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Show PIKIB SPITE THISJIME FUTILE He Attempts to Prevent The Tribune Being Put in Monument Vault. Special to Tho Tribune. LOGAX, June A. Some of Iho people who attended tho ceremonies at tho croc-lion croc-lion of tho Pioneer monument nt Franklin Frank-lin on Decoration day, bring back a story of tho nasty attempt of George C. Parkinson Park-inson to Inject his personal splto into this public function. The people of Franklin havo eroded a monumont to tho men who first settled that placo and it will be formally unvollcd on June 11, when Governor Brady and other distinguished distin-guished men of tho Gom stale will bo In Franklin. In the base of the monument monu-ment there Is a vault, In which, according accord-ing to universal custom, there were placed some current coins and documents of various kinds. It had been decided that thoro should be placed In this vault, nmong other relics, copies of tho Logan Journal, Doscret Xews and Salt Lake Tribune, but when tho man In charge of tho work was about to placo tho papers In the receptacle Parkinson Intervened and tried desperately to prevent The Tribune from being put with the two other papers. He did not make this effort ef-fort In a public way, but sought to have tho man In charge of the Job cast The Tribune nsldc. This request was denied and the paper went In with tho others. Tho monument Is of granite and Is twenty-two feet high. It Is erected at tho Intersection of the two mnln streets of tho 'lty. The first schoolhouso to be erected In Idaho was built at Franklin, and on Monday thoso persons who attended at-tended it were photographed. There were twenty-six of them, all told. When tho monument Is unveiled there will bo a two-days' celebration, and tho greatest demonstration In tho history of southern Idaho Is expected. |