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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER Gel one whileYou canjheyre qoim-COlliGFA- 9, 1924. Money is surely ST - E- Oitlii4 Wyoming Cattlemen Find It Hard Going, With Market Still Sagging. ' Oaatiutliif end Cupv. "Sheeomen," Kit lAr. Chrttttnut, r doing extremely well, bat th cattlemen, atlhouyh sharing equally ftnttMt conditions a to range, ar bavin a bard ttma Everyone ifcnii to want to bur dwa The demand - la o great that It la bard to find anr lor aala. On reason la that sheep o many persons want to engage In ahacn raisin. With tha cattlemen It la a different story. There ar so many cattle for sale that th price of stock la down too low for profit. Two ejro, 26.9U0 cattle war received wka In on day at th stock yards in Denver. It waa tb laret number In unloaded a slnl day at tha yarda Tb movement to tbs market baa ben heavy for some time. In Wyo-ml- n While rane condition ar Rood for both cattle and of th cattlemen are aheap, aom compelled to tall, despite bad mar. ket conditions. Others are disposing of their herd Intsndin to t up cattle raisin. "Thus there I a stream of cattle to th market which keep prices under unfavorable pressure. However, we are bopln that conditions will be better for th cattlemen when tide unlucky period 1s over. "In the vicinity of Casper. 90 per cent of the wool baa been sold under Th eheepmen are to recontract. ceive from 40 to it cents a pound. Bom of them have done a little betWyomln ter than that, but th sheepmen have not secured as foodI prices as th Utah woolrrowers. who hear, that Mantl sheepmen, formed a pool, were able to yet 60 cents a poind. While other contracts do not call for a price as high as that, a ood many Utah sheepmena will ret between 45 and 50 cent ln pound. "In my opinion wool ahould not sell However, for less than at present. The takes spurts wool buyin set at buyers hunt for sH they can one time and then lay off for a while. Ae with everythin els, demand for wool keeps the price etron." Early Pioneer Woman to Be Buried Tomorrow Cpeelsl to The Tribune. EUREKA, Deo .1. for Mrs. Jessie O. Funeral services Freckleton, wife of John O. Freckleton, who died here at the family home after an Illness of several weeks, will be held Wednesday at th L. D 8. chapel here. Interment will be In the Eureka cemetery. Mrs. Freckleton was born elgbty-fou- r years aso In Scotland, and crossed ths plains to Utah with her husband 18M. in They first settlsd In Goshen, but have been residents of the Ttntlc minln district sines 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Frsekleton are said to have been the third oldest married married couple In the state, havln elaty-foyears ao In Glasgow, Scotland. Mrs. Freckleton Joined the L. D. S. church In 1840. many friend throughout th state Mrs. Frecklston waa the mother of twelve children, eight of whom survive. They ere: S. II. Freckleton, Blarkfoot, Idaho: W. W. Freckleton, Bprlnvllle; W. P Freckleton, I. Krorkleton, Eureka;. JIrs. W. J. Harris. Eureka: Mrs. Hans J. H. Hassell, Mammoth: Mrs.S. Robertboth Bray, Towers and Mrs. Albert erf Eureka; forty-eiggrandchildren and thlrty-aeve- n also survive her. ur She-ha- McCor--nieki-- Three Defendanta Bound Over to District Court Special to Tb 11600 tn connection with the Tup per Lake deal, $1000 from William of th Sutherland company, and $600 from Mortimer himself, the latter sum being added to keep Forbes com- ing along, Colonel . started ths beginning with MoIn the various of business in which he was engaged prior to the spring of 192J. when the alleged veterans bureau hospital conspiracy was formed to allocate contracts to favored contractors and divide the profits between Forbes, Mortimer, Thompson snd Black, the late Charles R. Cramer, former counsel for the veterans bureau, and others. WHISKY TRANSACTIONS. Mortimer told of rnanv defendant companies he represented In W as agefit in getting contracts, finally becoming agefrt-drug withhr negotiating whisky drawal permits. In this connection, he said Representative John W. Langley of Kentucky got the permits, and added that he testified about them in Langlers trial st Covington, Ky.. thH summer, which resulted in Tanalev n conviction. The ecord of tfie hou Investigation of Representative of Maryland In whisky permit deals was read to him and identified - as his testimony When his testimony In the senate Investigation of the veterans bureau wss read to him. he added a few details He said that on some of these deals fttdney' RtebVr of Washington held out on him the fees for getting the withdrawal permits George F Bean, Republican national committeeman from Florida, was & partner In soms of hi Washington enterprises, Mortimer declared In a deal with Bleber, he said he received a $50,000 promissory note from Lula Vlncentl of Baltimore for gettihg a pardon in a whisky withdrawal cgeK hut Colo-nForbes and Mrs Mortimer took the not from mv personal papers. He got another $50,000 note from Vlncentl, he said Tribune. HOCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Dec. 8 Three men have been bound over to th district court for trial on criminal charge by Justice of the Peace J. L. IFnmk West la held for th theft of h th automobile of Dr. J. II, of this city on November 9. West waa caught at Rawltns with the car In his possession, officers say. Tom Gray of Rawlings is held under 9809 bond on a charge of stealing wool from the warehouse of th Ferguson Mercantile company at Wamsutter rethis city cently, and Val Haffner of out of an will answer charges growing C. O. Mrs. which to auto accident, Pratt, wife of an employe Inof the this Skegga Mercantile company city, suffered slight Injuries. Baiaar and card party at St. John's guild. Dee. 11, at 10 a. m. Ninth East (Adv.) and Logan Ave. Good-noug- DOiJTBE IAKDY fit? your Eaebjr-Pmlt- h arrival of Wyornlnx letter part of kinds fortune sheep raises- wr laocrtM fwtiritr by Frank Christensen. Skit Ltki ottUinu, to bu lot returned from a vtott of ntmuI to month to tbo rorton adjacent eatdsmeu tnm Fate Oat rtimers In Washington 191$, and the hoe-pit- ash-ingt- r WOMENS AND MISSES' Zippers , $5.50 Mens Zippers . $6 Warn over your ahoaa or danA DOWNWARD pumps. PULL and Zipper opens wide, your foot slip coxily in. AN UPWARD PULL and Zlpl Tha bookless faatanar cloeee tight, --won't raak or jam. It1 I cing par--fe- VBETTER Zlhl-ma- n ol Colonel also Eashy-Smit- h wnt Into Mortimers recent history, his appointment last April as special agent of the department of Justice at $11 a day and traveling expenses, of which he said he waa rot Hied by Mm Mabel Willehrandt, the assistant attorney general In charge of prohibition law iolatjons. JUDGE HALTS INQUIRY. He said he- never received a written notice of his appointment, hut received back pay for February and March, 1924. He declined to Identify a photostat copy of a lease for a New York apartment where he said a Mrs Bchroeder lived. At the time he admitted he was using the name of Harvey F. Schroeder to deceive Forbes agents. Judge Carpenter stopped Inquiry along the line of "Mrs Schroeder court also declared there The peemed little use in questioning Mortimer about his business activities in New York this summer, associated with the Bond Coal company, 11 New York Cltv, and the Broadway, Herbert Stevedoring company, jo Mortimer said this sumBroadway mer and fall he had been living at 32.3 Nlnetv-thlrd West street, New York, but admitted paying for Mr Schroe-der'- s apartment on West Knd ave- SHOOS 220 MAIN ware not with the Forbee party?1 but vieiting Minneapolis. Colonel Kasby-Smit- h then led the witness bark to interna) revenue wtitekr permits. Mortimer said that he had secured the ervlce of Representative Edmonds of Philadelphia to intercede for the Rising Sun Brewery company In a tax penalty matter before the Internal revenue bureau and had received 12500 He gave no part of this back, but be did gie some money back in another deal in which connection with he waa associated wiita Representative Edmonds. Defense counsel spent considerable time trying to get Mortimer to fix the date of his return to Washington from the Pacific coast trip 4w1th Forbes and the otherti of the party, He said he was eo worried oarer the Uiness of Mra. Mortimer that he did not attend to any business for at end days and could fix the data no nearer than July 19 to 2t, 192$. Colonel Easby-Smit- h tried to draw from the witness whether Forbes told him of a meeting with the low bidder on the Northampton. Mass., hospital foundation, before or afterwards. The low bidder was tha Northeastern Construction company, and Daniel A. Garber, the president, previously testified that Forbes had Invit'd him to cut his construction time from 120 days to 0, but ha re- the tone with othersatefver Daring in Cbnception'Gigantic lt Mortimer GOOPSI Thompson form him A Da3j Lttson m Manntrt for Ckddrm BY gelett Buy youi; shpres from any employe of the Company they are our salesmen CUT OUT AND MAIL TO ORDER STOCK OR Muscle Shoals Problem Advanced Another Notch to Full Settlement WASHINGTON. UsbiaK from fsr Oma confer with the emplnees, according to information reaching the United State railroad lalr board here to- come In PEACOCK COAL ia to handle-bu- rnt clean a n and leavaa th minimum f ath and aoet and our service Is bound t plea you. Wasatch 690. IE Was. CENTRAL Co. 3592 . 63404 So.Clift3rd Bldg. Wait Coal-Cok- I 1 e thewx-piiaeflght- TARDPIES Almost twenty times I've told you. Now Ill really have to scold you. You are late again to dinner 1 Arent you shamed, you little sinner? Youre a Coop J Ana to atone, You will h-to eat alone ! er X thpres gold-rimm- L Name of Your Bank Name Strset !z 4 WA PAYMENTS MAKE XMAS BUYING EASY Va Carat BLUE-WHIT- E nt York Utah . Hi-ia- m er prosecuted, due to her death. One Njf the largest crowd In the criminal trials here thronged history Judge Chafejee 8. Grail's little Courtroom and the hallways of the courthouse as stepped from an elevatbg, eo route to the courtroom, escorted by deputy sheriffs. When he passed table he paused to ar whom he has being placed . August I am ready for the gong, hrsaald. AU my other fighta have proved preliminaries. This Is the real final. When h reached his appointed seat, McCoy Adjusted a pair of glasses on his nose and began ex amining documents bearing on hi a case. The attorneys made motions tor a continuance of th trial, which were beginning to set the fundamentaJ character of this process. The newly elected gov rnor of Connecticut, Bingham, speaking of these appropriations made by the federal conditional on similar expenditures by the state government, said: We deplore the tendency of taking the people a money to bribe some state to do things which they would not otherwise think worth while and which mar not be in accordance with of their citizens. We do the wish not believe in Increasing ths powers of the central government. We do believe In increasing the responsibilities of the individual citizen. We believe in the power of communities to decide their local problems. We believe that healthy political life oa local strong depends government rather than In the wisdom of powerful bureaus at Washington. It Is within the power of each state to take the position that Governor Bingham defines, snd the fact is an Increasing number of states are doing so. During the first week of January a very large number of elate legislatures will come into session, it Is with them, and not with congress, that there, exists both the need and the opportunity for a real reduction In the amount of taxes now being paid by the dtisefta erf the United (States. INfORMATTOR (Mark X in O meeting pour require men la) ' Please send me free copy of booklet tolling more about pour Prf erred Stock and tb Company. I wiah to subscribe for shares your Preferred Stock at price of (9d.00 and accrued dividend per share. Send bill to me showing exact amount dna. 1 wish to subacriba for (bare poor Preferred Stock on Easy Pajrment Plan of f 10 per share down and f 10 per share per month until $98.00 and accrued dividend per share ia paid. Pleas ship T .shares your Preferred Stock at $91.00 and accrued dividend per share with draft attached through READY TO CALL HALT. Some state governor, and many thoughtful people in the states, are available, but Mr. Winston says that later figures will undoubtedly Tha chief reason Increases for these increases In state, county and city taxes are the immense borbonds. rowings of money on long-terBONDS STILL 1SSUINQ. Consequently the increases which the stale legislatures ami the counties are making in local taxes are not merely for the present, but necessarily will continue so long as the payment of - interest And prteuiiiai on these newly issued bonds continue. The states, counties and cities are issuing these bonds just now at the rate of a billion dollars a year. it is a fact that the treasury and also President Coolldge regard these tats increases in local taxes aa serious President Coolldge made pointed allusion to the subject 4n his recent address to congress. And yet, in two days, congress ia stimulating the states to further expenditure. Congress does not lay any federal taxes on bonds issued by states and of government. other local division The consequence is these bonds an attractive to very rich people and this fact results In a steady temptation for tbs Issue of these bond to Even more dilocal governmental these congress stimulate rectly, large borrowings by the state by subsidizing them. Congress appropriates a certain amount of money for road building in the state on the condition that the state them-ve- s raise equivalent amounts. The cohsequence Is that; states, eager to the .federal money, issue bonds get themselves. This year ths amount of money which congress projei to ahow-furth- Mors mads to her husband In Ntw York City in 1921. also Including him as beneficiary to $31,000 life Insurance rther reference waa made to a bur-- .. charge brought against Mors by biaw(fe, for which he waa never wlntr. pay out In order to subsidize and stimulate road building by states is about eighty million dollar, whlrh is more than twice the amount congress for this purpose last appropriated year. So long as the Mates take adof these subsidies from convantage gress they are apt to go on issuing more bonds and raising more taxes. roh COMPUTER co.. vtah rows a lightSalt Lata City, Prtfnr.d Strd Drft., r NOT IN SIGHT fyia Fags Oaa we f WANT AD DEPARTMENT d vs. I COES ON TRIAL by adopted, tha measure would- be In no danger of a veto at the hands of Pres Ident Coolldge With ohlectlona cov ered In amendments, both Democratic and Republican senate leaders are hopeful of bringing the measure $o an early vote halrman Norris of the nenate ag rJcultura! committee announced in the senate that if the Cnderwood bill waa accepted as an amendment to the Norris bill he would offer a modification of his measure as an amendment to the Cnderwood bill, which Then would be before the chajnber for passage. The Norris bill waa reported to the senate at the last session, but Bens--toVnderwood s proposal, given the status of an amendment to this measure, la In line for a prior vote. Mr Norria explained that Ma new HU would provide for separate development of the fertilizer and power unita at Muscle Shoals and would prevent the power utilization from be coming secondary to fertilizer. Solution of 9 m DUT thata where To shop through TRIBUNE WANT ADS saves time and worry. De the Muscle tihoals qurnthm adneed a step nearer today with the of by Senator I nderwood amendment to his government ownership bill, which were recommended by the war department After & week-encruise on the Ma i t h President flower olldge and a (onference today with eeks, Snator Vnderwood said no scilous differences on the Muscle Shea's question existed bethe administration tween hmiNclf-an- d He. declared he waa willing to agree to all of the amendments If it waa day. The strike vote was taken be- tao-hocause of the refusal of the carrier to confer withuhe employees concerning It is undera dispute over wages stood that the management offers to on of the basis the decision confer of the Inited State railroad labor board. in the case made public last deemed wise to them in incrporate week, after the strike vote had been the bill. He explained he had reauthorized of' the some frained from including The refusal of the management to departments auegetsed amendconfer waa based on the contention war for draft fear in the original that it had delegated the authority to ments that they would meet with objecnegotiate to the western managers' tion conference committee, and that the Senate leaders are of th opinion dispute was before the labor board that, are if certain amendment The decision of the board, in the opinion of the management, cleared the for way negotiations. The manage- vigorously opposed by the prosecution ment howevey, may Insist on neg. and fbnied bv Judge Ciail tiating on the basis of the board s Jurors Questioning of the pfowpectiv deolion. wrhereaa th right of the during the dav conoted nf the deboa rdTe issue a decision in the case fense attorneys reminding them that has been denied by the brotherhoods. wan me the burden of proof INCREASE AUTHORIZED. prosecution, while the latter emThe board authorized the 6 per cent phasized MrCoya alleged relation while they lived toincrease in wage asked by the men with Mrs. Mom as Mr and Mrs N Hhjelds The decision of the board relative to gether women opposed to th extreme rules asked for by the management In Three were excused bv the prosecupenalty compensation is complicated and it i tion. not known whether it will be acceptaWhen the accused ex fighter left ble to the men. The dispute of the brotherhood the courtr9om h walked firmly and sisversus the Southern Pacific and some smilinglv, and after kissing hi Goodforty other western roads and their ter Mrs. Jennie Thomas, said denial of the Jurisdiction of the board night. led to an appeal to the federal court, which waa being argued this afternoon The board asked for an order requiring J. McGuire of Chicago, engineer, to appear and testify before it in the wage dispute. Argument todav was on the merits of the case. Nearly ninety other employees were subpoenaed by the board to testify, but refused. The bosr4 finally Issued Its decision without Rearing witnesses from the emplo eea. It lsfon this decision that it ia now understood the Southern Pacific management Is willing to conCwtisiM frees Fin Ose fer. burgess burning coal' la her main rea' eon for dread. 0 when it was first offered to local people about seven years ago. This stock PAYS DIVIDENDS every three months which in, a year amount to' over 7 on your money and th will tell yog that dirt Ing Scope-Sensation- al innvings MAKE A BLUFF. Mortimer said the best he could remember was that Forbes told him he intended td call a representative of the Northeastern company to Washington 'to make a bluff of tiring to get him to refigure, but your company (the Thompson-Blac- k groun for a horn Mortimer was agent) will get the job Mortimer explaloed that Forbes had to do aomething to allays public suspicion in awarding tb tht caused i WOULD ASK ANY HOUSEWIFE -- Utah Power 6? Light Co. Preferred Stock SSale is (Copyright; 1994: By Th Chios, THhua. Fifty seven or more Mer- -' chant, and Individuals have realized the value of that WANT AD. CLASSIFICATION, CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGA GUIDE GESTIONS for that gift which is suitable for every member of the family. CHRISTMAS With 14 ahopping days left you till have tuna to list your holiday merchandise. you save money but do not (INVEST it You would be $490.00 richer .today if you invested only about $980.00 in fused nue. ' Defense counsel then skipped to the Pontiac Construction company, a Mortimer s testimony before th senk Thompson-Blacthe conate Investigating committee, relating tract when theirsubsidiary, waa bid $27,000 code the Mortimer said had been higher than the Northeastern comto adopted by the alleged conspirators pany. The Pontiacs time limit, howto be used in exchanging messages ever, he testified before, was cut to' tn its bid by order of relating to the hospital countracts. Colonel Easby-Smlt- h reviewed Mor sixty days timer's testimony from the senate Thompson. In going over bis with record and asked the witness If he Mortimer said that as soon as Mortimer nodded Forbes. bad so testified. mv was met Forbes he around he assent. altogether too much to auit Before the senate committee the apartment in This me was 1922, ha February, record showed Mortimer testified he ud. There were several quarrels understood Forbee had been glen a about Forbee-attention Mra Morto Te, ThaTTie must have copy ofthe when I found out known about It. His attention was timer, Inhe said, had been called "to his testimony tn his trial along on September what 7 at Reading, June since going when he said he had given Forbes a Pa of and code had the copy explained He said he had on a few occasions It to him several limes He replied Major General John F O Ran, one returned the social visit of Forbes, hut these consisted mostly of parties of the senate committee investigators, had not asked him the direct given to or by Forbes, mentioning one question whether he had given Forbes In New York at which Franein Bar-rimo- re and a number of other acGenthe code. The record show-feeral O'Ryana question had been How tresses were present. do you know he knew about the He said that frequently while cod Forbes was at his house at dinner Mortimer's freply "I understood he Mrs Forbes would can up and Forbes had been given the code, that he said not to tell her he yas present. knew about IL ENTERS A DENIAL. THE THOMPSON LETTER. PHILADELPHIA. Dec State The letter from Thompson to Mor- ments made bv Elias H Mortimer at timer In San Francisco was brought the Forbes trial in Chicago today out again by defense counsel and that Representative , George W Edhad received Mortimer asked to go over again the mond of this city reason why Forbes said he did not monev for representing a brewery In want Mrs. Carolvn Votaw to know of a prohibition case were emphatically the Forbes partys proposed western denied by Mr. Edmond Mr Edmonds On the contrary. trip. la the sister of the said that he had forced Mortimer to Mra from a local President Harding and was then con- return $2500 received nected with the public health service brewery for looking after a permit In The permit was. legal. Mortimer said FoCbes warited to Washington conceal the trip from her because It Edmonds said, but after he learned done nothing, would Interfere with the nlans of the that Mortmler had be realleged conspirators, as Sirs. Votaw h6fen1sted that the money had finally and Mortimer ofturned that was so close to the president and He added that he felt ficially connected with a department consented because he had introof thk government interested In sol- responsible He admitted duced Mortimer to an attorney dier hospitalization. the brewery. knowing that when the Forbes party started west, June 19, 1923, Mrs VoCRAIQ BECOMES GENERAL. taw was then returning from a Pa8. De WASHINGTON. cific coast trip herself, on public Brigadier business and a General Malin Craig was named by health department President Coolldge today to be chief visit to the Adventist convention He admitted that Mrs. Votaw had of cavalry with the rank of major asked Mrs. Mortimer to go along, but general. Brigadier General D. E. said he could not afford to send her. Nolan was named deputy chief of He also said he knew that Mrs. Vo- staff, with the rank of major general, taw stopped off at Ft Louis on the and Colonel Frank Ms Caldwell was way back to visit Mrs. Thompson, nominated to be a brigadier generaL the wife of Forbes codefendant. RESORT TO SUBTERFUGE. again declared that the letter waa meant to inwhat to tell Mra. Votaw about tha western trip of tha Morti mars, tha subterfuge being that they Just compare DIAMOND Schubach $100 Diamonds bars ways represen tod maximum value perfect tone, but this fancy white or et in we green gold, is the greatest value have ever offered. Xmaa Special al- blue-wbit- o hand-carve- d $100 $25 Cash, Balance Three Paymenta Schubach e News Service.) TO FREES POSTAL SALARY BILL. (New HchaJd-Tribun- WASHINGTON, Deo. S. An attempt will be made to secure another senof the week on dhe postal salaries Increase bill, ate vote before the end vetoed last session by President Cooi-ftdg- a. A THOUGHT Mine Accident, Victim Is Buried 8peHl to Vto Triboa. EUREKA. Dee. ( Funeral eerrlce for Lee Dubois, who wee killed at the Chief Conolldete4 mine Thun day nlyhL were held at th L. D. 8. thutvh at noon yeeterday under the of th local lodge of Mooee. dlrelon More than thirty members of th order were present tn regalia. The epeakers were J. E. Whitehead and PI .hop Geory Finch. Muele waa fur. alahed by a mixed quartet. Interment was at Kantaouln, former bom of Mr. and Mra, Dubola. FOB CHRISTMAS OrrEEHTOS The moat beautiful linq of PICTURES AND FRAMES la the city ' coma and .select goon WALL PAPER 6c Per Roll and Up ARMSTRONG-ENGBER- 29 WEST rntST SOUTH . G WASATCH F:J |