The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-01-09
BUDGET

Nincty-six persons met violent
deaths in Salt Lake City during the
past ye@r.
Fourteen person. suicidea in Salt
Lake City during the past year. the
majority taking poison.
Ninety-eight per cent Of the automo-
biles stolen in Salt Lake the pasr
year were recovered by the police.
James w. Funk. president Of the
Utah state senate. has been appoint
ed by Governor Bamberger as fair
price commissioner of Utah.
Twelve hundred gallons OF liquor
taken by officers from owners in the
past few months, was poured into the
cutters at Salt Lake one day last
week.
Water users and boards Of commits
sioners of the eight counties which
compose the Utah Water Users asso-
citation, will hold a conference at Salt
Lake, January 8.
Word has been received from WASH
ington that Lieutenant Noel Davis.
former Salt Laker, has >.en awarded
both the Distinguished Service medal
and the Navy cross.
The Bonneville post Of the Ameri-
can Legion, at Salt Lake, has changed
its name TO the Richard w. Young
post, In honor of the late Brigadier-
General Richard ". Young.
Active plans to launch the educa-
tional campaigi 10 bring to the eyes
Of the entire country the efficiency Of
| Utah's school system were launched at
meeting held at Salt Lake last week.
Twelve persons were killed by au-
tomObile IN Salt Lake City during the
past year, as against twenty the pre-
riOus year. Trains killed eight per-
sons and one was killed by a street
| car.
Work on the great Alplhs scenic
| highway, which will connect Salt Lake
with Provo By the way of tn ridge
Of the Wasatch and Mt. Timpanogos.
will undoubtedly start with the open
ing of spring.
To aid in civic community work
in Weber county during vacation
months, principals of the schools vii;
hereafter be employed for twelve.
months, according to an announce
ment made last week.
During the season of 1919 there
were shipped from Utah approximate
~ 1900 carloads of Eberta peaches
which brought the growers in rountr.
numbers. by conservative estimate
about $500 per car gross.
The Mutual Improvement associa
tons of the Cache stake of the l.. ID
). church have launched drive to
raise $4,000 to build two camps in
the mountains for the Boy Scouts and
Beehive Girls organizations.
After forty eight years of active sery.
ice in operating railroads, II. T.. Var
Housen, superintendent of the Salt
Lake division of the Los Angeles 4
Salt Lake railroad, upon his own re
quest, has retired to private life.
The final contract and agreements
were signed last week between the
Lehf Irrigation company and the Prove
RESERVOIR company, whereby the lat
ter sells to the former fifteen second
feet of irrigation water for the SIM
of $4,000.
Ten thousand people crowded the
Tabernacle at Salt Lake on December
81, at the funeral services for Brirn.
dler General Richard w. Young. leod-
ing men of church and state eulopiz-
ing the life of Utah's foremost SOL
der and citizen.
Notwithstanding the short crop
ABOUT 600 carloads of apples were
raised this year in Utah, the varieties
consisting mostly of JOnathans, Wine.
saps ana Rose Beauties. There were
also about 250 carload, Of fruits Of
assorted varieties.
Under the auspices of the Utah Nan,
usacturers' association, the extract
manufacturers of Utah have Organized
aii association, whose purpose shall be
10 see that the various prohibition laws
are complied with by the extract man
ufafurers Of the state.
'eofSe Loves, who was muir
dered In Ogden railroad yards ON the
morning OF December "a, came to his
uea'h from fractured skull produced
ny weapon in the hands of party
OF parties unknown, is the verdict re-
turned ny coroner's jury.
In l9lS there were packed in Utah
o'o'VVo cases of tomatoes, 4o2.O0o
cases OF peas, $4,000 cases Of beans
ana Of fruits of all varieties about
4V'ooo cases. The approximate value
Oh lhe 1918 output was s5OoO6oo
whiie that Of the current year Ca nov.
maj one) is about $3,75OOOO.
Lucille Hulgreen Rose, aged l.
whose nome is in Salt Lake, is in fail
at Los Angeles, held on a cha-ge Of
.orgery. She admits that she attained
Sioo on a bogus check, and tbat bcr
purpose In committing the alleged for
gerry was to get railroad fare to Los
where She intended to work.
Strychnine, which costs s,s5 IN
p"hce' rs being sent out by HarolllR.