The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-17

Farmers of northern Boxelder county
are jubilanR over the prosperity at
tendant to fine weather and the large
beet harvest
The explosion Of about ten gallons
of gasoline wrecked the George W.
Nelson glove cleaning establishment
at Salt Lake.
To care for the schools of Utah In
the year 19.9-l920 the receipts aggre-
gated S9.SSi363 compared with re
ceipts of s6.J1l.011 last year
No streets will be graded in Ogden
this winter, according to the action Of
the city commissioners in ordering the
filing of a number Of petitions for
grading.
Attention is called. I'm the biennial
report of the state livestock board, to
the menace Of sheep scabies in Utah,
from the presence OF the disease in
Idaho and Colorado.
Only one of the seventeen diaries
conducting business in Salt Lake dur
ing November. 1920, had products
which fell below the required 80 per
cent standard for fats
Lack of moisture and cold weather
are making conditions bad in south
ern Utah, especially in the vicinity of
Modena, according to the weekly re
port Of the weather bureau.
Wireless telephone service between
the forest service building in Ogden
and the aerial mail station grounds In
Salt Lake probably will be established
Immediately after the first of the
year.
Grand county is the only one in the
state that did not hold its own in the
decade 1910-1920. The value of the
land and buildings in the county de-
creased in amount Si30 in the ten
year period.
The prospect of attaining wealth
through the discovery of oil wells in
Utah has led to the filing of between
500 and 900 applications for prospect
inc permits under the mineral land
leasing law.
Six months in Jail AMI $1,000 fine
for Hying a still in his home was the
punishment melted out to John O'Green
of Mohrland, near Price, by Judge Till
man ID. Johnson, of the United States
district court.
An expenditure of 100000 in sur
veyng public lands in Utah during the
next fiscal year is recommended by
the commissioner Of the general land
office, in his annual report to the Sec
rotary Of interior.
Seven million dollars will have been
paid out for sugar beets since October
of this year to farmers Of Utah and
Idaho by the Amalgamated Sugar
company, when it makes its final pay
ment on December Is.
Joseph Wilkens, so years Of age, was
rendered unconscious for six hours and
suffered deep laceration Of the scalT
when buggy in which he was riding
was struck by an automobile on the
road near Spanish Fork.
At three convention held in Sal
Lake, December Z, several hundred
stOckmen Of Utah and neighborint
western range states discussed thu
problems, financial and governmental
now facing The men engaged in thu
industry.
While the Denver & Rio Grande OF
November l had but SS.1 per cent o
its total equipment on its own rails
this has been improved since so tina
today it has 100 per cent Of the equip
ment in commission on its own rails
It is claimed.
The movement for the reclamation
of several millions of acres of land
In Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mex
ico and California by utilization O
the waters Of the Colorado river Is en-
dorsed in a resolution adopted by tn
Utah State Realty association.
The biennial report Of the star
board Of land commissioners indicate
that more than $4,000 has been co
lected during the past two years IN IL
terest on state land grant funds, whic
Is u larger dIuOuut lIldl Ill tAiO piS~SN
ing biennium by more than $1OO,OOO
The Christmas seal sale organizatio
IN Utah is larger this year than &c
any Of the previous campaigns. Nor
than 600 persons are taking an actlV
part as members of central, county an
local committees. Every county In tn
state has been thoroughly organizes
War between sheepmen and tn
state is imminent at West waite
where flockmasters have deffed II
quarantine proclamation of Govern'
Bamberger. it is said, and driven Sc
eral bands Of sheep fom Colorado I'M
Utah without having had the anima
dipped.
Suit has been filed at Ogden by MIR
Florence Boulware against Gustave .
Muller. in which the plaintiff asl
damages of $4,000. She bases Il
suit on assertions that Muller q
stroyed her peace Of mind and othe
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