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Show (Uumj 4 V m Fint Gats Job Printing At living prices. Let us have your next order for anything you want print' ed. Rich County News printing is synonymous with art and efficiency. i YEAR. D i. 'J Jofl zO Are Toe a Subscriber? If not please remember your subscription will help make this paper strong a thing necessary for an unsurpassed news service. NUMBER 9. RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919. SEKIITEEII HELD 1 RAIL CHIEFS BIGS III RIOT J BEACHES EVERY NOOK AND CORNER OF RICH COUNTY H. TWENTY-THIR- i , UTAH U. S. OWNERSHIP I STATE NEWS Tlie city council of Hjruiu has received bids d concrete curb and gut- tering and cement sidewalks, tbs work on which will be completed this fall. JURY IN CHICAGO TURNS INDICTMENTS IN RACE CLASHES. RE- Judge Crowe Tells Jurors That cutory Woulid Cool Hatreds. Number of Dead Fixed at Exe- GRAND i l : : 4 V . -- t r Police Discover Evidence of Deliberate Plan at Murder. Dragnet Is Cast-fo- r Miscreants. Attorney Has Even Chance to Recover. Seventeen negroes were charged Los Angeles. Revenge for tlie part with rioting and murder in indict- he played in the prosecution of a group ments voted by a special grand jury of dynamiters in the middle west sevInvestigating race riots, which, for five eral years ago was assigned by the days last week, held the south side of police here as the probable motive for an attempt on the life of Oscar LawChicago in a reign of terror. , While city, county and state authorler, former assistant attorney general ities combined in seeking causes which of the United States. Mr. Lawlers led to the rioting, in an endeavor to home was practically destroyed by a fix responsibility, 6000 state troops, bomb and subsequent fire here early 8000 policemen and 1000 deputies conSunday and he and Mrs. Lawler both seriously burned and otherwise intinued to patrol the negro quarter. Offiials reported the riot zone quiet jured. According to information gathered and every effort being made to relieve tlie police, a man driving an autoby been the suffering negroes who have marooned in the area and who have mobile stopped in front of the Lawler been unable to go to their work. A residence at Newhnmpshire street and Wilshire boulevard, in an exclusive number of soup kitchens were opened residential district. and guards were furnished for neHe dropped something, leaped Into groes who wished to return to work. the car and rapidly drove away. An The police Monday obtained reports explosion followed almost immediateof threatening, anonymous letters re- ly. The house burst into flames. Mr. ceived by negro families living on the Lawler, his wife and one child were edge of the negro district, in which, trapped within. William lacy, an ironthe negroes were warned to move with- master, and Ed Pulford, who were in two days or their hon.es would be driving past the house, hurriedly obburned and bombed and the negroes tained a ladder and rescued Oscar killed. Lawler, Jr., Mr. Lawler dragged his wife to a The coroner has fixed the number and the city window and in the midst. of flames, of dead at thirty-thre- e health commissioner has found that lowered her from an upper story un806 people injured in the riots were til her feet touched an awning over treated in hospitals, that perhaps 400 a window to the ground. They were removed to the Sisters or more who were . injured in the hospital. riots never reported at hospitals, Two others of the three Lawler The state troops had little to do Charles and Jane, were out children, the riot zone, in during Monday night of the yi siting at the ranch of city, but much excitement was caused by Dan Murphy, the oil producer at Pebheadto persistent reports telephoned bly Beach. quarters of the Second regiment that The Lawler home was a large brick a crowd of 5500 men was gathering at and frame structure in the fashionable a street. When West 59th company Wilshire district in the west part, of of troops reached the scene the crowd the " ' city. vanished. Several thousand negroes who exFOREST FIRES STILL RAGING. pected to return to work in the stock-yard- s must wait until the unrest Rains Aid Fighters Materially, Howcaused by the disturbances in the disever, In Some Districts. trict lias subsided. After announcing Spokane, Wash. Forest fire condithat the colored men would return to tions in the Pend Oreille and Coeur work, superintendents of all the large dAlene forests of northern Idaho, acpacking plants decided that it would cording, to information received here, be prudent to hold the negroes at their were worse Saturday, while in the St. homes for an indefinite period. Joe forest; where several small fires were burning, little change was noted. 'A heavy rain for the second consecREWARD FOR COAST BOMBERS utive night has virtually extinguished the Mission creek fire across the Both Oscar Lawler and Wife in Serline, which lias destroyed ious Condition, Says Physician. 200,000,000 feet of timber. Los Angeles, Cal. Rewards offered A fire on the south end of Pend for arrest and conviction of persons Oreille lake threatened homesteaders, guilty of placing a bomb which Sun- and more men were sent to fight it. day destroyed the home of Oscar Law- Four more lightning fires were reler, formerly assistant United States ported from the Coeur dAlene forest, attorney general, Monday totaled and one fire set by lightning had spread over 200 to 300 acres. Mr. ami Mrs. Lawler, who were Three hundred men are fighting the burned during a fire which followed fire on Bear creek, near Kellogg, Idathe explosion, still are in critical con- ho. New crews were sent to the fire near Heron, Mont., which forced crews dition, their physician said. The city council has under advise- fighting It to withdraw. Rains relieved the seriousness of the ment a request from Mayor M. P. Snyder that the city add $10,000 to the forest fire situation in ail parts of Western Montana. More firefighters reward already offered. are to be sent to the Selway and Nez Perce, Idaho, it was declared, in an Canteen is Still Important Factor effort to bring the fires there under continA Idaho. focatello, dally control. gent of approximately 100 men is carEAMONN DE VALERA ed for at the Red Cross canteen as they pass through the city in all directions. Monday night a contingent of Sixty-fiv- e men traveling together, en route to (''amp Lewis for discharge, were cared for at the canteen. 8 n : . val- leys, about 125 in number, are in favor of owning and operating the Piute reservoir project, which the state wishes to sell. A committee has been appointed to meet with" the state land Propose a Nonpolitical Fight, and board lo arrange details of the pur Great Strike Will Be Only Last chase and report them at a meeting t Recourse is Plan of Railroad be held next month. Workers. Many large cattle owners throughout district No. 4 of the forest service Washington. The fight of the rail will place their herds of cattle and road workers of the United States to sheep on the market this fall, rather force upon congress the acceptance of than lake advantage of the provision government ownership as a solution of made by tlie federal government that the railroad problem is to begin at they may ship their stock to winter once and will be unrelenting in its grazing areas at full rates and return them free of charge. intensity. That Weber county will probably Leaders of the railroad brotherhoods and organized labor generally are con- take tlie lead of tlie counties of the vinced that their plan for the govern- state in the war for the extermination ment to buy the railroads and nation- of tlie noxious weeds, is the assertion basis of 0. E. Pettigrew, county crop pest alize them on a profit-sharinwith the workers is the most equit- inspector. It is reported that everyable proposal that has been advanced, where in tlie county the campaign is and they are girding for a struggle being waged against white top. with tlie capitalistic issue before conWm. M. Itoj lance, large fruit raiser gress which promises to be more sen- and shipper in Utah county, predicts sational than the fight for the Adam- the fruit outlook in Utah county, notson withstanding tlie hot weather and law in 1917. shortage of water, would be good. The The brotherhood leaders who held market, lie lieliev es, will be better than the watch (i congress over the Adam- foi some time past. son law, with a natlon-wdd- e strike club Nearing complete compilation, tlie dangling over its head, are here again, official history and roster of the 362d and they served notice on the presi- Infantry will be published early iu dent, congress and the general public September, it is stated by T. Ben treasurer of the 362d Infantry Saturday, following introduction of the government ownership bill known as association at Ogden. the Plumb plan, that their forces The contract to do over $120,000 are stronger than ever and can be worth of construction on the road in marshaled into action at a word of Logan canyon has been let and work command. will commence immediately to make The railroad leaders do not want to the road one of the best mountain threaten a general railroad strike on highways in tlie west. this issue, they say. That is a last At a meeting of the returned solresort which they do not believe it diers and sailors held in Park City it will be necessary to use. They believe was decided by the fifty present to that the merits of their proposal to organize a branch of tlie American settle railroad difficulties on all sides legion and application hs been made will be accepted by the people of tlie for a charter. country, who will force congress to Tlie Utah Consolidated Mining compass their bill. pany lias leased the mill belonging to Glen E. Plumb, . counsel for the the Utah Metal &. Tunnel company at .. Plumb plan league, which Is organized Binglmm for experimental purposes. to push the government ownership bill, The lease is for the period of three has arrived in Washington and will months. appear before the house committee on At a meeting of tlie county commisinterstate and foreign commerce on sioners held this week, September 2 behalf of the measure. A. B. Garret-so- was set as a time for the hearing of who directed the fight for the the petition of the organizers of the Adamson bill, and who is vice presiBenjamin drainage district. dent of the league, is also scheduled 0. O. Morganson, state trapper, durto appear, but may not be able to do ing twenty days in July captured five so because of illness. cojotes, four bob cats and one bear. President Wilson was invited to the Wounded Soldiers Jo Get Certificates conference of governors, twenty-twWashington. A special certificate having signified their intention of beto be issued to soldiers wounded in the ing present in Salt Lake, August 18 war with Germany has been adopted to August 21. He was also invited to by the war department. It will bear at accompany the governors on their trip the top the legend, Columbia Gives to Yellowstone national park. The into Her Sons the Accolade of the New vitation was sent by Governor BamChivalry of Humanity, and below the berger by wire at the suggestion of name, rank and unit of the soldier and former governors of the state who with the action in which he wTas wounded. Governor Bamberger are arranging a program. Drunkenness Less, Crime Increasing Gold medals were awarded at Price Boston. Records of tlie Central to seventy-fiv- e employes of the United Municipal court through which pass States Fuel company who were iu the h of the criminal military service during the war. The approximately cases of the state, show that 764 per- men were from Black Hawk, Heiner, sons were arrested for drunkenness Hiawatha and Mohrland, and in the during July, 1919, as compared with employ of tlie fuel company. 2996 in July, 1918. The records show, M. H. Greene, manager of the Salt however, that the number of criminal Lake office of the United States grain cases is again increasing. corporation, who has just returned from a trip through soutVera Utah, Plan to Check Bolshevism. reports that tlie drouth worked havoc In many of the districts. Paris. Dr. Karl Renner, the The public utilities commission of chancellor, and Herr Franzt, the Austrian Conservative Utah last week, after a conference leader, have conferred, with a view with prominent officials of the Mounto establishing between the parties of tain States Telephone & Telegraph the left and the Conservatives and Lib- company, decided to order a physical erals a coalition intended to check valuation of all the .property of the Bolshevism, the Petit Parisien says. company in the state. To Utah may come the distinction of Two Score Hurt in Trolley Crash having the first war orphan. He is San Jose, Cal. More than two score Millan F. Gledhill, the infant son of persons were injured, many seriously, Herbert F. Gledhill, who was killed when two interurban cars on the Pen- in France, June 14, 1918. The infant nine boys mother died at Sigurd, Utah, Noinsula railway collided head-omiles from here at noon Sunday. One vember 3, 1917. of the cars was crowded with picnickDuring the past two months there ers bound for Co., gross Springs, a re- has not been a case of contagious dissort. ease reported, according to Health Officer Peters, of Murray, who urges 2 Billion Cigarets Mads In U. 3. Weekly citizens to maintain cleanliness about Atlantic City, N. J. The demand for their premises. tobacco is the greatest In the worlds Utah Indian war veterans will hold history, according to Benjamin Duke. their 1919 encampment in Springville, He declared that America is supplying August 12 to 15, under auspices of much of tlie worlds output and that the departments of Utah and Wasatch 1 .000,0' s), 0(H c'garets are made in the counties. United States every three days to meet Engineers have started surveying the the deivnml. proposed canal from Bear river to be used in irrigating land in Box Elder Zurich in Disorder. and Weber counties. Zurich, Switzerland. Zurich is in The Tremonton Mill & Elevator tlie grip of a strike movement which company is tlie name of a corporation has become so serious as to call for just organized at Tremonton to install action by the state council at a special a new flour mill. session. The state council decided to Midwest Dye and Chemical company request the federal council to send Is obtaining title to land necessury for troops to Zurich. installation of a plant at Tooele. g HONOR SHIP OF LAUf BY CALIFORNIA WINE AND UTAH WATER MIX ON BOW A3 IS LAUNCHED. N BANS. 217 LANSING REPORTS TO THE SENATE THAT U. S. CITIZENS. HAVE 942 DAMAGE CLAIMS. Traditional Vintage Dashed by Miss Carranzas Elimination Only Remedy, House Rules Committee Is InformMargaret Horsley, Sponsor of Utah's ed by Gates. Damages Asked Liberty Loan Honor Ship, to SatBecause of Depredations. isfy Sea Superstition. Mel-dru- Two hundred and sevSan .Francisco. Into the high tide Washington. of Oakland harbor, the Utacarbon, enteen American citizens have been Utahs Liberty loan honor ship, was killed in Mexico since the end of the launched at 5 oclock Thursday after- regime of Porfirio Diaz on May 25, noon, California wine and Utah moun- 1911, the senate was informed by Sectain water glistening on the bow as the retary Lansing in response to a resobig oil tanker glided down the ways lution by Senator King, Democrat, at the Alameda yards of the Bethle- Utah. Claims filed by American cithem Shipbuilding corporation. izens asking damages because of Mex The unusual combination of win? lean depredations during the time have and water added flavor to the launch- totaled 942, Mr. Lansing said. ing ceremonies. The wine dashed upRegarding a request in the resoluon the starboard bow by Miss Mar- - tion that the secretary inform the sen garet Horsley, thej pretty ,sponsor,.Vi atejregarding, the number of citizens used to lay the Jinx which men effiof other countries who have been killed the sea contend may attach to a ship In Mexico, tlie secretary said this list not christened with the traditional vin- was not complete, but that instructage, Governor Bamberger dashed the tions had been issued to American dipbottle of water against the port bow. lomatic representatives in the southern Representing the treasury depart- republic asking them to attempt to ob ment, Governor Day of the Twelfth tain this information. Federal reserve presented the ship to Accompanying Mr. Lansings letter Carbon county, and it was accepted by was a table compiled by the state deWil-liaGovernor Bamberger. Governor partment, showing the nature and D. Stephens was called upon by amount of the various claims filed. Master of Ceremonies Carl R. Marcu-se- Claims for damages to property were and responded with a glowing 772, of which 118 specified no amount. tribute to Utahs chief executive. The other claims totaled $22,835,592. The launching party from Utah was Claims growing out of the killing ot entertained at a luncheon at the Ho- American citizens totaled seventy-thretel Oakland at 1 oclock by the Oakof which twenty-fiv- e stated no land chamber of commerce. Joseph amount of The others, howdamages. E. Caine, formerly of Salt Lake, was ever, carried claims of $2,317,375. toastmaster. Luncheon was attended Elimination of President Carranza by about 150 former Utahns and promwith the least damage possible;' is the inent men and women of the bay only solution of the Mexican probcities. lem, the house rules committee was told today by William Gates, an archFACE LOSS OF MILLIONS aeologist of Baltimore. Mr. Gates said Henry I. Fletcher, Investments Threatened by New Agthe American ambassador to Mexico, rarian Law Enacted in Mexico. Washington. More than a thousand realized that Carranza was imposAmericans are threatened with loss of sible, and added that the ambassador millions of dollars in investments by had not obtained the real facts In the a new agrarian law enacted by the Mexican situation for President Wilcongress of Sonora, Mexico, at the di- son. rect instructions of Governor Calles. Reiterating his charge that tlie CarSeveral American companies already ranza government existed v ithout conhave filed complaints with the state stitutional right, Mr. Gates said tlie department against the operation of new constitution drafted since Carranthis law, and other complaints are in za came into power had not been ratpreparation. The department is pre- ified by the number of states which paring representations to the Carranza its terms provide shall ratify it. The witness also presented a docugovernment against putting the law into operation because of injustices ment from military chieftains in the this government contends it works up- state of Oaxaca calling upon other on United .States citizens who have in- Mexican states to join a movement opvested many millions in agricultural posing Carranza. lands in Sonora. Infringement Suit Decided by Court By the terms of the law it is proDR. EPITACIO PESSOA San Francisco. The Reward Oil vided that the state will pay for lands company of Kern couuty was held reexpropriated with agrarian bonds issued by the state, redeemable at a sponsible for patent infringement time and manner to be stipulated later. against the Petroleum Rectifying comThe new constitution of Mexico propany of California and was ordered to vides that the states shall issue agraraccount for royalties alleged to apian bonds under authority of a law proximate $300,000 in a decision by that has not yet been enacted by the the United States circuit court of apfederal congress. The American point peals Monday. out in their complaints to the state department that these bonds are of no Asks Low Fare to Veterans Meeting value and, inasmuch as the national Washington. President Wilson was government of Mexico has not paid the Senator Phelan California of urged by Interest on its bonds since 1913, there Monday to recommend to the railroad is no indication that tlie agrarian bonds administration a rate of 1 cent a mile will be of any value. War Vetto United Spanish-AmericaFleet Vanguard Now at San Diego. erans attending the convention to be San Diego. The destroyer Philip, held soon in San Francisco. first vessel of the new Pacific fleet to reach an American port on the PaRelief. t Proposes Drought cific coast from Uie Atlantic, arrived Mont. Ten million dollars Helena, here Saturday afternoon to bring mail for drought relief in Montana and an from the fleet and take mail back to administration organization similar to Eamonn De Valera, president of it. Lieutenant Commander E. W. Governor Stewarts proposed welfare the "Irish now In the Uni- Strother, the Philips commander, exRepublic, President-elec- t of the Brazilian re, commission are provided in a bill inted- States, declares Ireland will not be pects to join the flagship New Mexico who visited the United public recently troduced in the state senate Monday. bound by a peace treaty signed on her on August 5, two days before the fleet States. behalf by English commissioners. is due at this' port. $11,-50- Fanners of Sevier and Gunnison WILL PRESS ISSUE IN CONGRESS, PLUMB DECLARES. EIGHT MILLION MEN SUPPORTING. IN LOS ANGELES DESTROYED.- LAWLER AND WIFE VICTIMS. . Thirty-three- RESIDENCE OF PROSECUTOR m e, n, o one-fift- n |