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Show THE BUSINESS PICKS NEPHI, UTAH S, SENATOR JOHN K. SHIELDS UTAH AND UTAHNS UP EVERYWHERE TIMES-NEW- LADY BYNQ FLOODS DO DAMAGE PROPOSES PLAN OVER TEXAS CITIES Governor Mabey, who, through Sod ator Snmot, has extended an invita. IDLE TO ASSIST Hon to Marshal Foch to include Utah in his Itinerary during his visit tt the United States, is advised through unofficial chaunels thai the arrange-incutfor the entertainment of th world war commander In this coiintr) will lie In the hands ot u nalioua' committee fo. entertainment of ills tiuguished gues.s of the America! DEMEN BUSINESS CLARE .WINTER .WILL .SEE MANY INDUSTRIAL CHANGES EASTERN York Banker Very Optimistic Over Business Conditions; Finance Becoming More Liberal As Time Passe On New The jury in tbo case ot teKoy J Nielsen vs. Ilyriim city, wherein Nell sen sued flor $:S0.00O for personal in juries suffered by coining in comae' with a live wire from the city light plant, uas out tint suc.i a lati hour Saturday night ili'at Judge Law 'nstruoted It, if a verdict were found to seal It, to be opened In court Tues-lay- . When opened, it was found t( declare for the plaintiff in the sum ot $4,000. dustry slowly but surely. This Is the conviction of leading New York bankers, bused on reports from every part of the country. improvement Is purtly due to the usual fall picking up. Hut it also anperirs certain that general business began a definite upward climb July 18, when the steel industry hit bottom and started crawling out of the depths. Uecovery will not be rapid, experts agree. Business depression started in May, WrM, with the collapse of the si Ik mar. ket. The collapse rapidly spread to other industries. Hard times have lasted sixteen inontlic The end filially ' seems in sight.-, In the leading Industrial centers 'f smoke is becoming thicker over the mill districts. This means machinery is starting. Here are three Indications that factory activity is gaining: Cue Manufacturer are increasing their traveling sales forces. The drummers report a national conviction that "things are looking up." Stocks of goods are getting low. Orders are beginning to come in. Two Soft coal production has been climbing since August "JO. Output was only 1,000,000 tons day in early April. Now it is around 1,300,000 tons a A total of ft $1,703.18 has been re ielved by th state of Utah in the past week or ten days as contributions l.y t lie federal government t the road construction program of ho .state The uoney has been spent by the Mate and is in me form of reimbursement of one-haof the expenditures made hy the stare on work that had been completed at the lime the ec'limite? vere made. I lf Hamilton and Jones. Beck's Hot before Springs robbers, appeared ludge K B. Wight in the district court it Salt lake Thursday afternoon and igiri entered pleas of guilty, following the reading of the complaint which specifically charged the robbery of v"l i it in Weooer, manager of the springs, of $l."irt. The charge cited provides for a sentence of from live years to life imprisonment. day. Three Itetiners reiiort that sales of lubricating oil and fuel oil are increasing. This means more machinery is running. 1'ig iron production in August shewed the first gain in ten 'months. It still is low, but climbing steadily. Trading in steel is gaining. This shows that automobile makers antici5 pate growing business. Jtailronds buying of steel is quiet, but inquiries are big. The railroads have a tremendous repair program dammed up, and steel leaders think the nextboom will start witTi.a flood of railroad buying. Prices in the steel industry, averaged, show big drops: Average, 1913, .'!!. 49 a ton ; J'.tlT (peak) spin .01 a ton ; September 1, lid, $43,711 n ton. Four out of every five freight cars n American railroads are now hauling freight. Idle cars are decreasing Steadily. I a lest figures on car loadings are for week ended August -- 7, when loaded 820,709 cars with freight. For several weeks car loadings have averaged only 18 per cent less thnn the coiTosMiiiling wriod of 1!10, the boom year. Business the country over now is only 15 per cent below normal, according to a national survey by Seymor L. chief statistician of the Andrews, American Telephone and Telegraph company. This shows business Is getting out of the woods, for depression does not become acute until business is 17 per cent below normal. Two months ag business was off 25 to 40 per cent. Foreign trade gaining. For every 71 tons of exHrts In July, 1113, the United States now is cxHrting 113 tons, says th federal reserve board's foreign trade index. 1 Bradstreet's Mgency e Slowe, who is ufieged to h.iv I ihtuiuod several hundr dollars from Salt Ijike banks imntislness men by eprosenting himself al lit' advertising naiiagiT f Jne I'almolive cmpnuy, .vas ImiiiikI over to the dlslriirl ctuirl rhursda.v nl Suit I.nke by 4'ity Judge lien Johnson Stowt's 'rest occurred withI weeks ago. H. II. I account of the presence in of Parley l Christensen of Suit Ijike, candidate of the Farmer-ljiho- r party lust November for election as president of the United States, appears n a copy of I he Kabenhavn, a billy paper 'of Copenhagen, received in Salt I .ake hy Mr. Christensen 's mother. An k Acting as n board of equalization and assessment, the county commission of Salt Ijike Thursday decided to assess the 1'lah ldiihn Sugar company for alleged "Intangible assets" amounting to So.ooo.ooo. Protests of the company against the assessment will be heard ' September 1.). Senator Borah of Idaho Has Plan to Help Western People and At Same Time Assist Those Out of Work Sun Antonio. Texas The list of known dead from Saturday's flood had advanced to forty-sevelate Sunday. The dead anil missing were estimated at approximately 250 by rescue workers, while Police Commissioner Phil Wright said they might total :Xl. consider Many residents, however, these figure higU The property loss was plueed at J."V 000,000 by some business men, but both lower and higher estimates were made. Soon after daylight Sunday, searchNew portrait of Senator John Knight ers working through the Alazan creek Shields of Tennessee. found four bodies in the wrickage on the banks, and another was found in the San Antonio river. While it lias BREAK Ifl IRELAND been dednred that possibly tlm majority of the estimated dead floated down the stream, searchers believe as t:ie is cleared away others witi IS NOW POSSIBILITY wreckage be found. Rescuers Sunday confined their efforts principally to recovering bodies, work of rescuing the limrtavied having been completed Saturday. SINN FEIN MAY RECEIVE DRASTIC ltescue and relief work continued all NOTE IF ACTION IS NOT Saturday night and Sunday. Hundreds TAKEN IMMEDIATELY of Mexicans and the poorer people who lived along Hie Alazan are 'homeless, and were given assi,ance by Bed British Cabinet Members Divided A Cross headquarters. To Nature of Treatment To Be The fact tlfcit most of the bodies reAccorded De Valera Reply covered have been fully clot lied shows Says Late Report that the victims were either warned or heard the approaching rush of wnler Inverness, Scotland The British in time to make preparations to leave. The city proper has neen in n cripat Its meeting here Wednesday condition all day from the flood. of the pled reply unanimously approved tbe government to the last note from There have been no lights or street Kamon de Valera, the Irish republican ' car service because of lack of electric ..." i was tiiiiiiucu to !.. power. icauer. i lie repiy Water has been runn:ng Into the C. P.arton, the' Sinn Fein courier who started for Dublin at 4 o'clock mains in parts of the city, and tne pressure is weak at these places. HowWednesday afternoon with it. A committee of the cabinet, with full ever, city officials said that the water pressure would lie turned on ana t: powers to deal with Mr. do Valera's was thought electric current will also i nswer to the communication sent this be available soon. afternoon, and with the Irish situation City Building Inspector J. L. Kichter was appointed. Another generally, estimated the damage to buildings in to deal wits committee was appointed approximate,- $700,000. He said no unemployment. bu l. lilies have been permanently Inverness, Scotland The decision of large damaged. which ihr the British cabinet, upon Jitneys ha" beeti d ling a rushing fate of tlu truce in Ireland depends, business because of the lack jf is.rcet was expected to be readied during the car service. afternoon's session. Investigation divulged Suml.iy Thai for When the cabinet adjourned hardly any of tlie damaged rms'nesscs th lunch it was announced that carried flixtd Insurance. lare-- t British reply to De Valera's Is estiOam.tge 'o fie street pa- note, which rejected the liritish mated t l an.iTo.jiirtRtely i"0 000, most posals and suggested further "conwhen wood paving of which versations," would probably lie ready Mocks .vevo v:"s.c'fl up. Muci of 1!ie for dispatch Wednesday night. business section was pnVed with wood A preemptory note to S'nn Fetsr blocks. Ui borers luive been egaged In breaking off negotiations, was con- moving sway what remained of the sidered at the niciing with Premier blocks. l.loyd fonrge. Kvery sanitary precaution is being f taken. City Health Oiricer W. A. King lnvenies- - Scotland Settlement the Irish ipieslion appeared to hang m issued an appeal to the citizens to be the balance when members of tl diligent in draining off water British ministry met Prime Minisirr where mosquitoes might find a breed l.loyd Oeorge here Wednesday. It km ing place. aid the ministers were not at all m The cleaning up proceeded in every iigrcement as to the best method sf pnrt of the business district Sunday. procedure to be adopted, some favor- Proprietors of business establishments ing furtlir exchange of notes with lb and employees were sweeping and Irish Sinn Fein, (libers were said M finishing nut the water and deJnis, be pn)iosing that i; virtual ultimatum while pumps were forcing water from t.e cnt Kamomi de Valeia, giving hi is basements. Kleganl office furniture :ind Ids colleagues n fixed time ia lined both sides of the main streets which to accept or reject the Brill It with employee scrubbing them to re offer of dominion status for Ireland. move dirt and slitne. In contrast fo t Mr. ill1 Valera, in a statement the damage to the larger establishthe press in InihMn Tuesday, states' ments, there were the damaged fruit .that nn ultimatum '.'would be I he stands, curio shops and smaller estabof force and would mean war. lishment. Here and there a man was not - peace." leaning li's small place, aided In some King (Jeorge is staying nt Moy 'Instances by bin wife, sons tind dung Hull, near here, and Ills presence Is ters. the Immed'ate rcighborhood Is looked Would Enjoin Market upon as most opiorlunc .as be hir P.rokei-who failed fo New York hi the past few months played a par. ' York curb market into tlcularly influential role in the work follow the Mr. f hniiilling the Irish question. ts new Indoors home a year ago are .loyd lieorge and the king have hi.i'I made defendants In an injunction suit on tile in the supreme court Friday. i i lose much during the Irish hcm. tia lions, ami it was reported tle The suit was started Jiy property ownmarket a rime minister would confer with the ers who called the sovereign, poss Idy before aiole to tli nuisance. Irish republicans was tlnally drafted. Former Senator Dies Prim- to the cabinet meeting Pre Boston Oeorge Peahody Wet more. micr Lolyd lleorge took breakfast with l.e king, and it i uudersliHd that tucj 7.1, former Republican senator from Ithode Island and for two terms govliscussed the Irish ipiest'on. John O'Sheluin. Sinn Fein agent is ernor of that state, died of heart rull-ir- e Sunday. He arrived Saturday Scotland, mid James Batten came te Iverncss last Tuesday night to tiwiitl from Newport. It. I., for a crnsuliatton with li's physicians. development. Army Leader Put to Deatn For Srparate Defense Berlin A tcl 'grani from Cewn saj Xurn Angl'les Mlsf Madelynne Oheri ttil the execution by Hie bolsheviki of ebiiin Friday said lint 1w had deeid (ieiieral nntT- Baron cd to bnve her defense coinlueted scp bolshevisl leader In Siberia, wfo.e nrately from that of Arthur ('. Itittvli cnplure mas repirttil ris'ciitly, lias been ndnted with her on charges of mnr nnnounced In Moscow. Sixty-on- e of der in connection with the death of .1 his officers also were shot, flic t1e-KraHelton Kennedy, a local broker. sm Id. i i. mi-lie- - ie-ul;- cl esH-ciali- y s -- i Khip-inent- . TVn-niiir- For the purpose of occupying the bench In the federal district court if spjieals. Judge 'Tillman D. Johnson if the United State:! district court left Wednesday for Penver. He will el urn to Salt lJike late this month 'or the opening of the fall term of ourt on September 2(1. reports that wholesale prices in August advanced on the average for the third successive month. The gain has been slight. Hocsn't mean any material price advance Ik In prosect. Merely shows Unit manufacturers have enough orders In sight that Ibey feel safe in sounding out the market. Copper, tl(e most stngnnnt Industry, has a pickup that Is stiffening price. s Building outlook is better. of I'ortlHiid cemene about IMS per cent as big as a year ago. Lumber trade on i'acilic coast Improves, also other sections. Thirteen more lumber mills opened up In week ended August 1T7. bringing total of operating mills to 38. Farm outlook Improves. Cotton price soars. Big wheat exports in August broke the record of October, IfrjO. More than half of the money received from total cxort now is for farm . The Oregon Shorl Line I'nllroad company will pay a reward of ,$iMN1 for information leading In the arrest and conviction of the two persons who held up the Los Angeles limited l rain the afternoon of Wednesday! August 31. This announcement was made Thursday by II. V. rial l, general manager of the Oregon Short Line. rnll-rou- Property Loss Estimated at $5;00O,C00; Public Utilities Seriously Crippled. Thousands are Left Homeless and on Mercy of City and Friends fivld officer of the forest service In Ogden. will leave soon for New Orleans to attend the 'tomcat inn of lie National Federal He will be a delegate Employees. A. . Wycoff. district Irom the Ogden Federal F.mplnjec union No. 1.5 of that city which li. Mi members. j I product. Cnorge McLauvhlln. postmaster at Park City, nas named n the pre!. dent of the Ulah Postmasters' tissocln. tlon at the closing session of the iin-- i niial cniientitil liehl at Ogden. lie lll siieceeil I'rcs dent F.. II. Ttson. Business failures, first week In Sep temher. only 310, against 3!."i the eek Mr. and Jlr. John KninNcn Sr.. Mr. before. Pleasant' ctcluiilcil oldesl impie. Bnnk clearing, climbing stead, ly iln lr ivl fmiriii wodd.ng ami cisar now are more" than twice as big as in rcn inly. .Mr. and Mrs. Kmidsi n ha' c 115. both pass"d tin ir ii In'l) mnn'iil b rill Unemployment Is not a acute n It d.i) and an' halo mid hearty. was n .uontn ago. Ihiinage susta'tied by the Iicmer A Arbuckle Charged With Murder IVa Oinnde Wesiciti railroad from San Francisco, Onl.-tlo- wie (Fatty) flmr v. iters which have been rampiml with Arhtickle was formally charged foi weeks In sections ot lust n murder Monday. Mrs. Bambini Mamie l'ol...do iiinl I'tnli w:is estimated at I'eltnont, friend' of Miss Virginia Kuppe f't.iMUHiO by Jowph . Young of Oei-ver- , lent of the road, wliti Is tis pre-spppareil wit hi llistrlct Attorney Brady In folic Judge O'Brien's court shortiting ITT ?It ly after II a. in., and swore to a comThe farmers In the I'eMa mmnii.n. plaint charging Arbuckle with the tnur. coli!cr of Miss Kappe. Mrs Ity have Just harvested and thn-shelapsed In the courtroom after swearing the largest wheat crop ever produce! to the complaint. District Attorney tlifwc. snil prml elly all if them art Brady then forbid the shipment of Miss tenia,' Bappe's body to Lot Angeles. J 1 out-do- - I To I'nger-Stendier- Tas Wina and Beer Bullets on Chicago Street Chicago Five bullets were fired Into beer the back of Frank Ihmnrlo Sunday to provide the adjusted compciisaf int. niglit ns lie sIhm on a crowded street for former Service men, was romii corner In the nineteenth ward, scene by fingresman Vincent P. ItietniaD of thirteen fetnl murders jn the last of iHtroif. In addressing n ineetl-i- t few months. He died Inter. The here of Charles A. Lnmed Vi shots were tired by one of two ncn In pit 1 of the American Without an automobile which sped awn. SevLegion. amending the constitution, Mr. Bren-n- eral witnesses were tsken Info custody. ald he helU-vei law could b The political feud In rhe wsrd resutteo psMed in congress ilefln'ng ss nonln from the aldermantc election several toi lea ting light wines and beer coo months ago. 8tne then nearly a score talntng from 3 to 5 per rrnf alcolkot. , ot men htte beem killed or Injured. !troit mx on light wines Jo yield I lie revenue A nn' Of TO SECRETARY COMMERCE CONSTRUCTION OF WESTERN PROJECTS Boise, Iila. Immediate development of many government irrigation projects in the West, which will give em plo.vment to thousands of men now" out of work in various parts of th country, is the proposal made by I'nited Slates Senator W, hi Horn hi of Idaho to Secretary of Commerce n Lawrence Heywood. cmpWed at the Slate Bank of Oarfield at Piingultch has been apminied a federal prohihl lion enforcement agent for the die rict of Utah and will reort for duty n Salt Lake jh October I, uccor.Jin;: o word from received Thursday Washington ny Prohibition P'reetO' J. K. KtchardHitt Salt Lake... X.r. Hey wood is a nephew of Ben Heywood. formerly United Stales marshal fu the Utah dlsllrct. , ' SUGGESTS VA Legion. New York Business Is beginning to pick up In nearly every important In- FORTY SEVEN REPORTED DEAD WHILE TOTAL CASUALTIES MAY EXCEED HUNDRED s CM the new Lady Byng, wife ernor general cf C&natia. gov- SAILORS SHOT PROHIBITION RAID OFFICERS SEIZE $50 000 WORTH OF LIQUOR AND DRUGS VALUED AT $75,000; OFFICER SUICIDE Seven Sa lors are Wounded by Federal Dry Agents When They Board Ship in New York Harbor in Search of Liquors New York Seven sailors were shot and won in led in u battle with prohibi tion enforcement agents aboard the .steamship King Alexander at h.cr wharl Brooklyn Friday. The raiders, uf a desperate struggle, overpowered the seamen and seized alleged contra-hanliquor worth $."0,000. IM'iigs valued nt ?75,O0O also were confisciited. the officers announced. After the raid, Frank .1. Fitstpatrick, chief narcotic officer here, who hud taken part in (lie raid, committed suicide at a nearby pier, according to a In ter police Herbert Hoover, to solve the ntietn' problem that is facing thf I'nited States at the present time of the letter of Senator Konil and the proposal contained 'thereir has been received In Boise, Senator Borah points out that, ll addition to furnishing employment t? ihe unemployed, the construction ot these projects and pushing them q early completion will supply home for many other thousands of people who have been waiting for years for" the government to finish irrigation projects Jn part Senator Borah's letter as follows: ' I am informed through the press that xou are engaged in working ont since kind of a program to take rarer f the unemployed during the continj; fall and winter 1 beg leave to make ri suggestion to you "As you are doubtless well Informer, we have a great number of Irrigation project in the West, either ready ioi onstrui'tion work or which have feen begun and delayed by reason of want of funds Hundreds and even tlioo sands of people are waiting an oppor tunity to make homes upon these projects In some instances of ubi'eh I have knowledge they have been 'aff ' I thrnfe "iig for a number of years you will agree with me that this government cannot be more deeply Interested in any proposition t.ian it is? its gett'ng as many people as prnctli.abi upon our land and so arranging; mat' ers that Ibey may acquire howef , "I assume that the government wllf. 'n taking core of the unemployed- - ieltf to find work for them rather t&i'CI f'A engage in the demoralizing "progF'm ot feeding them without work TV ttfy sane, wholesome and decent way t treat an American citizen, wheiv ke if for" in want of food. Is to find lab htm, so that be may pay for hi foe and not accept It at the hands of Hir-it- y. if these projects cotildb e 'Wets lip and built under present conifli'vons fafr" utilizing Ihe unemployed at wage. It seems to be one at loat f the most practical and desirable things; could do. In the first place, 't rfc. work to a large number if uneitap("j' ed. thereby enabling them to lakf care of themselves and their faniille.-I- n the second place, it provides ucre' age for the making of homes and for increasing the production in tfcli country. In the third place, ultimately all moneys expended upon these will be repaid to the government. Any of these lands are wortf much timre than the amount neccemry to reclaim them, and the government. plo.vment report. Other federal agents declari-they knew no motive for Fir.pnt rick's, sui cide. They expressed the belief that the excitement and strain of the raid tenqiorarily deranged li'ui. Fitzpatrick, who had searched the vessel with t lie prohibition agents, was found dead In a nearby ferry house after the fight. There were two bullet wounds in bis heart. I'nited States Marslufl Power, thirty deputy inarsliils and twenty policemen were sent to the King Alexander after the suicide was reported to the authorities to arrest all members of the crew nn hoard and lake them to the federal building for questioning. The raid on the King Alexander was in connection with the new campaign launched here against bootleggers. Acting on a tip that members of tlie crew of the King Alexander were involved in a plot to smuggle contraband liquor and drugs into this country, the proliibit ion agents swooped down on the ship at her wharf. Sailors resisted and a Score of shots were excbnngeiL Fifteen prohibition agents comprised the force that raided the King Alexander. They approached the ship In a hinm-l- i ami lay in the shadows of the while agents, posing as prospective purchasers of the contraband, went aboard' the vessel. While tJicy were negotiating on the ship, a lookout spied the launch crowded with officers. He gave the alarm. A moment later, those In the launch heard n battle of shots from the ves- i, pr-jec- Suspect Mexican Official Francisco FerT.aB-de- z, r Mexiiaii customs Inspector Tiajiianu rnd practically all of bi staff were missing Saturday while federal officinls were checking over account of the custom offl 'e in an effort to discover just when vartou" amounts which it is rumored, may total a hu.Te s un, were taken frimi customs funds. Approximately $!".-00- 0 sel. in cash was missing from the ofThe raid was under tli" direction of fice lust Sunday, it is said. Krnest . Ijinnley. chief federal agent in New York. .Mr. Former Gove;nor Fined Umgley sn'.d that !00 had Just been n, and events one advance of the los Angeles. Cal. Ienvcr S. paid by former governor of Nevada, part of the contraband articles delivered when the crew's suspicious were pleaded guilty In federal court .her a roused. Tliirs(lny to an information rbsrgtiijr The shooting ill traded customs li i in with having violated the federal guards and police reserves who sur- law prohibiting tlie transHrtation of rounded' the pier to prevent the crew umtioii pictures of n prize flglit fnmi from fleeing. The prohibition agents srate to state and was ordered fo pwy aid, however, than an officer of l!7e a fine of $KKiO. ll kerson said be hail vessel to w Iwim they were to pay lbs exhibited a picture of the Ienipey-Cnrpenllmoney had vanished. The wounded fight for a semlbclievnlent members of the crew were taken to a purpix'S. hospital under arrest. Will Affect Eastern Hemisphere Kight men were arrested charged with violation of tne Volstead act. Washington Secretary of Ihe TreasMellon, as chairman of tlie luter-Aiu- c ury Dry Bill Passes ricaii hi uli commission, Sunday riuist taiila The lower houe la! sued a ciill for slinultaneoils meelTiig' on liecember "1 here and in all Thursday night adopted the proh'hi-tleof all American republics to disbill, which forb ds Importation of liquors or w ines l ontainiiii! mote than cuss the exchange situation as tlie western lymtsphcre und in-- t H per cent hnhiioi. i tie o.ii now goes to ihe upper house. erna t omi I commerce. San D'.ego, Oil. wh-.irv- . TMes-erso- ef ls 1 nf-fe- i Portland Planning Exposition Advertising Pays Banker Oenver ll pny n bank to advertl Portland. Ore. Indorsement was given here Thursday by 1.7T business ns well n any other business, H. t'. men and officials of Oregon to Portland's proposed world's exssitloii In BfJ. nml Ihe recommendation of the finance committee that fd.OOO.OOO be raised to finance the exposition wss d. Under the plan Portland l will ralxe 000,0n0 by levy, ,(Mi.mo will be obtained by subscription from Portland residents and oisi.oin) will he raised by a speciul tin ill ne state. npp-ove- spi-cia- $-- Alexander. Little Itock lianki r, tobf members of the lienver Civic and here. Advcrtlslnsr of liiv he said, ralseil the dciir-sitbank from .M70.0IO to $1,000,000. Com-men-- Ial assiH-lntio- s Chicago Bans Indemnities tlilca.';" The Ctiicago board ol ad p'P'l an a'liei.dment 0 trade I: lle rules of Ihe association providing d'.'cont'n"nr!cp of di ni ng In IndeA-nlt- v c n.-t- .e s. The vote us iH t 41. , |