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Show THE SHEPHERD TIMES-NEW- NEPIII. UTAH S. EISJSEISEHHEHSEJSJSiaJSEISEEE! Lake That Was Made by the Sliding of a Mountain POTS WORK TALKS IIT AIR TO HOLD MILLIONS Thousands Jam Streets as Celebration Many Chicago William Darling Shepherd has began his legal battle to retain estate left to him by the million-dolla- r his youthful ward, William Nelson McClintock, of whose murder he was recently acquitted. Shepherd and his wife appeared in probate court, where his attorneys are attempting to probate McClin-tock'- s will over the objection of attorneys representing McClintock and also Miss Isabelle Pope, his fiancee. Miss Pope, under the will, receives an $8000 annuity. The court proceedings were enlivened by a fist fight between Shepherd and Louis Kless, Shepherd's former chauffeur, who met Shepherd in a corridor and demanded settlement of a $55 bill. Kless was arrested and the probate judge indicated he would be held for contempt. Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd were served with a subpoena requiring them to produce the memorandum in McClin-tock'- s own handwriting, which Shepherd used at a basis In drawing up the will. Witnesses included two maids In the Shepherd home who signed the will. Each said she did not read it and one admitted she could not read English. Attorneys for the cousins by their questions indicated they expected to show that the will may have been tampered with by the introduction of an extra page after It had been signed. Shepherd may not be called on to testify. His attorneys entered objections when attorneys for McClintock's cousins tried to show undue influence had been used in inducing Mcfor Clintock to sign. Attorneys Shepherd cited opinions as late as last Friday to show that undue influence has no bearing on the validity of a will. If the court upholds this argument, attorneys for Shepherd maintain, the testimony of those who signed the will is sufficient to prove its validity. of Shepherd's first witness, Marie Gartner, disclosed the purpose of the contesting cousins to show that one page of the document might have been inserted subsequent to the signing and witnessing. Orville Taylor, counsel for the cousins, called attention to alleged differences in the handwriting of the testator's signature on the first and last pages. n Flyweight Champion Dead San Francisco Pancho Villa, fly weight champion of the world, died at a local hospital following an operation on his Jaw. Villa was rushed to the hospital from his hotel when a jaw Infection took a serious turn. He was operated on at once, but failed to rally from the effects of the operation. He died a few minutes after eleven. Villa had been ill with the jaw infection since a few days before his fight with Jimmy McLarnin at Oakland on July 4. He went Into that fight against the advice of his physician and lost after putting up a gruelling contest. He appeared tired througout and there was a swelling on the right side of his face that could be plainly seen by the During the fight his manager, Frank Churchill. Issued a statement saying that Villa had been told not to fight, but was determined to do so to save the promoter a big loss. On the night before the fight Villa had a wisdom tooth extracted by a surgeon to relieve a stiffening of the Jaw, and was reported to have gone Into the ring with the Jaw nerves deadened by a drug to kill the pain. Later It was necessary to extract other teeth, but the Infection spread, and a major operation was then decided upon. ring-aider- Quake Visits Montana Lake Butte, Mont Three fishermen who returned here from Wisdom, 125 miles south have reported that extraordinary changes have taken place In the Rocky Mountains as a result of the recent earthquake. Thry said that upper Miners' lake had been filled with immerse boulders and huge quantities of soli that fell when a cliff along one side of the lake was almont leveled. Wales In Role of Fireman Kafue, Rhodesia The Prince of Wales played the part of heroic fireman when he agisted settlers in extinguishing a fire In a native wood and grass children's home at the Kafue agricultural show. All of the children were rescued. The blaze started during a luncheon given In the was destroyed In five minutes. Wales Joined in the work of preventing tba 0r from spreading. n0 FALLS IDAHO CITY IS PAID VISIT BY HIGH OFFICIALS OF BOTH STATE AND NATION COMES TO BLOWS WITH FORMER CHAFFEUR IN CORRIDOR OF COURT HOUSE Witnesses Will Take Part In Legal Battle Over McClintock Estate; Warm Fight Is Looked For CA 1 Notes News I From All Porta of 1 UTAH I S J: I , ft, --,; ,i jf, A A, . ,1 .... ' . Ti of Great Dam is Carried Out; Work is Now in Full y.iMmM'mMiirr.r. Progress American I'hotograph shows the great Gros Ventre lake, in Wyoming, formed when part of Sheep mountain, at the right, crashed into the Gros Ventre river canyon from the south, damming It top to a depth of nearly three hundred feet and backing the river up for nearly seven miles. RAILROAD LAW F OHBES WILL SEE FIGHT CONSOLIDATION, ABOLITION LABOR BOARD UP FOR CONSIDERATION OF APPEAL BUILDING FALLS ALLEGES ERRORS AT AR SOR T FORMER BUREAU DIRECTOR AND FOUR PERSONS ARE KILLED AND CONTRACTOR WILL TRY FOR EIGHT INJURED AT MINNEAP-OLIA NEW HEARING MUNICIPAL PAVILION S Senator Gooding of Idaho Will Press For Action on Long and Short Haul Bill, Says Senator Watson Washington A bitter battle over four highly controversial phases of railroad legislation at the next session of Congress is predicted by Senator James E. Watson, of Indiana, chairman of the senate interstate commerce committee. The questions which will bring senators from various sections into conflict are: 1. Compulsory railroad consolidation. 2. Abolition of the railway labor board. 3. Repeal of the guarantee clause of the transportation act. 4. Repeal of the long and short haul. While Mr. Watson said extensive hearings, on these question in committee and debate on the senate and bouse floors would be inevitable, he expected little real action on any ot He added that they would them. come up immediately after the tax bill is disposed of. Watson's attitude on the consolidation question, he indicated, would be governed largely by the decision of the interstate commerce commission in the Nickel Plate merger case. He regards it as a test case that may lead to other voluntary mergers and obviate the necessity for legislation on the subject. In any event, Watson said he was not Inclined to favor Immediate comand prefers pulsory consolidation, to let the situation simmer a while longer and give the roads time to Senator effect voluntary mergers. Cummins, of Iowa, former chairman of the committee, is expected to press his merger bill, however. Repeal of the guaranteed returu clause, demanded by (various farm be will groups. unquestionably pressed, Watson said. If the merger question can be satisfactorily settled. Watson said be expected to see the guarantee question disappear. The advocates of the Howell-Rark-lebill having virtually abandoned the section pf the measure which provided for the receivership of the railway following a strike, Watson said he anticipated action on a measure to abolish the railway lab r board and some other method of mediation between railroads and their employees set up In its stead. Senator tioodlng, of Idaho, will undoubtedly press for action on the long and short haul bill, Watson added. y Girl Slain at Own Request Watertown, S. I). Ilryle Healy, 17, Garden City, S. D., girl whose charred body was found in a burned straw stack n r that place, was slain at her own request by Winifred Meek, 21, and Robert Lappler, State's Attorney H. Hanson announced here. Hanson said that Meek anil Lappler told him, following their arrest that they met the girl In Gardrove her Info den City and the country, where she begged them to end her life. The alleged confession declares that Lappler Htruck Mis Healey over the head with a tire iron and that both youths then chocked her with her scarf. J. J. Hill's Son Sued By Woman lulling, Mont. Walter Hill, millionaire son of the late James J. Hilt, empire builder, was made defendant In a t2fto,000 alienation suit In the district court h"re by Frank M. Oottloen. a rancher and canner living near Rig Timber, MonL Gottloeb charges that Hill stole the affections of his wife, said to be a woman of striking beauty. In the latter tart of 1921, and that this In a divorce resulted alienation tranted Gottloeb on February 27, 1922. Errors In the First Pro- Wind, Rain and Hail Visits Minnesota in In Several Districts and Much ceedings Are Enumerated Appeal Just Filed in Federal Damage is Result; One Court at Chicago Girl Still Missing Ninety-Fiv- e Chicago Appeals in behalf ot Charles R. Forbes, former director ot the veterans' bureau, and J. W. Thompson, wealthy St. Louis contractor, convicted last February of conspiracy to defraul the government through hospital contracts, have been filed in the federal court of appeals The plea contains ten thousand printed pages and is the lougest in the history of the court here; Ninety-fiverrors in the proceedings and findings of the original trial court are enumerated. Grave substantial and prejudicial errors in the trial are held by the defendants to have brought about the conviction. Forbes and Thompson are free on bonds pending decision on the appeal.. They were sentenced to two years In the penitentiary and fined e . $10,000. The appeal probably will be heard October. Neither Forbes nor Thompson was required to appear in court. The defense petition alegea that evidence bearing upon Important Forbes' general conduct on the vet erans' bureau, and his relations with ether contractors, had been, excluded by the trial judge, while prejudicial evidence of inadequate foundation had been admitted on the government's side. The petition charges the trial court erred and prejudiced the defense case in permitting the government to introduce the name of Mrs. Carolyns Votaw, sister of President Harding, and later denying deiense attorneys tne pi vllege of commenting or Introducing rebuttal testimony regarding conversation between Mrs. Votaw and Forbes relative to MoIn rtimer's character. "Two Improper prejudicial remarks in the presence of the Jury" were attributed to Federal Judge George A. Carpenter, who tried the case. The Indictments on which the convictions were secured were returned by special federal grand jury in June, 1924, after an Intensive study of evidence presented in the senate committee's investigation of the veterans' bureau In the summer of 1923. Tremors Again Visit Montana Helena, Mont. Mother earth rumbled western throughout Inwardly Montana last Friday night, shaking more than a dozen cities and towns. Helena, Hutte, Great Falls, Manhattan, Three Forks, Trident, Willow Creek, floceman and Livingston were among the cities reporting definite quakes Only minor damage waa" reported In any section. Conflicting Decrees Cause Kidnapping Roscoe New York. II. Canaday. Jr., the subject of conflicting decrees of New York and Texas courts, has been kidnapped for the second lime In two months, ills father, a wealthy suit and dress manufacturer, who went to San Antonio months ago and brought his son home and who was indicted In Texas for kidnapping, believes that Mrs. Virginia C. Canaday. the boy's mother Is responsible for the second kidnapFive-year-ol- ing. Furniture Makers Fined Big Sum III. One hundred and furniture manufacturer eighty-twChicago, pleaded guilty to violation of tne Sherman antitrust law and were fined 1 hos In amounts totaling lf.ooo. ploading guilty were manufacturers of household furniture and case goods. Manufacturers of chairs and refrigerators pleaded guilty pffvlouxly. The fines Imposed brought the total amrmnl since the government started its Investigation of the fur nlture Industry to $429,080. Minneapolis Wind, rain and hail took a heavy toll July eighth in several districts of Minnesota, including the Twin Cities. In Minneapolis, four persons were killed, eighteen were injured, and one was reported missing in a terrific wind and rain storm which struck the south portion of the city A trail of wreckage representing- more than $100,000 property dam- Falls, Idaho American Falls came into its own on Monday, July thirteenth. Before 7 a. m. the city was jammed and a holiday spirit prevailed. Streets were gaily decorated, bands blared and the little community entered on the festivities marking the greatest day in its history. Men prominent In the affairs of the nation and state brushed shoulders with the sturdy farmers of southeastern Idaho, who came to take part in an event which means so much to the agricultural interests of the state. Pocatello featured prominently in the event, its traffic officers parolled the streets, its bands furnished music and the great part of its citizenry was' present. Intelligent conservation of the nation's resources, with particular reference to human beings and soil fortility, was urged here by Secretary Work in an address that formed a feature of a celebration at the of construction on the American Falls reservoir. The interior secretary defined the administration's concept to conservation as "use without waste of our natural resources, and their Intelligent distribution as to time." He declared the most pressing study of the government, in which the country's greatest minds could be enlisted, is this larger idea of conservation. Secretary Work began his address by directing the attention mof his audience to the point that America's era of exploitation of natural resources was at an end and governmental economy , a conservation factor, was an index of this. Conservation of time, and the' federal and citizens' income,. he said "sounds the keynote in the utilization of our remaining natural resources." should no longer "Conservation mean locking up these resources by nonuse," the interior secretary asserted, "but to encourage their wise age was left here. Streets were flooded and for several hours uuring the evening were blocked by hundreds of uprooted trees. The Lake Harriet municipal pavilion, one of the most popular of the pity's playgrc nds, collapsed on fifty use. persons, killing Mrs. Emma Miller, 35 Our economic growth has been adyears old, and her daughter. vanced only by the liberal and Injuring six others. Later police were often reckless utilization of natural Informed that Lois Halgren, 11, ot resources. Its future expansion will Watertown, Minn, had gone with Mrs. depend upon a more thorough and inMiller to the lake and had not been our remaining of conversion telligent seen since. natural wealth to industrial necesAmong the several smaller ouilu-Ing- s sities. Nothing can justify reckless destroyed by wind was the drug use of our people's inheritance from store near Lake Harriet, operated by nature or other encroachments upon Charles R. Feisler, 47. Although he tha of our future generations. capital escaped injury when the building While the federal government is rap-Idlcrashed, he collapsed outside and died reducing its indebtedness, cities, of heart disease a few minutes later. counties and states are mortgaging The fourth person killed was Wil-lar- themselves for the next generation to was who hurled J. Ford, 30, fifty pay." feet from tne cab of a traveling America's rapidly growing populacrane. tion must be provided for in advance, the aecretary said in recalling that 38,000,000 acres more will be needed Hoboes Take Possession of Train for e Colo crops in 1955, with no increase in of Twenty-onthe Lamar, forty tramps who took possession of imports to feed the normal increased pulation. a westbound Santa Fe freight train at Syracuse, Kan., and made good Turning to federal reclamation, the their getaway from the heat and interior secretary declared that it wheat fields of that state were cap- cannot be regarded as "of local imtured here after a running gun battle. portance only." "Whether this semlarid region shall The remaining nineteen fled In various directions over the prairie with continue to support itself, our western the shots of a citizens' posse buzzing coast, and load their ships outbound, over their heads. According to the or revert to sparsely settled range train crew, the tramps, moat ot whom conditions, to be fed by the Middle were armed boarded the train at Syr- West,' he termed "a national question acuse and ordered full speed ahead. and an outstanding feature of conThe trainmen were forced to comply, servation, as the country must be but not until the conductor had made to understand it, to be secure in thrown a note from the train ad its position as supreme among dressed to Undersherlff Beavers ol nations.'" Lamar asking for help. At Lamar Reavers was ready. He had gathered English Language Is Favored and armed a posse of citizens. When Retention of the English Manila the train slowed down Beavers and in the public schools' of the language his men boarded and put the hoboes Phllllpplnes is recommended by the to rout. American commission that made an exhaustive survey of the school sysMoffat Tunnel Cost High tem. Proposals had been made at Denver. Colo. Construction of the various times for the adoption of one Moffat railroad tunnel under the Con- Philippine dialect as the national tinental divide through James peak, language, but the commission's report west of here, will exceed In cost by declares this impractical and says a large figure the original estimate that the English language makes a of expense, a county grand Jury demore unified country. clared In a report just Issued, Quezon Is Again Leader Manila Manuel Quezon, Flllplnc Germany Signs Arms Agreement Geneva A representative of the leader, was selected to succeed himGerman government has signed the self as preslJent of the Philippine convention to limit traffic In arms, senate at a caucus of naclonallsta and formulated by the recnt arms con- consolldado party senators held here. ference here. Germany had previous- A caucus of house members will be ly signed the protocol t gainst the use held soon. of poison gas In warfare. Broken Main Menaces Buildings New York An underground river Legislators Visit Islands Manila. P. I. Widespread discus- suddenly came .Into existence In the sion rent the city following the ex- heart of Manhattan last week, seripose that Filipino politicians heading ously affected subway traffic and the Independence move are paying threatened to topple buildings. the hotel bills of a party of American Water from a broken twenty-Inccongressmen who arrived here lait main at Forty-seconstreet and Fifth statesmen and sec- avenue flooded, three tubes at the week. Thirty-onretaries are In the group, which Grand Central railroad terminal for a Manila aboard tne army distance of half a nile. In some reached tranr.port Chaumont. Most of them places the water reached a depth of were in Honolulu during; the naval six feet man ju vers there. y d e Salt Lakes The Citizens' Military Training camp finally disbanded at Fort Douglas last Sunday morning when the student soldiers turned la their bedding and uniforms, resumed their civilian clothing and departed for their respective homes. For the last time they were assembled in company formation and marched i.o the finance office, where their traveling-allowancewere given them. They were then handed individual certificates as to the military efficiency they had attained and released from further military control. $2000 will Logan Approximately be awarded for the best exhibits at the Cache county annual fair, which will be held this year on September and 24. Helper Helper city has applied to the state engineer for the use of 2.4 second-fee- t of water which it proposes to develop at springs tributary to Spring creek, of which it already has the water rights. The city plans to install a pipe line nineteen miles long to serve it3 population. Salt Lake A coal field 25,000 acres in extent and carrying at expert estimates more than two billion tons of bituminous fuel, said to be the world's largest single, continuous body of coal, will be opened up by the extension of rail facilities to Queatchuppab. canyon, Sevier county, according to Judge Henry C. Lund, son of the late President Anthon H. Lund of the Mormon church, whose children own or hold option or federal lease upon, the entire area. Salt Lake On man was killed and three were injured when a huge three-ton- e city street department truck plunged off the road and down a twenty - foot embankment and into the stream in City Creek canyon at the entrance to Pleasan valley, about two miles from the mouth. Salt Lake With the exception of peaches, every crop in Utah will show an increase over last year, according to the monthly report issued by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician of the United State biological survey. Cedar City The Escalante desert is a veritable meadow this year, the recent rains having caused the vegNot for etation to grow rapidly. twenty years has the desert been so prolific in vegetation. The sheepmen are jubliant, as this desert is their regular winter range section. Price Price is to be host to some 500 coal operators August 26 to 28, inclusive, the occasion being the annual convention of the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institution. The event was awarded to Price last year at the time of the convention "at Denver. Secretary John R. Sharp was named chairman of a committee on arrangements for their reception nnd enertainment while the visitors are here. Park City Consolidation of the Park City Mining & Smelting company's holdings with those of the Park-UtaMining company for operation by the Park-UtaConsolidated Mines company has been completed, thus covering a large part of the arrangements leading up to a merging of these mines with the Ontario and the Daly estates, which will put under one management 4306 acres lying contiguously in the heart of the Park City district extending from BrigTiton In Big Cottonwood canyon to Keetiey in Heber valley, distance of nine miles. Cedar City Bids are being called for the proposed concrete road through Cedar Main street. It Is expected that the work will begin early in August, and at the same time the business firms on Main street will lay concrete from the curb to the road which will run In the center. forLogan. Florence Jacobsen, merly of this city, won second prize for the most beautiful hair In a recent contest conducted in San Francisco, according to word which reached here tresses recently. Miss Jacobson's won second place among the 6000 girls who entered the contest. She was awarded a prize of $50, besides a number of articles of merchandise. Salt Lake City. Sixteen manly chests bulged with honest and quivering pride at Fort Douglas as a group of lovely young girls, a maid for a man, with winning smiles and little words of congratulation, pinned medals upon them. It was a gala event, and the fellow students of the lucky sixteen of the citizens' military training camp envied them the pinning as much as the actual medals, which were awarded for the highest indlvud-uu- l proficiency. Price A tentative date of August 8 has been selected by the Trice chamber of Commerce for a celebration at Scofleld, near which construction is already well under way for the $750,000 dam, when local people; will get acquainted with the Importance of the project. Salt Lake A net Increaso In expenditures by Salt Lake county of approximately $30,000 during the first half of 1925 as compared with the corresponding period of 1924. Is shown by the semiannual report of James XL Sullivan, county auditor. 22-2- 3 ten-inc- h h h |