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Show THE SAUN A SUN. SAUNA. UTAH News Notes t It ARE SUBSIDING MEXICAN DISASTER TAKES TOLL OF 400 LIVES AND $150,000 IN DAMAGES Report From Nogales States That 500 Bodise Have Been Recovered In The District; 12 Inches Rainfall In Nogales, Axiz. The Acoponeta and Santiago rivers in Mexico are subsiding, following cessation of rain, but only after a reported loss of life, which estimates placed as high as 400, and property ilranage of between $50,000 and $300,000, to the Southern Pacific Railway. According to telegrams received here at the Southern Pacific railway office from Ruiz Nayaric, Mexico, a small station north from where terrific floods have been occurring all week, all farm, land has been devastated with probable loss of all life. Although no official average is set of the rainfall, it is estimated that 12 inches fell in thirty-sihours. Other sources of information gives the rainfall at 14 inches in three days. The Santiago river has changed its course from a southwesterly direction into a course almost due north and the flood waters have encompassed several hundred miles of the riches farm land on the west coast of Mex-- ' x ico. Reports received by H. R. Titcomb Pacific practically confirm the estimated (Jeath toll of 400 persons. A colonel of the Mexican army, according to the dispatches, has crossed over the turbulent Santiago river and reports that between 800 and 100 feet of Southern Pacific tracks have been washed out by the two rivers, with the main bridge at Acoponeta greatly damaged. According to the colonels report, the entire, population of the Santiago river valley is wiped out. Corres- ponding loss of life in the Acop'oneta river valley is reported. of the Southern Oiioao Honors Buttotus Explorers By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN police halt traflic across the Michigan tmilevard bridge at the mouth of the Chicago river in the second city of the United States and the fourth of the world. It Is 2 :30 In the afternoon. The soil'd lines of automobiles, three ubrenst, come to an unwilling halt, with much protesting clamor of horns from the ZT...vlr-K'"'lnrear ranks. Two American Flags are flying at the uorth end of the bridge, and between them gathers a little group of men and women. In the name of the Illinois Society of the Colonial Dantes of America," says Mrs. Holmes Forsyth. The rest Is 'lost In the tumult of city noises. A nmn,. heroically baring his head to the driving snow, says something in reply. He Is MaJ. A. A. Sprague and he speaks for the City of Chicago. Then n sheet is drnwn aside and there la revealed a bronze tablet, tints inscribed: "In honor of Louis Joliet and' Iere Jacques Marquette, the first white men to pass through the Chicago river, Jn September, 1673." At tlie south end of the bridge, after the same short and formal ceremony, la unveiled another bronze tablet. Tills one Is in memory of Ilene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, and llenrl dl Tontl." The traflic police signal, the Impatient motorists swarm upon the bridge and the unheeding city traflic hurries by. In the more sympathetic atmosphere of the Chicago Historical society an Interesting program is carried out. For example, Mrs. Joseph. .Rucker Lninar of Atlanta, head of the National Society of the Colonial Dames, speaks on the vulue to good Americans of acquaintance with such important Incidents of our early history, lrof. Andrew McLaughlin of the University of Chicago reviews the careers-o- f these four famous explorers. Joliet and Marquette were In truth on thejilr. cago river, 1673. When LaSalle first saw the river has been a subject of sharp controversy for generations. It has been claimed that he reached the Mississippi by way of the Chicago Portage In 1670. It was in 1681 that he crossed the Chicago Portage on his way to the Gulf to take possession In the name of France. As to whether Joliet and Marquette were the first white men to see the Chicago river that's another question. History does not record any previous visit by white men, hut there had been white men In that region for a long time. And the Chicago Portage together with the Calumet River Portage was the common higlnvny for all who traveled. If a traveler coming up the Mississippi wished to go to Green Ray or Mackinac he used the Wisconsin Fox Portage. If he wished to travel east via the St. Joseph river, he used the Calumet rather than the Chiongo river. Here In brief is the way and wherefore of the presence of Joliet and Marquette on the Chicago VhVFFIO WEATHER Cold In Califirnia, Mild in Alaska; Chasing Butterflys in Alberta g -- river : In 1672 Louis do Ruade, Count de Frontenac, was appointed governor nnd lieutenant general of New France. He was greatly Interested In the exploration of the region of the Great Lakes and selected Joliet to t ea roll for the Great River believed to flow southward Into the Gulf of California. Joliet was born in Canada, the son of a wagon maker. He had been a promising scholar In the Jesuits school at Quebec, but had become a wilderness rover and Indian trader. He was a young nmn, but bad already made a reputation. Joliet reached Mackinac In LVceniber of 1672, and 'was delayed there by ice till May. There he met Marquette, a Jesuit priest of good family, eight years his senior. He Joined Joliet for the southern trip. He had no official connection with the expedition. They traveled In two canoes with five voyagenrs. They went up the Fox from Green Ray and down the Wisconsin and descended the Mississippi to the mouth ot the Arkansas. Here, convinced that the Mississippi flowed Into the Gulf of Mexico, they turned back and reached Lake Michigan by way of the Illinois, Desplulnes and Chicago rivers. Marquete went to his mission on Green Ray. Joliet disappeared for a year nnd did not report to Frontenac till August r 1671. Marquette's subsequent history Is briefly this: lie lnd promised the Illinois Indians near Teoria I' i 'p woud reurn nnd found a mission. In the f II f 171 lie started for the Illinois village. Bad 1 BADLY MIXED weather or Illness or both stopped his progress across the Chicago Portage, and lie spent the winter on the river bank about six miles from Its mouth. . With the spring lie reached the Indians nnd taught them. His health and strength giving out, he started for Mackinac. He traveled around the head of Lake Michigan, working his wuy up the east shore, lie died on the way. The next year his bones were taken up and carried to Mackinac. "He always entreated God." writes Father Claude Dnblon in bis Journal, that he might end liis life in these laborious missions, nnd that, like his dear St. Xavier, he might die in the midst of tlie woods bereft of everything." Marquettes unfinished Journal can be found in The Jesuit Relations." Here are some of the things the priest has to say about his winter experiences on the bank of the Chicago river : We started with a favoring wind and the river of the portage, which wae frozen reached to the depth of half a foot. There wae more anow there than elsewhere, as well as more tracks of animals and turkeys. The land bordering the lake Is of no value, except on the prairies. Deer hunting Is very good. Having encamped near the portage, two leagues up the river, we resolved to winter there, as it was Impossible to go farther, since we were too much hindered and my aliment did not permit me to give myself much fatigue. Several Illinois passed yesterday on their way to carry furs to Nawaskingwe. I do not think I have ever seen savages more eager for French tobacco than they. They came and threw beaver skins at our feet to get some pieces of It. They traded us three fine robes of ox skins for a cubit of tobacco; these were very useful to us during the winter. We have had opportunity to observe the tides coming In from the lake, which rise and fall several times a day, and. although there seems to be no shelter In the lake, we have seen the Ice going against the wind. The deer ore so lean that we had to abandon several which we had killed. We killed several partridges. The blessed Virgin Immaculate has taken care of us during our wintering that we have not lacked provisions and have still remaining a large suck of corn with some meat and fat. Frontenac wrote tills letter to the French government upon tlie return of Joliet: Sieur Joliet . . . found some very fine coun tries, and a navigation so easy through the beautiful rivers, that a person can go from Lake Ontario and Fort Frontenac in a bark to the Gulf of Mexico, there being- only one carrying plnce, half a league In length, where Lake Ontario communicates with Lake Erie. A settlement could be made at this post, and another hark be built on Lake He has been within ten days Journey Erie. of the Gulf of Mexico, and believes that water communication could be found leading to the Vermillion and California Seas, by means of the river that flows from the west, with the Grand River that he discovered, which rises from north to south, and Is as large as the St. Lawrence oppo- ... site Quebec. I send you. by my secretary, the map he liae made of It, and the observations he has been able to recollect, as he lost all his minutes and Journals In the wreck he suffered within of sight Montreal, where, after having completed a voyage of twelve hundred leagues, he was near being drowned, and lost all his papers, and a little Indian whom he brought from those countries. It Is Interesting to note in these days of agitation over a Great Lakes-Gul- f waterway, that In this letter Frontenac says In effect that the Chicago l'ortage Is navigable and that Niagara Falls Is tlie only obstacle to continuous water-trave- l. All the early explorers hnd the same idea about the Chicago Portage. If they had actually to carry canoes across they incidentally remarked that a few shovels would change all that. As a matter of fact, conflicting statements as to the Chicago Portage were due to seasonal conditions. In times of high water canoes and even loaded batteaux went through easily. Of course these early travelers knew nothing of the miles of underlying rock close to the surface along the river. Joliets canoe was upset actually within sight of home, "after avoiding perils from savages and Des-plain- passing 42 rapids." Nevertheless, he proceeded to draw a number of maps from memory. The one reproduced in part calls the region "La Colher-tie,- " after Colbert, minister of Louis XIV. The "Raye des Puans (Green Ray) he names after an Indian tribe. The Mision de St. Fr. Xavier" on Green Ray was Marquette's chapel. "Misconsing," is of course, the Wisconsin. The Mississippi is marked, "River that discharges into the Gulf of Mexico." Riviere de la Divine" Is the Illinois. Joliet named it after two reigning French belles: Frontenacs wife, who had been Anne de la and her bosom friend, Mile, jT Outrelalse. These two ladies were called "Les Divines." At the bottom of the map Is the Ohio, Route of Sieur La Salle to Mexico. marked, It was apparently added to the map by a later Grange-Trlano- n, ' hand. " resume of the career of Robert' Here as generally Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1613-87accepted by the historians after many years of controversy as. to certain points: He was .born in Rouen, France,, ond .arrived in New France In 1660. He is credited with the discovery of the Ohio river, and probably followed it as faV as the falls at Louisville. In 1678 ho began preparations to descend the Mississippi to the gulf.- - He built Fort Crevecouer on the Illinois river (Peoria) and organized an Indian league to fight the Iroquois Confederacy of New York, the overlords of all. the tribes from the Atlantic In 1082 he arrived at the to the Mississippi. Gulf, by way of the Chicago Portage and the Illinois, and took possession of the region, which he named Louisiana, In tlie itame' of lauds XIV. He returned to Canada and then went to France. Here under authority of Louis he organized an expedition to the Gulf, with the purpose of founding a colony at the month of the Mississippi. He sailed from France In 16S4, missed tlie Mississippi and built a fort on what Is now tlie Lavaca river in Texas. He was assassinated by one of his men March 19, 1C87, .near the Trinity river in Is a ), a Privilege to Live in Utah t !A 4 Denver, Colo. The railroad bore of the Moffat tunnel which isbeing built under the continental divide in Colorado was leased to the Denver & Colorado Railway company for a period of fifty years. Price. Carbon county will not. receive any federal aid money for tho building of a new road from Castlo-gatto the Utah county line for at least two years, according to information given members of the Price Rotary club recently by Edward Lee, county agent. Salt Lake City. The city commission was asked to take immediate steps to enforce a water agreement with the East Mill Creek Water company respecting water exchanges, in a letter from H. C. Jessen, acting city engineer. Mr. Jessen called attention to the lack of stored water in the sheds for 1926 supply. Salt Lake City. Utah Railway" company on Thursday applied to the public utilities commission for an order e authorizing and approving a contract for the purchase by the Utah Railway company of all the issued and outstanding stock of shares of the National Coal Railway company and a lease of the railroad property of the last named company. SalE Lake City. Annual meting of the Davis County Fruit and Vegetable association will be held at Bountiful. Matters to come before the meeting, according to J. N. Ford, president of the asosciation, include: Report on marketing of cherries, peaches and apricots; report on the onion marketing deal, and a report on Utahs part in the international Grain and Hay show. . Salt Lake City. A report on the progress of the Moffat tunnel up to January 1, 1926," shows the various workings of it to be finished, as follows: Water tunnel, 78.3 per- - cent; main headings, 78 per cent; Crosscuts 77 per cent, and railroad, full size, 51 per cent complete. The tunnel is six and miles long. The Provo high school livestock judging team will leave Friday for Ogden to compete in stock judging at the annual stock judging show. one-tent- h Provo. Ogden. George H. Dern, governor San Francisco, Calif. The weather of Utah in an address here dedicating program in the far west and the the $100,000 coliseum erected by pubnorthwest has become badly scram- lic subscription to house. Ogdens anbled. In California, where mild winnual. livestock show, declared the coliseum and show represent an educaters are, as a rule, part of the allurements to tourists and the stock boast tional institution which will add to the of the natives,' one of the coldest wealth and comfort of Utah ' and spells in years prevails. The fogs neighboring states. cover large sections of the interior Salt Lake City. Officers of th and have been the cause of several Davis . county farm bureau and tin serious accidents at night because, of Davis county Sugar Beet Growers' as' poor visibility. On the other hand, will be held during the next sociation Alaska reports the mildest weather In is announced. it The annua) week, its history. Dispatches from Nome said there is not enough snow for dog' meeting of the farm bureau will be .at .the Davis county high school races. Up in Alberta, where cold .held in Kaysville, Monday. Arrangements months in the year the people are for'the meeting are being made under confronted with an ice famine. Dis- the direction of William J. Thayne. patches from Lethbridge, Alberta, say Cooperative and accruing marketing the weather is mild and rivers are benefits to the farmers will be one of. running. One citizen chased butter- the most important subjects discussflies for exercise. Several robins were ed. and-goIfseen going on as usual. Stock is running on the ranges. RecOgden. Enforcement of the law ords for twenty-fou- r years fail to re- and the arrest at violators whether veal as long a warm spell as now prerich. or poor .were among the points vails in Alberta. A water shortage is emphasized in a satement issued b)' threatened in central California, be- Chief of Police Jonathan Jones upon cause of the lack of rain, although assuming his duties, succeeding Cui this is the rainy season. tis Allison. Desert Range Needs Storm Salt Lake City. While desert range conditions are reasonably good, a snowstorm would be appreciated by livestock men, Ray B. Metcalf of Gunnison says. Mr. Metcalf represents the Metcalf Brothers, associated with J. E. Cosgriff, president of the Continental National bank. The livestock feed situation in Sanpete county generally are unexpectedly good, in view of the lack of snow', Mr. Metcalf says. He is returning to his home, after having attended the livestock show at Texas. "The Murther of Monsr. de La Kalle," is re- Ogden, where he represented 300 top steers and 5000 Rambouillet breeeding produced from a copper plate by Van der Gueht ewes. Mr. Metcalf will be here for in tlie London (1698) edition of Hennepins "New a few days as a guest at the Cullen Discovery." The portrait of La Salle may or may not have some basis of authenticity; it follows a hotel before leaving for Gunnison. design in Gravler, which Is said to be based on an engraving in the Ribllotheque de Rouen and is tlie only portrait worth consideration. was an Italian soldier Henri dl Tontl (1650-1704- ) of fortune. He entered La Salles service in 1678. It was he who built Fort St. Louis on Starved Rock in 1681. He searched long for La Salle after his disappearance in Texas. After living with tlie Illinois Indians as a trader he Joined Iberville at New Orleans in 1702. Of these four mefi Joliet Was the efficient with the advantage of an education ; I'ere Marquette wns the devoted priest, whose passion was to convert the Indians; Tontl was the soldier, the loyal and devoted lieutenant of La Salle : La Salle was the man of vision who saw a French empire In the Mississippi valley. To the student of history the development of the Mississippi valley since the day of these four Is a marvel of marvels." Untold millions have already been expended upon the waterways over which they actually traveled by canoe and the expenditure is Just beginning. The next five years will probably see the completion of the connection by waterways of Chicago, New Orleans. Pittsburgh and Kansas City at a cost of $100,000,-000- . As for the Chicago Portage the Chicago river now flows backward into the Illinois; the "few shovels" have already cost over $100,000,000 Chicago, then uninhabited, has now a population of oer 8,000.000 and Is tentatively planning a second worlds fair In 1837 In celebration of the centennial of Its beginning as a city. a Democrats Submit Tax Reduction Washington. While accepting the reduction in the maximum surtax rate from 40 to 20 per cent, the plan, announced by Senator Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the committee, would increase the reductions voted by the house for incomes between $22,000 and $100,000. voy-ageu- r, Spring Water Sought Salt Lake City. The Three Coal company of Utah has applied tQ the state engineer for a permit to divert of a cubic foot of water from a spring in Bryner canyon in Carbon county for mining purposes. one-tent- h Rights Are Protected Washington. American rights and property in Mexico are now being and will continue to be accorded all reasonable protection, the United States will he advised in the Mexican reply to the American note of protest delivered by Ambassador James R. Sheffield, according to authoritative information obtained. Both the alien land and the petroleum law provide that suitable compensation will be tendered American citizens for any holdings they must surrender. U. S. Ft. Duchesne. A tempeiuture of 2 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, is recorded as the coldest day of the season up to date, as compared with a temperature of 26 degrees below at the same time last year. . Ogden. About $2,506,000 worth of construction work, which will complete the Union Pacific double tracking between Omaha and Ogden,, is now under way. At peasant there are 25.8 miles of single track between Echo and Gateway, Utah. The new track between these points will cross the Weber River seven times and will involve the driving of two short tunnels, the aggregate length of which wi)1 be 830 feet. Sft Lake City. The state road commission has awarded to the Vin-- . cennes Bridge company of Indiana, contract for construction of the bridge across Grassy Trail creek, Carbon county, at a total cost to Carbon coun-tand the federal government of The bridge is to be a steel truss of span and is to be completed in 100 working days. Ogden. The fifteenth annual poul-- ' try shew of the Weber County Poultry association, which opened in con- Junction with the livestock show, is by far the largest, and .best exhibit of its kind ever held in the county, Walter N. Farr, president of the association, said. The show is being held on the. mezzanine of the coliseum. ? $32,-351.3- 109-fo- Salt Lake City. What Is expected to be the largest registration day- - in the history of the institutiqn took place last Monday at the University of Utah. It is the beginning of the winter quarter, with regular class The work commencing Tuesday. official registration at the university last quarter was 2616, the largest number yet enrolled, and with the winter quarter always having the largest quota of students, university authorities expect that this number will be Increased by 159 to 200. . |