safety lamps used hy fire At th bosses were of the keylock tyje. eon-ad- HI STMT T'm-uu- i evi-- AND Carbon to E. 0. TO SEWERS at Salt Lake City. Tha amountPrt allotted lo- pnl lrt tnd dePwite4 in Fries and Helper Price city council in regular session 14595. 71 ThtSii ideded hown by the tabulation below last (Thursday) evening waa con- cables after the concrete ia laid both-er- a 75, making lotal of $13,056.47 mors than double the sum for. fronted by a big delegation of Morg King, the rity electrician, a He? are the figures who had many questions to ask little. The scheme for mushrooms lret i about varioua phases of the division in the street intersections and as to Cli'ilnubn Allotted Paul In Pledged of cost for the proposed new sewer whether or not these shall he supplied CW..il llarift, Ud. JtT which is to cover about all of with lights is receiving attention. 23.00 ..$ 50.00 $300.00 ' e. ivttic 132.(K) .... 135.00 the rity not now supplied by such All watermain valves must lie suppliR.i M.lanu service. Notice of intention to con- ed with concrete manhole rases and Columbia 0. llarveii:: struct the system has been published of these there are thirty in the four lrw,k Thm.i:,s A. Stroup. and the time for entering protests to blocks between Sixth street and r (Jll.n Hallil the improvement expired last Satur- Tenth. Steel forme for making these liiawatha H. M. Magraw day with last nights meeting net as have been ordered and the water deKenilworth W. J. Klw.a.d the time for eonsideration of any ob- partment will do the work. It has Oix'rge A. Schulte ,uda; jections. A rather long list of signers been figured out that any necessary llolert Howard was anbmitted, but just exactly what work on the watermaiua ran be car,l"a -- J- W. Lkll'bnurow.... these folks were trying to get at is ried on from beueath the sidewalka. if81?-P. Mauley nut very clear. The introduction de- All places along Main street hing George J. llunn with tap from the we do not protest the that clares Spring Glen Sil.ire Row ley as far as the sidewalk even that and then recites further sewer Standardville II. Tomlnimm objection ia made to the enet and when not connected into the buildStoms..... George A. Munihy to "the allotment which must mean ings during the reconstruction of the .. . It. It. Kirktriek... Sumiyside 1259.00 Ilitrt OO that some of these lotowners have a water dietribulion system last year MM kick as to the size of their plats, as in anticipation of the paving. Sewer Vnl'u Wti. the notice on the eard was simply connections on Main will be extremeE. E. Bnmeii' Wellington 150 (N) a recitation of the length of lines ly difficult after the street is paved, niter Quarters T. J. Parmlcy - 3ti83H)L.J''.'50.' llHHUH) which would pass their pnqiertiea. and must be made at once if any are Muiuai. Allin't Shaw HKI.OO which scorn- needed. 351.00 After quite a discussion Aew Standard A. iluxford 75.00 Park Improvements Mads. 12A50 ed to be based largely on just what other proiiertyownere had (mid for About ninety trees in the City Fark Total $4595.72 $8400.75 sewers on streets now supplied the must lie replaced. Most of these are whole matter was tabled. A careful 'Amounts pledged are to be deducted from payroll accounts of employes looking over will be given to the var- victims of the fire which destroyed in toe venous precincts during April, the dance pavilion there about three aays Chairman Mareuaen in hie letter to Howard. Winter Quarters in addition to having remitted an amount ious notes turned in and the discus- veara ago. The eounril authorized C. sion as to whether or not the sewer H. in excess of its allotment haa pledged a thousand dollars on the Madsen, head of the )iark commitwill be laid at all will be made after I cannot commend too highly too sympathy and generosity of our payroll. to purchase the required number tee, citizen! all have been weighed together. Arana too efficient work of precinct chairmen and their aides. of hardwood atock to fix things up. Lee communicaa thur J. presented lie haa plans for further beautifying Helper, nearest neighbor to Castle Gate, and Farmington, which Buffer- tion to the council requesting that if the ark by planting shrubs and the sewer on North Sixth ed a flood disaster last summer, have the honor of is thought the floral society It being the first towns in possiblebe plant. the state to go over. Each had subscribed its allotments within a few hours street segregated from the new No. take up the putting in of flow-er2 district, claiming that thia portion might after toe drive began. W. Plant, water superintendJ. ia an extension of the existing one has ent, just completed installation of to this (Friday) morning the total raised in the state ia given aa Up and should be built separately. Down the sprinkling system in the park. The two thousand nine hundred dollars. in the southwest corner of the rity for this were bought last a aimilar condition prevails, and the suppliesThe lines are divided into five year. owners there also ask for separation. or sll of which may be sections, any quate water pressure was at each Aa all these blocks are really contig- set into HIGH VOLTAGE KILLS at once. The inworking fare. All other rooms and uous to the main No. 2 district as stallation operation ia about a thousand worth entries contained water lines with platted, it waa thought advisable by dollars. The waterlines at City cemhose hilis at frequent intervals. Be- Splendid Citizen and Prominent Edu- the engineer to include them at this in good have been fixed sides this, three sprinklers were regucator Meets Sudden Death. time. Just what advantage ia to be etery for the season also.up shape larly employed. In the face of this, gained for the propertyownere by septhis mine exploded, and in hopes of Dog Population Decreases. Gnt act with a high tension trans- arate construction is not readily apcaTwo hundred and eighty-eigpreventing a similar disaster the fol- mission wire instantly killed Alms L. parent, m the proportion of street lowing recommendations are made: Leonard, superintendent of the Emery crossings and manholes will remain nines have been accounted for since All eoal mines to be compelled to eonnty schools, over at Huntington about the same in either case. W. W, Moig King got on the job as dogcatch-e- r use nothing but closed lights. That last Monday afternoon as he was ad- Jones, the acting engineer, made along about the middle of .last the lamfis be suitably imqiected. month. Of these a hundred and four to to Laka Salt Provo and mechanism town the of the City trip justing Where flame lamps are used, in- clock. As an electrician he was em- early in the week to look up methods are licensed, the other hundred and cluding those by fire bosses, foremen ployed part of the time as local rep- for equalising assessments for sewers eighty-fou- r having fallen victims to The eity is remarkand soforth nothing should be allow- resentative of the Utah Power and as practiced in these places. It will Kings gat ed but up to date types of magneticfrom wandering free rebe of council endeavor to the the aftown The already ably clock is Light company. ally locked lamps approved by the fixed to one of the light eompanys concile the unequal frontage and ben- curs. And the end is not yet Up at United States bureau of mines. transmission poles and serves also as efits to be derived with the apparent- Helper they would like to enlist King In excluding ojien lights from a timepiece to automatically control ly arbitrary division of coats as ahown in the cleaning of that eity also. One the Utah mines, stringent measures the current feeding the street light- when frontage alone ia considered. official from the neighbor to the west should lie adopted against smoking in ing system. He was in tha act of ad- Then the assessment will be made, af- says he visited Price the other day mines, against use of fuse or sqnihs or justing this mechanism when his right ter which the owners will get another and could see only three dogs during of 0en flame of any nature. And shoulder came in contact with one of whack at the proposal. Should it sur- his stay here. King wrote in to the frequent search should be made to the wires strung to the pole. Towns- vive all theM, the much needed line state officials for an opinion as to what age a dog must reaeh before prevent the carrying of matches un- folk nearby saw him fall as the elec- will be put in during this summer. and a falling under the provisions of the jail heavy took him. derground tric charge Preparing For Pavement law. The reply tells him a dog is Deceased was born at Lewiston, imposed on any ierson trying to take The council held a little session last always a dog. matches or smoking materials under- Ida., August 30, 1894, a son of Mr. For Celebrating the Fourth. and Mrs. W. H. Leonard of Hunting-to- Monday morning to fix up the matter ground or using them underground. Moving of methane while the shift He is eurvived by his widow, of getting the citys share of Uie Again the application of the is in the mine should lie absolutely Stella Hbennan Leonard, and one son, money needed for paving Main street club for the Fourth of July sufinto comhands of the state the road a have to mine The 4 brothers His and prohibited. Alma, aged years. concessions which are to include all mission. is condiof a Thia necessary ficient force of spriuklen. Firing sisters are the Misses Lola and Ilazel at the park, the ballgronnd black powder or dynamite or firing Leonard of Long Beach, Cala., Harold tion and the county must get its mon- operations use of City llall was before end the in also. The will absomine the ey in city's portiim shots while men are V. Leonard of Price, John Leonard and of Bremerton, Wash., Erin Leonard eventually be covered by a bond issue the council. As there are some others lutely prohibited. F.ducatcd men as last year. At present the who would like to have a hearing on coni mining of Peerless, Anna Leonard of Salt dealarranged ai t i 'o men experienced in involves borrowing the money M this, the proposition was held up unshould lie employed and safety men Lake City and Gerald, Wilford, Reed, a tax with ml standard Huntloan, the funds til the next meeting. The Kiw&nis anticipation up Jean and Bella Leonard, all of should be up to be to paid back next December. The purposes to put all the profits if to date methods. ington. bonds can be prepared only after the there are any into the mnniripsl In his passing Emery county and in all up needed is known, which playground which that organization ho amount exact wrapped are People a the state have lost a most excellent themselves generally make a very citizen and one of their foremost ed- will he after the work is finished, is sponsoring for City Park. Fourteen new lighting services were small prekage. ucators. Funeral services and inter- Sheldon L. Anderson, the city treasconnected to the city system through made a to Lake Salt urer, trip City ment will he at Huntington this (FriQuite a lot of dead ones are being Monday afternoon, taking along the meters during March, and twenty-on- e day) afternoon, id u living wage. citys note on which he secured about new meters were installed replacing sixty-tw- o thousand dollars from a old ones. The electric department houses turning the money will be busy this summer particularbonding SETTLED over to the state treasurer to the ly if a white way is installed on credit of the road commission. This Eighth. And it looks as though that is only one of the many things the street might be paved for a part of is Price hi stred city most do in preparation for the its length, at least, which would necesPaving of Muir, a contract will be entered into for the paving. Calculation aa to how sitate the putting in of the new lightrcu a faapproach; ng work. The Utah Concrete and Stucco are to be made to the white repairs ing circuits. way decision given t ul hy the llan public (,nij,a,iy was low bidder at the time Too many lads are on streets and in announced the falL last of proposals opening utilities e"iiimision around the depot late of nights. ComINTO THE ATTIC Early this week the city treasurer issue f The Son masters plaint from the night agent of the lat week's . alsmt sixty-tw- o thousand dolplaced ft li'dv at Denver and Rio Grande Western re11mv.il along have commission. lars to the credit of the sulted in an order from the council Carls. The connt.v already had a credit of cctcrwi into that the boys must have a permit to ,a, e Few youngsters today ever saw thousand, more than enough be a carrier and that each newspaper ,.j v ami tlit Denver and fifty-fiva horsehair sofa. They wouldn't 4 to meet its share. The eighteen-foo- t usiWr-- l. rn us to the , (Viiirtc know what to pi do with a fire 4 will be limited to one bead rusher hniii whcie the high- - strip all along the new roadway is to and two assistants. All other boys stretcher or coal taper, carpet derpuss t be oil lamp. They couldn't braid 4 the tracks at the wr- -t lie mid for on a basis of 74 per cent are to be kept off the streets. 4 It gjy rag Into a rug or wind yarn 4 oiCJie1 H f,r by the federal government, while the Councilmen present at the meeting without pit v limits. This But know 26. tanallng. The 4 were they A. D. Hadley, James E. Alley he concrete Tuadwai county and city contributes how the and of why 4 typewriters. -t outs.de underpass is to be divided between phonographs, telephones, auto- - 4 and C. H. Madsen. C. M. Stringhain from wh.rc it now ends jnand mobiles what happens when a 4 was in Salt Lake city agree al'"'',,e the forties. County W. City, while the eitv, und it will push of the button gives light 4 street then that the railway shall not be required Tenth to or a kodak's flash fizea their 1m- - 4 Horsley is over in Sanpete county. railroad the eleven more than thouaand lourth. to pay mage on paper. 4 Mayor J. V. Loofbourow was in the along Main as far casta" it will dollars, that amount being a third of Their education la as modern 4 chair, and Recorder Arthur N. Smith Firliteen feet wide to Tenth, as the advertisements they see. 4 the cost of the underpass strucThey have no more use for the 4 was at his accustomed place. estimated the railroads as ture by it where Both the water department and the tamp and chimney of yesterday 4 street, Sixth Jiu as feef. engineers. Th state commission and 4 than you for the wick and tallow 4 electric workers are much facilitated he narrowed to the eighteen hoard to have the 4 of the day before. Advertise- - 4 in their task sought of laying the utilities by the trucks which were menta Induce such progress. ney 4 s was the case at Ibe time Gate to the railroad pay half of that cost. LitCastle from wide use that means ins- - 4 recently bought for them, this eetion ure the highway achut to remains the now get the state tle provement. They help you lift 4 having been told of by The Sun in a west limit- - of thi cty, tual construction started. The ? out of d ate into the attio 4 previous issue. which hs commissionyou of the water buckets and 4 Las been signed, the builders he pa v to as i Authorization was provided for the of slavedom. They 4 trol of the operations bond is up, the weather seems to have 4 soap kettles treasurer to pay interest on bonds late bring improvements within 4 turned favorable and everybody con- 4 reach. of about to become due, and the 4 eity the with as well as Na6 Bun advertisements regu- - 4 also to retire those for water nected project and . 4 larly. Keep alert to the new. 4 light which are now optional for such prery inhabitant of Carbon county is to go. rearing 444111 1 444111 1 action. io the of the commission before lie,rrn or-ti- na a eppean Where Marcnsen, UK iui-t- Sad t W,efedayCxrl fund drive c DEVOTE HITCH east-aide- rs in I PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 1. a real menace to the motion picture industry, D. W, Griffith, producer, raid here today. Thousand who formerly went to the moviea times a week now stay home evenings and are entertained by 'listening; in on broadcasting; priigrams. The radio ia a. sixty-- ht n. Ki-wan- 11 1 -l pa-c- 11 i E -i 1 I J eon-tra- ct IJ t fJil 44MI4W is |