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Show THE BATTLING Sim TIMES-NEW- LAWMAKERS CALLED IS S, NEPHI, UTAH f Co To It, Son HEBREWS LOCATED FOR EXTRA SESSION FOUND MURDERED IN AMERICA S FIRST I News Notes in Live to g It' a Privilege Utah 1 , GOVERNOR PINCHOT SAYS MEET IS IMPERATIVE; SAFETY OF FRENCH FIGHTER WHO BEAT CARPENTIER IS FOUND DEAD IN INSTITUTIONS 1JEW YOF.K Regulation of The Coal Industry and the Enforcement of the Dry Law Will Also be Considered Says Governor of Eastern State New York. "Battling" Slkt, the Senegalese pugilist, whose turbulent career In the prize ring and elsewhere gave him wide notoriety, was mysteriously murdered in West Forty-firs- t street. In the district known as Hell's Kitchen. The one time champion was found lying face downward with two gunshot wounds In the back. A revolver with two exploded shells was found in the gutter not far away. The police could find no one who had witnessed the killing. The neighborhood had not been aroused. Patrolman John J. Meelian, who had exchanged greetings with Siki shortly after midnight came upon the body four hours later. An ambulance physician found the Senegalese dead with one bullet in his lung and another in the kidney. Siki is believed by detectives to have had a brawl in one of the number of night clubs in the neighborhood and that after the altercation he was followed into the street and struck down from behind. He was felled in the same spot where last summer he was attacked and almost killed with a knife in a street fight. The Senegalese lived near the scene of the killing. His wife identified the body at the police station. Last July the Senegalese was struck down with a knife in the same spot where his body was found. He was unconscious from loss of blood and for a time his recovery was in doubt. His wound had become infected. An examination of Siki's body showed that he had been shot twice from the rear. One of the bullets had penterated the pugilist's left lung and another had lodged in his kidneys. Dr. Bassatoa said that Siki had died of internal hemorrhage. Siki's wife was notified and she went to the police station where she identified the body as that of her husband. Siki's widow told police that she last saw her husband about 7 o'clock at the street door of their apartment. She said Siki had told her he was going for a talk "with some of the boys for awhile." She went to a movie, returning about 11 o'clock. Siki was not in and she retired. At 6 o'clockin the morning she was awakened with the news that her husband had been killed. Mrs. Siki said their household effects were all packed preparatory to going to Washington, where her husband had. a theatrical engagement. Harrisburg, Pa. Governor Pinchot called an extra session of the Pennsylvania general assembly for January 13. Two of the subjects to be considered are regulation of the coal mining industry and prohibition enforcement. The official proclamation, summoning the legislature was undre date of December 14. It will be signed by the governor shortly, but was made public before his signature was attached, together with a statement of the governor's reasons for calling the session. "I have called the general assembly of Pennsylvania in extra session because the safety of our institutions and the prosperity of our people imperatively demand it," the governor eaid. "Abuses have arisen In this commonwealth so dangerous to our form of government and so threatening to the welfare of the people that they must be taken in hand with vigor and without delay." Later in his statement he asserted the session "will not cost the taxpayers a single dollar, if the legislature will enact the legislation I shall recommend." Although the section in the proclamation dealing with anthracite asked only consideration of measures to regulate the industry through a proper of state agency and authorization compacts with other states for the same purpose. Governor PincLot's statement indicated his intention of asking that hard coal mining be declared a. public utility. He outlined his own efforts to bring about a settlement of the anthracite controversy through the submission of proposals which were accepted by the miners, but rejected by the operators. "The operators from first to last," he said, "have refused to yield one Jot or little of their original position." The future of the industry, he asserted, "is threatened by popular the use of substitutes," and, he said, the public, "must either Buffer in silence or it must take measures to protect Itself." The governor termed the Industry "a monopily" and said the attorney general had advised him in that case It may be declared to be affected with a public interest and therefore subject to regulation as a public util- Allen Property Custodian Dead Washington. A heart attack, coming at the high point of the perform-nnc- e by a stage magician, caused the death of Frederick C. Hicks, alien property custodian. Slumping in his chair at the Belasco theatre just as the magician hypnotized a woman and caused her to apparently float over the stage, Mr. Hicks died before a physician could reach him. The custodian, who was appointed last April was taken to a hospital, where his wife and daughter were summoned from their home. Both were placed under care of physicians. lic utility," he said, "will supply some degree of public conrol where none exists today; will furnish information never before revealed, and will exert the most powerful influence the public can apply toward the settlement of the strike." The governor proposed In his proclamation only "axsistional means" for enforcing the prohibition enforcement and In his statement he said he regarded this question "as of fundamental moral importance." a Visitors to the Rangley, returning said that of wet gas from the well of Vernal. Colo., oil field the-flothe-Texa- s production company, which, blew in a gusher at noon December 7, Archeologists Are Not Unduly Excited continues unabated, more than Over Crosses And War Implecubic feet of gas escaping ments Unearthed in Southfrom the well daily. The column of . ern State gas is so wet that it is visible a been of has flow the Ignition averted so far, but no one is allowed? Tucson, Arizona. A disconnected nearer than a quarter of a mile, to story in Latin and Hebrew inscrip- prevent possible danger to lives. tions on leaden crosses and impleBlamires, hero ments of war, said to date back to In Kaysville. Burton of the Stewart-Burto- n robbery thwarting the eighth or ninth century, may tell was store here recently, of a discovery of America some 700 with a watch by his townsyears before Columbus' renowned voy- presented people at the Sunday evening services age but many scientists are skeptical in the tabernacle. of the find. 30,. Pedro Caballiero, Bingham. Uncovered recently under a lime kiln near here, Dr. C. J. Sarle, for- sealed his lips in death after refusing hours to divulge the mer professor of geology at the Uni- for twenty-fou- r versity of Arizona and director of the Identity of his assailant or to toll the excavation work, asserts that the rel- cause of the shooting. He died while ics may shed new light on the early physicians attempted to extract that had lodged against history of America. column. Dr. Sarle has constructed a theory that a group of Roman Jews landed Salt Lake. Gus Chopp, of Pocatel-lin America about 775 A. D., joined Idaho, has applied to the public with natives of the Southwest either utilities commission for a certificate by alliance or by conquest, and estabof convenience and necessity to operlished a kingdom that lasted aprox-lmatel- y ate an automobile stage line between 1000 years, when the natives state line. Logan and the Utah-Idahrevolted and overthrew the "nation." This line will be operated, he says, With the announcement of the dis- the entire year. He also desires to covery, however, from various sec- run the line to Preston, Idaho. Date tions of the nation came dubious op- of hearing will be set later. inions from archeologists and scienPrice, Utah. Ed. McGowan, convio-te- d tists as to the validity of the find. murder of Bob Blevins, was senTwo University of Arizona profesto die before a firing squad; tenced sors indicated concurrence with Dr. Sarle's views as to the antiquity of at the state penitentiary, Salt Lake, the relics according to their state- on February 5, 1926. Sentence was passed by Judge George Christensen, ments, made public, Dr. Byron head of the archeology depart- who, at the request of the condemned ment of the university declared his man decreed that death was to be inflicted by shooting. McGowan is the belief that the Latin inscriptions first negro to be sentenced to execuuse In resembled about that "closely tion In the criminal history of the 775 A. D." state. was also one of the Professor Frank Fowler, head of most His crime revolting, the university's department of classito have cal languages, is reported Ogden. Charles M. Ramey, a bookon the keeper in the city treasurer's office, translated the Inscriptions crosses and other relics which tell of ha3 resigned his position there after being carried out to sea and of dis- making up a shortage of $330, responcovering a new land. A dynasty of sibility for which he confessed when kings is referred to beginning with the shortage wis discovered. The resTheodorus and including seven Isra- ignation of Mr. Ramey, who is a forels. A number of the relics were said mer clerk and auditor of Weber counto have borne inscriptions dealing ty, will be accepted at the meeting of the city commissioners Monday night, principally with war and battles. according to Mayor P. F. Kirkendall. Russians Ready To Meet Terms Moab. and New York. A Washington dispatch predictions that some day to the New York World says "certain Utah would become an important proindications suggest that recognition ducer of oil received their first and of Russia by the United States may most Important justification when the be nearer than generally 13 supposed." Midwest-UtaSouthern test of the Among the recent indications says Big Six d.ome came in. the dispatch is news that Reeve Salt Lake City. There have been Schley, vice president of the Chase deaths from automobile acNational bank, gave a dinner at the thirty-fivBankers' club recently which was at- cidents in Salt Lake from January 1 tended by prominent American and to November 7 this year, according to Russian business men. News of the a United States department of comdinner first came from Moscow. The merce report received here. AutomoWorld Interprets a statement to It by bile fatalities during this period are Senator Boarh, chairman of tho for- higher than the total of 34 In 1924, During the period eign relations committee, as meaning and 20 in 1923. that Russia is prepared to go virtually of January 1 to October 31, 1924, the whole course laid down by Char- there were 29 deaths resulting from les E. Hughes, when he was secre- automobile accidents. tary of state, as bein-- ; necessary for Logan. All evidence in the case recognition. Senator Borah is quoted of the restriction of the corporate as follows: "I am in a position to limits of the city of Smithficld was state on the most authentic authority completed before Judge Mclvln C. that in so far as matters of debt, the Harris. Judge Harris took the case confiscation of American property and under advisement and will announce propaganda, Russia is ready and pre- his decision at a later date. A num pared to deal with these matters in ber of land owners of Smtthfield petho most reasonable and satisfactory titioned to have the city limits restricway." Senator Borah has again Intro- ted so as to not Include their propduced his measure seeking to reopen erty. discussion with the soviet in an efLogan. Extensive preparations for fort to end the present official the annual Cache county poultry show which will be held durnlg the last week In January are being made. Miss Whitney W'ns Appeal The committee of the chamber of suUnited The States Washnlgton. with the preme court granted the petition of commerce Is Charlotte Anita Whitney, wealthy poultry association in holding the Oakland, Calif., social worker, for a show. Uso of a building on Center rehearing of her conviction and pri- street, owned by Joseph Davidson, has son sentence of from one to fourteen been secured. years In prison for violation of the Salt Lake Appeal from the California criminal syndicalism law. decision of City. L. B. Judge Wight of the The case was set for hearing March Third District court, which declared 15th. the Redd racing law unconstitutional will be taken to the state supreme Golfer Killed On Links court, according to Attorney General Denver, Colo. John McGowan, 65, Harvey H. Cluff, and carried through Denver bond broker and golfer, was with due dispatch and in time to be fatally injured when a ledge of earth heard at the February term. on the Denver Country club golf course caved In and he fell five feet, American Fork. Fox farming, a breaking his neck. He died a few new enterprise for this section of the minutes later at the clubhouse withstate, became a reality with the arout regaining consciousness. rival from the east of twenty pair of foxes, shipped to Robert L. Ashby, owner and manager of the farm. Mr. Cabinet Planned Berlin. Dr. M. Koch, German demAshby recently returned from a trip ocratic party leader has accepted the to Prince Edward Island, where he test of forming the coalition cabinet visited some of tho largest fox furms desired by President von Htndenbtirg j of Canada. Mr. Ashby has five acres enclosed to carry out the policies and obliga- of ground north of the city and the kennels were In -- eadlness to tions of the Locarno security agree receive tho foxes. ment. Moah. Literally and figuratively, War Rail Director Finishes Work that pillar of oil and firo and smoke Washington. James O. Davis, di which leaped heavenward when th rector general of railroads, has pre- Midwest-UtaSouthern well, eight sented his resignation to President miles southwest of here, blew in, was Coolidge, having completed his work a beacon that aroused new hops fa of winding up the affairs of the of- Grand and Snn Juan counties bi. fice. Secretary Mellon Is expected to con that promises to mark ths dawn be named to take over the records of of a new day in history of !Mj rethe office and the large quantity of mote and Inaccessible region, (he derailroad aecnrtlcs which thj governvelopment of which has keen long ment still owns. Mr. Davis will re- handicapped by distance from market, turn to the private practice of law winter losses In the cattle industry, at his home In Des Moines, Iowa. and other drawback. 100,-000,0- YIELDS BIG STILL Transports Requested Washington. A request has been ceived by the shipping board from war department for (wo ships of Admiral Orient line running out Seat! In to tho Far East for use re- the the of as the-spin- o, REPORT OF COMPTROLLER DISCLOSES INCREASING EXODUS FROM U. S. SYSTEM OHIO UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTOR UNDER ARREST FOR MAKING LIQUOR o Total of Ninety-Eigh- t Failures Are Chiefly Accounted For In Wheat . and Livestock Centers Of The Country Order Book Is Found In Search Which Gives Names Of Supposed Customers; Raiders Royally Entertained Washington, D. C. National banks throughout the country are feeling more and more the restriction laid around them by federal statutes and greater freedom for them was described as imperative in the annual report of J. W. Mcintosh, comptroller of the currency juat made public. The comptroller cited detailed statistics to show an increasing exodus from the national banking system and he predicted it would continued until the national banking laws are amended. To accomplish the needed relief, Mr. Mcintosh strongly urged enactment of the McFadden bill, a measure which was passed by the house last congress, but which never was reached by the senate. "It is a well known fact," the report added, "that many national banks are anxiously awaiting enactment of such a bill as that which failed at the last session of congress. If they cannot at this time obtain some amendments to their charter powers as are therein proposed, there will be a still greater exodus from the national system." Mcintosh said that although the resources of the national banks had steadily increased from year to year and the condition of the individual banks remain strong, the relative increase nevertheless In the total resources of the national institutions has been slowly falling off as compared with the resources of state banks and trust companies. He mentioned that during the forty-yea- r period ending July 1, 192 I, the total resources of national banks had fallen from 75 per cent of the total banking resources of the country to about 47 per cent. The last eighteen months, he said had witnessed a further shrinkage in the proportion of the total resources held by the national banks. "These facts present a serious situation for the consideration of the congress," the comptroller said, "and I am directing attention therefore at this time chiefly for the purpose of showing that the bank operations are becoming daily accentuated. The national banking system is a federal Instrumentality, The charter powers of the individual national banks are derived solely from the congress. Twice in the history of the United States, namely, immediately preceding the World war, the lately preceding the World war, the federal government was able to enforce a banking policy at a time of great financial stress through its authority to use the national banking system as an instrument for the public benefit. For Murder of Girls Los Angeles. S. C. Stone, night watchman, was convicted by a Jury here on two counts of murder In the first degree for the killing of the two Martin sisters. May 12, and Nina 9, The verdict was without recommendation, which automatically Invokes the dealth penalty. The two rlrli August 23, 1924, and their bodies were discovered In the Baldwin hills February 4 of this year. They were alleged to have bean last seen with Stone. Hospital Is Dynamited Kallspell. Mont. The Sisters of Mercy hispllal here has been dynamited. The attempt to destroy the brick structure Was made by placing a heavy charge of explosives under a window near the southeast corner. The hospital was full of patients and nurses. No one wis badly injured. A portion of the building was torn away and every window pane In the hospital and that part of town was broken. The explosion was heard all over the city. No motive Is known for the outrage. The sheriff and posses are scouring the town for suspects The only clue to the perpetrator is the fuse to the bomb. The dynamite and fuse were placed on the sill of a window in the Sisters' dining room. A portion of the fuse was discovered near the spot where tho explosion took place. The smoke from the burning fuse attracted a number of the sisters to the basement to Investigate tho furnaco shortly before the explosion. It 1.1 believed bad they been In the dining room or offices several of them would have been killed by tho force of the blast. ! the-bulle- t DESIRE LIBERT! Will Not Admit Counteis Karolyl WashlnRton. Decision In the matter of the exclusion of the Countess Karolyn from the United State "remains itnchangrl," her attorneys have been advised In a brief note from the state department, made public by them. F.he will therefore not be admitted. The uote, signed by W. A. Castle, Jr., as chief of the division of western Kiropean affairs, constituted the only reply to a second letter sent President Coolidge by the lawyers. "Action by the legislature declaring the anthracite monopoly to be a pub- six-foo- HOME OF TEACHER transports d ity." ' NATIONAL BANKS Ohio. Columbus, Thorough and prompt investigation of the case of Debney Horton, graduate Instructor at Ohio State university, who was arrested by prohibition enforcement off-cefollowing a raid on his home, was promised by Acting President George W. Rightmire of the university. Pending Horton's hearing the English instructor has been relieved of his school duties, President Rightmire said. Action of the university official followed closely an order by Governor A. W. Donahey that the board of trustees at the university make a "thorough house cleaning" at the university. Reports of "drinking parties at fraternity houses, university dances and student social gatherings" and the possibility that any faculty members adhere to communistic principles were included in the governor's orders for investigation. The raid on Mr. Horton's home came as a result of a '"tip" to State Prohibition Commissioner B. F. McDonald that Horton was violating the prohibition law. A fctill, a small quantity of liquor and a larger quantity of mash were found by the raiding party, headed by Assistant Prohibition Commissioner Propst. Mrs. Horton enter tained the raiders for three hours prior to her husband's return, and Horton on his arrival also welcomed the men, reading them poems he had composed. Horton Is at liberty under $1000 bond pending hearing before a justice of the peace. Propst, in his report to the governor declared Horton was a "parlor socialist" and had written for communistic Journals. "It seems that the Idea of being a violator of the constitution had not dawned upon him. Laws were made for the coarse and common, and not for him." "The professor and his wife,", the report continues, "do not have a perspective that will make them good American citizens. The professor himself is of tho dangerous type that Is wrecking Europe." Horton denied to newspaper men that he had written for communistic publications, saying he bad written only tor The Liberator and the Nation. He further was quoted as having charged the raiders with entering his home without a warrant and with drinking some of the liquor they found there. He refused to amplify his statements later and was regarding his suspension from the university. Ills wife also had little to say other than that her husband would fight the charges and that investigators would "find plenty" If started a probe into student they Watchman Gagged, Booze Gone at the university. drinking Los Angeles. Two men bound and Both Horton and his wife, though gagged tho night watchman of a gov- born and reared In America, lost their ernment bonded warehouse, loaded citizenship during the World war and COO cases of liquor, valued at $50,000, became subjects of France according onto a truck and escaped. The watch- to Propst's report. man told police he allowed the men to enter the premises with thetr truck Preparing For Show when they represented themselves to Logan, Utah. Cache county, fam be deputy sheriffs bringing a load of confiscated liquor to tho warehouse. ous for its poultry products and Us Police, sheriff's deputies and govern- dairying industry, is preparing for ment agents were posted on all roads the annual poultry show to be given leaving the county In an effort to cap- late in January under the auspices of the Cache County Foultry association. ture the holdups. resent-Iment'an- g o, I mlle-away- Russia Ready To Pay Debt Washington. Russia Is ready to pay her debt to the American government. Having already reduced her army from five and one half million men to half a million, she is willing to accept and support the most sweep-niinternational agreement for disarmament. Her purchases from the United States, aggregating 100,000,-00- 0 in 1925. will total $200,000,000 In 132C, If present plans are carried out. Paper Comoany Head Called Omaha. 'eb. Isaac W. Carpenter, 69, president and one of the founders of the Carpenter Paper company, died at his home here following a protracted Illness. Mr. Carpenter and his brothers founded the Carpenter Paper company la 1887, and which today ranks as the largest paper house in the west with branch houses In Chlea-(tKansas City, Dee Moines, Sioux City, Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City and Los Angeles. WRITINGS FOUND SHOW DISCOVERY MADE 700 YEARS BEFORE COLUMBUS' VOYAGE REASON Bullet Holes In Back And Revolver In Gutter Furnish Only Clue To Police; Wife Identifies Pugilist Woman Who Knew Lincoln Dies A. Oiiklnnd. Cali- f- Mrs. Wilmoth Croome, 100 years old, who knew Abraham Lincoln In her yov,th, died here. Mrs. Croome was a native of Lynchburg, Va., and lived at Broom-field- . O., before coming to California In a covered wagon. Besides two sons who survive her In Oakland, Mrs. Groome leaves a brother In I'ortlnnd, Oregon, 83 years old, and a sister In Pasadena, California. S7 years old. Rich Ore Found In Idaho Mine Boise, Idaho. A strike of hlch grade ore, assaying $205 to the ton. at the old McCarthy mine, located elirht miles northeast of Boise on Shaw Mountain, is reported here. Old- time miners of Boise and vicinity are Jubilant over the strike, which has t revealed a vein of high grade ore. pi Cum-ming- rs Long-standin- g h e time-honore- d Man Convicted i ' ! ' ; Date Of Seyboldt Execution Set Salt Lake City. January 15, 1320 la the date fixed for tho exocutlon of Ralph W. Seyboldt. convicted slayer of Patrolman David II. Crowther, when Seyboldt, for the fifth time, appeared before Judge M. L. Ritchie to have tho date of execution reset. Seyboldt was represented in court by Attorneys King and Schulder, who of fered no legal reason why the death penalty first pronounced on April 5, 1924, should not now be carried Into effect. s, j |