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Show sours oo uanraiairy or uyah A Live Democratic Newspaper The Democrat will save you money on your legal notices. For Live Democrats Call Was. 1587. Entered u second class matter, July 18, 1922, at the postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March The Utah Democrat Changes Ownership Paper Passes Into Hands of Poulsen and Meeks With First Issue of the New Year. The Utah Democrat will With its next issue, January into the hands of new owners. 3, The Democrat, which was founded nearly three years ago by F. L. Baghy, and has successfully weathered the storms that come to all newly established papers, has been purchased by Ezra J. Poulsen and Heber Meeks, two young Democrats of previous newspaper experience, and men of vide acquanitanc-throughout the state. Pearls in Abundance Messrs. Poulsen and Meeks have perfected plans which should make The Democrat forge ahead rapidly and which should operate to increase its circulation throughout, the state materially. These new owners of the paper will, undoubtedly, receive the support of those loyal Democrats who have stood by the paper during the .past three years and they should receive the support and encouragement of the party, its organizations and the members of the party throughout the state. In turning over the paper to the new owners, the retiring owner wishes them every success possible. Blind Peoples Sense of Touch Gets Tired Touch the second sense the blind turn to (after hearing), has been perhaps most in the spotlight, but at the same time easily the most overrated of all the senses they utilize. First of all, It has a fatigue factor second only to smell, as tactile reading, Its most cons pi c u ouaajjp ca t I on, .demonstrates 1 1 ass in Scottish Streams It Is not commonly known that the Scotch River Tay and Its tributaries provide a rich harvest of pearls which are sold up to high as $50 each. AnyIn the Tay, one can go pearl-fishin- g und all have equal chances. The prod fessional pearl-fishe- r has a boat in which he floats downwards with the stream, and armed with his simple lens a piece of glass substituted for the original bottom of a tin can which when Immersed, enables him to see clearly through the surface agitations to the pebbly bottom, and notch at a long stick with a the end, grabs all the shells he sees as he lazily drifts past, and at the end of a day hls spoil Is by no means small. But the amateur dispenses with all encumbrances except the notched stick. With it he simply wades Into the shallow's and gathers In all the shells he sees within reach. The shells are of various sizes from an Inch up to six inches in length, and only one In perhaps ten contains a pearl of value, although many may carry freak pearls, black or deformed ones, which may be quite saleable. A ready market for the pearls obtained Is at the nearest jewelers shop, but the professional pearler prefers to deal privately and directly with the tourists who frequent this district, ar.d who probably thus become possessors of a pearl at a fraction of its real commercial value. box-shape- Queen Victor i s Rule Over Royal Household People Today Longer Lived Agin-cou- rt er e. five-year-o- ld 1 one-fift- h - San Francisco. VIE FDD HONORS Notes News From All Parts of UTAH It T5 cents. Chicago Tribune. Erie railroad TELEGRAPHIC TALES j A MANY DIE DURING CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY THROUGHOUT NATION Price. Aleck Marshal, 40, a coal minur employed ai the Spring Canyon Coal company, at Standardville, was instantly killed in a cave-i- n while List of Dead in Hobart Horror Mounts working in the mine with his to 33; Shotgun Fatal Toy; old son, who escaped injury. Two Killed in Shooting Much protest against the In Virginia Ogden, building of the proposed isolation Dee hospital on the grounds of the resi-ththe shown by Chicago. More than sixty persons hospital is being the cir-o- f section hunof through a dents half were killed, upward of a petition. The hospital dred were injured and fifteen oth- culation an of ers are missing as the result is to be built and maintained by the unusual number of accidents Christ- county. mas eve and Christmas day. Hyrum. Fire destroyed the Allen In addition to the loss of fire, many of them resulting from the Brothers general J store of this city. over heating due to the zero Christ- The amount of damage is said to be mas weather in some sections of the over $25,000, of Which $14,000 was country caused a heavy property covered by insurance. loss. The most serious, as well as the Farmington. Robert H. McCoy and most pathetic Christmas eve tragedy, Archie Wilcox were sentenced to serve not less than five years and occured at Hobart, Okla., where to be the period of their natural lives hree known to are persons in the Utah state prison by Judge or dead and sixty others are missing a in dead as the result of a fire George S. Barker in the Second disschoolhouse while a Christmas enter trict court upon their pleas of guilty to a charge of robbery in connectainment was in progress. The next highest toll of life wai tion with their holding up and robtaken near Roanoke, Va., where nine bing the Bountiful State bank of are dead, six are missing and thirty-fiv- e $750 December 6. are in hospitals as the result of Salt Lake City. Salt Lakes parthe break of a "muck" dam at Salt, ticipation in the patonal dog derby ville. at Ashton, Idaho',-- February 22, is At Stamford, Tex., four were kill- assured. It was announced by the ed and six injured, one seriously in special committee of the chamber of a fire in the Stamford inn. commerce that ten German police Two men were frozen to death in dogs will be taken from the city, fulChicagos five below zero Christmas ly trained, and seven will be enterweather, a policeman was killed as ed in the race, i Last years race f the result of a fall and a Chinese was over a twenty-fiv- e and and was shot probably mile course. laundryman fatally wounded in a renewal of tong warfare. Bingham. The" 'assets of the CenThree were killed and one was tral bank have Been purchased by probably fatally hurt and another the First National bank of which Geo. less seriously injured in an automo- E. Chandler is owner. The First Nabile accident at Richmond, Va., and tional bank is capitalized for $100,-00- 0 and has a surplus of $25,000 and d at Dixon, 111., a child is old shot and killed his regarded as one of the strongest brother with their fathers shotgun, banks in the state. and one person was killed as the reSalt Lake City. Damage, roughly sult of placing oil in a cook stove. estimated at from $15,000 to $25,000, Two were killed in a Christmas was done by a fire which destroyed shooting scrape near Richmond, Ky., part of the buildings and equipment two were killed in an automobile ac- at Becks Hot Springs. The blaze cident at Birmingham, Ala.; a was burning fiercely when the fire child died of burns at Wordepartment arrived about 1 oclock, cester, Mass., one was killed in an but an hour later Fire Chief W. H. automobile accident at Lexington, announced that the flames N. C., a policeman was killed at Bywater were under control. The loss is said New Orleans by a bank robber; a to be covered by insurance. mother died of burns at Lincoln, Salt Lake City. New traffic ordinNeb., after pouring kerosene on a kitchen fire; two were injured at ances for Salt Lake which will reGlendale, Cal., when a bomb in the lieve congested conditions in the busform of a Christmas package explod- iness district were discussed at the ed; two were killed and two injured meeting of the city commission. The turns in the in an automobile accident at Central, elimination of ia. 111., and at Michigan City, Ind.; middle of blocks and shorter parktwo were killed and two were injur, ing hours for automobiles and the reed when a train struck an automo-,bil- e routing of street cars, thus taking while in New York five men them from Main Street, were among were seriously wounded by two gun- the remedies suggested. men. Salt Lake City. Gasoline tax re ceipts for November will total $62,-00Envoy Not Selected it was estimated by Charles Mexico City. The appointment of a Mexican ambassador to the United Ileiner, chief deputy in the secretary of states office. The figure will be n States is still undecided and the less than for October. office is refusing to make state- about $2000 ments regarding the matter. The reSalt Lake City. The University of current reports carried by the news- Utah requested the state board of papers since December 13, regarding examiners to authorize a deficit of the possibility of the appointment 9,263.83 in the maintenance account f Manuel Tellez, now charge daf-fair- s of the institution. The petition will at Washington, have neither be considered at an early meeting of been denied nor confirmed by the the board. Dr. George Thomas, presforeign office. ident, said that the figure represents the amount spent in securing five Low Mark Hits dinosaur skeletons from the Jensen Mercury Salt Lake City. Proponents for a quarry. The skeletons were obtain return of the "good ed for an exceptionally low expendiold days" perhaps gloried in the ture. Dr. Thomas said, since the gelid atmosphere of this valley last Pittsburg Museum spent nearly ten Friday morning when the mercury times as much in obtaining a simi dropped to 8.4 degrees below zero, lar collection. the lowest officially, registering Spanish Fork. The Spanish Fork point reached by a weather bureau therometer in .Salt Lake City in Fish and Game association has gone on record as heartily in favor of protwenty-si- x years. tecting catfish in Utah lake. At a meeting of the association held at Monitor Engineer Dies American Legion club rooms, the Elizabeth, N. J. Daniel K. Lester, various subjects concerning fish and 86, engineer on the Monitor in its were freely discussed, chiefly famous battle with the Merrimac in game method of trap fishing in the present the Civil War, died here of pneuwhich was condemned beUtah lake, monia. For forty-fiv- e years he was cause of the carelese methods used chief engineer of ferries operating from New Jersey points to Staten is. by trap owners. land. Ogden. Eighteen thousand dollars damages was awarded Ernest Gubler 'Half Million Fire Loss in the United States district court to Mahonoy City, Pa. Three buildings be paid by the Oregon Short Line in the heart of the business section Railroad company. The federal jury were destroyed by fire early here. was out about forty-fiv- e minutes folThe damage, including loss of valu- lowing the completion of the personal able stock in several of the stores, is Injury suit, returning with a unaniestimated at $500,000. No one was mous verdict for this amount. Gubler suud for $30,000. seriously injured. RE8UME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES . sixty-t- one-hal- . three-year-ol- ten-ye- ar three-year-o- ld left-han- d 0, tor-eig- ed - a to the $600,000 SALT LAKE CITY Christmas present when a committee representing the several unions and HAS COSTLY FIRE General Manager A. W, Baldwin, effectagreed on a new wage scale, ive January 1, by which wages are The raised three, cents an hour. an EARLY MORNING FIRE DESTROYS cents 70 is present minimum rate MAIN STREET BUSINESS hour and the average 74 cents. BLOCK of old boy Elmo Bercciacini, of the R. part I., played Pawtucket, school Firemen Battle in Zero Weather his grammar Santa Claus at Against Fire That Threatens Christmas tree. Then he went home, City; Loss Is Estimated so proud of his costume that he at $150,000 planned to surprise a neighbor living on the floor above. The starway was dark and Elmo lighted his way Salt Lake. One of the richest with matches. The costume took business blocks in Salt Lake was fire. He died of his burns. threatened with destruction early Senator Fursum, Republican, New Christmas morning, when flames Mexico expects to bring up for pas- practically destroyed the IIooper El-- d sage at this hessian of congress his ridge building, 39 to 57 South Main street. bill for retirement and compensain disabled The damage was estimated by Fira officers of tion emergency the world war. The entire cost of Chief William Bywater, at $125,000, the measure, Senator Bursum said, when he surveyed the ruins. The would be about $600,000 annually, loss is only partially covered by Inand as now drafter the legislation surance. The damage is estimated as folprovides that benefits of the legislasufwho officers to confined lows: tion be fered a disability of at least SO per Western Barber Supply company cent in line of duty. $30,000 to $40,000. Hazelwood Candy company, $15,000 Alvin S. Wheaton, 85, who has to $20,000. Y., just died at North Concoton, N. witE. Jenkins, $30,000 to Edward was one of the three surviving Abranesses to the assassination of E. L. Sheets, $30,000. ham Lincoln. Wheaton occupied a Martin Coal company, $3,000. seat In Fords theatre on the night p Furniture company, $2500. the president was shot. Ashby Snow, $1500. Coincident with the congressional Keely Ice Cream company, $15001 memorial services for Woodrow Wil Trinket Jewelry Shop, $2000. son. Representative La Guardia, ReBeesely Music company, $3000. a publican, New York, introduced Owners of the building were E. L. resolution to authorize payment of a Sheets, E. E. Jenkins, W. R. Wallace, $6000 annuity to Edith Bolling Wil- John F. Bennett and the Francis Armson, widow of the war time president. strong estate. This would follow custom. The fire is one of the most serious in Salt Lake in the past decade, la esof board told the John.F. Hylan timate in New York that he would many respects it resembled the Labe mayor of New York another term. fayette school blaze on January 10, street building :If anybody has got any thought in 1922, when the inState s the meaning, early wqjs let d,cstoyfV thelrihind tfistfintend to zetku, a with will temperature novering below I them get rid of it, he said. zero mark. the be on this job until I am 60 years of The blaze was far harder to combat age. ihan the school fire, which caused Jack Johnson, negro, former heavy- damage estimated at more than $100.-0Gweight fighter, was fired upon and halted by a Gary police officer in The cause of the conflagration will Gary, Ind., who alleged that the pu- probably never be known. Chief Bygilist was driving his automobile water said. No clues are to be bad seventy miles an hour. He first gave from the blaze, owing to the proporhis name as John Smith, but when tions it had assumed before the arhe presented as bond a watch inscrib rival of the department. ed "Presented to Jack Johnson by the The alarm was turned in to the fire King of Spain, he admitted his iden- department at 3:29 a. m. tity. He paid a fine of $1 and costs The major portion of the destrucand was released. tion wrought by the flames was cenOregons appeal in the case involv- tered in the quarters occupied by the ing its compulsory public school law Hazelwood Candy company and the was advanced by the supreme court Western Barber Supply company, 45 at Washington and will be argued ind 47 South Main street, respectively. February 24. Both establishments were devoured FOREIGN by the blaze, the fire eating a path The delegation from the British from the rear entrance of both stores trades union congress which has just to the front doors, taking all in its returned to London from a six weeks course. The Trinket Jewelry shop, 41 2 tour of inspection to Russia, in a South preliminary report declares that the heaviestMain street, was one of tha sufferers, practically the ensocial, economic and industrial condistock being destroyed either by tions in Russia have enormously im- tire flames or water. union a since trade delegaproved p The Furniture company, tion made a similar visit in 1920, a- salesroom hich maintained over rathat while the delegates agreed che 41 43 stores and South at 39, restoration economic pid progress in Main streets, lost furniture in the now is going on. blaze, the exact value not being deThe Aero Club of France has offi- termined. cially ratified the new worlds speed The Beesley Music company, with airplane record of 448.171 Kilometers fifty pianos stored on the second and per hour made by Adjutant Floren- third floors of the building at 57 tine Bonnet at Istrees, December 11. South Main street, suffered the loss This record was 278.48 miles per or damage to many of the instruhour . ments. The streets of London are becomChildren Burned to Death ing increasingly perilous. During the first ten months of 1924 more Hobart, Okla. Fire, stalking tho than GOO persons were killed and tracks of Santa Claus, turned a coun61,964 injured in street accidents. try schoolhouse into an inferno at This is an average of 100 deaths per Babbs Switch, seven miles from here, annum more than 1923. Due to this ind snuffed out the lives of at least persons, many of them increasing traffic danger Londoners thirty-tw- o are becoming more interested daily children, who had gathered for a A tiny Christmas eve celebration. in safety first measures. candle on a Christmas tree ignited a The Communist party of France ball of cotton. Little revelers griphas finished its week of propaganda ped their sacks of candy and stood in favor of the national and interwhile their elders at first national syndicalism with a manifes- spellbound, tried to put out the fire and then, as tation held just outside the walls of the flames spread to the dry wood of Paris, to the northeast, on the bleak the flimsy structure, broke for tho Saint Gervais meadows, which so of- single exit at the rear a mad, scramten have been the scenes of similar bling mob fleeing from the leaping activities. Between 5000 and 5500 terror at their heels. persons attended the demonstration. ar Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Pro-parfor the Benefit of tho Busy Reader ed , at shopment number of 9000 received FOR BUSY DEADERS - The English races are healthier and longer-live- d than famous ancient peoA fresh variant of an old yarn which such as the Egyptians and Roples, may be familiar to sportsmen crops up the New York World. And In an Irish correspondents letter to mans, says descendants of American European the London Field In the following are, on the average, bigger parents form: and taller than their fathers and mothOne of onr party amuses us with ers, according to Dr. F. C. Shrubsall. a tall story, classical In the district, and weight today, he said, Stature viz., how he was coming up to shoot are not less than In the days of on the moor one morning in winter, or Waterloo. Modern civilized all by himself, and saw sitting on the man is decidedly not deteriorating. wall a grouse. Now, as has been ob- Our of life Is far greater expectation served, he was all alone, no witnesses, than ever before. The fossilized bones shooting for the pot and game was human beings Indicate scarce. Therefore, contrary to all of theonrearliest most ancient ancestors selthat rules of sportsmanship he fired at the dom lived beyond the early adult sitting bird, but when the smoke of his stage. Mummy cases in Egypt show cartridge had cleared that an Egyptian child of five years away, there the grouse still was, sitexpect to live to be only thirty-fivting on the wall. So he fired at It might A child of Rome, again, same result; he expended 12 under the Caesars could expect a life rurtrldges, still the bird remained on of only twenty-nin- e years.- - But a child the wall. 'Well,' he says, turning to of five In London present-da- y living us. thought the bird was bewitched ; or New York can expect to live to be so I walked up to It, and It flew away, sixty-fou- r years old. and went on quite bewildered and. at least would you believe it, on the further side of the wall I picked up 12 dead Calling It Square. grocse. You see, there were 13 In the Slie. had arrived at a little sratlon In rovcy sheltering under the wall, and Vermont on a cold, storm night and the one I first fired on was the sentry had hired an old man to drive her to on the lookout for danger, and when her friends farm, up among the hills. be fell the next took his place, and The roads were in had condition from " BO oil. the storm and the ride was altogether an uncomfortable one. llow much do Fast Traveling I owe you?" she asked on arriving at It tnkK but of a second her destination. ."Well, ma'am," said for a wnnl nitoUn Into a telephone re- the old man,' "myis a price reg'lar ceiver in New 'York city to travel but seeln as It's sech a bad across the continent and be heurd In dollar, and the goln so terrible. Ill call night black-powd- GOLD AND FIRE 17-ye- ar Apparently, it should be as easy to read lines of embossed characters with Princess Catherine Radziwlll in a the finger tip us It is lines of printed alcharacters with the eye, once the book, "Those I Remember, tells many phabet Is mastered. But it is not. stories of royalty. Touch simply tires out. Queen Victoria, says the princess, In my own case (and I have been "was a martinet politically as well as reading by touch 18 years), says socially. . . . The prince of Wales Charles MaGee Adams In the Atlantic (King Edward) especially stood in Monthly, two hours Is the extreme awe of hls parent, and when almost an limit for continuous reuding and long old man himself he hardly ever opened before that the end organs are so Irri- hls mouth in her presence. tated and there Is such a general rest"Her eldest daughter, the late Emlessness that It Is most difficult to pro- press Frederick of Germany, used to ceed. say that whenever she was summoned The general usefulness of touch Is to the queens presence she first asked also limited by the fact that it Is a for a glass of water so as to conquer motor sense; by which I mean that her emotion." the fingers must be moved over the Queen Victoria, adds the princess, surface of an object. Instead of mere- never appeared at state concerts or ly brought in contact with It, If an Im- balls, but sometimes she would conpression Is to. result. Many of the descend to show herself at a garden seeing show they are not aware of this party given by the prince and princess when they simply place the hand of a of Wales at Marlborough house. blind person on an object. She used to arrive late and was drivReach, too, sets sharply defined en round the grounds In a little pony bounds to touch's perspective, often re- carriage, beside which her children sulting In a warped or fragmentary dutifully walked, talking with her the concept of an object, as Kiplings story whole of the time, for Queen Victoria of the six blind men and the elephant was not above a bit of gossip, and aptly illustrates. It is quite Imprac- liked from time to time to be told the ticable to touch many objects such as news of the day, especially If It dealt moving machinery, hot metal or live with the marriage of somebody she wires, at all which restricts the use- knew or the love affairs of some fulness of the sense still further. she had met. Birds Sense of Duty Helped Out Sportsman $L50 A YEAR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1924 VOL. 3, NO. 38 e 3, 1879 WE8TERN Decreases of ten per cent in the plantings of winter wheat in Washington and Idaho and an increase of 8 per cent in Oregon are estimated In the December report of the federal division of crop and livestock estimates for the Pacific northwest at Spokane. Wash. Secretary of War Weeks in a telegram received at San Francisco ap proved, with conditions a plan to bridge the Golden Gate, the entrance to San Francisco's harbor. It is es timated the project will cost $21,000,-000. Five persona were killed, twenty-on- e miles east of Chehales, Washington, when a tree, hurled over a bluff by a high wind, crashed through the top of an automobile stage. The rail mill of the steel plant of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company resumed operations after being idle for several months. Five hundred men started work and will be em ployed in two shifts of eight hours at each, it was announced Colorado. Pueblo, John Ellegood, 56, was killed, $40,-00-0 worth of property was ruined and three 'buildings were wrecked in a double explosion at the Du Pont Powder companys plant at Du Pont, Wash. I, ' J. rir3 - -- - - The conviction of L. II. Lathrop, S. S. Champlain and George W. Clark, officials of the Northwestern Im provement company of Pocatello, Idaho, on a charge of using the mails to defraud in connection with a $40,-00- 0 real estate transaction, was up- held by the United States circuit court of appeals at San Francisco. GENERAL Twelve employes of the Lehigh Valley Coal company at Scranton, Pa., who are to take a vote next week on the question of joining in sympathy strike with the 12,000 employes of the Pennsylvania Coal company, who have been idle three weeks were warned by District Union leaders that any such action would be recognized at a violation of union laws, and would be dealt with accordingly. The national elimination balloon race will be held at St. Joseph, Mo., on Memorial day next year, according to a letter received at St. Joseph from the National Aeronautic association by Carl Wolfley, Missouri governor of the organization. The winner of the event will be the United States entry in the international contest in Europe. The fourth Mrs. Willard Mack left her husband in New York sne said, because he drank too much and now Mr. Mack has come to regard her point of view with favor. Mr. and Mrs. Mack, before their attorneys, reached a separation agreement and the told her he would provide her with every possible comfort until a divorce is obtained. author-actor-produc- A er letter, reposing in the eye of a needle, has been received at the Smithsonian Institute. forty-four-wo- rd The microscopic missive, which was sent to the institute for display before the annual meeting of thb board of regents, is so small it has to be times before magnified eighty-eigIt can be read. It measures exactly of a square inch. The text of the letter follows "This Is a crude, hurriedly prepared, large samI trust it ple of the will contain a moment of interest to the regents and regret that time prevents preparing an exhibition more worthy of their inspection. Believe me to be, your cordially, Alfred ht micro-engravin- g, Mc-Ewe- n." The Missouri Pacific railway, which, through recent acquisition of control in the Gulf Coast lines and the International Great Northern railroad became the largest transportation system on the United States announced the purchase of fifty additional locomotives, $0o0 freight cars ana forty cabooses at an aggregate cost of about $9,000,000. $40-00- 0. Co-o- . 5 0. 1-- Co-O- - Hilmi Gayar, leader of the students who disappeared at the time of the assassination of Sir Lee Oliver Stack, sirdar of the Egyptian army and who was sought by the police on suspicion that he was concerned in the murder, surrendered to the public prosecutor at Cairo, Egypt . Gayar asserted that he could easily prove his innocence. . . Hospital Contract Let Washington. Contracts for con- struction of a 232-be- d hospital at San Fernando, Cal., to cost approximately $1,000,000 have been awarded by Director Hines of the veterans bureau. The North Pacific Construction ' company of Los Angeles was given the general construction con-'xaon its bid of $755,900. et i |