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Show I THE PRESS-BULLETI-N Volume 48 binsham canyon, utah, Friday, October 4,1918 number 21 - - ' r' " 1 saam " - - ' Letters From Bingham Soldiers j Letter from t)oa iL. Dunlavy, dated August 18, 'iSomewnere In France," I to his brother, D&Witt Dunlavy: "Just a line or two to let you knew tbat the HXina have not got me yet and for some time to come. If ju fellows only knew how wonderful tills game Is I know you'd rush at once to get In. It will take some time before they get wise and then it will be. cne big grand picnic, and old iFitz will have to run like hell to keep out of our way. "The boys who hare been l'tcky enough to get in the lines sure hare made some record for themselves and the people back home ought to feel mighty proud of them. As a matter of fact I know they, are, but when vmi are steen miles away from the old fireside it is hard to realize it." A letter from Ella Bakich, dated August 29, . Marseilles, France, to Peter Sudakovlch of Phoenix (Rakich existed in the army from Phoenix, an', has been at the front where he wa& wounded and .was just recovering when te wrote the letter: "I am now about well again and so I write tli's letter to you and family. I goj a letter from you a few days ago and found enclosed a check for 55 francs. I did not rrpect that so I got a comrade and we went up town and had a good supper. We certainly had a fine time on that r"rey, and after supper two comrades and my-self had a big celebration which last-ed nearly all night. "I expect to go back to the front any day now. I meet lots of Bingham boys in our town, but did not meet my cousin Mike, whom I wa3 very an-xious to Bee. The reason I failed to see him was because I was out of town the day he passed through and he did not stop here very long. He went on to Bezerte, Africa, with a neighbor. I do not know anything of your brother Mike now. He went to Siberia about a month ago to fight on the battle front there, but I expect to see him some of these days. "My brother, Nick, you say, Is coming to see me. I am glad that he is to come because we are going to break through the Austrian line and find our fathers and mothers homeR "Thanks very much for the check, f send beft regards from my partner Save Grulca from Metka. Goodbye. I hone we meet you !n the village of KMBPrKer" 'were born." - (Letter from Max 'Dorrenoug of the aviation in France, to J. T. Dean: "Thought I'd drop you a few lines to let you know that all's well along the Potomac. I never hear much news from Btnphnm and I'd nra iiva TBut it won't take long to finish up over here once the U. S. gets going right, and the old U. S. A. will sure look good to the fellows coming'home. The Americans have sure got the Huns' goat. Whenever they get to-gether, and as some popular song goes, they will hand their clothes on Hindenburg's line and go swimming In the Rhine.. The Kaiser will be lucky if be keeps them out of the fountain in the public square in Ber-lin, The Kaiser said something of being In Paris on Aprlll, but I guess he decided to come in from the other Bide by the way he has been going for the last month or so. I hope the 10th gets up there before he yells. "Well, Jack, write me the news. A letter is sure appreciated over here. Give my gilt edge to all the fellows and tell them we are 18 K fine." The tolowlng is a letter from G. R. McNeely to his brother, C. D. ilc-Neel- y, of the Press-tBulleti- : "I notice In the European edition of the New Yotk Herald that the man power bill has naswed both houses and that there will be enrolled thirteen million more of America's men. to be pitted against the Kaiser's forces. This will include quite a portion of the capital stock, but the physical training they will get will be great stuff for their health. Still I have no idea that they will have the pleasure of facing the Huns and hearing the thrilling music of chmhing arms on European soil, for the ebb tide has be-gun, the last spring drive left its highest marks on France's hills, and now the wave of Teuton troops, is flowing towards the Rhine. So as the ctorm of battle continues towards the German soil and (Berlin the Kaiser must submit to an unconditional sur-render to save his nation's very ex-istence. ''As 'a whole France Is a beautiful country, dotted everywhere with little villages, The houses are all of stone or brick. The customs of the people are very diferent from thUt of Ameri- - cans. They practically all live in little villages and their farms sur-round. So there are no wayside farm houses, but at that, 3, S., Prentiss spoke well when he referred to "the pleasant vineyards and the sunny land of France." There iife countless vineyards on . toe rolling hills, and the quantity of wine made m"-grapes is inconceivable. And believe me, It's a great thing for we Ameri-cans over here. For "when we are troubled with some belief or feel the pangs of coming grief" wine will al-ways bring relief. "I like France fine and most of the j '. . v amvt? numu TCI J UUU times although we go through some gloomy places at the front. Still its grand experience and filled with thrilling adventure. When I get up to where the big guns belch, the shells scream, the shrapnel burst, the planes dip and their machine gun? pop it cells to mind the stories I used to hear the old Civil War veterans tell of the fights around Richmond. I wanted to live those days over, but. now I am having some experiences of my own and when I return I can tell them something they never dreamed of before. "I have traveled over quite a little of France and seen many places of historical note. I have been to (Paris which is a wonderful city. Of course my trip there was rather " a pass through on a b!g truck. like the rub-ber necks in N. Y. C. without the guy who "keeps all the fuss" through a big horn, dtfng the places of inter-est. But at that, it was quite a pleas- ure to be in the world famous city, where Napoleon, whose wish was fate and whoso word was law. reigned in all his glory. I saw the Eiffel Tower that wonderful feat of Pteel. 985 feet high, and many other buildings that have long since been famous In the world's history. I also saw the mam-moth ferrls wheel which was in Fris-co in 1915. I would write more, but I expect before the censor rinlshes reading this he will think I am trying to write a book." The following Is a letter from iB. F. Willis, Bakery Company, 394 Q. M. C. Camp ILfwIs, Washington: Dear Mr. Kelly: The army life is great. Uncle Sam at present is trying to make a beker out of me: all the clerks, merchants and traveling men out of the 2Uh Company T)epot Bri-gade were transferred to the bakery company. This shop bakes bread, only turning out about seven tons of bread daily. Everything Is up to date and extremely sanitary. I expect to take special training in a different branch of the army as soon as I have seen more service; ' however, this is good. Hoping business Is good, and that the Fourth IJberty Loan will be raised In twenty-fou- r hours In Bingham. I am. yours very truly, B. E. WILLIS. to hear about the doings. I nearly fell dead when I received a letter from Red, the other day, but it wa very brief, containing the date line, the heading, a promise to write later, and his name. "Everything is rosy over here. We have plenty of work, eats and sleep also a good time once in awhile. One can't have one of those right good tmes like tlie States put out, but If one works his imagination a little he oan bull himself into thinking he is Moving one Joyous celebration. My Idea of the biggest time in one's ll.--i- s to be up on the front right now. We are a lona- - ways from where the game is on, and haven't even the chips to sit in. Some ene has to do this work back here so I suppose we should be satisfied with it. Hope we get to see part of it before it's all over. "The work we do here Is rather in-teresting and we sure see some great flying at times. Some of these bird" sure pull some wonderful stunts. I am on the lineup crew and one sure finds out what an honory, obst'nate thing an aeroplane can be at times Had a nice long ride in one the other day. Was up about thirty minutes and higher than I'd ever been before The ground sure looks fine from un above, and a fttered up . barnyard looks like a , flower garden. The French farms are laid out funny. The buddings are usually built to form a ho'low iuare and the barn house, hen coop, and pig pen are under one roof. "It. would drive a sanitary shark Plumb crazy, but living for genera-tions in such conditions have got the people used to it and they look a healthy as anyone else who was brought up like a human. iBelng a frog mvpelf I hate to criticize, but there is lots of room for Improvement Their wells are nearly all open ones I've only seen a counle of pumps In thlj country and only one windmill Guess they don't believe in water, es-pecially for drinking purposes. Their nntional drink is a kind of pale red. and this cognac is sure barbwlre all right. Two drinks and one is not sure if his shoes are on his feet, and he does not care. ' Great Crowd Of Japanese Present At Commercial Club To Hear ! Address Of Professor Nagai When Big Drive For Liberty ; Loan Was Launched Much Enthusiasm Was Manifested J And Good Results Accomplished. 4 I ' t : 1 K J - 1 ! . I i I 1 f 1 'i-i i 1 :!. --. The Commercial Club was taxed to ; Us capacity Thursday night of last . t week to accommodate the great crowd 'of Japanese who were present to hear -- ajddness of Professor R. Nagai, of ,Toki5, Japan, when the campaign for the sale of Liberty Bonds among their countrymen ' was officially launched. They manifested a lively , interest in the work and when the .. --iigures are totaled it is safe to say that it will be made known that the ; Japanese will have taken a large ,' block of the bonds. - J i Prof. Nagai was brought here through the efforts of the committee ,of the council of defense and the Ori-entals were royally entertained by tfie Commercial Club and the meeting was a success in every sense of the ."word. , Prof. Nagai spoke from the subject, What Japan Is Doing In This War," and his address was highly pleasing to his audience. He urged j1us countrymen in the camp here to ZQ to the limit in the purchase of Liberty Bonds as that is the most ef-fective manner in which the people at home can assist the soldiers at the . front in beating back the Huns. A I synopsis of his address Is as follows: , "Thfn let me explain the reasons f why Jtbvtn is at war with Germany, before telling you what Japan is do-ing in this war. At first we are fig'at-Jh- g Germany because we could not permit German raiders to nttvk the commercial ships and sespo-t- ? in the Orient and to lay mines in the world highways on the Pacific Ocean. It , Was the win of Germany to ce'ed-- r all allied nations out of the Orifnt. ! hus JNservIng itu sea and land for her suies of munitions and war ma- - terlals. So we came into this war not Sly. for ourselves but --for the free-dom of Internatidnal trade. K "Secondly we are fighting Germany because Germany violated the inter-national law. Japan's theory is that international law is an expression of international Justice. lWthout which , -- i R. NAGAI ertation. And the training of 30,000 typists is a"5tep in that direction, Un-less such a plan is forestalled Ger-many will gain its ambition of com-plete control of Russia's business. And for intercepting any such wedge attempts to get a foothold int-- j Rus-sia and for safeguarding the allies' legitimate interests in Siberia, our warships and troops are cooperating with the American, British and Chi-re- e in the Far 'East According to 'fce , latest news, Vladivostok, which is the u ost important Siberian port, and ' large quantities of allies supplies are stored therg at , preser.t, has secured by the allied, forces and they are ow marching m BUmr-Ri- e nvers " Amur end Usurl. Thus Japan has been an-xious to cooperate with the allies in a heart to heart service for universal Justice and peace. So each one of you must do your best and bravest to meet the allies heed. n is impossible 10 esiaonun interna-tional neace. And, therefore, every treatjj" sacred and to be respected. But Germany's theory is that the in-ternational law is the will of the stronger, and therefore a treaty is ' . mere scrap of paper, which the stronger can tear up at any time he thinks it convenient. So since this war began, Germany, invading 'Belgium, killing civilians, attacking defenseless ibwns and sinking neutral ships has thrown away almost all rules of na-tions under which conditions no na-tion that has the sense of Justice Could remain inactive. Japan stood loyal to her ally to defend the inter-national 1'ist!ce and to teach Germany the validity of the international law. , Indeed if liberty is a lasting heritage of American democracy, then loyalty' Is the eternal legacy of Ihe Japanese , nation. "Lastly, but not the l"srt we are fighting Germany, because in ' this war feudalism is making its last stand against the coming democracy. Let Germany be feudal, if she will but she must not spread her system over a world that has outgrown it. As Secretary Franklin ILane puts it, "This is a war against feudalism, the right of the castle on the hill to rule the village below; this is a war for -- ")ct!ryracy. the right of all to be their own masters," The Ideal of Japan Is a universal emancipation, when all races and nations shall be free under " s.world democracy nd such an ideal of universal emancipation Is essen-'tlnil- y contrary to Germany's reasons why we are at war with Germany. ..Thus ss early as 1914 our army captured Tslng Tao. Germany's stronghold in China, depriving the enemy of his best naval basis for ihe Faclfic Ocean. Our navy. In cooperat-ion with the British drove the Ger-raide-" from the Indian Ocean, Ty??rcaptured the enemy's strong and strategic stations on the Pacific waters. Our navy has also escorted the transports of Australian and of Russian troops from the Far Eastern seas to the Mcdfterarnean; and on th i Mediterranean our warships are polic-ing In cooperallon with French, Briti-sh, American and Italian warships, about ten per cent of the total ton- - Mge of all alllf d warships on that wa-ter being Japanese. Our munition plants have beon also running day and night for the allied cause. And t i nte are In cooperation with the ' American. British and Chinese army and navy for the fight in the Far East. "When I was In Japan, I heard from my friend from Moscow that Germany Ann training "0.000 men and oinen to r- nl "ri.H for Russian business firms. Not only Germany has not enough foldicrs to comjucr RukMb and make it part and parcel of the Teutonic Empire, but also it Is far cheaper and moro effective to in-vade the country by commercial pen- - I ' i BUS TAKE III PI IN C0. J0IIN1 The County Convention This Week Interests Many Bingham ' People F. W. Quinn Nominated For Legislature The Most County Officers Renominated Lively Contest For Sheriff And County Commissioners Corless Named For Sheriff. Many Bingham Democrats were In Salt Lake this week to attend and participate in the county conveni'on. The state convention was held ion-- day, but local interest was not great ' until Tuesday evening when the leg- - s islative ticket was to be maO.e up. Great local interest attached to this . because Francis W. Quinn becime one of the eleventh hour candidates for a seat in the house of representa-tives. The convention "was held In the Hippodrome Theatre building and it was well filled Tuesday ' night. Shortly after the organization was ' perfected the work of electing ten representatives was comr.ciiced. Darly in the game Judge J. C. Green, in a very appropriate and very force-ful speech, nominated Mr. Quinn and he was selected on the first I'allot He received the solid support of the local delegation and secured a K'od vote from all sections of the county. TVhtn the results were declared Mr. Quinn made a splendid speerh to the convention in which he expressed lis appreciation for the high hrnor con-- ; ferred on him, and especially the Bingham delepation for its solid sup-- j port. Wednesday the big battle for the county offices opened in which the thief contest was to be that of sheiv i'.f. Also there was intense Interest in the IBingham delegation as it was intended to put Isadore Gauchat for-- 1 ward for a place on the board, but be-fore the work of selecting candidates was started, Mr. Gauchat decided not to make the race. Stillman and Lin- - sey, present incumbents, were both nominated. Mr. Linsey was nomina-ted on the first ballot for the long , term and Stillman on the second nal- - lot for the short term, StiUmon got In by'hekta of bis" twth, having r' ' majority of only half a vote. His close opponent was R. E. L. Collier. ' Thehief candidates for sheriff were Corless. Burbidge and Harris ' and this contest brought out the big fight of the convention. There was a big preliminary of speech making in , which the candidates wero lauded to the skies. When the first ballot was . taken Corless had a slight lead with Burbidge a close second and Harris third. As the balloting went on Cor-less kept making slight gains and finally a switch in the 03lngham dele-gation put him over the top. In this contest Burbidge had a tplendld or-ganization and when the results went against him he showed himself a good sport and moved to make the nomination of Corless unanimous. After this the convention recessed and at the night session the other county officers were named. It was after midnight when the convention finished its work. The Bingham delegation with .its thirty votes was a big feature in the convention and it soon became the byword that as Bingham goes so goes the convention. The Bingham vote was called near the end of the roll call and where the contest was at all close her vote would elect or defeat the candidate in question. The contest for a Justice of the peace for Bingham will be decided next Wednesday night by the Bing-ham delegates. This election will be held In the sheriffs office at 8 o'clock d. in. TOWN CLERK IS ON THE LEGISLATIVE TICKET, ;? vv. t . ' " v f V' , - ; - - - - - - i F. W. QUINN One of the most popular men In the great mining camp and perhaps one of the best informed citizens of Bingham is F. W. Quinn . who was nominated this week for representa-tive to the state legislature on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Quinn has been one of. the staunch supporters of this party since he came to camp in the pioneer days of Bingham. He .haa, lived the majority jf. tie days here and it is a signal honor at this time to crown his career by sending him to the " legislature in the great state of Utah. That he will represent !"K'"n arid the state at large, if elected in a fitting manner, goes without saying. - DOfiALD BYRAM PASSED AWAY Donald, the three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. 6. I Byran. died last Sunday morning in Salt ILake, where he had been taken the previous Wed-nesday for an operation. The opera-tion was performed Saturday and lie never regained consciousness. He had not been well since July when he drank some lye. At the time he was in a serious condition and his life was despaired of, but he made a grave fight and rallied and after several weeks It appeared that he would overcome the effects as every-thing possible was done to free his system from the poison. He kept up his spirit and aside from the fact that he continued to lose flesh his condi-tion setmed hopeful. Last week one of the lungs closed up and it became necessary to have an operation per-formed and this proved fatal. He was a splendid little fellow, bright a nd Rmart, and the stricken family have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement. The funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from ODonnrll's chapel in Salt Lake by iBishop George Arbuckle. DR. J. ANDERSON LEFTJiR ARMY Dr. J. Anderson, one of the best known and ' most able and valuable physicians of Bingham, left this week for Fort Riley, where he will assume his duties as first lieutenant in the medical department of the Uni-- 1 ted States army. Dr. Anderson has practiced medi-cine In Bingham for two years and i was Dr. Straup's asslntant at the Bingham hospital. Ho is a compet-ent and Bkillful physician and will be a valuable adjunct to the govemmtnt. He was very popular In Bingham and' his many friends here regretted to' see him leave. A reception waa given in his honor at the Bingham hospital Monday . night when he was presented with a beautiful wrist watch which was con-tributed by tho help and nurses of the hoepityil. iDr. Anderson is the second physi-cian from the Bingham hospital to enter tho service and now !lr. Straup is without an assistant. So the phy-sicians are getting acarce in Bingham. The assistapts of Dr. Flynn and Dr. Ray have both entered the service as well as Dr. Hageman, who conducted his office alone. In this connection it might be well to mention the fat that the doctors who now remain In Bingham are pressed with work night and day in administering to the sick of the community. The people of, the camp should be considerate and in all cases where it is possible should call at the office of their physician Instead of having him make a trip to their home. This will make it possible for the doctors to better care for their ' patients. The doctors who remain at home and care for the sick are now doing a great work for their country. UTAH COPPER BUYS 1W.M BONDS The New York federal resfcrve dis-trict with a fourth (Liberty Loan quo-ta of $1,800,000,000 has subscribed only $181,346,750 or 18.2 per cent of its, allotment. New York City's total ' is 142j577,80 or 10.7 per cent of its allotment. Among the large subscriptions an-nounced unofficially were $3,000,000 by the Utah Copper Company, $1,000,-00- 0 each by the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, (Ray Consolidated Copper Company, Texas Company and Kennecott Copper Corporation. CAPT. EDWARDS TALKEDDN WAR One of the finest appeals on behalf of America's part in this war was made here Friday evening by Captain Frank Edwards of the iBritlsh Army. Captain Edwards has spent rour years at the front and started as a private He stated that America does not fully sense the full meaning of this war and what a sacrifice the English and French people are making to hold the line against the Huns. America has not begun to sacrifice as she will be-fore this war Is over. He told of the thousands of women in England who were working In the munition factor-ies and other places, to keep the front line supplied with men. Hie told of havinn seen 100 00O dead lying on the battle field at one time for sever-al davs with no one to bury them. He atated that for one meal In this coun-try be was ?!vcn more meat than his whole family got for a week in Eng-land. We have not begun to pay the price In sacrifice that we should pay. WILDA DAVIS PASSED AWAY THURSDAY Miss Wilda. Davis the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Davis of Bingham, passed away .in Thursday morning at an early hour of heart trouble. She ha 1 be n sick for some time and during the past several months was in a serious con-dition. She was nn accomplished young girl and had a host of young friends who will nrvrn her Iohs. T.'iIs is the second daughter i Mr. and Mrs. Davis to bo tuken In this ni.'iimt'r. The funeral will be held on j Pe t unlay at 1 p. m. and an aut3 oor-- , lege will follow the remains to Its. last rphtiiii? place in the city cemetery. Salt Lake City, AUSTRIAN KILLED AT UTAH-AP- EX Matt Blnckovlcn was instantly kill-ed at the Utah Apex 'Mino about 6 p. m. Thursday. He came in contact with a live wire perhaps the trolley leading Into the tunnell, and was In-stantly killed. He was a native of Austria and haves a wife and three : children In the old countrv, it In wad 47 years of age and had lived In llingham for many years. Ho stood well in this community and many will mourn hia sad departure. RAYMOND HOSKING RUN OVER BY AUTO Raymond, Hosking, was severely in-jured by being run over by an auto-mobile, owned by A. Johnson, has a chance recover, his physicians say. He is Injured internally and his con-dition is still serious. A warrant for Johnson's arrest has been issued. An effnrt will be made to educate, the children of the community' as to the ! danger of climbing on automobiles. The tetchors In the schools load- - j ing In this movement. Tribune, GEORGE VERNAL WILCOX DIED OF DIPHTHERIA The 15 year-ol- d son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wilcox difd at the family home here Thursday evening of diph-theria and scarlet fever, Gerge Ver-nal was sick only since last Mon-day, but this disease got such a hold that It could not be checked. He was a promising young lad and was just approaching manhood when the strong arm of death snatched him away. Funeral arrangements had not been made at the time of going to press. |