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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S. Idaho Town Moved to Make Room for a Reservoir MAGHIN E BULLETS WH5!J2J&,EJ3Jc MEN HANDCUFFED CUT DOWN POLICE TO TREES FOUND HIJACKERS KILL ONE MAN AND WOUND TWO OTHERS; POSSE HOT IN PURSUIT POSSES TAKE TRAIL AFTER BRU-- , TAL CRIME IN TENNESSEE IS REPORTED California Rum Runntra Run Amucfc And Hot Battle With Official Ar Balng Fought; Merchant la Klllad Moved From Tree to Tree Men Relate Sad Experience at Hand of Capturer; Big Reward I for Guilty Men Salinas, Cal. Land forcea cavalry-me-n from the Monterey Presidio and dtliena from towna adjacent to Mo landing near here joined handa to run down a crew of belligerent hijackers who killed one membera of a posse, Injured two peace officers and drore county and state police to coxer by fir from a machine gfln. At ea, coart guard vessel were warned to guard against any attempt to us the on the part of hijacirer sea as an avenue of escape when they are forced from their inland retreat by federal and civil forces. N. C. Rader, a merchant of Salinas, who was drawn Into the fray when appeals were received here for help, was shot through the heart. Sheriff W. A. Oyer, who Issued the appeal. Is In a hospital here with a badly shattered knee, and Harry Livingston, a state traffic officer, who made the appeal to the sheriff, is the third man shot. Two major encounters In the dark . - i i were reyurieu, tie Burnui mjucftcrv ing the offensive In both. The rum runners, reported off shore, made no attempt to land liquor. The fighting was confined to the hijackers and city and county officials, augmented by a posse of about fifty men. The fight came with such dramatic suddenness that officials here pieced fragamentary reports together from the scene of action to obtain a connected story. Livingston drove a shot shattered automobile into near here, with an appeal for help. The appeal was relayed her and Sheriff Oyer organized a posse and moved to the scene. As he approached Moss landing on a dark county road flanked by ditches the sheriff said persons bobbed up from both sides and inquired as to the business of the sheriff and his associates. When the sheriff identified himself the cry, "Shoot "em!" came from the hijackers and they opened fire with the warning. The sheriff's posse exchanged shots, but no reports were available as to the exact number of injured or whether arrests had been made. - Wat-sonvlll- . two-wor- d Drunk Runs Engine, Ends In Crash New York. Charged with stealing a $65,000 locomotive for a joy ride and wrecking it and another locomotive In a collision, Nicholas Oper of Long Island City was held In $1000 bail for a hearing. Police say Oper admitted entering the private roundhouse of a construction company on the night of July 3, while intoxicated, finding no watchman on duty, he decided to take a ride. Oper had never been on a locomotive before, and was hurled out of the cab window at the first sharp curve. He was not hurt. The runaway engine gathered speed and racing 65 miles an hour, crashed Into a Long Island railroad locomotive, wrecking- both engines, and seriously injuring Engineer George Dim- tnick. Jury Uncover Police Scandal Philadelphia. A special grand Jury lias heard evidence of huge bribes accepted by city policemen who not only protected a ring of alcohol permit holders but aided in loading truck and acted as convoy to the liquor laden vehicles. Assistant District Attorney Friedman said the grand jury had revealed the biggest police scandal in the history of the city. He declined to state the number of policemen Involved, but said their names and all the Information gathered by a ecret squad of 100 "undercover" agents from Washing-towould be turned over to Director Butler. n Cabinet Man's Son Weds Stanford University, Calif. Lyman Dwigbt Wilbur, son of Secretary of the Navy Curtis W. Wilbur, was married In the memorial chapel of Stanford university to Mis Henrietta Shattuck, Merced, Cal., school teacher. Secretary Wilbur witnessed the ceremony, together with a number of other relatives of the contracting parties. Miss Shattuck Is the daughter of the late Herbert A. Shattuck, director of publicity for Thomas A. Edison, the inventor. Treaty Revision I Urged Minister John A. Washington. MacMurray, who has arrived at Pe-kiChina, will Immediately open informal negotiations with representative of the other powers there for the holding of a treaty revision conference to subdue antlforelgn sentiment In China. The Washington administration ha conferred great authority upon MacMurray,, who ha been assistant secretary of state and chief of the eaitera division of th state department. News Notes From All Parts of UTAH 'A'k? i mm i f-t- "w 4T- - View of the town of American Falls, Idaho, which la being moved to a reservoir which will contain 1,700.000 acre feet of water. Below, the UtU while It was on wheels because It had not reached It new location. " RESCUE ING 1R REVEALS BODIES FOURTH BOSTON JULY CRASH AT DANCE HALL COSTS MANY LIVES OF MINE SHUTDOWN APPEARS CERTAIN ANTHRACITE MINES OF PENNSYLVANIA WILL CLOSE ON SEPT. 1, IS REPORT fcaX Ciutttanooga, Tenn. Sheriff Tom Selman has began an investigation into the story told by Dr. W. D. Mason, local veterinarian, and Lowrence Bowman, alleged feudist and aide of federal prohibition officers, that they had been kidnapped on Signal mountain and kept captive for ten days. The two men, who disappeared on June 23, without trace, were found by Jim Thomas, mountaineer, who was hunting stray hogs, hancuffed and tied to a tree in the wild about fifsite two mllea away, to make room for teen miles from Chattanooga. church la which services were held Bowman and Mason were in a serious condition as a result of their experience. Bowman stated that while driving along the road at night they were set upon by five men wearing SANTA BARBARA tow sacks over their heads, overpowered and taken to the woods. The men had been lured to the mountain NOW SAFE GITY by a fake telephone message and were returning home when attacked. Their disappearance was discovered the following day when Martin's car GEOLOGISTS UNCOVER SECRET was found on the mountain with OF RECENT UPHEAVEL AT bloodstains on the running board and SANTA BARBARA containing the hats of the vanished men. Posses immediately took up the Number of Dead la Expected to Reach Operators Are Known To Be Opposed City Is Now One of Safest Cities In search and combed the mountains, inSeventy-Five- ; To Any Increase In Wages; ThouMany Tragic DeUnited Statea Insofar as Earthcluding the place where Bowman and Mason were found, bearing out the tails are Noted When Bodies sands Of Men Will Be Effectare Now Concerned; quakes Are Found statement of the victims that they ed By Decision Rests on Rocks had been moved to a different tree each night of their captivity. A reward of $1000 was offered for Boston. The great trash heap that Scranton, Penn. Merchants in the San Francisco. Two of California's the discovery of the men, dead or was the Pickwick club has been only anthracite valleys have admitfinally outstanding authorities on earth, partially sifted but it has yielded forty-- ted the likelihood of a suspension at quakes believe Santa Barbara is onn alive, and a large number of natives of the mountain joined in the quest. two terribly mangled bodies. the mines 1, as a result of the safest places in the United The theory of the officers was that senses of both of theSeptember Before the horror-dreade- d new wage demands and States, as far as immunity from earth- the men had been made victims by men who burrowed their way into the a band of feudists and moonshiners, structure that had collapsed like a the talk growing out of the tridlstrlct quakes is concerned. which has Just Dr. Bailey Willis, Stanford univer- the Bowmans having been at outs card house on fc'ourth of July morn- scale convention closed here. was a most raised there dangersity geologist, who predicted the tem- with what is known as the Godsey ing Some storekeepers figured that the blor at Santa Barbara and journey- clan for several months, the trouble ous rescue fight yet to come. There was a lull, a pause in the demands for a 10 per cent wage in- ed from Palo Alto to a suburb of the having its climax when Ike Bowman was killed by Sam Godsey some time operations of the rescue squad as they crease for 45,000 tonnage men; for quake-strickecity in time to witness sheriff the 5 per cent the oper- the shake, and Captain T. J. J. See, ago. Sam Godsey, a deputy aprroached precariously stacked piles abolition of debris twenty-fivfeet high at ators charge the miners for compress- scientist and government astronomer of Sequatchie county, in a statement what had been the center of the ed air in drilling, and for the payment at Mare Island, arrived at the same issued stated that the whole affair was a fraineup designed to injure building. of coal mined on the basis of 1240- - conclusions in independent statehim, and that Bowman and Mason What lies beneath these death pound ton instead of by the car would ments. had plotted to make it appear that mounds may double the toll of the if granted, mean a total pay increase Dr. See said: they were dead in order to engage in dead. of perhaps 55 per cent. The addition "There Is no occasslon for further whisky making without interference al new to a be $1 asked for 110,000 anxiety at Santa Barbara. The sea from the law. With the arrival of each body day at the city hospital mortuary, a body day" men would mean an advance of coast places recently disturbed are Godsey also declared that W. E. black of face from dust and suffoca- about 22 per cent, the two averaged for a time the safest. The main thing federal prohibition officer, Grubb, cent. 30 show around tion usually broken and crushed by together per is to build safe houses on good founwho was shot by Benton Godsey a the great weight of wreckage that Turning from whatever attitude the dations and not to worry." few weeks ago, was also engaged in had settled above it, the weeping wo- operators might adopt toward these made liquor running and served notice upconclusions Supplementary formen men and distraught rushed demands, the merchants then singled public from Palo Alto from Dr. Bail- on the government's agents that he ward to see if possible if it was the out the remars of Andrew Mattey, ey details his reason for assurance intended to clear the mountains of loved one that had not come home. president of district 7, who said in of no added earthquakes in the same moonshiners. On the edges of the crowd of thou- the convention: region. He said: "A suspension will take place." sands held back away from the great "The earthquake fault on which the Basin Railway Hearing Set Merchants say some of their num- center was located runs along the pit into which the building had crumA hearing will be Lake Salt bled, friends of other victims waited, ber have not yet fully recovered from base of the Santa Inez mountafns held in Salt City. Lake in July 27 by the be must effects to of it the credit that knowing inevitably they granted parallel with the sea. There was no commerce commission to announced that the body they feared their miner customers in the strike visible displacement on the fault and Interstate the consider applications of the Salt of 1922. Asserting tnat in a coal the center of the movement was probto see had been found. Lake and Denver Railroad company In the water soaked pit of the gar- strike it "Is the merchant who pays," ably situated at a depth of some miles and the Denver & Rio Grande West age excavation adjoining the club and some showed with pa r and pencil beneath the surface. The fault pass- ern a 1Iroad relative to building into which the wreckage fell, 300 men how they would make money by shut- es through the site of the Sheffield rturek into the Uintah basin, accordlabored in and attempt to uncover ting ftp shops the day before any sus- reservoir, which failed through the ing to word received by Julian Bam other victims of the "night before" pension was declared. floating out of the dam without any Cfgtr of the Bamberger Electric, The miners' demands will be pre displacement of the alignment of the dance to death. Both of these railroad companies The wicker baskets, long and oval sented to the operators in Atlantic top of the ditto along the remaining have made application to build a road in shape, lined with white oil cloth, City. A meeting of the operators is remnants. into the basin. The Salt Lake & were lined along the pit waiting for scheduled to be held in New York "The city of Santa Barbara is biflt Denver which is said to be soon, when it is expected they will In a valley surrounded by hills and backed company, a new and broken cargo. a ot Salt Lake and group by Delving far down under the debris, frame the Policy they are to follow on two kinds of ground. If we dis- Utah men, headed by former gover are in a subterranean chamber, formed during the negotiation. They tinguish them by their reaction to an nor Simon Bamberger, is seeking and known to be opposed to the granting earthquake. The hills consist of solid by splintered timbers, build to from Salt a road permission masses Lake to Craig, Colo. The dlstanc forming supports, John J. Sullivan, a of any increase In wages and it Is rock or of reduca for South from might wrecker Boston, they reported fight of gravel and boulder. The earth- of thla line will be about 300 miles. building came upon a tableau that brought tion. The operators also are expect- quake vibrations In this material are The Denver & Rio Grande Western ed to refuse to agree to '.he checkoff very amazement to his dust filled eyes. rapid, but short and harmless as Is seeking permission to build a road Around a table were seated four system of collecting union dues, one a shiver. from Soldier Summit to Vernal, a dis men and on the table was a gallon of the workers' principal demands. "The California hotel, a frame tance of 131 mile. can filled with alcohol. A few feet structure with brick walls, was stripaway, a woman lay crumpled In death Herrln Citizen Back Sheriff ped of its walls because they were Ogden Theatre Robbed on the floor, much as if she had sagHerrin, 111. Herrin put another not properly fastened to the frame, Ogden. Shattering the safe with ged down in stupor. foot forward in its peace movement nd all the interior was revealed to The four men sat with beads bow- when most of the five thousand per- view as If for some scene in the charge of explosive that literally tore the strongbox to pieces and scattered subed low to the table top, as if In sons who filled the Williams Revival movies. coins all over the place, two yeggs mission. Tnelr dead hands were out- tabernacle came forward and extend "The San Marcos building, the most who were evidently experts obtained of faces them before and the spread ed the hand of fellowship to Sheriff conspicuous of all the failures was $1000 in loot from the playing cards were to the faint light Calligan. Galligan, hitherto a bitter of heavy concrete, rather lightly re- approximately Alhambra theatre' in this city and above. from filtering anil klansman and center ot the Vlan inforced and not braced diagonally to made their escape after they had It was the showdown. Sullivaa and anil klun strife, was present with an adequate degree, considering the slugged, bound, gagged and locked carried them out one by one, includ- his deputies and other county offi- weight of the walls and arched conroom un the watchman in a cers from Marlon, the county seat, on crete floors. An older section of the der the safe. The dressing was re- ing the woman. robbery "officials' night." Tears stood In the structure formed the corner and it to the police forty minutes Six Drown at Libaon sheriff eyes as ministers and lay- was knocked down by the swaying ported when Walter Fowers, watchlater, foe alike came for- of the entire building, just as the end man and janitor, succeeded after Libson, Portugal. A boat contain- men, friends and ing fifteen men, who had taken part ward and extended their hands In brick of a pile will be knocked over. ' much hard work in releasing himself in a boat race on the Tagus river, christian fellowship. Lay Evangelist The floors and roof fell In and the from his bonds, down the near Libson, overturned, and six Howard William, of Hattensburgh. walls collapsed on top of Ihem, show- door of his prisonbreaking and making hi of the men were drowned despite Miss., ia being given the credit as ing the weakness of the concrete and way to the telephone in the play valiant efforts to rescue them. being the man "who caved Herrin." the lack of rigidity in the atructare. house office. n e c ; f , Vernal. One life lost and the nar row escape of eight others is the toll exacted by a heavy flood caused ' by a cloudburst which swept down Five Mile wash at a point two miles north of Watson, Uintah county. An automobile occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Goodrich, Mrs. C. A. Bobzein Owen O'Fallon and five children, was caught by the swift torrent, which nearly submerged the car as it rolled down the wash. Salf Lake City. Total of expendi tures of the state roads of Utah for maintenance and betterment purposes during the past seven months, which include, of course, the spring months, when maintenance work must be acThis if tive, has been $309,643.60. the showing made by a compilation y. Just completed by C. F. Dean, chief J? acocuntant of the state road commls- sion. Salt Lake City. Ralph S. Gray, di rector of the selsmological station of the University of Utah reported the following earth shocks recorded on the university seismograph June 29, 11:51 a. m., a sharp termor of seven minutes' duration which came from a southwest or northwest direction; June 30, 10 a. m., a slight tremor of one minute duration, direction undetermined; July 1, 3:11 p. m., a very sharp tremor of one minute's duration which came from north direction; July 3, 10:26 a. m., termor of four minutes' duration, which came from a southeast or southwest direction. Logan. Five of the cows in the Hyrum-Parisdis- e Testing association, one of Cache County's four, produced over BOO pounds of butterfat, forty-fou- r produced over 400 pounds, and eighty-nin- e produced over 350 pounds during the last year, it is revealed in the annual report by Dalton M. Reid, official tester. Salt Lake City. Governor George T. Dern and his chauffeur, Edwin C. Burt, 668 South West Temple street narrowly escaped injury when a missel, believed to have been a .22 caliber bullet, crashed through the windshield of the car as Burt was taking the chief executive of the state to his home. Glass from the windshield was scattered over the governor and Burt, but neither was cut by it. Ogden. Plans for the proposed new hotel in Ogden, to be built upon the Reed hotel corner at the interavenue and section of Washngton Twenty-fiftstreet, are now complcto showing that the building will be a twelve story structure instead of nine stories as originally intended. Salt Lake City. There are now in the State of Utah, not including the Uintah basin, 11,698,796 acres of surveyed land as yet unappropriated, according- to yearly reports completed by Eli F. Taylor, register of the local land office. Much of this land, of course is desert land, unfit for any kind of agriculture, and without mineral resources. Besides this, there are 15,484,760 acres of unsurveyed land, showing the great potential laid resources of the state as yet undeveloped. Price. A aomber of prominent Carbon county citizens went on the bonds of the eleven alleged ringleaders of the lynching event of June 18. As a result of court action and the promptness of friends in coming to their aid in a financial way, all have been released from the county jail snd will Lkely enjoy freedom until talle 1 for trial court about the middle of October, when the third term of the Seventh Judicial tdlstrict, embrac ing this county, begins. Price. Henry Coarsen, drowned youth of Castlegate wa while In swimming in an abandoned reservoir northwest of the city. It is believed he was stricken with cramps while still some tweney-fivyards from the nearest point of shore, and in water approximately nine feet deep. The sudden attack caused him to become panic stricken, and although a good swimmer, he became frantic. While, his companions were trying to aid him, he struglged desperately with them. In the end they were forced to free themselves and make their with failing strength, way back to shore as best they could, leaving their unfortunate comrade to his fate. Montlce'.lo. Without obtaining sufficient evidence to bring an Indictment against anyone for the burning of the La Sal Sheep Shearing plant, the grand Jury investigation here was brought to a close. It was impossible for Sheriff Oliver to locate Fred Sharps of Colorado for the In qulry Into the stealing; of the Ilayles Brothers' sheep. to nave a now Price. Price building. A wire received here from Postofflce Inspector C. B. by Postmaster J. F. was to the effect that the lease proposed by Angelo Paperakia has been accepted. Logan. Erection of a large granite and marble monument to the memory of Martin Harris, one of the hree witnesses to th Book of Mormon, wa completed In the Clarkston cemetery, according to Bishop Loos-leof Clarkston, who has cha'ge of th work. h - e 1 V. Australia Wanta Sea Fleet S. S. Seattle, Austraillan Waters. conv Admiral Robert E. Coonti, States fleet mandtng the United bound for Australia, received from Premier Bruce of Australia a message welcoming the warships and their crews to Australian waters. The message said: "The Australian people take the opportunity of the occasion of your first national day in Australian water to repeat the expreaslnn of good will and friendly relationship previously conveyed to you." Evolution Cas May Ba Transferred New Tork. While Dayton, Tenn., Is making preparation to handle crowd a the forthomlng trial of John T. Scopes for teaching evolution, there Is a possibility that the trial will not be In Dayton at all. Counsel for the defense at a conference In New Yom are reported to ha7e agreed to aeek indefinite postponement of the Dayton trial In the state court and aeek Hi t) federal court at KnoxvllU an injunction against enforcement of th law. Bank Robbern Meet Death Tacoma, Wash. Buckley, a town twenty-fou- r mile east of here, ha had the llrst bank robbery In Its history and the affair ended In bloody failure when two unmasked desper-sdoelike the bad men of the old west, died with their boft on. On of the bandits was shot from the running board of an automobile speeding away with the loot. The other fas killed when he drove back Into th rifle fir to reacu th body of hi dead paL Chicago To Have New Depot Chicago. Erection of a proposed ' i La-Sa- ! I arc Involved. e Pfaf-fenberg- new 130.000,000 railroad passenger terminal was reported in the announcement that fourteen railroad now using ihree scattered stations had reached an agreement after years of negotiations concerning street eitenslon. This agreement la probably the most important step thu far toward the proposed con l traction. Th Grand Central. Street and Polk Street stations thlr-tse- post-offic- n Mac-Knig- ht |