The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-12-05
UTAH BUDGET

TO enlarge Trenton irrigation district
from 1000 TO 12.oo0 acres.
Enrolment at l.. ID. =. schools. when
compared with previously published
yearly reports. shows q large increase.
Utah will be represented at the ma
tional foreign trade convention TO be
held In San Francisco. May II 10 Is,
1870.
Westminster college, at Salt Lake
City. has received contribution of
$4,000 for the erection of boys
dormitory.
Gladys Olson, aged 7. was instantly
killed at Delta by the accidental dis
charge Of gun which was not thought
TO be loaded
Baskets containing the requisites
for Thanksgiving dinner were fur
nlshed by the Salvation Army to 100
needy families of Salt Lake.
The federal government will very
shortly advertise for bids for the con
structlon OF $4,000 steel bridge
across Santa Clara creek, Washing
ton county.
Three thugs robbed Tom Brooks,
proprietor of roomihg house at Salt
Lake. and his wife Of approximately
$1,000 in valuables and money one
night last week.
United States department of the in
terror advises that an additional 5000
is now available for road work on Ar
row Head trail through the Shivwits
Indian reservation.
The San Francisco police depart
ment has been requested to find the
relatives of the man, believed to be
I. III. Tury, whose body was found
in Taylor's canyon, near Ogden.
Salt Lake residents responded gen.
erously to the request for Christmas
gift to Frenchswar orphans during the
post card drive conducted by the COM
mittee for the Fatherless Children OF
France.
Increase in rates amount to prac'
tically twenty-five per cent has been
granted to the Salt Lake, Garfield and
Western railroad and the Inland rail
road company by the state public UtDi-
ties commission
The stockholders of the Utan-Idaho
Central Railroad company, at their
meeting at Ogden, ratified the action
Of the directors in ordering the segre-
cation of the city and interurban lines
of the company.
Norma Shepard, aged 40, a drug ad-
dict, inmate of the city Jail at Salt
Lake, committed suicide by hanging
herself from a cell cover in the wo-
mans ward. An apron was used as
hangman's rope.
The kitchon Of G. B. Jones' resi-
uence at SAT- Lake suffered consid-
cradle wreckage when frozen water
jacket, sudden heated, exploded. Six
windows were broken and two large
holes were blown in the ceiling.
A liquor ''still," which members OF
the sheriff's office say has been OPP
Grated the past year and its product
sold exclusively in Bingham, was
seized at Salt Lake and Antonio Scor-
cato and his wife placed under arrest.
The Utah-Idaho Sugar company has
hled application with state engineer
to take 50second feet Of water from
Bear river, directly east Of Garland.
They will erect a power plant and lay
700 feet of 4O-inch pipe for irrigation
purposes.
Cedar City is awake to the advan-
tage it holds as the gateway to the
newly created Zion National park and
other scenic attractions and is prepar-
ing to take care OF the tourists who
must pass through its limits on their
way to natures wonders.
Willard county will on December 9
sell $350,000 bonds, Of which $5O,OOt
Is for the erection of courthouse
$4,000 in cooperation with the federal
and state governments for the con
struction Of state roads and $22O,OOt
for local and county roads.
Plans are being made at Provo fol
community Christmas tree. 1t Is in
teiiueu W CtCSt tHC tACS III u SShtAO
place in the business district Of TIL
city, and that it be large enough t
present a spectacular appearance whel
trimmed and illuminated.
No traces Of poisonous bacilli, sucl
as caused trouble in ripe olives Il
eastern states, were found In olive
tested in Utah, according to a repor
submitted to Walter nj. Boyden, stat
dairy and food commissioner, by L.
DANES, state bacteriologist.
After trying to kin Manuel Ortegs
q years of age, a Mexican. by SLASH
ing the right side of his head an
cheek in an attempt to sever the jul
ular vein while he was sleeping at
table In a poolhall in Salt Lake, Jesu
Lopez, aged A. made his escape.
The first contribution toward final
cling the proposed memorial bridge
the soldiers, sailors and marines ,
salt Lake county to be built acro