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The court proceedings were en livened by a fist fight between Shepherd and Louis Kless, Shepherd's former chauffeur, who met Shepherd in a corridor and demanded settlement of a (55 bill. Kless was. arrested and the probate Judge ' indicated he would be held for contempt. Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd were served with, a subpoena requiring them to produce the memorandum Ja McClin-tock- s own handwriting, which Shepherd used at a basis in drawing up the wllL Witnesses included two maids in the Shepherd home who signed the will. Each said she did not read It and one admitted she could not read English.' Attorneys for the cousins by their questions indicated they expected to show that the will may have been tampered with by the Introduction of an extra page after it had been signed. . Shepherd may not be called on to testify. His attorneys entered objections when attorneys for McCllntocks cousins tried to show undue influence had been used In inducing Mcfor Cllntock to sign. Attorneys Shepherd cited opinions as late as last Friday to show that undue influence has no Rearing on the validity of a will. If the court upholds this argument, attorneys for Shepherd maintain, the testimony of those who signed . the will is sufficient to prove its validity. of Shepherd's first witness, Marie Gartner, disclosed the purpose of the contesting cousins to show that one page of the document might have been inserted subsequent to the signing and' witnessing. Orville Taylor, counsel for the cousins, called attention to alleged differences In the handwriting of the testators signature on the first and last pages. , ! 1,1... their-travelin- ..... y LVsV.V ' a Photograph shows the greut Gros Ventre lake, In Wyoming, formed when part of Sheep mountain, at the right, crashed Into the Gros Ventre river canyon- from the south, damming It np to a depth of nearly three hundred feet and backing the river np for nearly (even miles. FILLS ' ALLEGES ERRORS AT PARK RESORT CONSOLIDATION, ABOLITION OF FORMER BUREAU DIRECTOR AND FOUR PERSONS ARE KILLED AND LABOR BOARD UP FOR CONTRACTOR WILL TRY FOR EIGHT INJURED AT MINNEAP1 CONSIDERATION . OLIS MUNICIPAL PAVILION .A NEW HEARING ' , j I 6enator Gooding . of Idaho Will For Action on Long and Short Haul Bill, Says Press ' j - Senator Watson e Errors In the First Pro- Wind, Rain and Hail Visits Minnesota In Several Districts and Much ceedings Are Enumerated In ' Appeal Juet Filed In Federal Damage la Result; One CourL at Chicago Girl Still Missing Ninety-Fiv- I ' n - . s. Wales In Role of Flremsn ' Kafue, Rhodesia The Prince of Wales played lhe part of heroic fireman when he assisted settlers In extinguishing a fire In a native wood and grass children's home at the Kafue agricultural show. All, of the. children were rescued. The blaze started during a luncheon given In the prince's honor. The chlldren'u house waa destroyed In five minutes. Wales Joined In the work of preventing the ' ' fire from spreading. 22-2- h WILL SEE FIGHT Washington A bitter battle over four highly controversial phases of railroad legislation at the next session of Congress Is predicted by Senator James E. Watson, of Indiana, chairman of the senate interstate commerce committee. The questions which will bring senators from various sections Into conflict are: 1. Compulsory railroad consolidation. 3. Abolition of the railway labor ' ' board. 3. Repeal of the guarantee clause of the transportation act 4. Repeal of the long and short haul. . While Mr. Watson aald extensive hearings on these question in, committee atid debate on the senate and house floors would be Inevitable, he expected little real action on any ot them. He added that they would come up Immediately after the tax bill la disposed of. Watsons attitude on the consolidation question, he Indicated, would be ( governed largely by the decision of the Interstate commerce commission In the Nickel Plate merger case. He regards It as a test case that may lead to other voluntary mergers and obylate the necessity for legislation f : on the subject.. Flyweight Champion Dead - In said he was Watson event, any San Francisco Fancho yilla, fly not Inclined to favor. Immediate comweight champion of the world, died pulsory consolidation, and prefers at a local hospital following an op- to let the situation simmer a while eration on his Jaw. Villa was rushed longer and give the roads, time to to the hospital from his hotel when a effect voluntary mergers. Senator Jaw infection took a serious turn, Cummins, of Iowa, former' chairman lie was operated on at once, but fail- of the committee, la expected to press ed to rally from the effects of the op- hla merger bill, however. eration. He died a tew minutes after Repeal of the guaranteed 'return eleven. Villa had .been ill with the clause, demanded :by various farm Jaw infection since a, few days be- groups, - will be unquestionably fore his fight with jimmy McLarnln pressed. Watson said. If the merger at Oakland on July 4. He went into question can be satisfactorily settled. that fight against the advice of his Watson said be expected to see the physician and lost after putting up a guarantee question disappear. gruelling contest He appeared tired The advocates of the Howell-Bark-leblit having virtually abandoned througout and there was a swelling on the right side of his face that the section of the measure which procould be plainly seen by the vided for the receivership of the railDuring the fight his manager, way following a strike, Watson said Frank Churchill, issued a statement be anticipated action on a measure saying that Villa had been told not to to abolish the railway labor board and fight, but waa determined to do so to some other method of mediation besave the promoter a big loss. On the tween railroads and their employees night before the fight Villa had a set up In Its stead. wisdom tooth extracted by a surgeon Senator Gooding, of Idaho, will unto relieve a stiffening of the Jaw, and doubtedly press for action on the long ass reported to have gone Into the and short haul bill, Watson added. ring with the Jaw nerves deadened by f a drug to kill the pain. Later it was Girl Slain at Own Request to but extract other necessary teeth, Watertown. 8. D. Bryle Healy, 17, the Infection spread, and a major op- Garden City, S. D girl whose charred eration was then decided upon. ' , body waa found In a burned straw-stacnear that place, was slain at her own request by Winifred Meek, Quake Visits Montana Lake . ( AtButte, Mont Three fishermen who 21, land Robert Lappler, Slate's announced Hanson H.' here. returned here from Wisdom, 125 miles torney Hanson said that Meek and Lappler south have reported that extraordinary changes have taken place in the told him, following their arrest In GarRocky Mountains as a result of the that. they, met the girl her drove into and den r City recent earthquake. They said that she where the begged country, Miners' filled lake had been upper with immense boulders and huge them to end her. life. , The. alleged quantities of soli that fell when a confession .declares that theLappler head cliff along one side of the lake was struck Miss Healey over with a tire Iron and that both youths almost leveled. then chocked her with her scarf. ring-alder- - - In IDAHO CITY IS PAID VISIT BY Salt Lake The Citizens Military 'HIGH OFFICIALS OF BOTH Training camp finally disbanded at STATE AND NATION Fort Douglas last Sunday morning when tbe student soldiers turned In. their bedding and uniforms, resumed Thoueandt Jam Street as Celebration their eclvillan clothing and departed for their respective homes. For the of Great Dam la Carried Out; last time they were assembled in comWork It Now In Full pany formation and marched to the Progrose g finance office, wherq allowances were given them. They were then handed individual certiAmerican Falls, Idaho American ficates as to the military efficiency Falls came Into its own on Monday, they had attained and released from ' July thirteenth. Before 7 a. m. the further military control. city was Jammed and a holiday spirit $2000 will Logan Approximately Streets were gaily decorprevailed. exhibits at best the for awarded comated, bands blared and the little je which' annual fair, Cache county the on festivities the entered munity on September this held be will hisyear In Its marking the greatest day and 24. tory. Men prominent In the affairs brushed ot the nation . and state Helper Helper city has applied to shoulders with the sturdy farmers of the state engineer for the use of 2.4 southeastern Idaho, who came to second-fee- t of water which It proposes take part In an event which means so to develop at springs tributary to much to tbe agricultural Interests of Spring creek, of which It already haa the state. Pocatello featured promin- the water rights. The city plans to ently In ' the event. Its traffic officers Install a ten-incpipe line nineteen parolled the streets, its bands fur- miles long to serve Its population. nished music and the great part of Its ' Salt Lake A coal field 25,000 acres citizenry was present. extent and carrying at expert esIn of the Intelligent conservation more than two billion tons ot timates nations resources, with particular bituminous fuel, said to be the worlds reference to human beings and soil continuous body ot single, largest was here by Secretary urged fortuity, be will up by the extenopened coal, Work in an address that formed a to Queatchuppah facilities of rail sion feature of a celebration at the comSevier according to county, canyon, mencement of construction on the son of the late C. Lund, Judge Henry American Falls reservoir. Anthon H. Lund ot the President The Interior secretary defined the Mormon whose children own administration's concept to conser- or hold church,or federal lease upon option vation as use without waste of our area. natural resources, and their Intelli- the entire Salt Lake On man was killed and gent distribution as to time. He declared the most pressing Btudy of the three were injured when a huge city street department government, in which the countrys three-ton- e greatest minds could be enlisted, is truck plunged off the road and down a twenty foot embankment this larger idea of conservation. ' Secretary Work began his address and Into the stream In City by directing the attention of his au- Creek canyon at the entrance to dience to the point that Americas Pleasan valley, about two miles from era of exploitation of natural re- the mouth. sources was at an end and governSalt Lake With the exception of mental economy , a conservation fac- peaches, every crop In Utah will show tor, was an Index of this. Conserva- an increase over last year, according tion of time, and the federal and cit- to the monthly report Issued by Frank izens Income, he said "sounds the key- Andrews, agricultural .statistician of note in the utilization of our remain- the United State biological survey. ing natural resources. Cedar City The Escalante desert should no longer Conservation Is a veritable meadow this year, the mean locking up these resources by recent having caused the vegthe interior secretary as- etation rains nonuse, Not for to grow rapidly. serted, but to encourage their wise has the desert been so twenty years nse. prolific in vegetation. The sheepmen Our economic growth has been ad- are jubilant, as this desert Is their vanced only by the liberal and winter range section. regular often reckless utilization of natural Price Price is to be host to some resources. Its future expansion will 600 coal operators August 26 to 28, Inmore and a depend upon thorough the aninclusive, the occasion telligent conversion of our remaining nual convention of the being MounRocky natural wealth to industrial necesThe Coal Mining institution. sities. Nothing can Justify reckless tain event was awarded to Price last year use of our people's Inheritance from at nature or other encroachments upon at the time, of the convention Denver. Secretary John R. Sharp waa tha capital of our future generations. named chairman of a committee on While the federal government la rapfor their reception and arrangements idly reducing its Indebtedness, cities, enertalnment while the visitors are counties and states are mortgaging here. themselves for the next generation to Park City Consolidation ot the pay. Park City Mining & Smelting comAmericas rapidly growing populaholdings with those of the panys tion must be provided for In advance, Park-UtuMining company for operIn tbe secretary said recalling that ation Consolidated by the Park-Uta38,000,000 acres more will be needed Mines haa been completed, company In for crops 1955, with no increase In thus covering a large part of the arto normal Increased feed the Imports ' rangements leading up to a merging opulatlon. of these mines with the Ontario and Turning to federal reclamation, the the Daly estates, which will put under interior secretary declared that It one management 4306 acres lying concannot be regarded as "of local imtiguously in the heart of the Park portance only. City district extending from Brighton Whether this eemlarld region shall In Big Cottonwood canyon to Keetley continue to support Itself, our western In Heber valley, distance of nine coast, and load their ships outbound, miles. or revert to sparsely settled range Cedar City Bids are being called conditions, to be fed by the Middle for the proposed concrete road West, he termed "a national question Cedar Main street. It is exthrough conand an outstanding feature of the work will that pected early servation, as the country must be In August, and at the samebegin the time made to understand It, to be secure In business firms on Main street will Its position aa supreme among lay concrete from the curb to the nations. road which will run In the center. forLogan. Florence Jacobsen, English Language Is Favored merly of this city, won second Uprise Manila Retention of the English for the most beautiful hair in a recent language in the public schools of the contest conducted in San Francisco, Phllllpplnes is recommended by the according to word which reached here American commission that made an recently. Miss Jacobsons tresses exhaustive survey ot the school sys- won second place among the 5000 tem. Proposals had been made at girls who entered the contest She various times for the adoption of one was awarded a prize ot $50, besides Philippine dialect as the national a number of articles of merchandise. language, but the commissions report Salt Lake City. Sixteen manly declares this Impractical and sayi chesfa bulged with honest and quivera makea that the English language at Fort Douglas as a group ing pride more unified country. ot lovely young girls,, a maid tor a man, with winning smiles and little Quezon Is Again Leader words of congratulation, pinned medManila Manuel Quezon, Flltplnc als upon them. It was a gala event, leader, wae selected to succeed him- and the fellow students of the lucky self as - president of the Philippine sixteen ot tbe citixens' military trainsenate at a caucus of nacionallsta and ing camp envied them the pinning as consolldado party senators held here. much as the actual medals, which A caucus of house members will be were awarded for the highest indlvud-ua- l held soon. proficiency. Price A tentative date of August Broken Main Menaces Buildings t has been selected by the Price New York An underground river chamber of Commerce for a celebrasuddenly camo into existence In the tion. at Scofield, near which construcheart of Manhattan last week, seri- tion Is already well under way for the ously affected subway traffic- - and $750,000 dam, when local people will to topple threatened buildings. get acquainted with the Importance of the project. twenty-inca from broken Water Salt Lake A net increase In exstreet and Fifth main at Forty-seconby Suit Lake county of appenditures avenue flooded three tubes at the $30,000 during the first proximately Grand Central railroad terminal for a halt of 1925 aa compared with the distance of half a oile. In some corresponding period of 1924, Is shown places the water reached a depth of by the semiannual report ot James 1L lx feet. Sullivan, county auditor. Son 8ued By Woman Billings. Mont. Walter Hill, millionaire son ot the late James J. Hill, empire builder, wns made defendant In n $200,000 alienutlon suit In the district court hers by Frank M. Qottloeb. a rancher and canner living near Big Timber, Mont. Gottloeb charges that Hill stole the affections of his wife, said to be a woman of striking beauty, In the latter part ot 1921, and that this Vaulted . In a divorce alienation granted Gottloeb on February 27, 1922. J. J. Hill's r Chicago Appeals In - behalf of Charles R. Forbes, former director ot the) veterans' bureau, and J. W. Thompson, wealthy SL Louis contrac-tor- , convicted last February of conspiracy to defraul the government through hospital contracts, have been filed In the federal court of appeals The plea contains ten thousand printed pages and is the lougest In the history of the court here. Ninety-fiv- errors in the e proceed- ings and findings of the original trial court .are enumerated.. . Grave substantial and prejudicial errors In the trial are held by the defendants to have brought about the conviction. Forbea and Thompson are tree on bonds pending decision on the. appeal They vfrere sentenced to two years in the penitentiary and fined . SlflLOOO. . . , The appeal probably will be heard ' In October. Neither Forbea nor Thompson was required to appear in court.; -- fhe defense petition sieges that evidence bearing upon Important Forbea general conduct on the vet erans bureau, and hla relations with ether contractors, had been excluded by the trial Judge, while prejudicial foundation evidence ot Inadequate bad been admitted on the governments side. The petition charges the trial court erred and prejudiced the defense case In permitting the government to Introduce the name ot Mrs. Carolyne Votaw, sister of President Harding,, and later denying deiense attorneys tne pi vilege of commenting or Introducing rebuttal testimony regarding conversation between Mrs. Votaw and Forbes relative to Mortimers character. Two improper prejudicial remarks In the presence of the jury" were attributed to Federal Judge George A. Carpenter, who tried the case. The indictments on which the convictions were secured were returned by special federal grand Jury In June, 1924, after an Intensive study of evidence presented in the senate committees investigation of the veterans' bureau in the summer of 1923. Tremors Again Visit Montana Helena, Mont. Mother earth rumbled Inwardly throughout western Montana last Friday night, shaking more than a dozen cities and towns. Helena, Butte, Great Falla, Manhattan, Three Forks, Trident, Willow Creek, Bozeman and Livingston were among the cities reporting definite quakes. Only minor damage wag reported In any section. Conflicting Decrees Cause Kidnapping d Roscoe New York. H. Canaday, Jr, the subject of conflicting decrees of New Tork and Texas courts, has been kidnapped for the second time In two months. His father, a wealthy suit and dress manufacturer, who went to San Antonio montha ago and brought his son home and who was Indicted In Texas for kidnapping, believes that Mrs. Virginia C. Canaday, the boys mother Is responsible for the second kidnapFive-year-ol- ing. Furniture Makers Fined Chicago, elghty-tw- o III One furniture Minneapolis Wind, rain and hail took a heavy toll July eighth In several districts of Minnesota, including the Twin Cities. In Minneapolis, four persons were killed, eighteen were Injured, and one waa reported missing In a terrific wind and rain storm which struck the south of the city portion A trail ot wreckage representing more than $100,000 property dam. . . , age was left here. , Streets were flooded and for several hours uuring the evening were blocked by hundreds ot uprooted trees. The Lake Harriet municipal pavilion, one of the most popular ot the citys playgrt nds, collapsed on fifty persons, killing Mrs. Emma Miller, 35 years old, and her daughter, injuring six others. Later police were Informed that Lola Halgren, 11,' of Watertown, Minn, had gone with Mrs. Miller to the lake and bad not been seen since. Among the several smaller buildings destroyed by wind waa the drug store near Lake Harriet, operated by Charles R. Felsler, 47. Although he escaped injury when the building crashed, he collapsed outside and died ot heart disease a few minutes later. The fourth person killed was Willard J. Ford, 30, who waa hurled fifty feet from tne cab ct a traveling crane. h Hoboes Taks Possession of Train ot the Lamar, Colo Twenty-on- e forty tramps who took possession ot a westbound Santa Fe freight train at Syracuse, Kan., and made good their getaway from the heat and wheat fields of that state were captured here after a running gun battle. The remaining nineteen fled In various directions over the prairie with the shots ot a citizens' posse buzzing over their heads. According to the train crew, the tramps, most ot whom were armed boarded the train at Syracuse and ordered full speed ahead. The trainmen were forced to comply, but not until tbe conductor had thrown a . note from the train addressed to Undersherlff Beavers of Lamar asking for help. At Lamar Reavers was ready. He bad gathered and armed a posse ot citizens. When the train slowed down Beavers and his men boarded and put the hoboes to rout. Moffat Tunnel Cost High Denver, Colo. Construction of the Moffat railroad tunnel under the Continental divide through James peak, west of here, will exceed In cost by a large figure the original estimate of expense, a county grand Jury clared in a report just Issued. Germany 8lgne Arms Agreement Geneva A representative of the German government has signed the convention to limit traffic in arms, formulated by the recent arms conference here. Germany had previously signed tbe protocol against the use of poison gas In warfare. Big Sum hundred and manufacturers pleaded guilty to violation of the Sherman antitrust law and were fined 'I hose In amounts totaling 185,000. pleading guilty were manufacturers o( household furniture and case goods. Manufacturers of chairs and refrigerators pleaded guilty previously. The fines Imposed brought the total amount since the government started its investigation or the fur nlture Industry to $420,000. de- Legislators Visit Islands Munlla, P. 1. Widespread discus- rent the city following the ex-- I pose that Filipino pollt'clans heading the Independence move ere paying the hotel bills of a party of American congressmen who arrived here iaRt statesmen and secweek. Thirty-onretaries are In the group, which reached Manila aboard tne army transport Chaumont. Most of them were in Honolulu during the naval maneuver there. sion e h d |