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Show r TOT SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH HUEflTA IID AS FORMER MEXICAN PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT 8AYS THAT 20,000 REGEL3 ARE ARMED ( Denver, Colo. Roaring out of Mon tana, a blizzard Tuesday swept over Wyoming sod Colorado, sending the mercury below freezing, crippling wire communication and seriously hampering traffic. The snow descended on Denvdr with a thirty-milwind, tern peratnres tumbling from 47 degrees above freezing recorded to 28 above tero an hour after the storm struck tbe city. Further drops In temperature, with clearing skies, was the fores cast for tbe region. Snow ranging from one to five Inches marked the trail of the storm through Montana, where freezing weather also was reported. Following the Rockies, the blizzard spread over Wyoming, where it continued with unabated fury. The first snow of the season fell at Grand Junction, Colo., on the western slope of the Itocckles, but, It passed quickly and was followed by balmy weather. Trains Tuesday were battling the drifted snow and high wind to the eastward, bnt were succeeding in sompletlng their runs, although behind schedule. Omaha Western Nebraska Tuesday was snow covered. Alliance reported more than an Inch of snow, driven by a good wind, and Sidney reported a heavy fall, with prospects of continuance. Roads In that section of the state, motorists here were advised, would soon become almost Impassable if the snow continues. At both places the wind was already drifting the snow The precipitation was considerably. held to be greatly beneficial to the condition of the soli for next springs planting. exception of one,' have proclaimed De La Huerta their leader, be said. The former president, who assumed office in 1920 when the Carranza re gime was overthrown and left It when Alvaro Obregon was elected president seven months later, produced documentary evidence to support his assertion that the rebel movement is being prosecuted with a view In placing him in political power when control of the republic is obtained. This evidence was in shape of letters brought to him through various channels, some printed on silkcolths, direct from rebel leaders asserting their faith In him. The American au thorites, De La Huerta said, are cog nizaat of his position. In due time, he declared, be expects to take his place at the head of, bis sympathizers In Mexico. They send letters and messengers to me proclaiming, me their leader, he Bald: What can I do? I cannot denounce them. There is a provision In the Mexican constitution which says that the people may rlBe up against the organized auhtorlty If a resort Is had te tyranny. That la the situation in Mexico now. ' In Sight 100,000 MOVE AGAINST CANTONESE ARMY; A BITTER STRUGGLE AND COLORADO Los Angeles More than 20,000 men sre in arms In various states of Mexico in a general rebellious movement against the Calles regime, Adolfo De La Huerta, former provisional presi dent of Mexico announced here Thurs day. Leaders of every unit, with the IS TO BE EXPECTED Russian Reds and Whites Join Wltft The Opposing Chinese Forces; Canton Troops Seize Japanese Steamer Shanghai LkJSJi: like menm-- wus l,isQhristmas Dream 1 jfjt ... - . dis- northern-southerwarfare was indicated in late reports from Tientsin stating that General Chang Tso Lin immediately is dispatching 100,000 troops of his army southward from Sbangtung province for the purpose of preventing the Cantonese capture of Shanghai. The bitterness of the coming atrug gle is indicated by the presence of Russian reds and whites with the opposing Chinese armies; more than 3000 white RtiKHluns in postlon as the vanguard of General Changs army, while the Russian reds are assisting the Cantonese, or southern forces. Marshal Sun Chuan Fang, commander of the northern troops In the lower Yangtze area, secretly departed on a special train from Nanking for Tientsin for the purpose of conferring with General Chang on the details of the cooperative drive against the Cantonese. General Chlang commander of the Cantonese forces now stationed at Kluklang, 200 miles west of Shanghai, is preparing the last stages of a campaign to drive the northerners out the entire Yangtze valley. n throbbed in the air. There shouting down the street-ho- arse cries tlmt chilled. It was com. . . ing nearer. Iierger went to tbe window and peered out from behind the curtains. There was a inch! A hulf bloek away, In the thick shadows! Something bright glinted In the light from the street lamps. Tar! Buckets of tar! Berger shrank back from the window, white with his frlgliL He glanced at the telephone; he mnst summon But, God ! He had ordered the help. Instrument disconnected after a row with the operator. He was always having rows with somebody ! iif WALTER Isolated! He was cut off from the A mob howled before bis world MARGUISS door, a mob with tar and feathers ATHAN BERGER knew that and he was rlone alone with his the people of Hempstead de- wealth! He laughed insanely, then spised him, and he returned shrieked aloud. A band burst into their feelings with Interest It was tune before the house He felt not altruism, he reasoned, that made himself falling. them frown when he seized the propNathan Berger slowly came back to erty of some Improvident Individual to consciousness. He was lying on his liquidate an honest debt; it was nothing more than their envy of his wealth. If the idiots were so careless as to become Insolvent they must be prepared to take the consequences. Berger never smiled. His appearance bore out the general estimate of his character; everybody said he was a close-fiste- d miser. Ills long, sour face was sharper and bed. and at first be recalled nothing more cunning than usual as he faced of the nights terror. It all swept He held his bands away from across the law- hack. desk. The the attorney Floods Cause Corn Loss of 10 Per Cent yer shook his head, and ventured a him, afraid that they would feel feathbit of advice. ers, sticky with tar. cent A 10 corn due loss per Chicago It wouldnt be a wise thing to do Those shouts! They had sounded to excess rain and flood conditions was estimated Tuesday by the American Just at this time, Mr. Berger, he ar- like a band playing. . . . He opened his eyes cautiously and Mrs. Trotter Is not well, and farm bureau federation after a survey gued. His gaze fixed Itsell which showed general damage In the to be tnrncd out of ber home would looked about be a hnrd blow . . , And tomorupon the face of a man beside the midwest. The damage reported Inbed, obviously prosperous, strangely cluded molding and rotting of corn, row Is Christmas." "If you dont ndnd" Berger snapped, familiar. Berger's gaze became a damage to small grain shock and destart. lay in fall plowing and delay in har- "Ill run my own business! Horace V he whispered; thpn cried. vest. Reports Indicate that 10 per "Oh, of course," the attorney returned with a shrug; "only the people Incredulous, yet glad: "Horace! My cent less winter wheat has been planted in the central states than lust of this town have been In an ugly son!" Horace Berger reached down and year. Delayed plowing, due to wut mood since you evicted the Babbitt You havent- forgotten that gripped his fathers hand, hard. The weather, is responsible, tbe surety family. d there was some bowed. talk of features of the miser softened and he tar and feathers smiled. Mr. Raine," Berger snarled, I pay Then terror leaped at him again. Makes to Amends Cuba Uruguay yon to obey orders, not to tell me how Ills eyes grew wide. The mobl Havana "Horace! he gasped. The Cuban minister to to conduct my affairs. This Trotter Uruguay has been recalled. A mes- woman has not paid ber rent, and I You came In time to save me from the sage was sent to Montevideo ordering do not Intend to be swindled out of it. mob? him to embark for home at noon TuesTbe younger man smiled and day. Uruguay Tuesday night apolopressed bis father's hand once more. "It wasnt a mob. father, he said. gized to Cuba for statements made by Alfredo GuanJ, Uruguayan delegate to Berger was unbelieving. "No mobl No mob? he echoed. the league of nations, which Cuba reNo tar; do feathers?" garded as derogatory to her national norace shook bis bead. The old eonor and which cased Cuba to sever man covered his face, trembling. diplomatic relations with Uruguay Conscience 1" he whispered. Guilty Tuesday, The announcement of the Out she goes ; and If you wont attend conscience! It has hounded me all apology was made by the state departto It, Ill find another attorney who ment day . . . and tomorrow Is Christ- e That the Shanghai trict shortly Is to be Involved In the most bitter struggle of the Chinese e Evidence that the Washington Democrats are getting ready for a smashhlng tax reduction fight at the approaching short session of congress was given Thursday when the ranking Democratic members of the senate and house committees which shape tax bills agreed on n basic plan of action. Out of a meeting between Senator Furnifold Simmons of the senate finance committee and Representative Jorn Garner of tbe bouse ways and means committee came a concrete propenal for a permanent tax reduuo-tio-n of J32S.OOO.OOO, which may be Increased to $400,000,000. It would curtail the corporation Income tax from 134 per cent to 1 per cent, or even 1cm; would wipe obt tbe excise taxes Observer Keeps Eye on Tropical Storm and perhaps slightly modify the tax and lower the surtax on In With heavy rainstorms Washington comet between 130,000 and $90,000. reported along part of the eastern seaboard, the weather bureau continued watching the tropical disturbance off Brazilian Town Is Bombed Yucatan. Its last reports showed the . Buenos Aires Mutinous troops In disturbance centering off the western the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do end of Cuba and still moving northSul attacked the town of Santa Marla eastward, though with only moderate with airplanes and bombs, according Intensity. Over the northern lake reto advices received over the border by gions a storm of marked intensity was La Kacion. The outcome of tbe fight reported, while the storm warnings la not given. Tbe mutinous troops were displayed from Deleware breaknumbered 1400. A military force of water to Cape Ilatteras. 1000 men was stationed In the town. Bombs dropped from airplants are said Violent Earthquake Shakes Building to have destroyed the provincial bank An Alaska and the principal hotel. Federal troops Cordova, earthquake of in the town of Bags are also reported ufiusual violence was felt here at 8:20 The to have revolted. The' uprising there, Smday, Pacific coast time. however, was quelled with the aid of terablor was accompauted by a civilian elements. Buildings shook and antennae masts of the United States navsl radio station, fourteen miles Coal Settlement Again Hits Snag from Cordovs. swayed a foot. As la Iindon The whole question of the usual In Alaska, where buildings are coal settlement la again In confusion. mostly of one story and well built, no The Miners Federation Secretary, damage was reported from tbe quake. A. J. Cook, Thursday announced that tbe district delegates were against acCeolidge Backs up Sheffield ceptance of the gorernment's terms Ambassador Sheffield Washington for settlement of the strike. All large his to win return post In Mexico City district were opposed to the conditions. This came as a great surprise with the full confidence of President to the leaders of the delegate confer- Coolldge, the White House spokesman The spokesman deence which hud looked upon endorse said Tuesday. on recent notes te comment to clined of the conference's agreement went said he but Mexico, expected them to with the government be made public In the near future. France Will Take More Allen Money Fire Damages Sugar Factory rnris In deference to the slogan, Pueblo Fire caused damage of "Make the Foreigner Pay," the finance $7511.000 In the east warehouse of the committee of the chamber of deputies Holly Sugur corporation at Swlnk, hr added an article f the finance Colo. One firemun was seriously Inbill which, by making Identity card The blaze wus under control uf foreigners vtlld for on year, in- jured. It was not expected to bo exbut nt brink leant stead of two yearn, will before two or three days. another 3CO.OOO.OOO frnnen Into the tinguished Molten sugar was running In streams In addition, treasury coffers annually. from the Immense pile of 160.000 sacks identity cards must be applied for whlrh filled the warehouse. Everett of the arrival twenty-onwithin days WlHwt-llUijunta fireman, wits Injured of a foreigner In France, lnsteud ol internally and his lag was broken two mouths, sa previously. whll fight! in the flu mi - News Notes Live in J Ite a Privilege to j J 5 O MON- Atlantic States In Grip of Damaging Gale; Rivero are Overflowing; First Fall on West slopes of the Rockies Tax Reduction Bill , BUZZARD SWEEPS OUT OF TANA INTO WYOMING I Disclaim Any Part In Revolutionary Move; Choice Without Asking; Mexico In Midst of Revolution Warning Given on Dawes Plan , ' Washington Warning of the danger of wrecking the Dawes plan by settlement of the alien property problem was sounded before tbe house ways and means committee by Leon Fraser, one of the administers of the plan. The United States, he cautioned, should not be the first nation to "throw tones at the Dawes plan, which has done so much to lead Europe out of an economic wilderness. He agreed that the American claimants should be paid In full and without discrimination, but asserted that the committee above all else should refrain from adopting any busts of adjustment that does not adhere strictly to all International agreements and the Dawes plan in particular. r WINTER SETS will, sir! But tomorrow Christmas Day "Out she goes, sir! Not another hour will I give her. I must have a return on my Investments !" "All right," said the lawyer with a sigh, and Berger stalked out. As he trudged through the streets, paying back scowl for scowl ns he passed his enemies the citizens of Hempstead the words of the attorney recurred and goaded him to new bitterness Christmas! What was Christmas to him? He turned In at Ida great, barn-lik- e house, muttering, und dropped into a ebuir in his cold living room. Christmas) A day of torturing memories! It was Just twenty years ago or. was It twenty-one- ? that yonng Horace Berger had stamied out of his fathers house In a temper, vowing never to return. He had driven the boy out Berger reflected; his tyrannical interference- with the young man's life had resulted In this disaster, which hnd left him alone. Twenty years of lonely h I ! How It hud hanlened him! Then he had been respected, a model citizen In nxxlcrate circumstances. In those he twenty years was It twenty-one- ? had grown rich . . . rich I Gouging the poor, the rabble called his methods. mas 1" He was weeping openly, while his eat beside him. Bresently: "But what "Ive been taking liberties with your name, fhther," Horace explained "1 turned over some money oh, quite a bit of money to the mayor, am told him to arrange a merry Christmas for the poor a real merry Christmas. I heard about the Babbitt family you turned out; and I bought the Carson cottage and told tbe mayor to give it to them Christmas present. I told on r Me?" I did It all In your name. the the mob? The mayor called out the hand, and a crowd followed to serenade you They left when 1 told them you hud ill. Folks said they never un derstood " "God Berger cried ; and again he was weeping, doing penance now for twenty barren years. Presently be got up and started across the room. But he paused; the telephone had been ordered disconthe Unless frail chance nected. operator hud neglected to turn In tlmt churlish order. He lifted thereeelver. Numlwr plenaef Berger almost shouted the number, he was so pleased. In s moment : "Raine? Listen. Italne, this Is Berg er. Make out S deed, transferring that iultng, In toto, to Mrs. Trotter, I'll sign it In the morning!" Horace Berger lul l bis band upou his father'd arm. Their eyes met ami filled with irilst. Neither of them could bev-om- 1 and forced his Berger jerked thoughts from tholr unpleasant trend. They were welcome to call It what they would. The rabble whs nothing to him. Ills son had fled from him; for diversion he had turned to making money. Why blame hint? . . , Twenty years of moncy-nmklusnd now a bent old tnnn of seventy, he was left alom-ulo- m with his wealth. Abrno with the hatred of the rabble. I n tbe rabble) What did be care what they thought? There hnd been some talk of tar and Bathers, nnd there? Cowards Nothing to worry about In that direction. It was all all bluff. talk He must Ituve dozed for a time. He us arous'd In a sort of cloud of eery tread, hulfrconstious that something speak. ((, IttS. Wtsttrs g 1 ... .... I'slowt agrl-cultur- al AI-fai- street viOgden The Twenty-fourtaduct extension will be ready for use ;hls week although all of the structure will not have been comploted. it Is stated by Ora Bundy, contractor. Completion of tbe extension adds 1300 feet to the viaduct, which bridges a large system of railroad tracks between Wall avenue and the West Ogden hill, the extension has been completed at a cost of $225,000, of which Weber county and Ogden city shared approximately $146,000. Eighteen head of outstandOgden ing Holstein cattle are coming to Utah from the national sale held this week at Watertown and Waukesha, Wis., according to a telegram received by C. S. Potter, prominent dairyman, from Gilbert Thatcher, who made the purchases at the sale. . . Price The last load of sugar beets France Faces Great Danger from the fields around Wellington has been shipped to the factories of the Premier Raymond Poin-calrTarbes with one of his ministers, Ed- Holly Sugar company of Colorado. A ouard Herriot, beside him as he spoke, report of the payment to be made on Sunday warned France that the task the beets in addition to the guaranof restoring the nations finances teed price, and also an analysis of the would be long and arduous. "Those sugar content will be available after who are pressing us to achieve It by the beets are received at the factory. bepremature measures not only sacrifice The crop In Carbon county Is way lightly the hope of obtaining a stable low normal this year. betterment of our currency, but also Lake There have been more do not reflect on the deception which than 81.000 head of livestock slaughsooner or later fragmentary decisions tered by tbe meat packing plants of and hastened solutions inevitably Salt Lake during the first eight mouths would entail. It is not a short tiuce of 1926, J. H. Manderfleld. general that can hinder France from falling manager of the Salt Ijake Union stock-yardinto the abyss where she already has announces. These figures Inbarely escaped falling, tbe premier clude 25.28'J head of cattle, 24.332 head asserted. of hogs and 31,945 head of sheep and lambs. Plot Against Calles Government Falls Kaysville Several Davis towns have Mexico City Collapse of an Importreceived their quota of war materials ant plot against tbe Calles government from the' office of the state adjutant. with ramifications extending into the In Kaysville and l.ayton a quantity of United States, Is announced by the German rifles, helmets, machine guns, police Sunday. .The plot was frustrat- bayonets, BheJis of various caliber and ed by a police raid on a home in the other war trophies have been displayfashionable Mexico City residential ed in windows of local business estabarrests have lishments for several days. district, and nutm-roubeen made. Including General Curios Myton Passengers coming Into the Obregon and Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Martinez. The accused have been basin Monda) on the stage by way of taken to a military prison, where they Provo canyos and Strawberry valley are held on charges of conspiracy reported a heavy snowfall in both against the government and with re- places. sponsibility for seditious propaganda, Provo The Pacific States Cost Iron particularly In opposition to the re Pipe foundry at Irnntcn. three and one-hal- f miles south of Provo, will commence operation Monday, it was forligious policies of the Calles regime. Move to Make Crown Princo King mally announced by officials of the Berlin With the power firmly In company Thursday. Operations will their hands because of tbe illness of begin on a small scale and will conKing Ferdinand and tbe absence of tinue to grow as Intermouutaln and Queen Marie, the Rumanian govern- roast demands inciease and as equipment. led by Premier Averesru and ment Is added to the already fairly dominated by Former Premire complete and mod.-plant. It Is said. the "black man of Rumania, Myton The alfalfa seed hnrvest in have taken drastic action to crush tbe movement for th restoration of form- the Uintah basin la about completed. er Crown Prince Carol as successor to The crop of tills season, according ti the throne. The movement for the re- those who are In t. position to know, U turn of Carol is sponsored by the king 50 per rent less than that of last Three and million and queen themselves. Confirming year. pounds for 1926, as compared to seven Bhlversul Service dispatches regardmillion pounds for 1925, are the figing thn threatening explosion in Rumania over Prince Carol, the Vienna ures. Allgemalne Teltuug reporta from Bualmost Layton With beet charest that the government has dis- completed, and altli hauling an average of covered a conspiracy to bring Prlnoe 1000 tons of beets being handled dally, Carol buck and put him In line for the the fall of the lutyton Sugar campaign throne by force if necessary company Is half finished. Sugar average have been running exceptionStats of Emergency Arises In Ireland ally good.it Is reported, and on several Dublin A state of national emer- occasions It has been necessary io gency has been proclaimed under the slacken the Jactorys pace In order that public safety bill recently adopted by complete extraction of the sugar could the senate and approved by the gov- he made. Sugar conteut in sotno exernor general. The Dali Etreann has ceptionally good batches of beets has been summoned to nu-e- t Wednesday. been as high as 174 per cent. This state of emergency permits the Salt authorities to arrest and detain withby out trial Individuals suspected of comrale, a terrific rainstorm swept over piled y In various offenses, such as at- Balt lake and vicinity early Tuesday tempts to overthrow the government morning, leaving, according to weathpossession of arms or explosives, and er bureau reports, a precipitation of 02 of an Inch. Ths northwest wind, false assumption of military or poll-which reached its maximum Intensity rank, Acting under the proclamation, the police raided the offices of An shortly after 3 o'clock, ripped tho roof Schoblucht, a Republican organ, and of the hugs east grandstand at tho seized all copies of the paper. They fail grounds from the steel structure also rnMed the headquarters of the and hurled It several feet south of tho Repnblt p Women's and con- stand. Tho damage la estimated at 13200, according to Ernest Holmes, fiscated ..oples of documents snd papers relating to wo- general manager of ths state fair association. men's organizations. Ephraim. A number of local sportsMontana Alms at Top Pises men of this city have been busy tho Montana Montana, once renowned past week in the mountains east of "cow" stnte, but standing third this the city In the vicinity of ths besver 4.ini. making for the planting of your In the volume of wool produced, 15 0UO rainbowready trout. Thu pond, has Issued warning to Tcxua and Wy la Dure bus been onting the states ranking at the top screened and mostMadsen, of tho willows of the tabulations, to look out tor their noppod out und burned. prestige during tho next few years This years Montana dip amounts Salt tho fiscal year 23.100.000 pound, compared with 20.ending June 2n. msn, tho stats of Utah 871.000 pounds sheared list year. 19 rac'd ve I $1 07!.3U(i tifl front ths tax un 814.000 pounds the year brfoie, and rnolna s'i ami fttlO.lG0.9f 'n motor , 1919 1923 average of 17.012,000 pound ft lilt'll- r gist i at lun fees. e, s. ' one-hal- ngYes. And rauge south of Myton. The following owners run their sheep on the range in that locality; Smith Brothers, Coleman Brothers, Crystal Brothers. Roy Hillman and Paul Il2nsen. The scarcity of feed and water In the higher district caused the sheepmen to make the change. The sheep are In fine condition. Salt Lake Sheep raising In the Uintah basin is' expanding rapidly. Tur-kpy- s are fitting in well with the scheme in that territory. seM and honey long have been dependable producers of checks each fall. Soon the basin may be able to finance the building of Its own railroad, providing these commodities re urn as basin folk hope they will. Bra-tlan- tbe muyor I hnd come home to spend the holidays, and you were celebrati"I? Kai-she- are bringmountains and reserves and are putting them on Myton Many sheepmen ing in their flocks from tho i t- - - Lake--I'tirln- g f |