The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-11-07

Of Miss Mary T.. DOwney, state library
organizer.
Weekly crop reports sent out by the
United States bureau Of crop estimates
note that fall seeding is IL progress In
Utah and that the crop is coming along
nicely.
Engineers are surveying the new
Currant Greek irrigation proposition.
When completed the project VIII
bring 900 additional acres under ir.
rigation.
Revenues of the state for 1919 from
ad valorem taxation of general proper
" will fall more than half IA million
short of that received from the same
sources in 1913.
Utah will be divided into nine zones
for the forthcoming campaign for the
collection of taxes, according TO an an
nouncement of the internal revenue
collector for this district.
The members of the G. A. II. and the
Spanish-American war veterans Will
| jofn with the veterans of the world
war in the celebration of armistice
| day. November IL. at Ogden.
1t is announced that Salt Lake viii
become one of the landing stations In
the new transcontinental air route
which will be used next summer hy
passenger carrying airplanes.
A deposit of ancient fossils which
promises to rival the famous dinosaur
quarry on the Green river near Jensen
has been discovered in the Uintah
basin. according to word received from
Myton
Earl Spann, aged 10, who plead
guilty to a charge of forgery corNmit-
ted at Ogden, has been sentenced 10
serve sixty days at hard labor. The
boy raised a check from $3.50 to
5000.
In an alteration arising from a
wage dispute involving "a, Tom Chris
to, Greek proprietor of lunch room
In Salt Lake, was shot through the
right leg by Nick Demas, Greek
dishwasher.
The jury at Tooele in the Joe Tom
ljanovich murder case returned a ver-
dict of not guilty TomlJanovich was
charged with numbering Fraz Frako-
vich, a cripple, near Tooele early on
July 9, last.
. When the annual rabbit drive starts
, in Utah this winter, therell be more
than the usual zsst to ii, for beside
the excitement of the chase the skins
of the animals bagged will have a fair
, market value.
, James Miller, Frank Devers and
Frank Smith, who admitted the rob
berry of the Springville bank. have each
been sentenced to serve term of from
!. five years to life in the state prison
+ The robbery occurred October 8.
Utah last week received the third
: largest inheritance tax ever paid b,
persons outside the state. The amour
was S69,276. 1t came from the estate
:, of John w. Sterling of New York anC
:, was tax upon Union Pacific stock
:, About 1000 bushels of what il
= claimed to be the best wheat for seet
. purposes ever raised in Utah is bein,
offered for sale by the city of Sal
Lake. The wheat was raised las
summer on the city farsl on Ensigl
flat.
Information from those who hav
kept tab on the receipts of grapes a
Price, is to the effect that $50 car
= of the fruit have been received Their
Y this season. AS many as five to seve
y cars are standing on the siding at on
time.
"Only two log schoolhouseS are lef
''' In Uintah county and these are to b
~ replaced with modern structures |
VI the near future" says Prof Mosa
Hall, state high school inspector, VIII
has just returned from trip over tn
ns county.
en- j. A. Mckay, station agent and tel,
re grapher at Milford for the Salt LAX
70 Route, has resigned to lock after
e fortune which it is said has been lei
is to him by an uncle in the east. III
ms estate is reported to be valued ,
about $4,000
'Ss Unless some action is taken by II
10 federal government to declare Noven
GU Der IL, the day upon which the armi
~ tice was signed by the allies with &c
90 many, legal holiday, no such actic
GU will be taken by Harden Bennion. Sc
rotary of state for Utah and actiI
mo governor In the absence of Governs
m Bamberger.
-. The Salt Lake City board Of educ
"a ton has elected 10 test the order
no. the industrial commission that it ps
to Miss Rae f. Woodcock a total
S25S as a result of an accident in II
Whittier school. Miss Woodcock.
VI teacher. was preparing soup for
Domestic science luncheon when s.
ing was Scalded
Delegates from Utah to attend I
conference called by Governor Da,
OF Idaho to meet at Salt Lake Gil
HAA ~.