The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1913-01-18
THE UTAH BUDGET

The twenty-fifth annual exhibition
of the Utah State Poultry association
opened in Salt Lake on the 18th,
there being a record attendance.
John Acocks, aged 40, suicided in
the coal shed at his home in Salt
Lake, firing charge from a shotgun
through his heart Ill health led tc
the. deed.
Utah's four electoral votes for vice
president will be cast for Governor
Hadley of Missouri. This is the ten,
tatlVe agreement reached by the
electors.
proceedings to remove County
Clerk c. A. Pierson from office on a
cahrge of misconduct have been TAX
en- by the board of commissioners OF
Carbon county
Albert Armstrong 25 years old, an
employee of the Garfield Smelling
company, fell fifteen feet from a tres
tie, suffering injuries from which he
probably will die.
Officers of the humane society of
Salt Lake, assisted by the local DO
lice, are rigidly enforcing the law re-
curing the blanketing of standing
horses during the cold weather.
BY majority of more than three
to one, the congregation of the First
Methodist Episcopal church of Salt
Lake have placed their stamp of dis
approval upon capital punishment
According to Utah bankers and
business men, the financial situation
is satisfactory, with indications that
the year 9lS will bring marked i'm.
provement even over the excellent con.
ditions that prevailed in 1912.
Mrs. Mary Holland, city recorder OF
Park City, who refused to resign at
the request of the city council, fol-
lowing the discovery of shortage in
her accounts. has changed her mind
and handed in her resignation.
Word comes from Spanish Fork
that the sugar factory which was to
be moved from Nampa, Idaho, to that
place may not be moved because little
VI thN hluNhihCly Souiu NC uoCu III tiiC
plant to be built at Spanish Fork
Irene Berry of Springville has sued
Dr. +. A. Graham for $2,525. The
suit is the result of the loss of two
toes by Miss Berry, who claims the
doctor attempted to remove corns,
and as result she was forced to have
the toes amputated.
Sliding down rope which they had
suspended from a second story win
dow at police headquarters, Mabel
Wilson and Mrs. Mary McGill, the
only prisoners confined in the women's
department of the city Jail at Ogden,
made their escape.
The Ogden members of the w. c.
II. u, who waged campaign last fall
against the advertisement of a brew
ing company on the back cover of
the telephone directory, have won
their crusade, the telephone company
having cancelled its contract with the
brewery.
The tenth legislative assembly OF
the state of Utah convened at noon
Monday, January 13. The senate con,
sists of sixteen Republicans and two
Democrats. Both the Democratic sen,
ators are followers. The house has
thirty-one Republican members and
fourteen Democrats.
Fred W. Chambers, state fish and
game commissioner, suggests little
CHARITY IN tha birds nm tho IF
farmers and other residents of the
state. AT this time of year the war
dens throughout the state scatter feed
for game birds, such as quail but they
frequently miss some of them,
The annual convention of the State
Municipal league was held at Ameri-
can Fork on the 18th. More than 800
members attended the two sessions
and the banquet at night. The SEES
sions We're conducted by President j.
F. Noyes. Logan was chosen as the
meeting place of the 1914 convention,
Believing that Utah, with other az
ricultural sections of the United
States, will realize on beneficient
land laws, the Salt Lake R0al Estate
association has adopted a resolution
indorsing the Batherick bill, providing
for the establishment of a federal bu-
reau of farm loans in the treasury de-
partment,
Fire which destroyed the tin shop
and foreman's office in the yards of
the Denver 4 Rio Grande at Salt
Lake is estimated to have resulted in
loss of $4,000. Damage was princi
pally to tools. the buildings being
roughly constructed
Resolutions were adopted by the
Utah State Woolgrowers, at the Sal
AXE convention, favoring more
drastic law in relation to the dippin9
Gt sheep for the prevention of seal
and fayoring bounty for the destrue
ton of predatory animals,
Using heavily-loaded shotgun and
discharging it by pressing the trigger
With broom handle, Robert Cheese.
man of Brigham City ended his life.
Despondent over continued i'll health
he took advantage of an opportunity
offered by the absence of his wife to
kill himself,
For the death of her husband, who
with two others was killed when a
Rio Grande train struck an automo.
bile near Salt Lake last August.
Eleanor p. Groesbeck has filed suit