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of telegraph and telephone rates ordered by the Government, were enjoined in the state of Illinois, by Judge Landis, of the United States Court, who granted an injunction forbidding the postmaster-general from enforcing the increased telegraph rates within that state. The opinion held that the Federal power to fix rates, did not extend to rates between points entirely within a single state.

Dynamite bombs, carefully made, and mailed as parcel-post packages, were discovered in the New York postoffice on April 30. They were aildressed to well known men throughout the United States, including Justice Holmes of the Supreme Court, Postmaster-General Burleson, Secretary of Labor Wilson, Mayor Hanson of Seattle and others. Two of the bombs arrived at postoffices in Utah, designed for Senator William H. King, and Aquilla Nebeker. One bomb delivered at the home of Former Senator Hardwick, of Georgia, exploded and blew off the hands of a negro servant. The plot was discovered in time to prevent further danger or injury by these packages which were sent out to destroy life by anarchist agitators who planned the murder of every federal official who had been concerned in the execution of the espionage law and the deportation of anarchist aliens. The bombs were sent from New York, April 30. Heber C. Smith, formerly state Dairy and Food commissioner and later of the Juvenile Court, Salt Lake City, son of President Joseph F. Smith, has been chosen to take charge of the Joseph Smith Memorial Farm, at South Royalton, Vermont. Mrs. Frank M. Brown and son Kenneth who, since the death by influenza of Elder Brown, on New Years' day, 1919, have had charge of the farm, have been honorably released. Mr. and Mrs. Brown went to South Royalton nine years ago, when the tract now occupied by the memorial was only a barren, rocky stretch. Under their care it has been transformed into a model farm, with up-to-date barn?, dairy, and sheep herds. Four hundred acres, or more of land belong to the farm upon which the Prophet Joseph Smith was born, and upon which the memorial was built some fifteen years ago. From three to four thousand tourists have been entertained upon the grounds every summer. Frequently 75 to 100 auto parties visit the home every Sunday.

The Bolshiviki in Russia, are said to be disintegrating; discouraged by the steady hostility of the peasantry and the difficulty of getting supplies, they have failed on every side. Practically surrounded by armies, Soviet, Russia is hemmed in, and there is every reason to believe at this writing, that Alexander Vassilievitch Kolchak, the Russian admiral and the most prominent leader of the forces opposing the Bolshivik regime will evolve order out of the sanguinary chaos and devastation that have reigned in the once mighty empire of the Czars for the last two years. At this writing there is every prospect that he will become the ruler of Russia as he is now the dictator of Omsk, Siberia. The Bolshiviki have made a bitter struggle against all the economic and social laws which have hitherto governed mankind. Bolshivism, Communism, Spartacism, everywhere is waning perceptibly. Reports are insistent, that the military forces of the Lenine regime are becoming demoralized, and that some divisions have mutined.

Report of Changes in Ward and Stake Officers, April, 1919. New Wards and Bishops. —Idaho Falls, 2nd ward, Bingham stake, David Smith, bishop, sddress Idaho Falls, Idaho. Ogden 14th ward, Weber stake, Clarence Morris, bishop. New — Bishops. Fairview ward, Oneida stake, William Harvey Wiser succeeded Edwin Bodily, address same. Preston 4th ward, Oneida stake, John W. Condie succeeded Wm. A. Skidmore, address same. Glencoe

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ward, Oneida stake, Parley P. Carver succeeded Carl E. Peterson, address same. Helper branch, Carbon stake, Claude Brown, P. E. Tyhee ward, Pocatello stake, Omni Porter succeeded Abinadi Porter, address same. Second ward, Liberty stake, Henry B. Elder succeeded Heber C. Iverson, address 843 So. 5th East, City. Eighth ward, Liberty stake, John Fetzer succeeded Oscar F. Hunter, address 579 Hamilton Court, City. Thirty-third ward Liberty stake, Charles E. Forsberg succeeded Edwin S. Sheets, address 1327 East 4th South, City.

Fletcher B. Hammond, Moab, for eight years a representative in the state legislature of Utah from Grand county, and one of the best known business men in the Southern part of our state, died in a local hospital, Salt Lake City, May 3, 1919, from injuries suffered on April 19, when his clothing was caught in the machinery of a power plant at his home. Fletcher B. Hammond, was born in the Sandwich Islands, March 31, 1855, his parents, Bishop Francis A. Hammond and wife Jane Dillworth Hammond, being there on a mission for the Church. His early life was spent in Ogden and Huntsville, in which latter place her married Calista O. Bronson, who died after his removal to Moab. Mr. Hammond became interested in sheep and cattle, and later engaged in the mercantile business as well. When he had come to man's estate he went on a mission to Britian, and six sons have also served the Church in the mission field. He is survived by his widow, Ida Weston Hammond, and eight children, among them Bishop Clyde Hammond, Moab, Bishop Dillworth Hammond, Lasalle, Utah. The body was taken to Moab for funeral services and interment. Patriarch Thomas Atkin died in Tooele, April 18, 1919, at the residence of his son Willard G. Atkin. He was born July 7, 1833, in South Lincolnshire, England and baptized a member of the Church on July 3, 1843. From the age of 14 up to the time his parents emigrated, in 1848, he aided the elders in the distributing of tracts and in preaching the gospel. Their home was long the head-quarters of the elders on missions at that time. They crossed the ocean in 1848, five of the twelve apostles of the Church, being in the company, Orson Spencer being in charge. They arrived in Salt Lake City, September 25, 1848, where they remained for three years, and then removed to Tooele, being among the first settlers of that town. On May 20, 1856, Thomas Atkin married Mary Ann Maughn, daughter of Bishop Peter Maughn, the first bishop and president of the Cache stake of Zion. For twenty-seven years Elder Atkin labored in the bishopric of Tooele, being set apart October 31, 1880, as bishop and having served as councilor to Bishop Norton Tuttle from 1877 until that date. He was ordained a patriarch by President Joseph F. Smith in 1905. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention and had served in a number of expeditions against the Indians. His whole life, was one of activity and service to the people.

The League of Nations revised covenant, was made public April 27. The new and most important changes are those that provide for a nation's withdrawal from the League on a two years notice; that require unanimity in the decisions of both the assembly and council of the League; that exempt matter properly subject to domestic jurisdiction from the action of the League; and that recognizes specifically the validity of the Monroe Doctrine. The seat of the administration of the League is established a'. Geneva. Amendments of the covenant by a majority vote are permitted. A number of the articles were re-written in order to make them more explicit. Thirty-two states are named as original members of the League, and thirteen others are invited to accede to the covenant. None of the enemy nations of the Allies, or those leagued with Germany, are at present included in either list, neither is the Republic of Mexico, which is out