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Show THE MAMMOTH RECORD, MAMMOTH CITY, UTAH s The Spring Drive VISITED From All Part$ of IN BLUE UTAH ISI5I9l9!33ISI3IBJSI18iBIBIBISIBInllBI3I9IBI9l3ISIBS ONE IS KNOWN TO BE DEAD AND MANY MISSING AS RESULT OF FIRE FORMER JUVENILE JUDGE 8ET8 IN COURT AND HEARS CASES AS RECOUNT GOES ON GUARDS AND MINERS CLASH AT OSAGE, W. VA. MINES IN BITTER GUN FIGHT of Many Cities Fire Departments Fight to Save Magazines; Girls Seek Safety By Jumping Through Windows Pencil Marked Ballots Develop and Outcome With Reoount, Graham Appears Much in In Several Have Narrow Escape From Injury by Flying Bullets; Only One of Trespassers Is Injured Hanover, Mass. One man Is known to be dead and several other emFireworks ployes of the National companys plant here are believed to have lost their lives when a series of explosions followed by a fire destroyed a large part of the plant. The fire departments of seven towns were struggling to save the magazines and surrounding houses. Several other employees in the same building escaped by jumping through windows into the Drinkwater river. It was estimated that 100 of the 300 buildings had been destroyed. The number of dead will not be determined until a checkup has been made. The explosion in the mixing shed was followed almost immediately by s long series of detonations as building after building went up in fragments. Frantic girls at work in the sheds dived through doorways or windows to seek safety in the river. So severe was the concussion that all the windows were blown out in the factory of the Hanover Rubber company, 1000 feet away, and many workers were thrown to the floor. A high wind drove the sparks far and wide, starting grass and brush fires over a large area. With a large part of the plant already destroyed, the firemen strove to save the company houses, occupied by workers, many of whiclN caught fire from the sparks. The factory was established in 1901. The explosion occurred immediately after the resumption of work for the afternoon. In the mixing shed the work of blending powder in 300 pound lots for the manufacture of fireworks had been done by hand, but a machine was introduced as a labor saving device. Officials believe that a spark from this machine fell on twenty-fiv- e bags of black gunpowder, causing it to explode. The plant is situated in a wooded area in North Hanover, and the sheds are placed from fifty to sixty yards apart among the saplings and brush. A brush fire, discovered soon after a mile from the fepot, was believed by firemen to have started from the same explosion. Many other brush fires were started by sparks. The explosion and fire, passing from one building to another, ted an area of about 640 acres. Juvenile Judge Ben famous as an nationally Lindsey, authority on juvenile delinquency, is losing his grip on the bench seat he has ocucpied for more than two decades. A total of 206 votes included in the original election returns last November, that showed him a winner for the judgeship over Royal R. Graham by 117 votes, were lost to Judge Lindsey when a recount had been completed In thirty of Denvers 211 election precincts. The recount was ordered by Judge Julian H. Moore, in district court, after charges of fraud at the polls had been made by both sides in the ouster suit being pressed by Graham. ballots Nearly 300 pencil-markeare In contest and these, attorneys on both sides predicted, may decide the outcome of the contest. At least ten days yet 'will be required to complete the recount, it is estimated. Judge Lindseys counsel argue that Graham cannot assume the bench even If their client is declared to have been defeated. They contend that he did not have the residential requirements necessary for office at the time of the election. Judge Lindsey does not appear in the courtroom, but busies himself with childrens affairs in his famous court. He charges that his avowed opposition to the Ku Klux Klan was the motive behind the attempt to unseat him. That both men might be disqualified for the position and the county commission authorized to appoint a juvenile judge was an eventuality that was widely discussed by persons clearly observing the case. fifty-poun- Doubt Turks Enlarging Navy The Turkish naConstantinople, tional assembly at Angora has voted an extraordinary credit of 15,000,000 liras for the navy, to he used over a period of five years. It also voted 3,000,000 lirus for the air forces. The Turkish lira Is equivalent fo about $1,39 American money. Morgantown, W. Va., A rifle and revolver fight lasting nearly an hour was staged here between guards at the Osage mine of the Brady-Warne- r Coal corporation and trespassers, alleged by the coal company to have been striking miners. April 6th marked the sixth day of the strike of bituminous miners in northern West Virginia and, as asserted by mine officials, the holdout has been unsuccesful to date. Less than 25 per cent of the mines in this section have been affected by the strike order, mine owners state. Guards brought to the Osage mine several days before the miners left OLD DAYS OF WEST ARE BEING CONDEMNED TO DIE FOR KILLthe workings ordered a group of men AT PARK CITY, REVIVED AT GILBERT, NEV., ING WOMAN from the mine property. Later noises AS TOWN GROWS. PLEADS INNOCENCE . of talking and what guards state sounded like hammerings were heard beneath the coal tipple. An investiGold Strike Brings Back Scenese Man Is Sentenced for Third Time gation followed and the mine guards Similar to Goldfield, Manhattan For Crime Which Was Commitwere met with a volley of shots. The and Rawhide of Twenty ted Early in 1923; Will Pay fire was returned and a running gun Years Ago. Penalty on May 15th. fight ensued, which lasted for nearly an hour. Finally all of the trespassers were forced outside the comGilbert, Nev. Days of the old Coalville, Utah. Pedro Cano, con- pany property lines and the guards western frontier were recalled vivid- victed as the murderer of June St. returned to the mine buildings. ly by this new mining camp, a gold Clair, will expiate his crime before narrow Several men experienced boom town that has sprung up at a a firing squad in the state prison O. B. Barnes, from escapes injuries. place where only rocks and sand and at Salt Lake City the morn- an officer in the mine guard was distant mountains were visible a few ing of Friday, May 15. burned by powder, when a pistol was weeks ago. District Judge William M. McCrea exploded in his face. The bullet Scenes here are reminiscent to " passed sentence of death on the conof such camps as Goldfield, demned man. Twice Cano evaded the passed through his hat. Bullets pass-of several other coats ed the through Manhattan and Rawhide twenty-oddeath chair, first by appeal from the guards. years ago. trial court judgment and then by reAn investigation is being made of Gilbert now has a Main street, linprieve granted by Governor George a report that one of the trespassers ed with wooden structures of all siz- H. Dern the day before the execution was injured in the fray. es and sorts. There is even a week- date. Hundreds of men are idle and the The ly paper, the Gilbert Record. Cano, facing the court reiterated hillsides are dotted with 100 or more his claim of innocence and, in ans- fences surrounding the grounds of the Osage mine are lined with women tents. Almost hourly big trucks ar- wer to the query as to what reason and children, while guards patrol the rive from Tonapah and Mina, the there sentence should might by why nearest railroad points, loaded with not be imposed replied that he would interior as well as the surface propand sup- like more time in which to search erty of the mine, fearing, they state, lumber, coal, machinery plies. New houses are going up, and for Refugia Alemeda, whom he as- an attempt to damage the property. almost every line of business inci- serts committed the murder. dent to a mining camp is represenG 2- June St. Clair was killed the night Doukhobors Plan Parade ed. There are stores, restaurants, an of March 14, 1923, in her shack in the hundred Nelson, B. C. Twenty-fivassay office, law offices, a garage and Park City tenderloin district. Her a religious sect, which Dougbohors, service station, a dance hall. assailant stabbed her several times several times has manifested its disThe real story of Gilbert starts In in the abdomen. Cano, who occu-pieapproval of Canadian laws by staging 1896, when Charles Lampson, a desa nearby house, was arrested, "nude parades, cheered at the prosert prospector, picked up a piece of tried and convicted. pect of a new demonstration when a rich gold quartz near an Indian camp Following conviction, John Tobin, demand was made that their children in the Monte Cristo range. Lampson counsel for Cano, took the case on sent to school. You have the the appeal to the state supreme court. be spent, many months searching to seize our property for paypower hills for the outcropping from which Meanwhile Cano divulged what he ment of fines, but if you do, we take come. Ihe gold had Finally he gave claimed to be the true story of the off our outer garments, one spokesup and wandered away to other killing. Refugia Alemeda, he said, man said. The leaders declared that fields. had been his sweetheart, and she beschool laws were contrary to the J. B. Gilbert took up the search". came enraged over a fancied affair the Doukhobor interpretation of the law He met with no more success than between himself and their neighbor. of God. Educated people, they said, His persons, however, Lampson. He returned at midnight to find her were responsible for the death of sisted in the hunt. The older Gilbert leaving their place dressed In some Doukhobor leader, died many years ago. Nearly twenty-thre- e of his clothing and she returned la- Peter Veregin, was killed who October when a last years later, his three sons, ter and told him of the killing, es- bomb on a Canadian train. exploded and located Herman the caping before the arrival of officers r,,red, Logan, Last Hope. They had called it that his story held. because they had planned to make The supreme court denied a new Farmers Profit In Rodent Campaign it their last effort to wring gold from trial. The date originally fixed for Moscow, Ida. Idaho farmers were 'hose hills. his execution was in September, 1923. saved approximately $829,000 in deThe Gilbert boys began to get val- The appeal to the supreme court aut- vastation by rodent pests last year ues from the surface. They took out omatically stayed this, but when that through the extermination work cari shipment, and the excitement startbody denied the appeal he was re- ried on by the University of Idaho ed. A few' days later Dick Raycraft sentenced to be shot on January 30, extension service, it has been intia veteran prospector, working for 1925. mated by officials of the service and the Gilberts, discovered the "jewelry Meanwhile Canos stubborn fight cooperating farmers. Cooperative shop in a badger hole on top of a to escape the death chair, attracted campaigns for the control of the rohill, now known as the Black Mam- many supporters to his cause. The dent pests were, carried on in thirty-eigh- t moth. Some of the rock assayed $1 case became the subject of notes excounties, it has been announced "U more a pound. This started the changed between the American and from the office of E. J. Iddings,, dean stampede. Mexican departments of state. Fin- of the college of agriculture and diThe exposed rock on the surface ally, upon the representations ot rector of the extension. A total of of the Gilbert holdings is so rich that Cano and his friends that if given 306,027 pounds of poisoned bait were an armed guard patrols the place time he could prove Mrs. Alemeda distributed and 27,085 pounds of calrenight and day. Thousands have visi- guilty, governor Dern granted the cium cyanide were used on 2,003,783 ted the sirike. It is estimated that prieve which was terminated at the acres of land. not less than $5000 lias been given last session of the board of pardons. away in specimens. Attempts to locate the Alemeda Davis Is Hundreds of prospectors are in the woman-werfutile. Recently Sheriff New York. of a John W. Davis, who Coalville received surrounding hills. Many new strikes J. C. Clark to have resigned as president of the English-speakinhave been reported. Every day the lengtihy letter purporting union of the United States Interest grows more intense, been written in Ophir, but postmarkgoldseelcers are coming1 back ed Salt Lake and carrying the signa- when he entered the presidential froin Mexico, from Canada and else- ture, Refugia Alemeda. The writer campaign as Democratic candidate corroborated Canos statements as to last summer, has been reelected. Wilwhere. While the Gilbert's Last Hope first the crime, declared his innocence and liam II. Taft preceded Mr. Davis as drew attention to the new gold field, accepted full blame for the murder. president of the union. it is the Black Mammoth and the Homestuke that hid fair to make the New Corporation Is Formed Coolidge Gets Gold Pass camp world famous. The Ilomestake Chicago. A new $119,000,000 corWashington. A season pass to the is just beyond Black Mammoth, and poration to take over Wilson & Co., National league baseball gameB in recently it gave up a ledge 1000 feet packers, now in receivership, by sale the form of a half a small gold baselong which pans gold the entire dis- under a federal court order within Cool-ulg- e tance. There are eight different lo-- ' four months Is contemplated in reor- ball was presented to President John of by Heydler, president cat ions where gold specimens may ganization plans announced here and hat league. The presidents name is be taken from lire surface at ran- unanimously approved by representaon the flat surface, an I dom. Much development work is in tives of all groups of creditors and engraved the pass is numbered one. progress. security holders. Twofold Trouble Strikes Man Denver, Colo. While Thomas L. Irwin was at the bedside of his wife In a hospital he received word that 4, Elizabeth, bis daughter Bertlnv was dying of influenza at the Childto the ren's hospital Hurrying he found the Childrens hospital, child dead. There he was called on the telephone and Informed that his Mother and daughwife was dead. ter were burled in the same p eve in u lftoo! cemetery. $500 Offered For Religious Play Oregon Man Due for Appointment Washington. A prize of $500 has Wallace McCamant Washington. been offered by the foderal council who npset the of Portland, Ore., of churches for a religious play of leaders of the by Republican plans The winning stampeding the Chicago convention social significance. In 1920 to Calvin Coolidge'for vice manuscript will be published in u volto ume of was recommended president, religious drama now in' prep-President Coolidge for a federal judg-ship- . aration and may he prod need before Senator Stanfield took the rec- a representative conference next autommendation to the White House, The suggestion was made that umn, suggesting that Judge McCumant be the deal "with such themes as play recaused to the by vacancy named racial or international industrial, tirement of Judge Ross of the Ninth circuit. Colo. Denver, B. I d d Republicans Carry Wisconsin Detriot. Republicans overwhelmed Democrats in the biennial spring election for minor state officers. With returns from virtually every populaus county in the state, a Republican plurality for all offices exThe ceeding 100,000 was indicated. total vote was small. The offices filled were two university regents, two members of the supreme court, two members of the state board of agriculture, one superintendent of public instruction, a state highway commissioner and a member of the state board of education. Babe Ruth III World New York. The Evening says that Babe Ruth, professional baseballs premier slugger, collapsed in the railway station at Asheville, N. C., as the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Robins , reached that city for another game of their exhibition series. The newspapers baseball correspondent, traveling with the teams, said that. Ruth fainted and that he apparently was suffering from Influenza. lie has been ailing for the last few days of the strenuous barnstorming tour. Arizona Pioneer Called Phoenix, Ariz. Mrs. Lizzie Warner, widely known Arizona pioneer and the last of the five charter members of the Order of the Eastern Srar in the United States, died at her home near here. She was 86 years . Dr. Cook Goes To Prison Forth Worth, Texas. .Dr Frederick A. Cook has said au revoir, but not good-bye- , to Fort Worth. Ill be back some time, the promoter-convic- t told the friend who gathered to bid him farewell as he boarded the train for Leavenworth prison. Texas has been the scene of my bitterest trouble, but I like the state and plan to make it my home when I am a free man His departure for the fedagain. eral penitentiary, in which he Is under sentence of fourteen years and nine months for fraudulent use of .the mails, marked the end of another installment of Dr. Cooks astounding career and also terminated his sojourn of more than sixteen months in the Tarrant county jail. Through the clemency of Federal District Judge James C. Wilson, the time spent in jail awaiting for a new trial will he applied to Dr. Cooks sentenpliysician-ex-plorer-writer-o- il , ce. Blast Kills Two Cripple Creek, Colo. Two miners were killed and another was fatally injured in an explosion of unknown mine near origin In the Portland here. In the premature explosion of a shot on the thirtieth level of the Portland gold mine at Victor, Paul Yonke, 40, and Harry Dawson, 38, were instantly killed and Fred liana, liana is 50, was seriously Injured. at Victor in the district hospital with a probable fractured skull. You-kand Hana were machine men and Dawson a trammer. Mine e Great Smelt Run At End Portland, Ore. The greatest smelt run in the history of the Sandy Troutdale residents sdy in the history of the world is ended. The annual smelt run this season lasted just twenty days. Heretofore it seldom lasted a week. During the run tons of smelt were taken by amateur and commercial fishermen. They were so thick they could be scooped up easily In nets and baskets. old. Bandits Make Big Haul Los Angeles. Rene Marx, wealthy automobile dealer and three companions were robbbed of jewelry valued at $30,000 by two armed men who met them in the driveway of the Marx home here as they were returning from (t party in Marxs car. Laundry Hides Opium Den Kansas City, Mo. A Chinese opium den, operating under the guise of a laundry, was raided here, resulting In the capture of u quantity of opium ' News Noteo -- and the urreRt of John Chung, proprietor. In addition to having a well fitted room for opium smokers in the rear of the laundry, federal authorities said the drug was retailed over the city in laundry packages. Chung is thought by officers to be a representative of a gang of opium import-- n on the Pacific coast. old-time- d e ' " e d g Old-tim- e Tucker Refuses Salary Increase Washington. Following the policy of his grandfather, a member of the fourth congress, Representative Henry St. George Tucker, Democrat, Virginia, declined to accept the full value of his March paycheck because it carried an increase of $208.33, an amount he holds he is not entitled to because he was elected lo a position carrying that much less. He mailed his personal check for that amount back. 1 Logan. The third annual High. School day, to be held at the Agricultural college May 7, promises to of past surpass the eelebrations years. To date ten high schools of the state have entered students in the contests to be conducted, and competition in the typewriting contest which is being featured, has grown, from three schools to ten. Salt Lake City. Dr. E. G. Peterson was reappointed president of the Utah Agricultural college for the coming academic year by the board of trustees of the institution, which met at the capitol. Monttcello. Ehiil Zwicher, president of the Eastern San Juan Telephone company reports that his company will soon have its line extended to Dove Creek, where it will connect with the Colorado lines and give the people of eastern Utah a. direct telephone connection with Colorado. Heretofore the only way messages could be sent to Colorado was to Thompsons and by telephoning then to Grand Junction. Richfield. A real estate transaction of some magnitude was consummated when the city of Richfield transferred the fair grounds to Sevier These grounds are situatcounty. ed within the city limits and embrace twenty acres, together with, all the of the buildings and appointments fair grounds. Salt Lake City. The next Utah state fair will be held from October 1 to October 7, inclusive, it was decided at a meeting of the new board of directors of the State Fair association at the state capitol. Provo. The wonders of Timpano gos cave in the American Fork canyon are to be exploited through the medium of the Fox Film corporation according to information received by t Professor Harrison R. Merrill of the Brigham Young university, who, with Professor Lowry Nelson, has been negotiating with the movie concern to have pictures of the famous throughout America. Salt Lake City. Gasoline imported Into Utah, placed in a Utah station and subsequently drawn from the supply at that station and shipped into another state, must still pay the y Utah tax, it is held in an opinion Harvey H. Cluff, attorney general. giv-enb- Murray. Entering the state high t school debating competition for time in its history, the Murray high school carried off the honors decision in the first by a debate of the triangle against the Cathedral high school of Salt Lake, in the Murray high assembly room. the-firs- two-to-on- e Cedar City, The Utah Iron 'is making excellent head- way at the Desert Mound west of this city about sixteen miles. This company which has been shipping ore to the northern smelters at the rate of 300 tons daily, finds the call so great that it is compelled to strip a larger area of overburden so that 500 tons daily can be maintained. A new business block is to constructed on East Center street by Alex Hedquist. The contract for the structure has been let to D. W. Davis. The building will have a frontage and a depth Provo. be thirty-eight-go- of 100 feet, with a full basement. convicted Coalville. Pedro Cano, the murder of June St. Clair in Pr.rk City, March 15, 1923, will die at the hands of a firing squad at the state prison on the morning of May 15. This date was set by Judge William M. McCrea, sitting in Coalville, the scene of the trial. of Salt Lake City. All transportation equipment and automobile busses, in the recent fire at Main-mot- h Hot Springs, Yellowstone Park, will be immediately replaced, according to an announcement from Horace M. Albright, superintendent of the Yellowstone National park. The motor equipment has already been ordered and delivery guarsnteed by June 18, the date fixed for the official opening of the park. The intermountain district forest service is a veritable paradise for nimrods and fishermen, it is shown by the statistics contained in the game census for 1924 of the district compiled by S. B. Locke, for Ogden. of the est exumlner, in charge of public relations. The district comprises Utah, Idaho, western Wyoming and north ern Arizona. Salt Lake City. Richard Phillips Morris, business man, clubman and former mayor of Salt Lake, died at the Cleqdale sanitarium in Los Angeles, ol bronchial asthma. He had been in failing health for several years, but had been confined to the sanitarium only ten days before his death. MV. Morris had left Salt Lake in June, 1924, for the coaRt where he had been active in business up to Ihe timo he was taken seriously ill. leveral members of his family were vith him when he died, |
