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GOAL MINE PEACE AGAIN CALLED OFF HARDING TIPS HOUSE TO KEEP IN 8ESSION; MAY ASK R. R. CONTROL MAY ASK LEGISLATIVE ACTION Effort To End Both Strike« Being Foredoomed To Fail; Telegram« A«k "Rejection" Presi dent'« Offer Washington.-—Prenl«lent Harding has asked congressional lenders, In view of the menacing Industrial situation arising from run I nnil rull strike*. to Imlil the house, now In rece«». continu ously In session along «Il li the Neunte. The prospect was that, fui I lue early settlement of the Inhor controversies, the administration might call for leg ImIii 1 1 ve action to enable the govern ment to cope with condition* which thus far have failed to react favorably to effort* on the part of the executive. Suggestions were advanced that con gress might he naked to authorize re Kuuiptlon of federal control over the railroad ayatema ahould President Harding find It impossible to termin ate the strike satisfactorily, with the further possibility that direct lejjUla - lion umendlng the transportation art mlKht he Nought to make the Itollrond Lahor hoard decisions In wage mnltei-H hlndlng upon inauaKementN and em ployes. Tlfre also was a proposal In some quarters thnt .Jurisdiction might he given the hoard hy law over differ ences which arise during the strike, ns did the present seniority Issue. Meanwhile, the I......... of all union organlzatloUN In the transportation field began to gather In Washington for a conference to determine the re sponse which shall he made to Presi dent Harding's latest offer of a settle ment basis for the seven railroad unions now on strike anil to determine as well, according to «intentent of those who will participate, what joint or co-operative action the labor forces shall take in ense the president's offer Is rejected. IJ. M. Jewell, chairman of the group of officers of the striking unions, de dared that he hail received hundreds of telegrams from locals of the shop crnfls, "telling us lo reject the presi dent's offer and not a single one asking Its acceptance.*' SUGAR TARIFF DEAL SHAVES BEET PLEA 8«nate Set« 3.2 Cent« Duty; Rsfuie« Bounty Of $9,000,000 To Pot a»h Producer« Washington.—The senate has ap proved un Increase of three-tenths of a cent a pound In the tariff on sugar; rejected n plan for a government bounty of $l).,'KNl,00tl for domestic pot ash producers, and rescinded Its for liter action In voting an Impost of two cents a pound on white arsenic. I'ot ash and white arsenic were placed on the free list. The sugar rate of 2.3 cents a pound was a compromise between tlio 2.3 cents duty urged by Louisiana cane and western beet sugar producers, and the 2 cents proposed by the house and approved Jty the finance committee majority. It Is three-tenths of a cent above the tariff In the existing emer gency act and 1.03 cents above that In the Underwood act. The compromise was offered by Sen ator Smoot, of Utah, ranking Kcpubll can on the finance committee, and was accepted by the same vote as that by which the senate rejected the conta duty, 37 to 33. Three Indicted for $1,000.000 Graft Washington Indictment« have been returned by the .«pedal grand Jury In vest I gat lug alleged war frauds against Kniest Morse. Uverly M. I »avis and Alexander W. Hilllll»s. The three men all of whom live In New \ ork wer« charged In the Indletment with having defrauded the government out of more than 91 ,<M»o(HMi In connection with the sale of the war-built Old Hickory Powder plant, near Nashville. Tetin. Record Corn Crop Forecast Washington.—llumper crops lo gen eral this year, resulting from highly fnvnrnhle growing conditions during July, were indien tod by the govern ment's August crop report'. Inst Issued. A 8,(Kk),000,tKK» bushel corn crop, for the fourth time In the history of farm III the United Slates, was fore •ast. In Revolutionist« Doomed By Soviet« Moscow.—Fourteen of the 34 social revolutionists accused of high treason against the Soviet government have been sentenced to death.. Among the condemned are several of 1 hose who turned reformers. Dr. Crane Will Head University Laramie. Wya.— Arthur Orlswold Crane, of Kdlnhoro. Pa., has been elect ed president of the University of Wyo ming. l»r. < rnne will fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of l*r. Aven Nelson HEIMES BEG® me up sn fe Big Four Men Bottle Up Train« and Balk At Moving Them While Guards Remain On Duty Los Angeles. Members of the en gineers, firemen, conductors and traiu tncii brotherhoods on several far west ern divisions of Santa Fe lines have notified railroad officials her«« that they no longer would move trains through points whore armed guur«'« ire employed on railroad property. Itallroad officials and officers of the four brotherhoods conferred here on iieans of Nettling the differences he ween them, From Bakersfield, Onl.. It was re ported that no trains were moving •ast over the road's lines and brother ioimI men there were quoted as saying hey had given the railroad 24 hours a I thin which lo remove armed guards. Strategically, the cheeking of train Movements at Needles was admitted >y railroad men to he a severe blow at he operation of the Santa Fa system, is Needles Is the neck of the trans 'Mirtatlon bottle, so far as the Santa Fe Is concerned. It Is a desert town, .ml all the trans-continental traffic of he Santa Fe system normally is •outed through It. If the brotherhoods make good tlielr lireat to halt nil trains there, the situ Vtloti would result In paralysis of the vestern lines wllliln a short time. SENATE RISES AGAINST THE FLEXIBLE TARIFF Proposal To Let Executive V«ry Rates Denounced As Astounding and Dangerous Washington. -Flexible tariff pro visions designed to carry out President Harding's recommendation to congress last December, met with such strong qiposltlon In the senate that their-fate 'ii the voting that must conic under the unanimous consent agreement, up neared to he In doubt. It seemed to he fairly certain that before they could he approved, they would have t « » he modified to an even greater extent than proposed In a sub stitute for the original plan reported hy the finance committee majority. Virtually all the Democrats and a num ber of Republicans. Including Chair man Hooding and other leaders of the agricultural-tariff bloc, have Indicated their opposition to the provisions In any form, while others on the major ity side have Insisted upon a sharp curtailment *>f the broad authority the committee has proposed shall he given to the president. Under the ......nilttce substitute, the chief executive would he authorized to Incrcnse or decrease tariff rates with In a radius of 30 per e««H If Investi gallon developed that such action were necessary to equalize "the differences In conditions of ixunpetltlon" In the principal market» of the United Slates as between domestic and Import ar ticles. To Umpire War Demands Washington. Announcement that nil agreement between the t'lilted States and Herniany, providing for the deter mination of the amount of claims against Oertnnny, signed In Berlin, has been made hy the state department. The agreement provides for a claims commission to be composed of two commissioners nn«l an umpire. Associate Justice Day. «if the 1 tilted States supreme court. It was announc ed, bas lioen selected by President Harding ns umpire, lie will have mi thnrlty to decide finally upon ques thin« on which the two commission r* one to he selected hy each govern ment —may disagree. K. K. K. Leader Has Court Fit Los Angeles. The trial of 37 re puted members of the Kn Klux Klim, alleged to have participated In a raid at Inglewood In.st April, halted abrupt ly. when Nathan A. Baker, former kl 'Hide for Los Angeles county ami one of the defendants, collapsed In his chair anti was Carried In a stretcher fisun the court house Baker was the admitted lender of the raiders. Ills explanation of 111«' affair, made public before the trial, was that he was acting as an officer of the law In nn attempt to secure evl deuce of the violation of tl»' prohibi tion laws. Cellars Give Way To Tight Islet* New York.—Tight little Islands In the sen. personally owned and con trolled, are the newest retreats of Americans who seek t«i defeat the Volstead act. Many wealthy Ameri cans are buying or seeking to buy small Island« In the Bahnntan terri tory. It I« aald. No Peace In Joliet Strike Joliet. 111. A proposal which. It was hoped, would lend to settlement of the controversy between members of the ' Big Four" brotherhood« of the Klc'n. Joliet A Unstern railroad and the car rier ended with no agreement reached. Killed While Cleaning Revolver Missoula. Mont.—Rudolph Kurth. 43. was accidently shot here while clean ing and repairing n revolver. H*> thought the gun was not loaded and held the muzzle against W« che*t while tapping the trigger with a screw-driver. SAFETY EXCUSE HINT FOR TIE-UP CONFERENCE CALLED TO DRAW OTHER UNIONS INTO PRES ENT STRIKE HARDING OVERTURES FAIL Neither 8ide In Mood To Accept Peace Proposal«; Striker« Forecast For mal Rejection.—Telegraphers Taking Strike Vote Washington.— President Harding's new priqsisals for ending the railroad shop craft« strike have met spoken re buffs from both railway and union leaders. In addition, the lenders of the strik Ing unions have called Into conference at Washington the heads of other unions connected with the railway ser vice. This call was accompanied by sug gestions by B. M. Jewell that the other unions will shortly find It necessary to "refuse to work on defective equip ment"—adding that he did not expect strike action to lie proposetl at the general conference. At the same time, the Railroad La hor board voted willingness to act upon the Issue of seniority which now «li vid»-« the executives of the roads and their striking shop crafts; and 1,100 telegraphers on the Big Four /road have begun tnkfng a strike vote. As a "final call" from the govern ment for Immediate sett lenient of the rail strike, President Harding com munies te<l to rallroa«! executives and heads of the striking shop crafts union«, proposals that the men he sent hack to work, that the managements take them hack, and thnt adjustment of the crucial seniority Issue be left to decision of the Railroad Labor board. Though the president was said to consider this the only practical course the government could take, union spokesmen, Indicating its rejection, have summoned their associates to meet here to pass upon the proposal and called to Washington for general conference, the heads of all railroad Inhor organizations to consider meth od« of co-operation that might make the strike more effective. The rail exe«*utlves have made ' no response to the White House, though press dispatches Indicate that they also will meet to frame a collective answer. TOLL OF TYPHOON IN CHINA IS NOW 20.000 Lack Of Coffin* Necessitates Burying Dead In Old Bag* and Mat tress Covers Hong Kong.—The toll of the typhoon of August 2 at Swatow lms now mounted to 28,000 deuil. Coffins are lacking to provide decent burial for tunny and the bodies are being interred In gunny sacks. The new figures on lives lost, almost tripling previous estimates, were con tained in a circular Issued hy the Hong Kong branch of the Swatow chamber of commerce. The circular stateil that 28,000 hoilles of victims of the Swa tow disaster had already heim ac counted for. Benevolent societies attempting to care for the dead, are using mattress covers and old hags as coffins for the myriad of dead could not he provided for otherwise. Charitable organiza tions of Hong Kong are combining to organize effectual measures for the relief of the stricken city.. Another British steamer. In addition to the two previously reported ashore was hound from Hong Kong to Shang hai when she met the fury of the ty phoon and was wrecked, hut tier pasi seugera were saved. Witness Against Conley Arrested Helena. Mont. Trank Whitlock, con vict. star witness against Frank Con ley In the suit of the state against tin former warden recently tried liefert Judge A. J Horsky. Is In Jail in Butte for forging cheeks In the mining city while out of the penitentiary enjoying n little freedom. Whltelnck's term ha not expired and legally he is still at Inmate of the state prison. He ha served two term* previous to the pres ent one for like offenses. Two Dry Agent* Shot Ketnmerer, Wyn.—Bombarded with bullets ns they sat In a depot waiting room, two federal prohibition agents. James Kukulea and Ralph 11. Long, both of Cheyenne, were seriously wounded at Fossil station. 10 milts north of here. First Women Picket« Spokane.—Women pickets have been on duty at the Créât Northern shops at Htllyard. This I* said to he the firs: Instance of women being employ el for work of this character In Spokane or vicinity. Typhoid Grips Miners' Camp Unlontown, Pa.—With 30 ease» of typhoid fever reported from tent col onies of miners of Fayette county, health officials arc working at top »peed to prevent a further spread of the disease. till si * .iuumi ALLIES TOGETHER Great Britain Expects Bid Gold Brick Reparations London. — Allied statesmen have gathered in London for the opening of what is unanimously regarded as the mo.-t momentous conference since peace was concluded. The immediate concern of the con ference is the question of reparations and Germany's request for a rorator jinn, but since the delivery of the note of the Karl of Balfour, It is assumed that the question of interallied In debtedness cannot be excluded from the discussions, especially as Raymond Poincare, the French prime minister, is credited with bringing to London a plan for the extinction of the German reparations bonds in exchange for a cancellation of the French debt to Great Britain. This plan meets with little sympathy In England, because it is contended that these German bonds, being admit tedly worthless. Great Britain would gain nothing, but, by forgiving the French debt, would lose the last weap she possesses for bringing pressure to hour upon France on the question of armaments or on any policy in which France might run counter to British Ideas. The situation is further eompli ateil by the ultimatum delivered to Germany concerning Germany's pay ments on account of clearing house debts and the measure which France already has ordered taken in this eon •tion. PORTER SAVES THIRTY AS PULLMAN CAR BURNS Railroad Officials Say Loss Of Life Averted By Prompt Action Seattle.—The lives of 30 passengers were imperilled, one man was seriously Injured and several other persons re ceived cuts, burns and bruises when the rear sleeper on the westbound Columbian flyer on the Chicago, Mil vvaukec & St. Paul railroad was de strayed hy fire near Rye, 130 mile! east of here. Railroad officials say loss of life was averted by the prompt action of William Wilson, the negro porter, who ran through the car awakening the sleeping passengers and helping them to safety. Wilson was given credit by the pas «enger.« also for saving the remainder of the train. Fighting his way through the screaming, fear-stricken passen gers, he reached the emergency cord Almost before the train had emne to a stop he was out and had uncoupled the ear. By this time, the flames were sweeping the length of the coach. The cause of the fire is not definite ly known, hut railroad officials say it probably resulted from a defective fuse. It started in the woman's dress ing room and had made great headway before it was discovered. British Gunboat To Protect Victims Hongkong. — The British gunboat. Magnolia, has proceeded to Swatow on the Chinese coast. 230 miles northeast of here, to protect, from pirates, steam ers stranded in thnt vicinity as a result of n recent typhoon. The typhoon was the worst in Swn tow's history. The harlmr there is Jammed with wreckage, amid which there are several bodies. Ships were washed ashore. Plane Dives Into Atlantic Jacksonville, Fin.- The plane in which Lieut J. 11. Doolittle planned to attempt a transcontinental 24-hour flight, ran Into the surf at Pablo Beach here shortly after the take-off. Lieu» Doolittle took the air planning to go to San Diego. ,\ quarter of a mile from the starting point, the machine swerved downward and plunged into the Atlantic. Suspect Grave Hides Escape San Francisco Because they h« .. ., that "Big Joe" Fflrcv. one time star of the confidence workers' firmament I may have deceived officials of the I Texas prison where he is supposed to • have died rerent ly, San Francisco of. ! fields plan to open a grave h ascertain whether a body the tHat of Furov. est per the of by lie in of a i 4 at •re. to Fails To Heed Block Signal Sulphur Springs Mo -Failure of Er ginecr Matt Ginger Glenn to h ed Mi block signal en used lislon on which 3i Injured.: Cannon, the road the'rear-end eol i Pacific here, in rsctis were kltl-d and 138 •riously, according to John -'ant general manager of Mathilde Is Chief Topic Paris Papers Paris.- -Tim French newspaper« are devoting pictures is called and then plain dres papers are much space to stories and ' Mathilde M ■■Oarmick. She the richest giri In the world," much comment on her and modest deportment. Cost Of Living Going Up Washington.—Retail f n 13 out of 23 the United s priées representative cities -tes showed an lucres during the month from June 13 t , Tl 13. the department of labor bureau tabor statistics has announced. Pithy News Notes From All Part» of IDAHO { q-- I I j ! Smith's Ferry.—Many hoy scouts are in vacation camps near here. Boise. —Grouse are increasing in the Poise National Forest. I be forest ^ range is in gooi 1 0 Carey._Child hygiene work under recently passed Sheppard-Towner act has begun. Field work will soon start in North Idaho. of Idaho Falls.—The potato crop Bonneville county will not be as big as some predictions have placed it. is the opinion of a number of well posted potato growers who fail also to agree with the state s prediction of •'0,000 carloads. - Malad. Due to energetic measures taken by County Agricultural Agent J. Ray Smith, the menace of the grass hoper liest in Oneida county is disap pearing. A grasshopper catching ma bine devised by the agent is proving the solution of the question. — . Jerome.—County commissioneis o Jerome county will appoint a weed inspector to cooperate with the farm ers in eradicating the Canada thistle. which is gaining a foothold in the county, several hundred acres being reported as badly infested with the weed. I I • ! Payette.—«Millions of feet of Idaho timber in the region between l'ayette lakes and New Meadows have been attacked by the white butterfly pest, according to a report issued by Victor Jones .assistant entomologist of the university, who, in company with for est officials, made a personal investi gation. Rupert.—Farmers report great suc cess in the poison campaign which is being carried on against the grasshop per pest. Twenty thousand pounds of the poison mixture already have been used hy 700 farmers. It is said that sawdust is better than bran, as it ab sorbs the syrup without becoming sticky. It also is much cheaper. Boise.—Plats containing a vast area of stockraising and homestead lands open to settlement have been received by the federal land office in Boise. The lands are said to have value for grazing and forage crops. Six hun dred and forty acres are allowed each homesteader, the area adjudged suffi cient for the support of a family. Idaho Falls.—The farm bureau of Bonneville county, together with the bull association, which is reputed to lie the largest organization of its kind in the world, is to produce a motion picture showing the phases of the dairying industry under the direction of the United States department of agriculture if plans now being laid ire consummated during the fall. Pocatello.—Fred Johnson is $70 shy from having accepted a "lift" by two men in an auto. He was walking to the Short Line tie plant and a car stopped and offered him a ride. A 'Ottle of moonshine was produced, several drinks taken and Johnson was relieved of his watch and money and ; dumped out of the car. Police have I a good description of the auto and j occupants. Pocatello—The Cassia National hank will he opened at Burley, Idaho, in the j near future, according to a statement | made by Judge D. W. Standrod. Judge Standrod and associates were granted i i national bank some time ago for Burley, but other matters have inter- I ferod with its immediate establish- ! ment. Burley.—Philip, 2-year-old son of l'res. \V. Pond, who lives to nr the iiigh line canal, west of town, was drowned Friday. 1 he body was recovered after 4 had gone through a long syphon and down the canal about a half mile. Boise—Arrested in company with a pretty 1.-w ar-old girl, giving the name at Julia Bedel, and posing as husband and wife. Royal Calvin Vincent. 19, an sted on n charge of stealing ■' restio. Cal., automobile and is be I for the Fresno county sheriff. Roth \ incent, w I ivels under sev ra' aliases, and the girl claim Tulare ■- their Imme. : ° * " '"Old striking another automobile U. s Glover of Kilgore was driving out of the road Russ, near she Lv< shont in Birds' Wyo., " v, " r "•> embankment and was 1 Death tin* car. Glover suf crushed cliest. fractures of and one ieg was badly mna -Ret urnes I l.vss« »1 from ) sample 3t> dairie: slew •- w • ■ th ]•'""" ,u - mi the city require- ; t ^ remaining seven with èntènt StUte miulremtms «a bacteria Relegates and other nttend "ata-nal American Legion eou - »ns in October wUI f,,r rt " r-'T e .'f a one-way ticket, t lkiyette-Farmerï of a certain por- ! the «• ■' Ie - V bave petitioned, to fù-n - n ' e:U ° f rec, *»*t!on ' " »Ggatlon district, using LlUe '«ke as ,he storage , ... was received Tuesday ami department I'oro. reserve ■n the Fayette The petition signed by Edward News Happenings of the Great 1 InteifflQMnfain Stäle Panama.—Tolls collected by n, . nania canal authorities during j»i tailed if 1,0!>4,000, surpassing «]] months in the fiscal year. ' Hoquiam> W ash^The R eT . v, Petelle, former pastor of t ian church here, has taken a a s a regular patrolman on the police force. He recently resign^ pastorate. Air. Petelle is logger and some time ago becanT minister after graduating t rom 1 Oregon seminary. Oakland, Cal.—William Eikem j __ aged janitor of the Oakland Bsh,, pital, is dead, but the fifty lnhu«,' whom he fought hack a fire ad safe. The fire threatened to di (he j, 0S pital, but Eikens pd> jj e Id jt away f rom y p,e tiny ch] until the flre department .p hen jj e co i] apsed an d a few m later he dled Denver.—A rescue party has sl for the top of Long's peak, on» Colorado's highest mountains to (oyer the body of j E Kittg fl( , ey _ who was killed when IHi struck hira and j E Rullaa 0 ( ^ kft Kan ßuHas .who was Kan. Bullas slightly about the head and had) shoes torn from his feet by the! was able to make his own way i the mountain. ; I j j | i I ! Portland.—Announcement of formation of a syndicate which! diately will take over the $2 bond issues of the Horse Heaveali gation project and allow work tok gin immediately has been made. 1 six of the country's largest institutions have subscribed to Hid sue, he said. Work on the bulldiijj the giant flume and pipe line, t will carry water to a 340,000-acre t along the Columbia river, will bei ed at once. Stockton, Cal.—Scores of deerd the coast ranges in the sonth-wa end of San Joaquin county, are i of anthrax, a deadly cattle and 1 stock disease. Farmers in the lot region noted numerous deer cart es in the hills during the few i previous to the opening of the i son. It is believed that the had spread among the wild d«t^ the lower regions. •San Francisco.—By invoking ul most forgotten section of the I nia constitution, Elbert L. Evaail appealed from the superior conrt^ Fresno county to the appellate < his injunction seeking to restrain S district school trustees from pal ing copies of the King James vet of the Bible, which he sayeisal tarian book. The applicant is i on a section of the organic law old state which excludes from school| braries all "sectarian, partisan orIj nomnational" literature. The petit was taken under advisement. Ely, *Nev.—The most disas cloudburst in the history of this d occurred when for nearly two hoi huge volume of water swept i Murray canyon and Mill street, ing with it many small buildings * a large amount of debris. Many F dences were flooded and part o(j business section was deluged, flood waters centered at the jui of Murray and Clark streets, i a turn east. Ice plant machinal the upper end of Murray 9trW ^ badly damaged and the DailU plant was flooded, but the was not great. first driihj hroWtS Denver.—"It was my 100 days," Stuart Payne, rested for tiie fifteenth d® 1 January 1, told Magistrate Bi«J haven't had one in thirty said Rice, fining hira $80M d( Colorado Springs, Colo-r^J Ine White and Mis- Mart»» were severely shocked when a motor car in which tWI riding in Ute Fass was lightening. Miss White was seriously injured and to a hospital. Salt Lake—Between fiftf***' ty-five members of the ^'.' S !Lnli Normal college will arrive in August 10 on an education* several Western states an< Yellowstone park. > tfal t Lake.— Twenty-thrc* head of rams will be f°r ' annual ram sale to be * 28. 29 and 30 at the state t* 1 " In Salt Lake City. Salt Lake.—A Wuudnm«^^ ' ljr The " was held up at Nlbley man wearing a mask. «. ; id)tlll ned $2 in nickelh « nd * *■ - *• ..«*i<Tnrtor^ dimes from the condori^'^ parkwr, both of D*Ä retnrned from a r< sack, and then leaped form with the fure box. Moab.—John Mulford th« 1 ! of the Navajo Indian southern Fan J' an ntt ] I , went through the ^ and from Key enta ruiB jH to the prehistoric I tu- * aB ( - 0 j C ir» d J canyons tribuary to the er. They camped arn °|j g $sl accompanied by 8 P' 1 more than 200 pho'^ r ' life, habitations and »