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She Standard.
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very evenln except Sunday, without a
I muzzle or a rlub.
TERMS O'F StTBSt'RTrTIOX.
Dally in Offden City, per month $ .75
Dally In Oden Cltv, per vear 9.00
Dally out!dn nf Ogrden, per fMf 00
Dilly outidde of OpdM, 3 months.. 1 .88
Saturday IsiUS only, per yfiar 7.00
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llshed William Olnsm.inn. Publisher.
I COUNTRY LOSES ITS
EXPORT TRADE
Our great favorable balancn of
trade with foreign countries Is begin
ning to dwindle May Imports and
exports, following the April record
again present an unfavorable trade
balance. This country last month
imported imki, nor" in goods more
than was exported.
If this continues to the end of the
year, the United State, instead of j
selling to foreign countries more than '
it buys, as has been the invariable
rule In the last ten years oi more,
will have a balance ag.inst It. and
once more we may become debtor
nation, as we were in the Cleveland
period.
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WESTERN PACIFIC A
POOl INVESTMENT.
There has been a great shrinkage
of values in Gould railroid stocks,
according to Hayden. Stone & Co .
whose weekly letter has been received
by The Standard
Missouri Pacific is the parent com
pany, having financed the Denver &
Rio Grande, and. through the latter,
the Western Pacific
Missouri Pacifies S38.0OO 000 hold
ings In Denver A Rio Grande, Texis
& Pacific and Wabash have depreciat
ed until they are quoted at less than
$12,000,000.
iHere is a comment on the financial
condition of the roads
The prospects for Missouri Pacific
securing a return on these holdings
do not appear bright at present. Den
ver & Rio Grande has some $40,000,
000 invested in the Western Pacific,
on which no interest is received, and
the two roads combined are earning
this year a surplus of only about $1,
800 000 toward payment of the $2,500,
000 annual interest on the $50,000,000
Western Pacific's first mortgage 5
per cent bonds, which are in the
hands of the public and which Den
ver & Rio Grande guarantees Texas
Pacific is earning this year about
per cent on Its Income bonds, but
has been unable to pay interest on
them because of inability to secure
I other funds for property additions
Some return may be received on the
income bonds which Wabash is to Is
sue in exchange for Its refunding 4S
In reorganization, but an additional
caeh Investment for assessment Is re
quired on the part of Missouri Pa
cific to retain its holdings of Wa
bash stock."
Western Pacific has been a heavy
burden for the Denver & Rio Grande
Since the construction of the road
west from Salt Lake, not one dollar
has been received by Rio Grande in
return on Its investment of $40,000,
000, but instead a tremendous drain
has been caused In meeting the in
terest charge on the bonds of that
road
As shown in the foregoing Denver
& Rio Grande and Western Pacific
combined will fall $700,000 short ot
meeting the 5 per cent interest on
the bonds Issued In the building of
the Western Pacific.
The Standard has maintained that
the Gould people made a blunder In
constructing the Western Pacific
Had only a very small fraction of the
millions Invested In the road to the
coast been devoted to extending the
Rio Grande from Ogden north into
the granary of Idaho, the Gould lines
would have been made highly prosperous.
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WHY REPUBLICANS MUST
STAND TOGETHER.
Give us back our prosperity ! Re
store to our Industries a protective
tariff! Scat with the country's
bete noire!
Men of all parties are united in de
claring there should be a change In
our national administration. Wilson
took office when the nation was pros
perous, In less than two years he
almost has wrecked the country.
The Herald-Republican says the
Professor will be rebuked this fall,
and furthermore declares:
"Removal of the Wilson blight Is
the primary requisite to the restora
tion of American prosperity. It Is as
essential to individual as to national
welfare; all other considerations,
whatever they may be, sink into in
significance as compared with it
United effort on the part of all those
who would replace Democratic hard
times with Republican good times
alone can effect this desired result.
Democratic suocess at the polls next
fall means a continuation of the
economic policies which have brought
a prosperous, happy nation to the
verge of deapalr. The return of a
Democratic bouse and senate means
an elaboration of the legislation
which has already brought dlsaeter
THE OGDEN STANDARD, OGDEN, UTAH, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1914.
upon us President Wilson is so
firmly convinced of the efficacy of
his theories that nothing short of a
cataclysm can swerve him irom hi
purpose As certainly as he controls
both houses of the next congress like
he does tho60 of the present, there
will be further experiments with the
foundation of our commercial stmc
ture. Xo American needs Instruction
las to the certain effect of all this
There Is but one method of averting
this disaster, only one road that we
can travel hack to the prosperity we
once enjoyed This method Is clear
and the road unobstructed If the ma
jority of the American electorate
compose their differences and labor
In nnlson t'pon this first and rore
most duty of the adversaries of the
administration. Republicans and Pro
gressives are not at variance How
ever they may seem to differ upon
sociological issues which can in no
sense he political, they are in thor
ouph accord upon the one great
economic principle involved.
, Even dlttc-rences of great moment
would become as negligible in the
race of the condition that confronts,
j the nation; the most violent q.iarre:
; between parties or Individuals would
grow unimportant because of the ne
cessity for united action There is,
however, no serious breich to be
healed between those who stood with
Mr Taft at Chicago and those who
followed Mr Roosevelt from the Re-
JMJIMIVI1II IOI I, LNPtUlU VUVI UUU.- 11
Belt into the equation only when sub
jects arise which have no bearing,
either intimate or remote, upon the
j main point at issue The one flag
floats harmoniously over both in the
i campaign thn has already begun,
since the objective Is common to
each; national and personal welfare
: require- they march together under
this banner Probably no administra I
tion has ever been so unpopular in
its second year as the present one j
Presidents are weighed in the bal- j
ance during the early period of their
tenure and, if found wanting, are pun
ished at the earliest opportunity
which presents itself, ordinarily at I
the first congressional election fol
(no (V .. . ,. :..,, I.IM. .1
, itjvi nig in' ii uwuguiww viMma
revolutions are not uncommon at
these times but, unless all signs are
misleading that now approaching will
exceed all others in violence Mr
Wilson cannot hope to escape a vote
of censure except by further schism
in the ranks of his opponents Bel
shazzer was no more alarmed by the
handwriting upon the wall as inter
preted by Daniel than the president
will be If the union of the Republi
cans and Progressives should continue
to completion "
Roosevelt, in a recent statement,
declared that the country is filled
with apprehension and the pinch of
poverty Is felt In many households.
That being true, the first duty of
nil Republicans is to get together!
long enough to remove the blight
from the American home
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LOWER RATES WILL BENEFIT
THE RAILROADS.
Wall Street today took notice of
the lutermountain rate case decision
by hammering down the price of rail
road stocks.
We see nothing in the action of the
I supreme court which should cause
any alarm over the future of our rail
j roads To begin with, the western
j railroads may suffer a considerable
I loss in revenue, but eventually those
J roads will profit by the change. Trade
j in this region has been held back ty
the exorbitant rates that have been
assessed on all traffic. With a more
reasonable policy enforced, there is
BO reason why the intermountaln
country should not develop rapidly
and. through its expanding business,
soon yield to the railroads a revenue
greater than they now enjoy
The Intermountaln states long ago
should have been given better rates
than they have received Had that
broader policy been followed, this re
gion would have double the popula
tion It now has and the railroads
would have been more prosperous.
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SUPREME COURT RATE
CASE DECISION.
No longer is the Intermountaln
country to be compelled to submit to
unreasonable freight rates. The su
preme court of the United States, yes
terday n rendering a decision up
holding the Interstate commerce com
mission In what Is known as the in
termountaln rate case, wiped out a
discrimination which has kept this
part of the United States a producer
of raw material on which the rail
roads levied all that the traffic
would bear, without regard to rates
east or west of us. From now on,
our freight rates from the east are
to be determined by the Interstate
commerce commission anJ are to be
based on a direct haul, instead of the
rate to the Pacific coast and the lo
cal rate back.
One of the members of the Com
mercial Club Traffic bureau in Salt
Lake, the organization responsible for
the rate victory, In reviewing the his
tory of the case, says:
The intermountaln rate orders were
issued in June and July, 1911, by the
Interstate commerce commission, un
der authority of the "long and short
haul section" of the Interstate com
merce act. This section clothed the
commission with discretion to make
exceptions to the general rule laid
down in the law, that railroads should
not charge more for a short haul
I day Stocking Special
Guaranteed Phoenix Ladies' Silk Hosiery
H $275 Per Box 4 Pairs.
UTAH KNITTING STOKE
I 302 Twenty-fifth Street.
Mm nW
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: GIFTED MISSOURI WOMAN PAINTS
LIKENESS OF WILLIAM F McCOMBS
Mrs. Harvat and her portrait of William F. McCombs.
Mrs. George Harvat of St, Louis, an artist whose portraits have at
tracted the attention of critics in many art centers, has just completed a
likeness of William F. McCombs, the Democratic national chairman. Mrs.
Harvat is a cousin of Mrs. McCombs, who was Miss Dorothy Williams of
Washington and St Louis, and is well acquainted with Mr. McCombs, who
is a native of Arkansas.
than for a longer haul in the same
direction and over the sanw lines or
routes
The orders were the outcome of a
change in the law in 1910. From 1887
I to 1910, the law against a greater
j charge for a short than for a longer
haul applied only to hauls under
"similar conditions but that proved
unsatisfactory and led to the law br
Ing amended by striking out the
I phrase "'similar conditions'' and leav
ing the commission with discretion to
make exceptions to the general rule
laid down in the law.
Shortly after the passage of the
act iu 1910, practically all the rail
roads traversing the intermountaln
region of the west applied to the com
mission to have exceptions made so
I that a higher rate could be charged
on shipment from the east to inter
mountaln cities, such as Ogdcn Spo
kane. Reno and Phoenix. The rates
to these cities from points east of
1 the Rockies had for years been made
by adding the through rate to the
Pacific coast and the local rate from !
the Pacific back to the interior city.
The Intermountaln points rebelled I
against what they claimed was a'
monopoly given to the Pacific coast
cities of the trade at all points from
the coast back to the very doors of
Jthe intermountaln cities. The mat
'ter was fought out in hearings be
fore the commission.
The decision of the commission was'
a compromise, it refused to let the ;
railroads charge a higher rate to the j
protesting cities than wa6 charged to
points beyond them, on shipments
originating west of a line that would
run north and south through St Paul,
Minn , but on shipments originating
between St Paul and Chicago, the
railroads were permitted to charge an
Increase of not more than 7 per cent;
on shipments originating between Ch-j
cago and Pittsburg, not more than 15 I
per cent, and from the zone between
Pittsburg and the Atlantic, not more
than 25 per cent
The commerce court set aside the
orders on the ground that the com
mission had no authority to issue
( "blanket" orders, or "zone" orders,
but could act only in regard to the
reasonableness or unreasonableness
of specific rates. An attempt was
made to have the commerce court
hold unconstitutional the section of
the law under which the orders were
Issued, on the ground that congress
had given no guide to the commis
sion's discretion and therefore the leg
islation was a delegation of legislative
power.
The majority of the commerce court
however, found a guide to this dis
cretion in the preceding section of
i the law, which declares rates must
be "reasonable" and nondiscrimina
tory. Judge Archbald expressed a be
lief that the law was unconstitutional.
The ground upon which the rail-1
roads'asked for the exemption under
the "long and short haul" clause was
that water competition required the j
railroads to carry commodities to the
coast at an unreasonably low rate, !
and that the rates proposed for the
intermountain cities were reasonable ;
In themselves for the service perform ,
ed. Inasmuch as middle western
cities would not be able to compete
with New York and Atlantic coasr
cities if New York alone enjoyed the
low rates, the railroads claimed a
right by virtue of "market competi
tion" to allow middle western cities
to enjoy the same rates as New York
When the railroads appealed the
intermountaln rate case to the com
merce court and later to the supreme
court the order of the Interstate com j
merce commission was automatically I
suspended. Since that time the rail- j
roads hare been charging on the old 1
baels and not on the zone rates. The '
OgAnk TtUn are mostly classified
i
rates, which aie much higher than
commodity rates
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THE INCOME TAX YIELD.
New York Evening Post.
The secretary of the treasury's
statement that receipts from Uie in
come tax on persons, payable on or
before June 30. will fall slighth more
than 000,000 below the treasury's
I own estimate of last December, is in
I some respects surprising and in some
I not It certainly indicates a smalller
; yield, for the 10 months on which the
: tax was assessed, than manv people
had anticipated; for the treasury's
$54,000,000 forecast, with its heavy
reduction from the estimate of more
than ?80,000.000 by the congressman
who drew up the Income ta hill.
seemed in line with conservatism But
on the other hand, the productiveness
of an income tax, when the experi
ment is tried for the first time by a
government, is always and necessari
ly conje.tural The income tax of
1S94 was never collected, the law im
posing it having been declared uncon-
stitutional by the courts. It was
j therefore no guide to estimates on
the present law's productiveness But
the treasury estimate on the proceeds
tor the first twelve months under
that tax which was '1 per cent on all
incomes over $4000 was only $15-
,M 00 and the chief of the bureau
of statistics, alter a carefully prepared
i special report, cut down the first
year estimate to $12,000,000 No "col
lection at the source" was imposed in
1894. therefore the chances Tor eva
sion were greater
California's Volcano.
Xevv York Evening Sun
If California could have had one
wish, must she not have wished of all
boons just some such bouncing little
volcano as this? It was needed to
fill out her life, to add one more pre
eminence over other states; to make
her more like Italy; to leave her
independent of all the rest of the
world containing within her boundary
even this the last lacking of natural
features. And now California has
what she must have wished for, with- j
out the trouble of wishing for it
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$1 0,000 FOR
I00W0RDS
$10,000 for an Idea, Which
You Must Tell in 100
Words or Less.
There will be no second prize.
Only one first prize of $10,000 for
the man, woman or child who gives
the best idea to finish "The Million
Doliar Mystery!"
$10,000 for an idea.
$10,000 for 100 words.
Read the conditions;
The Ogden Standard begins next
Saturday the publication of "The Mil-!
lion Dollar Mystery ," a mystery storv 1
for the solution of which a prize of
$10,000 will be given Tbe story will
run for twenty-two consecutive weeks
In the Saturday Ogden Standard As
each shapter appears In The Standard
two reel film corresponding with It
may he seen at the Orpheum the fol
lowing Wednesday. Bv this arrange
ment with the Thanhouser Film cor
poration it will be possible for Stand
ard readers both to read the story
and see the moving pictures of It as
It progresses from week to week. The j
first film will be released on Juh
tirst Each week another will be re
leased until Wednesdav November 25.
Conditions Governing the Contest.
I The prize of $10,000 will be won
J by the man, woman, or child who
writes the most acceptable solution
I of the mystery, from which the last
two reels of motion picture drama
will be made and the last two chap
ters of the storv written bv Harold
McGrath
i Solutions mav be sent to the Than
I hoiiser Film corporation cither at
Chicago or New York, anv time up
, to midnight. Dec. 14 Thev must be
received not later than that date
which will be just three weeks af
ter the last chapter appears In the
Standard before the final solution is
published
A board of three judges will deter
I mine which of the many solutions re
ceived i8 the most acceptable.
I The judges are to be Harold Mac-
Extra Special!
j 200 PAIRS jjj.
Ladies', Misses' and Children's Mary Jl
V Jaoes, Pumps and Oxfords II P
V-v& $2,50 to $4.50 B I
"Vp, F0R QU,CK M0V,NG m J
$1.50 Pair
A complete line of styles and sizes in all kinds of leathers. Sale begins Saturday at 8
a. m. Come early for quick choosing. 1 j
300 pairs Boys', Youths' and Little Gents' Oxfords. All leathers,
widths and sizes. Regular $2.50 to $3.50. For quick dosing . . $1.50
N. O. OGDEN COMPANY
236 Twenty-fifth Street j
Grath Lloyd Loncrgan, author of the
scenario, and Miss Mae Tinee of The
C'hlcaeo Tribune.
The judgment of this board will
he absolute and final. Vothing of a
literan nature will be considered in
the decision, nor given any preference
in the selection of the dinner of the
110,000 prize. The last two reels.
Which will give the most acceptable
solution to the mystery, will he pre
sented In the theater having this fea
ture as soon as it Is practical to pro
duce the same The story correspond
ing to these motion pictures will ap
pear in the newspapers co incidental
ly, or as soon after the appearance of
the pictures as practical With the
last two reels will be shown the pic
tures of the winner, his or her home,
and other interesting features.
Solutions to the mystery must not
be more than 100 words long. Here
I are some questions to be kept in mind
in connection with the my stery as an
aid to a solution :
No. 1 What becomes of the mil
I lionaire?
No H What becomes of ,he $1,
000,000? No. 3 Whom does Florence marr ?
No. 4 What becomes of the Rus
sian countess-'
Nobody connected either directly or
i indirectly with "The Million Dollar
Mystery ' will be considered as a contestant.
CAPTAIN MAKING
RACE WITH DEATH
Washington, June 23 - With his
wife hovering between life and
death, thousands of miles awav from
him, Captain P H Ubberoth or thp
revenue cutter McCulloch, now at
Unalaska, Alaska, was expected to
day to start on a two weeks' race
j for her bedside In Philadelphia. Ev
ery means at the command of tbe
revenue cutter service here have been
I employed in an effort to get word to
Captain Obberoth of his wife's sen
ous Illness but they were without
avail until Saturday when the cutter
McCulloch arrived at Unalaska. Wire
CONGRESS SESSION
TO END SOON, HOPE
I
Senator Francis G. Newlands.
Members of the senate steerine :
committee who are laying out a !
legislative program for the re- 1
mamder of this session with as early j
an adjournment in view as possible
are Senators Francis G. Newlands.
chairman of th senate intergu3
commerce committee; Culberson
chairman of the senate Judiciary I
committee; Clarke of Arkansas I
?F ,th i JT1 O'Gorman,'
e 1
less dispatches were sent but they
failed to reach Captain Cbberoth's
ships.
Captain Ubberoth was expected to
leave Unalaska on tbe steamer Dora
for Cordova today Three day 6 will
be occupied in making this first jump.
He will then transfer at Cordova to
a steamer bound for Seattle, a five
days' trip At Seattle Captain Ub
beroth will board the first train east
and probably will reach Philadelphia
five or six days later, making about
fourteen dayss before he can reacii
his wife's bedside.
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MILLION A YEAR IS
SUNDAY SCHOOL CRY
Chicago. June 23. "Add a million
a year to the Sunday school rolls''
is the slogan of the 4400 delegates
to the International Sunday School
association convention here today in
readiness for the formal opening ot
the convention tonight.
Sunday school teacher training and
the organizing of Sunday schools on
a basis of real efficiency in deliver
ing Instruction on the Bible and in
building up Christian character will
be the most important subjects of tlu
spssions
All evangelical denominations arp
represented
DENVER AND TOPEKA
TEAMS IN A CLASH
Denver. Colo., June 83. It was un
certain today whether the game
scheduled between the Denver and
Topeka teams of the Western league
would be played. As the result of
a clash yP3terday, James 0. McGill.
owner of the Denver team, announced
that Dick Cooley, the Topeka man
ager. would not be permitted on the
grounds today. Cooley said that, his
team was readv to go ahead with
the game but that he would not sub
mit to being barred from the grounds
I McGill telegraphed President Norrls
I U. O'Neill at the league headquar
ters at Chicago, demanding Cooley's
suspension on charges of using Im
I proper language before the specta-
iors at yesterday's game.
I The Denver management charged
J the Topeka play ers with attempting
to delay the play yesterday, when
j r:iin hegan in the early stages of the
game. The Denver team was in the
lead, and i Is claimed that the To
j pka players deliberately tried to
j prolong the fourth inning in order to
I prevent the playing of the four and
a half lnntng6 necessary for a valid
game.
Cooley declared today that the
Denver players began the alleged un
sportsmanlike conduct bv trving to
get them elves put out In the third
inning, so as to hurry the game
along
After the shower the game was
completed. Denver winning by a
score of 17 to 5.
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KICKAPOO INDIANS
j LOSE PROPERTY
Eagle Pass. June 23 Forced to I
leave Mexico, they claim. because
the r property was confiscated and1
I their stock stolen, seventy-five Klck
Japoo Indians, who migrated to the
southern republic from Oklahoma sev
, era years ago. today are encamped
at the army post here awaiting aid
SfflSf, l nUed Statns government
The Inelans crossed the Rio Grande
yes erday Whit disposition will be
SiaeV has not bee" deter
ENLISTED MEN TO
ENTER NAVAL CLASS
aSnlSJ?' & S California. Ma
rSan XCo; CaT SLftSSB
for Lapcz Lower California to coal
Rear Admiral Howard plans ?0 per
22 crew to go ashore at the Sll
ted States coaling station there The
sailors are In Deed of recreation ll
they have not been granted shore
leave here for fear of disturbances.
The cruiser South Dakota will re
main at Mazatlan.
Three hundred and fifty enlisted
men of various United States ships
in Mexican waters have been formed c
Into a special class for preparations 1
for entrance examinations of the An- !
napolis naval academy. 1
Wireless orders for text books for 2
their use have been sent to thj t
states. I c
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CHAMP GOLF AT
GRAND RAPIDS I
t
Chicago. June 23. The Olympic f,
golf championship of the Western
Golf association will be played July
25 at the Kent Country club oi
Grand Rapids Mich., two days be
fore the sixteenth annual champion- 7
ship of the association stars over the
same links. The Olympic champion J!
ship, open to teams of four from the
golf associations of the world, will
close its entries July 24 at the Kent tc
Country club, it was announced today. 81
The Western amateur championship t'
calls for fifty-four holes of quaiiry- fc
Ing play, it was announced. Thirtv- 8t
six holes will be played July 27 and
the lowest sixty-four will play eight- B
een holes medal play the next dav.
the lowest thirty-two qualifying for
the first match round at 18 hole?. -which
will be played the same day
Play in the succeeding rounds will be
at thirty-six holes. l
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How to Banish
Wrinkle Quickly
If .,ur f;w is disfigured with wrinkles
no platter what the cause, you can
quiekiv dispH every line, even th mosi
obstinate bj using simple, home-made
wash lotlun Merolj dissolve ail ouno
of powdered saxollte in a h.nir pint witch
nasel Inexpensive Ingredients found In
any drugstore Batho th fa- in t hi-,
and presto! -you scarcelj believe your
own eyeti when you lnk into your mirror
and bohnlrl th- marvHnus transforma
tion' !
Th rpmrtrkahlP strlnjrrnf notion nf th
bh xoiitr so tightens the skin, wrinkles arc
literally ptvssorl out Best of all this r?
ault is not purely temporary for ih. lo- M
tlon also has a healthful tonic a.-tlon. I
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tho weakonrrl llnsu.v tilld ..ddod bfll.ri' 1
may ho expected with continued use n 1
'anrini Injure th mo.i lcT) d,,. jgl
treatment it.if leavea no trace tin on J
srucses the sr-rot of vour Increasing Id
youthful appearance. Advertisement 1
DANIELS' VIEW UNALTERED. B
Washington, June 23. Secretary
Daniels said today when the cabinet fl
assembled that Turkey"s protest (SI
against the sale of the" battleships f
Mississippi and Idaho to Greece had 1
not altered his view nor that of tM
administration in favor of the sale J
ASKS U. S. TROOPS 1
j TO QUELL STRIKE I
Governor Stewart.
Gov. S. W. Stewart of Montana is
the latest state executive to have the fj
question of the control of rioting j' m
miners come before him. Recently I
seeders from the Western Federo- J
taon of Miners rioted all day in the B II
streets of Butte and the police prac- I
ticaJly admltteJ their inability to -
cope with the situation. jT