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Show ' THE BINGHAM NEWS. BtNGHAM. UTAH 'v' - ' v" t , 1 Internutiouul Traue Special, from Httsburgli, loudcu with eU;ctr.cul ejuipiiu'ui for Chllcun state railways, the first train ever started by radio. 3 A draft of new men Just arrived on board U. S. S. Wyoming at New lork. 3 Mabel Strickland, wluner of McAlplne trophy as world's chuiuploncuw girl, at Cheyenne Frontter Days. EKJNfflF 1 FUST KB 4 Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN Fire of undetermined origin at ; Wichita Falls, Texas, destroyed the Wichita Falls & Northwestern Kail-- . way shops, with an estimated loss in excess of $12o,000. The buildings and all equipment, three locomotives, sev-- ; eral passenger coaches, and a number of box cars were totally destroyed, i while minor damcge was sustained by other rolling stock In the yards. E. A. Lindgren, 2 , federal game warden for western Iowa, was shot and probably fatally wounded near , Council Bluffs, Iowa, by three men j whom he Intercepted while they were killing game birds. The probable duration of the period of silver purchases under the terms of the I'ittman act, which guarantees do-mestic producers tl an ounce for the j metal until such time as the 208,000,-- j 000 ounces sold to Great Britain dur-- j lng the war have been replaced by j mint purchases, Is estimated at fifteen j months.' 1 ; i , WASHINGTON . T-- vo Indian hiefs positively identi-fied Barney MeBride. wealthy half, breed Indian, found slain hear Mea-dow es, Md., and expressed the belief that he was murdered in vengeance because of a feud between Oklahoma Indians and ojl interests. . A national referendum on the ship subsidy bill at the November congres-siona- l elections was 4roip8ed by Sen-ator Borah, Republican, Idaho, in a let-ter to Representative Wood of Indi-ana, chairman of the Republican con-gressional committee, made public. Mr. Wood replied that the committee was not advocating the bill and that he would canvass the members on the question. The federal district attorney in southern California Saturday was or-dered by Attorney General Dangherty to investigate "whether the abandon-ment" of trains on the Santa Fe rail-road "was the result of a conspiracy by those operating them, or others, to interfere with interstate commerce and the handling of the mails." Home brewers and beware the "booze powder," Is the warning sent broadcast by the post office department, in a recent circular, for stemming a tide of "dehydrated" alcoholic beverages of reminiscent names Is a steady job of the fraud section of the department. While high hopes for early settle-ment are entertained by the adminls-tratio-averting the necessity of re-storing to "drastic action" iy the Grain repeatedly hinted at, results prices for second week In August were the-lowe- st this year. Approximately 24)00 cars ot fruit from northern California, are "on the rails," bound to eastern markets, ac-cording to California fruit shippers and there are approximately 4,000 carloads remaining, much of It yet to be picked. The average value of each car is $1,000, shipping men said. This would bring the value of the fruit on route to about $2,000,000. The use'of the Deschutes river, Ore-gon, and its tributaries for Irrigation of approximately 140,000 acres with power development was recommended to the federal power commission in a report of a board of engineers made public. . ,' GENERAL One person was killed and three were reported dying in a hos ital as t result of wild driving In an automo-bile on a wooded road near Kills park at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The party was going at the rate of sixty miles an hour when the car struck a tree at a turn. It turned over twice. Miss Kd-c- a Morgan was Instantly killed and Noble Stllman, Dan Clark and Vina Marsh were badly Injured, and it is expected they will die. The childish prank of two small beys endangered the lives of scores of passengers on the Panama Limited, the fast train on the Ixuisvllle & Nash- - of the prblmged stoppage in produc-tion are expected to keep- - the gov-ernment coal distributing machinery busy for a loni; period. Prohibition Director Carl Jackson if Wyoming reports to Commissioner llaynes that from August 1, 1J21, to 'ast June 30, there were C40 arrests n Wyoming for violation ot the Vol-dea- d act and fines Imposed a?gregat- - ng $019,17.!. . During June alone there were 121 arrests and eleven complete itills, 2o2 rations of moonshine and ,!T,00 gallons, of . mash seized, with fines collected amounting to $4.'lo0. Typewriting in an airplane flying among the clouds, with radio machin-ery duplicating the letters at a ground station miles away and reeling the message off in print, is a development announced by the navy department as giving to naval aircraft "a means of communication In advance of radio telegraph and telephone systems now In current use." Successes already attained by experts working in con-junction with the navy, the depart-ment asserted, assure the practicabil-ity of the new scheme. That such a development will be of Incalculable alue to all forms of aviation, com-mercial and military, follows Inevit-ably on the heels ot the work now iteing done by the navy, it is predict-ed. FOREIGN vllle railroad near Washville, Tenn. Arthur Griffith, president of the The boys placed cross ties on the track "Just to see the train stall." they told the police. The ties were dlscov-ere- d Just thirty minutes before the tst train was due. Indictments charging eleven persons ' with violation of the postal laws in connection with alleged stock selling swindles aggregating $7"0.000 were j made public at Chicago in .the United States district court clerk's office. Three firemen were blinded and a ! eeore vere overcome at a fire which j all but JJtzed pier D of the New York Central lines, at the foot of Sixty- - fifth street and the Hudson river, no-- ; lng damage attl.000.00P, a New York. Attorneys for Evan Burrowes Fon-taine, a dancer, asked Judge Henry V. Borst in special term here to compel . attorneys for Cornelius .Vanderbllt Whitney, son of Harry. Payne Whit-ne- y, to accept the service of a com-plaint In a breach of promise action, which the lawyer, told the court, the dancer has brought against young Whitney, Fifteen locomotives of the Maine Ceutral, Boston & Maine, and fortius;! Terminal company, and a roundhouse were destroyed In a fl-- e at Portland, Me. The damage was estimated at ' $1,000,000. The police said they sus pected incendiarism. Tages In the early history of Cali-fornia passed before a noted assem-Li-.,- f Aaia.-ata- n thn convention Dally Eircann, died in Dublin of in-fluenza, it has been learned In Bel-fas- t. Mr. GrifTlth was 111 only ten days and his illness was not consid-ered serious. Fighting is now in progress around Killarney, Erskine Chllders is leading the irregulars, numbering about .'00. Ccneral Dailey Is anxious to spare the famous beauty spot and Is reserving his fire when possible, but already there Is much firing heard. A semlolTif lal denial has been Is-sued at Berlin stating that the crown prince had not made formal applica-tion to the Wirth government for per-mission to return to lermany, but ad-mitting the crd.n prince had put out informal feelers. Immediately after tho Rathenau murder word was car. rled through the 1 ack door of the Ger-man eml assy at The Hague to the cro.vn prince that, in view of the sit-uation created by the murder, there was no possibility of seeking a solu-tion for his request to return to Ger-many at that time. The French delegation to the on German affairs was amazed lo learn that the British govertmenfc proposes and Insists upon a reduction of the German reparations payments to about one-thir- d the amount fixed by the London schedule of payment Of May 1!C1 that is, cancellation al-together of the annual capital pay-ments of 2,000,000 gold marks and t h ave only the '0' per cent assessment of German exports. lliaKr Ul UlIV(lvvi of the American Bar association at a banquet which lasted until Saturday morning when former Senator Cor-nelius Cole, within a few months of his 100th birthday, addressed the gath-ering at San Francisco. Candidates favoring wine and beer and progresslvism within the Repub-lica- n party went down to defeat In the statewide primary election in Ohio, ac-cording to returns. With knees knocking together in terror, George M. White left his home in Roxbury, Miss., where he had kept himself barricaded for four days. In-sisting on two policemen for protec-tion, he was finally persuaded to ap-pear in Woburn court There he con-fronted his wife, Mrs. Mary White, who had surrendered herself to the police and was to be arraigned on a charge of assault and attempted mur. der upon White, her sixth husband, tor his hiEurance. Military rule has been extended to the provinces of Ancona, Forma and .eghorn, Italy, where in the last fev days there has been sanguinary fight-n- g between the extreme Nationalists tnd the Communists, Pope Pius has sxpressed deep distress at the im reas-n-hatred between opposing factions, which moves the people "farther away torn the teachings of the Divine Slas. ter." Sun Yat Sen, deposed president ol South China, who fled from Canton, is going to Shanghai to meet repre-sentatives of Chang Tso-Li- n, governor of Manchuria, together wi'lt leaders in Cheklang province and Genera! Fung, one of VVu Pel-Fu'- s officers, 1C perfect a combination against Wu and the Peking administration. Persons arriving at Liverpool frori Cork stated that the government housi and other buildings In the city ar burning. Pithy News Notes ! From All Porta of UTAH i ll ' i Trice A steel bridge Is to be erect- - ed at Helper over the Trice river. Cedar City. Articles of incorpora-- i tion have been filed by Iron County i Railroad. ' Salt Lake. Adverse effects of the '. railroad situation are beginning to make themselves felt in the state road situation with particular reference,,to the two big Jobs of construction work now under way in Carbon and Juab v , counties, respectively. Heretofore the supplies of sand and gravel for the cement surfacing, which are being ed into both counties from Salt ' Lake county, and chiefly from the state gravel pit at Mount, have been kept moving, and thirteen mor cars of these aggregates on the way. How-eve- r, greater difficulty has been ex-perienced In the shipment of cement, . the greater portion of the supply of which comes through Ogden from the Ogden and Union Tortland cement plants at Baker and Devil's Slide, re-spectively. Efforts were being made to obtain cement from the Utah Tort- - v land Cement company's plant is Salt Lake. This plant furnishes about 25 per cent of the supply, - Salt Lake. "The Victory highway, t a great memorial in honor of the coun-- try's valiant sons, will soon become the paved Main street of America,", B'ea Blow, manager of the Victory Highway Association. Incorporated said upon his arrival In Salt Lake on his way to meetings scheduled for Nevada. Mr. Blow told of the pro-gre- ss made by the association In the ; two years ot Its work for the new transcontinental artery and ot the plans tor the further material devel-opment of both the memorial Idea which the road is to engrave In his-tory and of the physical betterments needed l band the country from coast to coast with a single broad hard surfaced road. ' Salt Lake. G troop, HCth cavalry, Utah National Guard, which has been stationed at Helper since June 15, when it was sent into Carbon county to quell coal strike disturbances, has been ordered back to Us headquarters at Brlghara City. In addition, some thrty-seve- men whose presence st . home is urgently desirable, have been released from further duty in the coal fields at the order of the governor, and returned home. Ogden. A special meeting of the state board of pardons has been set for Tuesday, August 22, at which time the case of John Cerar, convicted ot murder la the first degree, In Carbon county, will come up for final action. The man is at present under sentence of death, his appeal to the supreme court having failed to obtain a rever-sal of the verdict Cerar is applying for commutation of the death sen. tence. Salt Lake. State officials, beads ot departments and Institutions, are in-vited by Governor Mabey to put forth ; renewed efforts to cut their expenws tor the remainder ot the present blen-niu- ra so that they will make In ea. u case a considerable saving on the a, propriatlons allowed them. Salt Lake Reduction ot four-tenth- s of a mill in the levy for maintenance of Salt Lake's school system was agreed to by members of the Iniard of education and the county comuiis. ' rO. The levy will be 8.1 mills, as against 8.5 mills in 1921. Salt Lake. Fifty automobiles car-rying residents of Murray, Holliilay and Mid vale,' paraded the business section ot Salt Lake In protest aainbt ' the recent Increase In telephoue rates ordered by the Utah state public utili-ties commission. Salt Lake. A committee headed by.W. It Wallace, chairman of the Utah Water Storage commission, an 1 A. II. Cfcr!t''n "will "eek to ralsa $10,000 by subscription as a part or $1.000 needed to match $15,000 of-fered by the federal government fnr the survey of the Weber-Prov- o an t Dear Man's gulch Irrigation projeits. Richfield. A .G. Young, contractor on the Piute road project between Marysvale and Junction, a dlstan e of twelve miles, reports that the hcay grading on the project Is completed and that surfacing will begin at on o. He expects to have the work complet-ed befoie Cold weather. The project calls for gravel construction an J the grade is twenty-fou- r feet wide. Spanish Fork. Over 5000 pco; le the Indian Wars Veterans week. Salt Lake. Arnold nanaon. six year old son of Mr. and Mrs. II. !?. Hanson, was knocked down and k'llt-- t by an automobile said to have ben driven by C. It McDonald of Evan-sto- n, Wyo. Sprlngville. Clifford Marsh, 20 years of age, of Mapleton, was hi! ten by a rattlesnake, but Is 6t of dnn.'er. The young man was walking through an alfalfa field 'when he s'.cvped on the rattlei md was bitten. . . Democrats of Arkansas renorolnatea Governor McRae, who was supported by organized labor and the Ku Klux Klan, defeating Judge Toney. In Ala bama Judge W. W. Brandon won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination by a large majority. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTJVENTS Prospect Considered Bright. for, . - Early. Settlement of the 1 Coal Miners' Strike ; - PROPOSALS FOB COMPROMISE President Harding's Final Suggestion for Ending Railway Strike Under Consideration Brotherhood Men Are Restless French Plans Concerning Germany Op-posed by Other Allies. , Cy EDWARD W. PICKARD Ur.LKSS the coal operators, the the miners' union and the authorities In Washington are badly off In their guessing, the coat strike is al-most over. The four-stat- e conference called by 1'reniilent Lewis In Cleve-land was considering favorably this acreement: ship attendance when the house should reassemble this week, Instead of the taking of the usual three-da- y recess. Democratic Lender Garrett wired all Democratic members to be In their seats Tuesduy, but the Republican leaders took no such action, PRESIDENT HARDING'S desire for help applies equally, o the railroad strike, which If any-thing. Is becoming more serious. Ills 'atest and, in bis own words, last sug-gestion for peaceful settlement of this controversy was that the shopmen re-turn to work and that both sides sub-mit the question of seniority to the railroad labor board. This was Instant-ly rejected, Informally, by the lead-ers of the shop crafts, .who called for a general conference of all the railroad labor organizations In Washington on Friday, to consider a formal reply and to adopt tnensures to make the strike more effective. Mr. Jewell said the nnswer to the Tresldcnf might not be .o..i!y for several days. The t;!:c;-:nr!- ! r.re trying In various ways to obtain the active support of the brotherhoods, and In a measure are getting It. F.ngineers, firemen and trainmen are ordered, by their chiefs to tuke no chances with ' defective equipment. Despite the denials of railway ofllcluls, the union leaders declare that engines nnd cars are de-- TO THE allied premiers and other assembled. In. London, , Premier I'olncare submitted France' plua te compel Gwmany to pay rep-arations or to get the money from the country In other ways. He declared France was In a desperate financial condition, and. threatened to act alone against Germany if the allies failed to support her Just claims. Pol nca re's demands, briefly, were for control of the following: First, licenses of ex-ports j second, financial - exploitations of mines; third, state forests; fourth, participation In German Industrial companies. , Lloyd George, with the support of the Belgians, Italians and Japanese, forced the submission of the French plan to a committee of' experts, say-ln- g: ""It Is all a question of the method of getting everything from Germany, whether the method bring trouble or cash, and every sanction should be submitted to a test." T:1E experts fulfilled expectations by the French propositions, ill hut the Krnech members being agreed In opposition to them on every major point. The situation became bo acute that both the British and French cabinets were called together, and each gave full support to the stand taken by Its premier. As neither side showed any signs of yielding, It appeared as If the entente were soon to break up, leaving France Isolated. The British position may be sunnnarized thus: Germany is unable to pay; she is ruined, nnd an effort to squeeze large sums fryn her would merely add to her difficulties without profiting the allies and, besides, would delay the economic reconstruction of Europe, The French contention Is that Ger-many still Is economically powerful and able to pay a great deal, but that partly by design and partly by cir-cumstances, she has assumed an ap-pearance of weakness which In fact does not exist. Polncalre Is willing to grant Germany a brief moratorium to see whether she Is willing to pro-mote financial reforms and apply pro-ductive menNures that would yield some money for reparations. But he has no confidence In the good faith of Germany. terlorating rapidly, and more than In-timate that this Is the cause of recent bad wrecks. Another serious threat by the brotherhoods developed from a clash In Joliet, III., between strikers nnd a sheriffs posse, in which a striker nnd a railway detective were killed and the sheriff dangerously wounded. State troops from Chicago were hur-ried to the scene nnd some of them, being stoned from ambush, fired at their tormentors. Brotherhood men on the Klgm, Joliet 4 Eastern rail-road to the number of 1.300 promptly quit work, saying " their lives were endangered by the bullets of the troop-ers. Their action was approved by the brotherhood heads and President Stone of the engineers said: 'There will be 100 such cases soon If condi-tions are not changed. We are not going to have our men shot up or beaten up or threatened by armed guards at railroad shops and yards. When the men cannot go to work with-out having Irresponsible armed guards endangering their lives, they may go home and stay there until the condi-tion is removed." If thefe remarks were aimed nt the private forces of guards maintained by railways they may be to some ex-tent Justified. If Stone meant to Im-ply that brotherhood men are abused by state troops, In Illinois or else-where, the best Information obtainable Is that his Implication Is false. CHICAGO'S street cars and elevated running again Monday after the six-da- y strike which cost the employees and companies some $1,200,000 and the business industries of the city many millions more. The compromise reached provides for a. reduction cf VIM pr cent !n wo. -' 1. A "four state" basic contract, perhnps expanded to 'Include north-ern West Virginia, under which the old wages and working conditions In the contract which expired last Match 81 will be continued until next April 1. 2. A fact finding body to be set up nnder approval or by nppolntment of Tresident Harding to tlnd out what Is the matter with the coal Industry and what can be done to straighten It out. Definite action Is being delayed In hope that the Illinois nnd Indi-ana operators will change their minds nnd participate. Hitherto the oper-ators have sought to break nway from the Idea of a central competitive dis-trict on which the miners Insist. By getting some producers from each of the four states Into the agreement Irrespective of how small a minority of production they may represent, the United Mine Workers argue they car-ry their contention by getting a set-tlement on a four stcte basis. But the contract will be binding only open those who sign up, and Illinois, which produces about twice as much as any other state In the central field, will have only a few Individual signers, the big associations standing .it on their own proiHisals. However, the theory most generally expressed at the con-ference was that once mines In the East legln to open up. there will be a rush on the part of Illinois and In-diana producers to sign up. In Washington the government off-icials were predicting the early settle-ment of the bituminous strike through the adoption of a compromise agree-ment embracing these features: Restoration of last year's wnge scale until next March, with continua-tion of the check-of- f system. Creation of a coal commission to In-vestigate the situation and to recom-mend a nev agreement. Postjtonement of further controversy nntll next spring, by which time the proposed Investigation will be com-pleted. It was reported that President A. M. Ogle of the National Coal associa-tion was favorable to this plan and that Senator McKlnley had advices thut the Illinois, operators were In-clined to enter such an agreement. IRISH rebels, still on the run, are as much damage as they can. Before abandoning Queenstown they set that city afire, blew up a railroad bridge, and blocked the entrance to Cork hurbor by sinking barges In the narrow channel. They thus hoped to head off the attack of the nationals on Cork, to which they retreated. The Free Staters, however, landed at sev-eral points and the fight for Cork was under way at last reports. The Ir-regulars also seriously Interrupted cable communication between Ameri-ca nnd VijrniM' hy selzlni? the Irish coast landing places of ten of the seventeen lines between the conti- - v SEVERAL Important changes were the McCumber tariff bill by the senate last week. After lis-tening to charges by Senator Smoot that American sugar refiners, who con-trol the bulk of the Cuban sugar pro-duction, are trying to destroy Ameri-can producers, the senate adopted bis amendment by which the duty Is raised to l0 cents a pound on full duty sugar, and to 1.84 cents on Cuban sugar. The McCumber bill rates were 2 cents and l.fiO cents, respec-tively. At the demand of the agri-cultural spokesmen, the senators al-most unanimously voted to restore potash to the free list. Next the sen-ate, despite the arguments of western HgrlcultTTnsts, voted to keep bides on the free list and placed In the duty-free column hoots and shoes, leather of cuttle bides, harness nnd sad-dlery and gloves of cattle hides. The duty on satchels, belts and boxes and cases of leather was made .10 per cent Insteud of 40, as In the McCumber bill, IN THE Ohio primaries the Repub-llcan- s nominated Carml A. Thomp-son, choice of the Harding administra-tion and the-- ' Anti-Saloo- n league, for governor. The Democratic nominee Is A. V. Donahey of New Philadelphia. nents. It was feared they would de-stroy these plants. Joseph O'Sulllvan and Reginald Dunn, the murderers of Field Mar-shal Sir Henry Wilson, were hanged In London, all pleas In their behalf having been denied by the English courts and ofllcluls. PORTUGAL Is having a general by the rising prices of food. Martial law has been de-clared, constitutional guarantee sus-pended, and the government has moved to Fort Cascaes. AMONG the train wrecks mentioned discussion of the shop-men's strike, the worst was near St. Louis, Mo., when a steel coach pas-senger train on the Missouri Pnclflc, running past the block signals, col-llde- d with the .rear of a local 'tra hi. Thirty-seve-n persons were killed and 138 Injured. LATER reports from Swatow, on the coast, show that the typhoon which struck that city recently was one of the worst In history. Estimates of the number of dead have risen from 5,000 to 60,000, and it is said fully 100,000 are homeless. Governor Mct'ray's effort to reopen Indiana mines under military guard proved more of a gesture than an ac-complishment. Very little emil was produced during the week and most of the men employed deserted, fearing for their lives. The governor Intlnint-- that-I-f nil other pbuis for averting a fuel famine in thetute fulled, con-vict labor would be employed to get out coal under martial law. On the other bund, the Impeachment of M-eets y for sending troops into the conl field was demanded by a mass meet-ing of strikers and union labor men at Terre Haute. It wns the general belief that If present negotiations fail to end the strike, President Harding will seize the mines and oHrute them under guard of federal troops. That he might await the sanction of congress for suh a course wns Indicated by the fact that he suggested to the Re-publican lender of the house the o; maintaining full member- - |