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Show s:. x '....'..' I. THE PRESS-BULLETI- N " I V0LUME 48 BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 27 numAvd ,ft Letters From Bingham Soldiers The following letter Is from James Hunter, who Is now stationed at Can-oca- P. I., written to his mother, Mrs. John Hunter: "Well, l t.rossed the big pond safe-J- y and am now In quarantine for ten days. We have to go in nuarautine every time we move, "Wo tnlyed in Manila on the sixth of August and came right on over here. Canacao is fourteen tnilei across ie bay from Manila. Tt is very nice here, but a littl j too warm. Last night It rained the hardest I ever saw it rain any place. We don't wear any top shirt at all, Just si very light short sleeved undershirt and white trousers. This makes it Just right for there Is a little breese here all the time. There is water on both sides or rather three sides of us for we are out on a littlo point. About one hundred yards from us Is one of the largest wireless stations in the! world. . "The people here are very queer. On their feet they wear pads, the kind that has a string between the toes to keep them on, and hardly any clothes ct all. Around here one rides in a neat l.ttle two wheeled ' cart drawn by a horse a little larger than a Shetland pony. The natives' also drive cows and caribou. The vegeta-tion Is somewhat the ram as It is Jn California with the aud.tlon of cocoa-nu- t palms. ".We received a payday the first yesterday, one for a month and a half! Latses, proprietor of the ; Demetra Bakery: "I 'am getting along fine here in Camp Taylor and we are now expect-ing to leave for France at any time Camp Taylor near . Louisville and the people cf that city are very good to us. I like it here and have learned a great deal about the army and the army life since I left Utah. "I am glad to be in the army and render what service I can tp the Uni-ted States. I will be glad when we have the opportunity to go to France and so will the other soldiers here. We are anxious to get on the big bat-tle front and Join la the fight for lib-erty." The net soldier letter Is one re-ceived by Frank Clark from Edward E. Oakes, who Is now at Camp Fre-mont. California, It reads as 'fol-lows "I am writing a few lines to let you know how I like army life at this time. Well, Frank, I am doing Just fine. Got along the best until Aug- ust 31, and then I had the bad luck to fall and break my left wrist 'two flays before I was to cross the pond-fo- r Siberia, and now I am here at the base hospital for treatment and don't expect to get away for three or four weeks. "Yet I say this army life is some life for a young fellow like trie, for I have gained 25 pounds since March 11. Where you get that health is In the drill of eight hours a dav and They gave us ten then to bed at 9:30 every nirht Ptrenf pesos which Is equal to five dollars in the United State. I will send you some of this money to keep for a souvenir. Some day I will send you some mor souve-nirs. One of them Is a seashell 1 picked up on the beach at (Waikikl in Honolulu. We had some pictures tak-en on board the ship just before we reached the island of Guam. !Be sure and keep these pictures. "I am sitting on my bedding and writing on that machinist's book you sent me, so you must excuse my writ-ing. I have a pair of trousers and a suit of underwear to wash every morning. Believe me, one certainly has, to keep clean. People outside of the navy don't understand the mean-ing of the word cleanliness. We have to be like nurses in a hoanlta w Saturday and 'Sunday. On both of those days you can go wherever you want Just so you are in camp by 1 o'clock Sunday night. And here at Camp Fremont you sleep out in the fresh air, and you are up at 5:30 ev-ery morning to stand' reveille and then you go to breakfast. After 7 go to drill till 11:30 and then to din-ner., At 1 o'clock you start your drill and keep it up till 4:30 and the you can go wherever you want until 9:30. Then you have bed check at 10 except Saturday and Sunday. Sat-urday morning you have Inspection which lasts -- until 12. "Say, boy,, you sure have to have your rifle shining1, one suit of under-wear, pair of socks, your ' uniform pressed, your shoes shined all of your clothes that was ismiM vrvn I on your bunch for, inspection And then your captain comes around and looks them over. If you have a dirty I rifle he confines you to the company ! street for one week, and b"""" jr- - next time you sure have things in i good, order." The many friends of Dr. ip. g Hage-ma-will read with interest excerpts of a letter from him received by R G. iBee a few days ago. Er. Hageman is now busy engaged in the war work at Yale University. He says: bathe every day, shave every morn ing and dress in spotless white. Be lieve me, I like It. They have pulled some of thenj out of the ranks and taken other names because they were not clean enough, but I have never had my name drawn yet. We have to change our trousers at noon, which makes two clean pairs a day. We have two inspections daily and by doctors too, so you can Imagine how we look Ave have to get a lot more suits of white, for It rains three or four days at a time and sometimes for a month and you see the washing might not get dry. We have some clothes we dont need here, but we may go to Vladivostok, Russia, or to Siberia, and then I guess we could use them all T am in the number 1 gun crew and we have about the nicest bunch In the eighty men. There are eight of us and ree of us don't even smoke. We took an examination for seamen first class while we were on the transport Fifteen of us passed. We dont get mall here very often bo you must write me all the news' and send me the home paper. After the mail boat leaves here it goes to Nackasacl, Japan, and then to the States. If you answer this letter the day you get It, it will be tliree months from the day I write it until I get the answer. would have written you before but have been head over heels in work from the minute I landed here Nevertheless, I am-- enjoying the work and getting a good deal out of it There are about 200 other medical' men here, also about the same num- ber of privates in the medical corps I am working in the Yale Iabora- - u? ,K ,s a hign cla8s laboratory which Is equal to the Rockefeller lab-oratories In New York for experiment- al and scientific lines. The Yale lab- oratories have Just recently been tak- en over by the government I am working on gases, experimenting with dogs rabbits, etc. Also working on typhoid serums and meningitis and many other things. I think that th ntentlon of the government Is to keep us here about two months and then send us overseas to a base hos-pital, although we never know Just what they will do with us "New Haven is quite a place, a city of about 150,000. Yale University surrounds me and there is much to learn here. We have military drill every day for one hour, i live in a very nice home, the government al-lowing me $36 a month for quarters Send me the old Bingham papers If you have any lying around. Is there anything exciting In Bingham? Tell me the news. Don't wait as long as I did to write." 'We were Just thirty-on- e days on the water. We came around the north end of the island instead of through the strait on account of German raid- ers. I am about 8,800 miles from you now. I am keeping a diary -- and think" it will be real interesting to you when I get back. Will tell you more about it next time. Now write lots right soon and often." ' The following letter is from James Latses, who is now in the officers' training school at Camp Taylor, Ken-tucky, written to his brother, Pete HOT TO AT PRIMARIES In Main Bingham District Hard Factional Fight Takes Place And A Large Number Of Votes Are Cast Many Voters Challenged List Of Delegates. ' One of the big events of the week was the Democratic primaries Tues-day night. And the number of people who attended Indicated that there Rre quite a number of people in the camp interested in . politics. The meeting was called to order about 8 o'clock and the temporary organization and other little matters were attended to with ease and It appeared that there was to be abso-lute peace", and quietude. The dele-gates were nominated and still all was quiet but it appears that there were two printed pickets to be in the field representing the " Quinn and Seaaton fictions, tsb'to speaJc. Immediately following tickets were distributed and the voting commenc-ed and to begin with It looks as if the Quinn ticket was, going to be beaten to a frazzle, but pretty soon the fel-lows from the streets started In and then the fun began. As the big crowds kept coming In it was decided that there were going to be too many votes so quite a number were chaK lenged. Among the voters were a great number of ladies who presented them-selves at the polls and asjted to be allowed to vote. Some of them wer' challenged and sent away without! getting to deposit their tickets. Before the voting closed some live-ly controversies ensued between Mr. . Quinn and the opposing force. The. Quinn faction out of the nine delegates. The dele-gates from this district were Judgo-J- . .C, Green, Dunlavy,, F. VV. - (luinn, S, J. Hays, T. B. Stephens, C. D. MdNeeley, !W. E. Collins, H E Miller, IA. IL. li leas ton. Delegates from the lower precinct were Phil Culleton, Dan Coakley Ray Kenner, Mrs. C. I.. Countryman liJ?.01?; Dan. Eden: PPer'fleld. Mace; J. R. DeVall, Highland Boy; .11, p. duff. George A. Bracken. J. M. Ford, Ross Johnson, US Mines, iW. J. lAskew; lLark, Louis Pet--I erson, Simon Peterson, William Parks District 193, Otto Kappele. The county convention will be held In Salt SLake next Wednesday. It Is considered likely that the local dele-gates will band together and vote in. the convention as a unit JIIJGIJ 1UB I fil fii 1 11 iipoit III Many Volunteer Subscriptions Have Already Been Made And Today, Volunteer Day, Will Be Celebrated By The Purchase , Of Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of The Fourth Liberty Loan Bonds It Is Expected That By The Middle Of Next Week Bingham Will Go Over The Top. ,v --v The campaign for the 'sale' of the Fourth (Liberty oan iBonds has started off in fine style in this camp and the work is rapidly progressing in the , right direction Already thousands of dollars worth have been sold, the ,i . buying having commenced before the - f.. drive was officially opened and the People seem ready and eager to get ' their bohdn right at the first. ' The speaking for tfie drive opened on Tuesday night when a number of -,- prominent local speakers, Salt leak-ers and returned soldiers, addressed the people from the Bingham Mercan-tile porch. A large crowd was present and the speaking was greatly en- - , Joyed. The sentiment here, according to Chairman I. B. 'Kelly, is that this camD should go over the top by the middle of next week and every Indi-cation is that it will only be a few days before Bingham and the camp make up the full quota. With the faith that characterizes her progress, our nation has called for i a sum larger than any of the previous v r loans ca,le1 fY a Bum larger than most of us can Comprehend. Six billion dollars, for the Immedi-ate use of our army and navy depart- ments is the minimum with which the . '. . government can be satisfied at the present. As yet, we have not b?gun to feel . the burden of provfd'ng the govern- ment with funda." Neither as a nation ynor as individuals do we come in the i class with the other belligerent n the tratter of financial ''Mleatlon " '; ' Compare the ratio o: national dtbt'to ' ; the total wealth of the nations at war: Germany 37 per cent France 37 per cent Girat Britain.. . ....... .45 per cent United States 5 per cent We have not tappod the surface of our national wealth In our luest for war financing. Nor do we as Individuals carry a heavy per capita burden. Against Germany's $450; Franco $560; Great Britain's J';u0; Italy's $100; Austria's $380; place the United States' $115. One hundicd and fifteen dollars Is not much to owe for our country, is it? What one of us is here who would hesitate to assume that obliga- tion for a friend, not to mention one to whom we owe all that means most In life to us We might give the country that hundred and fifteen dollars which it' figures is the debt of each of us: give tiiat sum befor .we begin to Invent for ourselves. But the government ment does not ask that, does not ex-pect that. It asks to borrow what we can save and earn in this hour of special need. M rs .l Foch says: "The will to win Is half the rattle" Amtr ran s ildijrs hive shewn their will to win. The Fourth Liberty Loan is before , the American people. It inu6t prove ur will o win. UTAH COII. HAS PAID DIVIDENDS OF S13.331.72u . , ..." ' : The Highland Boy Mine Of Bingham Has Been A Steady Cash Distributor For Fifteen Years. . iRrcently announcement was made that the regular quarterly dividend of the Utah Consolidated Mine hetf pr known here as The .Highland Boy, had been posted. The iBoston direc- - tors have given out a little additional information about the Bingham Com-pany affairs contained in the follow-ing report from the IBoston Tran-script, which gives the distributions by years from 1901 down to date: "The Utah . Consolidated Mining Company has acquired assets of the Titic Company, which owned the Yampa mine. The Yampa property has not been operated , for some time. For a number of years it was i In operation and produced from 4 . 000,000 to 6,000,000 pounds of copper per annum, but never at much, if any,:, profit. The Tintic r. Company owned several properties, the chief one being the Yampa mine, which the Utah Consolidated entirely surrounds Two principal veinB traverse the two properties, one of which the latter company had opened to Its side lines. Discovery that the Yampa had en-croached upon its mineral territory caused the Utah Consolidated to sue for trespass, at the same time bring-ing similar suit against the Utah Apex Company. It was largely In set-tlement of this litigation that the Utah Consolidated was able to effect the purchase of the Yampa property. "In view of the increased cost of operation, high wages and the higher tariff for freight, smelting and refin-ing, and also In view of the purchase of the Tintic Mining and Development company (Yampa mine), the directors considered it inadvisable to declare a larger dividend at this time. "Allowing another quarterly pay-ment of 25 cents In December, the stockholders will have ecelved $1.50 per share In dividends this year, against 3.5o in 1917 and $3.75 in !91. In every year since its organ-ization, fifteen years ago, the com-pany has paid a dividend. "The Utah Consolidated dividend record is as follows: Per Share Total 118 $ 1.25 $ 374,975 1917 3.50 1,049,930 1916 3.75 1.124 925 1915 I..' 2.00 599,900 1914 2.00 599,960 1913 1.50 449,970 1912 1J50 450.000 191'1 50 ' 150,000 1910 50 150,000 1909 2.00 600,000 1908 2.00 600 000 1907'.... 7.00 2J00.OOO 1906 5.00 1,500,000 1905 3.S0 1,050,000 1504 3.00 900 000 1903 8.00 900,000 1901 2.44 732,000 Totals $44.44 $13,331,720 r ' i ALEKSA UZELAC Aleksa Uzelac, a Serbian of .High-land Boy, who enlisted in the Ameri-can Army in August last year, and is now fighting gloriously on the Weet-er- n front in France. In a recent let-ter to Joe Mellch he stated that he was getting along fine and that he was pleased with the privilege of fighting in the American army against the common enemy. AIMES TWO ISITEIIES DISASTER OVERTAKES OTTOMAN . FORCES IN PALESTINE WHEN BRITISH FORCES ATTACK. General Allenby Putt 8eventh and Eighth Turkish Armies Out of Business Huns Suffer Defeat on Four Fronts. London. Disuster has overtaken the Teuton over all fields. In Palestine' the Turks are all but absolutely crushed; In Macedonia the entente forces are harrying their foes and threatening them with siniilur disas-ter In France the Hritl.sh and French troops slowly; but surely, are eating their way Into the of the German defensive positions, the collupse of which would result in Important changes all along the western battle front, and In eastern Siberia the Jap-- , J aneHe have made additional strides ' forward in the process of reclaiming that territory for the Russiuns. In all the theatres of the war the entente allWs have the initiative and are pressing their advantuge rigorous-ly. The Germuns und their allies no-where are able to do more thun stand on the defensive. And in Palestine and Macedonlu their efforts In thlsi respect have proved sorry ones. General Allenby has crushed the Turkish Seventh and Eighth armies. 31s cnvulry has closed every exit ex-cept one, which cuunot be reached by many of tho enemy, and in a wide en-circling movement his horsemen bril-liantly broke down all. attempts to put up delaying rear guard fights. The cavalry captured Nuzureth, Nablus. Belsun and Jeuln und have secured nn j enormous quantity of valuable booty, and we hove not heurd the lust of their! efforts. Two Turkish ( armies were put out! of business, 40,000 Turks being killed or cuptured. I From north at Jerusalem to the Sea ; of Galilee, In the territory lying the river Jordan and the Med-iterranean sen, the .Ottoman forces have been caught by the swift drive of the British armies and virtually an-nihilated. AiWed to the heavy casual-ties suffered by the Turks, hordes of them were made prisoner and many j more are wandering, bewildered, with- - out leaders, In the bills, eventually to ' be brought in to swell the great total. REBEKAHS CELEBRATE The Ruth Rebekah iLodge met at Society Hall, Tuesday and celebrated the 67th anniversary of the organiza- tion with appropriate exercises. A I splendid program was arranged for the occasion and was carried out with good effect. The program was as follows: Piano solo. Miss Jennie Jackson; address by Rev. T. Tramel; song by Miss Jennie Davis; violin selection, Ray Ferry; address, Archie Stewart; cello selection, .Miss Kherlne Ford; violin solo, Genevieve Davis. Following the program games were played In which th nrr worn h- -' t jpfamps The lady prize winners were Mrs. .Tlmnaon. tirpt prize: iMrs FHiv second Prize, snd Mrs. Stewart, third prize. The first second and third prizes for the men went to Mr Ferry Mr Stewart and Mr. Dee. This was one of tho mot dnlrht'ii and Tnjoyfhle social events of the Benson and It was well attended. All present were highly pleased and well entertained. More Than Offsets Ship Losses. Washington. Deliveries of complet-e- d vessels from sliipyardu In the Unit-- J ed States during July and August, shipping hoard reports show were more thun enough to offset the submarine losses of America since the beginning of the war. Regulations for Oil and Gas. Washington. Regulations are being prepared by the fuel administration un-der authority granted by President WHsbh for the licensing of persons or firms engnged In the transportation t ' and distribution of oil and gas. NOMTNATF1P FOR SENATE T' WenuMfcr.n nn"enHon this we"!"- - ri'd well in nominating Judgo R Hnd'.pv 0f Bingham for the stat vnnt He Is a very nhl- - man and M frrniH for are jrlad to know thrt fh rnvntv Rer,bllfnnR have this fact. He ft . fled for the place and If elected, he will maVe a od man both for the county and state. Th nomination of Judee Dudlev will have the effect of no-'H-strengthening the partv In TMngham. fm Oregon Registers 106,988. Washington. Complete returns re-ceived Monday by Provost Marshal General Crowder Khow draft registra-tion In Oregon 100.D.S0, agalntrt an esti-mate of 84.404. List Industrie Suited for Women. Washington. Community labor boards throughout the country were notified Monday by N. A. Smythe, direc-tor of the service, to prepnre and have Published lists of Industries In which women can be substituted for men. The boards were urged to bold up to public shame any man who continues In work not essentiul to the prosecu-tion of the war. of the carcass Into more convenient sizes and shapes to the entire boning of the carcass to be packed In boxes. It Is estimated that If the plans prove practicable a saving of from 15 to 40 per cent of the room now used In transporting tre same amount of beef will be made possible. Since fretm beef constitutes a oonslderable part of some 350,000.000 pounds of beef and pork products now sen! monthly to allied countries the saving by the new method may prove to be considerable if found practical. TlV bones and surplus fats salvagnd bv the operation will bo converted Into various The chief difficulties encountered so far have been th. necessity of ob-taining enough labor Biifdciently nkill ed In till particular work and th providing facilities necoKRary to han-dle the quantH'es requlr'd without Interfering with produet'en of cth-- r meit product!" belngn prepared for oil! armies and thot;e of our allies. PLAN'TO SHIP BEEF TO FRANCE IN LESS SPACE THAN HERETOFORE Major General, W. Goethals, chief of the division of purchase, storage and traffic of the general staff of the army, has commissioned Arthur A. Hammerschlag, president of the Car-negie Institute, and Lieut. Col. J. w. Mcintosh, subsistence division, Q. M. C., N. A., to cooperate with the Chi-cago packers in experiments which may save up to 40 per cent of the tremendous cargo space now required for shipping fresh beef. President Hammerschlag and Colonel Mcintosh have already reached the stock vards and the experiments have begun. The experiments contemplate not only the conservation of shipping space, but also the problem of having tho packages small enough to be han-dled by the class of labor available at unloading ports overseas and the depots In France. quick and convenient issue at supply depots Jn France. Thoy range from the 'mere cutting YEAR BOOK STAFF The students of the high school have announced the following offic-- v ers of the year book staff: ' Fd'tor-ln-chle- Doris Stapleton; as-- I Boclate editor. Dorothy Kappele; art editor, 'Lillian Chlara; business man-ake- r and kodak, Alfred Anderson; as-sistant business manager, 'Lyon Bar-nard: calendar and typewriter, Annie Masfrs; humor editor. William Od-d'- e nA iion Jones; freshman repre-senMHv- e ,Fay Clays. CaMfornla Tlyer Wins Honors. San Francisco. General Pershing has Informed the war department that Lieut. A. F. Bonnnlle of San Francisco, nn American attached to the royal ulr force, has been awarded the British distinguished service order for heroism In an nir fight August 13. COUNTY COURT NOTES 0n Johnson, 'barred with intoxi-cation, continued until next wok. Andrew Portane. charged with continued u"t'l n-- t wek, Paul Klovas. charged with bi'-'n- g lliuor in h nosaesHlon, continued un-til next week. Louis Agenos, James Rlzos Andv niVos. (John Skenos. Juror 7a- - and Bunt Poulos.were fined $7 50 eoch on charrre of (rambling. Thev were pTay-'n-r for drinks. Th cpso aealnst John .Hen Jneic Kerry. John Paskas. and Harry .M;tch-i- ll will be tried next Thursday -- "W --- the din-ger ha nsaoed The fTims ?0t nnothe-flshln- g .Schooner Saturday. Advised to Hold Wheat I Washington. Fanners, who fiave1 been selling wheat below the govern- - ment guaranteed price because of rail- - j way embargoes placed on wheat ship-ments In certain localities, are advised j by the food administration that the , embargo soon would be lifted and that If they held their wheat the govern-ment will buy It at the guaranteed i price. Influenza Raging In Camps. Washington. Spanish Influenm hns made Its appearance In at least '2 ;;rmy enmps over flic country. The turgeon general's office announced Monday that the total number of cases lias Inereated to 20.J11. Including :'5 nev cuses reported Mornlny. We don't under estimate America,' Fftvs LyUcndorff headline. Not now But time was, eh. General? I.enino, the Russian Bolshevik! who a few weeks ago wanted Ail ed help against Germans, now seek!" Teu-tonic isfist 'net against the .enttnto. The German editors are right in-vi-t There aro about a million Am-rlca-in France, who won't be there ong. They will be In Germany |