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Show TIE iAGE TWO SUB-ZER- MEXICAN DISASTER TAKES TOLL OF 400 LIVES AND $150,000 IN DAMAGES WEATHER WITH SNOW SUB-ZER- AND ICY WINDS MAKES TRIP EASTWARD NEPHI, UTAH Oliver October ARE SUBSIDING WEATHER O S, Report From Nogales States That 500 Bodise Have Been Recovered In The District; 12 Inches Rainfall In Snow And Cold Weather Fop The Entire North Eastern Section Of United States; Trains Delayed By Snow and colder weatheT were predicted for the entire northeastern section of the United States, with cold waves noted for portions of Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and northern New England. Even the southland will get a taste of the passing wave, although most of the recent forecasts for that area call for only slightly colder weather. The cold snap will be short lived, however, as rising temperatures are expected in the central states and the far east. Already the mercury has started to rise in parts of Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. Among the low temperature marks registered during the cold wave were 8 below at Omaha, Neb.; Duluth and Moorehead, Minn., 4 below; Charles City, Iowa, 2 below, and Minneapolis, zero. . Heavy falls of snow have marked Chicago. ... the latest wav j of cold weather, the white covering being general in north .central states and in the Rocky mountain areas. Rescue workers toiled twenty-fou- r hours to tunnel through snow fifteen feet deep in drifts between Denver and Limon, Colo., before twenty persons marooned In automobiles were rescued. Many trains moving eastward from Nebraska were delayed. ;. .At Chicago the mercury dropped to 8 above. Snow plows cleared the way for bus and street car travel. Laredo, Tex. Low temperature records of thirty years are believed to have been broken in the usually of Tamaulipas, Mexico, which is just emerging from a severe cold snap beginning in late December. Freezing, a rarity, was general, the therometer descending to 27 degrees northwest of Tampico. Heavy losses to tomato and melon crops resulted In some sections, while fruit trees suffered elsewhere. CHILDREN IN HOTEL FIRES Many Hurt In Making Escape From '' Buildings La. At least six persons Ferrday,. were burned to death and a score are asyet unaccounted for in a fire whith destroyed the Johnson and Vannoy hotels here. Twenty guests of the hostelries were removed to hospitals to be treated for burns and other injuries suffered while escaping from the buildings. The property loss is approximately $100,000. Of the six bodies recovered from the ruins, two were identified as those of a mann son. named Keen and his Firemen are searching the ruins for any others who may have perished. Fire-Swe- Ottawa, Ont. Six persons were burned to death when the two-stordwelling of Mrs. Albert Tanguay In Clarkston was destroyed by fire. The victims were children of Mrs. Tanguay, who escaped by jumping from an upstairs window. y Potash Found In South Utah Another resource of Grand county, one which gives promise of yielding good returns, has recently been discovered in connection with the trilling of the Crescent-Eaglwell, five miles west of Thompsons. In analyzing the bailings from the well. It had been found that the crude salts contain unusual, values in potash, values which are said to be three times greater than those contained in the crude salts obtained in Germany and France, and far exceeding the values of the California and Texas product. Moab. e Bill Introduced Abolition of conscrlp-tion.byfal- l nations would be proposed by the, United Slates at the next world disarmament conference under a resolution introduced by Senator Ship-steafarmer-labor- , Minnesota. Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania, asked if the resolution had been, submitted to Edsel Ford and Jaek'Demp-sefor their approval. Senator Ship-steadid not reply. Washington. y d Industry Law Revision Urged Salt Lake City. Steps looking to the revision of Utah laws concerning foreign corporations doing business in this state are to be taken by the new 4nJustrien committee of the chamber. ;ot commerce at a meeting and luiicheon to be given on Monday, January' 18, according to word given cut by chamber officers. Nogales, Ariz. The Acoponeta and Santiago rivers In Mexico are subsiding, following cessation of rain, but only after a reported loss of life, which estimates placed as high as 400, and property damage of between $50,000 and $300,000, to the Southern Pacific Railway. received According to telegrams here at the Southern Pacific railway office from Ruiz Nayaric, Mexico, a small station north from where terrific floods have been occurring all week, all farm land has been devastated with probable loss of all life. Although no official average is set of the rainfall, it is estimated that 12 inches fell in thirty-sihours. Other sources of information gives the rainfall at 14 inches in three days. The Santiago river has changed its course from a southwesterly direction into a course almost due north and the flood waters have encompassed several hundred miles of the riches farm land on the west coast of Mex' ico. Reports received by H. R. TItcomb of the Southern Pacific practically confirm the estimated death toll of 400 persons. A colonel of the Mexican army, according to the dispatches, has crossed over the turbulent Santiago river and reports that between 800 and 100 feet of Southern Pacific tracks have been washed out by the two rivers, with- - the main bridge at Acoponeta greatly damaged. According to the colonel's report, the' entire, population of the Santiago river valley is wiped out. Corresponding loss of life in the Acoponeta river valley is reported. x WEATHER BADLY MIXED Cold In Califirnia, Mild In Alaska; Chasing Butterflys in Alberta San Francisco, Calif. The weather program in the far west and the northwest has become badly scrambled. In California, where mild winters are, as a rule, part of the allurements to tourists and the stock boast of the natives, one of the coldest The fogs spells In years prevails. coverlarge sections of the interior and have been the cause of several serious accidents at night because of On the other hand, poor visibility. Alaska reports the mildest weather in its history. Dispatches from Nome said there Is not enough snow for dog races. Up in Alberta, where cold months in the year the people are confronted with an ice famine. Dispatches from Lethbridge, Alberta, say the weather is mild and rivers are One citizen chased butterrunning. flies for exercise. Several robins were seen and golf is going on as usual. Stock is running on the ranges. Records for twenty-fou- r years fall to reveal as long a, warm spell as now prevails in Alberta. A water shortage Is threatened in central California, because of the lack of rain, although this is the rainy season. Desert Range Needs Storm City. While desert range conditions are reasonably good, a snowstorm would be appreciated by livestock men, Ray B. Metcalf of Gunnison says. Mr. Metcalf represents the Metcalf Brothers, associated with J. E. Cosgriff, president of the Continental National bank. The livestock feed situation in Sanpete county generally are unexpectedly good, in view of the lack of snow, Mr. Metcalf says. He is returning to his home, after having attended the livestock show at Ogden, where he represented 300 top steers and 5000 Rambouillet breeeding ewes. Mr. Metcalf will be here for a few days as a guest at the Cullen hotel before leaving for Gunnison. Salt Lake Democrats Submit Tax Reduction Washington. While accepting the reduction in the maximum surtax rate from 40 to 20 per cent, the plan, an nounced by Senator Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the committee, would increase the re ductions voted by the house for in comes between $22,000 and $100,000 Friday, January IS, 1926 CHAPTER XIII SOUTHERN RIVERS MIDWEST RECEIVES TIMES-NEW- George Barr McCufcheon Copyright, BU Srn&caM CWNU Sanrica) CHAPTER XII Continued 11 " From all sides boomed the shouts and curses of a quickly revived pur- - pose. "Rush 'em I" "Kill the "Beat their heads off!" "Get him! Get him!" Suddenly a strange voice rose above the clamor. Rich, full, vibrant, It fell upon puzzled ears, and once again there was pause. All eyes were upon the owner of this wondrous clarion voice. A startling figure she was, standing erect upon the front seat of Lansing's car. "Men of Rumley! Hold! Hold. I command you I Is there one among you who has not heard of the gypsy's prophecy of thirty years ago? Let him speak who will, and let him speak for all." A score of voices answered. "Aye!" she went on. "Xou all have heard it. I ask one of you any one of you to stand forth and tell the rest of this craven mob what the gypsy fortune teller said on that wild and stormy night." "She said the baby son of Oliver Baxter would be hung for murder before he was thirty years old," bawled " someone. "And what else did she say?" rang out the voice of Josephine Judge. "Oh, a lot of things that don't matter now," yelled a man back in the crowd. "Get busy, boys. We can't " "Stop ! Listen to me, varlets ! Tou Mr. Gooch Sees Thing's at Night. Horace Gooch was going to bed. Ha had had a. hard day, and It was nine o'clock. He had a book, a copy of "David Harum," but he did not begin reading at once. He was thinking of the many dark and lonely nights old Oliver Baxter had spent In Death Swamp. It gave him a creepy feeling. He tucked the covers a little more tightly under his chin but still the creepy feeling persisted. "Hey, Horace!" Someone was knocking at the front door and the voice! There was only one voice In the world like that. Mr. Gooch went to the window, ne hesitated a moment, then boldly drew the curtain apart. "Hello, Horace," came wafting np to Mr. Gooch. "That you? Say, open up and let me In." Mr. Gooch grasped the window frame for support. "Good G d!" he gulped, but In a voice so strange and hollow that he did not recognize It as his own. The figure drew nearer the house. "I'm Ollle Baxter. For goodness' snke, Horace, don't tell me you've forI " gotten your only brother-in-la"Go away ! You're dead !" "You come down here and let me .in," cried the other. "I'll derned soon show you I'm not dead." Mr. Gooch was not convinced. It was Oliver Baxter and he was very much alive. "Well, what do you want?" "I want to come In and spend the night with you, that's what I want." Presently the two were seated In Gooch's warm kitchen. "Now," demanded Mr. Gooch, "where have you been all this time?" Mr. Baxter stretched out his. wrinkled legs, and filled his pipe and lit it, all the while keeping his keen little eyes on his brother-in-la"Well, sir," he began presently; "I hunted this country over before I found her. She remembered everything. It took me nearly two weeks to get her to admit that shelled, and I guess she wouldn't have done It If I hadn't offered her a hundred dollars to tell the truth." "Are you talking about the gypsy who told his fortune?" inquired Mr. Gooch, comprehending suddenly. "Yes. Queen Marguerite. I finally got her to confess that everything she said was false. Oliver ain't going to be hung any more than you or L All spite work, she says. Got mad at all of us." "So that's what you've been up to, you blamed old Idiot," exclaimed Gooch. "Letting us all think you were dead! That reminds me I was Just wondering whose body It Is, since It can't possibly be yours. The one they found in the swamp yesterday, I well-wor- rt one-tent- U. S. Richts Are Protected School Board Additions Begin American rights and Washington. Salt Lako City. First steps were taken by the board of education re- property in Mexico are now being and cently toward' the expenditure of will continue to be accorded all reasonable protection", the United States J25O.0OO on building construction work In the city during the present year. will be advised In the Mexican reply Architects were employed to prepare to the American note of protest deplans for additions to three of the livered by Ambassador James R. school buildings. Cannon anil Fetzor Sheffield, according to authoritative were employed to prepare plans for Information obtained. Both the alien an addition to the South Junior High land and the petroleum law provide will be school, to cost approximately $170,000 that suitable compensation his addition to Include ten classrooms, tendered American citizens for any holdings they must surrender. gymnasium and cafeteria. well-know- . 1 as MB J News Notes to Live in It's a MACKENZIE TELLS I. C. C. THAT COMMITTEE ACT WOULD HAMPER WORK Mining Interests And Agricultural Interests of West Alligned In Opposing Rate Increase of Five Percent i Privilege IN RATE ADVANCE Utah n believe she spoke the truth when she uttered that prophecy? Answer!" "Yes!" came from a hundred throats. "Then you must know that this boy was adjudged Innocent of this crime on the day he was born," fell slowly, distinctly from the Hps of Josephine. "I will repeat the words of the gypsy woman. She said: 'He will not commit a murder. He will be hanged for j a crime he did not commit.' Speak ! jjuean."Baxter inquired with sudden In Are not those the words of the rMr. terest: "In the swamp, eh? Out In gipsy?" one of the pools? Why, It must be Absolute silence ensued. It was as Tom Sharp's body. Tom Sharp was if the crowd had turned to stone. killed with an ax right out there on "And so," she cried, leveling her the edge of the swamp thirty years finger at the men in the front rank, ago. He was killed by a gypsy Say, "you have done your part toward mak- Horace, If they think that body Is ing the prophecy come true. You have mine, who is supposed to have killed hung Oliver October Baxter in spite me?" of the fact that you were told thirty Mr. Gooch experienced a strange years ago that he would be innocent." and unusupected softening of the The mob stood rooted to the ground. heart. A sudden shout went up from those "A man thnt used to work around In the front rank a shout of relief. your place," said he, after a moment's Oliver October was struggling to his hesitation. Silence fell between them. Mr. Baxfeet, assisted by Jane and Lansing. Ills arms, released from their bonds, ter was thinking profoundly, his brow were thrown across their shoulders, wrinkled, his eyes fixed on one of his his chin was high, be was coughing bony hands. "Just so It wasn't Oliver," he said violently. He had "Don't try to speak yet, Baxter," at last, swallowing hard. His cautioned Lansing. "Plenty of time. removed the gaudy muffler. You're all right. You'll be yourself lu Adam's apple rose and fell twice cona few minutes. Thank God, we got vulsively. "I'd hate to have people think he did It." here when we did." "Don't worry about that," said Mr. They got him Into the forward car, where he huddled down between Jane Gooch brusquely. "Get along to bed and her mother. They heard him whis- now." THE END. per hoarsely, Jerkily : "Never mind about me I'm all Famou French Palace right. They won't try It again. Look The Louvre is a famous palace In after Aunt Serepta first. She's hurt. Paris originally the residence of They left her lying up " "Don't worry, old top," cried Sammy French kings, but since the French eagerly. "I'll go back and look out for revolution used as a museum of art her. You go along with Doe. Hell and antiques. The Louvre derives Its fix you up. All you need Is a good nume from an ancient hunting chateau that stood on the site of the present stiff" "Clear the road!" roared a score of pulace, in the midst of a forest Invoices as Lansing's car moved slowly fested with wolves and known as the forward, and off the sides, down the Louverle. It Is Insaid to have been a the time of Dago-beslope and up the bank, slunk the royal residenceThe foundation of the (028). obedient lynchers. The once bloodbuilding was laid by Francis thirsty horde bore off swiftly, appre- present was enhensively, but still dubiously tb'ougli I In 1541, and the structure the night which now seemed to mock larged and adorned by successive kings, particularly Henry IV and I.oulg them with Its silence. An hour later Sammy Parr ex- XIV, the later being the last king to the live In It. The work of pressed himself somewhat Irrelevantly Louvre und the Tullerles Inuniting one strucin the parsonage sitting-room- . ture was completed lu 18,77; nnd the "Say, Miss Judge, you were great. combined Louvre and Tullerles covers I never heard anything like that an area of 43 City speech of yours. And your voice-w- hy, Times. It gave me the queerest kind of shivers." Willing to Try Josephine was pacing the floor, her scientific management peo"These fine brow knitted In thought. She was a business man. . Oliver, lying ple," nays muttering to hcrn-lfIdeas of on n couch, smiled up Into June's "with their extraordinary or trebling a man's labor, redoubling lie Then sut up. lovely eyes. mind me of the bumble hod carrier's "Sammy," he cried ont thickly but Impossible nimle. with the ring of enthusiasm in his "Now. h ructions boss said to a voice, "do me a favor, will ynu?" new bod csMfi-T- : '"I-oo"Sure," said Sammy, springing to didn't I hire yon to his feet. carry brUl.s up that ladder by the "Stand up with me. I'm going to day?" be married." ""Yes sir.' .il'l tiie Imd carrier. "I'll not "Great!" cried Sammy. "'Well, I li. ve had iny eye on yon, It half a day toonly stand up with you, old boy, but and you've r'r ! tin- - other half com I'll let you lean on me." day. Yon "Now?" gasped Kcreptn Grimes, In Ing dwn !'r." great agitation. "Whert'upo'i. tlu I. ml carrier, with a "les now!" cried Jane softly, and grin. r'spmil"d : II. sir, I'll Irv to do better tor the first time that night the color "'Very tomorrow.' City Star. time back to her cheeks. aorcs.--Kans- Spring Water Sought Salt Lake City. The Three Coal company of Utah has applied to the state engineer for a permit to divert of a cubic foot of water from a spring In Rryner canyon in Carbon count for mining purposes. UTAH Vernal. The commissioners of Uinta county and the Uinta club of in the endea.Vernal are vor to secure further state and federal jald for the roads of this county. An tespecialy effort is being made to se- cure such aid for the reconstruction, lof bridges between Vernal and the Kansas City, Mo. Salt Lake City's secretary of the Utah chapter of the American Mining congress, presented testimony before the interstate commerce hearing on the proposed rate hike here designed to show that mining interests are in no shape to pay additional freight charges. Mr. Mackenzie, who is personally Interested in copper holdings, declared successful metal mines are comparatively few in the United States. Of 292 metal mines in Utah, he declared, only eleven operated with profit in 1924. Prices of metal not including iron produced ia Utah, have increased about 20 per cent over the price levels of 1923, he said, but the cost of production has increased 65 per cent. The mining industry, the witness declared, was in sharp competition with foreign metals, which could be produced more cheaply. From 25 to 30 per cent of the copper mines in the United States were suspended, the witness added, because the domestic market Is glutted with foreign copper. Mr. Mackenzie said the silver price was fixed by four firms In London recognized by the British government. The price of this metal, he said, is not sufficient to warrant exclusive mining, and silver is mined only as It is found with other metals. A price adjustment, he continued, can be effected only through suspension of mining. Almost all items in metal mining, Mr. Mackenzie said, are as high as they were in the war period. Including labor costs. Shenandoah Loss Is Price Paid "The Shenandoah disWashington aster, which cost the lives of Lieutenant Commander Zachary Landsdowne and thirteen other officers and men, is part of the price that must inevit-abbe pair in the development of any new and hazardous art." This was the conclusion of the. naval court of Inquiry which Investigated the accident. Its report, 'made public recently, urged the navy department to give "most careful consideration" to recommendations that the development of craft go forward. y ir Cabinet Quits Bulgarian King Sofia. Premier Tzankoff tendered the resignation of the cabinet to the king and it was accepted. The inability of the premier to obtain harmony within the ministry brousht about the resignation. There was a stormy session of the chamber of deputies recently, at which the lack of harmony was extremely evident. This prompted the premier to call a meeting of the leaders of the majority, and after this meeting the report was current in parliamentary circles that the resignation was imminent. Storm Sweeps Colorado Denver, Colo. A blizzard like storm swept through sections of the Rocky Mountain region Thursday and continued In some parts later, leaving in its wake one person dead and many automobiles stal'ed in heavy snow drifts. Arthur F. Ward, Pueblo, Colo., merchant, was killed when his automobile plunged from a bridge during the storm. Scores of motorists were stalled In the roads of southeastern Colorado, and more than a foot of snow was reported at Crow. Urges City to Obtain Water Salt Lake City. Calling attention to the fact that the lack of precipitation on the city's watersheds during the past three months threatens Salt Lake City with a serious water shortage this year, H. C. Jessen, acting city engineer, recommended that the city take Immediate steps to enforce Its agreement with the East Mill Creek Water Company relative to exchange of Mill Creek waters to the city. Work Indorses Bill Of Boulder Project Favorable congresWashington. sional action on the Swing-Johnsobill for the construction of the Boulder canyon project after ratification of a Colorado river compact, and with other amendments, was recommended by Secretary Work. The favored secretary's recommendation construction and operation of all phases of the projert by the government which would hold permanent control ever it. six-stat- e Hurricane Hits Tutuila Honolulu. Only slight details regarding the hurricane In the Samonn Islands hnve been received here up to midnight. Monday. It Is understood that the iHland of Tutuila bore the brunt of the storm, the governor's house being partially wrecked and the officers' quarters and customs houses being either destroyed or damaged. Ixrrln Thurston, president of the Honolulu Advertiser, Is believed to be In the Manua group, seventy miles from Pago-Pagwhere he Is heading ft Landshell hunting expedition. (Duchesne county line. Los Angeles. Salt Lake loses its Pacific Coast league franchise as the Tesult of a gentlemen's agreement made to transfer the Vernon club Francisco and the Salt Lake club to Los Angeles. H. William Lane, president of the Salt Lake club, and practically every one of the other six directors of the Salt Lake club, who are in Los Angeles to attend the convention of the minor leagues, which begins Wednesday, will select a new name for the club and transact such other business as is necessary to effect the transfer after the Coast league ratifies the agreement in writing at the special session next Thursday evening. Salt Lake City. Soren N. Jacob-se- n, Salt Lake contractor, was elected president of the Intermountain branch of the Associated General Contractors of America at the annual banquet meeting of the association in the Hotel Utah. B. F. Dinsmore of Ogden was made vice president and J. L. Griffith of Salt Lake was reelected . secretary-treasurerDirectors elected for terms of one year are W. O. Creer of Logan, C. M. Alston and H. E. Schraven, both of Salt Lake. Holdover directors are A. H. Christensen, and Enoch Smith, both of Salt Lake. Logan. The national legislation which is being considered by congress at present and the economic situation in agriculture during the year 1925 were discussed by President E. G. Peterson before the annual membership and directors' meetng of the Cache county farm bureau. President Peterson referred to the apparent unity of sentiment In respect to agricultural legislation, especially in regard to the creating of a commission to handle agricultural surpluses. Myton. The Uintah club, of which J. A. Cheney of Vernal is president, is making an effort to procure an appropriation through congress for a dinosaus monument to cost $100,000,. to be located at Jensen. Representative Colton will be asked to introduce such a measure at this session of congress. All civic organizations will be urged to work for the project. Myton. It is expected that by of this month the Uintah Basin Seed Growers' association will have finished cleaning the alfalfa seed in storage by the farmers at their plant. The output for 1925 will exceed that of 1924, according to an estimate given out recently, by 300,000 pounds, making the total handled in 1925, pounds. Salt Lake City. A total of $2,205,-153.6- 0 was allocated among the school districts of Utah by Dr. C. N. Jensen, state superintendent of pubOf this, $2,042,594.20 lic instruction. comes from the state property taxes and $162,559.40 from the interest and rental funds under the state school land grant. Salt Lake City. John E. Holden, state auditor placed to the credit of the general fund, to be used in the federal and state cooperative campaign against predatory wild animals, $18,686.24 from the state bounty fund. The state board of agriculture is the state's agent in administering this campaign, the United states being represented by G. E. Hol-ma- n of the biological survey. Salt Lake City. Man proposes, but in Beaver county the cranes, "squacks," herons, kingfishers and fish hawks dispose of the young trout with which state game officials and Beaver county sportsmen would stock the lower waters of Beaver riv-an- d sloughs In that vicinity, according to the plaint of the Beaver County-Fisand Game club. Washington. The Coolidge administration Is about ready to declare in favor of federal construction of Boulder dam In the Colorado river or a dam In Black canyon near by on terms and under conditions which will fully protect the rights and Interests of the states of the upper basin. This determination of the administration has been arrived at after a series of conferences between the president himself. Secretary of Commerce Hoover, Secretary of the Interior Work, and Attorney General Sargent. Denver, Colo. The railroad bore of the Moffat tunnel which is being built under the continental divide In Colorado was leased to the Denver & Colorado Hallway company for a period of fifty years. to-Sa- . the-clos- long-legge- Old d Vagaries of Age ProfPHsor Ah, good mornln, madam. So glad to see you. How's your husband? The Lady But I'm not married, professor. Old Professor Ah, well, well I So your husband Is a bachelor. Young America "Why should we always be cheer- ful, Willier "8o nobody broke." can tell when we'r |