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Show j J i f j VvCtXjT "''X'"'1'" A First Class Job Printing; Are Tea a Subscriber? At living prices. Let us have your next order for anything you want print' cd. Rich County News printing is synonymous with art and efficiency. If not please remember your subscription will help make this paper strong a thing necessary for an unsurpassed news service. i. REACHES EVERY NOOK AND CORNER OF RICH COUNTY TWENTY-THIR- YEAR. D Mil flEW HAKES JOHNSON ATTACKS WALL OF WATER OVER TEN FEET HIGH SWEEPS OVER TEXAS TOWN. FIRST TIME A PRESIDENT OF UNITED 8TATES HA8 FLOWN FLAG 4N 8EATTLE HARBOR. COVEPRESIDENT DECLARES NANT CARRIES OUT WHAT SENATOR HAD SUGGESTED. VIGOROUSLY OBJECTS TO APPROVAL OF PEACE TREATY IN DES MOINES ADDRESS. Residential Section Swept Away, At Least Fifteen Lives Being Lost, ' While Property Damage Will Review Follows Incident Which Nearly 8hould There Be no Permanent Guarw anty of Peace, Says Wilson the Nation Would be Untrue To Its Promises. Speakers Following in Footsteps of President Take up Gauge of Battle in Behalf of Reservation-ist- s to League of Nations. Seattle. Marking the first .time a president of the United States lias flown his flag in Seattle's harbor, President Wilson on September 13, reviewed the great Pacific fleet from the decks of the history-fame- d battleship Oregon In Elliott bay. The review followed the presidents arrival from Tacoma and also followed an incident which nearly resulted In serious consequences for the presidential party when the president's launch collided with a naval whaleboat. Arriving at the dock, it was found tlie barge of Admiral Hugh Rodman, which was supposed to be awaiting the president, was not on hand. Commander P. W. Foote, personal aide to Secretary of the Navy Daniels, promptly took over a naval launch on hand. Into this launch went the president and Mrs. Wilson, Secretary and Mrs. Daniels, secret service men, secretaries and newspaper men traveling with Mr. Wilson. As Cominauder Foote ordered the launch shoved off, the small chaft heeled over till the port rail was nearly under water. Starting ahead then, the Into another launch, craft ran bow-ogiving tlie presidential party a severe jar. The president, however sat serenely in tlie aft part of the launch and smiled. Portland. Quoting from an address made in 1915 by Senator Lodge, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, suggesting that nations must unite as men unite to preserve peace, President Wilson told a Portland audience Monday night that the league of nations covenant carried out what Mr. Lodge had suggested. It was the first time during his speaking tour that Mr. Wilson had mentioned by name any of the senators opposing the league. The president began his address by saying he had been much impressed during his trip by the number of children who came to see him. It was really to the children, he continued, that he wanted to report. I have come, he said, to report as to the safety and honor of the future generations of America." Should there be no permanent guarantee of peace, said Mr. Wilson, then the nation not only would be untrue te its promises to those who won the war, but would also be recreant in its duties to the mothers of country. The presidents words were greeted with laughter and cheers by an audience which packed the municipal auditorium, said to accommodate more than 7000. In the first day of his stay of more than a week on the Pacific coast Mr. Wilson spoke during Saturday at Tacoma and then arrived In Seattle in the' afternoon' to review the Pacific fleet in the afternoon and address a mass meeting at the arena in the evening. In both cities he was cheered by crowds that thronged every point of vantage to get a glimpse of him. The president rested on Sunday at a Seattle hotel. At a public dinner which lie attended before addressing the mass meeting at the arena, Mr. Wilson said he had been impressed by the uniformity of opinion among the people from ocean to ocean. There is no essential dihe said, in the thought or vision, purpose of tlie American people. No amount of debate will set them off their balance. At the arena which seats 6300, there were a few empty seats when the president began speaking, but many were standing. When Mr. Wilson entered tlie crowd rose and cheered him for more than a minute and when he was introduced by Mayor Fitzgerald there was a longer demonstration. On the stage were Secretary Daniels of the navy department, and Admiral Rodman, commander of the Pacific fleet. The president was tlie guest of Spokane on September 12, and during his address declared that any change in tlie peace treaty would make the ratification conditional, would reopen the negotiations, and so prolong tlie doubt and uncertainty. Mr. Wilson said he saw no moral which objection to interpretations would not change the meaning of the document, but added that such a step would merely be to say that the United States knows the treaty to mean what it says. The president spoke to a crowd which filled tlie Spokane armory, where the 4500 seats had been distributed by lottery, and was repeatedly cheered. On his way to tlie armory he had ridden through a riot of cheering and flag waving, tlie crowds in the downtown section surging far out beyond tlie curb. It was Mr. Wilson's second address during the day, and the first of three he made In Washington, the home state of Senator Poindexter, one of those bitterly opposing tlie treaty. Not one of the reservations suggested to the league of nations covenant was warranted, declared the president. Under the withdrawal clause, he asserted, tlie nation itself would judge whether it had performed its International obligations. That was a matter, he added, which never could or would be left to tlie judgment of any other nation. Making his only address in the home state of Senator Borah, one of the bitterest opponents of the peace treaty, President Wilson spoke in a big tent at Coeur dAlene on September 12, being introduced by Governor Davis. President j Wilson declared that America was face to face with a decision as to whether she would prove to the world that she meant what she said in promising to aid In a peace concert." Des Moines, Iowa. Vigorous objection to the approval of tlie peace treaty and the league of nations covenant by tlie senate without amendments which protect every interest of th United States was voiced by Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California her Monday night in two addresses deliv- Four- - Millions. Corpus Christi, Texas. Fifteen persons are dead, approximately four thousand are homeless and property damage, it is estimated, will reach $4,000,000 as a result- - of the tropical hurricane which raged here for twenty hours. The damage was caused mostly by a tidal wave driven in from the north by a gale estimated at from sixty-fiv- e to seventy miles an hour. )The official record of. the tide places it at ten feet six inches deep, but many say the water was fifteen feet in depth on the beach. Chapparal and Mesquite streets, in the business districts, were flooded, and while the water has receded, they are filled with debris. The entire North beach residential section of the city has been swept clean, except the Spohn sanitarium, tlie United States public health service hospital, which was occupied soldiers sent here for treatment, and one frame Jiouse. Practically every frame building on the beach front was destroyed, together with most of the boats moored there. The residence section on the hill was slightly damaged and a few houses were unroofed. Many were rescued from Neuces bay, where they were found floating, 'clinging to spars' and debris, after the wind had subsided. Tlie mayor lias sent an appeal to the governor, asking that two companies of national guard with supplies . he sent at once.. , ) miles from Port Aransas, thirty-fiv- e Corpus Christ!, on the upper end of Mustang island, was completely de-- . molished by the hurricane Sundeq, according to a wireless message picked up at Houston. -- . 10 CUES LODGE III THE PACIFIC FLEET Reach - Conflicting Thoughts NUMBER 15. HELESS . ' RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1919. FATALITY MARS VISIT. News Writer and Driver With Wilson Party Killed in Auto Crash. Portland. Driven at breakneck speed along the Columbia headway, twelve miles from here Monday, an automobile bearing three newspaper correspondents accompanying President Wilsons party deft the road, turned turtle on an incline and Jeft two dead and three injured men in Its wake. Beirj?, Allen, for fifteen years the of the Washington correspondent Cleveland Plain Dealer, was instantly killed, as was .Tames R. Patterson, 73 years' old, the owner and driver of the car.' The injured were Robert T. Small, Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Stanley M. Reynolds, Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Snn and Arthur D. Sullivan, a reporter for the Portland . News. Jail Sentence for Townley. Jackson, Minn. Ninety days in tlie Jackson county jail the limit under the statute was the sentence imposed by District Judge E. C. Dean on A. C. Townley, president of tlie . National Nonpartisan league, and Joseph Gilbert, former organization manuger, who were convicted July 12 of having conspired o teach sedition. Daily Strike Loss Ten Million.. New York. Ten million dollars a day has been tlie cost to the United States of strikes and threatened strikes in the last eight months, asserts Stephen C. Mason, president of. the National Association of Manufac- THE LEAGUE PLAN Resulted in 8erious Consequences for Presidential Party When Boats Collide. SAYS of-B- e' Obregon Nogales. Would Resist Americans. General Alvaro Obregon, former minister of war in the Carranza cabinet and a candidate for president in 1920, has announced that he would take the field against the United States in the event of armed Intervention by the United States. Bomb Outrages at Seoul. Seoul, Korea The government has requested 1500 police reinforcements IDENT SOCIAL UPHEAVAL i ASSERTS LABOR HEADS ASK WILSON TO SENATOR TAKE UP CUDGELS FOR WORKSTEPS ARE UNDER WAY TO; SYSTEM. REVOLUTIONIZE ERS OF NORTHWEST. MONTANA Declares Logical Sequence of Union Delegation Urged to Bury Differences Until After the Conference Called izing of Police Will be the Union-- ; for Washington in izing of the Army and Navy ' October. By Radical Element. r n Refuses to Surrender Kun. Paris. The Austrian government has refused to accede to Hungarys a demand, for the extradition Kun, virtual dictator at Budapest during the communist regime, asking for proofs of accusations of murder and theft made against him, according to Vienna newspapers. mill FACES HERS CONFER vVttshington. The unionized police strike in Boston, with its attendant bloodshed and riot, the formation of a police union in Washington in affiliation with the American Federation of Labor and the disclosure that steps are being taken to unionize the police In fifty other large cities have aroused grave f ears- - in congress of a' concerted radical movement ,,'' to sovietize the American government. That the American government will be sovietlzed within two years, presumably with the American Federation of Labor in control, unless the radical program Is halted, was the prediction of Senator Myers of Montana in tlie senate on Thursday. The logical sequence of unionizing the police as a part of 'organized labor, he said, will be the unionizing of the army and navy, and Senator Thomas, of Colorado, asserted that the effort to unionize the army already is being made. Senator Harding of Ohio accused President Wilson of tolerating and encouraging the radical tendencies of from Japan as the result of the recent the times which have produced the bomb outrage against Baron Saito, govschemes for labor control of the railernor of Korea. It is announced that the coal mines, and the police the casualties due to 'the explosion of roads, and for the introduction of the soviet the missiles aggregated thirty-twprinciple of workers management of industry. Lake Steamer in Peril. steamOut. The passenger Toronto, PRESIDENT RAPS POLICEMEN. er City of Mackinac is stranded in the straits of Mackinac and is breaking Declares Strike of Officers a Crime up, according to a wireless message Against Civilization. from Sheboygan, Mich., received here Helena, Mont. In liis address here via Detroit Some of the passengers Thursday night, referring to the Boshave been transferred. ton trouble, President Wilson said: I want to say this, that a strike Fourteen Lost at Sea. Savannah, Ga. The steamer Barn- of the policemen of a great city, leavstable, coal laden from Savannah to ing that city at tlie mercy of an army a Cuban port, went down off St. Cath- of thugs, is a crime agaiust civilizaerines Friday night. It is reported tion. In my judgment the obligation that fourteen of the crew are missing. of a policeman is as sacred as the obligations of a soldier. He is a public CLYDE KELLY servant, not a private employee, and the whole honor and safety of the community is in his hands. He has no right to prefer any private advantages to the public safety. I hope that that lessou will be burned in so that it will never again he forgotten because tlie pride of America is that l. It can exercise Seattle. Representatives of the Washington State Federation of Labor here on Sunday laid before President Wilson labor grievances of the Pacific Northwest and pictured to him existing labor unrest, which they said would make difficult, if .pot impossible, the avcrentioir of nati on wi d e.st ri DeJ. boer 8 in sympathy" Slooney, sentenced to life imprisonment for San Francisco bomb outrages in 1916. Specifically, the delegation asked for an appointment to see the president to present tlie cases of political prisoners, notably those of Hulet M. Wells Sam Sadler and Morris and Joe Pass ,the latter two being brought here, all serving terms of two years for seditious conspiracy. The delegation was composed of L. W. Buck, acting president of the State Federation; C. It. Cottrell, secretary of Triple Alliance, composed of railway men, labor and farmers, and James A. Duncan, secretary of the Central Council of Seattle. Mr. Duncan, according to official of the United States district attorneys office, was one of the leaders in a general strike here last February, which former Mayor Ole Hanson characterized as a revolution. For more than an hour the president discussed the labor situation with the delegation and suggested to them that organized labor should bury its differences with capital and do its utmost to prevent strikes until after the labor conference which he has called to meet in Washington, October 6. The president told the delegation lie was giving tlie entire situation his careful attention, and was hopeful of results from tlie conference. f Emperor Charles to Live in Spain. Tlie former emperor Madrid. Charles of Austria and his family are expected to arrive at Santander at an will occupy King early date. The Alfonsos palace of Magdalena. CAPT. ARTHUR L. WILLARD No Shortage of Coal. Washington. There is no shortage of anthracite or hard coal for domestic purposes and there is no such tiling as shortage of cars for transporting this coal, the subcommittee of the senate committee on interstate commerce was surprised to learn from A. S. Learoyd of Philadelphia, assistant to the president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., one of tlie largest producers of anthracite coal. . turers. Wild West Stunt in Gotham. Rock Springs, Wyo. John Buxton, deputy state game warden, is dead, and Joe Omeyo, 17, is held in the county jail on a charge of murder. Omeyo shot Buxton when tlie officer attempted to arrest him for hunting out of season. Thirteen Meet Death in Elevator. Kansas City. With tlie death Sunday of four more employees of tlie Murray Grain Elevator here, which was wrecked by a spontaneous combustion explosion and fire, tlie list of fatalities in connection with the accident reached thirteen. City Gets Huntington Trove. Los Angeles. A group of books and 'objects of art, believed to be the largest Individual collection in the world, valued at $250,000,000, will be given to the people by Henry E. Huntington. Suicides at Club. mdon. Sir James Donville, a lg baronet, son of the late admiral, Bq-on- et Wild West Stunt in Gotham. New York. Six bandits held up the Williamsbridge branch of the Bronx Borough bank Monday afternoon and escaped in an automobile with $8000 In cash. An exclusive ptiotograpn of Congressman Clyde Kelly, who was responsible for the passing of the "pa In conpels post food surplus bill gress, despite opposition. found fatally shot in the United d ice club, Sunday. He had left a Capt Arthur L. Willard la In of the battleship New Mexico, apologizing to the club for his h there. the flagship of the Pacific fleet. oom-man- ered before large and enthusiastic au- diences. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho was to have spoken here with Senator Johnson, but lie sent a telegram from Chicago stating that lie liad been called back to Washington to participate in tlie senate debate on the peace pact. Senator Johnson was the guest of the Grant elub at 6 p. m., where he made a brief address. His principal address was delivered later at the Coliseum, arranged under the auspices of the League for the Preservation of American Independence. .. , Senators Johnson and Borah have taken up the 'gauge of buttle in behalf of the reservationists to the league of nations covenant, and announce that addresses will be made in all the cities visited by President Wilson durlDg his speaking tour of the west. The opening addresses on behalf of the opponents to the : administration plan were made at Chicago. Senator ..Johnson latuiclied his attack upoh-J- b Shantung 'sjuaRl and the cirticism by President jWiison of senate members who opposed the ratification of tlie covenant. Senator Borah assured his audience that the treaty problem Is the most vital since the Inception of the American republic. He asked ' whethes American government shall be transferred from American to European hands, which lie asserted would be the case should tlie administration program prevail. At St. Louis, on Friday, when Senator Johnson stepped on the stage at tlie Coliseum to plead for the defeat ot tlie league of nations covenant in its present form, he was given an ovation that lasted eighteen minutes. The Coliseum was packed to the doors. In my brief career I have never failed to accept a challenge from an opponent, whether he be a president or an humble private citizen, said Senator Johnson. I want to deny Mr. Wilsons charge that the American people are quitters if they refuse to approve the league of nations. The American people never quit. When Mr. Wilson went to Paris to demand his fourteen points and came home without them the American people did not quit, somebody else quit. Seuator Borah, in an address at Omaha, frankly declared his wish not merely to amend, but to wreck the league of nations covenant The senator denounced the transfer of Germanys rights in Shantung to Japan as the turning over of 40,000,-00friendly people to our enemy, and as an act of treachery to an ally unsurpassed in history. The sending of American soldiers to Siberia was declared to be in violation of the constitution of tlie United States. Senator Borah . repeatedly declared that tlie real issue between friends and opponents of the league of nations Is a difference between those who would betray the American republic and those who would defend it. In an address at Indianapolis on Thursday, Senator Johnson declared that if responsibility for the high cost of living rests upon any agency or man, it rests upon the present national administration and upon President 0 Wilson. Speaking of article X of the covenant of the league Senator Johnson, after quoting President Wilson's interpretation of the section, said: It makes America underwrite every territorial grab of every other nation, every wrong and Injustice done peoples, every bargain by which human beings have been handed about from one sovereignty to another, every violation of natural right and every oppression of the strong over the weak. On September 13, Senator Johnson spoke at Kansas City, while Senator Borah delivered an address at Fort Dodge. Iowa. He praised Senator Reed of Missouri for his courageous stand in opposing ratification of tlie league covenant. |