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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH TELEGRAPHIC TALES A RESUME WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE Important Events of the Last 8even Days Reported by Wire and P repo red for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN A second expediion Into the un- Augustus Lukeman of New York has been employed as the sculptor of the Stone Mountain Confederate memorial, it was announced at Atlanta, Ga., by the executive commit- tee. He suceceds Gutzon Borglum, who was discharged some weeks ago. Walter Biskup, 15, a caddy was awarded $6000 damages in circuit court at St Louis for impaired sight in his right eye sustained when he was struck by a ball on a suburban golf course July 4, 1922. The judgment was returned against George Bluemeyer, club member, and Homer Hoffman, his guest, for whom the boy was caddying. Jack Dempsey, prizefighter, and film actor, his actress wife, Estelle Taylor Dempsey, and Jack McDermott, the champions director, are to make an extended tour of England France and Germany, it was anoun-ceat Los Angeles with the issuance of passports to Dempsey and McDermott. known region of British Columbia lying north of the Striklne river, included within which Is the mysterious "Tropical valley" of the far north, will leave Vancouver, B. C., the latter part of the month headed by George Platzzer, a prospector. He is At the New York race track Mrs. backed by wealthy Americans, one G. Wells lost all her money and Ada Vanto reach of whom is expected couver in time to accompany the ex- all she could get from relatives, but in a legal action she has recovered pedition by airplane, it is said. $7365 from Philip S. Abrahams, the More than $500,000 in gold was bookmaker who she said took her stolen from the deep mines of Cali- bets. fornia during the past year, Governor Uncle Sams rum chasers added Friend W. Richardson announced in to the value of recent liquor $250,000 singing a high grading bill similar seizures in the vicinity of New York The to an act in effect in Colorado. measure is designed to throw greater with the capture of the ton auxiliary safeguards around ore and provides a British ninety-fivschooner Madeline Adams, twenty direct law under which mine thefts miles off the coast. may be prosecuted. A man has a right under certain The pack of snow along the Colorado river and its tributaries in Col- circumstances, to place his wife orado is but little more than 80 per across his lap and spank her, Judge cent of normal states a report issued Ogden Persons ruled in superior court by the statistical department of the at Moultrie, Ga., when he directed a bureau of reclamation at Yuma, Ariz. verdict of not guilty in the case of It is decidedly less than was reported Fred Bannister, a young farmer, inlast year at this time. Indications dicted on a charge of assault and batare, according to the report, that the tery. flood stage of the river this year will A square meal was the sentence imbe very moderate, though it is too posed by Municipal Judge Sullivan early to forecast accurately the sum- at Chicago, on eleven men charged mer and fall flow. tering near a restaurant, enjoying Charging that there was a conspir- free aromas. The judge ordered a acy in one Denver precinct in favor with vagrancy, after being found taken from court attendof Juvenile, Judge Ben B. Lindsey, to ants finance the meal. E. M. Sabin, representing Royal R. Graham, who is contesting Judge Echoes of the Russian revolution Lindseys election last fall, made a were heard in the supreme court of motion before District Judge Julian New York at the opening of the trial H. Moore that the entire precinct be in the suit brought by the Prince Fethrown out and the vote in it disre- lix Yousssoupoff, one of the most garded. picturesque figures of prerevolutionPetrograd, to recover from Josary cam$200,000 newspaper advertising paign designed to popularize tea eph E.'Widener of Philadelphia two drinking on the Pacific coast will be Rembrandt paintings worth between launched at Los Angeles next year $750,000 and $1,000,000. FOREIGN by tea growers of India and Ceylon it was announced by T. T. Trueman The permission granted the explorof Calcutta, representative of Indian er Donald B. MacMillan, by the Dantea interests. ish government, it was stated comAn efficiency test, conducted by prises the right to visit and photoemployees of the Atchison, Topeka graph the old Viking settlement in & Santa Fe railway, near Verdemont, western Greenland. The explorer, nine miles east of San Bernardion, is prohibited from making excavaCal., resulted in the spreading of a tions or removing matters of ethnolexpress ogical interest. report that an train, running from Los Angeles to Many persons were killed and inPhoenix, Ariz., had been held up jured at Sofia, Bulgaria, by the exthere. plosion of an infernal machine in the W. H. Silvertooth of Prairie City, cathedral during the funeral services Ore., has a tale of a lamb with one of General Georghieff, who was murhead and two bodies, and he shows dered recently. the stuffed skin f the freak as proof A Norwegian woman of science, The animal he said, was born on the ranch of Mrs. L. Austin of Austin, Professor Dr. Christine Bounevie, Ore. It has one head, three eyes, claims to have evolved a method to three ears, two bodies and eight determine by means of fingerprints legs. The extra ear and eye are at the identity of the father of a child the back of an otherwise normal in cases of doubtful parentage. She head, and the two bodies join at the asserts that certain characteristics invariably recur in the fingerprints forequarters. of Individual families. GENERAL Grettir Algarsson, the young BritA study by treasury officials of the ish Columbian explorer, who plans problem of the governments paper to make a dash to the north pole by money expense has led to the tentaAmunRoald airship, Captain racing tive conclusion that the public is bedsens expedition has arriving supplied with more denominations ed at airplane Liverpool, England, and is In the various kinds of such money awaiting the blimp to be used by his than it needs. party. The day of the start has been Western railroads may join in ask- postponed from May 1 to May 3, but ing federal court relief by injunction Algarsson is still confident of reach; against the interstate commerce com- ing the pole before Amundsen. mission from present freight rates in Gerhart Hauptmann, the German the northwest, F. W. Sargent, general solicitor of the Chicago & Northwest- poet has just completed the festival ern railroad, Indicated at the annual play which will be given at Munich, 7 stockholders meeting of the road, Bavaria, on May 6 and at the - openmuseum.German The of the ing being held at Chicago. music for the play has been written Importers of southern Idaho, thru by Herman Zilcher, a professor at the S. E. Brady of Pocatello, recently ap- Munich Musical college. More than pealed to Congressman Smith to have 2000 persons from all parts of the Pocatello designated a port of entry, world have been invited to attend the through which goods from abroad opening of the museum. may pass to the distributors of IdaReports have been received at ho. At present Great Falls is the port of entry for both Idaho and Managua, Nicaragua, from Honduras Montana and Salt Lake City is port that General Gregorio Ferrera, with 800 followers, has started a revolufor Utah and Nevada. tionary movement and that the govWayne tBig) Munn, who was shorn ernment has declared martial law. of his worlds heavyweight wrestling A mesasge reaching Pekin from the' title by Stanislaus Zbyszko is confined to a hotel bed in Philadelphia, Pa., China inland mission says that the with tonsolitis and influenza. Gabe Brutish Missionary Tomkinson, who Kaufman, his manager, said that all was held as hostage for the safety of wrestling engagements have been the town of Shenkiu, in the province of Honan, has been released. cancelled. d two-maste- d e east-boun- d T - PERSHING. 1'IES News Notec From All Parts of UTAH HALL REDEDICATION OCCASION FOR DELIVERY OF PATRIOTIC VIEWS , FANEUIL ML Pleasant Alta Simpson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Simpson, died from cholera infantum, thought to have been brought General Urges People to Fulfill Ob- on by dyes used in coloring Easter eggs. ligations to Nation While Vice President Speaks on High Provo. An open meeting of the Ideals court of honor of the Boys Scouts of the Timpanogos district will be held in 'the Utah stake tabernacle Thursr Boston. Calling on the American day, May 14, acording to an announcepeople to fulfil their obligations to ment made by officials of the court. the past and to posterity, General The meeting designed to acquaint the John J. Pershing, chief speaker at people of Provo and vicinity with the the local scouts the rededication of Faneuil Hall re- progress made by and to encourage within recent years celled the events of 150 years ago them in their work. now being celebrated in this city and Salt Lake City. A catalog of coururged the maintenance and improveof Utah summent of this countrys institutions. ses for the University courses has just been ismer school Vice President Charles G. Dawes The state institution. asked for the peoples rededication sued at the 10 and close June will school open to the ideals which our forefathers August 28. Dean Milton Bennion of died to establish." school of education will be directhe Our influence in international af- tor of the school. The school will fairs has surpassed the most fanci- have a purpose in that it ful yision, General Pershing said, will enable the teachers of the state but with this has come an increase to fit themselves for the obtaining of in our responsibilities. We must certificates and students who higher maintain and improve our institutions desire to use the summer months for If we fail we shall revert to governthe working off of their group rement by force of power. But we or taking master degree shall not fail. The courage of the quirements work will be enabled to do so. American people, handed down by Parowan. H. D. Bayles and eightour forefathers, is a guarantee. Human liberty is ours to matintain by een other farmers and ranchers' livforce if need be, and to hand down ing near Parowan, Iron county, have inviolate to our childrens children. petitioned the public utilities commisLet us then liye as individuals among sion of Utah for an order permitting men and as a people' among nations the construction of a power transthat through our examples may be mission line from Parowan to their hastened the day when freedom, jus- farms, so that they might use power tice and peace shall come to dwell created by the municipality of Parowan to pump irrigation water for among us. Vice President Dawes received their lands. from the city of Boston, through Ogden. Ogdens mayor, members Mayor James M. Curley, the presid- of the city commission, bankers, ing officer, & gavel made from the storekeepers, business and profesnewel post preserved from the orig- sional men, and the rank and file of inal Faneuil hall, destroyed by fire baseball are overwhelsupporters in 1761. A roar of laughter, in which of in at favor least one coast mingly Mr. Dawes joined, went up when league baseball game in Ogden each Mayor Aurley said that the vice pres- week. They believe it will solve the ident might find it useful in his dealperplexities of the game which have ings with the United States senate. arisen here each year through Ogden General Pershg received a similar joining in a league. gavel. Salt Lake City. Subject to approvI am here, not as an indivudual, but as a representative of the gov- al by the state racing commission, ernment of the United States, Mr. which may not begin to function until Dawes said after the presentation. I the law creating it becomes effecam glad that the greatest living tive, May 11, the state fair board acDohn-ke- n American soldier is to make an ad- cepted terms offered by Fred W. P. and Kyne, covering the dress here, because the atmosphere at the state fair privileges of Faneuil hall is militant and full racing next ten years. for the grounds of fight. This has been a great batProvo. The police of Provo are tleground, this country. I wonder if we cannot all rededicate ourselves searching for the - vandals who and resolve to maintain the constitu- wrought havoc in the Provo cemetery. tion of this great republic, to main- According to police investigation sevtain what our forefathers died to es- eral hundred dollars w'orth of proptablish. erty was destroped. In several cases the headstones were mashed to pieces by the marauders. New A. of Chief P. Cooper New York. Frank B. Noyes, presLogan. A ' survey of snow condiident of the Associated Press has an- tions along the entire Logan river nounced that the board of directors watershed has just been completed by had appointed Kent Cooper, gener- the Utah experiment station, and the al manager. He will succeed Freder- result as a whole is not so satisfacick Roy Martin, whose resignation, tory as had been hoped for, judged tendered some time ago, takes effect from the initial survey at the lower, within a few days. Mr. Coopers ad or Spring Hollow, station on its three vancement to the position of general measurement levels, it is said. manager comes after many years of Ogden. E. P. Ellison of Kaysville, wide activity in the Associated Press. He has had experience in every phase chairman of the executive committee and detail of press association work, of the board of directors of the Nawith the advantage. of fifteen years tional Bank of Commerce has filed district court of intimate association with Presi- suit in the Second dent Noyes and Melcille E. Stone, for- against thirteen of his associates and mer general manager and now coun- former associates in the bank to require them to pay him their proporselor of the organization. tion of $65,000, which Mr. Ellison alleges he advanced April 29, 1921, to Salt Lake Chief Resigns the bank from liquidation. keep Salt Lake City. Wm. H. Bywater H. C.- - Davis of Delta, Colo., is aphas voluntarily resigned as chief of the Salt Lake City Fire Department, plying to the public utilities commishis resignation to become effective sion of Utah for permission to operJune 30. Walter S. Knight, assist- ate an automobile freight and passant fire chief, was chosen as his suc- enger line between Vernal and Grand cessor to take office on July 1. The Junction, Colo. He proposes a $10 blanket resignation of ninety-onpassenger fare and $1.25 a hundred firemen was accepted, but a majority of freight rate. those resigning will finally be reSalt Lake City. The state road tained. These were the concluding commission has received from Sandramatic developments of the pete county a check for $3000 to covwhich has er preliminary engineering expenses controversy waged in the city for over a year. in conection with the proposed highway between Chester and Mount Newspaper Will Print Crime News Pleasant. Davis county has also forFayetteville, N. C. After one week warded $500, which is an advance of scheduled experiment of not on its 1925 state road tax revenue. printing crime news, the Fayetteville Ob Salt Lake City. Quarterly receipts server announced abandonment of for the secretary of states office for the experiment in response to an the first three months of the present overwhelming public demand. Ediof tors of the paper said the sentiment year amounted to $549,546.44, which was from $397,177.48 the gasof its readers as determined by a poll, oline sales tax. General fees were was sixty toone in favor of publishing $7045.75 and corporation taxes, crime items. The statement added 64. The figures exceed those for that the weeks experiment had had an appreciable effect' on circulation. the corresponding quarter of last year. - 4 two-fol- d e Bywater-fire- men $9,-96- 6. . MANY ARMY OFFICERS AVOH - DEAD; 200 ARE IN LIST OF INJURED King Boris Rushes to Scene; pnst Director is Slain in Streets; N tionwide Martial Law is Proclaimed Safia, Bulgaria. Latest figur. show that 140 persons, includim twenty women and ten children, wer killed in the explosion of an infer nel machine in the Cathedral Sveti Krai during the funeral of Georghieff. Six general ar.d thirty other officers were amon? those killed. Sofia is .now in a state of ferment the greatest excitement prevailing Martial law has been proclaimed throughout the country, while the military authorities have ordered a curfew established, the streets to be cleared at 7:30 p. m. Although all the members of the government were present at the funeral service in the cathedral, none was seriously injured. Premier Tsan koff was one of those injured. General Georghieff, whose funeral was being held when the explosion occurred, was assassinated in the street here. The assassination closely followed an attempt upon the life of King Boris as he was motoring of l near Sofia. The bomb was apparently detonated by clockwork mechanism. It had been concealed under the roof in the southern part of the cathedral, and spent most of its force upon the crowd in that part of the edifice. In addition to the large number of fatalities, it is estimated that about 200 persons were wounded. Upon learning of the disaster the king immediately went to the scene. The director of the central prison was assassinated in the street here, but otherwise there were no disturb-encein either Sofia or the provinces. Passengers on trains are being searched rigorously. Citizens are enrolling and forming patrols to maintain order under the direction of the war minister. General Voulkoff. s Farmers Will Meet In Kansas City Kansas City. An attempt to unite all middle western farm organizations on a program calculated to insure farmers a profit on their products will be made at a meeting in Des Moines, la., May 12. The meeting was called by directors of the Farmers Cooperative and Educational Union of America, which concluded a meeting here. Invitations to attend the conference at Des Moines will go to all important farm organizations in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas Oklahoma, Misosuri, Illinois and Indiana, it was announced. two-da- y Wills Five Dollars to Wife Los Angeles. Five dollars to his wife, Fredia, and more than $200,000 to James A. Watt, described simply as a friend, are among the bequests noted in the will, filed for probate, of Henry G. Voeckell, eccentric drug store proprietor, who was murdered d in his shop here last month. of Voeckells $350,000 estate goes to his son, Charles Voeckell. Voeckell was found beaten to death behind a counter in the shop. One-thir- Copper Chiefs Daughter Weds New York Dorothy Kelley, form erly of Butte, Mont., and the daughtei of Cornelius F.' Kelley, president o: the Anaconda Copper Mining com pany, was married by Cardinal Hayes in St. Patricks cathedral to Henri Donnelly Keresey. The couple re ceived 300 guests in a hotel after th ' ceremony and a wedding breakfas was served under a canopy of rec rambler roses. Fire Leaves Many Homeless Warsaw. The little town of Ryki, near Lublin, was nearly wiped out by fire. Two hundred stores with their stocks, were destroyed and 257 houses were burned, only sixty-onremaining. More than 3200 persons are homeless. Ryki was visited by a similar disaster in 1922, when 137 housese were destroyed by fire. e Gasoline Bootlegging St. Louis. Otto Weisert, driv for the Perfect Motor Fuel compan of East St. Louis, 111., was arreste by state oil inspector Robert Hann on a charge of bootlegging gasoliiv The arrest was the first of the kin since the Missouri law imposing road tax on gasolin became effective. |