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II, for the sole purpose of ratifyins
the suffrage amendment to the fedora
constitution.
An attempt at Jail break was made
ut the Pueblo, Colo, Jail. The escape
of the prisoners was frustrated by
shots fired by one of the guards, ser
iously wounded an inmate by the
name of jewell said to be ringleader
who probably will die.
General Richard Willard Young
leader of many diverse activities OF
Utah, lawyer soldier, churchman, pub
lic-spirited citizen, died Saturday night
at Salt Lake hospital following an
operation for acute appendicitis.
A. A. Kenworthy, packer, and his
son, Glenn, aged 5, were burned to
death at Seattle. Firemen said the
position of the bodies indicated the
father lost his life In. attempting to
save the child.
Jack Graham, escaped prisoner from
the Utah state prison. was captured
while he was eating dinner in Rifle,
Colo, cafe.
Three poolhalls, a grocery store and
shoe repair shop at Helper, Utah,
were destroyed by fire on Christmas.
1t is reported that fighting has brok-
en- out between union and nonunion
miners at the company's mine at Wilke-
son, Wash.
The governors of Utah. Idaho, Colo
RADIO, Arizona, New Mexico and Wy
oming will meet in Denver January
10, to formulate a course of action to
be taken by the states in the move to
have turned over to the common
wealths the public lands and to make
recommendations for a constructive
irrigation program.
DOMESTIC.
A negro named Green, charged with
the murder OF r. NJ. Brown, white
man, was taken from the police by a
mob at Franklinton, N. c., and dragged
two miles behind an automobile and
the body then hanged to tree
In short address to Boy Scouts of
Lincoln, Neb., Gen. John J. Pershing
commended their efforts during the
war and told them the future held OPP
portunities for continued activities.
Six men were arrested at New Ha-
ven, Conn.,, in connection with the sale
of wood alcohol whisky which they
are alleged to have shipped from that
CITY TO Chicouee. Mass.
request for troops to protect
workmen at the Minnequa plant of the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company at
Pueblo has been received by the gov
ernor of Colorado.
Wood alcohol sold as whisky has
caused seventy-five deaths that We're
known on December 81, and has blind
ed so many persons that all track has
been lost of their number. The great
est mortality from drinking wood alco-
hol occurred in Massachusetts, where
fifty-seven died. Thirteen died in
Hartford, Conn. Chicago had four vic
tins and New York several.
Twenty thousand employees of the
Western Union Telegraph & Tele-
phone company will receive salary in
crease amounting to $5,000,o00 on jan
uary !.
Federal agents have arrested five
New York men whom they claimed
to be the heads of an organized band
which has been responsible for the
recent widespread sale of wool alcohol
concoctions through five states.
Thirty-fiye deaths have resulted
from the drinking of liquor bought in
Hartford, Conn. and drunk in Chic
opee, Holyoke and Hartford, Mass.
Seventeen men and one woman died
In Chicopee. ten men in Hartford and
four in Holyoke.
Brig. Gen. William Ruffin Cox, one
of the ranking officers of the Confed-
crate army, died December 26, at Rich
mond, Va, aged rs years. General
Cox was credited as having been the
last Confederate officer to cease
fighting at Appomattox courthouse,
prolonglng the fighting for some time
after General Lee had surrendered
Inhaling the dust arising from $10,-
600 worth of opium and heroin which
he was dumping into bag from dry
ing pans at the plant of the New York
QuinIne Il Chemical company, Brook
Ign, after he had broken into the place,
John Schuntdki collapsed on the bag
and died.
Gen. John J. Pershing on December
"a became member of the American
legion, uniting with Lincoln, Neb.,
post and being honOred by the issu-
ance to him of card No. /
Four men with police records all
over the country escaped from Jail
OF Toledo on Christmas by an attack
by six men upon deputy sheriffs, one
of whom was shot.
Scores were hurt on Christmas day
when fully one thousand reds" march
Ing up Fifth avenue, New York, as a
protest against the activities of the
United States In deporting extreme