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Show lIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH TELEGRAPHIC TALES FDR BUSY READERS A RS3UME OF THE WEEK8 DOINGS IN THI8 AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Daya Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN The election of Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, Democrat, as governor of Texas at the November 4 election will not be contested. This announcement was made after a two-daconference of state Republican leaders. y Farmers in Manitoba, Canada, just across the line from North Dakota, are threshing in the snow, according to reports received at Grand Forks, N. D. The grain is being hauled in Bleds. From present indications the water shortage that visited Salt Lake last summer will not occur this coming year as the snow fall in the mountains near town is extremely heavy for this time of the year. Orders issued last June for the destruction of alleged boil weevil infested cotton crops in the Postvalle area near Tucson, Arizona were declared unauthorized, illegal and in a report filed in United void, States court at Phoenix by II. L. master in chanPartridge, special cery. Donovan Baker, Mare Island navy yard sailor, from whose stomach were extracted ten nails in an operation a month ago, swallowed a table fork at Vallezo, Cal. lie will recover. A per capita payment of $25 to 2526 Flathead Indians of Montana was authorized by the interior department in response to an appeal that the Indians were in need of financial assistace on account of approaching winter. A $50 payment was asked, but because of lack of money in the tribal fund, the payment was fixed at $25. Washington, D. C., was chosen as the' 1925 convention place of the National Association of Railway and Utility Commissioners, at their session at Phoenix, Arizona. The date was fixed at November 10 to 13. F. R. Anderson, wealthy attorney of Vancouver, B. C., and Russell Whitelaw, also of Vancouver, and reputed millionaire, were among scores of individuals indicted at San Francisco by a federal grand jury on charges of violating the prohibition law and the treaty agreement between the United States and Canada relaitve to shipping liquor into this country. Three persons lost their lives in the waters of the main canal of the Yuma irrigation project at Yuma, Arizona when their automobile plunged over an embankment into the stream. Three others riding in the machine narrowly escaped death. GENERAL Mrs. Fannie Christian of Rozel, Kan., has been elected to two offices justice of the peace and township constable although she had not been a candidate for any office, the official canvass of the November 4 election disclosed. What is declared to have been a nation wide plot to manufacture and sell bogus $5 war savings certificates was exposed with the arrest of J. Zottarelli, Cleveland attorney, in the berth of a pullman after he arrived from Washington. The names of Jimmy OConnell and from the New Cozy Dolan, ousted York Giants by Baseball Commissioner K. M. Landis just before the playing of the recent worlds series, appeared on the general ineligible list made public at Chicago by Leslie OConnor, the commissioners secreWhile many players appear tary. on the ineligible lists of various clubs, there are but eleven names on the general ineligible list. W. W. Irwin of Wheeling, W. Va., past imperial potentate of the Ancient Arabic order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, died in a hospital at Pittsburg, where he underwent an weeks ago. operation several Five collars, approximately, for every man in the country, were made last year. Census bureaus statistics of manufacturers show 15.590,662 dozen, or 187,687,968 mens collars were turned out by factories in 1923. That included starched and soft collars made principally of cotton fabrics and there also were some of Theii celluloid, pyralin and paper. total value was $30,803,554. Because one of her leads at Bridge angered him, her husband turned her over his knee and spanked here before a party of guests in their home, Mrs. Magdalene Jackson charged in a suit for divorce filed against Robert J. Jackson, wealthy Chicago contractor. R. T. Daniel, millionaire property owner of Tulsa and Dallas, Texas has signed an agreement giving his wife $1,000,000 worth of property in Mrs. Daniel recently sued Tulsa. her husband for separate maintem ance and division of property. President Coolidge has received adi ditional data from the tariff commission in connection with its report on the sugar tarff, and he hopes tq make a decision very soon on thq question of a tariff rate reduction. Secretary Weeks has announced approval of two citations for gallancarrying with them try in action, silver stars, awarded by an army board to Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, retired, because of incidents in Cuba of the First when he was colonel volunteer cavalry (the rough riders), The specific dates and places men tioned in the citations are Las Guasi and Santiago, mas, June 24, 1898, July 1, 1898. Chicago bandits kidnaped Otto G. Schmidt, president of a construction company, and his chauffeur in front of his home and then robbed Schmidt of a payroll of approximately $10,000. William II. Harkins, master forger arrival of officers from awaiting Fort Worth and Salt Lake City, attempted to commit suicide in his cell in the Miami, Florida city jail by using his underwear for a rope The navy is proceeding with its plans for utilizing the uncompleted Washington for targel battleship practice despite the continued effort of William B. Shearer of New York, through the courts, to prevent Secretary Wilbur from dsposing of the conference vessel under the arms agreement in this manner until congress has an opportunity to act on the question. Adolph Roquet, insurance man, the husband of Mrs. Oneima De Bouchel, who was given wide publicity on account of her heart balm suit against Asa G. Candler, Atlanta soft drink king, died at a New Orleans hospital after a short illness. The Supreme court sustained lower courts in holding settlers furnished water by the Twin Fals River Land and Water company must a.l be made to recover on parties to any suit settlers contracts to pay for the irrigation project. Agents of the customs service have succeeded in breaking up one of the greatest smuggling conspiracies in recent years, it was disclosed at the treasury at Washington, where it was said that customs agents in half a dozen sections of the country in recent months have seized and identified smuggled jewelry valued at more than a quarter of a million dollars. NOTED SWINDLED - FOREIGN Germany gallantly has surrendered to America the heritage of her supremacy in dirigible construction Dr. received from Count Zeppelin. of the chief Karl Arnstein, engineer constructed who Zeppelin company, the ZR-- and 12 of his experts, sailed for the United States where they will go to Akron, Ohio, to direct dirigible construction for America. Sweden has for a short period been having a ruler only 18 years old. Gustaf Adolf, son of the Prince crown prince and heriditary prince of Sweden, has just presided here ai a cabinet council, assuming this time in his first the for position The reason for the temporary life. accession was the absence of King Gustaf, while the crown prince was away in England. Don Luis de Bourbon, whose title of infant of Spain was canceled by King Alphonso following his expulsion from France on account of his disgraceful morals, is now more than 3 . ever a man without a country. American Ambassador Herrick has arrived in France after a vacation He said he in the United States. - no intention of had abandoning his In Paris. post Zoro Agha, the oldest man in the world, has celebrated his one hundred and fiftieth birthday anniverIlis He Is a Kurd by birth. sary. cerbirth a authenticated is by age tificate, by his minute remembrance of rulers and events in Constantinople more than 120 years ago, and by the testimony of a dozen old men, whc declare that Zoro was already an old man when they were boys. Alejo Garcia and Francisco Ruia were sentenced to death for the murMrs. Rosalie der of Evans, the American-bor- n widow of a Britisl subject, who was killed last Augusl in the state of near her hacienda Puebla. TIEN BIT SHERIFF LEO KORETZ, CHICAGO MAN UN-DE- 16 WIDOW News Notes From All Parts of UTAH CALLED DY DEATH R Salt Lake, Ambrose Noble McKay general manager of The Salt Lake ARREST AT HALIFAX AFTER LONG CHASE ! Alleged to Have Made Millions From Friends and Relatives In One of Nations Largest Swindles Halifax, N. S. Leo Koretz, alias Lou Keytes, alleged international said to be the swindler and crook, smoothest and most resourceful confidence man in the United States and wanted in Chicago in connection with a $10,000,000 stock swindle, was arrested in a leading hotel here by H. Scrlven and Deputy Sheriff R. Provincial Constable Malcolm R. Mitchell. The arresting officers were acting under instructions of John A. Sharbaro and William McSwiggin, assistant states attorneys of Cook county, Chicago, 111., who arrived in Halifax on the Ocean Limited in search of Koretz. In a circular issued by the Chicago a reward of postoffice department for his capture, $10,000 is offered and states the charge of using the mails to defraud against him. Tribune for the past fifteen years, nationally recognized as one of the in newspaperdom, most able men died at the Holy Cross hospital after an illness of two weeks. Duchesne, Irrigation of 6680 acres of land near Boneta and Alexander in Duchesne county is contemplated by the Farmers Irrigation company of Bluebell, through a wgter filing made at the state engineers office. The company asked authority to use from Deer 205 acre-fee- t of water lake. Salt Lake, The Utah-IdahSugar company has decided to erect a new in the southern sugar beet factory of Alberta, part of the province one in the Canada, to replace the Yakima valley, Wash., which is to be discontinued according to a statement made by Walter T. Pyper, ary-treasurer of the Utah-IdahSugar company. This is in line with the policy of the company of diswhich are locontinuing factories cated in poor sugar beet territory and moving them to more productive regions, Mr. Pyper said. o secret- o Moab, The Automobile club of southern California has completed Chicago, Leo Koretz put over one of the most gigantic swindles in the the placing of signs on the tourist of Chicago crookedness. highways leading from Colorado into history San Juan county. Eighty Starting as a broker, it was estimat- Monticello, steel ornate signs have been placed ed at the time of his disappearance on from Cortez to Monthe highway December 5, 1923, that he had swindticello and during the summer months led guillible friends of fully $10,000,-00concern placed fifty-tw- o It is certain that the amount the California on the highways similar signs exceeded five millions, but many of River via Green Monticello to from his victims, humiliated by their blind Moab. losses and faith, swallowed their said nothing. Spanish Fork, Work has been beKoretz specialized in rice plantagun on an apartment house at the tions in Arkansas North and First and oil fields in corner of Second Oklahoma for a time. The building is beTo investors West streets. he paid remarkable dividends paid ing put up by Horace Fereday and them out of money obtained from will consist of six apartfresh suckers. Soon he had built ments heated from a central heating The building is being erectup a clientele that accepted his word plant. on any proposition and clamored for ed at a cost of $19,000 and will be him to invest their money, A majorready for tenants some time in of who those It will be the first aparthad received fat ity dividends brought the money "back', ment i?ouse in Spanish Iork. with additional funds, and reinvested A luncheon for farmers Logan, it. and business men is being planned by Then came the masterpiece by Kothe agricultural and industries comretz. He organized the Bayano Oil mittee of the chamber of Logan company, supposed to own extremely commerce for December 12, when an valuable lands just south of the Paneffort will be made to promote a ama canal district. According to the better feeling between the two groups glittering prospectus, this fabulous and encourage them to greater conot only oil in territory contained operation. limitless quantity, but gold mines, Bonds to the amount of Provo, diamond mines and a great fortune alone in bananas and other tropical $225,000 have been sold to the Palfruits. Part of the immense plan mer Bond & Mortgage company of was to establish a private line of Salt Lake City by Utah county, the freight steamers and a palatial pas- money to be expended in the completion of the city and county buildsenger steamer service for the stockholders. ing, and to make other improvements The Koretz clientele fell for this in the county. Salt Lake, enterprise with great George A. Storrs, spontaneity. luxurious office president of the Great Western Coal They beseiged his night and day and threw their money Mines company; Earl J. Welch, Char over the transom of his main office les M. Croft and Joseph S. Welch, former fiscal agents of the concern door, with pleas that he invest it. It must be said to the credit of entered pleas of not guilty to using Koretz that he picked only the rich, the mails in a scheme to defraud and chiefly those of his own race and when they were arraigned before Unlike other swindlers, he Judge Tillman D. Johnson m the jeligion. did not specialize in the poor. He was United States district court. Date out for big game, and it came to his of trial has not been set. door. Salt Lake, As a fitting token to After he had gathered in millions the thirtieth of the anniversary of dollars, it occurred to a group of founding of St. Marks hospital investors to make a trip to the mar- training school for nurses, the alumvelous Bayano coutry and look over nae association of that organization the proposition. Koretz encouraged intends starting a trust fund for the plan and arranged a special building a new hospital steamer and letters of introduction in' Salt Lake. for them. About the time they The Utah County Farm Provo, were swinging into the Panama canal bureau has just issued a publication Koretz quietly faded from view. The entitled The Utah County Farm committee found nothing but a bar- News. The number is an eight-pag- e first ren waste. The mythical officials magazine, which contains speto whom they bore letters of introcial articles of interest to the farmers duction coul not be found, for the of this section. C. C. Child, in charge obvious reason that they did not of the local office of the county or exist except in the fertile imagination ganization, is the managing editor. of Koretz. Laurence Johnson and Richfield, Koretz disappeared early in DecemWilliam Jackling, deputies of the ber, 1923, and no reliable trace has state fish and commissioner, game been had of him since. It is known that he went from here to New York are taking spawn at Fish lake. The brook trout are spawning in great and was believed to be living in luxnumber and no difficulty will be urious quarters there. Then came in experienced Obtaining ample stories that he had hidden in Euto stock the plants at Glen spawn he had that to South rope; gone and Murray. America; that he was actually hiding wood, Logan Salt Lake, In an executive order in Chicago; but these leads proved of issued by Governor Charles R. no avail. His wife turned over their Adjutant General W. G. Wilcostly automobiles, jewelry worth was designated brigadier genliams and some thousands other property, eral and assigned to the command of which afforded but mite for the the Sixty-fift- h field artillery of the swindled creditors. Fortieth national guard division of the army. General Williams will conMussolitni Favored as adjutant general of Utah, his tinue The Chamber of deputies Rome as such appointment being at the voted confidence in the Mussolini of the pleasure and there governor, 337 to 17. government, being no legal obstacle In the way. 0. four-roo- m Feb-ruar- yj . . non-sectari- Ma-be- V y, AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS WIFE OF LATE PRESIDENT DIES AT MARION Shock of Husbands Passing and Or. deal of Public Funeral la Laid as Foundation For Final Illness Marion, O., Mrs. Florence Kling Harding, widow of the late president died at White Oaks farm, November twenty-firs- t. of her by the shock husbands death and the ordeal of his public funeral a year and a half was unable to ago, Mrs. Harding of the malrecurrence the throw off her to the had which brought ady 1922 at the in death of very gates White House. ill late in. She became seriously intervals brief October. Save for her strength ebbed of improvement, end. the until gradually With her were her brother, Clifford Kling, of Florida; Mrs. Charles E. Sawyer, widow of President physician; Dr. Hardings personnal and George P. Carl W. Sawyer Christian, former secretary to the late president. been with. Dr. Sawyer, who had Mrs. Harding almost constantly during her lorg illness, announced her His eyes were filled with death. She has tears as he said simply. and quietwent she peacefully died; statement formal a have I may ly. later. Mrs Harding passed into a coma on Monday morning and early Tuesday she was unconscious. She was ill two weeks before the became of her condition gravity known outside White Oaks, the saniestate of the tarium and country Weakened Sawyers. Then on the morning of November 3, Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, after a consultation with Dr. J. C. Wood, Cleveland, abdominal specialist, issued a bulletin describing her condition as alarming. 4 Immediately messages of sympathy and hope for a rapid recovery began all parts of the pouring in from country. The funeral service were held at Epworth Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. Jesse Swank, pastor of the the funeral conducted church, who President services for Harding wa3 was assisted He by Rev. in charge. Mr. which . of M. Landis, George HardMrs. member. a was Harding ing had been a member of Epworth Methodist church since girlhood. Stolen Securities Found Youngstown, O. Bonds and stocks valued at about $500,000, said to have been stolen from Bentleys bank at Springboro, Pa., were found in a city park here and have been recovered by postal authorities, it was announced here by Postmaster Edward West-woo- d Harr and Postal Inspector found who men Tayinor. That the the securities all foreigners, were not fully aware of the value of theii find, was indicated when the foreman of a gang, who works in a steel mill, said he found the man wearing two $1000 Liberty bonds for an apron. Will Dump Real Beer Chicago, Attorneys for the Mutual Brewery here have sent a request to Mayor Percy Owen, federal pjo-hibiti- on that his director, asking agents destroy 3000 barrels of real beer. The attorneys explain it has been made lawfully for the purpose content of extracting the alcoholic of 1 above per cent, but that the brewery now has more stock on hand than it needs and does not want the real beer on the premises. All such requests cheerfully comOwen remarked, plied with, Major as he gave instructions to agents to dump the 3000 barrels in a sewer. one-ha- lf J. H. Stephens Dies Los Angeles, Cal. John Hall former congressman Stephens, 77, from Texas, died of appolexy at his home in Monrovia a suburb. A grandson of James Truitt of the old republic of Texas house of representatives, Stephens served in congress from the. administration of William McKinley to Woodrow Wilsons second term. Willard Mack Seriously III Mount Vernon, N. F. Willard Mack, actor and playwright, was taken to a local hospital, suffering from bronchial pneumonia. His condition was said to be dangerous. |