Baby elephant dies in Salt Lake City captivity
A baby elephant born in captivity in Salt Lake City last April died there from unknown causes. The keeper found the animal after going to feed the mother.
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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1919
Page
4
A baby elephant born in captivity in Salt Lake City last April died there from unknown causes. The keeper found the animal after going to feed the mother.
A concise Arizona State dispatch from the Western Newspaper Union News Service summarizes local events and notices impacting residents, with brief mentions of community updates and regional happenings.
Arizona mining and public notices cover events from the 1919 Arizona fair plans to boxing bills and school funding. The piece notes a Phoenix primaries turnout, robberies at state offices, a fatal fire near Tucson, Nogales warehouse fire losses, and legislative moves including land purchases for fair grounds and a highway board proposal. It also reports on nursing, legal actions, mining developments, and local political appointments.
Messrs Teal Barr and associates near completion of overhaul at the Slide mine including shaft clearing and level timbering. The plant is to be fully operating by April 1 with the eleventh level cleared and prepared. Minerals Recovery Company of Denver plans to start radium manufacture at the former National Radium Institute plant in Denver. Yellow Pine ore production shows gains and is forecast to double 1918 output in 1919. Peter Burger reports returns from the latest carload of ore from his lease.
C D Zimmerman J Y Lucas Sinclair Mainland C C Carlisle and William F Cox named as directors for the first year of the Western Sulphur Company with Cheyenne as its principal office. The firm will develop large sulphur deposits near Thermopolis in Hot Springs county Wyoming.
Ukrainian troops reportedly enter Przemyśl with Poles holding the northwestern sector. Ukrainians also reach Lemberg suburbs while the Przemysl Lemberg line stalls traffic. Berlin reports Polish advance threats and Warsaw cites armistice violations and a Polish weapons depot seizure.
Paris dispatch reports General Count Sixt von Arnim, veteran commander in Flanders, was killed by peasants at Asch Bohemia after firing on wood gatherers. The mob then looted his chateau, authorities said.
Oconto Wisconsin reports hundreds of homes mills and factories flooded as the river overflows its banks destroying property. An estimated 500 people are homeless. In Mississippi tornadoes near Vicksburg kill one white man and eight Black residents with wreckage searched. New Orleans tornadoes cause twenty eight deaths and property losses around 2 million dollars across Mississippi and Louisiana.
The Supreme Court will decide whether Postmaster General Burleson can raise telephone rates nationwide. Kansas has been allowed to challenge his December 13 order setting new toll rates. The court ordered a return in October.
London reports the test question for German delegates at the peace conference concerns the west bank of the Rhine. Berlin dispatch says the delegates would be authorized to break negotiations if this issue is forced upon them.
Mathias Erzberger, head of the German armistice commission, said if the peace treaty demanded more than Wilsons fourteen points the German National Assembly would refuse assent. He urged formation of a real League of Nations and suggested a nationwide referendum.
The notice lists flour prices per sack under a Hungarian patent with 98 lb sacks at discounts, 48 lb sacks at discounts, and 24 lb sacks at discounts. It shows currency figures like 5.14 and .0.ssseuse with garbled OCR indicating price-per-sack entries and discount notes.
A market listing furnaces prices for dry hides and pelts including butcher hides in various weights, dry salted hides, dry horsehides, bulls and stags, short wool pelts, green salted hides, heavy cured hides, kip hides, and headless hides with per pound and per item pricing.
Miscellaneous markets report lists metal settlement prices with bar silver at $1.01 per ounce, copper at 15 cents a pound, lead at $5.25, spelter at $6.22, and tungsten at $12.00 to $15.00 per unit. Silver and copper values noted alongside other metals.
Sugar prices listed in New York show centrifugal at 7.28 with varied forms like cut loaf 10.50 and cubes 9.75. Other grades include powdered 9.20 and 9.15, fine granulated and diamond t 9.00, confectioners A 8.90, No. 1 grade unseen.
Commodity quotes from Chicago show No 8 yellow corn at 1.43 to 1.46 with No 4 yellow at 1.42 to 1.43 and No 5 yellow at 1.89 to 1.40 percent. Oats No 3 white 61 to 62 cents, standard 61.5 to 62.0, rye No 2 at 1.49 percent. barley 89 to 98. Timothy hay 7.50 to 7.50. Clover nominal. Pork nominal. Lard 27.12, ribs 26.00 to 25.50.
At Chicago hogs show bulk of sales from 17.25 to 19.60 with good to choice pigs at 17.00 to 18.25 and heavier ends around 19.50. Cattle prices range from 6.00 to 20.35 with beef cattle good to prime at 16.85 to 20.35 and stockers 11.25 to 15.25. Sheep and lambs quoted from 6.00 to 19.90 with lambs at 19.75 to 19.90 and culls as low as 6.00 to 9.00.
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