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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH 1CK 1L HERS SEE I i 1 SUDDEN ERUPTION OF INACTIVE IN JAPAN BURMOUNTAIN IES TOWNS IN MUD ARGUMENT BEFORE OIL CONSER Hundred Bodlee Located; Many Give Warning; Two Miles of Railway Ib Destroyed government Legislative Interferenci Deplored; Findings Next Move; One Injured; Rumblings VATION BOARD SCIENTIFIC NEBRASKA VALLEY IRRIGATION. ISTS HANG WORK AND MEAD IN EFFIGY STRESSES PLANS No The federal oil conWashington. servation board, which is endeavoring to shape a policy defining the governments attitude toward the oil Industry, heard final arguments and began preparing its report Charles E. Hughes, representing the American Petroleum institute, summed up for the group advocating encouragement of scientific effort and avoidanco of legislative Interference, while Henry L. Iloherty of New York, spokesman for those urging conservation measures, was given permission to file a rebuttal statement to Mr. Hughes argument. Contending that federal legislation to regulate oil production would bo unconstitutional, Mr. Hughes pointed to scientific effort as its salvation and declared the cracking process, through which gasoline is made from crude oil, had doubled the countrys potential gasoline supply. "Tho great service that this board can render is to bring about an intelligent conception on the part of the public of the facts relating to the industry und its problems, both economic and legal, Mr. Hughes declared, and to foster the scientific investigations upon which ultimately the conservation of our vastly important oil resources must depend." While not totally disagreeing with Mr. Hughes statement, Mr. Duller! y said ho differed from him on all Important points and asserted that those assisting. of Two miles of the Kushiro railway, who say there Is a plentiful supply in should petroleum bring something run ring west of the mountain, have been destroyed. Hokkaido dispatches more definite, so he could answer describe the region of tho castrophe them. "Political atlon, Mr. Hughes assortas literally a sea of mud. Mount Tokachi is one of the highest ed, "is superficially attractive, but difof a volcano chain running through ficult and unlikely to succeed. SomeHokkaido island, most of tho peaks of thing might be accomplished by rewhich are known sa dying volcanos of moving legal obstacles to intelligent operation. Yezo or Hokkaido. Scientific effort holds the promise of the future. The cracking process West Helped By Bill Signed has done more for conservation than President Coolidge and legislative scheme could do under Washington. our constitution." signed the omnibus water charges bill, thereby providing for a downward readjustment, to the textent of about Europe Wants No War, Lampen Says $23,000,000, on construction and wator Sait Lake City. Mussolini and the charges levied against nineteen western reclamation projects. Tho new soviets are about the only sources that law empowers the secretary of the Inmight possibly start a war in Europe terior to permanently remove thous- is the opinion of E. H. Lampen of ands of acres of reclamation land from Amsterdam, Holland, who Is a visitor assessment of construction and water in Salt Lake. It Is safe to say, decharges, thus reducing by about clared Mr. Lampen, that most Europthe annual charges levied ean countries dont want to start any against the districts. It also directs more wars. He declared that Gerhim to classify certain lands as tem- many was In a better financial condiporarily unproductive and remove tion than Franco. Referring to the charges against them. It Is estimated Locarno treaty, Mr. Lampen said It the temporary class of lands will in- has done good already in Europe. He duce charges by about $7,000,000 an- traveled extensively through European nually. The bill was drafted by Chair- countries, and asserted that things are man Smith of the house irrigation returning to normal condition. committee to carry out recommendations of the board of adjustments and Mexican War Minister Studies Tactics surveys appoint ad by the secretary of the interior. A similar bill was inMexico City. Political circles are troduced in tho senate by Senator most interested In the expected rePhipps, Republican, Coloiado. turn of former Minister of War Francisco Serrano, who has' been on a Farm Products Rates Attacked special mission In Europe studying military conditions. Numerous promiWashington. Rates on livestock nent persons, including members of and vegetables were attacked In nrgu- the cabinet have left northward to mc-ntTuesday In the interstate com- - j accompany General Serrano to tho merce commissions western freight caital. Serrano Is very close to forrate investigation. A. II. Rrown of mer President Obregon and is powerCleveland said that from points west ful in military and political circles. of Chicago that rates were stifling to growers. He said that if given a rel- American Concern To Dredge River ative equality of rates with competing markets the Cleveland livestock InCullacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. A large dustry would furnish the country with American concern will spend $2,000,-00- 0 one additional market for the product the in river, to the benefit of the consumer. H. C. which dredgingclose to Humaya Cullacan, said passes Lust, representing the Pacific coast a report from Mexico City. The object vegetable growers and shippers trans- of the dredging is to facilitate float portation committee, said that tinder ing logs from the northern part of a newscale approved by the commisthe state to mills at seaports. sion the carriers In California had been given an additional $3,000,000 in Flood Makes Many Homeless revenues, practically all coming from lettuce growers. Moscow. Thousands have been driven from their homes by a flood Spotted Fever In Wyoming Fatal which has moved down the Volga rivCheyenne, Wyo. Rocky Mountain er in the past few weeks and Is sweepspotted fever, a disease communicat- ing over parts of lowlying river towns ed to humans from sheep ticks, claim- and surrounding country, dispatches ed nine victims in Wyoming during from Saratov reported. It reached its May, figures received by Dr. C. M. greatest height at that city, surpassing the record of 1899. Railroad communAnderson, state health commissioner cases were re- ication between Saratov and eastern revealed. Twenty-thre- e ported officially during the ffrst three and southern points in the Urals and weeks of the month, while six more Astrakhan is endangered, the dishave been reported unofficially. patches reported. - e - s Berger Proposes Reserve Plans Early Spraying Harmful To Bees Washington. A bill proposing establishment of a national forest reserve In each state and providing for a policy of reforestation was drawn up by Representative Berger, socialist, Wisconsin. It also would establish a migratory bird refuge in each state. He said at present the distribution of regaining timber is unbalanced and his measure would call a halt in the present program of destruction. Washington. Sprays used in orchards about blossom time to kill harmful insects, government experts have found, are fatal to many of the busy bees. The agriculture department recommends spraying after most of the blossoms have fallen. Such a course in just as effective against the harmful insects, it explains, without risk to the bees, which by carrying pollen from one blossom to another, are a great aid to the orchardist. Agreement For Back President Protests Pour In In Sight; Coolidge Is Acting; Problems Both Economic And Legal Tokyo. A mountain lake, released by an eruption from a long Inactive volcano crater, caused the greater part of the death and destruction which followed the resumption of activity in ML Tokachi, in central Hokkaido, northernmost of the principal islands of Japan. The governor of Hokkaido reported to the homo minister that 100 dead and more than 200 injured had been removed from the mass of mud and lava rocks precipitated from the long slumbering crater. Resides these about 1000 farmers of the newly opened but rapidly developnig agricultural district around the mountain are missing and it Is impossible to tell how many of these nmy have been buried alive In the floods of water and mud. The peasants of the Tokachi district wero without wurning, for on May 4 the moribund volcano began rumbling, und many fled from the region. Tuesday canto three violent eruptions, tearing out t lie crater walls and allowing tho hike to pour through tho aides of tho mountain, inundating several villages, drowning villagers and covering 10,000 ncres of rice fields with mud. Landslides on tho steep slopes udded to the toll of destruction. Relief measures are under way. Two hundred doelors and nurses are attending tho injured, while 800 members of the loeal young men's associa-- . tlon, a nation-widorganization, are Immediate Payments View of Beirut From ML Lebanon. (Praparprt by th National Geoirraphle Society, Washington, D. C. ) coastal metropolis of Syrian mandate, has door nnd chief depot for the French in the military operations in the inundate which the BEIRUT, revolt of the Druses has made necessary. Many Americans have lived in Beirut, and to them it Is a city of most pleasant memories. Picture, nestling at the base of the Lebanon, a many tinted city pushed out into the setting sun by the pressure of a famous mountain range. This range lies Jur.t east of the city and roiis it of the early morning light. It towers to 8,iO feet in a beautiful mountain wiaee snowy heights form the crystal screen upon which Is projected tile rose glow of some of the world's most colorful sunsets. The backbone of the city stretches to the west from a low alluvial plain which almost makes Beirut an Island. The wharves are to the north, looking away from the more famous but Inferior ports of Tyre and Sldon to the south and toward the other Ilioenician ports of Tripoli and Alexandretta and Soleucln, all of which have old Ilienician names long since forgotten by the inhabitants. Berytus was the name of Beirut. The waterfront is commonplace enough most of the year, even though Just outside the distlguring breakwater there lies the bluest, most nearly perfect curve of hay east of Naples. It hears the name of St. George, nnd although it is the French that have Improved it, the British have made it notable on their beautiful gold coins, now extinct, which once allowed St. George killing a dragon, or rattier the dragon. Mythology will tell you who St. George was, and why he killed the dragon, und why the British put it on their coins nnd ids cross on their Union Jack. But here St, George slew the dragon nnd threw him down a well nothing harms an oriental well nnd if you don't believe it, the well is still there, and If you go there on a dark night nnd gaze down into the inky waters, you will see the dragon's eyes ! Life and Color In the City. The streets are narrow and full of life. The buildings are calsomined in various hues, ugly near nt hand but truly Turneresque from a distance. On one of the highest points at the eastern end of tlie high rib which the city straddles there Is, or was, a military Beirut has tram lines barracks. which run along the backbone, and near the center of the city there is a small park around which the trams turn. Here there Is another line of trams which run to the south to a beautiful grove of pines which were planted to save the city from the drifting sands. The western end of the limestone ridge Is called Ras Beirut, or the point of Beirut, and near the extremity of tills section there is one of the loveliest college campuses on earth, with more than a score of principal buildings. Possibly nowhere else on earth has Americas name been more revered, and so lovely Is the scene of the deep blue hay and the snowy mountain range thnt there has long been a standing argument between this college and the Robert college at Roumell Hissar,' outside Constantinople on the Bosporus, as to which has the finer view. In from the west and north sweep the waves which are eating away nt the limestone cliffs, and each year the shore line recedes before the fierce battle with the waters upon which the Pheniclan argosies set out in search of fame and commerce. At one p'aee the dashing waves have cut entirely around two towering masses of rock nnd bored a huge hole through the side of one of them so that when the storms come Pigeon Rocks reveal a spirited picture of angry waves and steady stone. Narrow coves extend in from the sea, and in these one finds some of the finest natural swimming pools anywhere, for the bottom Is deep and the water clear, and the sides rise gradually so that one can dive from varying heights from the waters edge to 30 feet. These ccves form the playground of the college students and each has its name. There is the preparatory core for young students, the'coliege cove, and the faculty cove where the young American teachers swim. Front the harbor there rises a cogwheel railway which connects the ancient city of Damascus to the sea coast. It was this French railway and the French harbor, which gave Beirut its prominence as a port, and, few, indeed, are the Palestinian tourists who have not passed over this road while leaving the world's oldest city, a green oasis in the midst of the tawny desert, and the Cyclopean ruins of Baalbek, to return to the ship for home. Any Temperature Desired. The mountains offer various summer resorts for the city of Beirut, and the green masses of the foothills are dotted with pretty Lebanon villages from which thousands of Syrians have set out across the sea as did the Pheniclans from the same port, but to land iu America Instead of beside the chalk of Albion where tin was obtained in ancient times. The natives say that the Lebanon has summer in its lap, spring on its bosom and winter on Its head, and by moving up the slopes one can find the temperature desired. Rich Egyptians come this way In summer and there are gaming places on Lebanon that rival Monte Carlo. Recently the automobile has come to the Lebanon, nnd up the winding roads there now climb motor cars of all shapes and sizes. There are many commuters in summer time, and each night the tired business man leaves the hot coast nnd takes the business mans special to the cool retreat of Alelh or North from Beirut there runs a famous road, and at Dog river the cliffs are carved with the proud Inscriptions of conquerors who have passed this way since history began. The population of Beirut Is mixed nnd the holidays many. Long famous for its learning, It is today a city of colleges and schools. One of the great Institutions in Beirut Is the American press which publishes most of the Bibles and Gospels that are Issued In Arabic. Its product reaches the whole of the world. During the war whole sections of the city were razed to make way for new roads and thoroughfares, and the center of the city Is becoming less and less picturesque as the days go by. Women Not So Beautiful. d Through this city of houses there go the picture-boo- k Christian women, bare of face and none too beautiful, and the Moslem women whose religion mercifully supplies a veil. Unless one hears the shout of the arbaji driving his spirited steeds before a shiny victoria, he Is likely to have his shoulder grazed by the passage of a Levantine beauty, eloquent of face and redolent of perby some pale-face- d fume, accompanied official with waxed mustaches nnd a blazing tarbuche. The Syrian loves the sunsets and, as evening settles down, there Is a general exodus to the heights of Ras Beirut where the waves pile up from the west and the sun goes down In a radiant sea. Then the line of carriages is almost unbroken and the barren slopes are dotted with small of Moslems with their groups harems which Include all the female relatives from child to grandma. As though so much beauty could not exist unchallenged, there are wretches who come to this loving tryst with the setting sun with talking machines, against whose agonized screams In Arabic melodies, the roar of the waves Is all In vain. Beirut was, before the World war, one of the principal religious crossroads of the world. Here the Mohammedan faithful disembarked on the last lap of their pilgrimage to Mecca, and from here they sailed on the journey home. Today the Moslem traffic Is not as heavy as It was, but Palestine tourists and pilgrims generally enter or leave the Holy Land via Beirut so that they may Include Damascus, the worlds oldest city, and Baalbek, with Its Cyclopean ruins, in close-packe- their tour. Scotts Bluff, Neb. With no imedi-at- e agrement in sight and with their crops in dire need of moisture, the North Platte valley water controversy assumed an ominous aspect Friday, Some leaders in reports indicated. the fight fear the more radical farmers will resort to violence, which was openly intitmated late last Friday, when Secretary of the Interior Work and Reclamation Commissioner Mead were hung in effigy here. The disagreement between the valley farmers and officials of the irrigation project, virtually the sole source of moisture for the valley crops, came over payment of operating and maintenance costs of the project. Reclamation Commissioner Mead holds that all past dues must be paid or payment secured by proper notes, while the farmers claim all payments should be deferred until a reclassification feature of the recent omnibus water bill, providing for downward readjustment of about $23,000,000 .in construction and other charges levied against nineteen western projects Is made. Pending a settlement the dammed-uwaters are stagnant and the growing crops are without water. Friday telegrams of protest from Nebraska leaders were wired to President Coolidge, Secretary Work and p Commissioner Mead. Governor McMullen wired that something must be done immediately to save the crops. The Omaha Bee, a Republican newspaper, also sent a telegram to the president and Secretary Work demanding the water be turned on and News Notes f lt a Privilege J to Live in Utah Brigham City. The comiasioners of Boxelder county are arranging for the building of a new $40,000 county Jail, to be erected east of the present county Jail site in this city. The location is just south of the county courthouse and north of the Mahannah. hospital, the ground having been purchased from Dr. D. L. Mahannah. Salt Lake City. Total assessment valuation of property in the state of Utah in 1926 will probably amount to approximately $30,000,000 more than the minal assessment of 1925, judging by the increase shown in the valuations made by the various county assessors and by the increase in the net productions of the metal mines of the state during 1925. The mines are assessed at three times the net production for the preceding year. Ogden. National Commander John R. McQuigg of the American Legion has dispatched congratulations to Department Commander Arthur Woolley on the showing Utah has made in membership up to this time. Utah is states which one of the twenty-fou- r had, on May 15, surpassed the total membership as of December 31st last. Salt Lake City. Utah cherries have iqade their appearance on the local market. Forty cases from Davis county were on sale on Friday. The growers of cherries in Davis county have contracted the greater part of their harvest this year with eastern dealers. Salt Lake City. The alfalfa weeviL has caused a lot of trouble In Utah. Many methods have been used in the effort to beat the little pests, But Friday a new mode of attack was started when George I. Reeves, chief of bureau of entomology, sent F. Herrold and H. C. tho Captains-A- . French on an aerial offensive. Brigham City. H. S. Kerr, assistant chief engineer of the state road commission; B. W. Matteson, senior highway engineer of the bureau of public roads, and District Engineer K. C. Wright left Brigham City to make a route inspection of the Tremonton-Streve- ll highway. They expect to return Saturday night. the payments settled afterwards so as to save a fast wilting beet and alfalfa crop. The north Platte valley project comprises almost 200,000 acres of land lying on both sides of the North Platte river and extending from Lingle, Wyo., Salt Lake City. Marcus Harris,, to Northport, Neb., a region approxi- vice president of the B. Harris Wool mately 160 miles long and 20 miles company of St. Louis, purchased from wide. the Southern Utah Wool Marketing Formerly used for grazing only the association of Cedar City two pools of, valley became a blooming garden af- 66,800 fleeces, or about 600,000 pounds, ter the constructing of the pathfinder at 28 and 30 cents. Thi3 purchase is dam and the reclamation system more the second largest pool for 1926, it bethan a decade ago. The soil is es- ing exceeded by the Jericho pool repecially adapted to the growing of cently of 90,000 fleeces. sugar beets and after water was asSalt Lake City. Full page colored sured the Great Western Sugar Comviews of Bryce canyon, Ogden and at refineries the pany placed great towns of Mintare, Mitchel, Gering, and Provo canyons, Saltair, the Tabernacle block and many other points of scenic Scotts Bluhb, Neb. interest in Utah are featured in the newest advertising pamphlet publishFive Girls Die In Factory Fire ed by the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad. The photographs were Rockford, 111. Five girls are dead collected from various sources, but to be and eight persons are known was the written manuscript entirely seriously injured as the result of a fire by Arthur Chapman, Western author. which swept a building occupied by Provo. work on the plant to be esthe Sutton Top shop, a concern deal ing in automobile accessories. The tablished here by the Pacific States bodies were burned so badly they Cast Iron Pipe company will begin could not be recognized. One of the early in June, according to informainjured girls, Catherine Wood, was tion disclosed Friday. J. R. McWane, burned so severely about the face that president of the company, has made It Is feared she may go blind. Others preliminary preparations to rush work suffered sprains and injuries escaping through during the summer months, from the second floor of the buildnig. and he expects to have the plant in John Sutton, head of the firm was ser- operation by the middle of November. iously burned when he insisted on atSalt Lake City. Utahs cherry crop tempts at rescue until forcibly re1926 is expected to equal in quantiof strained by the firemen. All hut five of the thirteen girls employed on the ty and value the crop of a year ago, second floor succeeded in finding their according to Utah state farm bureau room down officials who commented on the offiway out of the smoke-fillethe only stairway. The bodies of the cial tabulation announced by Frank five were found by firemen who fought Andrews, federal crop statistician for their way into the building. The fire Utah, on the 1925 crop. Utahs total started when a strip of celluloid be- commercial crop of cherries in 1925 ing sawed in a machine, on the ground totalled 5,330,000 pounds, according to the United States Market News serfloor, burst into flames. vice. The value was placed at $500,-00d 0. School Land Bills Officially Postponed Washnigton. In an official state ment the secretary of the interior formally announced deferment of action on the school land bills until next session of congress. This agreement Ogden. An idea of crop conditions in Weber county was given to members of the Rotary. club by LeRoy Marsh, district agricultural Inspector. He said that the county would have one of Is best agricultural seasons. to postpone, he says, was reached beLogan. Last Saturday directors of tween congressmen from the western various county farm bureau organthe states and the interior department, in order that the department may make izations met with County Agent R. L. a complete analysis of the questions Wrigley and State Commissioner of of policy involved in the school land Agriculture Hardeir Bennion to discuss a campaign whch has been bebills. It has been decided, says the gun against a number of certain weeds secretary, that sufficient time did not in the county. exist at the present session of cona gress for comprehensive study of Myton. Heber J. Webb of Salt such an important change in this Lake City, state agricultural inspector national policy. Interior arrived in the Uintah basin Monday to department' officials expect to com- spend a week in this part of the state. plete this study during the recess of Mr. Webb is here for the purpose of congress and make recommendations inaugurating a campaign to fight two at the convening of the next session weeds, the Russian knapweed hoary in December." cress, or white top. Salt Lake City. Good growing Passengers See Fire In Salon weather prevailed throughout Utah New York. While passengers In the past week, though high the main dining salon looked calmly during and strong winds deplettemperatures on the ceiling of the mezzanine dining ed soil moisture making rain badly hall burned away on the liner needed in some sections, says the while the third largest liner weekly crop and weather report of J. on the seas, carrying 1104 passengers, Cecil Alter, in charge of the local ofwas midway of Its trip from Cher- fice of the weather bureau. In detail bourg. During the dinner hour on conditions are given as follows: AlTuesday night there was a sudden ex- falfa cutting was reported locally, and plosion above the heads of the dinbeet thinning progressing in ers and sheets of flames spouted from sugar many districts. Livestock are doing the wooden panels of the ceiling Tho veil and ranges are good, though bofire was controlled in an hour. oming dry at tho lower levels. a, |