The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-02-27
UTAH BUDGET

wages.
Bonus payments to be made by the
utah-Idaho Sugar company will
amount to more than 100000 this
year.
The proposition 10 form the BOnne-
vile irrigation district in South Davis
county was carried at the recent cleo
ton.
The armory at Provo is nearing
completion. and II is expected the
guardsmen will soon be drilling in the
new building
An unidentified man was shot and
Instantly killed by guards who were
watching cache OF goods stolen from
a store a Bingham.
The state fair directors have decld-
ell to offer a special trophy OF SO
for the best dry farm exhibit by any
county at the next state fair.
II is said about sixty miners at
Park City obeyed the recent order Of
/. w. w. officials to strike. The mem
bers of the Federation of Miners re-
fused to strike.
George Thomas, who was charged
with shooting William Shafer in a
pool hall at Bingham, January >. last.
was discharged nj the conclusion of a
preliminary hearing
Work on the joint city and county
building to be erected at Provo will
start as soon as spring weather sets
In permanently, it has been decided
by the commissioners
The Ogden Portland Cement COM
pany, which places valuation on its
property of S199, 237.72, objects TO be-
ing assessed as a mine by the state
board of equalization.
Inheritance tax receipt has been
issued from the office of the state
treasurer to the estate of the late
Joseph f. Smith. president of the l..
ID. $. church, for S19,55196.
School teachers at Salt Lake who
have been absent from their classes
because of the Influenza, have been
pau 'iiNii III Iuli, I'D ttuNll-
ers having been affected by the ruling.
George Il. Cotton, one of the l. w.
w. who passed strike circulars in the
Park City district recently. was ar
rested on a charge of vagrancy and
was placed in Jail to await hearing.
The Utah farm bureau and the
sugar manufacturers of the state fail
ed to reach an agreement on a con-
tract for the 1920 crop of sugar beets
at meeting at Salt Lake last week.
The state WOolgrowers' association
has signed contracts with the Sheep
Shearers' union for the 1920 season.
Seventeen cents head and board, or
the equivalent, is the price agreed
upon.
Samuel Culver Park, former mayor of
Salt Lake, and president of the Boyd
Park Jewelry company, died Febru-
airy 10 at his country home at Cotton
wood, following an attack Of heart
trouble.
Plans were laid for the apprehen.
sion of violators of federal game laws
and redistribution of territory was
made at convention of United States
game wardens which was held in Salt
Lake last week.
The man killed by the police at
Brigham City, while participating
with two others, who escaped, in rob
bing the Leader store there, has been
positively identified as Walter l.. Tay-
lor of Salt Lake.
Frank Grady, yardmaster for the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad at
Helper, and f. o. Patrick, a conductor
on the road, were fined $3.50 each by
a justice of the peace at Price for
stealing two hams from the railroad
A number of the women of Bingham
have organized league for the good
of the community. 1t is believed that
sanitary conditions will receive early
Action also will be
taken in regard to Juvenile court work
at Bingham.
Utah Idaho Cetral Railroad COM
pany has 107.99 miles of main track
in Utah, valued at $1.303,S20 and 3d.
All miles of side track, valued at $751;
3lS, according to its schedule filed
with the state board of equalization
AMI assessment.
Formal protests that Salt Lake flour
dealers are too quick to raise the price
of their products and too slow when
1t comes to market decline, have
been registered by citizens of Salt
Lake with J. w. Funk, federal fair
price commissioner.
Utah forests will be especially util.
lied for camping vacations by auto
mobile tourists the coming summer be-
cause of the privileges and advantages
offered through the opening of Zion
national park and other scenic resorts
within the state, it Is believed.
Drinking of so-called 'flavorine ex
tracts" as intoxicants has increased Is
such an extent in Salt Lake and Utah
cities and towns that scores Of appeals
are being made by wives of men who