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Show s' I THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH I60ETT DEMOCRATS WERE EMBARRASSING MOMENTS OF FUKIC REGARDING UTAH STATE NEWS TOLLS -A TOLLS QUESTIOII Congressman Declares That In PlatProvision form Surreptitiously. Georgia for Washington. The provision free passage for American ships through the Panama .canal Was injected into the Democratic platform without the knowledge of the majority of the resolutions committee at the Baltimore convention, according to the assertion on Saturday of Rep- Adamson of Georgia, resen tative chairman of the Interstate and foreign commerce commission. He had met but three or four members of the convention, he said, who knew of the existence of the tolls plank before the platform wap promulgated. Branding the tolls exemption provision aa "heretic doctrine, Adamson issued a statement paving the way forycongressional debate on a repealing bill to be --Introduced In with Tho determination Of President Wilson that the United .States-ehou- ld recognise tbe clalm of American shlpa la in violation of the Hay Pauncefote treaty. President Perkin Predict Flood Havoc Such a That of Last Year, . Which Cost the American People Nearly a Thousand Llvss. ' -- Washington Financial starvation as halted efforts of the national drainage con gross to guurd qfalnat a recurrence of the floods a Inch damaged the middle western and southern " states last year- .- . " Edmund T. Perkins, president of the congress, on Sunday notified Krneat F. llickness. national director of the lied. Crone society, of his Inability to continue operation gJtefAnae- - of lack of funds and warned the Ked Cross tof he prepared to cope again JLtu w. few weeks with flood havoc such as PASSENGERS MEET 0EHTII that of last year which cosethe AmerIN THE CUMBRE TUNNEL ican people nearly a thousand lives to value of the $2MU00,jind property 1 boo." Mr. Perkins asserted that the ab- Nine Americans and Forty or More Mexicans Perish When Train Runs Into Bandits Trap. ROUND-U- urn TOLLS Juarez, Mexico. The nine Americana and forty or fifty Mexicans whose SUIT INTERESTS THOUSANDS. May Result In Judicial Pronouncement .of Theory of Beneficial Uat of Water Provo Utah, 3 utt which may the entire system of water diversions from the Provo river and which may result In judicial pronouncement of the theory of the "beneficial ubo of water," as governing righta of In this section, was filed in the district court here Saturday by attorfor the Provo Reservoir comney pany against all persons claiming a right or Interest In water of thp river or Its tributaries Defendants include the cities of Provo and lleber, the towns of Midway and Charleston, about fifty, canal companies and corporations, Including the Utah Light & Power company and other interests holding power sitea along the river, and about Of the pera thousand Individuals. sona named aa defendants, about are citizens of Utah county, one third of Wasatch county ' and , of Summit county. Tim river's sources are In Summit and. Wasatch counties. af-fi- rt appro-priator- s lf one-sixt- h WHOLE VILLAGES BURIED. fate baa been a mystery since the destruction of the Cumbre tunnel on This February 4, were suffocated. Information was received here Saturday evening at the head quarters of the Mexican Northwestern railroad. The tragedy la laid at the doors of Maximo Castillo, the bandit leader. Railroad men hefe and in Li Paso are furious at Castillos act. On Tuesof his men Trere capday twenty-tw- o tured and executed by the rebels and the next day, appareutlyyln" revenge,' he captured the freight train, ran It Into the south end of the tunnel about 200 feet and there set fire to It. The passenger train entered the death trap from the north unsuspectingly, probably traveling at its usual rate of about twenty-fivmiles an When the engineer discovered hour.the trap ll was too late. Nothing but charred bones and buttons were found by the rescuing party which, with the aid of oxygen helmets and pulmotors, succeeded In penetrating the Cumbre tunnel on Sunday. e - - Girl Murders Womm, Newark, N. J. Hazel Herdman, an Misguided Innkeeper's daughter, confessed,, - night shot and killed Mrs. Harriet Manning, wife of Charles I. Manning, a garage owner. She said, on her deathbed at a hospital In Montclair; that she had killed the woman In order that Manning might marry her. Missionary Priest Killed. Texas s. Virum Antonio, Brales, a Spanish missionary priest? was shot and fatally wounded at the country home of Charles Raumberger, a wealthy San' Antonio manufacturer Raumberger and bis son surrendered to the sheriff. San Flooded by Torrent of Flaming Lava And Buried Under Hall of Rooks, San Francisco. The first detailed account of the terrible ertptlon of Sakurajima, on the southern coast of Japan, was received here Saturday by mall. The correspondent places the loss of life, conservatively estimated, at "several hundreds." Sak'ura-jim- a only was The Island Itseir, with Its dozen villages, flooded by a torrent of flaming lava and burled under a hall of incandescent rocks, but the beautiful city of Kagoshima, overlooking the golden gate of Japan, was partly destroyed, several towns and villages on the mainland to the east were sore hit and the villages of Akapiidzu, Yokoy-amand Koarlke were literally swallowed up by the molten lava. Until they are dug out, no specific count of lives lost ever will be possible. af- ter taking a fatal dose of poison late, Saturday,- that It was she who Friday JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN ot Yet Hold. PRESIDENT WILL ENDEAVOR TO HAVE EXEMPTION OF COAST-WIS8HIPPIN& RESCINDED. Logan, Utah The most successful roundup in the history of the Agriculture college closed February 7. Between 1,200 and 1,400 people have availed themselves of the opportunity of hearing an Instructive course of lectures on farming and home economics. Many have attended every Notebooks have been numerous st every meeting, and men of years of experience In farming could always be seen noting down the things they heard in order that they might take the Instructions home and put them Into practice. The roundup now moves to a similar gathering will be held beginning Tuesday and until February 21. session. Believe Treaty With Great Britain Guarantees Equality of Treatment to All Nations, Including United State, In Subject of Tolls. Washington.- - President Wilson announced on Thursday that he would endeavoito have repealeLat Rich-fleld.wbe- the present session of congress that provision of canal act which exempts American coastwise ships from the payment of tolls. He made hla position clear to callers In un equivocal terms. The president believes the treaty with Great Britain guarantees equality of treatment to all nations, including the United States, In the subject of tolls, and that the United States is In honor bound to charge American vessels the same tolls It imposes upon those of foreign nations. The president Impressed upon his callers that he would use ever legitimate influence at hla disposal to have the from exemption clause eliminated the Panama canal act. This announcement was expected by administration leaders at the The president's views will be carried out in the house, according to Representative Adamson, chanrman of the interstate and foreign commerce committee. Not so certain, are some of the Democratlo leaders In the senate that. the president will- - be sustained In hiB resolve on this question, which has agitated American relations with Great Britain for several years, and has been a subject of International controversy since the passage of the Panama canal act in Senator O'Gorman, August. 1912. chairman of the interoceanlc canals committee, which had charge of the bill, who led the victorious fight in the senate to exempt American coastwise vessels from tolls, has asserted his purpose to stand bybls con and fight the presidents desire. the-Panan- cap-ttol- . how-eve- con-Unuin- g' Test Law. Will San Francisco. Not satisfied with a state supreme court decision which denied her the right to vote. In this state because she is the wife of an alien, Mrs. Ethel C. Mackenzie, wife of Gordon Mackenzie, the singer, has taken her case to the supreme court of the United States with the intention of determining the validity of the federal statute which says that an Ameriwoman who marries an alien can thereby takes the nationality of her husband. Intends to Fret Convicts. Columbia, S. C. Gov. Cole L. Blease expects to clear the South Carolina penitentiary of some 400 prisoners by next August, according to bis state- nient during an Inquiry into the com dJtlons at the state hospital for the t insane. JACOB JOHNSON nnitm A- ?'r -- V- - 4 -- - -- ; Si C, - N v 7 W" ' Washington. The house agricultural extension bill passed the senate on Saturday without a dissenting vote. The bill provides .for the jdemonstra-tionon the farm of. approved methods bnd scientific discoveries as to farming and some economies made in the state agricultural colleges, experimental stations and In the federal department of agriculture. ' rl . y A V'T -- V,, L M,?; 1 Called to Happy Hunting Ground. Watonga, Okla White Antelope, 85. aToriuer war chief of the Cheyenne Indians, died Saturday. He was one of the seven Cheyenne chiefs who signed the treaty with the Cherokee y ears ago, ceding - Gambling Apparatus Burned. Cost of Western Fuel Trial. Baker, Ore. Gambling paraphernaSan Francisco. The cost of the Yaw son and bis lia taken by Colonel Joseph Chamberlain, the distinguishmilitiamen from Copperfieid and Hunt ed British statesman, hat announced Western Fuel company conspiracy Ington last month, went up in smoke that he will retire Wbm parliament trial in the United States district Sunday, in acordance with orders of and public life at the next elections, court here was estimated Saturday to have reached a total of $250,000. Governor West because of his failing health. Abandon Contracts. Ordered Back to Mexico. Terrazas Bankrupt by War. Parcel Post In' the Washington. InVersailles Seventeen officers of El Paso, Texas. Hts immense Mexican army, who have been study-- . come tied up by three jears of revo- mountainous country of the west has received orders lutions, Alberto Terrazas, of the fam- become "so great that mail carriera Ing aviation here, The , Sunday to return to Mexico on the ily whose name In Mexico Is a syno- are abandoning their contracts. first steamer and rejoin their regl nym for great wealth, has been com postoffice committee is urged to take ' ments. livelihood steps to give them relief. pelled to seek a means-o- f -- .. . J ... t Boat Crushed by Ice. Murders Girl and Suicides. Chicago. Three men, two of them Green sburg. Pa. Love for two six girls, neither of whom employed at an intake crib two miles goverbment," says Brigadier General knew of the otner's existence, prompt off. shore, were . drowned - in - Lake Pershing, Jn bis latest report as gov- ed John McFadden to kill Anna Lutz Michigan when the small boat In ernor of Mindanao, to Secretary Gar- and himself as they sat in an automo- which they were trying to return to rison, received Saturday. the crb was crushed In the' ice. bile near I.igonier Pa teen-year-ol- d s - -- 1 o 1 two-third- 11 - Herald-Republica- n te out-aid-e, Slays Wrong Man. Barcelona An attempt was made to kill Senor QsaorioiSalardo, who was governor of Barcelona at the time of the disorders In 1909. The Cx governor escaped, and. In his stead, an inoffensive citizen w as shot dead , convention of t Utah county teachers will be held Leht Friday anil Saturday, February Claim That Fact That Party Indorsed 13 and 14. There wilLbe more ttuq 300 teachers' and trustees present Toll Exemption Policy at Balti- The grand jury at Ogden has more Convention Should Not Bo four indictments implicatu,; turned Subject of Controversy. Joseph Henry Martin, in four blackmailing crimes that preceded of Dave Edwards, Now Washington. Repeal of the pro9. exvision of the Panama canal act John F. Webb, Sr., a prominent clt empting American coastwise- ships Irom tolls, favored by President Wil- lzen and pioneer of Monroe. died las-- t son, Is to be made a subject of con- week of dropsy and heart failure lesideration and action by a Democratic ws 60 jrears of age and was born in Parowan. He had lived In Monroe caucus of the senate. years. . That this would be a wise and nec- thirty-twessary coure In the interest of party harmony and the nations foreign policy is the con clusionof adnijn s tra-- , Uonenators who have discussed the Ogden, have, been killed. The 'cows ; were victims of tuberculosis, accord subject with the president How soon the caucus will be called Ing to the inspector. s has not been determined, but several of a million dollars Over senators on Monday asserted- - the will be spent in 1914 in completing Democrats would get together, to work on the Strawberry river project weigh the situation as presented by in Utah. The. total sum to be spent the president and settle for them- by the reclamation service on such The projects Is $23,460,555. selves the whole controversy. tact that the Democratic party indorsJohn K. Tlbbltts, who waa. nearly ed the toll exemption policy at the frozen to death In a blizzard in Wash Baltimore convention, these senators Ington county, and taken to a Salt and President W soy hold, Bhould not Lake hospital, la In a serious condibo a subject of open controversy a! tion. He may lose several toes and this time because conditions Involv- part of hla heels, it is said, ed tn the tolls question have changed ' Chiefly, It is 'said, because the site since that time. The point to be set- selected was unsatisfactory to voters, tled Is If the policy of tolls adopted the project to bond the town of Hurby the nation through the action of ricane for $5,000 for an electric light congress should be reversed regard- and power plant, has been voted dow n less of the declaration In the 'Balti- by an overwhelming majority. more platform. The newly incorporated town of last week experienced its Copperfieid CONFESSES CAREER, OF CRIME. first police trouble when a shooting Aged Counterfeiter Says Jle was Once and TiuttlngBcrapeaBi6ngGfeehs As a result of the affray one Notorious Bandit man was shot and one stabbed. ' Salt Lake City. Milton H. Leer arIdellys M. Dye, convicted of the rested in Salt Lake several days ago murder of Joseph Rainbow at Salt on a charge of having counterfeit dies two Lake, years ago, must suffer In his possession, in a signed confesThe supreme court has redeath. the to sion- has admitted, according to grant a new trial and afthat he Is the fused firmed the judgment of conviction. once notorious Gentleman Bandit ol A petition 1b being circulated by the Yosemlte, who for more ' than citizens of Brigham City prominent twenty years terrorized the desert towns of southern California, and asking the council to provide means sidewalks in the city who has committed stage holdups and for cleaning the when snow and ice winter the luring, robberies by the score, and served to pedestrians. make them dangerous twenty-sevevarious years in prisons. Direct sale of eggs from producer to consumer Is the chief Inspiration Asks Meeting of Governors. Denver. Governor E. M. Ammons for a meeting to be held at Murray has received a communication from March 2, when egg producers and what will Secretary of Interior Lane suggesting poultrymen will organize that a meeting of governors of west- be known as the Murray Poultry company. ern states and individuals interested The city commission of Salt Lake in reclamation projects be held within the immediate future to discuss has decided to reduce the license fee In detail the irrigation and reclama- for teachers of dancing from $50 to tion of arid lands of the west. Sec- $25, and make all teachers, whether retary Lane suggested that the meet- public or private, pay- - it, and to reing be held simultaneously with toe tain the license on dance halls at western governors conference, which the present figure of $490 a year. is to convene in Denver, probably in The state art collection was opened 1l the public for exhibition in the April. -! of the Agricultural college at Arctic Survivor Dead. Logan last week, and "will continue Washington. Wiliam H. BeiTlived along with the exhibit of Utah artists, through the hardships and privations which is being given during the of the Greeley arctic expedition of roundup by the art department of the 1882 to die In a bed at his home college. glass., window of here Monday.,,, the ..After in hotel Ogden had beeq building two living survivors of the gallant from a cartridge a bullet broken by party. which had been exploded upon the Zamor Forms Cabinet itreet car tracks, policemen arrested Port Au Prince. Gen. Orestes seven newsboys who are sajd to have Zamor, who was elected president of amused themselves by placing the Haiti by congress In succession to sheila on the tracks. Michel Oreste, who fled on the outAll records for precipitation In break of the revolution, formed his Utah were broken last month, accord-,nto figures announced by Alfred H. cabinet, oa Monday. The capital is quiet. Tbiessen, director' for the United States weather bureau at Salt Lake, Broken Rail Causes Wreck. ind the Indications are that there will Sioux City, la. A broken rail e an abundant water supply during wrecked the Twin City Limited pas- .he coming summer. senger train on the Chicago, SL Paul, The city physician has made his Minneapolis Omaha railroad at eport on the health" conditions In Bigelow, Minn., earfy Monday morn- Provo. It shows a decidedly low ing. J. Bloomfield of Surprise, Neb., leath rate for a population30,000. was killed and fourteen Injured. The deaths. Including one from were 69 male and 73 females. Million for Fortifications. During the year the births were 150 The Washington senate ' , has nales and 147 females. passed the fortification appropriation Albert R. Barnes, attorney general bill, carrying $G,S95.200 and materially if Utah,-wil- l attempt to settle the the Increasing house appropriations between the officials of controversy for artillery and ammunition. serreclamation :he United States Indorse Supreme Navy Policy. vice, in charge of the Strawberry irLondon. Unqualified and unani- rigation project, and the Spanish Fork -- Water User association over mous indorsement of the British polhe distribution of water from Spanof icy maintaining a supreme navy ish Fork river. was voiced Monday by a great mass Plans 'ire being' drawn tof h church meeting of representative business edifice to be erected by the members men of the city of London. )f the. First Church of Christ, Scicn-lisOldest Banker Dead. In Ogden, at a cost of approxi-natel- y Terre Haute, Ind. Preston Hussey, . $S,000. dean of local" bankers, and Bald to Benjamin Neilson, 27 years of age be the oldest banker in the United until recently a fireman for the DenStates; died at his home here Monday. ver & Rio Grande raIroad, commi-te- l He started in the baflklng business in suicide at Salt Lake by taking poison. ' .. 1852. Family, troubles led to the deed. The dead body of Louis M. Fortune From Chewing Gum. 18 years ot age, first president of the Jonathan Phillip Primley, Salt Lake Chicago aerie of Eagles and emaged 62, who acquired .a fortune as a cgar maker, was discovployed through the manufacture of chewing ered early Sunday morning, face downgum, died Monday at Pasadena, Cal., ward, in his bed in a hctel in Salt according to the word received at hla lake. Heart ti vlure was the cause cf home here. death. Police Forbid Meeting. Near death by freezing within twenty-fTokio.-rT- tae ive miles of blooming flowers wax police have forbidden a mass meeting called itt the in southern Utah of thq experience park adjoining the dieL Popular excite- lehn K, Tibbetts, who was brought ment against the government has to Salt Lake, hospital a few days been increased by inflammatory ago with both bis hands aad feet badly frozen speeches semi-annu- - the Che nine and Arapahoe lands to " , the government. Braina Himself With Ax. Greenwich, Conn Using the blunt end of a heavy ax fo crush In his skull, William AStedmanv a- - prominent memberof a cotton brokerage firm of New York City, connnitfed 6uicide Saturday. i g s commission thirty I?The thn-Pla- c n DEMOCRATIC SENATORS BELIEVE 8UCH ACTION NECESSARY IN INTEREST OF HARMONY. resid--i,-- of Weber county have been grant-divorces in the court Is Tnade la report of the Weber county gra- ; -- A'.'v A- - Paaa Farm Demonstration Bill. Would Right a Wrong. Washington Secretary of the Navy Daniels will recommend to congress within a few days the passage of a hill to reinstate in the marine corps Lieu tenant Colonel Constantine Marrast Perkins, who, he has become convinced, was run out of service by a clique in the marine service in Washington. , CLOSES. vie-tio- a Moro Would Wreck Government. Moro would Washington. "The jnake short work of local Filipino LOGAN AT P Gathering was Moat Successful One -- normal winter, with light snowfall, gives ground to expect the Red Cross .will again be set to the alleviation or "disasters which the American republic has not yet decided to avert," The misery of Mexico and foreign countries, he said, has overshadowed the threatening calamity In the United States; congress has failed to act and such subjects as reclamation of western arid lands had been allowed to eclipse the pressing demand for flood prevention measure. one-ha- DESIRES ACTION In office. Charges that persons not Was-Insert- NATIONAL' DRAINAGE CONGRESS ON EVE FUNDS WITHOUT OF EXPECTED DESASTER.- - complaint has been filed at PtLcT shtr.ff of Carbon county, with malfeaan. t charging. Thomas F. Kelter, -- t. Jacob Johnson, one of tbs' Republican congressmen at large from Utah, was born In Denmark In 1847, and came to the United States In 1854. He'has held many public positions of a judicta character In Utah . Stock Starving. Mountain View, Wyo. Live stock on the Wyoming ranges in this section of Uinta county, some miles north o the Utah line and due east of Evans ton, is In danger of starvation as s result of the hetny snow fall. "rT ' Justice Seaka Toga. BolsCIda. Chief Justice James F Atlshle made official announcement f - his candidacy foi United States . senator to succeed James II. Bn3y. He says he wll resign his sv,4 on the bench on Saturday - Erc-die- . |