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1 TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1920. (Hlff jjl Hlt HrfolEXUtlttflPt ' OGDEN, UTAH, I
I BEET IN GET
J PI DEC. 15
This Year Amalgamated Sugar
Co. Will Pay $7,000,000
to Growers
More lhan COO, 000 ions of boots
were purchased during the season
which Just ondod from farmers of
T'tah and Idaho for the eight sugar
plants In operation In Utah and Idaho:
Vioo President S. M. Edgell of the
Amalgamated Sugar company said U-
lnv. This is 50,000 tons more than
wo'ro purchased in 1919 records show
With the final beet pay day sot for
December IS. farmers of the two
states will receive $3,300,000 from the
Amalgamated Sugar company for
- Iais delivered during tin mnth of
Xovembcr.
During the entire season the farm
era of Utah and Idaho will have re
CbiVOil $7,000,000 for sugar beets when
1 the final amount is paid December 15,
i Might factories of tlx- company nre
In operation in Utah and Idaho. Beets
from the various farmers were trans
I ferred from farm to factory In record
J time, according to Mr. Edgell.
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II Impanel Jury for
II ' . Basil Demos Case
With the Impaneling of a jury this
Hl morning in Judge A. W. Agge's dlvi-
udon of the district court, the trial
11 oi Basil Demos, charged with obtain-
1 Ing money under false pretenses,
Hfl opened. The entire opening session
Hfl was eonsumod in the jury selection'
19 ad it is not likely that the. case wJJl
get fully under way until late this af-
Hfl ternoon.
HI Demos is alleged to have sup a store
PJf In Ogden to Charles S. Wheelwright I
1 and to h.ivr claimed the stock free'
HJ from all debt. Wheelwright is said to;
HJ j have paid sivno for the business and
HJ to haye found after tin- disappearance
HJ of Demos that $700 was still ow ins on ,
Hi the stock. Demon left the city follow-;
HJ mg the sale in November 1!'19, and Is
HJ said to have left many debts behind
HJ He successfully eluded the officer : un-
HJ tii four months ;io when he was cap-'
HJ tilled in East St, Loulfl and returned
HJ 1 to Ogden for trial. Following his nr-i
HJ rest he was released on bonds of'
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DAYS W
TRIES TO LIGHT
1 FIRE WITH 'GAS';
! DIES OF BURNS
William C BOVee, an employe
of tbr I'ninii Pafclflc railroad at
Green Hiver. Wyo., was fatally
burned yesterday morning at
I Orjeen River; according to word
I received here today. The re
port received today stated that
Bovee, who was cashier of the
freight department, attempted to
light a fire In small stove in
the freight house, using gasoline
instead of coal oil on the fire.
The can containing the fuel ex
ploded, Bovee receiving burns oh
the arms, legs, head and chest,
which resulted in his .b ath at 3 20
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
accident occurred at 7: -10 a. m.
Bovee Is the son of N. A. Bo
vee, of Herman, Nebraska, and
had been employed by the Union
Pacific at Green River for sev
eral months.
No damage w'vs done to the
freight house, the flames being
extinguished by other employes
who rushed to the aid of Bovee.
Bovee was unmarried.
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Deputy Returns With
Alleged Auto Thief
Deputy Sheriff Dlclf Wipotton arris
ed in "den last night from Lewiston
with Fred Wasley, 24 years of age,
charged with the theft of an automo
bile Otcober 19. from W. H. Draney
of Ogden. Wasley Is now in the coun
ty jail.
The officer said that Washy ad
mitted taking the car from Ogden On
arrival at Lewiston he ran the ear
into a shed near the sugar factory
where he was repainting it when Lo
gan officers found him at work, it
is said Wasley Is said to have ran
when the offcers approaelnd and to
have hid in the sagebrush where he
was captured within a short lime
The ar is said to be undamaged and
will DC brought to Ogden today Was
ley is nn iron molder. but has been
employed as beet topper near Lewis
t "i recently His parents live at Ever
ett, Wash., he said.
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Wireless Phones to
Be Installed Here
n. B Adams telephone engineer of
the fourth forest service district, was
in Ogden a short time yesterda) after
noon, but departed last evening for
Idaho to install a Switchboard at the
headquarters of the Idaho for- si
Mr. Adams Is expected to return to'
Ogden within a month, ami establish
cvlrelesv telephone communication be-1
tween the Forest Service building jt
the corner of Twenty-fourth street and
Lincoln avenue, and the Aerial Mail
station at the state fair grounds in Salt
Lake.
Equipment for Installing the wire-1
less telephones is already onhand at
the forest service building.
The sets will be adjusted for US in
the Thunder Mountain forest in Cen
tral Idaho
M Social
r oeason
TORMAL Dress must be cor
R" rect in every detail, par
ticularly in the wearing of
the needed accessories. The open
season for celebrating is here
the opera, the theater, the dancp
end other social functions.
Accuracy of fashion and qual
ity elegance are certain in every
thing ynu buy here for formal
dress.
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'Better School Week'
' Program Outlined
Belter School Week Is being observ
ed throughout the i igden schools this
week. The program at the Oiant
school, arranged by Principal Henry
j Barker, is typical of what is being
done.
On Monday the school emphasised
education as it appealed to the pil
grims; the central topic was the edu
cational Ideals of the pioneers Wed
nesday will be given over to a discus
sion of the financial benefits derived
from an educaton. Thursday the
school will participate In community
singing and then listen to n fifteen
minute address by Superintendent W. '
Karl Hopkins, while on Friday a
general summarj of the week's work,
will be compiled.
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Red and Gun Ass n
to Name Officers
The annual election of officers will
feature the monthly meeting of the
Weber dounty Hod and Gun associa
tion, to he held Friday night in tho
county court house. A. T. Hestmark.
president of the ( lub will preside at
the meeting. Eleetions of a president
vice president, secretary-treasurer ana
three directors will he made.
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China exports about S3.000.000
worth or firecrackers a year.
Returned to Ogden on
Wife Desertion Charge
George Matthias, formerly of Ogden
was brought to the city last night in
custody of Deputy Sheriff R. B.
WooIIey of Wlntcrquarters and placed
In the county bn a charge of wife
desertion. Matthias is alleged to have
beep arrested at Wintcrquartors while
working as a coal miner The com
plaint for his arrest was sworn by Mr.. I
Matthias who resides In tgden and
who claims that her husband has re-
fused to provide for her support
.Matthias went ti Wlnterquarters
three weeks ago He Is -15 years of
age.
D'ANNUNZIO CALLS OFF
HIS WAR AGAINST ITALY;
TRIESTE, Dec. 7. (By the Aasoel-I
ated Press). The "state of war" be-;
tween the regency of Quamero at Fi
ume and Italy will not pro eed, said
an official statement given out by
headquarters of General Gahriele
d'Annunzio today. It declared this de
cision had been reached because d'Ah
nunslo had received a note from the
Kalian ministry of war stating that
General Cavlglla'8 order Which brought
about the poet-soldier's declaration of
a state of war with Italy, did not
have the character of an ultimatum.
.Members of the sp clal commission
of Italian deputies which has Inter
viewed d'Annuheld at Flume, left for
Home tonight Some of the deputies
said in conversation that they had
hopes that an agreement could be
reached
Suggestions shoes " t I
for Attractive Ml - ,Feltl n
? Y m Leather Shppers
ILn ristmas re EJ occa,nL I
y Hose for Men,
CTy I FELTL HOUSE ' .70 I
' JH ffl jPUL Women's, $1.95 to $4.75 ' S
'Um Children's, $1.25 to $2.65 &Stii
I Hose in wool and silk for 'That's what I call a sensible Christmas gift!"
men and women at See our bargains in shoes. Best grades at
? $1.00 to $4.00 reduced prices. H
n Washington Ave. Ogden
I Christmas Shoes c
Utah Railroads Pay
Record Tax Per Mile
Railroads in Utah pay higher taxes
per mile than in any of the other
states where they operate, with the
exception of the Oregon Xiwrt Line in
Idaho, for the present your accord
ing to the biennial report of the stat
board of equalisation.
In Idaho the main line pays 8 high
er tax per mile than the main line in
Utah but this difference! says the re
port. Is ulmosi offset by the higher
taxes paid by the branch lines In I tall
compared with the taxes paid by the
bra nch lines in Idaho,
The board finds that in Utah this
year the Oregon Short Lino pays an
average of $?ilU.3-l on its main lines,
or an average for all lines of $1364.10.
In Idaho the Same railroad pays on Its
main line $:'2M 70 per mile and on
it.-: branches 1619.49 per mile, or an
I average on all lines of $1231 SO. The
railroad pays a total of $310.592..r.4 in
1 taxes in Utah, where Its mileage Is 113
miles of main line and 114 miles of
branches, and $ 7, l!6,7 1 4.07 In Idaho,
with 613 miles of main line and 982
ihlll s of branches.
j In Wyoming the Short Line pays
ST S8.5R on Its main line and $373 74
ion its branches, or an average of
S 0 7 0 . per mile- In Montana, 96i . I
for main line and $66S 0rj for branches,
and in Oregon. $1967.36 for main line
and $203.24 for branches, with an
average of $487.1 1. The Oregon fig
lures are for 1919, those for 1920 not
being available at the time of 1920
I being available at the time of compil
ing t be report.
The 1919 taxes of Ihe Denver & Rio
j Grande, baaed on main line and
branch track; were $604.94 in Utah,!
S536.45 in Colorado and $36 1. .".0 in J
New Mexico, in Utah this yen- that
road pays $768.30 on main hue and
branches. Figures for this year in the
other two states are not available.
The Union Pacific Railroad com
pany's figures In Utah this year were
'$2009 for main line, and $286 for fe
mlli i n Nebra it iJlroad paj s j
on main line and 1626
branches, an average on road of $1072 jjiiH
In Wyoming the company pays $ 1 OS 4 KlSs
jon main line and $160 on branches,
an average of $1013; in Kansas. $10S6 iMlsl
on main line and $404 on branches,
averaging $660. and in Colorado an IH
average of $819 a mile on all lines.
IOWA MAIL CAR BANDITS
GET LONG PRiSON TERMS
DBfl AlolNES Iowa, Dec. 7. Fred
Poffenberger and Orville Phillips, of
Council Itluffs. two of the participants BH
in the big mail robbery there, re
cently, were sentenced to is and 13
-.ears. re(ie, . in prison at I.oiv-
enworth. late yesterday by Judge Mar
tin J. Wade, of the United States dls
trl. I '. ourt. The plpadl .1 uul'iy. f
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Bees produced in the United States 4H
last year J50,000,u00 pounds of honey.
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