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Show - CLaMii 1 i Rnt dm Job Printing Are Yon At living prices. Let us have your next order for anything you want print red. a Subscriber? If not please remember will your subscription help make this paper strong a thing necessary for an unsurpassed news service. Rich County News printing is synonymous with art and efficiency. BEACHES EVERY NOOK AND CORNER OF RICH COUNTY TWENTY-THIR- YEAR. D NUMBER 51. RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1920. ) GURU sunn PRESIDENT FUGITIVE CHIEF MEETS WHILE ENDEAVORING SEEKS PERMISSION OF CONGRESS TO TAKE ARMENIAN MANDATE. Declares He Is Speaking In the Spirit and In Accord With the' Wisdom of the Greatest Christian Peoples." ' i 'A Washington. President Wilson on May 24 sent a message to congress asking authority to accept on behalf of the United States the mandate over Armenia which was tendered by the allied premiers in their conference at San Remo. The president asked for the mandate on the ground of duty to the Armenian people, to assist them in their struggles toward independence. He declared his belief that his action would be supported by the great majority of the American people. Speaks 'Christians With. Acknowledging that his request was laid before congress at a very critical time, the president asserted that he made the suggestion In the confidence that he was speaking in the spirit and in accordance with the wisdom of the greatest Christian peoples. He appealed to congress "not to turn away from the invitation so formally and solemnly extended to us hy the council at San Remo, but on the other hand to permit him to undertake the mandate for protection of the Armenians against the Turks. In the same message the president notified congress that he had decided to accept the invitation tendered him ty the inallied premiers to act as arhi- trator fixing the boundary between ,, Turkey and Armenia. This office the president may accept without author- ' Ization of congress, XotwWWdwstKngr , JWp StOlfW6BIS8' witb which , the president expressed his hqllef that the mandate would be , acceptable, to the people of the United States, his message' met wlth a chilly 11 1 yeceptkm in both the senate and house. j Some small losses to sheep on the western desert as a result of early shearing are reported. The date for commencing the Boy Scout caravan to Bryce and Little Zion canyons has been fixed at July DEATH TO MAKE HIS ESCAPE. OPERATORS AND MINERS TOLD THERE MUST BE NO CLOSING OF THE MINES. Fleeing From Rebel Forces Who Had Overthrown His Government, President of Mexico and Loyal Companions Perish. Declares That if Joint Scale Com mittee Can Not Reach Agreement Question in Dispute Must bs Submitted to Commission. Mexico City. President Carranza, who fled from this city on May 6 and who took flight into the mountains of Puebla following a battle near was killed at 1 oclock Thursday morning at Tlaxacalatongo, according to official announcement here. Carranzas companions, the names of whom are not as yet known, are declared to have shared his fate. The attack which resulted In the death of the president was led by General Rodolfcf Serrera, it Is said. It is reported that Carranza had shaved off his beard in the hope that he might avoid detection, and it is said that the transformation was so complete that he might walk through the streets of the Mexican capital una, Venustlano Carranza, elected president of Mexico, March 11, 1917, by the largest vote ever cast In a presidential election in his country, stepped from political obscurity to . national and international prominence on the graves of the hopes of General Huerta, the usurper, and his followers. . Simultaneously with General Huertas coup and the assassination of President Madero, the news went out to the world that General Venustlano Carranza, elected governor of the state of Coahuila In 1911, refused to recognize the usurper and would resist him by force of arms. Born of parents in comfortable clr-- i Vic-toria- de-et- at cmm-UHftc- s' rof Coahuila, December 29, 1859, Venustlano Carranza was educated in the public schools of his native state and later studied law at the Mexican capi-ta- - . $404,-984.- CARRANZAS BODY AT . HOME Remains of Late Mexican President Returned to the Capital. Mexico City. A dingy little train of three wooden - coaches on Monday brought the remains of, Venustlano murdered president ' of Carranza, Mexico,' back to his former capltaL Not more than 150 persons witnessed the arrival of the body.. The faithful watchers included most of the foreign diplomatic corps.. A few men from the Carranza, regime who remained in ..Mexico City .w;ete waiting., They were all dressed, ija jupurning, , ' Child 'Marauder1 .Killed by Gun Trap. L. Parker, president of k lumber compand, has .confessed that "a gun trap set for burglars had killed a boy, find, that- - fearing - prosecution, he liad hrown the body into, the bay. The body has been , covered. .y" . - , Oakland.-A-- F, TWELVE ARE KILLED III PISTOL BATTLE recognized. L When he was admitted to the bar, however, affection of the eyes preV CARRANZA vented him from practicing, and he reHUERTA SUCCEEDS turned to his native state to become a V. Chosen Provisional President of Mex--Ic- o rancher.- His experiences as a rancher first,, then as Judge, senator and By Congress. Mexico' City. Adolfo de la Huerta finally governor of Coahuila, made of Sonora was named president ad Carranza familiar with the agrarian problem, the root of political Unrest In interim of Mexico by the extraordin.a Mexico. 24. session He of congress oh May ary Aided Francisco and his Villa, by, received 224 votes against 28 for Pablo Gonzales. Gen. Antonio Villareal was followers, Carranza finally became the leader of Mexican affairs. General the only other candidate. J' The new incumbent holds office unT Huerta resigned the provisional presi' der the Agna Prieta plan. and has dency July 15, 1914, and a month later General Carranza made his triumphal 'already postponed the presidential Huerta having elections from July 4 to September 5, entry Into Mexico ' City, ' under authority of the 'Agua JTieta fled to Spain. Shortly afterward Independent revoplan, which makes him supreme chief Pas-cuof the liberal constitutional army. Ha lutionists, led by Zapata, General Orozco and others, commenced. exercised the same authority in callDissension between Villa and Caring the extraordinary session of conranza, which began at' the Torreon . gress. , conference, reached a climax September 23, 1914, when Villa declared war CAMPAIGN EXPENSE PROBE. on Carranza. General Alvaro Obre-go- n became Carranzas leading genEvidence Shows Immense Sums Spent ' . eralIn Presidential Preference Priiftary. Washington. Evidence, that Skeleton of Explorer Found. had been spent in behalf of Gov, 111. The skeleton of what Quincy, Frank O. Lowden, Republican,' Illito have been a missionary may prove and a in nois. charge that the outlay with the Joliet or La Salle the Ohio primary cohtest between connected of 1679 was uncovered by expeditions 8enator Warren G. Harding, Republithe recent floods in the Mississippi can, and Maj. Gen. Leonard A. Wood a village twenty made Senator Newberrys Michigan river at Meyer, III., miles north of Quincy. look a like marked campaign piker, the opening on Monday of the senates VENUSTIAN0 CARRANZA camInvestigation into ' paign expenditures. i UTAH BUDGET .Tell Us All You Know CLASH BETWEEN MINERS AND PRIVATE DETECTIVES IN WEST VIRGINIA. - Men Sent to Evict Families of Miners Engage In Battle With Citizens, the Mayor of Town Being Among the Victims. Matewan, W. Va. Twelve men were killed and three badly injured in a pistol battle here late Wednesday between the police and citizens on one side and private detectives on the other. Ia the list of dead Is included Mayor Cabell Testerman and a num- er of lesser prominent, citizens., : ,, Jvwffftcling stories as to the cause of the .shooting keratoid.' The police, declare that a party of private detective. arrived here from Williamson in the morning to evict 'from a mining companys houses the families of miners who had been dismissed from the . companys employ. Eight families, the . police declare, had been turned out when Mayor Testerman approached Albert Felts, the leader of the detectives, and wanted to know by what authority their action was taken and by what authority they had arrested one of ; , -- the miners. - , , While they were talking, according to the police, Felts shot the mayor, firing from his coat pocket. Almost instantly Frits himself was killed, the police say, by Sid Hadfield, chief of police of Matewan. Immediately the shooting became general, numbers of persons joining in the fray. The crowd closed in about the detectives, who, the police say, turned and ran. Some of them broke for the open country, while others, reaching the Tug river, attempted to swim to safety. Here, it is reported, three or them were shot and sank in the stream. y Several weeks ago it became known that efforts were being made to unionize the mines, and two of them were closed. Later, the miners declare, some of their members, were dismissed, and private detectives were sent here to dispossess those' who lived in company houses. Feeling had been, running high. PLAN OVERTHROW IN CONGRESS Workers Declare For Election of Congress Favorable to Workingmen. Washington. The American Federation of Labor has issued its expected call to the electorate for an overturn in congress. Under the signature of President Samuel Gompers, the current issue of the American Federationist, the official organ, carries an Indictment of congress and the executive departments for incompetence on the cost of living issue, and, outlining a program of deep cutting measures, declares : There must be an overturn in congress. Enemies must be defeated; friends must be elected." Presenting an itemized list of corporation profits, similar to that recently introduced in a speech by Senator Capper of Kansas, Mr. Gompers enumdeclares that, while twenty-on- e erated corporations last year received profits averaging 435 per cent above normal, the average cost of living increased 96 per cent and the average union wage 55 per cent . Washington. Anthracite operators and miners were warned by President Wilson on May 22 that there must be no strike in the anthracite coal fields uurlng this critical period in the readjustment of the country. Writing to the members of the joint scale committee which has been conducting negotiations for two months, the president said that if the committee should be unable to reach an agreement he would insist that the question in dispute be submitted to the determination of a commission to be appointed by him and that work be continued in the mines pending the THE HEAD OF BANDIT decision of the commission. He added that the award to be made would be retroactive to April 1, the date of the of the old agreement beIS expiration GOVERNOR OF CHIHUAHUA tween the operators and miners. DETERMINED TO EFFECT CAPThe president said he would hold TURE OF VILLA. himself in readiness to appoint a commission similarly constituted to the Outlaw Chieftain Said to Have Taken one which I recently appointed in connection with the bituminous mining Up Cudgels Against New Government Causing Offer of Fortune Industry, as soon as I learn that both For His Death or Capture. sides have signified their willingness to continue at work and abide by its decisions. 100,-00El Paso, .Texas. A reward of pesos for the death or capture of ACCEPTS ARMENIAN TASK Francisco Villa has been offered by the government of the state of Chi huahua. This announcement was made President Wilson to Act As Arbitrator In Boundary Dispute. here Sunday by Provisional Governor Tomas Gameros, who added that 2000 Washington. President Wilson has s&, thsSen had Just left rGMpahuasjKll$ under brdets to hunt down tbs tfafidit Remo conference flat he fix the boundaries) of Armenia, it is officially an chieftain. An unconfirmed report that General pounced by the state department.- tevJtgtion of the allies made it Francisco Villa had ordered American and other foreign owned mining com--' rtegr' to the president that their sugpanles in Chiuahua to pay him $500,-00- 0 gestion was entirely irrespective of and that he had cut the power line any ftuty under the league of nations, between Boquillas and Parral, caused and it is claimed in official circles considerable concern in Mexican revo- that his acceptance is not bpen to any valid objection. lutionary circles here. It is not the understanding here, The report, if confirmed, it was said, wonld indicate Villa had taken up the however, that the president is acting These cudgels against the new de facto gov- as umpire or arbitrator. ernment Previously it was officially are terms that imply that the parties reported Villa and General P. Ellas. in interest have appealed to him to Calles had failed to agree on terms act foe. them and that the decision looking toward the bandits elimination should be final. The president, it Is stated, is simply to give the allies his from Mexican affairs. A military campaign against Villa Ideas in fixed form as to what the is an Immediate prospect, it was said boundaries of Armenia should be, and by revolutionary agents.- Villa, they it will be for them to accept, reject said, can be captured because of his or modify them. The president present inability to recruit a large known to have made a special study force, or if successful in recruiting, to of the Armenian question. equip and supply troops. Revolutionists in Chiuahua of late PROFITS IN FLOUR ARE IMMENSE years have practically cleaned the state of its cattle. Previously it was Investigators Declare Millere and Jobbers Mulcted Customers. an easy matter to feed a large body of Washington. An analysis of almen, but now, it was said, it is an impossibility unless the force has a leged profiteering in flour, filed with tbe United States railroad labor board source of supply outside the state. by W. Jett Lauck, consulting economist of the railroad brotherhoods, Former Kaiser's Trinkets on Sale. New York. Very little interest was states that wartime profits absorbed d of the price paid hy the shown by the public on Saturday in consumer for a barrel of flour, and the sale of furniture from the former 60 per cent of this huge margin kaisers palaces in Berlin and Munich. that was chargeable to profiteering. e Sixty-fivitems, supposedly valuable a The actual cost of authentic connection barrel of flour in 1917, producing inbecause including German of the with the lives imperial terest, freight and other expenses of couple, were knocked down for an ag- the miller, was only $8.60, says the gregate of' $7877. The sum repre- report. For this the consumer was sented the existing market value of forced to pay at least $14.50. Had the the furniture. miller, jobber, wholesaler and retailer been content with reasonable margins JUDGE ERIK SJOEBERG this flour might have been available to the purchaser at $11.57. - one-thir- oan - I Johnson Holds Lead in Oregon.' C Will Postpone Spa Parleys. v Portland. Returns ffom the Berlin. The Wolffs bureau, ' the preference primary compiled news agency, announces ...by the Oregonian show Senator Hitam Swedish delegate to the internation, General Carranza, fugitive president the British charge daffaires on that Wood ''General by of Mexico, whose violent death ie ofW., Johnson leads a note to the Ger-ma- al peace conference, who has been appresented Saturday 00 votes, Johnson having 40,619, and ' ficially reported. He was killed while government proposing 1 post- pointed arbitrator In the Franco-Amei- v Wood 40,109. lean court at Paris. Mexico. to from escape ponement of the conferences at Spa. endeavoring prasl-'denti- al semi-offitfci- n -- Sugar Shipment On Sidetrack. All the time that Chicago has been waiting for sugar and being put off with dabs of half a pound or so, at any price the holder cared or dared to charge, twenty-fou- r carloads, totalling 2,500,000 pounds of sugar, have been "kicking around in the railroad yards here, increasing in price every minute, owing to strong demand and the. demurrage charges. Chicago. Ship Vienna Children to England. Vienna. Two hundred Vienna children from 6 to 14 years of age left for England on Sunday, where they are to be better fed than is possible here. They are mostly children of brain workers professors, teachers, physicians, authors and musicians. , Half Million New Legionatrea. from all Indianapolis. Reports parts of the country received here indicate that the American Legion had added between 400,009 and 500,000 new members to its rolls in the nationwide membership campaign of the . , past week. 10. Salt Lakes mail carriers collected more than $500 for the Salvation Armys home service program fund in one day. Revival of the Salt Lake to Grand Highway association will be attempted by the Commercial clubs of southern Utah. Failing health caused Mrs. Emma Step, aged 28, to attempt suicide by poison at Salt Lake. It is believed she will recover. That work will begin in the very near future upon the Ogden arsenal was the information received in that city last week from Washington. Tentative program for the conference of the National Tax association which will be held in Salt Lake September 6 to 10 has been prepared. Salt Lake has an official census population of 118,110, according to the figures announced in Washington. This is an increase of 25,333 over 1910. Pete Gephart, aged 65, narrowly escaped death at Salt Lake when a ditch in which he was laying pipe for the city street department caved in on him. More than 100 sacks of sugar were stolen from freight cars in the railroad yards at Salt Lake, and six men are under arrest in connection with the theft The valuation of live stock in Box-eldcounty has decreased almost $500,000, on account of the hard winter which took cattle and sheep out of the country. Fruit canners In Davis, Weber, Utah, Boxelder and Washington counties individually .Jhave decided to pack only sufficient' fruit to meet advance orders because of the high price of ' - ' f JL sugar. , lstati-TW- f of examiners has Canyon er 'cided . are unanimous the board may create a deficit of $6265 for the proposed enlargement of the room for the poultry exhibit. Approximately 1200 acres of land in the districts of SlatervIUe, Warreu and West Weber, bordering on the Ogden and Weber rivers, are under water as a result of the' flooded condition of the streams. The annual report of the American Railways Express company, filed with the public utilities commission of Utah, shows that the company operated dur- ing 1919 at a net loss for the year Of M thatfiijhe state fair directors"' " ' $24,209,296.22. The Woodmen of , the World, representing membership of 6000 in Utah camps, met in Ogden last week and named six delegates to the annual convention to be held in Yosemlte national park June 2L As a result of an attempt of employers to instaU the American plan, or open shop In Salt Lake, It Is believed all building wUl be suspended, hundreds of employes refusing to work n with men, When the Utah delegates to the Be- - . publican national convention leave on June 5th for Chicago, they will start a publicity campaign Intended to bring this state prominently before the political leaders and others. The report of the county assessor shows a large increase in the assessed valuation of Weber county property for 1920 as compared with 1919. The returns are $49,934,760, while ; last years valuation was $41,229,480. Estate of the late Thomas Kearns last week paid into the state treasury $67,375.13, of which $65,996.56 was inheritance tax, the remainder being interest. The total, value of the estate was appraised at $2,078,670.59. A number of contractors of Salt Lake have decided that further negotiation with organized labor, under its present organization, wonld be useless, and that the building employers will proceed with their .business without , , regard to any union. y Three masked and armed bandits held up an automobile party 'of four-neSalt Lake City, and robbed them of their autoifidbUe,'Cwo diamond solitaire rings, A Cameo and diamond ring, $102 in currency a ruby ring and a Swiss wrist Watch. The Brigham Youngs university Is. contracting a large stadium in front of the Maeser building on Temple hill, In which the grand pageant' will h ,, g week at staged during Provo. It is estimated that 2000 per . sons can be seated in' the new struc- ' ; f hire. " Willard residents are Jubilant over the decision handed down by the commissioner of the general ,land office, which gives them first rights on 600 acres, of land valued at $180,000, possession of which they had for fifty years, but which, according to one official survey of the government, was " hi der water. non-unio- ( -- 1 ar ho&e-comin- ''. A' fV X. i A t' |