The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
utah NEWS REVIEW

Iund loE me reneI OF eniluren IN Eu
rope.
Carl Hickman. aged Ia. is dead at
Salt Lake from injuries sustained
shen he was run over by a motor
truck.
The first annual auto show OF the
Cache Valley Automobile and Access
sorry association was held February /, 2
and 3, at Logan.
an attachment TO an automobile is re-
ported TO be doing good work on the
public roads of Beaver county.
A highway who attempted to hold up
and rob L. j. Anderson at Ogden got
one of the most severe beatings of
his life at the hands of the intended
victim.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has been given permission to in
crease its rates on messages wholly
within the state of Utah not to exceed
20 per cent
Material progress has been made
during the. present winter in the cam
paign which has been waged against
the smoke nuisance at Salt Lake, the
mayor has reported.
registered mail package contain
ing $500 in currency sent from Price
70 Scofield, a distance of % miles, re-
ported as missing in transit for week,
has finally reached its destination.
Roy Nelson of Denver serving a six
months sentence in the Salt Lake
county Jail for the theft of carload
of coal from the Denver & Rio Grande
railway, has been reprieved by Cover
nor Mabey.
Stabbed by two men who attempted
TO rob him, Alexander Holmes, brick
mason, of Salt Lake died while being
taken to the emergency hospital after
he had crawled to house and made
known his condition.
The state highway bodybuilding
program, now a matter of investiga-
ton by committee named by Cover
nor Mabey, finds itself with contracts
and agreements for construction prof.
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The Logan factory of the Amalga-
mated Sugar company closed it's 1920
Il campaign February l, after a sue
cessful season run. The slicng of
beets is completed, but many en-
ployees of the factory are still work
ing
Following the posting of notice of
reduction in the wages of the men
employed upon the Pacific Fruit Ex-
press company's ice house and stor-
age plants now under course of con-
struction at Ogden, seventy-five men
walked off the job.
Frank DePretto, once under sentence
of death after being convicted, jointly
with Harry Brewer, of the murder OF
Eugene Allen in the course Of robbing
the Highland Boy store in Bingham
Canyon, in the spring Of 1914, has es-
capped from the state prison.
Governor Mabey and members of the
state legislature were the guests Of
Utah editors at banquet at Salt
Lake, February 1. 1t was the biennial
chicken feed" of the Utah Press as.
ISOLATION and no details were omitted
in keeping it up to the associations
standard.
The state land board has issued fig
ures which show the amount of state
land in Utah. The figures submitted
are: State land not yet offered for
sale e12 IN, or roS. state ,ond 49,
offered for sale, 1,224,405 eres, and
state land unsurveyed, 100000 acres,
making total of 1851, 525 acres.
Five to twenty years in the state
prison was the sentence given Harry
Byars. q years of age, who pleaded
guilty to having robbed a drug store
in Ogden. Howard Linsley, j. years of
age, who was with Byars in the rob-
berry, pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to the state Industrial school.
The Salt Lake American Legion post
has given it's endorsement to the hos
pitaiization appropriation now before
the United States congress, registered
an unmistakable opposition 20 the
N'eA ~ioeN'NtSS JILL PChuiuS DtlOTe Tile
i state legislature, and urged upon that
body provision for a state memorial
building.
A dispatch from Washington an
nounces that an amendment to the In
dian appropriation bill was authorized
for schools in Uintah and Duchesne
school districts in Utah, with the
stipulation that schools receiving bene-
fits from this appropriation shall ac-
cord the same privileges to Indian as
10 white children.
George C'Beefsteak'O Harrison, for
many years one of the most pictur-
esque and interesting figures in that
part of the state, died at Springville,
February ?. He had been engaged in
the hotel business at Springville since
1858. The sobriquet, "Beefsteak," was
earned by Mr.. Harrison through the
manner in which steaks were served.
More land has been placed under cul.
tiyation i'm oetarn Willard coupty Il,