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Show • . THE JORDAN JOURNAL, MIDV AutUTAH ~ F_rom_the_Ju,....:._ngle_----..110! VotG_· L . . - . - -_ _ EARTHOU~KE ROCKS rNe"";s Notes I C~llfORNI~ CITIES i ~ (Copy tor Thto Department Supplied by the American Le&"lon Newl' Service.) $1 ,000,000-M ARK HAS BEEN PASSED At the conclusion of the prelJmlnary stages of the active canvass for the American Legion's $15,000,000 endowment fund for disabled veterans and orphans of the World war, the ,1,000,000-mark had been passed, according to National Commjlnder .James A. Drain. Nine states had "gone over the top," completing their quotas, In most cases with a substantial oversubscription. Kentucky was the first state to complete its quota. oversubscribing it by C50 per cent. Tenn11<see and Arkansas followed closely. The first Northern &tate to ra,lse Its proportion of the fund was North Dakota. South Dnkota was not far behind. Other states which comp leted their quotas In the early stages of the nation-wide campaign were North Carolina, Utatt and Nevada. Avon Park, Florida town with a population of 800, claims to be the only city In the counrry to have treblE>d Its quota In two hours. The town raised $1,503 against a quota or $42.'5 by noon of the first day and A total of $947 was subpu~<hed on. scribed In the first ten minutes. George G. Raumgartner. CIYII war veteran of Phoenix, Ariz., sent In a check for $5. He said he would send that amount each month. The first cont bution at Tucson was from the lated Federal Students at the As Uni~rslty of Arizona, who gnYe halt the funds In their treasury. Attaches of the United ~tates Veterans' bureau office at Minneapolis, Minn., pledged themselYes to raise Patient's and attaches nt $3.000. the United StatPS Veterans' hospital, No. 99, at Excelsior Springs. Mo., contributed $150. Employees of the Den-" ver (Colo.) otllre of the vE>ternns' bu.. reau pledged $225 to the fund, every person making a contribution. Votaw-Swank post No. 458 at Neoga, Ill., raised Its quota In the !ace of many dlfficnltiE'!I. ·This farming community hnd been having hard times. A bunk had failed with a large loss. Funds and suppUes had been sent In large quantltiPs to t he victims of the t errible tornado which struck just 11outh of the town last spring. But the quota was raised. Many governors are takln~ an active part In the work !or the fund. Among those who have recently acC'epted the ehalrmanshlp of their state ('Omrnlttees are: Franklin S. Billing!!, Vermont; John J. Blaine, Wisconsin; Alvin T. Fuller, Massachusetts; Albert C. Ritchie, Legionnaire, Maryland; George S. Sllzer, New Jersey, and Alfred E. Smith, New York. Former governors are also active In the work. Among those more recently accepting places on state committees are: Channing H. Cox, Massachusetts; Frederick D. Gardner, Missouri; Carey Hardee, Florida; A. H. Longino, Mlsslsl!lppl; Nathan L. Miller, New York; David I . Walsh, Massachusetts; Charles S. Whitman, New York. ' • • .• • • • • • • • • • • FROM A PRISONER • A PRISONER In the feder al prison at Atlanta, Ga., asked • • f or w riting material a n d a check book bear ing the name of a • Rhode Island bank. When the • guard handed them to him, be • sat down on his prieon bunk and wrt:te: • "American Legion Endowment Fund, • • "National Headquarters American Legion, • "Indianapolis, Ind. "Dear Comrade: : I herewith • • enclqse a check for $15 as my • contribution towards the celestlal fund that has been under• taken by the American Legion, • for the purpose tllat carries the • high !deals ot the noble work ol the organization. • "May I ask you to kindly place • this small 11mount to the alloted • quota that Is required from the • state of Rhode Island organiztttions of t he American Legion. "I regret exceedingly, due to • • my presen t position, I cannot • give to you my physical assistance for the success of this • drive, but assure you of my sin• cere good wishes and confidence • In your work. Your comrade, etc." SECOND SERIES OF QUAKES HIT MONTANA TOWNS; NO LOSS OF LIFE IS REPORTED HUNDREDS ARE INJU~ED AND PROPERTY LOSS IS PLACED AT OYER TWENTY MILLION American Missionaries Report Being Railways Are Put Out of Commission By Quakes And Damages Is EsI He ld Up Se-veral Times While On timated At Over Five HunWay to Hongkong; Money Is dred Thousand Dollars Taken Ear-ly Dispatches Report Quake Felt In Many Parts of State; Build· ings Are Wrecked at Santa Barbara; City Flooded ARMED RIVER PATROL BOAT DISBAN D S L ARGE BO DY OF CHI· NESE BRIGANDS WITH FIRE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. • • • • • • • • Amhition It was back In the old days at St. Nazaire. A couple of perspiring negro stevedores bad stopped work for a chat. "Boy," said the first, "what yo'-all want mos' when yo'-all am discharged f'um de ahmy?" "Ah wants mah rlfie mos' of all," replied the second. "Yo' rifle? \\'haft'o' yo' wants yo' rlfie?" . "So's when Ab gfts me home Ab kill plant lt In de middle of mah yahd, an' when It r ains Ab sits me by de window an' saya : 'Ruat, yo' son of a Jr1111. J'Ut I' "-Americu Lqioll Weekly. Helena. Mont.--Tremblo rs occurred Hongkong.-An armed launch river patrol of the British government, pro- at Three Forks, White Sulphur tectlng shipping in the W(lst river Springs and Anaco_nda, late Sunday, area, near here, met a large body of , All of them were slight. Arter spendbrigands cruising toward Kongmoon. ling a. night fraught with rear over The British opened fire on the ban- the h1dden danger~< of an earthquake dits, killing many and dispersing the disaster. the populAtions in several remainder, for which they were small townR were vreparing to vacate thanked by the Konkmoon residents. I their homes in case a new disturbSeven American missionaries re- , ance occurred. No loss of life has occurred, acturning by rail !rom Shiuchow, Kwangtung province, reported they cording to advices reaching here from were met by disorderly mobs at Won- cities and towns in the affected area. gsha and Conton. After the progress Only three persons have been injurseveral ed, it is reported. o! the trip was retarded The tremors were confined to the Urnes, they arrived at Hongkong safeMontana of region south-central 1y. I sections covered· shocks Two American missionaries report- where light ed they were held up on their way of four sta.tes in the northern half of from Lupa to Canton by bandits the Hocky Mountain range. In the three other states, Idaho, dressed in foreign clothes and speaking English. The bandits demend- Washington and Wyoming the temed $1000, but took $200 which they blors were slight and no material damage was recorded. found on the missionaries. Property damage estimates in the Reports were prevalent that severhave soared al women missionaires who have tak- stricken area of Montana mark, with reports en refuge in Hongkong, have accept- to the $500,000 the smaller towns· from in coming ed employment on the liner Empress villages. and of Asia as stewardesses with pay tor Two isolated towns are reported to the return trip to Vancouver, B. C. seriously damaged by the tembe Barricades and tren&es have been incomplPte rec01·us stated. At blorf<, erected by the Chinese at Canton, White Sulphur Springs, which reportnear Shameen, to prevent Chinesll on Yirtually all of the parade from passing the foreign ed a new shock, Meaghar county of buildings county quarter, but this explanation is doubtsh·uctures business the of many and ed. Extra precautions have been takas eswith demolished, been en at Shameen. where the waterway have property A timated loss .of $100,000. approaches have been mined to predama[\"e toll of $100,000 also was exvent entrance to the settlement. acted at Three Forks, it was reportThe foreign staff In the Chinese ed. customs house returned there after The center of the disturbance, all an absenee of one week. They were authoritative information here indiescorted by representatiyes of the cates, was in the lower Galatin valley British foreign office and the C!linese and the smaller towns bore the brunt superintendent of customs. The unof the earthquake's damaging efcertainties of the future are apparfects. ent because of demands expected Northern Montana felt a series of from the French admiral, Frochot. light earth li<hocks, none of which caused material damage. More Shocks Visit Coast City Railroad officials in the sou tb-cenSanta Barbara, Cal.-Three distinct tral section of the state were organearth tremors spread further terror izing their forces to repair the damamong panic stricken Santa Barbara age wrought by the landslides and the residents. Strict martial law was es- boulders tossed down from mountains tablished throughout the city to safe- by the tremors on their tracks. guard life and property. A severe The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul jolt. accompanied by rumblings and railroad officials announced that all rolling of the earth literally rocked transcontinental trains would be rout· the entire city at 1: 22 a. m. last Fri- ed OYer the Harlowton Great Fallsday. Buildings left standing but in a Butte lines, wllile the cave-in in the shaky state from the former shocks Lombard tunnel is being cleared. crumbled to the ground. Inhabitants Prisoner>~ in the county jail at Bilstood panic stricken in their yards or lings were panic stricken when the on hillsides and witness further de- 3econd tremor split the floor of the 'truction of the once magnificent courtroom located in a room near the thoroughfare of the resort city, which jail. less than 24 hours before was lined Near-paniky conditions that prevailwith beautiful structures of ornate 3d in virtually every city of western Spanish design. Montana when the tremblors bespoke their fury had subsided before the Tax Records To Be Open To Public new shocks occurred and work of esWashington.-In ternal revenue offi. :imating the damage was begun. cials are considering means by which Damage in Butte was negligible, the study of income tax records may consisting of bricks being stripped be made ~s easy as possible for the [rom facades of buildings and chimgeneral public. In view of the su- o.ews being toppled over. The quakes preme court decision holding publica- left no marks on the more thlh1 1000 tion of these returns to be legal, the miles of underground workings of the bureau officials have under considera- Rutte Copper mines. Thousands of tion a plan to provide a duplicate set men labored in the stopes and drifts of records into which those who so while the tremblor was most severe. desire may delve at their leisure durThe eanh movements were of an ing the hours that government offi- oscilliatory character. a back and for· ces are open. Some officials here ward wavelike swaying. Thunder and believe that the work of putting this lightning pluyecl in the heavens above year's lists into shape for releasing Butte. to the public may not be completed The little town of Willow Creek, a intention the is It 1. August before community of :100 inhabitants surveyto make them public simultaneously ed the wake of destruction lt>ft by the earthquaJ,e. The two largest buildIn all collector's offices. [ lngs in the town, the school and the , principa.l busine,;s :-<tructure were Liner Runs Down Vessel Glouchester, Mass.- Fourteen men budly damaged. Jndkations that there had been of the fishing schooner Rex of this disturbances underground marked British the when lost were port eviuent were earthquakes the during line steamer Tuscania of the Anchor where Forks, Three of ran down and sank the fisherman in the Yi<'inity off Quero Bank in the north Atlan- huge fif<l:\ures, several feet deep, aptic In a thick fog, according to a tel- peared in the earth's surface. The egram received here. The dispatch water level of the Jefferson river, a received by i'red L. Davis company, mile above where it joins with the owners of the schooner, said that Gallatin and Madison rivers was reCaptain Thomas Downey was picked ported to have dropped two feet. up dead and that thirteen other memVirginia Man Head s Masonic Club bers of the crew were drowned. Nine Saratoga Springs, N. Y.--Charles A. men were rescued. MacHendry, Fredericksburg, Va .. was elected president of the National Ph i llippi n e Fact ory Destroyed League of Masonic Clubs at the final Manila.-Lightn ing struck the larg- ses!lion of the annual convention. R. est cocoanut oil factory in the Philip- A. MacGregor. Pittsburg was chosen pines, owned by Lever Brothers of as vice president. The 1926 convenEngland, causing a loss of $1,000.000. lion will be held in Philadelphia. Los Angeles, Cal.-At least sixtyfive persons lost their lives, hundreds were Injured and enormous property damage was caused by a series of earth tremors which rocked Santa Barbara and S"Urroundlng territory early on the morning of June 29th. The quake reduced sections of Santa Barbara to ruins. Ruildings were demolished, pavements uprooted and the c-ollapse of Gibraltar dam. near the city, added to the panic and sufferin?:. I Re venue M en H av e B usy Month Twenty Death Toll of Ty p hoon Washington.-D eputy collectors of Manila.-The recent typhoon in internal revenue throughout the conn- . central Luzon caused more than try conducted 62,635 tax investiga- twenty deaths and heavy property reports retions In may, the internal revenue damage, according to commissloner disclosed and the gov- ceived here. The heaviest losses ocernment recovered $4,345,273 as a re- eurred in the provinces of Bulacan. suit of their work. The Investigators Nueva, Ecija and Nueva Vlzcaya, where floods overtook the residents levied additional taxes of $5,390,770 end drove them Into the hills. Thouand took appropriate steps to protect 1\ands of head of l!Yestock were the government's interests in each drowned and many houses washed amount that were not immediately I r.way. Road!! were washed out and collected. • irrigation systems damaged. KANSAS GITYHAS REBELS STH IKE cit~=~ t:ei-:a:·:~~~c/ :~ith ~m;.~~~nd~~~ fR0MGA HAISO NI PlAYHOUSE FIRE 1 1 FUTAH' ~ li!!fmil!Iiil~~fiilli\lli'lli\!Jiilfiil...ffilfiilfiilffi!@lil ~ Ring-ham.-The town board at the regular weekly meeting passed an ordinance to better regulate cazd games. In future all persons having card games on their premises will be required to procure a license. The ordinance will be effectiYe in te days. Logan.-Offic!al s of the Utah Power & Light company and Cache county commissioners conterred here relative to the raising of road grades and bridges and in some cases possibly the construction of new ones, that will be made necessary by the raising of Bear river by reason of thegreat dam and power project now beIng constructed in Bear River canyon, which will raise the level of the stream for twenty miles from the southern end of the county at Caehe • Junction, causing many incidental road and bridge changes. de~:,:~dLabke:nci:~·~-t~: ~:~::r hf:se~: wire c-ommunication paralyzed. Spec· and the cards bearing the slogan,.. ial trains left from Los Angeles ""What Utah Ma k·es, M a k es Utah' and San Francisco with Red Cross that the entire supply of 132,000 of the first and 16,000 of the latter, which,. and other relief. 1 SEARCHERS DIG IN RUINS FORI NEWS DISPATCHES ARE BEING was on hand at the Utah Manufacthroughout The quake was general CLOSELY CENSORED; NAVY BELIEVED BODIES MAIMED southern California, but apparently turers' association, has been exhaustJOINS MOVEMENT EXPLOSION VICTIMS centered at Sant~ Barbara, where the ed. according to J. S. Earley, execudamage and loss of life were great- tive secretary. Ogden.-Joseph ·warren Wadsworth est. Property Loss Is Placed At One Hun- Military Government Has Been Form· years old. hand cart pioneer and 94 Leading hotels crumbled to pieces I ed and All Civil and Military Indred and Fifty Thousand Dollars; one of 'Veber county's oldest resiand business bloc·ks were in ruins. stitutions are Under GenOne Fireman Is Killed EnThe first temblor was reported at dents, died at his home in Hooper. _ route To Fire eral's Orders 6:45 a. m. At Santa Barbara and While conversing with his wife, he other cities temblors shook the area was !'eized with apoplexy and suecumbed. at interYals at twenty minutes. Kansas City, Mo.-Firemen a'nd an Paris.-Dispatch es from Salonika Another tremble, less violent, shook Montlcello.-A tragedy of unusual army of workers !.rom the stret de- report Greece In the throes of a rev- Santa Barbara at R: 30 a. m. spreadthe· pa:-tment have began searching the olution and say the Greek fleet has ing further terror among inhabitants. gruesomeness was enacted at Easten farm, near Engar, In this secsmouldering ruins of the Gillis theaRuildings were demolished and re- tion, a few days ago, when an 8-year movement. the joined tre for bodies of persons believed to The dispatches say a military goY· sorts damaged at Golita. Naples and old bov fell Into a well and wa!> h·ave lost their lives when a fire and formed u~der Gen· other cities adjacent to Santa Bar- smoth~red and burned to death by an explosion wrecked t) e theatre ernment has been burning brush which the little victim and more than a dozen stores here. era! Pangalos and has occupied all bara. Pacific station at Go- and his 6-vear-old brother had set Southern The Several hours after the search of civil and military institutions. lita was Rplit in two and traeks for afire. Admiral P. Coundouriotis is provithe debris started three bodies had miles' thrown out of line. Salt Lake City.-Provided adequate been recovered. sional president of the Greek repubAil·planes and special trains were is furnished the United security May office that assumed having Alex Hendehson, fire chief, after lie, hastily dispatched to the stricken United States rec·lamation serYice, a surYey of the situation, said he 1, 1924. area with relief when reports of the bureau is ready to begin on the Echo believed that not more than six or Admiral Hadjikirakos was one of disaster first filtered through. canyon reBervior scheme at once. eight bodies would be found and per- the five members of the Greek revocontracts for 60,000 acre-Satisfactory buildtall of number a are There haps not that many. sec · Santa Barbar·a's lJust"rless · lutionarv committee appointed in 1922 mgs · feet of water must be presented to ·• m J A cook In a restaurant adjoining many persons the bureau. This is the statemen.t feared is it and tion forthe to led which of activities the the theatre, which ~as entirely delost their lives Y•hen these collapsed. of the reclamation officials at a conmolished, Is the only one police know matlon of the present Greek republic. appointed was General Pangalos State street, the leading thorough- ference held in Denver and which is to pe unaccounted for. It was est'lby v.;. M. Greene, englnmated that approximately 100 per- Greek minister of war in June, 1924. fare, was compl~tely undermined and corroborated eer investigating the project. sons were in the show house at the He formerly was generalissimo or the its shops, some o.f the finest in southruins. in are California, ern time of the blast. Ho'Y many of them Greek army and military governor of Prlce.-A great celebration similar Ventura, CaL-Refugees from San- to that planned at American Falls, escaped was not known. Athens. He headed the rebels, who The exact cause of the explosion is defeated the Greek royalists In Atb· ta Rarbara arrived here shortly b~fore Idaho, next month. has been urged the by E. R. Jorgensen, speaking before not known. Police believe the blast &ns In September, 1922. and thereat- noon and confirmed reports of Bar. Santa at occurred, however in a restaurant ter became minister of war in the disastrous earthquake the chamber of commerce at 1ts suggesting and meeting bara which has taken an estimated weekly located in the Gillis building. cabinet. He resigned' that toll 'of sixty-five llves and reduced Gonatas means and methods of how to bE>st Parts of the charred walls of the a month to join the the city to virtual ruins. within office the $750,000 Price River advertise will four story building still standing · t• places water conservation district pro)ec business tire of half least At fighting the~ Thrace, in army Greek have to be felled before an extenb parwere commander ·1n downtown Santa Barbara which it is hoped will one day e one sive search of the ruins can be made, the Turks. He became demoJished, E. B. of the county's biggest assets. and tially or completely campaign that during chief In · Chief Henderson said. were Hollister, an eyewitness. told the UniThe explosion came with startling after returning to Athens there Ogden.-The plans for the proposed attempt ted Press. would he that 1923 in rumors the Flames enveloped swiftness. hotel to be built upon the site new· This government the "' th 0 t State street the main thoroughfare · structure almost immediately follow- o over r " did not material- is a mass of wreckage. Hollister said. of the Reed hotel this summer have ing the blast and the root and the plan, if it existed, he was Practically all of the larger buildings been completed and accepted by the floors of the ancient building con- ize, and in November, 1923, executive committee of the board of <liAth· of the city were levelled. of governor military structed forty-two years ago as the appoint~d of the Heed Hotel comp ny. rectors five new a hotel. California 'fhe ens. On December 20, 1923, he pro· city's finest playhouse, collapsed. the specificationB are writof Most wrecked, republic, demanded story stone stru{'ture, was Those who were able to make their claimed a Greek resignation of the Gonatas govern- only part of its inside walls remain- ten, and within a very short time the way out of'the building did so almost the ment . and faYored Papanastasiou for ing standing. Bedrooms were expos- plans and specifications will be ready miraculously, according' to eyewited and furniture scattered about the for contractors. according to A. P . premu~r. nesses. Bigelow, president of the Reed Hotel Salonika, Greece.-The newspaper rooms. Exits of the theatre which were loThe San Marcos office building on compan)· . cated on the second floor, were few. Independent announces the .Salonika Salt Lake City.- William J. McCoy, There was the main entrance and a 11:arrlson decided to demand the im j State street wa" totally destroyed. principal in point of contin· rear entrance and a rear exit behind mediate resignation of Premier Mich· The high buildings on Anapamu the oldest Salt Lake City th() stage. Both led down a confus- alakopoulos because of his alleged street was c~ompletcly wrecked and uous serYice in the died at his system, school public from miles two hospital. county the pur· Ing arrangement of hallways and inefficiency in office and for the had been a who McCoy, Mr. home. demolished. stairs of wood, which crumbled In pose of forming a military govern· the city. was partially here system school the in a moment under the falling building. ment presided over by General Pan- Several nurses were slightly hurt by principal falling debri8. but the patientl:l were for thirty-four years continuously, had . golos. been In Ill health for a considerable The revolutionary officers occupied saf~ly remoYed. Broken Propeller Kills Aviator time and only recent!. was given an badly was St. Voncent's orphanage buildings and railway stations. Mitchell Field, N. Y.-Sergeant public censorship has been establish· shaken, the walls were cracked and indefinite leave of absence by the Douglas E. Logan of the United Press ed. A revolutionary proclamation has the roofing slid partly off. Nurses board of education. ' Death is said to States army air service was kllled h~moYed 150 ('hildren to a hillside have resulted from a complications o( issued. at Mitchell Field when a piece of pro- been troubles. A military communique says the r:earb•: without casualties. peller, broken in the fall of a Martin Salt Lake Citv.-The state b~rd of l CallforSouthern the of plant The. bomber in whict he was riding, tore revolutjonary movement is noV',' in ked of {Ttah has been examiners t partly was through the fuselage and pierced his control throughout Greece. The Greek nia Edison comp,_,ny Soap and Tallow Newman the generator::~ were bad- by heart. He had relatives in Risbee, fleet, under Admiral Hadjiklriakos, wrecked. The the city was without Machinery company of Chicago to and damaged ly join· has marine, of minister former Arizona. The bomber, piloted by consider the establishment of ~ soap power. lights or Lieutenant J. A. Wilson, was under- ed the revolution. te pri· plant in the manufacturing destroyed, Brick residents were Leaders of the revolution telegraphgo~ng a trial flight. being just out of ' out, ppints company qon. This the the enginee1·tng shop. Twenty feet ed the president of the Greek repub· only frame sfruC'tures standing the would saye the state from 40 to 50 ~;hoek without damage. from the ground a I!;Ust of wind tilted lie: per cent on the market price whl<:h buildwooden on chimneys Rriek the of "We proclaim an overthrow the plane and it fell, breaking the pays fur soap. The matter was it propeller and stripping the under government. We will hold the cabin· tngH were toppled. "The first tre.mor eame sulldcRIY called to the attention of the state carriage. With terrific force, a piece et responsible for any bloodshed." at 6: 45 and caused practically all of board of corrt:'ctions, under who~;e of the propeller flew off and ripped the damage."" Holister said. 1 jurisdiction the prison operates. Iowa Man Gets Finland Post through the forward cockpit In which . . half I eYery jolts severe were "There Logan was riding. Swampscott. Mass.-Alfred J. Pear hour afterwards fur about three 1 Logan.-Be...,mn mg at 6 p. m. Ju 1Y 20, and continuing until noon, July son of Iowa was appointed by Preshours. the fifth annual farmers' encamp23. to ident Coolidge to be minister Clothes Design Art "The city is panic-stricken. WoBuffalo. N. Y.-Establishme nt of a Finland. John B. Stetson of Phila- men are hy~<teri-:;ul and have gather- ment and summer school for farmers college course In men's clothing de- delphia was selected for the post. ed their most !lredous possession'! and their wive!' will be held at the About signing because "creation of clothes He has not sailed !or Finland and and hudcllecl on the lawns of their Utah Agricultural college. tentthe occupy to expected are (000 re· would he that here styles is an art," was recommended it was said homes or fled to the hills. ,and campus college the there ed city on by N. P. Himmel, Buffalo clothing main in the diplomatic serYice, al· "When I left about 10 o'clock coll~ge In manufacturer in an address here to though the president was not prepar· was no way of telling how many per- additional d,ormitoriee the convention of National Clothing ed to announce his new assignment sons had been killed or injured. 1 buildings. Mr. Pearson resides in Des Moines. Designers. .- l I l --------- . Earthquake Gene1•al In California Chivalry Costa Boy His Eye Witchita, Kan.-The chivalry of Elmer Henderson, 18, cost him the sight of one eye, and perhaps of both. Elmer was attacked with a pitchfork when he warned three men against insulting a o~~arty of girl bathers in the Little Arkansas river, north of here. Both of of his eyes were punctured by tines of the fork. His right eye was destroyed and physicians said It may be necessary to remove his left eye also. Experiment Fatal To Electrician San Francisco. -The earthquakec Oakland, CaL-Bert H. Lynch, in were felt in an unmmal degree of secharge of one of the substations of verity at Mojav and Lancaster. Anthe Pacific Gas and Electric com· telope valley. a hundred. miles north pany, lost his life here while dem· of here, ae,cording to opet·ators of the onstrating to a friend that currenl Los Angeles btM"eau or power and would pass through a lead pencil. light systems. Bakersfield, Oxnard Taking a pencil from his pocket, he and Santa Barbara, to the north, and placed the tip against a fuse termin· Colton to the eaHt, all reported to the al and at the same time rested hili' Southern Pacific train dispatcher other hand against a steel post. here that they felt the tremor!:!. No There was a tlash and Lynch fell reports of damage came into the to the floor 1 badly burned and UD· Southern Pacific offices. conscious. ( Profit. by Crime &-lfast.-The \\ill of John McConnell. a ninety-year-old F'ermanagh farmer who wa1< !llllrdered hy his fltansen·u;1t, Pat:-lck Murphy, Includes a bequest of $250 tor 1\lurphy~ The latter Is serving a !!1'e sentence. • The American Genetit' ussoeiatlon ~ays that In 1917 It was estimated thtn i.07 J't'r ('ent of the number of bableJ :.oru In the United States were t\vhu. Twenty per l't'JH of these are said to II.s>e !Jef'n 1 'dns of the Identical t.rpes |