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Show ' frw. ' THE BINGHAM NEWS ' '" ' ' ' '' 1PIII1LE5 FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER j COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Pre-pared for the Benefit of the . Busy Reader ' WESTERN Nephl P. Pierce, Sergeant of the Salt Lake police force, who was shot J on the night of November 27, by ban- - I dits, died' at a iSalt Lake hospital I Monday where he had been confined I since the shooting The two robbers were apprehended the following diiy I an gave the names of Arthur Hayes and Robert Allen. Both were sen- - I tenced to terms in the state prison fj and are now confined there. With I the death of the sergeant the crim- - inals are now liable to trial on changes of murder. Sentences of from one to fourteen years each in San Quentin peniten-- I tiary were imposed by Superior Judge C. O. Buslck of California, on ; eight alleged members of the I. W. W. convicted last week on the charge I of criminal syndicalism. Some of the men created a minor disturbance i while they were being sentenced. v Following domestic trouble O. K. " Exum of Pocatello, Idaho, shot and ; killed his wife, and then turned the gun on himself. Exum is not expect-ed to Jive. Pearl Cockrell, held in Albuquerque N. M., has confessed that she nursed one of the bandits who was shot in the robbery of a federal reserve bank truck of $200,000 here last December, according to a statement by Rugg Williams chief of ploice, of Denver. Approximately six thousand barrels of oil In a battery of thirteen 500 bnr- - : rel capacity tanks of the Comar Oil ( company is burning in the Tonkawn, Oklahoma field. A heavy cloud of smoke hovers over Ponca City, more 4 than 20 miles away. The local offi-ces of the Comar company have not been advised as to the cause of the fire. ; With the exception of Sanup's Boy 5 and Old Posey, both of whom may be dead, the entire band of regenade ' Piute Indians, of Southern Utah, are under arrest. There are now 92 In- - : dians under guard at Bluff and Bland- - .' lng, Utah, and at least four of the captured Indians will be indicted for f Insurrection and prosecuted by the farloinl crnvprnmant Salt Lake county Sheriff B. It. nar-- ; ries must stand trial in the Third I district court to establsh right and ' title to the office he now holds. This ' Is embodied in the decision of Judge McCrea who overruled the demurrer to the amended complaint filed by (59 citlzena seeking to oust Harries from the office of sheriff on the grounds of religious Interference in politics. Samuel D. Nicholson, United States senator from Colorado, died at his home In Denver. Carcinoma, or can-cer of the liver, caused his death. He had been ill for nearly a month. GENERAL A policeman's overcoat, used as a life net, saved the lives of two wo-men who Jumped from windows of a blazing apartment building at Chica-go. Flying over the one kilometer course in Dayton, Ohio, Wilbur ! Wright field, Lieut. R. L. Muughan, by making an average of 233.8" miles an hour, set, a new world's record. He exceeded the world's record of ' 233.01 made by Sadt Lecolnte. the French flying ace, by .80 Maughan ; is from Logan, Utah. Four persons, three women and a ; man, were killed in a spectacular fire which swept through the Prlnce- - ; ton apartments 1n the theatrical dis trict in New York. ; The American Telephone and leie-- graph company of New York have moved another step toward forming a billion dollar corporation when ; stock increases to that amount were ; authorized. It has been learned that a 'short- - I age of approximately $400,000 exists in the accounts of the Kirksvllle, Mo., Trust company. The cashier of the bank, L. F. Glbbs committed ; suicide in the vault of the bank. Everett and Clyde McMurray, con-victed of the theft of several thou-sand dollars worth of confiscated liquor from the Pol county Jail at Des Moines. Iowa, December 27, were sentenced to from one to ten years at the Anamosa prison by Judge Bon-ner. Another wife of C. W. Davis, the Civil 'War veteran who Is held at Wilkesbarre, Pa., pending a complete investigation of bis amazing matrimonial career, turned up mak-ing fourteen wves now definitely who now be-lieve known to the police, he may have had at least a dozen more. Two persons were killed and seven injured when an elevator in the Ran-dolph hotel at Des Moines, Iowa, dropped eight floors with Its load of human freight , PERSONAL Mary Pickford lost her suit for $3000 against Waterson, Berlin and Snyder, theatrical, producers, which was carried to the New York court of appeals. The film star claimed illeg-al publication of her photograph and name in connection with a song entitled "Daddy Long Legs." Woodrow WilBon, former president of the. United Suites, has asked Gov. W. E. Sweet, of Colorado, to appoint Huston Thompson, to a set in the United States senate to succeed Sam-uel D. Nicholson, Republican, who died Saturday night. Thompson now is a member of the federal trade com-mission. Premier Bonar Law is suffering from a mild throat affection, which Interferes with his voice ; otherwise his health Is good. He intends, how-ever, to take ten days' complete rest from political affairs during the Easter recess. ' Representative Albert M. Vestal of Indiana, is expected soon to under-go n operation for frontal sinus, but his physicians said they did not consider his condition as necessarily serious. Herbert P. Coates of New York state has been selected to be attor-ney general of Porto Rico, succeed-ing Salvador Mestrie, whose resigna-tion has been accepted by Secretary Weeks. Dr. B. F. Harding of Mansfield, O., a cousin of President Harding, who, with his wife, has been spending the winter In Florida, died, following a lingering illness. Queen Mary has taken a deep in-terest in the blind and has visited the National Library for the Blind. She took blind children cm her knee and asked them to read aloud to her from Braille books. Mustapha Kemal Pasha, Turkish leader, received a dowry of $i00,000 when he recently married Latlfe Han. oun, it has been revealed. Extension of vocational training and medical rehabilitation to the 18,000 vterans of the world war serv-ing sentences In federal and state penal institutions, is planned by Dl- - rector Hines of the veterans' bureau, who conferred on the subject with officials of the department of Justice and representatives of the American legion and Disabled Veterans of the World War. Leonard R. Steel, 45, of Buffalo, N. Y. founder of the L. R. Steel cor-poration died suddenly on a west-bound New York Central train near here early Tliurseday. Mr. Steel was found dying in his berth by Ernest Mattey, his chauffeur. Milo D. Campbell of Michigan, who recently became the dirt farm mem-ber of the federal reserve board drop-ped dead while playing golf at the Columbia Country club at Washing-ton D. C. FOREIGN Death closed the long career of Sarah Bernhardt at her residence In Paris, Monday. Mme, Bernhardt started her stage career at the age of 12 and three generations have seen the famous woman in more than 200 different parts. She was 78 at the time of her death. The reparations nightmare which is paralyzing the economic develop-ment of Burgaria, has been ended by arrangement between the Stam-Jboulis-government and the repara-tions commission headed by Sir El-liott Colvln. The French embassy In Berlin was bombnrded by a torrent of verbal in-sults and patriotic German songs by a noisy mob which completely filled the lower part of Unter den Linden. Detachments of mounted police, arm-ed with long sabres, came galloping to the scene, and the police reserves with rifles, were rushed up in motor trucks. After considerable difficulty the mob was dispersed. The archbishop of York Monday christened Baby Lascelles. the infant son of Viscount Lascelles and Prin-cess Mary, In the presence of King George and Queen Mary and other members of the royal household vf'.gers and tenants and dependnats of the Harewood state of Viscount Lascelles. Police reports of Pekln, China, for 20 days in February disclosed that the municipality furnished 461 cotfius for persons who starved or froze to death in the streets of the capital. Of these 347 were unidentified. The police state that this constitutes a record for such deaths. Captain Roald Amundsen, head of the Norwegian Polar scientific expe-dtio- n, has announced that he has wired his attorney in Christiana to dispose of his home in Norway to raise funds to meet debts Incurred by the expedition. More than sixty Russian refugees who arrived at Manila with Admiral Stark's antibolshevik fleet after their fight from Vladivostok already have obtained employment in Manila. Reports from eight mills In Cuba, province Indicate that more than 2,000,000 arrabos (twenty-five-poun- d units) of sugar cane have been burned during the last week. The belief is held that In some cases the fires were sturted Intentionally, but the majority are supposed to have been due to carelessness.. . rIiiliili 1 1 . )1 4 KiJlSi-- r il I ..r-ic- i.v AsSiy pmlM III f? w urarj hi ii)4 ilfei k thA . J REATElt NEW YORK, having an--' I f ll'lk' V nesed pretty much everything In sight J l'"! SCSI'S" liflifls f'f( II that does not belong to New Jersey, J 7l I jfm'" i !'''' I M" ' k ji Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and I fK fT0IIAa'1 I ' 1 'I Ill'JliXsl V" ll - I",'?'!''"? Connecticut and thereby accumulated J M f7?tW f, ll'lw J-- "'; (VffjVfWlQ) a population of about 6,0O0,(XK) is jQplWSU IV' ill '1 V ,M going to celebrate Its tercentenary. iSfeCfA MiHii W IVlW'r. V ' ' ' 5 feX In fact, there will be at least two rrS fh U S il l lMri.Orr O n celebrations and probably more. The Uft VJ t,,- - J f. 1 f v 'S3 A bWf i L- - 4 JUU reUson Is seen In the follonng out-standing 4y$W& fe'f v'll !f feF 1 ! f 1 8 'TVnYtO5 ' dates In New York's early history : esM.niS- - 11 0 Kfci'l&'jA fieSW'' , 1623-- Tbe Dutch West India company founded Cr: JBt-- c I lf ? 1 H T M 11 l JllV.V' "! ? a permanent settlement on Manhattan Island. .i.,H!?P2Sj ,yz B IS II tPi fl I ' ' " 1620-I'- eter Minult. director general of New fgS V liLF Jl vt i Netherlands, purchased Manhattan island "from the "SS9 V ''1 L... '-"- r 1 Indians. . , . jon-i- o eja a r r..t-- 1G64 King Charles of Engiana gra brother the duke of York (afterward large tracts in America, Including the Dutch possessions of New Nether-lands. Richard Nicolls In command of an English fleet, took New Nether-lands without fighting. New Amster-dam became New York. 1673 A Dutch fleet retook New Netherlands and temporarily restored Dutch supremacy. 1674 A peace treaty between Eng-land and The Netherlands turned over New Netherlands to England and New Amsterdam became New York for all time. So the founding of New York will be unofficially celebrated this year. Peter Minuit'i historic purchase will be officially celebrated In 1020 by the city and the acquirement of the name of New York will probably be cele-brated either In 1064 or 1974. The unofficial celebration of 1923 Is largely religious and will run over Into 1924. It will begin with a Huguenot pllgflniage to Europe, Including the Huguenot centers in France, Holland, the Rhine country, Switzerland and the Waldenalan valleys of Italy. It will continue with local celebrations In all districts and cities associated with the Manhattan Island settlement of the Huguenots Into April of 1024. Practically all the colonial societies In America, Including the Huguenot so-ciety, Founders and I'atrlots o; Amer-ica, the Holland society, the Society of Colonial Wars, the St. Nicholas so-ciety, the Descendants of Colonial . i (. A . V. II I .. n it'll 10 ins James II), them home. At tills time there were only two permanent settlements on the Atlantic coast, St. Augustine (Spanish, 1505) and Jamestown (Eng-lish, 1607). In 1021 the states general of the United Netherlands granted a charter to the Dutch West India company cov-ering the whole unoccupied coast of America from Newfoundland to Cape Horn. The charter guaranteed to col-onists social, political and religious freedom. "Do you wish to build, to plant, to become a cltlzenT" was the main question asked of colonists. In 1023, three years after the land-ing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the first colony was landed on Manhattan island from the ship New Netherlands (200 tons), Captain May. There were 30 fumllles, 110 strong. They were Walloons, Trotestant refugees from Belgium (until 1S30 a partjf The Neth-erlands), with their cows and chick-ens, farm Implements and household furnishings. A landing was made at Custle Oarden. They were welcomed by traders and Indians. The "Chris-tian teacher" who accompanied them prayed and gave thanks before their first meal. Captain May read to them his commission ns governor. The "official figure" was a beaver with a coronet for Its .rest. The first-bor- n on the island was Sarah RapnIJe. And this was the beginning of Man-hattan, afterward (10511) New Amster-dam, and finally (1074) New York. cm..,. WHO 1a Aniintrv hofvL'non thfl more than 500 carlouds of onions; from California more than 100 car-loads of tomatoes, more thun 200 car-loads of celery, and more than 5,000 carloads of grapes ; from Florida 1,000 cars of cabbage and 1,300 cars of let-tuce; from Washington more thun 2,000 carloads of apples; from Colo-rado more than 500 carloads of canta-loupes; from Georgia more than 1,500 carloads of peaches, and from Illinois more than 400,000,000 eggs. New York's history can be conven-iently divided into five eras: 1023-178-3 Colonization period. Pop-ulation in 1790 was 40,401. 1783-182-5 Recovery from damages of British occupation during Revolu-tion; first attempt at a city plan; coming of the steamboat Population In 1820 was 152,050. 1825-180-5 Opening of Erie canal, which gave New York supremacy over Philadelphia as the premier trading city; introduction of gas; establish-ment of railroads; Improved local transit facilities. Population la 1UG0 was 1,174,779. 1805-189-8 Realty booms; Introduc-tion of passenger elevator; commer-cial use of electricity; use of steel skeleton In building construction, which enabled the city to grow verti-cally. Population in 1900 was 8,437,202. 18!S-192.- 'I Rapid transit In all di-rections, enabling the city to grow horizontally. Population In 1920 was 5;020,048. The future of New York and Its Im-- merilntA environ Invltfn sntvulntlnn. guenots (French Protestants), Dutch and English. Settlements were made In all directions. Minult was suc-ceeded by Van Twlller, who Is respon-sible for Governor's Island. Kelft, re-sponsible for the Indian war of 1643 which nearly depopulated Manhattan, came next. Then came Peter Stuy-vesan- t, of cherished memory. Governor Stuyvesant was a one-legge-flre- eatln-g Veteran of the wars, but he could not make his people fight the English fleet under Nicolls In 1004. They did not intend to do anything that might take them away from New Amsterdam. And it's quite likely that they figured Nicolls might be less of a tyrant than was Stuy-vesant. Nicolls proved to be quite He made the burghers swear allegiance to England, but confirmed their social, political and religious liberties. In 1005 the Dutch autocratic municipal government was wiped out by proclamation and the English sys-tem of mayor and aldermen was sub-stituted. Thomas Wlilett was the first mayor. Of the five aldermen two were English and three Dutch. When the Dutch fleet appeared In 1073 there were but eighty men in the garrison to withstand 1,000. So again the city changed hands without fight-ing. Within two years a treaty of peace restored New Netherlands to the English. Fort Amsterdam became Fort James and Ne Amsterdam be-came New York for all time, while (jovernors, uie oons oi mo nomu-tlo- Fort Orango became Albany (York's and the Daughters of the Amer-ican Revolution will take part. Protestant churches under the lead-ership of the Federal Council of Churches have established the Huguenot-W-alloon New Netherland commis-sion, composed of men and women all over the country who are Interested In the celebration from a religious point of view and have fixed upon Sun-day, April 27, 1924, for special serv-Ice- s. President Harding is the hon-orary chairman. The reason for this religious celebration Is set forth In what follows. New York's history really begins, of course, on that September day of 1009 when Henry Hudson, an Englishman In the employ of the Dutch East Indln company (chartered In 1002), sailed Into the mouth of the Hudson river, looking for a passage to the indies. He sailed his Half-Moo- n (90 tons) up the nudson as far as tidewater went and then turned back. Three years later the Dutch com-pany established a trading post on Manhattan Island (Man-nn-bat-t- at about where No. 39 Broadway Is now. It consisted of a redoubt, storehouse and four log huts. The next year Adrlen Block's Tigress, loaded with the first cargo of furs for The Neth-erlands, was burned. Block built the Onrust (Restless) of 10 tons, got an-other cargo of furs and (1014) took cm lit rr jui me wi ii j v fc trading posts on Manhattan Island and at Fort Orange (Albany) had been called New Netherlands by the Dutch. In 1020 arrived the first director general of New Netherlands, Peter Minult of Imperishable fame. He bought of the Indians the 22,000 acres of Manhattan Island for J24 worth (at Dutch prices) of trinkets and weapons. Then he built the first Fort Amsterdam near the Battery. Then Manhattan settled down to a regular program of life. There were 270 In-habitants. Each settlor owned his house, tilled the lanj and traded with the Indlons. The popular conception of early New York Is a city of rotund Dutch burgers, Idling In the shade with their schnapps and d pipes. Maybe. Hut here's a truer picture of the days Just before the English cap-tured New Amsterdam In 1004: There were about 300 houses and 1,500 people. A man with f 1,000 was considered rich. The better houses were of brick and each had Its gar-den. The floors were sanded. There was a splnnlng-whee- l In every home. The people rose with cock-cro- and nte breakfast before sunrise. There were no Idlers. Tea parties were over before milking time. Every family had n nible and maybe a prayer-book- . Manhattan island's population In-creased slowly, new settlers being Hu-- Certalnly New York Intends so far as It can to Ignore artificial political boundaries. It has begun the construc-tive development of the metropolitan area within a radius of fifty miles from Battery park. A Committee on the Plan of New York and Its Envi-rons has divided this area Into six sec-tors with an expert studying each. These sectors Include areas In Con-necticut and New Jersey. The ex-perts will report on the possible uses of land and the densities of population In the different sectors. The general question of regional zoning and the distribution of Industries, business and residences will be considered, with Indications of probable future tend-encies and dongers. As relief from congestion of population Is one of the things most sought, questions relating to decentralization with observations regarding the location of new Indus-trial areas and business and social centers will receive considerable at-tention in the surveys. Contrast New York's present sky-line with that of 10591 Yet New York Isn't satisfied. It has a new zon-ing system and a new "set-back- " style of architecture and expects within five years to have buildings 1,000 feet high and even higher. "New York Is bound to become the most beautiful and dis-tinctive city in the world," say Its architects. second title). So this Is New York the American metropolis that in 300 years has be-come the eeond city of the world. Its only rival Is London, a city that had Its beginning In Roman times. Greater London has 093 square miles and 7,502,-12- 4 (1919) Inhabitants. Greater New York has 815 square miles and 5,020,048 (1920). Naturally New York does not hate Itself. The Merchants' association has pointed out that If the great cities of Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Boston, Balti-more r.nd Pittsburgh the eight largest cities of the country excepting New York were transplanted with all their people to the section lying within fifty miles of New York city, their com-bined population would not equal the number already resident In this area. The district surrounding the port pro-duces a larger total of manufactured products than any other similar area In the world. In 1922 this port han-dled approximately 43 per cent of the foreign trade of the United States. And really the whole country Is more or less Interested In New York, If only for this reason : New York each year buys from Minnesota more than 45,000,-00- 0 pounds of butter; from Wisconsin more than 14,000,000 pounds of cheese; from Virginia more than 3,700 ear-load- s of white potatoes; from Texas |