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Show HIGH TENSION WIRE KILLS TWO Two at Mt. Pleasant, Utah, Are Dead As Result of Contact Mt. Pleasant. Janitor Knute Ter-kelsen, Ter-kelsen, GO, and Principal Elmur Johiinsen, 3S, of the local public schools were electrocuted Friday morning in the schiool building at the corner of Main and First East streets. Principal Johansen noted shortly after af-ter school started that the building was cold and went to the furnace room to ascertain the cause. He stumbled over the body of Terkelson, and returned to the office, telephoning telephon-ing for Dr. Olaf Sundwall, thinking the janitor liad been taken suddenly ill. A few moments later, accompanied accompan-ied by the doctor, he went to the furnace room and as it was dark he attempted to turn on the electric ligrbts and was instantly killed. Knives and Forks Have Kick Chicago. Postal clerks sorting dead letter parcels Friday found a package labeled "Knives and Forks," mailed from Ireland to an unreadabie Chicago destination. Opening it to catalogue the contents for an auction, they discovered the Irish tabelware had been distilled and bottled. Two quarts of cutlery, according to tlie official records, were then poured into in-to the sewer. Flood Sweeps Kansas City Burlington, Kan. - Hearing the scar of the greatest disaster in its history, this town of 3,000 population, is a desolate scene of mud and wreckage. wreck-age. A cloudburst Thursday made. Itock Creek a roaring torrent which swept through the business section, causing $7o0,000 damages and taking four lives. Pacific Pact Approved by Senate Washington. The four power Pacific Pa-cific treaty was ratified by the United Unit-ed States senate Friday nfn. The vottS was 07 to 27. Oregon Farmers Has Net Loss Corvallis. Ore. A surprisingly low income from 113 representative farms was averaged in 1021, according to rsults of a survey conducted by the Oregon Agricultural college. An average aver-age of $405 from these farms, scattered scat-tered over sixteen chnnties, repro-snts repro-snts what the farmer received for tlie labor of his family, in addition to hi own, and for the Interest on his Investment. Thirty records from extern ext-ern Oregon showed an average net lss of $307. |
