The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-06-17
THE UTAH BUDGET

75S.322.56 in the state treasury May
81. 1911. according to the semi-annual
report OF the state auditor,
Active work in the construction Of
the new water system for Park City
commenced Monday with Q force of
$50 laborers and mechanics
Alma d. Hofer, the 4-year-old son
of Carl Hofer. a farmer and trout
grower OF Salt Lake. was drowned in
fish pond on the premises Sunday.
Melvin Knapp, aged II. fell from a
tree in Salt Lake, from height Of ct
least fifty feet, and escaped with q
broken leg and few minor bruises.
Fifty delegates from various points
| in Utah will attend the thirteenth in
ternational Sunday school convention
to be held at San Francisco June 20
81.
June Is has been set aside as pio-
neer day by the governof Of Idaho in
proclamation issued last week, the
last legislature having legally recog.
nized Idaho Pioneer day.
A government expert has decided
that 1t is not the alfalfa weevil that
is damaging strawberry patches In
Utah, but a bug that has been desig-
mated the strawberry bug"
Within the next month. regardless
OF the result of the special election
June 81, II 10 said twenty saloons OF
Ogden will go out of business because
OF drastic ordinance passed by the
city council.
Logan, Boise and Pocatello win all
be on hand determined to capture the
1912 convention of the United Com
mercial Travellers, the 1911 assem-
bling of which organization Is to be
held in Ogden.
Several thousand steers belonging
to Moab cattlemen were delivered to
Colorado buyers at Red Rock last
week. The best price ever paid for
Moab cattle was received, yearlings
bringing $3.50; twos. $33. and threes
s37.
Tuesday was Miners Union day,
and practically all of the mines Of
! the state were closed to allow the
4 miners to celebrate The celebration
! IL in honor OF the founding of the
;, federation on June 10. 1882. in Helena
J. Mont.
Q There is great rejoicing among the
E farmers on the Sand Ridge over the
d results from the new Davis and We
9 Der county canal in its concreted
i form. The farmers have all the water
10 they can use and not q drop 10 being
d wasted.
o. Within the next few weeks buildings
At will be erected and the work of ex
10 tracing salt from the great salt bed
40 OF the Montello Salt company II
~ Tooele county will begin, according
ny to the president and attorney for tn
es company.
=: BY a vote OF two to one the count,
=. - commissioners have settled the moot
= ed question of dividing Sanpete intt
=, two high school districts. placing Eph
-, rain and the south In one division
- and the remainder of the county In
: the other.
~ From a report Just given out By
N the county fruit and tree inspector, II
y. is seen that, although the frosts have
n done considerable damage to the fruit
or and in some cases certain kinds have
III been almost totally destroyed, Neph
d. will have fair crop.
en- John Sloan, shift boss at the Bostol
ar Consolidated mine, Bingham, was in
BIZ stantly killed in the mine shortly al
he ter midnight Friday morning Sloal
In was standing upon the little railwa.
he track In the mine when . number o
Oh cars were accidentally showed upo,
or him.
gs The new Utah hotel In Salt Lake
ar built on the site OF the old Desere
y. News building, has been thrown ope
en- to the public. about $50 rooms havin
I'm been furnished, and the remaining 10
at rooms are being furnished az fast q
ne a small army OF workmen can CON
or plete the work.
IMla, the .syear-old daughter c
Paul A. Leitz. q carpenter and cab
Il net maker at Sugar House, wa
| drowned In Parley's creek Monda,
| The little girl was found in almof
/ the exact pOSltlOu anu iuct hcE 0Os4t
! in a manner very similar to a broths
who was drowned twenty years ag
Threatened by the deadly fangs
a rattlesnake while lying on his bas
repairing his automobile, was the Q
perience OF Chester Colborn OF So
Lake, who saw the rattler just as
was about to strike, and killed 1t Wi
wrench with which he was repairil
the car.
The biggest independence day Gel
bration ever pulled of in southea,
'a ern Utah is to take place at Mon
cello on July 8, 4 and 5. Athletic &C
tests of all kinds and horse races a
to be the principal features OF 4
celebration Over $1,000 will be d
ans tributed in prizes.
'er A real wild west show at Sandy o.
co. day last week drew the people
. miles around. There was broHc
Oh busting by Sandy boys and well know
~ cowmen. Prizes were offered
fancy riding and the towspeople h
" q big time during the afternoon.
tito Deputy Sheriff Ed Johnson OF q
viii bon county. we'll known because
18th his bravery in freeing Carbon cour