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Show mre class seed oats and seed C. A. Hallstrom, Oakley, Utah. For Sale—Firet wheat. KAMAS COURANT ———— VOLUME KAMAS, V. BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEK'S EVENTS Diego, April 11. Clara Mary possibly Jast more than four or five months songer at the outside, in the opinion of Maurice Heut of Paris, a prominent stars, Salt Lake. Two bills designed to transfer the authority and duties of the Denver juvenile court to the Denver county district court, have been vetoed by Governor George A. Carlson, thus uphold- Ben Lindsay in his work. The chief of police has put a amateur ‘upon all boxing bouts, died including the Morris and Madame An to explosion in have ban believe HOLD MUST been the caused~ by French Troops Hammering at Both Sides of Wedge Driven Into Their Lines and Also Driving at German polica a bom), of France, of Washing: ton, D. C., which alleges that these officials have combined and conspired to wreck that institution. ‘een fined $10 and costs in justice of the peace court for assdult and battery, upon complaint of C. H. Newell, editor of the Denver Express. club of Westchester York, declared that gested through ened to. on March 3. The jury rec- ommended clemency for. both men. Willian Rockhill Nelsou, editor art owner of the Kansas City Star, died April 12. Mr. Nelson, who was 74 years old, had been in ill health sev. eral months and had been confined to bis home since last December. The German merchant raider Kron Prinz Wilhelm will not be permitted to go into drydock at the shipyard at Newport News, Va., until Lieutenant Captain ‘Thierfelder, her commander, makes formal request for time to complete such repairs as he deems neces. sary to make his vessel seaworthy, Natives hunting are reported seals last in mail advices winter received from Icy Cape, on the Arctic coast near latitude 70, to have seen a white man marooned on an ice floe which was drifting in a southwesterly tion toward Wrangell direc. island. ' General Victoriano Huerta, former president of Mexico, who for nearly a year has been an exile in Spain, arrived at New York on Monday on the Spanish steamship -Antonio ‘Lopez on ‘Cadiz. “Tenaiius- 5: J Chileski, lawyer and private banker, who in 1911 fled from Chicago with clients Wilson and depositors clamoring for more than $100,000 of their money which he declared he had lost in gambling, died Monday in the tuberculosis ward of the county hospital, Chicago, a charity patient under an assumed name. Last of Germany’s sea raiders, the Kron Prinz Wilhelm, scourge swept, her crew facing starvation, her bunkers empty, barred from New York harbor by the perpetual guard of British cruisers, sought sanctuary at Newport News on Sunday. Fire destroyed several buildings in the center of the business section of Topeka, Kans., entailing a loss estimated at a quarter of a million dollars. Of the contingent of six physicians and twelve nurses sent to Serbia by the American Red Cross society since the European war began, all but four have contracte typhus, the disease they were combatting. Work on three large submarines for the United States government will be begun at the yards of the Seattle Construction & Drydock company within thirty days. is Francisco exposition affairs at who to hold them back until the fall of the fortress. : Now this German army has een given another task—that of trying to prevent the Russians from straightening out their line, which is ‘necesessary before the invasion of Hungary is undertaken. It is apparent that this army has succeeded in at least New sug- be list planning trip to as soon checking td the San as for- permit. Alaska, ocean terminus of the government’s projected railroad to Fairbanks, announcement of the route of which is officially made by Secretary Lane, has mecca for laborers ing to ‘Ssrofit by work. been for weeks and the a others. desircGonstruction FOREIGN. With the capture by the Russisany of almost all the main chain of moun tains, the battle of the Carpathians] which has lasted upward of eighty days, is apparently reaching a termination over one extensive front. There has been a private discussion of peace at The Hague by a conference consisting of about thirty delegates from the United States, Holland, Germany, Austria” gary, Swe: den, Norway, England, belgium and Switzerland. The French offensive in the Woevre, which, according to official reports from Paris, continues. to make progress, although the Germans reiterate that all the French attacks have been repulsed, is believed to be only the prelude to a big general ef: fort in the west. A further casualty list issued by the British war office adds 1,038 killed Neuve or wounded in the battle of Chapelle, France, last month. The British steamer Harpalyce, the first relief boat under charter of the American commission for relief in Belgium, has either been torpedoed or sunk by a mine in the North sea. Lord Kitchener ada for a second has called on Canexpeditionary force. Sir William Tyrrell, private secre. tary to Sir Edward Grey, is suffering from a serious breakdown, caused by exceptionally arduous work and the loss of his son in Flanders. A telegram to the Bourse Gazette from Tiflis, Transcaucasia, says that the Turks have occupied Hamadan, a city of of Persia, 165 Teheran. A dispatch miles received southwest from Berlin says that-on April 1, 812,808 prisoners of war were being held in Germany —10,175 officers and 802,6333 men. A fearful rate of mortality among the 10,000 refugees crowded into the yards of the American mission at Urumiah, where, it is said, 5,000 per: sons could scarcely find accommodations, is reported. The closest inquiries made in lomatic, ministerial and military dipcir- the tion. It is matter learned source that son has recently the submitted from Governor an to arbitra- authoritative Hiram Johbn- W. decided to oppose the plan proposed for the purchase of Western Pacific railroad by the tate of California. ~ William Lorimer, former United States senator, and other officials of & Trust Street Sa.le La the defunct Savings bank, at Chicago, must stand trial on state charges of conspiring ‘{o wreck the institution. the Russian advance, as the Austrian official report claims a victory for the Germans in this section, while the Russians admit that they have been unable to capture hill 992, which lies about midway between Uzsok and Beskid passes. The French army in the Woevre is hammering at the two sides of the German wedge, which was djjvyen into the French lines as far as St. Mihiea early in the war, and which thus far has remained firm, and simultaneously has attacked the German front, which passes close to the Lorrain bor, der between Nancy and Chateau Salins, “The eapture of Les Sparges on the northern side of the wedge appears to have been the most marked success the French have gained after almost a fortnight’s fighting, although the manner in which the Germans are counter. attacking in the forest of Montmare to the southeast, would indicate that they feel the French pressure from that direction most severely. All the other attacks the Germans claim to have repulsed with heavy losses to the French. STAGGERING Germany Has Dollars COST Spent and OF Over France WAR. Two Billion Almost as Matin summarizes the German and French war budgets up to March 31 as follows: Germany—HExpenses, $2,720,000,000; receipts from loans, $900,000,000; bills on the reichsbank, $400,000,000; total, $1,300,000,000; deficit, $1,420,000,000. France — Expenses, $1,759,000,000; ceipts from loans, $171,800,000; national defense bonds, $682,200,000; Bank of (France advances, $920,000,000; total, $1,774,000,000, leaving a surplus of $15,000,000. URGES INCREASE Secretary Garrison Defense IN Discusses at National Banquet. New York.—Lindley M. Garrison, secretary of war, in a discussion. of national defense at a banquet of the Democratic club of Westchester coun- ty here Saturday no one who to be obtained should be horrence night, declared suggested listened to, peace was feebleness and that “ab- of war and love of peace are thoroughly consistent tary precautions.” * Protest With Against Amsterdam.—The damsche that through that Courant Wise Rotter- that pamphlets the street business. cars are again doing a good The honors in the third annual oraacademy and Ogden high school were won by the former institution last torical contest between the Weber week. The driving of six new artesian wells with six-inch casings to a depth of 800 feet is the plan decided upon for the improvement of Ogden’s flowing well field. Byron Groo, former newspaper man and four years register of the U. &. land office at Salt Lake, and for seven years secretary of the _ state land board, died at Salt Lake on April 12. G. Winter, former clerk Motion sheep pictures as it is of the shearing of carried on extensively in this state will be made during the next few weeks by George W. Goshen, official photographer for the fourth district forest service. Ten years in the state prison, the maximum sentence for the crime of which he wa sconvicted, was imposed upon J. L. MeGivern, slayer of Cora Cowing, otherwise known as his by the trial judge at Salt Lake. wife, Mrs. Margaret Goff, 106 years of age, believed to be the oldest person in Utah, died at Springville, April 10. Mrs. Goff had been in failing health for several years. She was born in and came to Utah in 1850. Dominic Dilegio, an Italian laborer, is at a Salt Lake hospital with several serious and perhaps fatal stab | wounds about his body as the result of an altercation with a fellow countryman believed to be Frank Bolino. Hary M. Turner, foreman in charge of weighing at the blast furnace, was fatally injured while at work at the International Smelting plant at Tooele. He was caught and crushed between an electric motor charge car and a concrete wall. which of rebuilding the roads in county by convict labor, has been under way for the past eight months, is virtually completed, and plans are now under way to remove the convict camp to Béaver county for work on the roads there. Broken-hearted after a quarrel with her older sister, and frieving over subsequent punishment from her mother, Nellie Spratling, 9-year-old Jaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Spratling of West Jordan, teaspoonfuls of carbolic an hour later. drank two acid Lake county last week. and died fund from act, Salt This is the Ruhle, the list receives possi- that the latter has accomplished nothing in ence with its diplomatic correspond: the allies to obtain for American exporters ship foodstuffs to the the rights civilian tion of a belligerent country. According to an official :ist tq popula: mada public in Berlin, there were in Ger many, March 1, a total of 5,510 pieces of captured artillery. These include 3.300 Belgian and light 850 Russian pieces caliber, and 1,300 sixty of both heavy French gua, British, Franz Mehring and Rosa Lux- eamburg have been circulated in Hoalland, stating that the proletariat does .of not agree with the pre-war section ' ‘the socialist party and that protests against the continuation of the war are increasing in Germany. President is Coming West. Washington.—President Wilson is planning to make his delayed trip to the San Francisco as foreign visers are exposition as soon affairs permit. His very anxious to have adhim make a number of speeches in ferent parts of the country before opening ¥ress. of ae next session of difthe con of Special as the Jonn fund $10 a month as mee lasts. Douglas, a state ecenvict serv- ing a life sentence fer the murder of his wife in Ogden about eighteen years ago, and one of the oldest pris- oners in point of servitude, became nsane while working at the state road camp in Washington county. He will probably be sent. to the asylum. Governor Spry has issued a proclamation designating Wednesday, April 28, 1915, as “Utah Good Roads Day.” The proclamation urges that newspapers, county, city and town officials, commercial clubs, automobile associa- tions and promoting civic organizations lead in an observance of the day. cents. old Santa sued had been retained Officials railroad, this case. in declined to say yalued WAR wing to 4,000 act in STEAMER ‘be armament factories, 500 as gardeners, MINNESOTA Docked at SAFE. Nagasaki pairs—Passengers for Re- Landed. Seattle—The Great Northern Steamship company was advised Tuesday that its lin-r Minesota, which ran on soft ground in the inland sea off Japan and bent €2veral plates, is only slightly damagtd. She is leaking, but the pumps have no trouble in keeping the water down. Hnough cargo will be ligh{ ared to float the vessel, which will be docked at Nagasaki. All the passengers have been landed at Kobe. Ask American Inquiry. London.—The British foreign office has instructed the ambassador at Cecil Spring-Rice, to Sir Washington, ask the American government to investigate the condition of imprisonment imposed on British officers by Germany -as a retaliatory measure against the imprisonoment of German submarine crews in England. Ask Time to Repair Ship. Newport News, Va.—Lieutenant Captain Thierfelder, commander of the German converted cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm, delivered to Collector of Customs Hamilton late Tuesday formal request for time to repair his ship in this port. Pays Tribute to Lincoln. Washington.—President Wilson has signed. an eexcutive order, providing that fitting observance be given to the ‘anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln, who April died fifty years ago on 15. Many Killed in Mine Accident. Tokio.—A fatal acident in a coal mine near Shimonoski has resulted in the loss of 236 lives, according to in- formation received in Tokio Tuesday evening. Wilhelmina Case Settled. London.—The British: government has agreed to purchase the cargo of the American steamer ‘Wilhelmina and to compensate the owners have _ showing is- profits $130,000. It is comp«red that three jigging plants have carload of ore has been shipped while | an equar-amount was sent to market 2,000 in various branches of agriculture work, 1,100 as shop assistants, 500 as leather workers and 5,000 in clerical work. . Will company 1914 Steady progress is being made on the pipe line which will carry water for the placer operations at Round Mountain. The ditch is practically finished and the pine line will be completed so that hydraulic operations can commence by June 1. From the old Daly mine at Park City already this month one 50-ton alse whether clothing for compared with $636,470 $566,939 in 1912. Miami Copper company made net profits of $405,000 from operations during the quarter of 1915. Its February production is approximated 2,400,000 pounds, which figure was somewhat exceeded in the longer month of March. SERVICE. work in 1,700 in dairy work, at result London.—Thitry-three thousand women had registered themselves for speend of the up to cial war service March, Walter Runciman, president of the board of trade told a deputation representing the various women’s Societies in London. Six thousand of the ‘women, Mr. Runciman said, had declared themfactories, by oper- been installed. Qne of the Tonopah newspapers advises men without work to keep away from that Nevada camp. It adds: “Similar conditions prevail at Goldfield, Round Mountain, Manhattan and other southern camps.” Thirty-three Thousand English Women Volunteer for Service. selves resumed with 103 carloads the wéek:eéfore. With greater activity in’ the Deep Creek district than there has been in years, property owners are becoming interested in concentration, with the addition to the defense of Mr. McAdoe and Mr. Williams in the injunction FOR Cal. ago Shipments of ore from the Tintic mines the past week totaled 106 carloads. This is estimated at 5,300 tons the government at this time contemplates any affirmative proceedings, in WOMEN de about Keeler, years has Mining a report of $565,665, in 1913 and fight pre- anti-trust mine, from or three interests, solidated ‘Wiashington. — Developments on Tuesday indicated that the government intended to do its utmost to back up Secretary McAdoo of the treasury and Comptroller of the Cur- in the legal Rosa miles two has dividend The apex suit between the Booth Reorganized Minnig company and the Jumbo Extension interests has been settled it is suthoritatively announced at Goldfield. Eastern directors of the Utah Con, sel and Will Fight -Charges to Bitter End.—Case Will Probably Go to the Supreme Court. rency Williams company monthly ations. Coun case. Granite school board, who has That the present case saay §0 to confessed to having embezzled $3,the supreme cou/t) seemed } ‘entirely Sides apparently 222 80 of the } school funds, is-to6. ily-prepapie, Tor both te be “tried. “He is suffering from are preparing to fight to the end. Bright’s disease. don to the in Charge the Charles H. Wilcken, pioneer in the mifling industry in Salt Lake and for the last twelve years employed .as a guide at the temple grounds, died April 9 of general debility. He was 84 years of age. 65 The Tonopah to largest number to receive county aid in any one month since the pension fund was created. Each widow on relative Case dedication of the Utah building at the solution suit under the Panama exposition at San Francisco. /against the New Haven Myrum Mining regular purchased cipitated by the Riggs National bank, complainant in equity proceedings, to enjoin these officials from alleged attempts to drive that institution out of business through systematic and longcontinued persecution. Attorney General Gregory antnounced that the department of jusVigorous prosecution of illegal medtice had emp/tyed Louis D. Brandeis ical practitioners and unscrupulous of Boston, special counsel for the inphysicians who prescribe narcotics terstate commerce commission in the for habitual drug users is planned by 5 per cent rate case, to defend the state board of medical examiners. Messrs. Williams and McAdoo in the The condition of Leonidas G. Sklirinjunction proceedings. - He declared is, who was shot and_e seriously his department and the treasury were wounded at Salt Lake by Gregorios in accord and heartily co-operating in Pologeorgi, is so much improved that these proceedings. the physicians believe he will recover. It became known also that Jesse C. Owing to press of business GovAdkins, former assistant attorney abandoned his} general, who took a prominent part in ernor William Spry paln to attend the ceremonies at the negotiations whisa preceded the dis Old Polk, William Posey and six other Indians arrested in connection with the uprising in southeastern Utah, but who have been given their liberty, attended church in Salt Lake on Sunday. the twenty-eight Puts signed by the German socialists. Dr. Liebknecht, George Ledebour, Otto newspapers of A. High license has forced the jitney busses from the streets of Ogden, and Under the widow pension 250 widows received checks War. Nis#e says mili- Joseph Homestake clared GOVERNMENT TG BACK UP OFFI CIALS ACCUSED OF ATTEMPT . TO WRECK BANK. The work Washington ARMY cancer, 353. PREPARE 10 FIGHT MINES AND MINING BANKER: CHARGE Jensen, of Provo, shot himself, firing two bullets into his brain. The annual tournament of veterans and active firemen of the state will be held in August at Spanish Fork. Delaware Much. Paris —The from cles failed to discover the reason fot the alarming rumors printed in Lon: A strike that would have involved bility of hostilities between Holland| the electric transportation service in and Germany. Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo and inGermany has sent to the United’ termediate points has been averted States government a note complaining and of extreme to help the Austrians in their fruit. less efforts to relieve Przemysl, and the Russian army, whose task it was to be obtained should delayed Seward, and Carmine Carguilty by a jury on county no one was feebleness President eign the charge of having made and placed @ bomb in St. Patrick’s cathedral at ‘New York peace make .his DOMESTIC. Frank Abarno Sone were found that fighting ary of many fierce encounters between the Germans, who were sent President Wilson has decided definitely not to accompany Secretary Dan. iels on his contemplated trip through the Panama canal to San Francisco in July. and] Lindley M. Garrison,. secretary of professional, in Portland. The regu- war, in a discussion of national dedation will remain in effect until a fense at a banquet of the Democratic new city ordinance governing amafeur bouts has been acted upon by the city commissioners. A. P. Ardourel, a member of the ‘Colorado house of representatives, has where violence continues by day and night, without, however, any definite decision having been reached. The Russians have mase_ themselves masters of the principal chain of mountains from Dukla pass to Uz: sok pass and have begun an attack on the German forces which hold the hills from the latter pass eastward to the Beskid pass. This section of -the Carpathians has been the scene since early Febru. WASHINGTON bank Front. There has been a considerable exfension of the battlefields ‘both in the Darpathian and in the Woevre district Secretary MicAdoo of the treasury and Comptroller of the Currency John Skelton Williams have been made de: fendants in proceedings begun in the District of Columbia supreme court by National GROUND MUSCOVITES CAPTURE BEFORE THEY INVADE HUNGARY. Booths, 14, 1915. The National Association of Credit men’s convention will be held at Salt Lake in June. Suffering Modjeska. by APRIL UTAH STATE: NEWS a wrecked the seven-story cooling build: ing of the Cudahy Packing company’g plant at Kansas City, causing a losg estimated at $750,000. olive oil manufacturer with factories in Marseilles, who has been visiting in the Riggs ‘ing Judge Anderson, Indictments charging conspiracy in connection with the escape November 20, 1914, of General Jose Inez Saiazary from the Bernalillo county jail in Albuquerque, N. M., have been re: turned at Santa Fe against several men pprominent there in dpublic life, INTERMOUNTAIN. The Philadelphia Country club polo team defeated the Boise (Ida.) four on ‘tthe San Mateo polo field by a score of 7 to 10% goals, in the second round for the polo association cups in the Panama-Pacific exposition tournament. cannot with many #4ome and Foreign News Gathered ‘From All ‘Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men war opened) hotel in New York of pneumonia, aged 60. He played leading roles with RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT ‘HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED FORM European officially Eben Bradlee, known on the staged as Hben Plympton, one time leading man The was WEDNESDAY, AUDUIAN ADVANGE HAD BEEN CHECKED The bridge over the Colorado river] at Yuma, Ariz., the last link of th southern transcontinental high way, from the Atlantic to Los Angeles and San UTAH, NUMBER for loss, in January and again in March and 150 tons in February. This ore is all coming from the raise above the 800 level. ' March was a big month in copper. Not only were heavy sales effected, but they were booked at advancing prices which carried electrolytic up from 143%, cents on domestic business early in the month to 16 cents at its close. The advance was overshadowed by the 2-cent rise in Lake. Two of the largest and most impor: tant of the Anaconda Copper Mining company’s properties have reopened. after a suspension of nine months for the High Ore and seven months for the Diamond. The High Ore mine will employ a force of about 700 men and at the Diamond about 500 men will be put back A that of to work. satisfactory outcome of litigation has put a damper on the camp Cherry Creek, Nev., for the last six months was effected last week, when the Nevada Star Mines company paid out $12,000 to forty lien claimants and freed the old-time silver properties that have produced wmillions in the past from legal complications. Ts Te Oddie, former governor of Nevada, has returned from the new gold camp of Willard, about ten miles from Lovelock, says the Reno Gazette. He stated that it gives promise of becoming a fine camp. The rich gold values were discovered Sunday and Joe Ray named the camp on Monday after Jess Willard, who won the championship from Jack Johnson on that day. Since its discovery in the early 70s the career of Cherry Creek, Nevada has simply been a tale of one mis fortune after another. The downward trend-in the price of silver caused a large portion of the population ta seek more prosperous climes, but the faithful ones remained, through some sort camp might once pristine glory. hoping that of necromancy the more regain _ its Organized for the purpose of arty. ing a long tunnel along the quartzitelimestone contact in the Big Cotton. wood district, which tunnel will cut practically every mineral-bearing fis: sure that intersects the contact and which will tap the Wasatch mines property at a depth of 1,400 feet be- low the present workings, articles of incorporation of the Alta Consolidat. ed Mining company have been filed at Salt Lake. An investigation of the Moorcroft oil field, twelve miles north of Moor: croft, Wyo., by V. H. Barnett, of the United States geological survey, to determine, as far as might be, ae possibilities in the of Survey’s the field, Bulletin is 581-C, reporte recent- ly published. The presence of oil in this field has been known for at least a quarter of a century, and many wells have been drilled in the hope of developing a commercial pool, but in only seven of these wells has oil been found in appreciable amounts. — |