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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER EVEN THE TENANTS 60 ON STRIKE NOW UTAH AND Paris J. Ballard, employed as a range rider for the John Dooly company at Antelope island, shot and killed his wife, Visla Chadwick Ballard, at Salt Lake City, and then shot himself, death resulting a few hour later. Unfounded Jealousy, it is as, serted, led to the deed. ee The new .mines development of the Salt Lake Commercial club, in addition to seeking better rate on low grade ores and the regulation lead production, will conduct a survey , of the high cost f living in mining camps. Public ownership of packing plants, railroads, telegraph and telephone lines is demanded by the Utah State Federation of Labor to a resolution adopted at the final session of the twelfth annual convention at Salt Lake. Scarcity of woodpeckers and other birds is playing havoc with trees in Utah this year. The long dry summer has produced an unusual abundance of insects and worms which are attacking the trees, it is asserted.. For the control of weevil, farm bureau members of Millard county sprayed 250 acres of alfalfa at an actual cost of $1.10 an acre, and the result was an increase 4n the number of pounds of hay of 500 an acre. Uintah" county, according to school census returns made to the state superintendent of public Instruction, showed forty-seve- n persons in the county who cannot read or write, twenty-fou- r boys. girls and twenty-thre- e In view of the fact "that the cost of maintaining survey parties in the field has doubled, it is announced that but half of the surveying of public land in Utah planned for this year will be accomplished. Preliminary arrangements . are already being made for the Ninetieth conference of the L. D. S. church, which will be held in Salt Lake Friday, Saturday and Sunday,". . October 3, 4 and 5. Special permission has been received from the navy Hepartment by the recruiting officer of the oalt Lake station to enlist men and send them direct to any ship they may select in the Pacific fleet. What cattlemen declare is a ne? record for the west will be made in January, when $5000, will be posted as premium money for the Ogden live stock show to be held at the stockyard. Tony Bruno, accused of placing dynamite which wrecked a building at Salt Lake, the explosion injuring hi? wife and two children, has proven an alibi and has been released from cu' '. tody; :f The thumb and all the fingers but the small one on the right hand ot Will McCrea, aged 14, of Duchesne, were blown off when he and companions were playing with giant powder. The Ogden board of education has approved the calendar for the coming year on the vocational education plan, which will include for students a course in automobile mechanics. . The bodies of Paris J. Ballard, suicide, and that of his wife, whom he murdered, at Salt Lake, were taken to Mill Fork, where they were interred side by side in the family plot. A number of enemy prisoners made tuntheir escape through a nel under the wire fence enclosure of the war prison barracks at Fort Douglass some time Sunday night. Fully 6000 Italians of Utah are expected to concern themselves in the event when the first Columbus day celebration in Utah takes place at. Salt Lake, October 13. The board of education at Paysoo has purchased a number of automobile trucks for ' transportation of pupils from far away homes to school during the winter. Eight cafeteries, in which food is sold at a nominal price to meet the needs of pupils, are open in Utah schools, and there is talk of establishing three more. With several head of cattle already . victims to the bites of crazed animals, an epidemic of rabies has broken out in Skull valley among coyotes. Inspection of the thirty-fiv- e canning factories in the state is progressing under officials of the state food and dairy commissioner. Five hundred dollars In prizes will be awarded for exhibits at the School and Mutual fair at American Fork, October 1 to 3. A bond election for the purpose of enlarging and improving the city water system will be held at Duchesne September 23. The senate has confirmed (he nomination of S. Abbott Maginnis of Salt --nice as minister to Bolivia. Jesse Wright, of Bountiful, suffered a broken leg when his horse fell on com-'mitt- M ELLEN FOR GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP Charles S. Mellen, former p- - esi dent of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, has come out In fa vor of government ownership of the railroads. He says, among other things : "I was 44 years a rap.road man, beginning as a $25 a month clerk. "The best solution for the railroad problem from my viewpoint is government ownership. I believe the government should control the railroads as it does the postofflce own thein exclusively. It might mean a heavy deficit for awhile, but in the end it would work out all right. "In addition to owning the railroads, I think the government should acquire all public utilities. "I am sure there would be no more political conniving in operating thea utilities than there was before. "The civil service laws could operate in ruling the railroads, as they have done in having jurisdiction over the employees of the government in other lines. And the cities could own and control their public utilities on the same principle. "In many respects the old competition that existed between the railroads was a good thing. - . "But what the patrons of the roads lose in this connection will be made up by the fad that they will consider the roads as belonging to them, and will put up with conditions which previously had put us in a bpd light." rM&T 'WW A These tenants of a New York building went on strike against Ippeu led that they had formed n kind of soviet. GENERALjPERSHING'S their landlord, who t.ld the court to which he RETURN TO AMERICA SWOPE IS THE PAST TENSE OF SWIPE semi-annu- When King Swope, the discharged soldier, who has swept a strongly Democratic district into the Republican column for the first time in 23 years, took his seat In the house the other day as representative of the Eighth Kentucky district, he was the target of all eyes. The Republicans greeted him with cheers and the Democrats gazed at him with unconcealed interest. Does his election mean anything ut of the ordinary? And if so; what .oes it mean? The politicians of con-"vss would like to know. Anyway, Klne Swope's election was certainly out of the ordinary. He was a struggling young lawyer in Danville, who had seen honorable service n overseas and comes of a Kentucky family. He was a speaker Any.. nnnn.it2af. the at .the Kentucky Republicans in Louisvuic. lllTi;i"i l """" WwPpgr Union"! denounced the League of Nations, cb ftoring Americans should be ashamed of it. The Louisville newspapers made much of it. 'representative Harvey Helm died Aiid the Republicans nominated Swope. The Democrats placed a copy of his Lincoln day speech in every voter's hands and were confident he would not get even a complimentary vote. Swope stood pat on his speech and made it the issue. He was elected by 1,700 majority in a district normally Democratic by 3,000. twenty-tight-year-o- ld gi :he General Pershing, accompanied by Jtodman' Wanamaker (in high hat), leaving the Hoboken pier on his return to United States. At the left the geiwal Is' seen on the bridge of the Leviathan saluting the Statue of Liberty. : well-know- Llan UBERIA'Sr PRE.SIDNT HERf n r 5 - FIRST GUN FIRED BY - YANKS IN THE WAR f THEIR NAME IS AMERICAN LEGION In connection with the speaking tour of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, whose portrait is here presented, in 14 states in the Interest of recruiting for the American Legion, it has become known that there is a movement to get together all the veterans of patriotic organizations. The attitude of the G. A. 100-fo- R. toward the proposition is shown by the following extracts from a letter from C. E. Adams of Omaha, commander in chief, to Henry D. Lindsey, chairman of the national executive council of the American Legion : "In my opinion the time has now :::: arrived for all army men and all patriotic societies to strengthen their position by a federation of organizations. This action cannot come too soon the disorganization that is so rife today must be curbed. And it will take the united force of us all to make the The first gun that was tired by Americans in the war and the flags of the proper American construction that is Sixth field artillery, the unit that fired the first shot. This was a feature of 27 J, visited have so urgently needed. the reception to General Pershing in New York. states in the last ten weeks and talked to more than half a million people. The entire demand of the country is for a settled American policy and the nation looks to the patriotic societies to take the lead." GERMAN PRISONER IS DECORATED Colonel Roosevelt's tour, under the direction of the Legion's national the national of one features drive, is to of the be membership speakers' bureau, which will be undertaken by state branches and local posts during September President-elec- t C. D. B. King of the to bring the Legfon's enrollment of veterans up to the million mark before the ft of Liberia, and Mrs. King, who public 10. on November national convention opens in Minneapolis have been visiting in Washington. Mr. King attended the peace conference In Paris and then traveled over much of V WILL SHE BE SENATOR ANN MARTIN? Is the United States senate to have a woman member? Europe. Hned for Reading Paper on Street. John Turner, who purchased a nei and was reading it on the streets of Birmingham, England, was arrested ror obstructing traffic. The constable who made the arrest testified that a crowd gathered around TurnoV to see what the latest news was. Turner nun Anyway, Ann Martin, one of the prominent suffragists In the country, Is preparing to run for senator In Ne- -' tida nest year, either as a Republican an Independent. She ran last year and was defeated, getting about half as fltied $2.50. many votes as the Republican candidate, and spending only $15,000, comWelsh Miners Bought Brewery. pared to about $100,000 spent by anthe coal miners of Wales Because other candidate. But she is coining tnnnot buy enough beer, owing to the back for another whirl. shortage, they are buying a brewery. Being a wise politician, Miss MarA company has been formed to purtin has advised Will Hays, chairman chase and operate the brewery and of the Republican national committee, the capital of $100,000 Is being sub'V & that she either will accept the Repubscribed by various miners' clubs. lican nomination and fight it out with the Democrats, or run as an independd race. Arizona Judge Makes Beer Legal. ent and make it a Sale of beer containing 2 per cent All of which has given Will something alcohol permitted by a decision by to think about If Miss Martin should get into the Judge William II. Sawtelle In sustainreserve regiment of the German army, Private L. Bruckmnnn, Ninety-ninttenate, by the way, the historical ing a demurrer of the Ranler Brewing with a decoration for a "gallant and chivalrous net." Brock-mana presented that asked being would which a be bead of have Utf to Sb of govern the rm& place company, great uplift. knowledge rescued a British aviator from death when the latter's machine fell to went action to prohibit the sale ot history department of the Nevada State university. domes ot the Wiltshire aerodrome where the German nasi a premier, In earth iuch beer be dismissed. t three-cornere- h n him. An American Legion post has been organized at Richmond. The trial of Mrs. Florence Harris, her sons, Leland and Eugene, and Edward L. Tackiaah, charged jointly with first degree murder for the killing of Jesse H. Cone, will begin before the district court at .Nephi on September 18. New York buyers have i.iade the first substantial purchase of honey this year In the Myton section. The price f cents paid was eighteen and a pound on board railroad cars at Pric At that figure 2000 cans, or 120,000 povuds, were contracted for. one-hal- uixty-poun- d |