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Show T RTF, PROVO HERAIJ) VOL. 'XX VI. - , PROVO, UTAH, THURSDAY, DECEMBERClSHl- - NO. 120. COUNTY LEAGUE ORGANIZED ALLEGED SLAYER f I1STII p D HARMON ZED - SESSIONS Elected and Committes Appointed To Right Wrongs To arrange for a uniform system of reporting and a uniform interpretation of the state laws covering tax transactions, Jesse D. Jewkes, state auditor, and the state board of equalization will hold - special meetings wlht all of the county commissioners, assessors, clerks and treasurers of the state during the next two weeks. Four meetings will be held for this purpose, each representing .a different section of the state. By the holding of meetings with the county officials it is thought that a higher degree of efficiency will be established. The meetings are to be purely of an educational nature and will center attention on the problems of tax collections, distribution and reporting, now confronting the state and county officials. The exchange of ideas it is hoped .will establish a uniform interpretation of the state laws covering these subjects an'd do plnioftl. away with conflicting The first meeting was held in yesterday, when7the county officers of Rich, Weber, Cache, Box Elder, Davis, Summit and Morgan counties met with Mr. Jewkes and the members of the board of equalization Another meeting was held in Salt Lake Thursday afternoon in which Iron, TooeleL Wasatch, Millard, Jujrb and Salt Lake county officers will participate. Sevier, Sanpete, Piute, Garfield, Kane and Wayne 'county officials will meet with the state officials at Richfield December 11. The last meeting will be held December 13 at Price, for the officers of Carbon and Emery, Grand, San Juan and Uintah coun, - RECEPTION GOOD LEAGUE 6- OFFICERS. 'Chairman R. T. Thurber, of Spanish Fork. F. J. First--. Noyes, American Fork. Second Melvio Wilson, Payson. Secretary J, David Larson, -- Vice-Preside- 4- - Vice-Preside- nt Provo. P. Assistant Secretary J. Fork. Creer, Spanish 0. Treasurer A. Packard, Springville. - DIRECTORS. Lehi S. W. Ross. .Provo J. T. Farrer. Pleasant Grove A. Santaquin S. R. Nelson. Salem N. C. Cnristensen A. Hone. Benjamin Goshen wj. B. Oakleberry. Elberta W. C. Albertson. Palmyra A. T, Money. 6- - &-Go- . Alpines-Benja- min Mosida $ R. S. Fullimer. ' Curtis. Vintaquin Volmer. . Highland Geo. Myers. Mapleton W. T. Tew. Leland James McCreer. W. C. Thomas. W. T. Taylor. Lindon j; C. ulemore. ;. Cedar Fork J. E. Garr. Pleasant View Fred FerguFairview Lake View ' son. Manilla Olmsted fr R. D. Wadley. son. Benjamin George. T J . , Maj. Cooper Ander A. Hone. NDER the name of the Utah County Development league a new boosting organization was launched in the rooms of the Provo Commercial club yester-da- y is well manned and has boost and development placarded on all its banners. So that the organization will have the desired strength and power, directors from every town in the county were chosen. The adopted are broad and include in purposes the development and progress of the entire valley. Chief among the subjects which ThenewTgamzatIon by-la- were; taken up before question of yesterday railroad service for better asking of the the running valley, , through the through Salt Lake Route trains and tha building of the lines nearer the' towns of SpTingville, Spanish The telephone Fork and Payson. question as it affects the county, was also a matter of discussion and an effort w!lll..be fnade4o obtain service "without toll throughout the entire ' county. Attention waa.called to the "facLthaf Salt Lake' countjr wasgrtnt- - ed this privilege, and it waTttsserted that this county would demand the Same fav$r, of the telephone company ,, Several .addresses of an Interesting nature concerning, the development of the resources of the county were d Is nssed. Governor Spry made a happy afldressln which be conceded to Utah ' - county" the credit vof avinr more resources and ..possibilitieies Oian any other county la the state'. , The convention ,wa called to 'order the-if?en--- ion wsthe f I i Og-de- by Temporary Chairman Joseph T. Farrer at 11:20, and the first business transacted was the electian of J. David Larson, of Provo, as secretary. Mr: Farrer, in taking tLe rfcair referred to the motto on the wall at the head, "A United Utah County-Bo- ost" an.d said that this was the best county in the state In natural resources and urged the men present to "get together and make it bigger and better." Welcomet Delegates. vv h tay, mayor o-f- t'rovo, n few well chosen words welcomed the delegates to the city. In part, Mayor Ray .said: "The industrial development of this great valley is In its infancy, and the country, as a whole, is practically un developed. There are great problems to be solved and great schemes to be worked out, and all of this, must be done by citizens, who are willing to donate their time and saTTTTTce" "Ih'eTr "besT" efforts" for "the good of the general public. R. R. Irvine Jr., president of the Provo Commercial club, was the next speaker, and be congratulated the convention on its representative mem bership, and again welcomed the delMr. Irvine said further that egates. this was "the only original Garden of Eden,' and hoped that the organization would result in "a better and larger Utah. ' " William M. Roylance was here inAnd he troduced, gave a talk on "get - NE Christmas IN Hill BEI . . public-spirite- d - rcetheTTmtrvny7 - The speaker said he was born In Utah county and had lived here nearly all his life, "and T"teII you," said he, "in making a trip through the county a few days ago, I saw resources here that I did not know before existed. Tucker Lights Refuse to Feed on Gasoline; VIOLATED POSTAL LAW; FINED 1 CENT Want Kerosene ... the state. . DIME TIPS BUY FINE FUR COAT One thousand dimes, all 10 cent pipce tips received during a period serving two years, were paid today by Miss Ivy Cole, a waitress in a Denver cafe, for a fur caat, and when she had selected the coat and began tq draw from various bags and pieces pockets the $100 in the proprietor of the store where the purchase was made, gave evidence that he was not sure he wanted ..the task of counting the dimes. "It took me Just two years to get those dimes," said Miss' Cole. "Two years tgo the day before Thanksgiving, I decided to save the tips I received in dimes until I got $100 and then buy a fur coat. It isn't so easy as it sounds, eitbef. . "I've been spending an hour every day looking in the shop windows for the coat that suited me. I wanted to get it for Thanksgiving, but I was $2 short, and bad determined to get a 1100 coat." TOWN THREATENS 10-ce- , - SLAYER IS HELD TO THE DISTRICT COURT. the preliminary examination lasting three hours, which was held ia Justice of the Peace George F. Powell's little court room in Moab, yesterday, County Commissioner John E. Brown was held to answer to the district court on a charge of murder in the first degree for the killing of his daughter, Mrs. Leila Dubois, and her husband, James A. JJubois, on November 18. The argument was held behind closed doors, and little Information, can be. obtained aa.la given. The witnesses "who appeared for the state were Vine Duof the dead man; bois, a Pauline Dunn, a domestic In the Brown home; Dr. J. W. Williams, who was with Dubois when be died, and F. B. Hammond Jr., before whose home the homicide occurred. Except Hammond, all of the witnesses had testified at the coroner's Inquest, and their testimony is understood to have been practically the same as published heretofore. At -- sister-in-la- " Counsel for the defense-conten- themselves with .state's witnesses, and cross-examinin- ted g did" the not offer "any evidence. The case probably be tried at the April term of court, as the dis trict court does not meet again lp Grand county until that month. Under the charge for which he was com mitted Brown cannot be admitted- to bail except by the district court, and the fact that was of fered for the defense would Indicate that no application for ball will be made. - Jrr corporation, held by the decedent. A. C. $ whatr happens quick- as soon as the sun down behind the distant goes hills and the gloaming" turns to night. And it happens slmul- taneously in the homes of as many customers of the aforesaid grocer as bought gallons of gas- ollne which; the grocer thought wa3 coal oil. Kelson, state superintendent instruction; J. T. Kings- E. B. Mason, a. highly respected and bury, president of the University of merchant In Utah, and J. A. Widtsoe, president of the State Agricultural college of Lo- grocery goods and oils, bqthJubricant gan, will leave Thursday evening for and illuminative, ordered from bis n Juab county, where they will meet the people of the cities of Nephi, Levan and Muiia in rbtion to the state high school movement. the three educators will tell the residents of the benefits to b give them an idea of the possibilities under the new law enacted by the legislature of last winter. The people of the south will be urged to bring their high schools up to the standard in order that they might reap the benefits provided for by the law. The high schools must have reached a certain stand-- " ard to participate in the state high school fund, and this feature will be explained. Juab county recently was divided into two districts The movement is having the effect of a vast improvement upon the schools, it Is said, and it Is thought that the .visit of the three educators will result in much good to the schools of Utah county. To participate in the high school fund, the schools must have the fol lowing requirements: Each school shall provide adequate equipment for the courses which It offers. Each sen x)l shall be maintained weeke- - per year,-i-n thlrtj-ai- x cluding holidays Each school shall give at least two years' work as set forth In the course of study prescribed, ' .' . . r course bcnoois f:vmg a i. shall demand or their students at least fifteen units of credit for graduation.. ah students- - snait carry witn a passing standard at least three sub jects per year. Teachers 6 hall hold state ' high school diplomas or state high school certificates issued by the Utah state board of education To be eligible to enter the public students shall give high schools, evidence of havlng.com satisfactory pleted a standard elementary educa dealers a tank of coal oil. WMien the tank came the good iiews went quickly abroad in the town and came to replenish the housewives caus from which .they fill their lamps every other day. The fifty gallons were soon distributed to the grocer nt satisfactory profit amongst almost as many families in the town fifty-gallo- de-wi- li t- . iour-yen- n House Nearly Burns. to Mrs. C. W, happened Butterfield, who lighted her lamp a little earlier, than her neighbors. She filled her lamp to the top of ' the bowl with what she thought was es pecially good coal oil. It first The damage to- - the e ach-ach- -- no-eer- ious "to-th- damage-was-do- ne e - ' . all-lg- bt -- Mc lower ic up. May started unchanged to "4c nlgher at GOVERNOR SPRY 98 to but fell to INSPECTS HOSPITAL . Fine weather made the corn marGovernor ' William Spry and mem ket : weakMay opened lowerio a like amount up at 62 4 to 63c, and bers of the state, "board of 'Insanity wehjt to Provo yesterday upon the descended to 62 He Invitation of Dr. D. II. Calder to in Mrs. James Chlpman, of Salt Lake spect the state mental hospital and City, .spent, the past , week ln Provo the farm that Is conducted in connecwith her daughter, Mrs., Joseph' Far";, tion' with the Institution.. The 'Offirer. t, cials returned to this city .'to 97c 3-- 8 c T sub-statio- ' ; - m - - To determine whether or. not any portion of the 1260,000 realized on the sale of road bonds can legally be used for the maintenance and support of " convict road workers employed on the thoroughfares of the state, Attorney General A. R. Barnes has been asked' to give an .opinion on .the matter. .The request comes from members of ' tne state road, commission, which wants to use convicts on road wort in various portions of thestate dur , iug the winter season. It had been expected to send the prisoners Into Washington county in the southern portion of the statajor winter work, but the expense of such a campfor the winter became a serious prob" lem. It was suggested that as the" bond Issue was for road Improvements it might be possftle to use some of this money to maintain the prisoners. It is anticipated that the attorney general will"' make his report to the commission within a short time. REMODEL COTTAGE AT REFORM SCHOQ L the completion of the girls at the Utah State Industrial cottage school, work will start soon on the remodelllngof the old cottage, form-- " erly occupied by the girls. The upper floor of this building will be used as the Isolation hospital ia which students suffering from contagious diseases will be housed. outsida. stairway will be constructed in order that the doctors and nursen will not have through the lower rooms toattend the patient: The. lower floor will be devoted to a reading room for the intermediate boys. There will also be an indoor gymnasium 'and play rooms for the younger, boys The new cottage for the girls was originally designed for the accommodation of 30 inmates but the permit, of. more. th. and for this reason 3 one person are now' confortably housed la girls . the building. . The regular monthly Sunday school classes convened Sunday pnder the leadership of the new superlntea- Moroni Olson, dent, David Davis. was formerly superintendent but upon taking up his" studies at Salt Lake he was. forced tb resign. During" the1 services Sunday there , . were solos by Misses Cella Williams, Martha"" Shaw and Bernlce - Red and also Walter Stephens. E. A. Larkln and Alva Hanson,' . of the Weber y delivered fhort addresses. academy, There-werabout 100 visitors at the these x. were school and niany i shown through the 'new, cottage, With ';':.:.' r " last-nigh- - ,?a to-as- s Jarge-jooms- - , - - - - - . 3-- 4' - t - Butterfield home was r0, and Mrs. Butterfield suffered damage' to her clothing which caught fire when the exp losion The lamp has not all happened. Mr. Butterfield's been found yet. in presence of mind throwing water on the fire saved the Butterfieltt home. The mistake had hardly been dis covered in the Butterfield home when a shrelk emanated from a house far down the street and immediately after a parlor lamp landed In the street outside and exploded. Simul taneously other parlor lamps explod ed "wtttr' great bursts of flame which spread into lakes of lire, completely residents who had not convincing refilled their lamps that nlglit that the Chinese dragon had come to Tucker and was cutting up capers in Main street. Several lamps refused to wait un til they could . be thrown "Into the street; however, displaying the stom given . them by being fed gasoline instead of coal oil by acting up right In the parlor or the kitchen, wherever they happened to be That Is due promptness of public- In realizing the citieens spirited' Bltua: graveness of the grocer-mad- e tion and running from house to house warning other families that when coal tion. oil Is gasoline lamps shouldn't k be lighted while the're full. The GRAIN PRICES STILL grocer was one of these who spread ON THE DOWN GRADE. the alarm. He has notified his oil vJsupply house that he has learned by With the demand for cash wheat actual demonstration that gasoline Is In Chicago becoming worse Instead in tts jjlace, but tha,t Its of better the market for futures toplace is not in lamps Accustomed to day sank lower.and lower. The open-In- g be fed on kerosene. was named the fine as a cent. The prisoner was E,dward Komle, a druggist, in charge of a postal The question of what happens when one. grocer gets fifty gal- Ions of gasoline and mistakes it for coaloil has been answered fn Tucker to the complete satis- - 4 faction of all previous curiosity b concerning the problem. It also has been demonstrated that when customers and their lamps are added to the grocer and -- his . ' SCHOOL , i Ja4io WILL TAEKIH of -- public ' - gasoline Just ly HI Ell Mj , A man In the United States district court of Chicago wai fined 1 cent today, Judge Lan- dis heard that he:-had accepted a check for 1 12 for fi money order, a technical vlo- - ' "First of all," said Mr. Roylance, "we are Interested In the county of Utah, and , second, in the state of Utah and Its " development" . "l Committees are Named. . After naming the committees the convention adjourned until 2. o'clock. The committee on permanent organiSTATE RECEIVES BIG zation and order of business consists INHERITANCE TAX CHECK of one member from each town, as ' J; M. Klrkham. behl; AlAttorney.Genefal A. R.. Barnes yes foljows: ma Greenwood, AneIcan Fork;, A. E. terday received a check for, 6.947.50 Cooper, Pleasant Grove i R. R: Irvine front the estate of George ( Myers, " Provo; John' Smith, Springville; of Los Angeles, representing the C,, E.. Alien, Mapletoa;! P. M.- Snell, amount due the state under1 the. inSpanish . Fork; T- - E. Tolhurst, Pay- heritance tax law The collection is " Willard Smith, - Santaquin; madeToa Union Pacific stock a titan son; 7 (Continued en Page Four.), The Early Bird and EarlyChristmas shopper are wise RESULTS son's-de-fen- -- . - Eighteen Days to IS The action instituted in the suThere have been no developments in the case of Idellus Monroe Dye, preme court several days ago by the alias 'Joe JJonovan," charged with State of. Utah oh the relation of John the murder of Joseph Rainbow on Lundberg against the Green River" Irexcept that it rigation district and the directors of Suiday night, Nov. that district, to prohibit the sale of appears to be established thai.'-nl- s is the certain bonds, was heard in the su-- 'j he true name ia Dye and that son of a Colorado attorney ;, residing preme court yesterday. The action was instituted to test the constitu-- ' at Pueblo. who A. has E. tionality of the irrigation law. The Rogers, Attorney recent holding of the supreme court him. defend to been retained by Dye truth thfr told the drainage law is unconstituthat says that the prisoner with respect to hlsname, andjlt Is tional gave rise to a question of the believed that the man's father will validity of the irrigation law. On this account the state board of come here to assist in his se, received was land word : commissioners, on the advice of although from Pueblo last night to the effect the state attorney general, recently that he would not come to Salt held up. a number of loans on state Lake and did not care to discuss the lands for the develapment of irrigation projects. The matter has been case at all. Dye says that he is not surprised taken under advisement by the su that, his father has refused to' come preme court. The decision in . the here, but declares that when the case is of vital importance on account proper time tomes his father will be of its effect upon much reclamation here to do what Tie can to assist him. work now in progress or proposed in n ties. .Spanish Lake B. Barnett. Lake Shore J, Jones. Thistle Elias Gardner. Clinton Charles Winward. Tucker Provo Bench J. II.' Stratten. Coltbn Lyman Marble. Vineyard J.. Q. Stone. LAW 01 . Officers " ' TESTED OFFICIALS HELD ' ESTABLISHED 1885. IDAIW!I RAIIIBOW TO mam m i 1F " Mrs. Roger Fa rrpf entertained wlta a dinner Tuseday afternoon inboaor of Mrs. James Chlpman,' oT Salt Lake City; ;The guests were' Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Farrer, Mr;, and Mrs. 'Joseph Buttle atid Miss Sallna Farrer.' t ' |
