The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-18
UTAH BUDGET


The thlrty-seyenth annuai conven-
ton OF the Utah Baptist churches was
held last week In Salt Lake.
Plans are under way for the Utah
State Press association convention &c
be held at Salt Lake City. June Il
and %.
The annual old folks summer out
Ing will be held Tuesday, June 30, at
Saltair. Pioneers from every section
Of the state will attend.
Brigham City is to have a real live
musical organization-a brass band
that can be depended upon to furnish
good music for all occasions.
Judge Tillmau ID. johnson of the
United States district court at Salt
Lake, was elected president of ths
Utah Baptist state convention.
Wheat and alfalfa have made rapid
advancement because of the warm
weather, according to the weekly
weather. crop and range report
The total assessed valuation Of
Grand county. exclusive of the rail-
roads, telegraph and telephone lines
and other public utilities, amounts to
50. 555,66S.
Mrs. s. +. Johnson of Salt Lake,
suffered broken leg at Pendleton.
Ore, when an automobile in which
she was passenger was struck by
freight train.
Seventeen cadets of the II. o. Il. c.
at the Utah Agricultural college have
been appointed to attend the reserve
Officers training camps. The men will
leave in time to report on June II.
Captured in the bad lands west of
Vernal while riding two horses said
to be owned by citizens of Woodruff,
Melvin Hackford and Philip Van, Jr.,
were arrested by Sheriff Wilson of
Rich county.
Negotiations tending toward set.
Element of the dispute between the
Utah Contractors association and the
Building Trades council at Salt Lake
are again at standstill, and the
union workers are still on strike.
J. T. Lake was convicted at Salt
Lake on charge of involuntary man
slaughter as a result of the death of
Leroy Anderson, 8 years of age,
under the wheels Of an automobile
driven by Lake, December 1, 1919.
Two hundred and ninety thousand
dollars have been paid into the receiv-
ership of the defunct Merchants bank
at Salt Lake, as result Of settle
ments of an 100000 damage suit
against former directors, out of court.
A lighted cigarette is believed to
have caused the fire which destroyed
the moving picture show at Soldier
Summit, owned by William Eddie and
valued at $500. The theatre was COW
cred by fire insurance to the extent
of $500.
Land cases involving more than 65,-
600 acres of land in the Uintah basin
how pending in the United States dis
trict court will PROBABLY be dismissed
under recent congressional act and
referred to the secretary of interior
for final action.
a winter wheat production for 1922
in Utah of 2,912,OOO bushels as against
| 1,122 900 bushels actually produced last
year, and spring wheat production
Of 2,99S,OOO bushels, as against $780,
600 last year. are the predictions of
the June federal crop report.
The National Geographic society.
which numbers 100000 members in
the United States alone, will hold one
of the most important meetings of the
year in Salt Lake during the sojourn
| of the delegates to tile meeting Of the
National Education association be.
ginning July 4.
! The American School Citizenship
league will hold Its annual meeting
in the tabernacle at Salt Lake, Fri.
day, July 8. This is one of the as.
sociations that always meet with the
N. f. A. and many people come to
the national education convention fol
the express purpose Of attending 1t.
Recommendations for the curtail
ing Of the road program in Grand and
San Juan counties to the completion
Of work already well along, and by
the elimination Of improvements OF
the route where good road already
exists, will be made by Joseph Ririe
state auditor, to the state road com
mission.
Business men of Salt Lake have de
cided to tour the southern part of the
state, visiting Zion canyon, Bryce's
canyon, Provo, Pleasant Grove, Mount