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Show V L Art Ym a Sdsoicr? If First Class Job Prating Let us At living prices. have your next order for anything you want printed. Rich County News printing is synonymous with art and efficiency. me CMptlM wifl wf kip Mb tim thi tmrj for an Kafcma isycsr roes aj. J cohneb of bich county TWENTY-SIXT- tn RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY, UTAI SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1923 YEAR H NO. 51 0 SIRIAROII FILE DEMURRER SENATE MAY REFUSE TO GRANT ' WITNESS IN INVESTIGATION SAYS LOAN OF $5000 WAS MADE TO DIRECTOR STAV, IN WHICH GOVERNOR MUST FACE TRIAL Execeutive Will Tell of His Attack on Invisible Empire Should He Be (Permanently Ousted Wild Orgies Indulged Money POLITICAL AND DEVELOPMENTS MORO COUNTRY SITUATION SEEM OMINOUS Alleged to Have Been in at New York Spenton Dinner oh Marie., WOW itf nwhino of Parties HI Oklahoma City, This week will see Governor Jack C. Walton appearing before the state senate to answer to the charges of incompetence corruption and moral turpitude which the lower house of the legislature voted against him. The governor is to come before the senate Thursday 'and it is believed his appearance will be accompanied by his counsel filing a general demurrer to the charges against him. The senate, sitting as a court, presided over by the chief justice of the state supreme court, will 'consider this demurrer and unless is is sus- tained the governor must go to trial before that body. Coincident with the opening of the "week in which the final attempt to --oust the governor comes the report that Governor Walton has been ap-- , proached about a Chautauqua lecture contract. The report became prevalent Monday and although the himself would not comment on it. Ills friends intimated that he was It considering such a proposition. was pointed out in case he was removed from office he may accept the offer, but only on that condition. If the senate finds him Innocent of th charges it was intimated that he of course, would not accept the offei1. The governor is to tell the world About his war with the Invisible em-gov--ern- or . Mftre ... B pTatform. IN MiMoRCSW Tender Resignations yooU ftsp 'EH 'THERE, Washington, Principals of Thomp. k . company loaned $5000 to Charles R. Forbes, while he was director of the veterans bureau at a time when the company was seeking a contract for the construction of a government 'hospital, Elias H. Mortimer of Philadelphia, a former agent of the company, testified Wednesday tCspyNsHW fit at the senate investigation of the veterans bureau, Mr. Mortimer said it was near the end of long negotiations for the contract and Mr. Forbes told him at a hotel in Washington that fixed the sum at $5000 and he arranged with James W. Black and J. W. Thompson, who then were at the hotel, to advance the money. Mortimer also told the commitie VVAGHINGTON EXTENDS GREETthat the negotiations for the contras ING TO GREAT BRITAIN'S 'with Forbes were marked by a numWAR PREMIER ber of drinking parties in Washington, Atlantic City, Philadelphia and New York. He declared the former Visit Marks First Meeting of British director was It frequent dinner guest and American Statesman at his hotel apartment here, and that Since Framing of Ver he paid the expenses of a four days sallies Treaty party at Atlantic City and also the expenses of two parties at the in Philadelphia. Washington, Washington extended the official welcome of the nation ' British to Give up Welhaiwel Thursday to David Lloyd George; . Pekin, An agreement under which Great Britains war timtf premier. the British government is willing to From the moment of hta early r-Weihal-, to in China relinquish rights HvaJ and greeting at tlia station fcjJ wei and surrounding territory aequir- - Thlfd Assistant Secretary-a- t State JJ art by Isuang-- i In 1001 had and Counselfer WutterWflgtri. work months after of by' 'a joint ton, of the British embassy, the for-mChinese-Britis- h The commission. premiers program for the first agreement has been submitted to the day, beginning with a call on Secre. forBritish legation and the Chinese tary Hughes, offered a little opportueign office for approval and ratifica- nity for relaxation after his strenuous tion. Considerable opposition to trip thus far in America. of the agreement has been the state department, a call voiced by a certain element of th' onLeaving President Coolidge at the White on tne ground House was next on the Shantung population, that H. T. Liang, head of the Chinese Luncheon there with the program. president commission, has not sufficiently safe- followed, with members of the cabinin the proguarded Chinas interests et invited to meet the former premier. ofposed restitution. At the foreign Afternoon hours had been set apart fice it was sad several changes and to include the event which Lloyd amendments to the draft probably has said he looked forward would be suggested, making early ra- George with special pleasure among all his tification unlikely. American anticipations his visit with Woodrow Wilson. The visit marks Troops Route Train Bandits the first meeting of the American and hunseveral routed Pekin, Troops statesmen, since their labor dred bandits who attempted Wednes- .British of months together in Paris in the on train a to passenger capture day of the Versailles treaty. the railway as It was framing After tea at the British embassy, passing through the northern part of The arrangements had been made for a Honan province, northbound train backed out of danger, under visit by the former premier and the The locomotive was struck by members of his family to the Walter fire. Reed army hospital. bullets, but no passengers were InTraffic has been suspended jured. Midwest Has Early Snow The raid took place at temporarily. Chicago, Rusty snow shovels were of Chengehow. Hushangcheng, south It was reminiscent of the Llnclieng brought out of cellars In the Rocky outrage of last spring wnen numer- Mountain and Middle West sections ous foreigners were taken from a Thursday to clean off sidewalks already snow covered, or In preparatrain and kidnapped. tion for the flurries forecast with lowSnow from one ered temperatures. Eleven Navy Officers Involved to five inches deep covers all Colothe navy Washington, Inquiry by rado, east Wyoming and western department to fix responsibility for South Dakota and rain and snow acthe loss of seven destroyers and a east score of men off Honda Point, Calif., companied a gale which swept over Lakes Great and the Northwest last September 8, entered a more serWestern ious phase Thursday with Secretary region Wednesday night. of Montana and Minnesota sections conimmediate Denbys order for the and Idaho reported snow. vening of a general court martial to on officers naval eleven duty try Lake Forces Take Two Boate with the squadron. Milwaukee, Wis., Members of the coast guard and federal prohibition Metal Dealers Bid for Ships agents Wednesday seized two inter-lakWashington, Eighteen metal scrap rum runners and arrested four concerns submitted bids Friday for men as Five hundred cases operators. cruisers battle and the six battleships were of beer and seized. The shipale on the ways at navy yards which are come from to be scrapped under the limitation ments were said to have seized boats The Ontario. Windsor, The of armament treaty. proposals and are the Mindora, cruiser, gasoline ranged from $500 for the uncomplet- the No. 2677 R., a speed boat. ed Constitution at Philadelphia to a group bid for all six ships aggregating Copper Miners Wages Cut . $600,000. Butte, Mont., Notices of a reduction in days pay were posted at Bankrupt Brokers Indicted in iButte, AnaconCincinnati, O., George H. Beazell all mining property Great Falls It is esand da Friday. tne of H. Chatfield Jr. and William affected are men 14,000 timated that bankrupt brokerage firm of Beazell The wage cut is operative November & Chatfield of this city, were IndictHamilton ed Friday by the county 1. High costs of production and low of metals are given as the reagrand Jury. The concern failed last price sons for the reduction in wages. for more than $1,000,000. son-Blac- N Mrs.-Forbe- s h Leads to 8hooting Davenport, la. George Brumbaugh, member of the Bubterworth properties of Moline, 111., one of the largest estates in this territory, and Miss Mary Thulin, also of Moline, were in a hospital Monday following a shooting affray, said to have been the outgrowth of a lovers quarrel. Physicians said both probably would die. Brumbaugh was said by poliefe to have shot the woman and then turned the gun on ' himself. Bonar Law In Critical Condition London, The condition of former Premier Andrew Bonar Law is beSir Increasingly serious. coming Thomas Horder, the famous cancer specialist, has been unable to check the progress of the grave throat malady from which the former premier Is suffering and his friends despair of bis recovery. Those who have seen him recently say that lie has failed greatly. Billy Sunday Claims $10,537 Niagara Falls, N. Y. Billy Sunday, moted evangelist left for his home, Winona Lake, Ind., Monday after closcampaign here before ing a the largest crowd of his visit. It was estimated that eight thousand persons jammed the tabernacle Sunday night several hundred of whom hit "the trail Sundays share of the contributions, including all gifts, was an. nounced as $10,537. Files Ten Million Dollar Suit New York, A suit in equity for $10,050,000 was filed in Federal court Monday by Shubert Vaudeville Inc., against the B. F. Keith Vaudeville exchange and the Orpheum circuit, Inc., alleging violation of the federal laws relating to restraint of trade. Robbers Escape With $46,064 Wheeling, W. Va., Loot valued at $46,064, was taken by thieves who yaided the Stone and Thomas department store here Sunday night. The trobbery was discovered when employ, ees reporting for work, found Louis Vockler, the night watchman, handcuffed to a post on the upper floor of the building. , Bankers Gather at Capital Washington, Nearly 1000 bankers here assembled Monday for the annual convention of the Investment Bankers Association of America. Following a business session, President Coolidge bad arranged to receive the delegates at the White House. I , V 38? Electrical wizard dies expectedly NEW . at un. home in YORK it fhief Expert For Electric General Regarded as One of Greatest Electricians Company of World Ritz-Carlt- d er Lovers Quarrel ETZ GALLED v beeh-yeache- - - OUWtJ (LOOK. General Wood Facing Most Desperate Condition Since U. S. Control: Four Members of Legislature -- Pekln-Hanko- e 50-ce- April Kellog Will Succeed Harvey Frank B. Kellogg, Washington, former United States senator from selected for Minnesota, has been Centenarian Dies American ambassador to London. He Sylvester Lyman, will succeed George Harvey, who re6t. Ansgar, la. who celebrated his 103rd birthday tea signed and the appointment is exdays ago, died at his home here Sal, pected to become effective in the near future. rday. Crew Rescued From Burning Ship Highlands, N. J., The British tank steamer San Manuel,, from Cardiff, Wales, for New York, reported by wireless Wednesday that the schoone-Willia- m 8. McDonald , was on fire sixteen miles east of Ambrosa lightship, and that she had rescued the crew. " Schenectady, N. Y., Charles P, Steinmeti .well known electrical wizard, died at 8:30 Friday morning. ' Stelnmetg has been under the care via physician for about two weeks and iti ddtb was as sudden as it was unf.-'- - ,. -- ' and returned to his home here ex. hausted. His physicians ordered him to bed and refused to permit visitors to see him. Last Monday is was announced he was steadily improving. . Friday morning, according to reports from the death chamber at his home he told his nurse a minute or so before he died, that he was feeling . fine. t Without warning or sign he turned over in bed and died. iSteinmetz was born in Germany and was one of the worlds greatest electrical engineers as well as a ranking mathetmatician. He neve married. Dr. Steinmetz birthplace was Bras-laGermany. He was born April He came to America twenty-f9, 1S65. u, our yea,rs ago. Steinmetz was very modest about his achievements In the electrical world hut was proud of his ability as a mathematician. He wrote a number of technical textbooks on electricity, most of which are considered invaluable in their special fields. In 1912 he was given the honorary degree of A. M. by Harvard and the following Union university, where be was a professor of electricity, and It was there the degree of P. H. B. was conferred upon him. Ten Thousand in Voluntary Fast The free state government announces that no prisoners have been released in consequence of a hunger strike and that none will be although freedom might be granted on At a meeting in Oother grounds. Connell street Thursday evening, republican speakers said that ten thousand persons were now undergoing a voluntary fast and would face death rather than endure prison. Dublin, Coolidge Promises Vets Aid Washington, Assurance was given by President Coolidge in a letter to of the disabled the organization American veterans, made public Thursday that those in places of responsibility are striving to the utmost to aid and compensate as far as compensation Is possible, tlie former service men disabled in the World war. The thousands who bear the scars of the war will always hold their place in the hearts of the American people, tlie president said. Dock Strikers Resume Work Vera Cruz, Work was resumed on the docks Wednesday after a strike of twelve days. There was no activity, however, on the dock owned by The controthe railway company. workers Between maritime the versy union and the railway employes led to the strike which had virtually tied The dispute between up the port. the two nnions has not been settled. Manila, Political developments and reports from the Moro country Saturday indicates that a situation exists in the Philippines that is more serious and more complicated than any that has existed here since the Ameri-ca- n administration became definitely established. While Governor General Leonard Wood and a large force of constabulary troops are in Mindanao investigating Moro troubles there, the political situation has come to a head in the resignation of tlie legislature late Saturday night. t Three representatives and one senator, appointed by Governor General Wood, have sent in a joint resignation, accompanied by the announcement, that, through appointed by the governor general, they could not indorse liis policies, and to avoid embarrassment for . him and themselves they deemed it best to quit their posts. The resignations of the legislators are regarded as a destinct victory for the Philippine independence commission, which for some time has been trying to prevail on appointive members of the legislature to resign. At a meeting Saturday morning the commission succeeded in inducing all but one legislator to agree to resign. Rather than present a divided front to the administration, opponents of . NewoNoteo From All Parts of UTAH Provo, Provo post of the American Legion will observe Armistice day, November 11, and the executive Is considering a program. Weston Vernon, Jr. Karl Logan, Young and Lawrence West, students at the Utah Agricultural college, have been appointed by President Elmer George Peterson as candidates from the college for the Rhodes scholarship. com-mitt- Ogden, Cornelia Mendonzona was found guilty of assault in the city court and sentenced to pay a $20 fine. He is alleged to struck Adolph Con. tras in the eye with his fist Price, William A. Parrish arrived in Price with the body of his wife, Mrs. Amelia Parish, who was killed in jumping from an automobile driven by her husband when it skidded on-- a dugway near Woodside. - Weber county heads the Ogden, list of counties in eleven western cow testing states, with fifty-fiv- e associations, with an average of 32.7 pounds of butterfat per head, accord, ing to the announcement of W. Pres, ton Thomas, county agriculture agent. St. George, The Boy Scouts of St. George have organized a scout band, under the leadership of Professor Earl Bleak of the Dixie college. The initial enrollment is eighteen. Provo, C. H. Cody, former freight agent of the Union Pacific system at Cedar City, has been appointed freight agent at Provo to succeed J. W. Thomas, who has been transferred to East San Pedro harbor. H. C. Walker, alias H. C. Provo Munday, who, officers believe, issuer bad checks In Provo more tnan nine months ago, was taken in charge last :.VeekJ)X poUcpdepartmept and is. being held for investigation. Ogden, Harry Stein, railroad man from Deeth, Nev., pleaded? guilty to the charge of battery In the city court and was sentenced to pay a $60 flue or serve sixty days in Jail. He was unable to pay the fine and was placed in jail. Shooting a duck about Logan, after sunset cost fifteen minutes Wilford Nielsen a fine of $25, which was Imposed by Judge Asa Bullen In the city court. lay, and at the night meeting camS off with a unanimous victory, all appointive members agreeing to resign. All hope for cooperation between the executive and legislative departments of the insular government is lost, the legislators said in resigning. They expressed the hope that the governor general would appoint somebody to their places who will cooperate with him. With Governor General Wood In Mindanao.it was impossible to say with authority whet his action will be as a result of tbc resignations, but it Park City, A live deer was capturis believed lie will accept all the re. ed by a party of motorists near Kam-a- s. The animal was turned over to signations forthwith. the game commissioner. Coolidge Asks Probe Heber City, Jack, the Washington, President Coolidge is son of J. L. Muir of Center Creek, desirous that the senate committee met with a painful accident, when he investigating administration of the was thrown from the horse he was veterans bureau examine carefully all riding. Both bones of his right leg, evidence of wrong doing in the aetivi-tie- s above the knee, were broken. The chief of the soldier agency. Tom Johnson and Leroy Ogden, executive conferred Saturday with disSenator Oddie of Nevada,' one of the Ross, who pleaded guilty in the to sentenced were the court trict commitRepublican members of the an indeterminate term tee, and was given a general report state prison for on the inquiry up to the present time. of one to five years. The senator told the president that Telephone poles Brigham City, although only one side of the case were blowx down and railroad tracks had been heard to date, there had piled high with debris and trees up. been sufficient evidence given to rooted at Honeyville, by a sixty-mil- e make it absolutely necessary that the gale whWth came from the northeast. committee go to the bottom of the Logan, A steady downpour of rain matter. This was understood to ac- which soon turned into sleet and snow cord with the presidents view. with the haris greatly interfering vesting of sugar beets in the valley Dutch Cabinet Resign according to H. P. Mathews, district The Haugue, The Netherlands cab- agricultural inspector. inet resigned Saturday in consequence Price, Mrs. W. A. Parrish, was alof the rejection by the second cham- most instantly klllod when she was ber of parliament Friday of the gov- run over by the auto from which she ernments naval bill providing for the It started to slide back as jumped construction of a fleet for the Dutch down a grade. ; West Indies. The queen requested the ministers to remain in office for th& Bingham, At a special meeting of the town board a clear title was propresent. cured to the Dry Forks canyon water and the remainder of the purchase Greek Revolt Ended London Announcement that all the price wae paid. Greek rebels have surrendered Is conLogan, Leaves clogging a grating tained in a dispatch from Athens re- in a canal which operated the Central ceived Saturday afternoon, the mill caused about 300 feet of the canal movement which broke to overflow and the site of the Soldout In Greece early this week thus iers Memorial park on East Center street was flooded. coming to an end. Hyrum, Burglars entered the AnPershing In Paris derson & 'Sons lumber yard at Hyrusa General Pershing arrived by a back window. They toox pocket Paris, here Saturday evening, motoring here knives, razors, clippers, shells and from Cherbourg, where he landed odd pieces of cuttlery roughly valued He refused to at about $100. . from the Leviathan. see the newspaper correspondents or St. George. Dixie college is In reeven to accept their cards, declaring of another worthy addition to ceipt that he is traveling strictly incognito its library, donated by John T. Wood-bur- y and desires to be left alone. Sr., a prominent St. George clti-seset consists of 200 volumes. The Turkish Cabinet Resigns cab. Provo, An option on 40 acres of Angora, Turkey, The Turkish inet suddenly resigned Saturday on land Immediately west of the Columaccount of general dissatisfaction pre. bia Steel corporation plants has been ripltaited by the incident of an attack secured by the Republic Creosoting at In. upon tne Turkish embassy at Erivan, company, with headquarters dlanapolis. Armenia. n. i |