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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH TELEGRAPHIC TALES The trial of William D. Shepherd of Chicago, accused of slaying his milionaire ward, William Nelson with typhoid germs, was set for May 18. C. C. Faiman, who was indicted with Shepherd following his confession of having furnished the germs to the guardian of the wealthy youth will be tried separately. Faiman, former head of a school of is the states chief witsciences, ness against Shepherd. A will, one of the oldest ever filed in New York was introduced in the surrogate court by heirs of the late Frederick W. Suydam, who was related to some of the oldest families in the United States. Suydam died at Lakewood, N. J., in February, 1923, after a committee had handled his business affairs for more than fifty years. 'Suit for $200,000 for alienation of affections was filed at Chicago by Mrs. Gladys McCormick-Goodharthe English wife of F. Hamilton McCormick-Goodhart against her mother-ilaw, Mrs. Nettie McCormick-Goodhart- , who now lives in Washington. Secretary Work has returned to his desk after a months inspection of western reclamation projects, Indian lands and national parks. His conclusions, together with the findings of two special committees now surveying and reappraising reclamation projects will form the subject of a comprehensive "report to the next congress. The two masted French schooner Mousmee, carrying liquor vauled at $150,000, and a motor boat which was found near ot were brought into the New York port by the crew of the coast guard boat C. G. 161, which made the seizure twenty miles off Ashbury Park, N. J. News of the election of Field Marshal von Hindenburg as president of Germany was received in official circles in Washington as something of a shock. While it had been realized by those who have been watching the progress of the election closely that the German war hero was certain to poll a very heavy vote, few had been inclined to think he actually would be elected as his triumph is certain to mean a difficult period for Germany until it is clear just what the change in government portends. Miss Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan, christened with a bottle of what was said to be prewar champagne the new air mail plane, which is to be .used for the night mail route between New York and Chicago. k, A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Thirty-twpersons were killed in and disturbances resulting fights from the city elections held in the state of Sonora, Mexico, officials at Nogales, Ariz., declare. Two men were shot and killed in fights at Nogales, Sonora, and the other deaths are said to have ocucrred in Naco and Magdalena, Sonora. o Production of crude oil in Califor- nia declined in 1924 to 230,063,117 barrels, as compared with 263,728,895 barrels in 1923, says the annual statement of the Standard Oil company of California just issued. The decline was caused by falling off in production of the Santa Fe and Signal Hill fields. Governor Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas issued a vigorously worded statement in answer to Individuals, who organizations and newspapers have criticised her for undue liberality in the granting of pardons and paroles. When Charles Lindbloom, known rrom Mexico to Alaska for his picturesque mining and gambling activities died in Reno, Nevada, several months ago, he left an estate of $1500 all that remained of the several fortunes he made and lost durThis was ing his colorful career. revealed at San Francisco when the public administrator filed probate proceedings in the superior court. The varsity and junior varsity ewers of the University of Washing-- , ton will leave Seattle June 6, for Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for the annual rowing regatta on the Hudson river June 22, it was announced at Seattle. This would give the husky oarsmen a ten day training period in the east. In the races the varsity will be defending its intercollegiate championship, which it wen by victories in regattas of 1923 and 1924. f Moonshiners, fearful of prison sentences after May 12, when Colorados new law, making manufacturing of liquor by still a felony, goes into effect, are burying thousands of gallons of moonshine whisky in charred kegs underground, state prohibition authorities declared at Denver. . t, n FOREIGN ber of the varsity track squad, was running when he was struck. Houston paused in its usual activities to celebrate the eighty-nintanniversary of the battle of San Jacinto that gave Texas her freedom from Mexico. The principal celebration was at the San Jacinto battlemiles from Housground, twenty-onton, Texas, where governors of six states joined with Texans in services to celebrate the natal day of Texas freedom. France has agreed with China that unpaid installments on the Boxer emnity-held up by the oriental government from December, 1922 to December, 1924, will be used for the rehabilitation of a bank, the Banque of Industrielle de Chine, which failed in 1921. The bank failure involved Chinese banks causing serious losses. The accumulated fund amounts to $13,000,000 Mex. Within a few hours after he surrendered the stars which for almost five years marked him a brigadier general and assistant chief of the army air service, Colonel William A. Mitchell appeared before a group of officers at Washington who had gathered to bid him farewell and took up anew his fight for a unified air service. Mayor R. M. Dudley of El Paso, Texas, best known as the building contractor of the Mexican & Northern railway and former president of the Texas senate is critically ill. Mr. Dudley was operated upon recently for a stomach ailment. Slight hope is held for his recoverey, according to physicians. Major Frederick L. Martin, first commander of the army world fliers expedition, and First Lieutenants Leigh Wade and Leslie P. Arnold, members of that expedition, received the first distinguished service medals ever given for military service performed in time of peace. All heat records . for April were shattered at Richmond, Va., when the mercury registered 96 110 degrees, the weather bureau announced. The previous high was 95 degrees on April 18, 1911, and on April 27, 1924. Harry Thorndyke Roll, 26, a junior at Colgate university at Hamilton, N. J., was killed by lightning during track practice. Roll, who is a mem- h e - d Great Britian has returned to the This announcement gold standard. was made by Winston Spencer Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, in what is considered the most important budget statement of .modern times. The restoration of the gold standard is put into effect by a special license to the Bank of England to export bullion which will operate, pending formal lapsing on December 31, next of the 1920 act prohibiting the export of gold bullion. The Columbian cabinet has resigned, the ministerial situation having been brought to a crisis by the resignation of Foreign Minister Yelez, who surrendered his portfolio because, despite his protest, the congress adjourned without acting on the treaty. The German cabinet held a meeting and after distending to a report by Chancellor Luther on his conferenVon Hindence with President-elec- t burg, agreed unanimously to remain in office. The decision was arrived at on the ground that there was nothing in the German constitution which required the resignation of the cabinet on the occasion of an election of a new president. The first woman in Berlin to pass the examination required for journeymen butchers secured a grade of excellent from the. Master Butchers association. She is Margareta Cohn, daughter of a meat market owner. The examination consisted of skinning, carving and quartering a heifer. After eight months of comparative rest Vesuvius is in eruption again. The volcano offers a fantastic spectacle especially at night, when incandescent lava flowing from the southwest side of the crater casts a glow over the area. The present activity occurs periodically and is caused by the collapse of a section of the rim of the crater. GENERAL - sixty-year-ol- j g iiiwfji Ind- Sino-Franc- o "UsUo News Notes of From Daddyrtt a All Parts podelsSS JhoMb. UTAH Salt Lake City. Utah farmers to the number 4762 have availed them selves of loans totalling $15,412,650 from federal land banks and joint stock land banks since these agencies were first established by law, according to word from the Agricultural Foundation. These loans are safeguarded by 518,335 acres of land in the state, having an appraised valuation of $36,692,795. Sears-Roebuc- yonr k Salt Lake City. George M. Bacon, state engineer has approved the TAX RECEIPTS MONTHS NINE SHOW BIG DECREASE OVER FORMER REPORT Leads New York One-Fourt- of h All With About It yourself after smoking or when Work drags. Jtja . greet Utile freshen er Vs the Sum Collect- ed; Florida Shows Substantial Increase Washington. Internal revenue receipts for the first nine months of the present fiscal year fell $217,821,-11- 4 short of the total taxes gathered during the same period in the fiscal plans of the Utah Power and Light company for the new dam to be erect- year 1924, the treasury announced.ed this summer in the Bear River canTotal receipts for the first nine yon at the Cutler site, in Boxelder months of 1924 were $2,146,803,265, county. The plans call for a modern while the same period this year nettype of concrete arch dam, 109 feet ted but $1,928,982,150. high. "Preliminary work for the strucAlthough income tax receipts for ture is already under way. the period this year were approxiOgden. The police fore of Ogden mately double the returns from miscity has been rearranged by the cellaneous taxes, the decrease was alChief of Police Curtis L. Allison so most the same. The former decreasthat the night force is practically ed $108,189,699 and the latter Miscellaneous receipts todouble it normal strength, in order to created by taled $629,132,108. cope with the situation and the operation of The greatest decrease in income exhas Allison Chief placed taxes for this year under last year yeggs. perienced men on the night shift and ocucrred in the quarter from January hopes to be better able to protect 1 to March 21, a 'total of $67,000.00. business property. While miscellaneous receipts fell off same quarter Cedar City. That the formal and about $42,000,000 in the in those decrease the receipts largest official opening of Zion National park 30 1 to came in the September July for the 1925 season will be attended about a of $55,000,000. total quarter, attract with a celebration that will New York leads from all sources in nationwide attention, was the assertion made by Dan S. Spencer, gener- 1925 with $488,219,851, or approxiof the total collectal passenger agent of the Union Pa- mately was about ed. this in However, cific System with headquarters for 1924. of short total the Salt Lake. Elaborate plans calling Income tax receipts in New York for cooperation between officials of the national parks department and fell from $390,000,000 for the 1924 pethe Union Pacific Railroad company riod to $358,0000,000 for 1925, while are well under way, he added, but miscellaneous taxes dropped from have not yet sufficiently matured to $145,000 to $129,000. Pennsylvania was second with a warrant giving them out. Zion park including Bryce canyon and Cedar total from all soqrces of $187,000,000. Breaks, will be opened on May 15, ac- Illinois was in third place with $151, 000,000. Michigan followed with cording to Mr. Spencer. and Ohio with $106,000,000. Provo. Fire oLundetermined . oriOther states were as follows: . gin destroyed thl automatic electric California $191,00.0,000; Maryland, substation of the Salt Lake and Utah the District of Columbia, including railroad at Curtis, three miles north $91,000,-Ne$34,000,000; Massachusetts, of Provo. The damage reached Texas, $81,000,000; Jersey, according to Fire Chief Reed and Virginia $36,000,000. Boshard. All of the electric motors was one of the states showFlorida generators, oil switches, transformers an increase in 1925 period over ing and switchboards of the substation were destroyed. The roof was eaten 1924, with $14,030,000 this year against $11,475,000 last year. by the flames and nothing remains Floridas larger total was due to of the station but the four brick an increase from approximately walls. to $8,350,0000 income taxes. Provo. Ten thousand dollars per Both Virginia and North Carolina inch for two inches of precipation Is showed increased total receipts as a the price a group of Utah Basin bus- result of large miscellaneous taxes, iness and stock men offered Califo- chiefly on tobacco. rnias famous rainmaker, according to U. S. Sailors Given Ovation Judge George P. Parker, wrho recentHonolulu. The most picturesque ly returned from Vernal, where he held a two weeks session of court. geeting extended to the officers, men and guests of the United States Salt Lake City. To C. E. Hawkins, grand fleet thus far on its cruise was county assessor of Utah county, goes tendered by the Japanese community the credit this year of being the first of The welcome was in the Oahu. assessor to get his report of the total form of a lantern parade in which assessment of property under his hundreds of persons marched, reprejurisdiction into the offices of the e state board of equalization. This rec- senting the varsity clubs of the were also There colony. many ord is all the more remarkable because Utah county is one of the larg- floats illuminated by thousands of est in the state. In fact, this year, lights. The procession extended for as is pointed out by R. E. Hammond several miles and wound through the darkened streets of Honolulu to secretary of the state board, Utah palace, where it was reviewed county promises to surpass Weber Governor Wallace R. Farrington, by for the first time and to take the Admiral Robert E. Coontz and the place of being second only to Salt and men congressmen newspaper Lake county in assesable wealth. with the fleet. Bingham. The Utah Copper comHelium Supply Is Increasing pany will do much construction work this summer. Present plans call for Washington. Sufficient helium gas changing the county road in Carr to inflate both navy dirigibles, the Fork and the construction of a bridge Los Angeles and the Shenandoah, will near Cottonwood gulch. Permission be available by July 1 if the present to change the location of the road rate of production continues. The has been already obtained from both only supply' of helium in the United the county and the town of Bing- States is that turned out at the hel-uham. production plant at Forth Worth, American Fork. E. C. Shepherd, Texas. Present operation of this new Wasatch forest supervisor, who plant is under the joint direction of succeeded Dana Parkinson, was in the army and navy and helium is alAmerican Fork this week arranging located to the two services according r for the opening of Timpanogos cave as it is needed in their 1 craft. Until the present July Mr. Shepherd announced that additional lighting, trail resting stations system, by which either the Los Angeles or the Shenandoah must lie and camping ground improvements are to be made at once. The cave idle, deflated, while its companion is now open and some visitors have ship takes the air, will continue. The plant is working at capacity, but the made the trip this season. process of helium production is a Ogden. John K. Hardy, of Salt complicated one. Lake, was elected president of the board of trustees of the Utah State Root Resigns from Peace Body industrial school at the first meeting New York. The resignation of of the new board held at the school. Elihu Root as president of the CarDr. Jane W. Skolfield, only woman negie Endowment for International member of the board was elected vice Peace and the selection of President president; 'Frank J. Stevens of Og- Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbie den, was made treasurer, and D. R. university to succeed him Is Forsba was secretary. - $109,-631,41- 4. s one-fourt- h $47,-000,0- Recipe for Success Find out where the money is and get there as quickly as you can and when you get there get all you can get there and then get out of there with all you could get out of those that are there before those that are there get out of you all that you got there after you got there. Life. When You Buy Shoes for Hard Service See that they have SOLES $140,-000,00- 0 The Wonder Sole for Wear- - . Wear twice ae long a beat leather I and for a Better Heel Heels S." 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