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Show I --f.LJ"- THE BINGHAM NEWS OGDEN SUFFERS HEAVYVFIRE LOSS BLAZE DESTROYS PEERY BUILD. ING AND THREATENED TO DE-MOLISH ENTIRE SECTION Every Bit of Apparatus In City Strug-gles to Control Flames; Police and Voluteers Give Aid; Store Stock Ruined Ogden. Flames consumed a total ot $305,000 In property and goods here early Thursday morning, when the most spectacular blaze In local his-tory gutted the D. II. Feery building on Washington avenue, between Twenty-fourt- h and Twenty-tlft- h streets, completely destroying stocks and furnishings ot the Last & Thom-as department store, the Wistaria candy store and the Arlington hotel, Housed In the structure. Defective wiring was given as cause of the blaze. Only ubout one-hal- f of the loss is covered by Insurance. For hours, every available bit of firelightlng in the city struggled grimly to prevent threatened destruction of the entire business section of the city. At dawn, the lire was still raging along the walls of the de-stroyed building, while firemen, pn-ic- e and volunteer helpers directed .heir efforts to protection of adjoining property. The fire broke out at 11:25 o'clock Wednesday night In a display win. low ot tbo department store. Pass-ersl.- turned in an alarm, but before are apparatus could reach the scene tlte flames, fed by highly combustible stocks, had gotten beyond control. As .he conflagration raged, police and iremen aided occupants of the build-ing to escape. Hose lines were run in from every angle and steady streams of water poured into the leap-ing flames and soaked walls of structures In the hope to save hem from the destructive element. 'ky Illumination from the gigantic vre attracted thousands of residents, rom whom volunteer workers were ressed into service. Contents of the iillding not actually touched by the re were rendered valueless by smoke ml water, while tumbling walls com-pleted the work of demolition. UTAH LEGISLATURE CLOSK SESSION CIGARET BILL, GAS TAX AND BUDGET MEASURE COUNTED NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS A total of 106 bills were killed dur-ing the last day's session of the lower house, many of them being led to their death because there was not time to do anything else with them. Of the bills killed, sixty-seve- n were origin-ated in the house and thirty-nin- e in the senate. With one report, the sifting committee recommended that the en-acting clause be stricken from sixty-seve- n house bills and with another it was taken from twenty-eig- ht senate bills. Then, in the early evening, Mr. Cannon of Davis county moved that the enacting clause be stricken from the remaining seven senate bills on the calendar. The motion was carried and the calendar was clear. The session has had a few out-standing features, among these being the cigaret bill, on which some mem-bers of the two houses have been working since the session opened. The gasoline tax also has been an item of interest as the bills having to do with this and the licenses for automobiles Changing the procedure In criminal trials. Appropriating $15,000 for construc-tion of a road from Bluff to the San Juan oil fields. Amending various regulations on ad-ministration of state land office. Allowing mine and fire boss certifi-cates only to American citizens. Amending educational requirements for licensing practitioners in healing arts. Requiring teaching of the U. S. Con-stitution in schools. Repealing statute which requires county assessors to prepare military eligible lists. Enacting uniform law on aeronau-tics. Prohibiting rebates on insurance premiums. Requiring notice of sale for prior tax to be stamped on tax policies of current year. Continuing state welfare commis-sion. Amending law relating to dismissal of court actions on application of plaintiffs. Creating state depositories commis-sion. Providing for dissolution of drainage districts. Enacting new law for propogation and protection of fish, game and wild life. Repealing present fish and game law. Permitting savings bank with a sur-plus and capital of $100,000 to engage in trust business. Providinr for annointement of adult for an agricultural Inspection fund- - Changing the designation of Om state road system. Allowing until April 1 to secure mo-or vehicle licenses for 1923. Levying a 2.4 mill for general fund tax and a .2 mill tax for the state high school fund. Providing additional public recrea-tion facilities. Requiring accounts of public works to be kept. Truth in advertising bill. Regulations for licensing and bond-ing of warehouses. Allowing the wider use of school buildings. Reducing the number of scholarships in the school of education of the Uni-versity of Utah. Pertaining to the illegitimate chil-dren of girls committed to the indus-trial school. Creating state agricultural zones. Abolishing the office of state road engineer and empowering the state commission to regulate the use of highways. Amending crops and pests regula-tions to conform to agricultural ton-ing bill. Providing for a commission to pro-vide a statue for Indian Chief Wish-aki- e. Amending the law relating to tXe regulations of foreign coporations do-ing business in the state. Amending the law or par valua of common stock for corporations. and trucks were under consideration. The budget bill held a 'wide interest, as everyone interested in any sort of legislation was concerned regard-ing the appropriation. Decision to stop on time was an-nounced some time ago by Speaker Seegmiller of the house after he had been advised by the attorney general that it was not only his privilege, but his duty so to do. At the time the members appladed his announcement. In addition to the usual felicitations and resolutions of thanks and appre-ciation to the newspapers, the hotels and the theatres for courtesies ex-tended to the legislature, the closing hours of the state senate were marked by the unusual occurrence of the con-firmation of two of the governor's appointments in open session. One of these came early in the eve-ning when the communication from the governor arrived naming Thomas E. McKay as member of the public utilities commission to serve for six years from March 15, next. He suc-ceeds Joshua Greenwood, Democrat, on that body. President McKay was con-firmed in this office at once by un-animous vote, Senator David Jenson, his colleague from Weber county, oc-cupying the chair in the senate at the time. Senator J. W. Peters made- - the motion In a congratulatory speech, in which he felicitated the governor in the excellence of his choice, and the people of the senate in obtaining the services of a man of Mr. McKay's type. Before the actual vote had been taken Senator Antoinette B. Kinney, in a speech so happily worded that it was ordered spread in full on the jour-nal, presented President McKay, in behalf of the members, with a hand-some gold watch and chain, on the in-ner cane of which is inscribed th name of each of the senators. Mrs. Kinney said she was expressing the love and loyalty of the senate members for their presiding officer in their pre-senting the gift from all of them. President McKay feelingly res-ponded, but was compelled by emotion to des'st before he could round out to a conclusion. The presiding officer of the senate placed in the hands of Governor Ma-be- y his resignation as a member of the legislature, effective March 14. A complete resume of all legislature passed by the wo houses of h Fif-teenth legislature follows. Much of this legislation is still awaiting the soproval of the governor but to drite there has been no ind'eation that the executive's action would be other than favorable. Memorial to President: For ap-pointment of commission on increased use of silver for currency reserves. Memorials to Congress: Favoring distribution of surplus war materials; to assist silver mining industry; to pass Towner-Sterlin- g education bill; to extend further relief for settlers on U. S. reclamation projects; opposing tax exempt securities. Resolutions: For appointment of commitee to investigate crime wave and board of pardons; for annual dis- - of flag on mother's day;endorsing nternational Mining Exposition in Salt Lake. Bills, appropriating $45,000 for leg-islative extienses: probation officers. Making it a fe'ony to kill stock, the pronerty of another. Making it a misdemeanor to maim or injure stock, the property of an-other. Providing for pro rating of taxes on feeder stock. Correct educational requirements for licensing practitioners in embalming. Allowing more liberal regulations governing licensing of certified pub-lic accountants. Exempting assault for robbery from bein-- r a crime for felonious assault. Allowing an additional judge in the Fourth judicial district. Extending control of bank commis-sioner over state banks and trust companies. , Renealing law on licenses for graz-ing foreign livestock. Allowing life sentence to be im-posed for assault with intent to com-mit robbery. Regulating adoption of children by persons other than relatives. Permitting voluntary admission to stnte mental hospital. Requiring periodic audits of public accounts. Abolishing state certification com-mission. Limiting school tax levies in rural districts. Limiting school tax levies in city districts. Allowing veterans organizations the use of national guard armories. Amending the cold storage food law. Requiring county recorders to keen records of honorable discharges of men from military service. Abolishing office of director of henHh education. Changing name of mental hospital to Utah State hospital. Extending jurisdiction of first class cities over water sheds. Amending bounty law so as to In-crease tax and provide for 100 per cent with federal govern-ment in nredatory animal control work. Limiting the civil service In police and fire departments to first class cities. Appropriating moneys to carry on state government for biennium begin-ning April 1. Amending law relating to real te in irrigation districts sold for taxes. Requiring annual audit of state fund. Changing 'aw relating to liquidation of state hsTiVs. Restoring to Carmela and Giovannt Mnione money escheated to the ste. Regulating advertising along public highways. Exempting from taxation property moving in interstate commerce. Making theft of a goat a grand lar-cen- v. Extending absent voters law. Levying a 2M cent gasoline tax. Changing automobile license regula-tions. Reducing automobile license fees. Authorizing land commissioner to lease the section of land approaching Bryc e canvon. Authorizing the sale of the states interest In lands under the Piute ir-rigation project Amending law on automobile traffic Changing budget law to permit leg-islature to increase budget items. Agricultural associa-tion act. Extending law covering organiza-tions of associations not for pecuniary profit. Amending law on labelling provi-sions of baking powder containers. Ratifying Colorado river pact treaty. Requiring county treasurers to dis-tribute tax receipts monthly. Authorizing the University of Utah to pay up to one-ha- lf of premiums on old age annuities for faculty members. Cancelling state warrants not pre-sented for payment in two years. Allowing life Imprisonment penalty for assault to kill. Reducing fee for filing mineral lease with land office. Changing law relating to felonious assault. Increasing exemptions allowed on homesteads. Changing compensation insurance law so that stock companies need not write insurance at same rate as state fund. Repealing law prohibiting use of narrow tired vehicles. Restricting jurisdiction of state en-gineer over waters in mall streams. Requirne trust and ruarsnte asso-ciations to secure permits from bank enmmH"inncr before opening commer-cial snvines accounts. Levv'ne a three mill tax on hogs for rhnlnra control. I pv' nf a three mill tax on dairy st.ni-- k f )1- - nnyirg Indemnities on 'vber-eu'a-eatth signals. Appropriating $50,000 for a revolv-ing fund in survey of public lands. Requiring taxing units to report to the state board of equalization on tax levies. Retrulating the sale In bulk of mer-chandising equipment. Appropriating $173,000 from the motor vehicle registration fund for the revolving construction fund of the state road oemmission. Amending the Southwick anti-cig-- ft rot l&w Appropriating $50,000 from the sur-plus in the motor vehicle fund to the state road commission. Authorizing the oreanization of mo-squito abatement districts. Accepting the federal act for child hyp-ien- e and maternity welfare. Appropriating $750 for revision of maps and plats of Morgan county as-sessor. Regulating the manufacture of bed-din- e. Amending the law governing or-ganization of building and loan asso-ciations. Allowing traveling and subsistence to strict attornevs. Permitting county boards to extend the delinquent dates on taxes. Changing the law relating to or-ganization of building and loan asso-ciations. Changing the regulations governing licensing of practioners in healing arts. Reducing salary of finance and pur-chs- er director to $4,000. The ritrht-to-wor- k bill, j Permitting a levy of one-tent- h mill ;;NewsNotes1 i From Alt Parts of UTAH I 'i Bingham. It Is rumored here thnt the Utah Copper company will grant a wage Increase to Us employees. Mantl. The final estimates of the . Mantl-I'lgeo- n Hollow project show that the road cost $170,992.76. Of this amount $232,394.42 was paid by the federal government. Price. According to the county as-sessor $21,500 has been turned Into the treasury for personal tax. This Is more money than has been collect-ed for personal tax In any previous year. iMoab. The Arizona Utah Oil com-pany, which last year spudded In a test well near Cisco. Grund county, has decided to Install either a stand-ard or a larger size Star rig and re-sume operations. Price. George Ritznkls killed a large mountain Hon on Ftsli creek, near the Wellington hills. It mea-sured eight feet from tip to tip. mngiiam. Doputy Sheriffs made three raids In Bingham arresting throe persons and confiscating quan-tities ot moonshine and home brew. Manti. A jersey bull club was or-ganized at a recent Farm Bureau meeting. Plans were discussed, the organization perfected, money sub-scribed. . Salt Lake. The state road commis-sion has opened bids on the federal aid project for a bridge on the Salt national park highway, over Coal creek, within the city lim-its of Cedar City. Tooele. The serious nature of ravages by a rabid coyote in the cor-ral of J. W. Brazier of Vernon be-came apparent when it was reported that a calf and a horse had already developed rabies. The attack was just three weeks ago. Logan. A complaint charging Silas and Wallace Kicks with assault and battery was filed In the city court by J. E. Allen. Spanish Fork. In a triangular pub-lic speaking contest, conducted in the high schools ot Nebo district, Span-ish Fork won the contest at Payson against Syrlngvllle and Payson speakers. Eureka Shipments from the mines ot the Tintic district dropped off to 100 carloads for the week ending last Saturday as compared with 204 car. loads for the week preceding. Garfield. Tony Del Corchlo, charg. ed with raising a $2 check to $200; and with passing It on the Gurfleld Bnnklng company, waived prelimin-ary hearing and waa bound over to the Third district court for trial. Bountiful. Nick Kloconnos of Og. den and Peter Nelson of Salt Lake, who were arrested here on the charge of having lhiuor in their possession, were found guilty In Justice Ilyrum Sessions' court. Prove Two million bricks and over 13,000 tons of snnd and gravel aro among the first Items thnt will be . purchased for the new steel plant. Mt. Pleasant. Bert Conacll, suffer-ed two broken rl!s and numerous bruises on Ms herd nnd body when a tract! r with which he v s attempting to pull a stalled putscnger car out of the mud skidded and turned over. I'rovo. As a preliminary workout In preparation for the Judging con-tests to be held at the Salt Luke livestock show In April, Professor L. B. 1 1 arm on took his student Judging team to I.ake Shore to pass on the entries In the beef sire community show held there. Ogden. Why catsup manufactured' and bottled in Utah is labeled and sold ns a California product, Is what the business affairs committee ot the Klwanls club was asked to ascertain at the meeting of the club. Salt Lake City. A Jury In criminal division of the Third dls rlct court found XV. W. Ralph not guilty of at-tempting to escape from the state prison September 2fi, 1922. Brigham City. The board Is con. sidorlng the erection of another unit to the Bear River high school, lo-cated midway between Tremonton and Garland. The new structure will Include an auditorium and gym. naslum. ( Tooele. Mr. Maude Speirs, wife of Matthews Speirs, local merchant fell on the ice and broke her ankle Ogden. K. M. Webber, paid a fine of $50 In the city court, when he was found guilty of speeding. Nephl. Tlie flrt car load ot eggs to be shipped from this city left here under the direction of the Central Utah Poultry association. Price. W. D. Eldrldge, was crush-ed to death by a loaded trip In Spring Canyon mine No. 1. Mantl. An Investigation started when Mrs. John Peterson, confiwaitvi a gallon of moonshine from her hus-band after he hud bou;;tit It, has re-sulted In tho arrest of an alleged bootlegger. ! EfjpROIES i INTRAIN WRECK j. FIREMAN ON ORE HAULING LO. COMOTIVE SERIOUSLY IN- - & ' JURED AT BINGHAM ' - I Crash Occurs on Heavy Grade as I ' Trains of Empty Ore Cars Round Sharp Curve j i , On B, & G. Bingham Canyon, Utah. James . Karlow of Bingham, engineer for the K Bingham & Garfield railroad, was in- - stantly killed shortly before noon I Wednesday when the locomotive he piloting up the hill In the of the Utah Copper company at Iwas collided with a train coming the hill. The locomotive was and the fireman badly in- - I Jured. The latter'g name could not I be learned. I Karlow was reported to have been I piloting engine No. 75, drawing eight empty cars up the hill near a spot v where Beveral steam shovels were working. Another locomotive push-- p i I lag several empty cars was preceed- - lng down the hill with the cars ahead. Rounding a sharp curve, the two s trains crashed. Several cars were de- - I railed and narrowly missed rolling i down a steep embankment hundreds ot feet. I . Karlow's fireman was rushed to a i Salt Lake hospital. Members of the crew of the train coming down the v l hill escaped serious I Injury. TREASURE SEEKERS GO SOUTH Brazil Is New Land of Promise That Beckons Those Who Woo the Fickle Goddess, Fortune. Treasure seekers are turning thej eyes toward the old gold coast again. This time they are not thinking of the sunken hulks of overloaded ships three centuries under the sea that might by some mad miracle of luck still be salvaged. Nor have they heard another scries of maudlin whispers of a hoard of pirate gold just found by the crew of a rum runner hunting a hidden harbor. Yellow gold and flat slabs of feath-ered emerald engraved by Indians be-fore the Spanish flag and the Catholic cross were carrel d into the Americas do not Interest them. It's the repeated news of new dia-mond fields that have been opened re-cently between the mouth of the Mag-dalen a river and the headwaters of the Klo Grande of Brazil that is filling the veins of those who seek sudden wealth with a fever to find a fortune In blue clay beds or along the batiks of streams that rise somewhere Inland In mountain ranges that bordei jungles, the New York Sun states. Footloose adventurers everywhere are looking up ways and means of reaching a likely port along the gold coast somewhere between Caracas and Cayenne, or of arriving In Brazil some .where between Bahla and Sao Paulo. J Former Aide Ends Life I Washington. Charles F. Cramer of San Francisco, who retired last month I as general counsel for the veterans' ' bureuu at a time when the conduct i of the bureau was under fire in con- - gress, committed suicide Wednesday I by Bhooting hiself through the head. His body was found In the bathroom ' of his home, where he had locked himself after saying goodbye to Mrs. i Cramer when she left on a midnight j train for New York. The police j found no message to explain his act, ' but his friends said that the nervous ' strain which had resulted from his .. connection with the bureau had un-- '). tlermined his health. Lenin Has Relapse Moscow. All soviet Russia awaits anxiously each day the official bulle-- tin Issued by the government which tells of the condition of Premier ' Nikolai Lenin, who has suffered a - serious relapse and is partly par-- I nlyzed. The Russian leader, once re- - i ferred to us '"dictator," but for over a year an extremely sick man, whose 1 valued counsel was sought only on the most important matters of state, I has been growing weaker since about I December 1, 1922, an official com- - i munique said. 'ranee ind Belgium In Disagreement London. France ana Belgium are .u serious disagreement over several .iliases ot the Ruhr occupation, to reports from a variety of sources Thursday. The Daily Express 'ails correspondent understands the '.ulglans are dissatisfied with the present situation where they are re-viving nothing In the way of repara. Hons and that at a forthcoming here Belgium will demand of a loan In lieu of Gorman pay-nent- Le Peuple of Brunsols Insists that despite official denials, serious Mssenslon exists between the two ountrles, especially over the ques-tion of whether the armies of occo-mtio- n are being used to collect rp-ration- s or to establish a separate ll.iiie state. i Heavy Snow Fall In West t Denver. A heavy snowstorm which j began here early Wednesday was 4 sjweeping Utah, Wyoming and North, f ern Colorado, according to reports to I the weatner bureau. The precljdta-- I tion, which will be of great benefit to dry land farmers will continue a f few days the official weather observer ' announced. Traffic in Denver was impeded by the blinding snow and $ slippery car tracks and streets. NEW IDEA IN WATCH MAKINQ Discovery, It Is Announced, Is CapAbli of Revolutionizing the Pres-ent Industry. Not long ago there was announced a discovery described by the dlrectoi of the International bureau of weight! and measures as being capable of revo-lutionising the watch-makin- g Industry, A successful method of regulation, remedying the variations In time of watch due to the expansion and con-traction of Its parts caused by varia-tions of temperature, Is the result of the invention of C E. Gulllaume. This "secondary error" al-ways has been one of the great ob-stacles In the attainment of perfection and precision In the watchmaking In-dustry. The chief feature of the Gulllaume process Is a change In the alloy used In the compensating parts. Then mini-mum expansion of nickeled steel wa found to be Increased by the addition of 12 per cent of chrome as well as small quantity of tungsten, man-ganese or carbon. ' By mounting a spiral of this e al-loy In the watch, according to t French announcement, the problem ol compensation has been solved and the "secondary error" removed. Washing-ton Star. Sen. Caraway Pleads Not Cuilty Washington. Senator Caraway of Vrkansas pleided not guilty In court dure Thursday In the suit for dam-ages brought ugulnut him by Harry A. Vnllerstein, a clerk In the Veterans' mreau, as a result of a recent r between the' two following in argument on a Washington street car. In his reply Senator Ci.rawny told nn entirely defferent story from that contained In Wallersteln's com. )bilnt. The senator declared he had ien assaulted by the plaintiff und had not, as charged, acted as the aggressor. Swindler Uses New Method Los Angeles. George Schobel, 31! years old, was taken into custody here on a charge of having obtained cur-rency from various persons on prom-ises to make them counterfeits nnd f then embezzling the money. Schobel I said he came here a few days ago f from St. Louis. The police said they had been informed he previously had f been located in New York and Chi-- I cago. Earth Shocks Registered Rome. A heavy earthquake at n point not fur distant was recorded on tho seismograph at Naples and Foggla at (5:14 nnd 0:55 o'clock Thursd ly morning respectively. The shock was so Intense that It damaged the lo-ll, rumen ts. A dispatch from Florence says the observatory reported an earthquake this morning, centering In the Dalmatian zone, across the French Seize Coal j Dusseldorf. The first seizure of j coul direct from the mines by French i In the Ruhr was accomplished Wed- - esday, a total of 3."0 tons being tak- - en. French reports confirm the se vere state or urge imposed at Buer, where anyone found guilty of car-ryin- g arms will be immediately courtmartlaled, while five officials are to be shot for each attack upon a Frenchman. Te Develop Canada's Clay Deposlte. Numerous varieties of valuable clay deposits, some of these being brick, tile, earthenware and Ore clays, hare long been known to exist in Saskatche-wan, Canada. To promote a knowledgi of these deposits and to encourag their development, the provincial au-thorities have recently Included course of ceramics In the curriculum of the Saskatchewan university. Thui although there are no pottery-manufacturin- g plants In this province at pre ent, the people of tbat section of the Dominion are obviously awar of the possibilities In the situation and are taking steps to make Saskatchewan one of the leaders in the manufartun of brick, tile, pottery, or other prod-ucts of the ceramic industry- - Popula' Mechanics Magazine. Soviets Attempt to Get Ships Manilla. Julian Woldfson, an at-torney served notice on the supreme court Thursday that, on Instructions of the Russian soviet government, he Intended to institute court proceed-ings to obtain possession for the Moscow government of the eleven Russian ships which brougnt refugees from Vladivostok and which now are it Marivales quarantine station. Sze Leaves For U. S. Pek In. Alfred Sze, who was acting foreign minister for several months, has left here for Washington to re-sume his post as minister to the " I'nlted States. When the cublnet of Premier Chang Tsao-Tsen- g recently came before the senate, it refused to confirm the appointment of Sze. Valuable ' Blood Medicine. Golden seal Is classed as the great est of blood medicines and during th war the root went up to $8 a pound. In the list It Is rated at $3.20 to $3.30, The wild ginseng root Is listed at $11 to $12. In early days It was a sourct of revenue to many a pioneer and U whs so much hunted that a special Implement, the "sung hoe," was madi for Its digging. The larger part ol the ginseng goes to Chin's where IU utilization is something of a mystery. A number of plants other than gla seng, ordinarily regarded as man weeds, are now belus HltlTate4 Women Compose Anti-Saloo- Ticket Springfield, 111. Waging tholr poll, tical campaign ns "the anti-saloo- n party," women of the village of in Mason county, nominated Mrs. Kislcr Glshler as candidate for mayor, and three other women as candidates for aldermen, to oppose the people's ticket composed entirely of men. The promise of tho "anti-saloon- " ticket is to sponxe up the village and cure it ot Its alleged wet tendencies. Bandits Attack Messenger San Francisco. Police had no clue to the Identity Thursday of two ban-ll- ts who late Wednesday beat Into insensibility Warren CUntsman, au-iit- or for the General Cigar company, ind robbed him of $21,000 in checks, i $1,000 draft anu $1000 In cash. The robbery occurred In dnylight on a lowntown utreet. Bystanders cheered heartily, believing they were witness-ing a good fight as Cllnstman and the tiandlts struggled. |