The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-11-02
THE UTAH BUDGET

Threshing is going on with good
yields, in Rich county, oats running as
high as ninety bushels per acre and
wheat around forty bushels.
Alfred S. Eskelsen attempted to
smoke a cigar and handle a half-pound
of gunpowder at the Provo Mattress
factory az the same. AS a result he is
suffering from gunpowder burns.
Caleb A. Inflow, charged with murder.
ing Thomas Eddie" White, chauffeur,
at Salt Lake, about midnight, October
1 4. has been held without bail to be
tried in the criminal district court
Leslie Pope. aged So years. a well.
known miner of Bingham, was killed
by an electric shock while working at
the failing dump reservoir of the con-
centrating mill at Lark, Sunday morn
ing.
The use of cholera serum is believed
to have checked the contagion among
the hogs of the farming districts in the
vicinity of Layton, Kaysville and other
localities. There were more than 300
! deaths.
Harold Cluff, the young man who
was severely burned at Park City a
| short time ago, is slowly improving at
Salt Lake hospital and unless COM
\ plications set in will recover from his
| injuries.
Comment on the recent session of
! the National Irrigation congress made
| by the Engineering Record in its last
issue is to the effect that the session
was marked by decided improvement
over previous meetings.
Bids for the construction of the new
state capitol are being advertised for
by the commission. Bidders will be
allowed thirty-five days in which to
submit their figures, which can be
given on all or part of the work
Claude Sadler, Emmett Coleman and
Robert E. Wright. the three boys who
! escaped from the Utah Industrial
school at Ogden, have been taken
back to that institution from Rays
vile, where they were taken into Gus
tody.
John Felt, Jr., of Huntsville is the
winner in the fy-swatting contest, hav-
ing exterminate 9,307,S0O flies, and
wins the 500 prize. A. F. McCully of
Milford wins second prize and w.
Obald of Salt Lake, was third in the
contest
Two 120-horsepower engines are en-
gagged in clearing the sagebrush from
farm of $500 acres on the slopes
of the southern end of Rush va..ey in
| Tooele county. They have stripped a
square of 1000 acres, clean as a mar
ket garden.
Joseph Huttal, aged T. years, one of
the early pioneers of Utah county, died
at Provo on the 25th. Mr.. Tuttal came
to Utah when boy, and for many
years was engaged in freighting across
the plains, between Salt Lake and the
Missouri river.
Oscar r. Kelley a special deputy,
was accidentally killed at Bingham on
Saturday by William Meyers. another
deputy. Meyers playfully pointed a
ANA'Ns nv hbO"AhS II wa lOdUtu, dIu
pulled the trigger. The bullet pierced
Kelley's left eye.
James HARDWOOD, one of Lehi's promi.
nent and respected citizens, died
October 26. Mr.. Harwood was one of
the early pioneers of Utah. He served
the city twelve years as postmaster
under Presidents Garfield and A thur,
Cleveland and Harrison.
About $50 descendants of Daniel
Hammer Wells, one of the pioneers of
Utah, met at the home of Jumius F.
Wells. in Salt Lake on Saturday to
celebrate the ninety-eighth anniversary
of his birth. The founder of the FAM
lily has been dead twenty-one years.
Walter Sanstrom of Murray was ac-
cidentally shot while hunting Sun
day by Edward Covington, his
chum. and died as he was being taken
to hospital about two hours later.
The two boys, who were aged Is and
IA years, respectively, were hunting for
quail.
Claim for damages in the sum of
$4,000 has been filed with the city
recorder of Salt Lake by Mrs. Lii.
Ian Martin, widow of Finley Martin,
who was killed by the police auto
mobile September %.
The first shipment of apples from
Clearfield in Weber county was made
last week, when fifty cars were dis
patched to eastern markets The
growers expect to realize from rs
cents to S1.00 box on the fruit
William t. Holt. said to have been
somewhat deaf. was instantly killed in
Bountiful on Wednesday. Holt, who
was 50 years old. was walking on the
track north of the station when struck
by a special Bamberger electric car.
There will be no coal famine in
Utah this winter by reason of car
shortage on the Hartman lines. &C
cording to A. l.. Mohler, president or
| the Union Pacific and of the Oregon
Short Line. who was in Salt Lake last
! week