The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-25
UTAH BUDGET

gan county to aid the farmers In thin
ming sugar beets.
Motornen and conductors Of the
Ogden street railway system have been
granted an increase In wages.
While engaged In cleaning windows.
James Harrison. aged As. of Salt Lake.
fell IS feet when the hooks on the
side of the scaffold broke. and escaped
with broken arm.
At their convention, held at Salt
Lake. the Utah Elks went ON record
as favoring Eureka for the next meet
ing place. This means that the 1927
convention will be held in Eureka.
Plans are in the making to trans
form Antelope island, the largest In
the Great Salt Lake group. into the
finest cattle growing and cattle-fat-
tening ranch In the eulre western
country.
Fall wheat on dry land has been cut
at st. George and the irrigated crop is
ripe; fall wheat Is coming into head
and thriving in the more northerIy val
leys, though showing the drought ef.
fects on Levan ridge.
Thomas Digger, who has been
located ut Fort Douglas war prison
since the military authorities learned
he was wanted in Nebraska by Sheriff
Morrill, on a charge of cattle stealing.
escaped from the sentry.
A restraining order has been issued
forbidding the Providence town board
from proceeding with the cOnstruc-
ton Of pavement, which 1t Is alleged
by T. G. Rowland, local contractor,
was fraudulently awarded.
Heavy shipments Of steers are re-
ported by the La Sal national forest
supervisor, and cattle, sheep and
swine shipments from Price have been
heavy. The range was never better
and stock are fine at Laket0wn.
News has been received at Salt
Lake of the accidental death at Col
onia Juarez, Mexico, Of Alma Platte
Spillsbury, 20 years of age and
pioneer of Utah. Mr.. Spillsbury came
to Utah with his parents in 1850.
Mrs. Louis Dobbs may lose an eye
as the result Of an accident at her
home In Bingham. While burning
some waste paper In q range an ex-
plosion occurred. presumably caused
by giant cap in some way getting
into the waste.
While working with an emery wheel
weighing twenty-five pounds and
about ten inches in diameter, Franklin
N. Lohr, Of Salt Lake was painfully
cut in the head and bruised In the
stomach when struck by pieces Of the
wheel, which broke.
Permission to pay Immediately to the
depositors Of the Merchants bank, at
Salt Lake, a dividend Of Is cents In
addition to the SO cents that has been
thus far paid. is asked Of the Third
district court by Stephen H. Lynch.
receiver for the bank.
Observation-Disclosures taxes. income
taxes, federal taxes, mine taxes, prob
lens of the local assessor-taxation in
its many phases, will be thoroughly
discussed by experts from the United
States and Canada, meeting In Salt
Lake September to 10 next.
The third trial Of Dennis f. Terrell
for assault with intent to commit muir
der and assault with deadly weapon
in the alleged shooting Of Ray Cowan
on the night of May II, 1913. when the
youth was found on Terrell's premises,
Is to be held In Salt Lake this week.
Utah business men will vote on the
twelve principles Of Industrial rela.
lions recently prepared by a special
committee Of the United States Cham
Der Of Commerce. This platform is
Intended by the committee to include
the fundamentals Of employment rela.
lions.
! Figures which are now available
show that the taxpayers Of this state
! pay $2.42 for every 81 spent in actual
! labor on roads. In other words it is
charged that the overhead" ex'
penses are eating up all of the road
money and leaving but little with
!. which to buy labor.
1 George H. Watts. for himself and
e 273 others, has filed petition with
n the public utilities commission OF
S Utah, protesting against the "zone
d system, as applied to Murray, as being
r In contravention Of the franchise
e under which the Utah Light & Trac-
ton company 10 operating in Murray
Representatives Of the press as.
sociatiOns and newspapers, who
I, covered the Republican national con.
h vention and who were EN- route to re
n port the San Francisco convention Of
v the Democrats, paused in Salt Lake on
y June 10 long enough to get acquainted
i with the city and some Of It's attrac
lions.
Vaughn Young. 9 years Of age. son Of
Lettie Howard Young. died at Brig
s ham City as the result Of eating breat
n containing arsenate Of lead. william
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