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The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-06-04
Correspondence The sun.


WASHINGTON, ID. c.. MAY al
Slight recovery during the week end
ed May 22d carried production up
wards TO almost exactly the level Of
two weeks ago. The total output Of
soft coal, including Ignite and coal
coked, is estimated at 0,174,0OO tons,
an increase over the preceding week
of $4,000 tons or as per cent. In
spite Of the improvement the rate OF
production is still - per cent below
that Of the first quarter Of 1920 and
q per cent below that Of October,
1919. Continued for year, the pres
ent rate Of 100000 tons per work
ing day would give n total production
of 470,000,000 tons. Progress in re-
lieving the traffic congestion caused
by the switchmen 3 strike is thus slow.
The week was the seventh Of the
strike period, but the total produc-
tion was 1,S4l, 900 tons less than that
of the latest normal week, March 14th
TO Goth. Production during the first
hundred and twenty-five days of the
present year has been 202,277, 600
tons. The year 1920, although thirty
five million tons ahead Of 1919, IL
nearly twelve million tons behind
1917 and sixteen millions Of tons
behind 1918. For the week ending
May 10Th Utah mines produced 53.2
per cent Of capacity. Total losses
from al causes were i6.s; transpor.
tation disability, 45.3; labor shortage,
"a; mine disability. 05 per cent The
production of anthracite also recov-
cred slightly during the week ended
May 22d. Shipments ouxinitcd by
the principal carriers, in part esti-
mated, we're reported as B,Sl2 cars.
The total production, including fuel
and local sales, is estimated at l,1sS,-
900 net tons, a figure about halfway
between those of the two weeks pre-
ceding. Total production since Jan
uary !, 1920, now amounts 10 1904
600 net tons, an increase over the pre-
oeding year Of approximately 2,700,-
900.
Disturbance Slight.
Reports for the week of May 10Th
show the car shortage which has ac-
companicd the swhtchmcn = strike In
a stage Of heightened intensity. Leases
OF working time due 10 transporia-
ton disability grew more severe. The
zone Of dull market west of the Mis-
sissippi moved north, but over the
country as a whole the no market loss
was insignificant. Labor disturbances
were az minimum. Incomplete re-
ports from Michigan indicate that
most of the men out ON strike during
the preceding week returned 10 work
on MAY 10th Local strikes occurred
IN Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Piltsburg
Central Pennsylvania, Cumberland
Piedmont, Fairmont, Alabama, Iowa
and Arkansas. Losses OF mine oper-
ating time due to labor shortage were
widespread, but ON the average
amounted TO only 2,6 per cent of full
time.
Last year at this season, the domi-
nant factor limiting production was
no market. At present no market
losses ia the fields east Of the Mis-
sissippi are confined to four mines in
Illinois. West of the Mississippi,
however, the zone of dull market pro-
gressed northward porcepttbly during
the week Of May 10Th. In Missouri II
amounted TO 9.3 per cent of fulltime,
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in the Northwestern States to 1O.2
per cent and in Iowa to 21.0 per cent.
Reports Of lack of orders were re-
ceived from every Western State ex-
cept Utah. In the average for the
country, however, no market losses
were of small importance, amounting
to only 0.S per cent Of capacity
The dominant factor limiting pro-
duction remained transportation. The
week Witnessed an aggravation of the
unprecedented shortage of cars which
has prevailed since April 10th. Losses
of working time attributed to car
shortage increased from 44.g during
the preceding week to 46.6 per cent
or pa hours out Of the forty-eight
IL must be remembered, however, that
what to the operator appears as "car
shortage" may include other elements
besides inadequacy of rolling stock.
The present transportation equip
ment Is the same which in October,
1919, when coal was given priority
over other freight, moved over two
million tons of bitumfnous coal a day
with a car shortage loss of less than
~ per cent.
Local Gar Shortage.
II is the same equipment which in
the first half Of January kept the
mines running to two-thirds Of full
time instead of less than half as Mt
present. Tho difference Is due 10 The
congestion of traffic which now pre-
walls and which has grown out of the
railroad workers strike. The situa-
ton resembles that Of December,
1917, and January, 1918, except that
the present congestion is worsle. The
most acute transportation loss in the
winter Of lOl7-iS was 35.5 per cent
which fell in the week of January -,
1918. The worst car shortage Of the
past winter occurred during the week
Of February Dist. when the loss
amounted to 1873 per cent. The present
ear shortagois far more acute. During
the five weeks from April 11th to
May 18th Il has caused an average
loss of AIS per cent of fulltime. Out
Of twonty-six districts reporting east
Of the Mississippi during the week Of
May 18th only five experienced u
transportation loss smaller than 20
per cent; in fourteen the loss exceed
ed 90 per cent, and Ia fiye--l'iiis-
burg (rail mines), Sec. A of Central
Pennsylvania, Logan, Hazard and
Harlan-it was greater than 60 per
cent The most acute car shortage
west Of the Mississippi was reported
from Utah and amounted to i5.3 per
cent
Slight measure OF RELIEF IN the sup
ply Of cars at the ovens permitted an
5 per cent increase IN the production
OF beehive coke during the week end
cd May 22d. The total output Is esii-
mat d ON the bneis ~ shipments
over the principal coke carrying roads
at $4,000 net tons or twenty-ninc
thousand tons greater than that Of
the preceding week. The increase
was confined 10 Pennsylvania and
to West Virginia. In the Middle and
Southern Appalachians production
declined slightly. In the West the
Atuntion remained unchanged.
The greatest improvement was re-
ported from the G. .n"l' 'l'o rcgior,
where production as estimated rose
from $4,000 10 l7S,250 tons, Demand
for coke continues intense and from
al districts high prices are quoted.
The cumulative production since jap
unry /, 1920, now amounts Ia SAIL
600 tons. an increase Of $4,000 when
compared with the corresponding
period of 1919.
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SOUTHERN UTAH FIELDS
PRACTICALLY LIMITLESS

Declaring that the coal fields of both
Kane aud of Garfield counties are
limitless, Carl 4. Allen,
district engineer for the United
States bureau of mines, is having
tests made of the thermal unit con,
tents of the product In the Vent
that tests of the burning qualities of
The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-06-04
MOST ACUTE SITUATION
STILL EXISTING IN
UTAH
RAILROAD CAR SHORTAGE Is
STILL BIG PROBLEM.

Report Of Lack Of Orders Received
From Every State With the Excep-
tion Of the Beehive-Bridges Up
Scofield Way Replaced - Around
About the Local Camps.
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Ccontlnued on Page FourJ
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Carbon papers. rubber bands, type.
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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-07-17
COULDN'T LEAVE DEAR DADDY
Sweet Girls Affection Must Have
Been Very Comforting to the
Old Gentleman, Yes!

The blushing girl leaned over her
fathers chair and put her arm around
his neck.
"You dear old papa' she cooed.
you've been very good to your little
girl since her engagement"
"Pm always glad to make my sun
beam happy" murmured father fond
ly. II want you to think sometimes
of your foolish old father and remem-
Der that he did everything he could to
make home pleasant for you before
you, left him in his lonely old age
"Oh, you dear, sweet man. What
would you say if l didn't leave you.
after ally"
"Eh!" exclaimed the startled old
man.
"HOw can l be so selfish after you
have been so good to me, and done
everything for meY" said the girl ten
derby. 81 don't care so very very
very much for George. I'm going to
tell him it was all mistake, and that
he can find somebody else. for I'm
always going to stay at home with
you. And then you can al
ways give me nice thingsw
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sAcACITY SHOWN BY BEARS
Observers Have Seen and Noted In
stances of Reasoning That Are
Little Short of Human.

The grizzly bear, says Mr.. Enos A.
Mills is superior in mental power to
the horse, the dog and even the gray
wolf. and in his book, 1.-The Grizzly,
he offers convincing evidence of his
statement. A grizzly cub in Yellow
stone park. he says. once found ham
skin-a priced delicacy. Just as the
little fellow was lifting it to his mouth
a big bear appeared. The cub instant
ly dropped the ham skin, sat down on
If and pretended to be greatly inter-
ested in watching something in the
edge of the woods.
Another young grizzly in the Yellow
stone one doy found tin can that was
open at one end and partly filed with
fish. He raised it in his forepaws and
peeped in, then deliberately turned the
can upside down and shook it. Moth
ing came out. He shook again, but
still nothing came out. He then placed
the can on the ground. open end down,
and hammered the bottom OF it with a
stone until the fish dropped out.
In zoo one day piece Of bareback
that grizzly bear wanted fell into the
hands of black bear. The black bear
dipped the bareback in water and
started to take a bite. Evidently 1t
was too hard. He put it In the water
again, and while it soaked gave his
attention to something else. When the
black bear was not looking. the grizzly.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-07-17
The Earth's Crust.

The most important scientific inves-
tigation Of the last year In any coun-
try has probably been the attempt to
measure the earth's crust. We know
very little about the shell on which we
live. Scientists have been studying the
problem in Hawaii. Tuscany and In
Salvador, where the opportunities for
investigation are especially favorable
Much data new to science has been
collected concerning the shell, its COM
position and probable age. Still other
tests have been made In New South
Wales, where great reservoir concen-
trates an immense weight of water on
limited area, and instruments have
been devised to measure the movement
Of the earth's crust under this weight.
New light has thus been thrown on
the action Of volcanoes.-Boys' Life.
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found out what was the biggest firm
there, and wrote 'em letter. They
answered it, too. got my information
right from the ground. I've got let
ter that says"
Cullen Swayed forward, his hand
outstretched, palm-upward, in a direct
challenge of Warnings truthfulness.
where is it?'
The boy withdrew step and STAN
mered: Il left it home"
"Oh, You did" Cullen's laugh wa.
singing That's likely"
Yes, that's exactly what l did
Think I'd bring an original letter out
of my office-let it out of my hands
until it's time TO make it of record?
Not on your life! I've got it all right.
1t says the Silverbow Mining corpora
ton owns some acreage, fast enough.
but there isn't mine on it"
Cullen vented his abandon of rage
on the empty air.
well, who in the devil ever said
there wasp
"Why T.. didn't you?" The appeal
was to billiard; and it was made in a
tone of establishment which would
have been ludicrous if there hadn't
been tragedy behind it.
mo" billiard shook his head.
'YOu can't accuse me of that, at least.
The only mine we ever mentioned
was one in prospect. l always said it
was q prospect, with an old shaft on
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HIS DESTINATION NO OBJECT
As Example of Perfect Freedom From
Care, CoIored Boy Would Be
Hard to Beat.


Sitting in the rear end of day
coach on q jerkwater road in Texas,
my end of the car being smoker for
white passengers and the front end
being reserved for the accommoda-
ton of colored persons. looking
through the open door of the dividing
partition-saw the conductor stop in
the aisle alongside half-grown negro
boy who had boarded the coach at a
flag station.
II amt got no ticket, cap'n," / heard
the darby say. SO saying, he hauled a
handful of silver dollars out of a
pocket and extended the hand, its
palm covered with coins.
"Well, then, where do you want to
go?" asked the conductor.
"Cap'n, 1t don't make no difference"
quoth the boy. "Jes' you tell me,
please, sab, when dis yere money is
done ridden up an den I'll git off
effen / lax de looks of the place, an
effen I don't lax it I'll give you some
mo- money an keep on a-ridin'"-
Irwin S. Cobb in the Saturday Eve
ming Post.
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it it, didn't I? And so 1t is! But an
old shaft isn't producing mine, nee
essarily. And-please let him finish.
Mr. Cullenl"
well The boy had twin disks
of hectic flame in his cheeks. ''That's
only detail, anyway they said
1t was . :. :. undeveloped . they
said the shaft had been abandoned
more than two years ago, because it
wasn't worth much of anything"
Cullen's hands were closing and I'M
closing alphabetically.
For Heavens sake, who ever said
it wasn't! two years ago! We all
know that! Give US some news
young man, give us some news''
Waring was breathing hard, and his
interest had switched to Angela, who
stood adamant. Indeed, he was sud-
denly transformed to the status of
suppliant rather than that of prose
cutting witness.
"Well -. they said it was offered
two years ago to anybody
who'd take it for ten thousand
dollars and nobody'd take it as
gift :"
ooh, good Lord" Cullen was near
to bursting. Doesn't the fool know
what prospect is? Hasn't he seen
the reports? And still he
sAnd and the land next to it
was :. had a mine on it, the KING
mine, that's in pretty fair shape, but
that didn't signify anything. -" He
paused for moment. "And there
hasn't been any work done on it, to
speak of, for two years. >. And the
corporation report got shows that a
fellow named Martin Harmon's the
president Of it, and Harmon's cheap
Wall street man in New York. The
Butte people don't consider him re-
liable. And I've written to him four
times-and he won't answer"
"Ah!" said billiard, startled.
"Well?" Cullen repeated his chal-
lenge.
"That's ALL" He gazed beseechingly
at Angela, who shifted and turned her
head away.
"An!" Cullen breathed stertorous-
", "And with flimsy lot of rot like
that you've got the unmitigated gall to
start a slanderous story like this
about Henry billiard! You've got the
nerve to"
1.-THE astonishing part Of it." inter-
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simultaneously thrown their fixed at
tention on him. thrown it directly and
challengingly, including him in the
finale Of the climax, while they stood
motionless as statues. He looked at
Warning, whose expression was defen-
sively acute; he looked at Angela,
flushed, palpitant, and excited; he
looked at Mr.. Cullen, tight-lipped and
frowning; and billiard caught his
breath, as swimmer who launches
himself to a high dive, and walked
composedly into the drawing-room.
Il hope" he said gravely, I'm not
intruding. Am IT.
The trio was galvanized into action
Cullen fairly leaped at him. "Hilliard! y
he said, "thank the Lord! You're the
very man we want"
Hilliard smiled straight into Cullen's
eyes.
ssThat's why I'm here" he said.
Waring laughed loudly-to6 loudly /;
and the laugh stopped short, for Gull
len was towering over him-Cullen
blazing with indignant wrath, and with
a hand resting on billiards shoulder.
snow go on" said Cullen command
ingly. 1--WE don't. want any under
handed work around here. Rufus. I've
told YOU that once already. Go on !!
say II to his face! You're CONVERSE
tional enough behind his back-say it
to his face! Either you tell him or /
will r
The boy wiped his forehead. Beads
of sweat stood out on It.
s1ir. Cullen 1t isn't ].
It isn't fair
~Fairls Angela's soprano had risen
TO 4 half-scream. "Rufe Waring after
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the financial ENHANCEMENT, had re-
spected him, and honored him, as for
Carol Durant and Angela
Well, as for Carol he was at least
relieved of the terrific mental convul-
sion which would surely have fallen
upon him If he had had reason to be-
lieve that she loved him. AS it was,
her shock at his disaster would be
tempered by Armstrong; sane philoSo-
ply; at most, she would lose in Hill
lard a friend of only a few months-a
man she had wanted to retain as a
friend, but-by her own admission-as
that. and no more. This was a conso-
latfon trifiing and fragile, to
be sure but something saved out of
the wreck.
AS to Armstrong-Hilliard, marvel
ing somewhat at his own tolerance,
wished him joy. Armstrong was fine
and clean and manly; he had well
merited his victory. AS to Mr.. Cullen
-Hilliard was torn with regret, but
after all, Cullen's gullibility was what
had made the campaign so childishly
simple. AS to Angela who had
really loved him
"Oh, the poor little kid!" said Hill
lard softly. 1.-THE poor little kid.
And perhaps he had never loved
Carol Durant so much as when, at ten
o'clock that sunny morning, he went
up the steps of Angela's house to de
stroy little girls regard for him be-
fore it could be destroyed by others.
On the doorstep he found strength
in the memory of poor Pierre Dutout.
In way. Hilliard felt that he. too.
was giving up his life as Dutout had
given his .. with a smile for the
fate, and blessing for the future. Be
cause he. was afraid, unnervedly afraid,
that Angela, after all, was in love with
him-and when he put stop to that,
1t was the beginning of the end.
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CHAPTER XII.

AS he crossed the threshold Of the
long, overdecorated drawing-room, he
knew intuitively that he had blum
dered upon a climax. This he sensed
from the attitude Of the three who
turned toward him as he entered
sehsed it before he saw what was in
their eyes. The atmosphere
was vibrant, as though from sound
waves which had passed beyond, and
yet left traces Of the swell behind
them. The room was silent; but of a
silence more confounding than deaf
ening turmoil.
billiard, standing on the threshold
was himself the center Of this atmOs-
phere; he felt it partly because his
mood was so flexible and partly be-
cause the three who faced him had
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-07-17

standing On the farther edge Of the
pool, stirred the water with forepaw
and started the bareback toward him
on the waves. The instant the first
wave touched the black bear he looked
round, grabbed the precious bareback,
which was rapidly floating away, and,
pushing it to the bottom of the pool.
put one hind foot upon 1t. How very
like the mental processes of human
beingS!
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-07-17
His Altered Tastes.

"Do you remember the old fishing
hole of your boyhood daysw
II certainly do. And if I could
equip it with sofa and an electric
fan, and have a buffet right handy I'd
rather like to pass an afternoon back
ton Transcript.
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jmpartino information.

Bartlett had heard his parents spell
most Of their conversations, SO upon
learning his first few words he greet
ed his father that evening with:
Daddy, we're going to R. A. T. (pic-
ture shoW)."
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-07-17
The New Poor.

"Good morning madam. / deal in
cast-off clothing" t
ooh, how lucky! Do you think you
have anything that would suit my
husband From London Punch
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-07-17

The worst thing you can do for some
men is to praise them.
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itinerant Herself,

TtITfSf
The Maid-Mistrcss has new hus-
band.
The COok-Do you think he'll stay?
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get at the bottom of It :. You know
that as well as do, Hilliard, natural
ly. The boys as wild as a hawk.
Heaven knows how far he'd go out
side. This has got to be cleared up !
We've got to pound some sense into
him. We"
Hilliard was smiling vacuously; now
that the blow had actually fallen. and
the complaint officially lodged, he felt
deliciously relaxed, content. Before
he could oontrive reply Waring was
strident again.
''Yes." The students voice was thin
with acerbity. Yes, you think you're
pretty smart-all of you. Don't you?
l come in here to do you a kindness
that anybody else, it seems to me
would take as favor, and you and
Angela jump all over me-wny doesn't
he deny it? That's what / want to
know! Why doesn't he say some
thing?"
Cullen looked at billiard and made
swift deduction. and spoke it.
Hes waiting for the rest Of 1t. Go
on-you're only half through the yarn
you told u.s."
sOh, very we'll" Waring gathered
courage. "You can have all you want
maybe more than you want. You'd
have had it sooner IL you hadn't start
ed yelling at me. know what I'm
talking about; You people don't seem
to realize I'm in the law! 1 don't 20
OF half-cocked. wrote to law firm
In Butte, Montana. that's what I did.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1920-08-05

that he was holding back until. he
could find the girl that had so en-
chanted him in London and for whom
he had written this very comedy with
its setting in the Virginia hills.
Hurrying to the garage, / snarled
vt Flynn, who said Terrence had
been calling me all morning and had
finally left word that he would motor
to Barton at eight the next evening
to see me on urgent business l I'M
locked my trunk and dug out my copy
of Lady Larkspur." Not even the
wizardry of Alice and her friend
could have extracted the script. The
two women had in some way pos
sessed themselves of another copy, an
exact duplicate, even to its blue paper
cover; and sat down and began re-
calling everything Searles had told
me about his efforts to find the ac-
tress.
bow rang until Flynn came in timid-
ly to quiet it.
IF it's Mr.. florence" began.
Its the Barton station, sir.
There's a telegram" snatched the
receiver spitefully, thinking it only
the methodical Terrence, confirming
the appointment made by telephone
But the operator began reading:
Springfield, Ohio, September 80, 1917.
Gable from London agent says last
forwarding address for Violet Dewing
was hotel in Seattle. Please ask
Harkaway & Stein and anybody else
on Broadway who might know whats
companies are on coast or headed
that way. l find no clew in theatrical
papers and don't want to mess things
by making inquiries direct. If perty
can be located, will start West im-
mediately. SearleS."
The thought Of Searles was comfort
ing, and / reproached myself for not
having summoned him at the begin
ming Of my perplexities. I Immediately
dictated this reply:
take first train east and come to
me at Barton as quickly as possible.
Hope to have news for you"
Cro BE coNTINUED.)
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1920-08-05
WILL HONOR EARLY PRINTER
Anniversary Of Birth of christophe
PIantin to Be Appropriately Com
memorated In August.

The four hundredth anniversary of
the birth of Christophe Plantin. the
noted French printer of the sixteenth
century, will be commemorated with
appropriate ceremonies In Antwerp
during August. Plantin was a son of
Belgium only through adoption. He
was born somewhere In historic
Touraine.
1t was the peculiar achievement of
Plantin to bring honor and glory to
the printers trade in the days of its
infancy. With a keen appreciation
Of the beauties of literature, Plantin
delighted in perfectlng his workman
ship In order that these beauties
might be published in the most at
tractive form possible, although his
tools were those of common work.
man. His chef-d'oeuvre was the IA
nous Biblia polygotta-published in
1569-1573-an attempt at a scientific
revision of the text of the Old and
New Testaments. 1t was published in
the Greek, Hebrew, Syrian and Chal-
dean languages. AS a result of this
monumental work Plantin received
from King Philip of Spain the title
"prototypographus regius," and the
right to print all the llturgical books
for the states embraced In King Phil
ip's far-flung empire.