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Show rZ.ti: t i THE SUN'S RATES N. THIS IS THE WAY THEY DO IN THE WINDY CITY Ths Run'ii diHiilajr advertising rates are forty (40) rent an Inch per Issue ora fljlU an inch by the month four (4) to local advertisers. Transient, fifty I HO) cents an inch per Issue. Position la 25 iter rent additional. No display advert uuna accepted for the first (front) pace. Page 1 readers are twenty-fiv- e (25) cents per line an liwue. -- It in often about as safe to blow out the gas as it is to step on it. CHICAGO, March 9. Minding her willi uwn silk stockings, four masked bandits this ailcrnoon robbed Mrs. Ma.v Jacobson of $10,000 in fan and jewelry. Sbe told lie Milica that the bandits laid her on a lounge after they bad lied her and then took 1926 their time about ransueking the house. lii-- r AN XNDEFENDENT Volume 12, Number 42 NEWSPAPER Week Ending March Still Another Decrease Recorded LA W FETISH In Bituminous Output By MARK P. BRAFFET The silver lining to the cloud of prohibition lies in the fact that some millions of citizens of the United States have become emancipated from the thrall of law worship and feel themselves i ,1 XT The Sun Special Service. 12, of Commerce met to damn such idiotic enactments as the Volstead act. The last rice's Tiusduv evening. It wus rejmrl-e- d WASHINGTON, D. C.t March 8. The week of February 27th free PRICE IS VISITED to that body that the hnnnl of records another decrease in the amount of bituminous produced. witchburning progenitors of the prohibitionist fanatics evolved Total output including: lignite and that coked at the mines is es- the fallacy that all laws passed by a legislative body, duly opened county commissioners at its se.iin President Grant Talks to Large Numtimated at 10,895,000 net tons, a falling off compared with (hat in with prayer, should be rigidly enforced, and many present day this week bud agreed to niirnpriute ber of Local People. with sumptuary regulation of private five hundred dollurs towards the fund the preceding seven days of 164,000 tons or 5 per cent. While it is citizens out ofonsympathy erroneous to notion insist the that the best way get rid to udvertise the lands under the l'riee true that a fraction of this loss was due to the partial observance conduct, Sunduy evening last after the bad law is to strictly enforce it. As a matter of fact, bad ones River Water Conservation district of a sucof Washington's birthday, the daily loadings indicate that on of the memorial services up at are not strictly enforced and they are seldom repealed. They ulti- through a magazine that is Castle Gate ami at which lie made an ceeding days of the week production continued to follow the genpublished pass into peaceful oblivion as enlightened public senti- for employes of the Denver and Rio address, President Helicr J. Grant of erally lower trend that has been apparent in recent weeks. The mately ment them to just ridicule, but they remain upon the Grande Western at Denver, Culo. The the Churrli of Jesus Christ exposes total output during the month of February is now estimated at of Latter-da- y All thoughtful people believe in temperance, but 'donation is books. statute to this years budSaints spoke to a very large as46,582 tons with an average daily output of 1,949,000. The month subject shows a decrease of about 8 per cent. Production of soft during temperance and prohibition have not the remotest relation to each get and is not to be met until some semblage of his jieople and others at time the earning December. A con- the Carbon Stake tabernacle at lriee. the present coal year to February 27th (approximately two hun- other. If you will make a list of your imbibing acquaintances of six dition also is that the whole issue is Many extra chairs hud to lie brought dred and eighty days) is now 494,597,000 tons. For the week endago and check off those who drink liquor today you will check t be devoted entirely to Carbon coun- hi," says Stake Clerk Ernest 8. Horsing with February 13th Utahs total output was 71,000 tons. In yearswhole list after allowing for the dead. If prohibition does not ty. The writeup is plauued for the ey, "to supply seats and quite a num-ithe 1925 it was 12,600 and in 1924 one hundred tons more. The outmonstrous in- April edition. By a vote of those prestemperance promote were unable to standing room, put during January including lignite and that coked at the mines vasion of the liberties itof isthea perfectly useless and constitution of ent the secretary was instructed to llis theme was the get the people. Amending to net amounted 53,662,000 wonderful gruwth tons, the highest production for that month recorded in recent years. The average daily rate of output the United States does not affect the constitution of the citizen. write Sid Karns, publicity man of the of the church and a better underDec- railroad, to "conic 0 His palate remains the same. Every citizen who reveres the along" ami get his standing among those not of our faith although greater than that in December was less by about to of laration should feel be his it Independence patriotic duty to stuff together. Previously two hun- relative to the true character of the tons or 1 per cent than that for November. Detailed figures ' indicate that in January practically all states produced at a higher help sustain at least one bootlegger until the infamous excretion of dred and fifty dolars was pledged to Saints. There are two thousand five is flushed into the sewer of oblivion. It is the sacred the local chamber for this work. This hundred missionaries, men and women daily rate than in December. The few exceptions to the rule were Volsteadism west of the Mississippi. In the Appalachian field as a whole the right of every person to map and follow his own trail through was given out at a recent meeting by of the church, out in the world at increase was about 5 per cent, and in the Eastern interior, consist- life so long as the exercise of his liberties does not infringe the E. B Jorgensen, agent of the New Or- quite a cost to themselves preaching of others. Sniveling hypocrites who profess to be able to leans, La., bonding company that is the goHKl in every land and clime ing of Illinois, Indiana and Western Kentucky, close to 4 per cent. rights our liberties in a way to insure our salvation have usurped holding the securities for construction where handle are Mrmitteil as u means - COKE OUTPUT DROPPING. the management of the private affairs of the citizen and incident- of the Scofield dam and reservoir and to givethey service for the betterment of Production of beehive coke during the week ended February ally those reformers have taken comfortable positions as servants the moving of railway tracks. There (loti's ehuldrcn. Many incidents were is yet two hundred and fifty to raise. related of the high esteem in which 27th, as indicated by reports of loadings received from the princi- of the people, so they are fed by the taxpayers. pal carriers, amounted to 321,000 net tons. This represents a deConviviality induced by the temperate use of good liquor is a The publicity is to post an even thous- the leaders of the ehurch arc he)d by cline of 32,000 or 9 per cent as compared with the estimate for the .blessing to humahity. The reformers would take all of the joy out and. many imminent men of the nation, preceding week. The figures indicate a continued downward trend of life while covering the land with eavesdroppers, informers and Sentiment was somewhat divided as lie minted a prophesy made years ago in the weekly output since the high point of 367,000 for the week hungry undercover sneaks uplift associates for public hangmen. to whether the proposed dancing Saints would come that the Latter-daended February 6th, or the last full week before the termination As fines are mulcted from the poor liberty loving imbibers of the should lie pulilicully or private- to the Rocky Mountains and liccnme of the anthracite suspension.- This, therefore, is not unexpected same kind of juice that Christ supplied for the wedding feast more ly owned. One gentleman present ofgreat people, and the many cities since coke was being extensively used as a substitute for the do- human vermin is added to the espionage force. These spies are fered to contribute a hundred dollars anil settlements among them is a wonmestic, sizes of anthracite. The total of beehive during the calen- necessary so long as the public tolerates enforcement of sumptu- and still another hundred if it is re derful testimony of its fulfillment. dar year 1926 to February 27th is 2,782,000 tons, an increase when ary laws. They are as essential and quite as respectable as hang- quireil, declaring this to be "the most President Grant invoked the blessings compared with the corresponding period of last year of 27.5 per men. They are social scavengers and unfit to shake the hand of vital need" here at this time. If con- of (bid upon all mankind. " cent. For the seven days ending with February 28th the output in a decent citizen. Prohibition is corruption in its most nauseating tributions are made fur this the local Utah and Washington is estimated at four thousand tons. The form. It fixed the sentiment of the medical fraternity of the Unit- business, eople will lie ahead after BELIEVES IN PRICE ed States by allowing doctors a hundred prescriptions each three two years. A committee was appointprevious week three thousand. Production of anthracite during the week ended Februaiy months. These prescriptions are sold all over the country at three ed to investigate ami nqsirt. Consid California Man Putting Some Fifteen full week since the miners returned to work is dollars each, a bribe of about sixty million dollars per year for the ering the boys band a good propose " 27th the first Thousand In Locally. estimated at ,611,000 net tons;' This is: but slightly less titan that fifty odd thousand doctors.. No wonder the reformers are well sup- tion a vote was taken of the members ofihe corresponding week in 1925, 'and appftachea tle avei age for plied with medical Support for prohibition. It rounds good to the folks here a$ present and willing to donate a dollar the four weeks in February of that year, which was 1,794,000 tons. Price to hare a man like N. C. Braly its week towards sacramental a much which were booze, of The Everysupiort. clergy granted Total production of anthracite during the year 1925-2-6 is now of Paso Rubles, Cala., exjiresa his eon- has been marketed through the medium of spiritual bootlegging. body was in favor. tons 36,428,000 tons or 46 per cent less than during the Everybody knows that United States senators and congressmen Orson P. Madsen, eounty agent for fidcnce in the present and future stacorresponding period in the year 1924-2- 5. drink whisky and vote the country dry. The throats of judges Carbon and Empry, was present anil bility of this city. And more than this, and jurors are just as susceptible to good bourbon as are those told of a well attended meeting but he is backing up his judgment by subever will be employed. As it is the of the BEEN HAVE MEN MANY CARBON culprits they pinch under this absurd law. If the average recently of fanners, business and pro- stantial improvements. He has been abandonment of No. 1 will have little, will thumb through the statutes of his state and charge fessional men. This was called by him here now about two weeks. On his EMPLOYED THERE if any, effect upon the community. person himself with the penalties of such as he has infracted he will find on behalf of the agricultural commit- arrival from the coast he let a conNo news from any industrial center Ground for the new mine at Susie himself indebted to the penitentiary for centuries beyond his span tee of th chamber. lie thought an ef- tract for an addition to a garage ofcould have created more interest and soon will be broken, according to of life. fective dan to remedy present com- building he owns on South Eighth that will rushed that be and work' ficials, aroused any more sentiment,' especially enFool legislatures have made us all criminals until strict plaints soon will be worked nut ami is to be fifty by fifty feet and of the new may be in operation at the among the older residents of the would of law so make of the people whereby the two will get closer to- brick. many prisoners earliest possible time. This will pick forcement of Later he gut in conference with a mining district, than the anbe to lands. would from have gether in buying and trading. that guards foreign imported contractor nouncement made last Monday by P. up a continuation of the Sublet vein, and the result is that the Fellow let us clean up these soulsaving reformers or Taking up the matter of the holistaked off and excavais now J. Quealy, the general manager of the which produces one of the best grades else cease criminals, prating of the great liberties enjoyed under our form of days to be observed by business houses ground made tion brick Kemmerer Coal company, that the of coal in the entire West, and the for a being certain ones were fixed uKin. These supply is virtually inexhaustible. A government and admit that we are slaves of the fanatics in power. first mine opened by that coneern building on East Main. This will lie 1 Chamber con-elusi- on er 1 21,-00- pii-villi- on y - . . r. . 42,-735,0- 00 Kern-mcr- er one-sto- ry slope is to be sunk, as well Frontier No. 1 was to be closed the 1500-foand fifty-fohundred six as a all for time, following day (Tuesday) The is to be rockdrillcd, slope all the equipment withdrawn arid the this once and property is completed it famous old workings, which have been be best in the entire disshould the operated continuously for almost thirnot best in the state in the if trict, Kemty years, abandoned, says the as well as in low of production point 6th. The Gazette the of merer (Wyo.) statement brought a sigh from many, cost of operation. The abandonment of the Frontier but none was more affected than was will have little effect upon that camp Quealy himself, whose career has been hundred people. The comseveral of built around that property. It was he offices will be maintained there pany he who who located the vein, it was interested Eastern capital in develop- as well as the store. This will be the of residence of the miners that ing it, and finally, after thirty years, place will be employed at the Susie when it it is he who orders its abandonment is as no effort will be made to opened, after it has produced approximately the latter camp. enlarge Extremeeight million tons of coal. cost is of overhead operation ly high the reason given for closing the his- COLUMBIA MINES DOING FINE, DECLARES CREED toric property, older than the town of Kemmerer, and whieh had its incepThe annual report of the Columbia tion by reason of this mine. Overhead Steel corporation shows that this proeosts have continually mounted of late ject, which is one of the states newyears until finally they berame pro- est industries, is making substantial hibitive. Frontier mine No. 1 is one for the year Net earnings progress. of the deepest of the state, having a 3 1925 on sales amounted to of hundred foot slope with an sixty-fiv- e as against $760,221.71 during overburden of about fifteen hundred ot ot i air-sha-ft. $1,895,-225.1- feet at its face. According to Quealy it hss been ojirrated for the past eighteen months only for the benefit of the community. Announcement of the closing created a panirky feeling in Kemmerer upon its becoming generally known, but eventually the move will be a benefit to the community. Recent eherkup ehows that between two hundred and forty and two hundred and fifty men have been employed by it A large number of these will lie transferred at onee to the two Sublet mines, others will be employed in developing of (he new Susie that is to take the place of Frontier No. 1, while still anothe-larg- e crew will be engaged to remove pumps, rails and all equipment. Thus the payroll of No. 1 will be almost up to normal, according to rejNirt, and within a year upon the opening of the new Susie, a few miles north f f Frontier, as many if not more minrrs than 1924, while the gross income increased $608,845.21, aggregating $1,471,687.83. A net income for surplus of $777,943. 39 was left after deducting the income TAXPAYERS MEET YOUNGSTER SLAIN thur J. Lee. Address of Welcome C. II. Madsen, mayor of Price. Necessity For An Organized Tax Movement Frank T. Bennett, county eommissioner. What the Utah Taxpayers Association Has Already Accomplished By someone of the state committee from Salt Lake City. Our Lgislative Needs J. E. Pettit, representative to (he legislature from Carbon count)'. Value of the Budget System Carl R. Marcusen, cashier of Price Commercial and Savings bank and preei-deof the Carbon Board of Education. The Independent Audit J. W. Hammond, president of the Cirlion County bank, Price. How to Analize Bond Proposals G. N. Nelson, cashier of First National bank of Price. Drafting Men Into Public Service L. A. McGee, Price. eliargcs for interest on bonds and notes, for federal income tax, for bond discount and expenses, for diseount on sales, for reserve, for doubtful accounts and other small items or more times the net than two and income for 1924. Wellington E. Creed, president, says of its Carbon district In the annal report of property: 1924 reference was made to tho fact that the parting between the upper and lower seams in the Columbia coal mine showed signs of disappearing and the probability that mineable reserves would thereby be increased Appeal For Membership Arthur J. almvo original estimates. Further de- Lee. velopments at the mine now confirm All the subjects mentioned will lie the disappearance of the parting. Esopen for discussion by anyone. timates indicate that mineable coal re- Then will come the election of of ficers for the Carbon organization. (Cbntlnued On Iage Eight) nt one-ha- lf IjH-b- Convention Called For This City On Playmate Kills Another Accidentally Last Saturday Evening. Saturday, March 20th. One week from tomorrow Saturday, March 20th there is to be a convention of the taxpayers of Carbon eounty at the district courtroom at Price. It is called for 2 oclock of the afternoon and should the business to come before it be not finished the work is to be taken up until it is done. Every person hereabouts is invited. The local committee, headed by Arthur J. Lee of this city, haa prepared this program: Calling Convention to Order Ar- Little Milton Kerrun, but 5 years of age, was shot and instantly killed about 6 oclock last Saturday evening up at Standardville by G. Dallas Forrest, 8 years old. The two children were playing "hide the thimble" in the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Milton was Forrest, the parents. holding a door shut that leads from the kitchen to a bedroom. Dallas grabbed a Winchester rifle of small caliber that was standing in a corner of the kitchen. He thrust it through the opening and with the remark, "Now, Ive got you," the gun was discharged The bullet struck the accidentally. now dead lniy in the center of the forehead. He died instantly. Sheriff Deming Inter visited the scene. Mr. and Mrs. James Kerrcn attach no blame. The rifle had been left in the house but a short time before its discharge by an older brother of Dallas, who had keen out hunting rabbits. It is said that upon thrusting the gun through the Jiartly opened rlnorwny Dulllas told Milton to dodge. The body was taken to Vernal for funeral services and interment. The Kerrcn family is formerly from there. Ira It. Browning, state road are Arbor Day in April, Armistice Day, Pioneer Day, Thanksgiving, Day, Christmas and New Years. This that merchants and their customers may know beforehand when local places are to be rinsed. Several business men gave it as their opinion thut conditions here at present are better than a year ago and are also improving. Much discussion brought about a decision to hold an automobile show, booked fur a not far distant date. A committee was named to look after things. IIelMrs chamber is to be represented on a committee that is to meet Ira R. Browning, state road engineer, and talk over highway matters as affecting this section. Browning came in yesterday. David II. Cannon, a former resident of Price, hag quit the government service as an assistant United States district attorney and has opened a law office in the Heilman Bunk building at Isis Angeles, Cala. While living in this city he wns one of the firm of Stewart, Alexander & Cannon. CONFERENCE 4 4 4 4 4 4 n locally. - Rubber stamjis to order. The Sun. The ninety-sixt- h general annual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of JaiMcr-dnSaints will be held In the Hull IaiUe City tuber- nude Miiiuliiy, Monday and Tuesday, April 4th, Oih and Otli, it wss an- nun need Inst Tuesday by President I leher J. Grant. The iinual large at- tendance from stakes throughout the church is expected, but will largely depend on weather renditions. Most of the general authorities will be in attendance, although Elder Heed Minoot of the council of twelve, who is in WaNiiington, 1 1. 15., Elder James E. Tnlinnge of the eouneil of twelve, who is presiding over the European misaion, and Elder Melvin J. Iliillard of the eniineil of twelve, and Elder Key h. Pratt of the first seven presidents of seventies, who are oHning ilia South American tnisHsui, are not expected to be in nltendanee. y engi- neer, came to Price yesterday and while "feeding" with the Price Chamber of Commerce talked highway matters over with thut body. He went from here to Emery county and today is conferring with ritixens over there as to an appropriation for completing the partly finished road up Hunting-toCanyon. He is exported back here tomorrow en Mute to the state capital. There may lie a further eunfab nr 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 444444444444444444444 fifty by seventy and is to be cut into throe nKinis. It will be just west of the Goctzmnn block and facing south. Equitable Real Estate and Investment company is to occupy one, while tenants are fissured for the other two. The property has been owned by Braly fur a considerable time, llis present program involves around fifteen thousand dollars. LARGEST IN STATE Consolidation of Five Lodges With the One At Helper. Up at Helper last Saturday evening there was a meeting of officers of the Knights of Pythias lodges of Carbon county as well as a large representation of members of the order, and at whieh time ull the lodges locally were consolidated with Onward of that city. These were Storrs, Castle Gate, Kenilworth and Price. The officers installed by 1). C. Turner, grand chancellor, of Suit Lake City are E. liadeliffe, C. C.; II. II. Woods, V. C.; J. O. prelate; IL 8. Larson, M. of W.; W. D. Wilson, M. of A.; A. M. llaggu, K. of It. 8.; C. Berlilino, M. of E.; Stephana Gianotti, M. of E.; Joe Quillico, inner guard; E. Bertot, outer guard; J. E. Ueac, trustee for three years; G. E. Umber fur two years, and 8. Silragni for one year. The euiisolidation menus that Onward will lie the largest lodgo in Utah and financially strong. There was a fine spread during the evening and at which Grand Chancellor Turner was tousliiinster and the principal seaker. Ash-buug- In accepting the eontrarl for an addition of four rooms to the Helper school building Strong A Grant, tha Springvillc contractors, agree to have it ready for use by August 1st, neat It will be of brick and is to cost The heating and ventilating went to II. Poreduy of Spanish Fork at $3291. Fire csenpes are providod. $13,-TiHI.- |