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Show i THE FORGES ADVANCE INSURGENTS ADVANCING FROM JALAPA WILL BE JOINED BY MANY OTntnS Another Obregon Loyalists Suffer Defeat In Skermlsh Around Nayarit; Two Generals . Killed being held at spo. kane will endeavor to reduce freight rates ate Expert of Idaho Public ties Commission Takes Prominent Part at Gathering Utili- Vera Cruz, Insurgent troops have left Vera Cruz under orders for an At Mexico City. advance townnl various points alone the railway they will lie Joined by other contingents and the united forces will then proceed toward the capital, adIt Is vancing in two directions. that about 10,000 troops are available for this movement. General Berlanga an Colonel Mayer, Obregon officers who were reported to have been executed after the capture of Jala pa hy the Insurgents, were spared. Colonel Mayer was one of 2O0 prisoners taken in the fighting who were brought here Monday night. The steamer Platanero Alegriu la Teordoro carrying to New Orleans Tresieres and Khrique Soldenar, who are to go to New York as confidential agents of the provisional government. A detachment of Obregon troops was reported defeated In a skirmish In Naynrit territory. Generals Ortega and Maya, loyalists, were killed. General Estrnde who also' is adMexico City from vancing toward Guadalajara has informed the insurgent chieftains here that an attempt by General Ferreira to land federal from Sinaloa and reinforcements Sonora at Manzanillo was frustrated by the rebels. Spokane, Wash, Testimony that eastbound freight rates on wheat from Idaho points are lower than similar rates to west coast points, and declaration that railroads as well as shippers would benefit from a lower westbound rale were submitted by Samuel L. Newton, rate expert for the Idaho public utilities commission at the opening session here Wednesday of the Interstate commerce commission's hearing on grain, grain products ami hay rates. The hearings is being conducted by Examiners II. C. Keene and E. L. ISeech of the commission. Keene explained nt the outset that questions of discriminatory rates will be barred from consideration. Representatives of several farmers' organizations and numerous legal representatives of Northwest railroads are in attendance and the state public utilities departments of Washington, Oregon and Idaho are represented. Newton contended that the bulk of the exportable surplus of 207,277,000 bushels of wheat In the United States should move to Pacific coast ports, owing to shorter distances as compared with Atlantic and gulf ports, and he declared that the railroads would save money by hauling more Opens Fight on Ku Klux Klan Oklahoma City, Okla. Organization wheat West instead of empty cars, as, he said, they now do. of the National Society of American He asked for an anti-KKlux Klan equalization of body, Freemen, was announced here by J. C. Walton, rates on westbound wheat shipments disposed governor of Oklahoma. Wal- from Idaho on the various railroads, ton Is national chairman and will contending that present rates on the have charge of the formation of chap Oregon Short Lla afe higher than on & St. Paul, ters outside of OMhhomu. The new the Chicago. Milwaukee the Gceuf Northern and the Northern Pacific. tions of the klan and conduct an an t klan campaign of education, Would Retain Pershing lormer governor sum. Defeat or las piling public officers who sympathize Washington, Recommendation that with tlm kbin will oIho Iia flonirluf hv a special bill be enacted to permit the association. "Jack Walton's ufcper" General Pershing to remain on active was designated as the national antl-kla- n service after he reaches the statutory weekly representing the new or- retirement age next year has been .State antiklan organizaforwardd by Secretary Weeks to the ganization. tions recently organized will" be asked senate and house military commit - tees. to enlist under, the-neHis vast fund of accumulated nationalsoclation, Walton said. ' experience as commanding general of our armies in Europe, said Mr. Weeks' letter to the committee, Shriners Dedicate Hospital "and his Portland, Ore., The fifth hospital virile Interest in our military estabfor crippled children to be established lishment in questions affecting the are reasons which by the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles national defense, of the Mystic Shrine, under Its pro- would convlnceme that a great misgram inaugurated at the Imperial ses- take will be made If the present laws sion held here in 1020, was dedicated on the subject of retirement is allowhere Sunday by Conrad V. Dykeman ed to bar further active military serof Brooklyn, X. T., imperial potentate vice to the nation by him." of the shrine. Bergdoll Abductor Guilty May Impeach Governor McCray A sentence of Mosbach, Baden, A meeting of the eighteen months' imprisonment wag Indianapolis, will be Imposed Thursday upon Corliss Hoov-e- n Ilepublicnn state committee called next week to tako steps toward Orlffls of Hamilton, O., for the convening the Indiana legislature In part he played In the attempted kidspecial session to consider impeach- napping- of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, ment of Governor Warren T. McCray American draft evader, at Eerach last unless the Governor sends a favorable August. Karl Sperer of Paris was reply to the letter sent him Thursday sentenced to fifteen months and the of the state, Russian prince, Faust Gagarin to five by the subcommittee chairman, announced Friday. "I have months. Nelson of Eugene Victor no comment to make," said Governor Chicago, the fourth defendant was set free. A sentence of three years for McCray. Orlffls had been recommended by State's Attorney Xebel. Revenue Agents Take Tickets Sioux City, Iowa, Revenue agents swooped down on five Sioux City picFormer Congressman Dead ture theatres Monday and took active Ore. Clifton X. McArthur Portland. charge at the amusement emporium former in congress as ticket takers. The revenue agents from the representative Third Oregon (Portland) were acting under II. S. Oadltolse, chief district, died In a hospital here .Sunof the Internal revenue division of the day from complication following an Sioux City office. The five theatres attack of meningitis and the effects have been under surveillance for the of an operation to relieve an Infection last year, Ondlolse Mid. near the brain. Inter-Ocean- T Washington, u organi7thfe--l1trtctaKJrit-depreda- ARE KILLETT 24 AS BANDITS RAID SWEEPS COAST AND FIFTEEN DROWN WHEN STEAMER BANDITS SCALE WALLS LOOT AND BURN TOWN IN GOES DOWN IN RAGING SEARCH OF TREASURE COAST STORM Marines From Foreign Ships Take Telephone and Telegraph Facilitier Possession of Custom House Are Crippled; Falling Trees and Fortify Themselves And Block Rocks With Machine Guns Railway Travel the walls Peking, Bandits scaled of Likwankia In southeastern llonan province, and looted and burned the town some days ago, according to advices received from a mission station In Hupeh at Lachokow, province, from the across the boundary line burned town. Two thousand dead and wounded were luff behind when the bandits abandoned the smoking ruins of the town, the advices said. occurred in the attack Although details of it were derest of the layed In reaching the world by the Isolated position of er a, far up Hankiang river. a tributary of the Hong Kong, Marines from foreign warships anchored off Shameen, the of Canton, have foreteii settlement landed on the Bund and taken possession of the custom house, fortify ing themselves with machine guns. according to advices received here. Six foreign gunboats are known to be anchored off Shameen. They vessels, include the two American the Ashevllle and the Pampanga ; the Moorhen, British ships Cicala and and the French gunboats Malleiense and Craonne. hns been The British flotilla arrival of the strengthened by the Admiral with gunboats Magnolia, Devensun aboard and the Tarantula, received according to later advices here. The Japanese gunboat Matau and the destroyer Sugi also have arrived at Canton, the advices state. Irencn Admiral Frochat of the navy Is aboard the Craonne. Explosions Baffle Police Winchester, Muss, Mysterious exbeen occurlng plosions which have Seattle, Wash. Sixteen persons are believed to have perished as the result of a twenty-four-hogale which swept the northwest coast territory Wednesday night and early Thursday causing hundreds of dollars in property damage, crippling communication facilities and inundating portions of Hoquiam and Aberdeen Wash., and Warrenton, Ore. Fifteen persons are believed to have been drowned when the steamer T. W. Lake sank in Rosarlo strait between Lopez and FIdalgo Islands, near Anacortes. Four bodies, three of them unidentified have been recovered by police authorities of San Juan county. One of the bodies is Bald to be that of Captain E. E. Mason of Tacoma. The ship was westbound from Friday harbor. In the San Juan Island group, to Anacortes when she sank. The other death was that of Thomas E. Phlpps, 82, timekeeper at a He was repairmill In Belllngham. ing the entrance gate to the plant when It suddenly opened and struck him on the head, killing htm instantur ly. With the exception of the one shipwas unwreck, coastal navigation hampered, although the steamship was forced to Empress of Canada abandon her call Thursday at Victoria and dock at Vancouver, B. C, on account of the rough weather. In many towns and cities along the coast telephone and telegraph facilities were put out of commission by the wind and rain, and in some instances streetcar traffic tied up by the water and lack of power. blocked Falling trees and rocks railroad lines In some Instances. Aberdeen and Belllngham, Everett, Hoquiam felt the brunt of the storm apparently although the storm assumed the proportions of a blizzard at Vancouver, B. C, and disrupted telegraph and telephone communication. Three feet of snow was reported to Cascade mounhave fallen. In the tains and a foot of snow fell in the Kachee, Keechelus and Cleelum lakes district. . F. P. Johnson, 23, Houston, fell from the fifteenth floor of the Cotton Exchange building here Friday Johnson an receiving fatal Injuries. electrician was working In a ventilator shaft of the building when his foot slipped and ha plunged to the ground. Ford Plan Is Boosted Washington, A resolution providing for acceptance of Henry Fords' offer for Muscle Shoals without changing Its terms was Introduced In the senate, by Senator McKellar, lemocrat. McKellar also offered a Tennessee. resolution providing for the appoint, ment of a special senate committee to Investigate whether the secrtary of war had a legal right to dispose of the Gorges steam plant at Muscle fthoala. Woman Named Town Manager Ore., After trying out several men as managers with little success, the city commissioners WedIt. A. to ask Mrs. nesday decided Barrett of Portland and Seaside to resume the position of city manager. be the Mrs. Barrett said to first woman ever appointed to the office of city manager, was named by the Warrenton commissioners last spring of active but after several weeks on account of ill service resigned health. Ark to Sail Again San Pedro, Cal.. The Iter. 3. E Lewis, builder of the Ark of the Living God, whl h sank during Its hunching here three years ago, has left for to purchase the old San Frnncls-which he says navy collier Brutus, will be used as the nucleus of a fleet to carry members of the blak race to Africa. In America bark The snll from Brutus, he explained will this port next Febraiiry for Monrovia. on the wet coast of Africa with 200O tons of freight and 200 passengers. twenty-fou- r defendants convicted on and other conspiracy prohibition charges to pay fines totaling 1."0..'K) and to serv terms in the federal penitentiary. Falls Fifteen Stories and Lives Tex., Warrenton, - reconvened re- or Walton Appeal Now In Court Washington, The apieal of former Walton of Oklahoma from Governor dismissal of his Injunction suit to prevent the Oklahoma house of representatives from proceedings with his Impeachment rase was filed Monday In the supreme When the court. rase may be reached Is uncertain. Liquor Comes High Savannah, On., Judge Barrett In the federal court Friday sentenced Congress the senate facing a Nine Killed In Collision Erie, Pa., Nine persons were killed and seven others Injured, two probably fatally, when the third section of the Twentieth Century Limited of the New York Central railroad, westsection bound, telescoped the first near N. Y., thirty-fiv- e Forsythe, miles east of here early Sunday The second section, which morning. had gone ahead of the first section at engine Albany when it encountered an abandoned autotrouble, struck mobile at the Forsythe crossing. The train was stopped to determine If any casualties had resulted, and, after placing danger signals at the crossing the second section proceeded. The first section stopped to investl. gate the signals and the third section crashed Into the rear cars. Sheriff Takes Follies Show Kansas City. Mo , The Greenwich Village Follies, playing at a theater here, was seized late Saturday by the sheriff's office upon an attachment obtained by counsel for John Murray Anderson of New York, producer of A deputy sheriff took the show. charge of all properties and the box oflfre, which threatened to prevent further performances, and Interfere with the show's scheduled opening In Ilor Are Dropped Many Employes Washington, A reduction of 2900 employes In the field and flno In the central office has been made since March 1, Dlrctor Hlnes of the veterans bureau announced Friday In outlining the results of the general re organization f the bureau's personal an. The director also structure. nounced the approval of Increases In In "the salaries for 2111 employe and for fleH, amounting to ISA employes of the central office at a cosj of 1 107,000. Omaha. Rebels Siere Capital City Vera Cruz. Jnlnpa, capital of the state of Vera Cruz, fell Into the hands of the besieging revolutionary forces at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The rebels took 100 prisoners, among them General Rerbmga, Colonel Mayer and the provisional governor. Angel They also captured machine An uncon. guns, rifles and horses. firmed report nays that Berlanga and n firing executed by Mayer were Ballad after a summary court msrtlal- Ca-arl- j I f News Notes From All Parts of UTAH MantI, The bureau dairy commithead of tee has purchased twenty The dairy cows In Utah county. $1700, twenty head delivered, cost and were distributed to. fourteen men. d of the. cows are Nearly Ilolsteins and the others are Jerseys. Fanners of the state are Logan, purchasing their dairy cattle in Cache county rather than sending east for their stock, according to William W. Owens of the extension division at the Utah Agricultural college and county agent leader. Ogden, Cache valley dairymen will exhibit at the fifth Annual Ogden livestock show to be held at the Og den Union stock yards January 8 to 12, 1924, according to Secretary Jesse S. Richards, who visited purebred breeders jvhile in Holstein cattle Cache valley recently. to have Provo, Two men alleged killed five sheep belonging to Heber in the City men, and being herded Tintlc valley, were traced to the main road leading out of Tlntic valley, and were successful in their escape after officers from Provo had gone to the scene to try to locate them. Salt Lake City, Gasoline tax has ' of on a carload been demanded "snowolene," a deodorized cleaning fluid shipped in from California recently for distribution among cleaning and dyeing concerns, according to Crockett. Secretary of State H. E. The product he said is reported to b high test gasolite which has been deodorized. Provo, Work commenced Wednesday on a pipeline to bring the water from the newly acquired springs Slate canyon to the State Mental hospital. the plans Ogden, After changing for the Ogden Union passenger station a number of times and enlarging several of the departments to be con structed, it was reponea in une railroad circles that It Is expected of tearing down the south half of the burned structure will begin before January 1. Salt Lake, The postoffice department Monday announced that It had. leased for ten years new quarters on the north side of Second South, between Second and Third West streets lor use as an annex oi tne ban Lane Dostolllce. the lease to cover ail neces sary equipment. The lease Is ma with the A. Keyser company. iBianu, J. vv. onana ounis cuy ruts been elected president of the Sanpete County Fair association for the year 1024. Andrew Chrlstensen of Ephraim was chosen vice president and J. R. Wltbeck, Spencer Mofet, and William McFarlane, all of this city, were elected as a board of directors. The various committees will be selected-a- t a later time. of 50 Increased rate Price, An cents a ton on coal and coke hauled by the Denver Sc Rio Grande Western railroad from Carbon county mines to Cedar City, to have been effective ordered December 19, 1923, was suspended until March 5, 1924, by tha public utilities coniniisslon. one-thir- organization fight and the house unable to function because its committees still are unorganized. Republican and Democrat leaders of the senate completed Sunday their assignments to the regular standing committee. At Its final session Sunday the Republican committee on committees is understood to have selected Senators Lenroot of Wisconsin, Willis of Ohio and Pepper of Pennsylvania for the three Republican vacancies on the This committee. foreign relations committee is to act upon 'President Harding's world court proposal, which has the indorsement of President Coolidge. Senator Owen of Oklahoma la understood to have been selected Democrats for the fourth by the minority vacancy on the committee the other three to be filled by Senators Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader; Underwood of Alabama and Walsh of Montana. Senator Shlpstead, Farmer-LabMinnesota, also was given a place on the foreign relations committee acSenator Johnson cording to reports. of Minnesota was given the extra place created on the agriculture committee. The Republican, committee on committees confirmed the tentative asof Senators signments Gooding of Idaho, Couzens of Michigan, Howell ot Nebraska and Fess of Ohio to the vacancies on the interstate commerce committee. Selections for the four Republican vacancies on the finance committee were Elklns of West Virginia, Ernest of Kenof Illinois, tucky and Stanfleld of Oregon. There were reports that Senator Spencer of Missouri had been placed on the Judiciary committee .which deals with prohibition legislation. Senator Spencer has Introduced a bill providing for the appointment of a committee which would determine of beverage what alcoholic content was In fact Intoxicating. ot the house Democrats members made ways and means committee substantial progress Sunday in the selection of minority members for the other public committee, but the work was not completed. 1'resent prospects are that it will be late in the week before either the Republican or Democratic selections are com pit ed and the house probably will take another three days' recess soon after It meets. Senate Democrats are prepared to present a motion for the senate to proceed with the election of a president pro tern., but they still are undecided whether this motion will come before or after the senate has passed the makeup of Its formally uion working committees. HOUR GALE almost continuously since last Friday behind the bedroom walls In the have bafhome of William Hudson The fled state and city Inspectors. as similar to explosions, described exploding machine spin bullets, linve been heard by Major I'aul B. Moldton, a state chemist who lives next door. Plaster has been knocked from the walls. The chief of police, head of the fire department and a building InBaldwin Party Repudated spector spent one night In the house A crushing nnd unexpectunusual. London, without hearing anything "The spirit won t walk for us," said ed defeat was administered to Pre. and the conmler Stanley Baldwin the chief of police. servative parly In the general election. Late Friday 324 labor and lib. Boy Is Fourth Husband candidates had been elected. Jersey City. X. J.. Burton Tucker, eral a majority of lfl, is the fourth hiisbnnd of Susan O. Tills was more than Is M years the G15 seats In the house of commons who Incidentally Simpson, n constituold, counsel for the couple disclosed and at that time sixty-sevefrom. Meanwhile Mrs. Tucker encies remained to be heard Thursday. and her husband were in seclusion, One of the striking features of the announcement by Public defeat of Baldwin, who must now refollowing labor candidates, Prosecutor McMahon that he will ask sign, was that on a platform of levy on their Indictment for perjury, alleg- standing tents. Iavii) ages, when the capital, gained forty ing they gave fulse about the meets flashing Tuesday. IJoyd George, Jury grand country with his vitriolic attacks on Tax Reduction Suggested the proposed tariff the Issue on which Wsshlgton, The treasury depart Baldwin called the election, was anment already has drafted and sent to other contributing factor. Th en. the rapitol a bill embodying Serre. servatlves, with 2."2 candidates re. tary Melons' suggestions for tax re. turned Friday afternoon were assured took second vision wfilch will wrve as a basis of a plurality. In the for committee consideration place, with the combined Asquith had house. Lloyd George liberals third. Government Loses In Controversy The United States Washington, lost in the supreme court Monday on Its appeal to set aside the decision of the lower courts In a case It brought gainst the California Midway and other oil companies, attacking their title to 100 acres of oil land In Kern county, California. ML Shlpstead Given Placo on Foreign Relations Body, Capital Learns; Others Awa't Appointment Monday with m I PARTY LEADERS COMPLETE COM. MITTEE ASSIGNMENTS IN UPPER CHAMBERS ic ' ! ID CONGRESS STILL PHI GRAIN IS URGED Meeting NErill, UTAH TIMES-NEW- Some Interested Parties LOWER RATES Oil MEXICO CITY 1 n. the-wor- The Morgan-PetersoMorgan, highway, federal aid project No. 41, was recommended for approval of the state road commission and bureau of public roads, Monday by the engineering department of the state road commission following 7.8 mile of gravel surface construction recently completed. Salt Lake, Utah will send two ounces of cement to tne George Washington post No. 1, of Washington, D. C, the pioneer post ot the American. Legion; to be used In the laying ot the cornerstone of the permanent home of the post which will be laid, by President Calvin Coolidge. Salt Lake, Among 200,000 head ol which have bsea sheep trailing through Salt Lake county to winter feeding grounds on the western desert, and among 165,000 coming into Utah from Colorado to spend the winter on the eastern desert, not a single case of scabies has been found to date. It is reported by Thomas Redmond, chief sheep inspector for the state board of agriculture. The inspection In Salt Lake county has Just been completed by Theodore McKean and was made as a precautionary measure since no reports had beeft these received of scabies among . flocks. Ogden, Fees received lj 'fY-,xtary of state during October m 5 Xol ember feesi General aggregate: with JtKlftl.47 In $1977.19, compared 1922; corporation tax, 37,290.3o, compared with fW,075 last year In th corresponding period. n. - Moan, The board of commissioners of San Juan county nt a special meet ing attended by the county attorney, assessor and clerk, decided to grant the petition of 124 taxpayers ot the county praying for an extension ot twenty days in which to pay their taxes before they become delinquent Dry farm conditions during the past growing scaxon were so adverse thai it was Impossible for many ot the taxpayers to raise the funds at tha regular delinquent date, and In consideration ot this fact December 2 |