The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-12-12
UTAH BUDGET

ury at the beginning Of the present is
cal year. December 1. totaled 81 1917.
l30SG.
Experiments near Milford and Ceiar
City have demonstrated that irr,o.-
ton by means of wells can be made
q success In Utah.
Miss ALA III. Gonoyer of Salt I.,ka
is the first Utah nurse to be approved
for vocational training by the federal
board at Washington.
Early SHOWS have caused consider.
able suffering among live stock of The
state, according to a bulletin issued
by J. Cecil Alter, local meteOrologist
When Wyoming miners returned 70
work last week, 200 ears of coal ,lailv
were added to Uah's supply, accord.
ing TO officials or the Union Pac,hc
railroad.
Senator King expects early action
on his new bill. which takes away from
the department of labor Jurisdiction
over tine deportation Of aliens and re-
poses that authority in the attorney
general.
That the investigation of the high
cost of living in Ogden is a matter for
the state authorities and not the city.
was the opinion expressed to the board
of city commissioners by the city at.
torney.
Five hundred and forty veterans and
widows of veterans of the Black Hawk
Indian war have obtained pensions
under the provisions of the SmOot act.
The disbursements will aggregate
about $325,OO
Announcement that $250,OOO will be
expended in building the first unit of
dry process wool cleaning plant in
Utah has been made by G. b. Stewart,
assistant treasurer of the United States
| Wool company.
A dam, ten feet high and some 200
| feet long, is planned by A. j. Hill of
| Smithfield, in stOri z about fifty acre
feet of water from the runoff of Ran
| som Hollow watershed, to irrigate
! uinety-five acres.
J. Leo and Award Fairbanks, Salt
Lake sculptOrs, have been chosen by
| the memorial committee of Idaho to
| furnish counties and cities of that state
with memorials for soldiers who were
killed during the war.
Visual instruction has become one
of the approved methods OF teaching
science in Utah schools. The l.. D.
S. university at Salt Lake has pur-
chased two moving picture machines
% carry On this work.
Utah is suffering for lack of
teachers of home economics, as at
present every available teacher is en-
pboyed, and there are mhny districts
in which there are none for this de-
partment of the schools.
A movement in Sanpete and Carbon
counties, for diverting water from the
Mammoth reservoir rights in part to
the Sanpete county side of the Wasatch
range, is making some Roadway, ac-
oording to latest reports.
The state board of equalization is
preparing forms for the use of county
assessors in receipting for and collect
ing personal taxes or taking bonds for
the payment of taxes on personal prop
erty as required by the new state
law
Admirers of the scenic wonders OF
Zion National park, Bryce's canyon and
other wonder spots Of Utah met In
Salt Lake last week and took the first
steps toward the formation of an or
ganization to promote these play
grounds.
That Maude z. Tabor. former Ogden
: school teacher, whose body was found
e in trunk at the Tabor home in Law
+ ton Mich, was not killed in Utah, Il
the opinion of the Ogden police, wh'
e have investigated the LEGAL connections
Y of Miss Tabor.
: William ParsoE, a former service
e man, is alleged to have obtained $750'
Y from bank in Ogden, through sys
: tematic f1rgeries of the name of hi
= brother, NJ. Parsons, a cattleman o
Nevada, who was doing his banking
y In Ogden by mail.
4 Petitioning the city commission 70
n pardon on the ground of his b'
al Ing a coal miner and willing to 6
D. to work in the mines-James MART
Is won his release from confinement !
the city Jail ut Salt Lake on tn
al charge of drunkenness.
to In the fight against synd}. hist
propagand unaccompanied by the az
IT. vocacy of violence, the laws recent
es passed by the Utah legislature glN
on little or no aid, declared Herbert Va
Dam, Jr., assistant attorney genefs
SIS In lecture ut Salt Lake.
Under the law enacted by the TIN
nd teenth legislature, employees of d
of state board of equalization and asses
ment are taking from the records
the land offices, both state and fe
eral, in Utah, a complete list of pr
ID ents which have been issued for Ian
on In the state.
on Severely beaten on the head Il