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Show . i Mitt, J I THE litKA' Sprtita- - l .fternoo T HE DAI LY HERALD -- Vineyard. YEAR. 1 NO. 52. mm ( UTAH Fair tonight and probably Thursday; littla change in tem- perature. PROVO, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1923. is a n PRICE TWO CENTS. n n "3 T3 FUND OBSD IflE life 444 p thousands Attend Black H g I ill THE WEATHER Dnnual Encampment Indian Clerks ia vuiuiuiio io iiugo Success From Start ud of Indian Pioneers. r verr Business war vet- - . Cn.lii. ma uuuk ui oyi 1 "hy-test- uum were re pre-- 1 ted ID ins parauo. iuo icioinuo I. re here for the encampment a conspicuous place in the ude and were accorded cheers U wen as uiauj Spanish Fork ojGovernor And Mayor Ask State COAL IN The United and Amalgamated Order of Retail Clerks of Provo. Utah, engulfed Geneva this after noon, spreading far afield into the The jirice of gasoline in Provo county and extensively in and over the bosom of Utah lake. dropped two cents this morning. This is the annual outing of the "This came as a price reflection salespeople of Provo mercantile of the "gas" war now raging in a establishments. dozen eastern states. Such words as "Cash" and All retailers in Provo this mornforwere It" "Charge completely ing quoted "gas" at 21 cents, with gotten., and were substituted with " of 28 cents for the a price suoli. picnic phrases as "do I win" brand. and "let's swim." Continental Oil company today Managers Eastmond and Taylor reduced the wholesale price of gas of Geneva beach, labored farMnto two cents the gallon. All here oline last night to prepare for what mardealers selling on a two-ceprobably w ill be tue largest crowd two those cut the cents; gin price ' here. More "hot ever jnost ters ;8 Hi Today pretentious parade (taged to Utah county passed iraji the principal streets of ingrille this morning as part of second day's celebration of the ana ampment of the. Sons 'In Outing W PIE MiMi Elks Aid Elect IE John Deuhalter, one of By M. F. DACEY, KEMMERER, Wyo., Aug. 15. One hundred and two dead is the toll today of the terrific explosion r in Frontier Mine No. 1 of the Coal, company which entombed 137 men and shook the Kem-mere- Striken Utah Towns Provo's leading business men, was choseu state president of the B. P. O, Elks at the Utah convention con cluded Tuesday in Logan. J. R.Mioshard was state treasurer, and Joseph T. Far-re- r was made a member of the relations committee. Diner officers elected were First vice president,-- Augustus Gordon, editor of the logan Journal, Logan; .second vice president, John F. Howe of Eureka; third vice president.' Roger I. McDon-ougl- i of .Park City; secretary, Fred V. Wilson of Salt Lake City, reelected; state assoicatiou relations committee, Joseph T. Farrer Provo. Walter F. Jensen of Eu reka. W. F. Jensen of Logan, George W. Welch of Salt Lake City and B. H. Beveridge of Park City. Park City lodge No. 734 took all honors in the parade and the con- international News Service Staff Correspondent. For GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION. Whereas, the citizens of Willard and those residing near Farmington and Centerville have been visited with calamit-ous storms that have devastated their homes and lajd waste ' their farms; I, Charles R. Mabey, governor of Utah, do hereby call upon all the citizens of this state to demonstrate their sympathy and affection for their stricken fellows bv comino- to their aid at once with that Unbounded generosity so char- cicienstic oi our people. Money i& needed to right the havoc done. I know the people of Utah will respond. - morning countryside yesterday shortly after the miners hud entered the workings for the day. bodies had been reNinety-on- e APPEAL TO PROVO PEOPLE. moved early this morning and 11 The people of the northern part of this state, havinsr more dead were known to be in gathered been visited with storm and disaster resulting in a great loss on. a one-cemen were margin re- the mine. Thirty-fivipplause from the people, than ever retailing dogs" were collected of life, property, and destruction of homes, our governor hav duced their price one cent from the died as he one but rescued hoasands of people alive, were piled up for any outing held & Oil out. Gas Black was as company wen as taken ire county Independent irom damp being ing canea upon the citizens tor help in the hour of need, we ' By H. K. REYNOLDS, in the county before. are desirous that the citizens of Provo will heed the call and iyiher places in the state wit- International News Service Staff The picnicking clerks began con- today, cut the wholesale price two gas the coal miners' menace cents, and all Independent dealers was blamed for the blast that tlie parade. The . streets as soon as possible remit all contributions to relieve the sufgregation here right after lunch. went down to the Correspondent in the stopes. them price. He Bned with people eager to trapped came and fering and loss of the unfortunate. All of the banks of Provo with their families A They 15 WASHINGTON, Aug. Interviews with Provo "gas" P. J. Quealy, president of the i glimpse of the pioneers who will receive funds for this purpose. Also committees will be with their friends. They came dealers Indicated that they expect company that operates the mine, Wished the treaty of amity and commerce has alone, and in and - protected atfrom the test for They, per largest capita appointed to assist in collecting funds. parties: ed no tartlxer price cutting. has declined to Issue any official tendance, ei Utah as well as to witness been concluded between the United the Lewis seven years old, to seventy years Dated August 15, 1923. winning war "We don't believe a price statement. progress that had been made States and Mexico as the final young, all aided in shield for the third time, which making this will start in Utah," one dealer inCITY COMMISSION OF PROVO CITY, . between occurred The the state since Its founding and explosion makes it the property of the Park outing one of the beet ever. to in PROVO the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. leading now step negotiations from "The 17 sisted. mile 15 a about probably and price stopes eplcted by the various floats in Races began the day's sports, lodge. as low as it will go." the mine and ex- City Provo people have been asked M is the recognition of the Obregon entrance the pt parade. A number of suggestions for the which included 'eating contests, Some dealers declared that if cept for the 35 who came out alive 'aid in the relief of their fellow Mowing the parade an interit was learned today. .' betterment of the lodge were made contests, nail driving, others started -cutting the price the "workers bad no chance for at the final session. Among these citizens of Northern Utah who have nf program was given in xne Official announcement of recog- swimming, boating, dancing, everywould too, although all of their lives; the . poisonous gases was that local Mendenhall they L. H. been visited with storm and disas with park should take will toe made by the state thing an imaginative committee nition lodges then declan that, to mt the price overcoming them immediately. This after- - department as sooh as the treaty could think of. ter M&pleton presiding. resulting in lo&s ' of life and In their active an part respective rescued were atrial the of retailing TwefttjMwo a baseball "anake game between has been approved by Secretary and Utah 'iroperty. ".- ' e at communities, .athlhg saved through heroic action by known to the world at inrrille and Payson was played Mayor- - O, K. Hansen, speaking "before the end of The o'clock this evening promises to large. possibly Hughes, Neither the Continental or Inde- - Joe Nadi and Tony Davich, who for the city commission, today betie high school campus, follow- - the week. in of pro-rathe of the feature lodge an attractive te have intimate a locked 27 men within a stope bar- general prosperity of Provo gan a relief movement by the wild west show. and increased the state The negotiations which were the public This will be followed with pnet companies the death tunnel was further reduction in' wholesale ricade citizens. ; liore than 3000 people mingled carried on in Mexico City between made ', were in sections all respect '.uncing. ipartly '."eared of black damp. The city . commission prices here. be city park and at the various Chas. Beecber. Warren and F. the John President and John 27 were plain by retiring of these Twenty-tw- : Provo dealers say that no retail Chamber of commerce today united nival booths at the opening Barton Payne, the American comTobin. .untaken out alive. Nadi and Davich in an effort to aid the striken peo-pi- e price reduction can be made it sf the encampment. Alma missioners, and representatives of Acting upon resolutions, it was LEFFLER there is another cut in the died in their efforts to rescue LESTER less of Willard and Farmlngton. conenmer, president of the 1924 were annual the that decided the Mexican government wholesale price. other imprisoned men. A meeting was called at 5 o'clock shall be held as early in chapter of the Sons and tirely successful according to advention A large number of the dead men this afternoon in the offices of the ighters bflndian War Veterans ministration officials. The treaty month of June as ehall be deGAS DROP IN EAST. are foreigners Italians and Ar- the Provo chamber of commerce to under whose aus- - has settled all outstanding differPioneers, the executive termined upon by menians, and a few Japanese. consider ways and means of rais' les the campfire is . committee. being con- - ences. It was a gruesome- sight that Cloudbursts at Farmlngton and ing funds In Provo. International News Service. ted; presided at the exercises; It is based chiefly on acceptance ereeted early morning visitors at The first offer of aid to reach " be congregation "Aner-Willard 15. laid Eastern Monday night claimed a NEW YORK, Aug. sang Lester Leffler, son of Mr. and by Mexico of the program Odd Fellows hall and Fitzpatrick IRISH LEADER ARRESTED. the mayor this morning was from. E. down and then Bishop George FurState of nine. at least toil of death benefit Secretary the by Mrs. William Leffler, died at the states today received undertaking rooms today, where Fred S. Davles, manager of the J. erson of Springville offered for Mexican Hughes, providing ther search of the debris left in V. 520 South of lower gasoline prices when the the victims of the disaster were of his parentsl home Mr. Penney company store. the to invocation. Previous guarantees i for the protection of the wake of the storm may reveal Davies offered to '. Oil company of New Jer- stretched out under white canvas International News Service. $100 as tho give inning of the program uetn alien nroDertv rights against con- - S; ringville road, early this morn-ii;0- Standard are Eamonn Ie other bodies. Several persons store's contribution, Mayor Hansen LONDON, Aug, Death was due to injuries sey announced a reduction of one while officials of the mine checked kins of .Salt Lake City and Roy fiScation. unaccounted for. identification. their Irish Repub- still said.'. the of nine accident an in leader days Valera, Kenzie of Springville, played Twice before the United States sustained cent a gallon in the New Jersey, loom desolation and along Ruin x Forty-sibodies were at the r "We have not started soliciting most outstanding and licans (he era! selections on the banjo ad agreed to sign a treaty of ago. and the District of Fitzpatrick place, 43 at Odd Fel the national highway between Salt i funds." Mayor Hansen said this in turbulent Irish, politics, While digging a sewer trench Maryland, gmtar. amitv and commerce with Mexico, Lake and 'ogden,- and between two a cents lows hall and two bad been re- tigure and gallon Columbia, noon. "It is. pnibable that the meet-;ii!- g at Kniiis, on the was: arrested today pringvilie is all decorated for, but on both occasions, the refusal into his parents' property and Willard. Travel over the church. a moved .to a nearby cam North of eve this afternoon will decide on County Clare, on the annual encampment Of the Sons of the Mexican government to ac- morning of August 6, Mr. Leffler in Virginia, West Virginia, and it may Undertakers and their assistants a re: highway is Impossible, measures are to be taken what to cave-ih- . The in a The andwas 'according., Carolina. South consumspeech., paign Carolina caught Daughters of the Indian War cept the terms prevented working over the nort received from Dublin by the lie several diys .before vehicular banks of the trench fell reduction will bring the tank price were quietly two erans and pioneers and the car- sandy resuine-1uafiic is mation, morgues: Only bodies at the John W. McAdam lias consented his skull and (kw"n to 19 Rtitmiard. cents a gallon. al spirit is The old In January of this year the state over him, fracturing la few of the victims were burned, Evenin!; rampant. The iib ntil'ii'd. dead at Farming-Io- to act as chairman. of the Free vn the with kne arm. It his general was, It v,is j erans who have been coming to are: department momentarily expected breaking the majority dying in their tracks State feared trouble at Ennis and committee in charge of the fund. I of .brother since early Tues- to"settle the Mexican problem, but difficulty that he was rescued by Arnold .ChnstenseR, of suffocation. All Prp-ybanks have consented large forces 'if police had been manager, of to A' morning it re full of enthusiasm President Obregon informed this bis father. Chrirtni.'ien, As the bodies were slowly sufreceive donated to the money has Leffler there. Mr. Since then are tlioroughly enjoying the government that Mexico was not Lagoon- resort.-at the morgue a few flood victims. and agony until fered intense pain the Miration arranged for them. .1. to of W. Ogden.' guarantee Vrs. in a position Wright showed signs of being slightly ffhe .veterans are full of vigor property rights of foreigners with death came this morning about .W. J. Wright of Ogden, husband HELD AS JUVENILES. burned and three or four were red "ii o'clock. 2: p energy. They have undertaken of Mrs. Wright. blistered about the face and large oil and mineral holdings. VISITS IN PROVO and Mr. Leffler was born January T7, Of building up the commonwealth The exact terms of the new treaty B. Tucker, or city the bead Wjiioid .l.iac. hangt.in, miand upper portions Japies Judge has STORY OFTHE FLOOD Utah, but their suirits are as will not be known until announced 188S, in Salt Lake City, apd uis-- . t ,onn sireei, pan imk, was no There mutilation, morning body. court, Wednesday the past 25 og today as Donald Shieid's idenof f of the days when officially by the state department, lived in Provo for stationery' missed: the cases against midoye John D. Van Wagoner, formerly however, making the work se same men were defending Ted Rudy. 410 Chicago street,; but it is understood that Qbregon years. fulfilled a mission in Ger- of Provo and now a practicing at- tification a comparatively easy nk'ovr and Henrv Peterson. He ir homes and families FARMLNGTON, Aug. 15. Eight fromthe has finally accepted the terms vouths. alleged to have entered a': Salt. I'.ake.. L. I). S. church in torney of New York City and a spe- task. were lxixcar at Suringville. H was uo Vernon Rudy, 449 Chicago street. peomo. are Known to oe dead m the of the laid down by 'Secretary many for the scenes the at The morgues originally has and utilities law, cialist in public tlaiiglits 1M0, returning home in 1912, ,storm winch struck Farmlngton M veterans and their Hughes. striking contrast to the outburst !cided, by the court that the was an active church worker, being been visiting with his mother in in, wiiiaia-aas at ueaci cendahts have registered their and Menufien that of were immediately wnjuig campers juveniles hysteria musical director of the Bonneville Provo and will be in the state for lowed the M. Ward. toes at Farmington canyon two miles. of such were remanded to the juven- jirom Hundreds Mrs. 'Agn-csexplosion. C. E. CONVENTION OPENS. headquarters. As early more. At about 10 days -from their campsites and depositward choir for several years. women and children ran Dareneaa- - je court, Mrs, Mary Kllen C. Ward. Tuesday afternoon more than 60 From 1907 to 1911 Mr. Van Wag ..1 ncrilJn .1... bodies from the mouth or the the, time. o deatn ne was cm .in V,....l ing Christian to the veterans had placed LI1U 111 some dressed JIUSI'Ji.'i annual second ed TTtoh'a and vbv.v,. scantily their Coal Route at oner was secretary to Dr. John A. Utah for the Mrs. will of spector ffles a 11, less fcanyon to the railroad tracks near daughter on the official register. Endeavor summer conference the month of the mine, little Sylvia Ward, Widteoe who was then president of resort. ot Provo. . SPRINGVILLE MAN DIES. Wild and Ward Kills, ey had tome from all over the from the granddaughter mile a vUlage. at than Agnes Upper open this evening, Mr. Leffler are his the Utah Agricultural college. For A wall of water thirty feet high .E. Surviving C. Ward.' ite. among the tne maricea scenes Mary oisoraers ot wnere Mi,. tne uc.c6places represented Provo canyon, he was Senm wife. Mrs. Nell Curtis Leffler;.one the next seven years reThe following persons are miss--1 swept down the canyon at 10:30 ng Spanish Fork. Pavson. Castle from all parts of the state in first two or three hours. It sons, Smoot's two leaving and secretary, ator rfa.iehter. p. ania, AUG. 15. carrying with it the bodies of to force from Farmington: visible Ine occasional SPRINGVIwLE, Monroe. Huntineton. Mt. gather for eight days, 'jonigm. quired Harri-- j six people, including WilfOrd Lang-toand Rex Leffler. Also his 1918 to enter the army in which he restrain many of the women from of Keith son 72 the 17, under years Jackson, T. George Zacharia Hopper, Gunnison. easant, party, Fremont, big William served as a captain .overseas. He Mrs. , 16; George Jackson, 17; Ted Badert- - parents. Mr. and Jacksoh, 457 North Eighth ; entering the underground death old, died-a- t the nome of his daligh-ter-1 nckley, Moab, Moroni, Wales, direction of Miss Marjorie Sadie of the Mrs. Brtgham eraduate is a sisters. four and 16, Vernor Rudy, 15, Mrs. W. Leffler. Rudy, Lake. at i Salt street. Monday Kd Mrs. passages. Pper, Bickner B. and; Oranareville. Pette, scher, is the mam ieatui. and Mrs. Pearl Sharp of Young university and has an LL. and W. J. Wright of Og-nnames whose will Russon Wright trouble. Three Peter Gottf redson, one of the boys, arejJ. o'clock, of heart Tomorrow the conference full i ah j Mrs. Hazel Walker of Amer- - degree from George Washington IB. were reported to have;den. The four bodies of the Boy was a resident of Aug. KEMMERER, Wyo., known, Mr. Horper remaining veterans, had travel- ,i,rtoH in earnest with a . an,l Mrs. Jennie Brown university. and'the head and legs of i v to io it an Frir All hope of finding more miners Thistle but on account of ill left Morgan for Farmington P farther than ' any of the partlcl- - program from 6:30 a. m.. Charles of Mr. Van Wagoner reports that a W. s from. J. Wright have been found heard not Provo. the been jMrs. of children and have his entombment the with after alive nved yon. 'nts at the encampment having . .oWniod The Rev; iSiii'i.rar services will be held in number of Uathns in New York were either carried down the. and identified, 138 workers in the past four montlis. They proximately "ne trom the Soldiers' Home in, D. Gaffney of Salt Lake has lined in excellent headway Inez Anderson, 17, of Farmington, 1700-folevel of the Frontier mine the the Bonneville ward cliapei inurv are making He was a Hlack Hawk Indian canyon by the storm or were on '"hern California. crofessions and arts. 2 o'clock. Friends thp various a recreational program for at to her home and was up and .:ftrnnrn 'mountain returned com-jwi: the of Coal survived 1 by Kemmerer the of No. aud the upper part i ne Martial Band volleyball day. veteran, i i Including was 'on the afternoon. for entrance when the "' hnma" fit Mr. Van Wagoner is a of-member pany was abandoned at 8 o'clock flve children, Mrs. Ed Piper of not affected by the flood. view tne doo iknocking and ene bright and baseball New to the services. of the Bar Association early and added basketball, tennis, of bring-- ; Snriiieville. Mrs. Al Baxter of Sol i' property damage of $1,000,000 flood struck the house, carrying prior work the and the parents last night ' io ti16 enjoyment of the ac York and is. .associated with the to have re-- ! the bod v downstream. Thn hodr interment will be made in tne city ing up the dead was begun. Ninety-- Qicr pmivmit, Mrs. Henry Comiby or nwre is utiniaterl tion. The "nlrl nlavorf B Today was devoted has not been found. It is thought under, the directtion of consulting counsel of the National three bodies wefe brought to the; of spunj.,i, Fork. Ray and John ,.,.,, d. suit PT. beforehand seemed anxious .. 1,,.., ; A Gas association. the workers anu n,i,l Aftinfnnt iuCKihli fhnl ii urftet naiM.loi ' Governor on Tapidtrips to the mine 0j soldier Summit; one brother, the Berg' Mortuary. ' tem-',.-pals that with the other ottenoan.".. went lake. overiGreat to G. WMiiams Salt a W. ' jr taken were 1'rovo. General of cars. They Hoiiper HOSPITALS Tiandy with the drum Rose C. Whitley is superintendent. The thirty-foo- t wall of water, ch of the stricken area NEW PHILIPPINE porary morgue here, ' where rela- (Tlie funera-- services will lie held mil j STORE NEW flute as they were In She is assisted b' Mr. nna is: about fifty yards wide, swept the b.e will l ist nigjit to wiure o identity tives th'eir;at Thursday, d:iy, gathered saienl, r,..!. ore. j aini nre. in 'charge jntcrnntrolnnl News Service. dead and claim the bodies. be luried ib side his wife, who, pre sued a proclamation calling or. theicanyon, bringing down thousands prov-,- . Wri tt tlin ATarllal the reservations, which prom, mVnILA. Aug: R-- ven ceded hlni i;i death 19 years ago.. company people of I'Ui to give their aid to. o. tons of rocks ranging from small Sales International The A. A. Whrner, Henry exceed over 100 in number., :-; f in tne hjm"- 'tho's-j who had .been 'driven trom .stones to boulders the size of small 332 Aug. SAN FRANCISCO, l.'.I!' West nice at ' store its will onen 11 ne mi saKf " houses'. A draw seventy-fiv- e o.'ol tv and ninetv lost tneir mine , 'orge Snow. W. T. Th?,'cwith eac other in tbe constriuu..,, yards tween with Albert Jones, rooter ctropt PLEASANT y-are -. whien Possibly Varne; James Kins. Al D'tibtimi restored: . 15. Damage to i wide and a mile and a half long,' i;a:lein WILLARD, nf iirovincial hospitals, disaster the in Aug. & aV lives Thomas, Fletcher of Rese-i.n:niy'.f-i.!'aliip.-'..in me lsianu. formerly .. s and David .'.Lovr s.s ...of ...,.ik- lacking ( .no.nno was done by r Teaching tb the city of Farmington1 .he ex'r.'i' i mine No. 1 at Kemmerer.- Wyo;,'. eighty or y. n manaepr ' Tues linn r- T. Hasler cefore i . . ...avin-midnight: nd William : ... fompUite -!:i're .to yH." Synei Moiiday night. .Two t is filled twenty feet deep with, the' ' i teiegrapmc Mens ana boys' clothing will be Tuesday, according . " first The Mt. roni explored! No ad- hfire from P. J. .Villi ihoroiighly ivicAa "8 riwplvfid' any ....cveui1, ' "I. stock ''l' new a an Tl.. store, the st'v large at . nonprfll' A sold ... :.,.,.tJ or.n culled ion on Page Pour.) . (Continued i. ,' (Contir aed on. Page Four.) " nay oi tne- euca.'uiuiqm n ..venieni general manager of the ditionai assistance, having -been placed on the shelves. I Quealy, .He will rt,. -- ...iinar cases. i ' Veterans gathering togetherWood. i "j . maii I.J. , ....i..,., ii.;.,., ,li Scoops shaking hands and rurn to Provo this eveningle UTS." e 24-ce- MaM, IB ', itil passes UTAH nr Og-uc- - 2 o '". BtUl n . ' hh ; red-skin- ll i. 1. n, ot - ap-ia- j j V - Mii-i- 1 - nli-Um- e ' , nrp-vvnl- - ' - '- r. ..... fr lft - ..,.,,' . j I -- s. f ' ... ' j A , . - , -,.. |