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Show rf- - 4 m at IhtCbiM i rje- An Pretax a Sabscri&er? Ton ' At living prices.' Letus hare your next order far anything you want print cd ; Rich County News printing is synonymous w&h art and efSdcncy. H not pi remember your subscription will help make this paper strong a thing necessary far an unsurpassed news service. V' BEACHES EVERY NOOK AND COEITli OF RICH COUNTY TWENTY-SIXT- H YEAR RANDOLPH, NUMBER 14 RICH COUNTY, UTAH, SA1URDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1923 News Notes From Ail Parts of UTAH FATAL TO THREE ONE OF VICTIMS BELIEVED TO HAVE LIGHTED MATCH WHICH CAUSED FATAL BLAST REPORTS OF WORK CESSATION LEAD FRENCH TO DISPATCH ' -- UNITS TO OCCUPIED AREA , , L Degoutte Issues Solemn' Enigmatic .Statements About Results of First Month Of Invasion General AUTHORITIES 8EEK MAN AND I N CONNECTION WOMAN WITH STORY OF ATTACK A. Baldwin of Casper, Joseph J. Klodt, Rancher, and Burton D. Rayburn - Are Reported At Killed o . r, T BHiamltli'gqtfliaMiiteola. . - i Newcastle, Wyo. Three men were instantly killed by a gas explosion Wednesday afternoon in toe Osage oil field near here, It was learned here Thursday. The dead are L. A. Baldwin of Casper, oil promoter; JoEfWlL . seph J. Klodt, ranchman, and official of the Newcastle Gil company, and Barton D. Rayburn, an employe of the Midwest Refining company. The men had gone - Into a cave storehouse to' Inspect supplies when the explosion occurred. It is believed that one of the men struck a match. Igniting gas which had acum-ulate- d Two men were In the cave. burned in the wrecked cave, while BETWEEN Rayburn was blown fifty feet from RECONCILIATION FREE STATE AND REPUBLICAN the entrance to the cave. CONTINGENT EXPECTED L, A. Baldwin formerly lived at Lusk and leaves a widow and son in Casper. Rayburn lived in Casper until December 1. He is survived by a Political Siginficance Attaches to Visit of Cosgrave, Dail President, wife and small daughter. To London , at This . Time; Appeals to Irregulars Addtcte Movie Antidope Chief After ' Washington. A list of alleged drug addicts in the Hollywood movie Dublin. Hopes for a reconciliation colony and detailed - information as between the Irish Free State' governtd, their source of supply , has been ment and at least an important part deceived here by Colonel L. GfNutt, of the republican element . were Fumes Overcome Citizen . chief of federal narcotic forces, from brighter Friday in consequence of the CSmdws N- - J Six a dead and a hs agents in southern California, developments .that led Richard Mat .5dowro "i . --.JJwwere overcome Monday with the as- - eghy, the minister of defense, to offer wae The compiled F't v j tijo V iveroment who wif sum:. F - cover!.. g general- arms on or before F ebruary 18. 1 ' deadly Jumef. itu. mcvw' The minister's proclamation was the with Zj ot William fine- ly s improving at Hollywood was wiped .out The cooperation of the Famous Flayers-Lask- y the result of Liam Deasys appeal to other leaders to lay down lx bodies were found by rescue . studio, Thomas Ince corpora- their republican arms,' as he himself has constudio workers.' Firemen and citizens work- - tion, the Fairbanks-Fick'for- d sented to do. Deasy has been sening with wolunteer rescuers - were and" the chamber of commerce there, tenced to deatb. A tew days ago he overcome. An emergency hospital set Nutt's agents Informed him. , No signed an agreement for the surrentown center in the of .Was the up more parties" are being staged, their der of arms and men, and was then crowded with- - victims. Pulmotors are report stated. It declared the biggest permitted to ask several prominent being used to revive them. dope peddler operating in that re- republicans to take a similar step. William Cosgrave, president of the gion known as the Hollywood wop Salaries Paid In Oil Business High Dail Eireann left for London Thursbond. held $5000 was under being Washington Salaries running in day night. His visit Is reported fo to five and six figures are paid by have considerable political signifiCollide Two Steamere the .leading oil companies' of the cance. : ' Ban Francisco. Formal survey ot country to their , chief officials, it .The Freemans Journal says that off collision in the was disclosed Monday through publithe damage done 600 prooners at Limerick have also cation In part of the proceedings of the Golden Gate Wednesday morning asked for the opportunity to press the senate subcommittee, which. has between the Matson liner Wllhelmina upon their leaders the futility of a Sierra been investigating (be oil Industry. and the lumber laden steamer war extermination." of New Jersey is was to be made .here.. The Sierra, . The Standard The newspaper describes the new angle, severely shown to lead with respect to salar- listed at a as a genuine effort tor developments ies, having six officials who receive damaged and waterlogged, was towed peace. . $100,000 or more a year,, and five Into port late Wednesday and tied The article concludes as follows: others wbo get between $50,000 and np at pier, ' Her master, Captain Noboby will any longer have doubt , O. A. Jansen, made no comment. The , .$100,000. as .to where the responsibility rests at came into which port Wllhelmina, for the continuance qf the struggle. own Free State Father Assassinated , noon Wednesday under her In bows stove ' her hole a had Dublin. Dr. Thomas OHlggins of power, Negro Confesses Eight Murders and was leaking but the damage to Maryborough, father of Kevin OHigA series serious. ot crime considered not was Waco, , Tex. her afgins, free state minister of home which have baffled officers here for fairs was assassinated. The tragedy the past year were cleared Friday by near Strad oecured at Woodlands House of David Faces' Expoeure the alleged confession of Royal MitchBally. A party of armed men drew up Raw Faw, Mich. Secret rites of to having committed eight 7 at residence the of Benton ell, negro, OHigglhs hpar the House ot David assaults with Intent three murders, o'clock Sunday evening and three Harbor, Mich., are threatened with to murder and a number of attacks 'iQembers approached the house and exposure by court action. February on women from February 12, 1922, to demanded admittance. 18, Judge Robert Des Voignes will 19, 1923, according to Sheriff January rule on a motion to ' prevent the Leslie and County Attorney Stegall PurIn Harbor 'Wind Wrecks Steamar questioning of king Benjamin G. S. Farmer. Three women were i Seattle. Buffeted by a high wind nell in a suit for $800,000 damages when their escorts were assaulted ,and heavy seas, the steamer Fidalgo brought by two of his girl followers. killed, two of the women having been was virtually beaten to pieces against The suit filed by Ruth Bamford Reed, to two assaults, according the Albers Brothers .Milling Com- 17, and Gladys Bamford Rubel, 19, subjected to the alleged confesson. The conimmoral with and here Purnell pracdock early Monday charged pany's fession was made to the sheriff and sank in five fathoms of water. The tices carried on under the cloak of county prosecutor Thursday, put in vessel, a small Puget Souad freighter writing and signed by Mitchell. Two .valued and was at steamer $30,000 Chewing Gum is Profit Producer negroes were tried and convicted for had aboard a cargo of 3,004 sacka of Wrig-le- y the slaying of of Mr. and Mrs. Barker Profits William Chicago. ' i oats. Jr. company ot Chicago, manufac- and Turk, the killing of whom Mitchturers for 1922, were $6,404,635 after ell confessed. One of these negroes, Father and Children Perish In Fire deducting all charges and federal Cooper Johnson, was given the death Indiana, Pa. Andrew Polaceka and taxes it became known Tuesday. That penalty, and the other, Bennie Xoung, four of hie children were burned to amounted to a profit of $11.40 a share life Imprisonment. Their cases are d,Ch In a fire which destroyed their on the 539,055 shares of $25 par com- now on appeaL home' in a .remote part of Indiana mon stock outstanding before the county Sunday, Mrs. Polaceka, ' who declaration ot a 10 per cent stock Montana's Bonus Measure Invalid was badly burned, was brought to a dividend late In - December. Net compensaHelena. The soldiers where a few hours for 1921 were $4,910,677. tion measure, voted by referendum profits the mother of a by people of Montana last November Physicians said both by the 8. Decision was held unconstitutional to Request U. f woulcT live. ; , - t In a decision i Leagues Geneva. Under a decision taken state supreme court, in a test case handed down Saturby the disarmament conferTrial ef Former Governor Resumed Saturday day morning. . . the league the of ence of nations, Ada, Okla. With all the former le- council of, the league will be asked gal efforts at change Ot venue, quas8ugar Strikers Clash with Police to Invite the United States governFt. Defiance, Martineque. Strikhing of indictment and demurrers to present concrete proposiment, the long delayed trial of J. tions concerning the general lines ing sugar cane cutters clashed with B. A. Itolerts n, former governor of of collaboration It Is able to give gendarmes near Bassignac Saturday Oklahoma on a charge of accepting other governments with regard to and the police opened fire. Several part of- - an alleged bribe of $26,000 to International control of traffic in strikers were killed and others wounded. allow a state bank to continue to op- arms and also the private manufacThe governor sent reinforce erate after It had failed was ments soldiers and marines to the of ture of arms. , r district. Monday. religion. Dusseldarf. Reports that the Germans are organizing a general strike at Herne, not far from Bachum, have led to the dispatch of French tanks to that place. The Germans are boycotting the forces of occupation throughout the Herne district and the French have been obliged to take over the work of some of the German police. ..The boycott is becoming more and more popular .throughout the Ruhr and the Germans have decided to extend It to Essen, refusing to do business with the French and Belgians beginning Monday. Commenting on the results . of the first month of the occupation, General Degoutte told the correspondent that Germany Is branded as a quitter before the entire world. , ,, Bur, I solemnly warn Germany, he continued, that if a single one of my soldiers Is harmed and she forces another battle on ns, she will not stay our hand by crying kamerad. It ;wiir be' a fight to the f inish-j-- a complete knockout'' The general expressed the opinion , that Germany would not fight until he belle.vOd herself stronger than hwdvemfy;'. 3, -- r. l f rli,trcvJs k.holr . - ' 4MnjhJhrr. d, ii, y V h ft ft 8. r- Frederick, Md. Policemen in this city and Baltimore were searching Tuesday for a man and woman who are believed to have kidnapped Sister Ceciia, a music teacher, at the Notre Dame academy here, Monday afternoon, and to have taken her to Baltimore, where she escaped from a house there, after being held captive for several hours, and returned to the institution In a dazed condition. Stewart Cathcart, a taxi driver of Baltimore, who brought Sister Cecilia to Frederick in his machine Monday night, was locked np in jail at the request of Father Kane. While not believing Cathcar to be Implicated in the kidnaping, the priest stated that Cathcart gave ' evasive answers to many of his questions. -.According to Sister Cecilias story as recited to Father William J. Kane, overseer of the Notre Dame convent, she was struck over the head with a blunt Instrument by the man, and drugged. She was still In bed Tuesday suffering from fright as a result of her adventure. Sister Cecilia, whose age on the convent records is given as 81 years, was formerly Miss Marie Whalen of Verona, Pa., a suburb ot Pittsburg. King Georgs Opens Parliament London. The Ruhr question was stressed by King George Tuesday lh his address from the throne, opening tha second seselon cL the iourtk m-i;m- .t Provo. David O. Allen, proprietor of Allens grocery met with a painful accident when he was run. down by a automobile driven by Aaron Chip-maof American Fork, c - , t Wcllsvllle. R. L. Wriglty, .Cache Hendry county agent and Johir president of the- - Wellsville Farm bn reau, met with the women; of the com. munity and aided them- - iit planning projects itt'extensionrwork. Spanish Fork. school of tK3 Utah AgricWtr l lege was a busy place here-. v the sessions held. Logan. Marvin Veates ville, a senior' at the South CStehO " high school, is announced as the Arts ner of the Union Pacific $75 scholarship' to the Utah Agricultural college. Logai. According to R. IS. Me. Quarrie, secretary of the Cache County Farm bureau, a membership drive is being conducted by the association. Salt Lake City. Five carrier pig- flew- -' eons liberated In Philadelpla More from that city to SSalt (Lake. than a week was consumed by the 1 trip. Salt Lake City. Raids by Sheriff Harries on local cigar stores during the past week resulted in several arrests for alleged violation' of the J ; anti cigarette law. ' ' Sait Lake C ity. George Hailey, J years of age, leaped from the porch railing of his .home, and'Ws impaled a' steel picket of ti "ord fgbee. - PfPPLICATION GRANTED IN Lt BUT ONE MEMBER , FU . Tran; ortatlon Act Cited to Justify Cc Aidation of Lines; Conelu-- ' A .4 Subject to Review by ' , Court. Y ilhgton The application o the jm Pacific company to retain its i went eontol of tlie Cental Pacific all road by ownership ot Its Sou. and tease of its lines was Saturday in full, by a decision; cf the Interstate commerce com? " r. T. ml; ceApf'Tjja weven jenrs of thevd.,f litlgalloa over the exhlsting merger of the roads' held them to be a combination In restraint of competition and ordered them separated, the conimission-r-wltbut one member dissenting declared their maintained union was necessary In the interests of the western states they traverse and the country as a whole. Further, the majority declard, the former policy of the nation in demanding maintenance of competition above all other things In transportation services, had been reversed by the congressional enactment of the transportation act of 1920, permitting of railroads general consolidation under government supervision. On this ground the maintenance of the merger of the two roads notwithstanding the courts decree to be legally authorized and advisable in view of public necessities. The opinion pointed out, however, that the conclusion of the commission would be subject to review by the coarts before they could become effective. stoc Itrjui, . owm, Foch Urged as Commander Paris. Appointment of Marshal Foch as supreme commander in the Ruhr was being urged by influential newspapers and public men Saturday as Prtemier Flo incare and Foreign Minister Jaspar of Belgium met to discuss plans for shattering German resistance. Closer cooperation between the Frnch and Belgians is the object songhL With the two armies working together in perfect harmony lt would be easier to bring the Germans in the invaded arda to their knees and begin making the adventure a paying proposition." While Poincare urges .unified command as the firtt step in bringing about such cooperation, the Belgians demand that a Belgian high commissioner, equal in power to t&e French commissioner, be appointed. Wheat Corporation Bill Sanctioned Washington. The bill of Senator Gooding, to create a government wheat stabilization corporation with $300,000,000 capital to buy and sell wheat was reported favorably by unanimous vote of the senate agricultural committee. A basic guaranteed price of $1.75 per bushel for No. 5 northern wheat would be provided by the bill and would apply to the crop of the next three years. The corporation on July 1st each year under a committee amendment, would determined whether basic price should be changed. Commercial Cable Again Alive San Francisco. The Commercial Pacific cable, which went out of commission between Honolulu and Midway island February 2, has been repaired and resumed transmission td and from the Far East Saturday, according to an announcement. t , ' n, Old Man Winter antertainad tha and (irU of this vicinity yaater- - . Clarence A. Broyles, a brakdman, who was killed when a D. R.' G. & W. train crashed through a bridge near Deseret -- o YjSyKt L )$ENTS FROM OPINION of Music Teacher Tells Priest 8he Was Struck on Head and Drugged; Auto Driver Held for Investigation - V. 0 Co w Vo. ? a- to Deseret Damages amounting are asked for the death $10,000 ... el his r' i'. t gSvwTieB was unable to codiairtor pirucipat'- In the Ruhr operations, it as acting in such a way as noto add to the difficulties of Gree 'ains allies. The king disposed ofthdh American debt question in one sentence, saying that he welcomed the settlement, which reflects the determination of our people to meet their obligations. The remainder of the speech was1 devoted largely to an expression of the hope that the Turkish question, mght be settled. . The sovereign also touched upon domestic problems, par- Partlament ticularly unemployment. was opened with the usual ceremonies of state. King George, accompan--1 led by Queen Mary, setting in motion1 the machinery of what is generally' regarded as one of the most import-- , ant sessions since the declaration ofi peace. In view of the unsettled European situation and the financial,' trade and labor questions at home. Grand Jury for Bastrop Expeoted Bastrop, La. Preliminary step toward selection of the grand Jury which will be asked to Investigate alleged operations of the Ku Klux Klan In Morehouse parish were expected to be made here Tuesday. Attorney General A. V. Coco, is expeetd to appear before the jury immediately after March 0, and- - place before It evidence developed at the open bearing here last month into floggings, deportations and the kidnaping and slaying of Watt Daniel and T. F. Richard. V ' ot'Wfeil v Prtr very'fruly. Week WMl l)re'b'(5e ed aBiLprflcts ex here with hibition of intermountain products In ? qll shop windows. accident Was nar rowly averted here when the Salt Lake Route passenger train struct heavy piece of iron which bad been wedged into the frog of the switch, t Roosevelt. J. P, May, newly elected president .of the Roosevelt Commercial club, commenced his activities by putting before the club the need of a stronger organization. Fire caused damage of $23,000 to the grocery stock of Tony BemardI, and the building in which it was located. Provo. The Utah county farm bureau has approved the dealt' home and town campaign that is jto be started by the state farm bureau. Provo. According to Secretary Baker of the Provo Fish and Game Protective Game Association, 750,000 rainbow trout will be planted In . ' the Provo river. -- s Manti A new electric stove has been purchased for the kitchen of the new high school building 'by the Olkas club of the schooli . - Provo. George Craig, agent at the Balt Lake Route station bere for 38 years died in a hospital after a long Illness. Manti. The past week Manti has been in the coldest grip experienced in a number of years. Santa Fe Would Take Over Line Washington. The Atchison, ToMoab. Residents of San Juan peka A Santa Fe railroad asked the of and qounty, Utah, ti$ western Interstate commerce commission Tuesof Delores county t Colo., have part to over for take and day authority forces in the endeavor to n line of joinedmore uniform mail service for operate the twenty-two-mil-e the Rio Grande, El Faso ft Santa Fe their towns. railroad, which runs from El Faso, Richfield. The Richfield Commerline. Tex., to the New Mexico-Texa- s The Rio Grande is now owned by the cial club is planning an ambitious Santa Fe, and lt was said that the program for the 1923 season under merging of its operating staff with its newly elected officers.. that of the Snata Fe would result in Provo. The ProvO; high school economies and more efficient operaauditorium is to be completed ' imtion. mediately. Members of the board of education unanimously voted to com1 Declares Alguin Admits Killing Los Angeles. Felipe (Little Phil) plete the Interior of the building. ' Alguin, recently , deported from MexAmerican Fork. Operations are beico after a continent-wid- e search for carried on steadily in the Pacific ing him, has confessed to Chief of Police mine. All of the other properties Louis D. Oaks to the slaying of De- were forced to shut down because of tective Sergeant John J. Fitzgerald the heavy snowfall In December. here eighteen months ago. .... Provo. A resolution proposing the Two Treated for Sleeping Sicknesa establishment of certain departments El Paso. Two cases of sleeping in the conduct of the affairs of Utah have been reported here. H. R. Pax- county was introduced at a meeting ton, assistant to William T. Kemper of the county commissioners. of Kansas City Mo., president of the Brigham City. The dairy business Kansas, Mexico & Orient railroad, has been asleep for eight days. Mr. Pax- in Boxelder county was given impetus ton returned January 31 from Chihua- at a meeting of the farmers and bus hua, Mex., where he has been direct- iness men of this community beta during the week at the Commercial ing improvement work, and complainclub rooms ed of illness. di-tai- - . ' - |