Passing Events

King Ludwig III, of Bavaria, according to a Paris dispatch of Nov. 9, is reported dead, at the age of 75 years. He was born Jan. 7, 1845, and ascended the throne in Nov., 1913. Tobacco smoking, according to government figures cost the United States for the year 1919, $1,310,000,000, $800,000,000 for cigarettes and $510,- 000,000 for cigars. About $750,000,000 was spent for cosmetics and per- fumery. The first League of Nations Assembly began its session at Geneva, Sunday, Nov. 14, with special services in all the churches. On Nov. 15, M. Paul Hymans, former foreign minister in the Belgian government, was elected permanent president of the League. The Methodists, according to Dr. Carroll, now number 36,622,190 in all the world. There are 9,832,107 members of the church, the remainder being adherents and probationers who are members of Methodist families. The increase in the total of Methodists during the last nine years is given as 3,935,341. Elder Serge F. Ballif, of Logan, left, Oct, 20, for Europe, having been called to preside over the Swiss and German mission, to take the place of Elder Augus J. Cannon, who has been honorably released. Mrs. Ballif and their daughter, Evelyn, accompany him. Elder Ballif presided over the mission for over six years, returning home in 1908, and is, therefore, well acquainted with the field to which he now has again been called. Former President Wm. H. Taft occupied the Tabernacle pulpit, Oct. 25, in the evening, and delivered an exhaustive address, to a large and sympathetic audience, on the League of Nations and other issues, in the interest of the Republican campaign. At the same time, Colonel Charles Ml Whittlesey, of the "lost battalion," and Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale, presented the Democratic views at the Salt Lake Theater. Peter W. Maughan, of Logan, son of one of the early settlers of Cache county, passed away in that city. Oct. 14, at the age of 59 years. The cause of death was pneumonia. Receiving the news of his father's ser- ious illness, his son, Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan, Utah's premier aviator during the war, left Mather field, Cal., on the morning of Oct. 14 at 8 o'clock by airplane, arriving in Logan at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, shortly after his father's death. Samuel H. Sadler, who has lived in his little cottage, corner of Sixth Avenue and G street, Salt Lake City, for nearly fifty years, passed away Oct. 13, 82 years old. He used to tell his friends of the difficulties the first settlers on the "Bench" had to overcome. His house was one of very- few in that locality. He used to carry water for drinking and culinary purposes in buckets a long distance, and provisions were brought up in the same way. He often carried a hundred pounds of flour "up the hill" from the business district. Nearly 9,000 bodies of American soldiers who died or were killed

180 IMPROVEMENT ERA in France during the war, have been shipped to the United States and Turned over to their nearest relati<--. and 1,800 more await shipment at French ports, .-a>s a dispatch from Paris of Nov. 9, 1920. The bodies of several Utah soldier hoys have arrived and during various d ites in November were lovingly consigned to their last resting places near their home towns in their beloved valleys of the mountains. A discovery of great importance to anthropologists was made dur- ing the last week of October at Martinez, Cal., a town on San Erancisco bay, thirty or forty miles from San Francisco. While engaged in making excavations for sewers, workmen unearthed several skulls and one well- preserved skeleton, which are thought to be the relics of gigantic Indians who formerly lived in what is now California. The bones were found in a place apparently long ago used as a graveyard. King Alexander of Greece died Oct. 25, due to wounds received one day in the first part of the month when he was attacked by a pet monkey. A report from Rome, Oct. 22, credited to Dr. Widal, one of the king's physicians, says the monkey had been inoculated with rabies for the pur- pose of assassinating tho monarch. Alexander succeeded to the throne in June, 1917, when his father, Constantine, thought it safest for himself to abdicate and leave the country. The deceased king was about 27 years old. Prince Paul, a younger brother of the late king, was proclaimed his successor. Oct. 29, by the Greek parliament. Tuberculosis is to be fought with chaulmoogra oil, according to a dispatch from Washington, Oct. 15. Government experts say it has arrested the progress of leprosy. Dr. McDonald, superintending physician of the leprosy investigation station at Kallhi, Honolulu, has not yet made any formal report of his work with tuberculosis germs to officials at Wash- ington, but unofficial reports from Honolulu quote him as saying that scientists at the University of California have discovered that the fatty acids of chaulmoogra oil are bactericidal to an acid fat bacillus, in which class are the leprosy and tuberculosis bacilli. Utah's contribution will be fifteen per cent of the sugar beet crop of the United States, for this year, according to the estimate of the department of agriculture, Washington. The sugar beet crop of Utah is estimated at 1.341,000 tons, as against 1,016,000 tons last year. The total crop of the United States is estimated to be 8,970,000 tons. The condition of the Utah beet crop on October 1 was 96, or four points above the ten-year average* Idaho's beet crop is estimated at 501,000 tons this year, as against 203,000 tons in 1919, a 150 per cent increase over 1919. About twenty-one million dollars will consequently be distributed to the farmers of Utah and Idaho for beets this season. The Utah Workmen's Compensation Act was upheld as valid in every particular by the Supreme Court, Oct. 22, in the case of the Utah Copper Company against the Industrial Commission of Utah and others. On Jan. 2, 1919, Louis J. Rushton, a farmer, died as a result of accident occurring while he was employed by the Utah Copper Company in fixing the banks of the Salt Lake and Utah canal, to prevent its overflowing. He left a widow, Mrs. Julia C. Rushton, and several minor children. Another child was born some time after the death of the father. The commission awarded her and the minor children, including the unborn child, the death benefit prescribed by the compensation law in such cases. The case was appealed to the district court, and when the award was upheld there, to the Supreme court. In addition to the award of the commission, the copper company must pay interest on all payments now due from the time they became due, and also costs on the appeal. The decision was unanimous.