The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-05-20
THE UTAH BUDGET

shooting herself in the mouth, the
shooting following quarrel with her
husband, who is out or work.
A quantity of broom-corn seed has
been received by the Murray CONNER.
cial club and is being distributed
among the farmers for the purpose of
raising experimental crops this year.
1t has been discovered that meadow
larks. blackbirds and song sparrows
eat the larvae of the alfalfa weevil,
and it is believed these birds will be
a great aid in the fight for the exter-
mination of the pest.
The district schools of Box Elder
county have closed for the year. The
results of the examinations show that
a much larger number of pupils grad
uated from the eighth grade this
year than ever before.
When about to be arraigned in the
police court in Salt Lake on charge
of drunkenness, w. l.. Dudler, negro,
fell and struck his head on iron
railing, causing injuries from which
he died the following day.
While playing in the street near his
fathers home in Park City, Archie,
the three-year-old son of John Coffee,
was run down by team of horses
attached to North Park dairy wa
gon and severely injured.
Utah has $4,000 acres of winter
wheat ready to be harvested late this
spring, according to the crop report
from the bureau of statistics at Wash
ington This acreage is six per cent
less than the acreage planted last fall.
Thomas Loughney, fifty-eight years
old, the youngest surviving veteran of
the civil war and known throughout
Utah as mining man, merchandise
broker and politician, died at Salt
Lake, Monday, from cancer Of the
stomach.
In an endeavor to further the "home
industry" movement in Utah, post
cards are being sent to all the factor
les in Utah. directing the attention
of the factory employees to the import
ance of maintaining employment for
Utah people by buying Utah-made
goods.
Ill health caused Mrs. Minnie Clark,
wife of a Salt Lake merchandise
broker, to end her life by shooting
herself through the heart The other
members of the family were up town
when the tragedy occurred, and found
her lifeless body when they returned
home.
James Hamlin, Jr., of Riverdale,
aged 16, had narrow escape from
drowning whe1 he drove into the We
Der river near the village, his horse
becoming engulfed in the treacherous
Quicksands at that point. One of the
horses was drowned, but Hamlin es-
capped.
While kindling a fire with kerosene
at her home in Park City, the clothes
of Mrs. B. F. Lloyd ignited and she
was only saved from death by the
timely arrival of her son, who wrapped
rug about her and smothered the
flames before she had been seriously
burned.
Plans for monster exhibits of Utah
land products at the second annual
Omaha land show, to be held next
October, were outlined and ways and
means of financing the exhibit were
decided upon at meeting of the ex.
ecutive committee of the Utah Devel
opment league last week.
That the Salt Lake department
stores, factories, telephone companies,
candy manufacturing concerns, hotels
and restaurants where women are EN-.
ployed are living within the require.
ments of the nine-hour labor law, is
the assurance of the managers of the
principal institutions in the city.
The secretary of the Utah Develop
ment League is having the publicity
bureau of the Salt Lake Commercial
club send out to the secretaries of all
booster organizations in the state let,
tiers asking their cooperation in de.
fraying the expenses of Utah's exhibit
at the Omaha Land show next fall.
Three hundred Sabbath school work.
ers were present at the Sunday school
convention held in Salt Lake last Sun.
day, constituting eighty per cent of
the Sunday school workers of the
stake. Two sessions were held, one
in the morning at 10 O'Clock and an
other at 2 o'clock In the afternoon.
Frank Mancuse of Ogden was shot
through the leg while walking along
the street in Ogden. the shooting be.
ing the result of an act of carlessness
by patron Of shooting gallery, VIII,
liam Shelter, who discharged a gun,
which he claimed he did not know
was loaded. Shelter is under arrest
Thomas Snarr, aged 70 years.
Utah pioneer of 1854, prominent
member of the Utah War Veterans
society and well known as a one-time
real estate owner in Salt Lake. died
at his home In Salt Lake last week
from tuberculosis.
The board of inquiry in charge Of
the investigation of the wreck Nav 8
near Tecoma, which caused the death
OF Engineer Lee Nelson, of Ogden. has
made Its report to the effect that En-.