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Show SUN ADVERTISING RATES ri:iut; Tbe Sun a display advertising rates forty (40) cent an inch per isms or $L50 per inch by the month-f- our i4) issue to local advertiser. Transient fifty (50) cent an ineh ier iisse. Position 10 per eent additional. t. Volume 7; Number 2 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Week Ending Jane 10. 1921 letil COUNCIL CONSIDERS THE FLAG, SIDEWALKS, Local Traffic Since Friday Last ing By Way Union Pacific. As belli-eoa- wanted. Sidewalk Work Delayed. Some time ago the matter of building sidewalka up North Sixth street was opened before the council, and 0. C. Dalhy acting at the time as city attorney gave voice to the necessity of getting in action if the work was to lie completed liefore cold weather, outlining the preliminaries and the time required for advertising and other formalities. The first step being a survey to establish what work is actually necessary, F. S. Dunlevy waa put on the job aa duly chronicled by The Sun at the time, and while every meeting since has looked for bis report, he is still working. It seems that his position as acting city engineer carries no salary, hut he is The repaid only for working. port is promised soon whatever that means. In the meantime the citizens up the street are wondering and the expenses attaching to the construction are accumulating. New Flag Ordered. In preparation for proper decoration of the streets for various gala days and especially the coming Independence Day the city electrician will replace hia Welcome sign at Eighth and Main, which was recently taken down to allow the moving of a building, and a bunch of flags of a sire suitable for hanging along the pole in the street centers will he purchased. A large new flag will also be obtained for City Ilall, and it was especially mentioned that the janitor would include in hia duties the proper care of the new banner, and no farther criticism on this point is expected. The light committee will handle the purchase of the flags. New session laws will be purchased for the newly installed city justice, George M. Miller. As the county obtained a few surplus sets, one of these will be taken. Water la Toned In. Tuesday last a full head of water from Colton Springs was turned into the city waterline. Only three men are now employed along the route one on patrol and the other two in checking up on some minor repairs and finishing touches to the main job just completed. This, of course, des not refer to the work of moving the line at the Heiner dugwav, where the trench digging is finished and the actual pipe moving is being dune today and will not interfere in the least with the water service. With the line seemingly in pretty good shape, it should be only a very few dava until ihe water has cleared in the city luains, and there secn to lie some assurance that the blessings of good water are about to become ours. Recognizing that the city is growing, that water service will have to be furnished, especially along Main street, a castiron pipe will lie laid h this thoroughfare from Seventh along street to Eighth. Service for the new building construction now going on is the immediate justification for this improvement. Installation of the new fire hydrant is dragging for the want of help in the city waterworks installation department, which lie it known is Tony Migliaccio, a most efficient servant, but who cannot all alone do everything. four-inc- New Concern Coming. Still another new business concern 'ill operate in our city, dealing in oils and gasoline. Arrangements were made to lease a part of the space known as the power plant site just ,s?h of the Denver and Rio Grande trucks to the Indejiendent Oil and Gas company. The price to be paid is twenty-fiv-e dollars each month. On this ground will be erected a set of storage tanks. While the genial agent of the corporation does not specifi-H- y promise any break in prices, he 1X1 BUSINESS IS DETOURED POLES, WATER, BEEBS, LEASES. FIKANCE, EIC Price city council met in regular session last Tuesday evening and attended to considerable business. A redhot situation develoied in tbe matter of getting a few poles for eleetrir line extensions, when a proposition to join the Eastern Utah Telephone company in buying a earload of these was brought up. In apite of the fact that the matter baa been ojieuly discussed sacral times, Chairman Stevenson of the light committee was extremely resentful that the transaction waseon-tidere- d as the business of the council, and asserted that when such supplies were purchased he waa going to buy them. He almost blocked the citys chances to get a few poles along with the loeal telephone company's ear lot. Peeved over this affair, the merchant from the railroad strips was pretty grouchy all through the meeting, exhibiting moat marked contrast to the gentlemanly conduct of the agent who was before the council to obtain a lease and construction permit for the new oil selling concern which is about to open here at the corner of Eighth and Main on the Millburn property, e tnd who plainly outpointed the councilman in getting what he X WASHINGTON. 1. June T. F cry iody' spending luoney shrank t $1.98 during the im year, accord the monthly circulation state irg toMailed uiriil today by the ireaaury. On June 1. taro, the per capita circulation in the country was $57. Z. com pared on June 1. 1(21. In the with same (ii.il period the total money in circu-iaiio- n dropped from $8,11)2,1 8S.Z44 to IS. .!&. :3. The fellow who doesn't like has probably never tried ami riuciXA-TIOmoxky KU II hLI MP. NOTHING TO REPORTED J J J 4 time. 4 4 4 4 I4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 s 444444444444 did assert that a marked improvement might lie looked for in gasoline quality when their product is on the market. A modern service station will be erected on the Milburn corner, with driveways pver the sidewalks, the necessary permits for the construction icing arranged for the acting city engineer to find another job in having a aayao as to the exact jxigition and layout of these approaches. Bonds To Be Taken Up. Electric light bonds to the amount of seventeen thousand dollars, and water bonds totaling six thousand dollars will lie taken up by the city treasurer in July. The sinking fund carries money to absorb this payment and holders will he notified that the city will exercise the optional privilege of retiring them, and tha: no interest will lie jiaid thereon after .In jy 1, 1921. That old matter of settlement between the frity and the county is still pending. The amount have now grown to where the niunicioality owes the county some', hi ng over sixteen hundred dollar, while the county owes the city right hack twenty-tw- o hundred. Doth sides nro keen to settle. Plotting and Platting. The matter of that county warehouse north of City I'ark is taking up considerable of the attention of both city and county lioards. The ground originally ltelonging to the city was turned over aa a fair ground to the county with a proviso, it is Buid, that whenever not used for fair purposes title should revert to the rity. No deed waa filed, and now that the ground is inside the district included in the new platting scheme launched by the city, there is a desire to effect some kind of an arrangement which might go so far as to eliminate the warehouse altogether. The county board, however, is just aa anxious to tighten their hold on the location as the rity- council to make a shift, and with an effort to do the polite thing to each other in the matter the park committee of the city will endeavor to come to an arrangement with the county commissioner satisfactory to both sides. Just why the county should haul all their material a mile uphill from the railroad to store it and be ao set on obtaining a deed to the place is something a little hard to understand. The ground in question would be worth as much added to the citys plat as something nearer the railroad which might lie much bet ter for warehousing, and the general improvement to the whole neighliorhond of the ark and pint by the renupal of the material ynrd would he quite an item. The platting is about finished, and a definite idea of what can he done in the matter is now developing rapidly. Some of the expected opposition to the scheme is fading away as a full realization of its niceties are put forward, and it is not unlikely thst with the coming of the time for actual disposition of the ground that all sides will be reconciled to some suitable arrangement. Establishment of uniform curblines, which would also embrace sidewalk lines, baa been a moot question liefore the council for a long time. The city has no definite ordinances covering such matters. The practical application of a definite width for spacing curbs from fence lines for each street or at least for each block will be gone into, and it is likely that an ordinance establishing these throughout the city will soon be passed. 1 SHORTAGE - LIST IS COMPLETED Material has been compiled by J. L. Horne; manager of the state fair bureau. for publication of the premium list for the next state fair, to be held in October. Printing of six thousand copies of the list will he started as soon as a bid for the work can he let by the states finance department. Prizes agirregating apnroxim.itely sixty thousand dollars will he givn. Wedding announcements. The Sun. IN HIS Indem-ndeiw- omcE which swept down on Pueblo, Colo., and adjacent ritiea and towns last Friday evening. Estimates place the loss of life aa high as five hundred with a property damage running into the millions. Salt Lake City, (Igden and other towns of this state are all sending in relief supplies. The government ia being asked for twi nay millions of dollara through congress to help rebuild the devsstated area, which extends a hundred or more odd miles in Colorado and well into Kansas. Miles and miles of the tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande, the Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific and other roads in Eastern and Southern Colorado and in Kansas are pine, and it will take weeks to replace the same. Trains of the Denver and Rio Grande run no farther east today than Salida, Colo. Iassenger Trains Not. 1 and 2 are abandoned through Price, tieing detoured over the Union Pacific. Agent Trim at Price says it will lie three weeks liefore tracks are ojien to Pueblo and Denver. Freight going east and that coming west is also lieing detoured. Passengers from all Eastern Utah end those from this side of Salida, Colo., are lieing routed east by way of Salt Lake City and Ogden. H. S. ROBINETT, TREASURER, HAS CLEAN SLATE. Special Audit of Zion rim Knocked Into Cocked Hat, As It Were, By Official Documents Passing Between State Auditor, Commission-er- a and Carbon County Offi-dal- . About the least perturbed individual of anyone concerned in the matter of an alleged shortage in the a- 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Incidentally, we also recoin- mend that after the celebration the flaga lie removed and kept for future and similar occaaiona. Instead of lieing left up to le to ruin by the wlnda. whipied i Signed I. U A. Mr (lee. Mayor. 4 FOR TOOLS THAT IT 4 4 4 LOST 4 4 4 4 4 VISITORS WARNED TO KEEP 4 OTF PROPERTY. 4 4 4 4 Not That Their Presence Ia Undesir4 4 able, But Because of the Danger 4 From Breaking Machinary About 4 tha Workings Cartar Oil Crowd ! Hindarad By tha Bad Roads. 4 4 C. R. Hurley, in charge of the af- 44444444444444444 fairs in Utah of the Ohio Oil coin olfice of County Treasurer Rohiuett count of overpayment for 1IZ0 taxes of atate. and atate schools portion of which la 827t.OB and tha atate liovnty account of five cents. 1 have handed your claim to the atate road rommioaUm for the amount due on account of atate road taxes. is that gentleman himself. The audit of county finances covering a jieriod for several years back has just hern reported to the county commissioners by Lincoln G. Kelly ft CV, and ill their summary of conditions in the an apimrent treasury is disclosed shortage of something like fifteen hundred dollars. Aside from some smaller items which may lie mused over as simply the floating ragged ends of current operations jn lieluted bookkeeping and which noliody of normal mental cajiacity would seriously consider as showing any ruljuthili-t- y on the jxirt of the treasurer there remuins one item of $1141.09, which iilvolvpB a check drawn on a local bank by Fred Aulicrt, by him turned over in iaymeut for the maker's tuxes and which check has not lieen liquidated. The Salt Luke Tribune carried a story Tuesday in which the auditor's rcKrt was freely quoted and which, giving the assiduous accountants results of efforts to uncover something, has made a showing which on its face without any explanation puts Hnhiuett in rather an unfavorable light. Carlton county citizens aro a unit in asking for the inside on this affair, and The Sun takes pleasure in laying liefore its readers the documents on which Ruhinett relies for his serenity in the matler of the retained rheek. The first is on affidavit duly executed before Henry Ruggeri of lrice, notary jOiblic, being as follows: FINE PROSPECTS AHEAD Oats, Barley, Alfalfa Beets Doing Fine. 4 It is (he desire of the mayor 4 and tlie ntv council that the city 4 of Price shall fittingly o nerve 4 (he Fourth la now less than 4 of July which lay 4 a month away, and to this end 4 the attention of the buainem men 4 iaMirecied to the matter of deco-4 rallono. The city ia ordering new for the streets, and 4 decoratioiia 4 we desire the earnest 4 tion of all rumens. 4 We vuggeat that you look over 4 your decoration and have your 4 building properly dreaaed for I hia 4 occasion. To thoae who have 4 cflagpole on building we ee- 4 tally urge that they procure a 4 suitable flag for display thereon. I far at can lie learned up to this Wheat, OHIO IS STILL FISHING Go- (Friday) morning there were no Eastern Utah lives lost in the floods of the Arkanaaas and Fountain rivers Holding the position of health officer in a live city like Fries. T one would be expected to look out for the common decencies and see that healthful condition aruund hia own etallixh- J existed menu. Owning a building and conducting therein an automn- bile agency, one Klsk, city health officer, allows auch filthy, noxl-- v ous and unaanltary conditions to prevail in connection with a toi-- J let installed on the premises that the city council last Tuesday ev- ening found it necessary to In- struct the recorder to write the 4 doc a communication demanding 4 the Immediate abatement, remov- 4 al and closing up of the health 4 and comfort destroying nuisance. 4 It might also help to change the 4 official Incumbent at tha asms THE RlMXEsK MCX OF THE ( I TV OF I'llIl K blanks of nil ktndn The Bun. and The season ia developing excellent agricultural prospects in Utah, say M. M. Justin, agricultural for the United States government, under date of June Cit li in communication to The Sun from Salt Lake City. The acreage of spring wheat is practically unchanged from iaat year. Sowings of oata have increased from seventy-eigh- t thousand acre to eighty thousand acres. Harley was sown on a thousand acres less and totals only sixteen thousand. An additional sdven thousand of alfalfa sown this season brings the crop to four hundred thousand acres. This ia inure than the amount of land devoted to any other two crojia. Condition figure are much alxive average on all crojia except peaches and pears. Winter wheat, rye and an pasture and ranges are higher than normal. With the exception of fruit, other crops are only a little lielow normal. Fruits suffered frost damage and are leas promising. Apples are rated ah SO per rent qf normal, which con'raats strongly with the condition in the United States. Utah will produce 90 tier rent aa many apples as last year, wuile the United States will have only 45 jier cent of last year's production. Peaches promise a crop larger than last year in spite of frost damage. In other sections of the United States more injury resulted and condition ia down 45.5 per eent of normal. This means only 73 ier eent aa many as last year. Pears show tha state in bnt little hetter standing than the country. thousand Utah wil) have forty-on- e bushels or 09 per eent aa many as last year, while the whole country will have only 53 per cent of last veara production. Sugar beets show a condition of 97 per cent of normal, two points better than Inst year. As acreage figures are not yet available no forecast of production is possible. OPINIONS DIVIDED, BUT TRIAL COURT SUSTAINED Affidavit of Asbert. Fred Aulicrt lieing first duly sworn upim oath deposes and sal's that he la a realdent of Price, Carlton county, state of Utah, and la the owner of considerable real estate and personal property In Carlton county, atate rtf Utah, and that the aald real estate and personal property la taxable In Carlton county, state of Ftah. That during the year IS 20 hia said personal profierty and real estate was asaessed and the tax due and payable by the aald Fred Autiert herein to Carlton county, atate of Utah, for the mid year 18Z0 for taxes was $1141. OS. That your affiant herein paid the sum of $1141.08 by check to H. 8. Koblnett on the SXUh day of November, 18Z0, said check being drawn on the First National Bank of Price. That your affiant herein hae never had any funds in said tmnk sufficient to pay the amount of the aald taxea or the amount of $1141.08, the amount of mid check, and the mid affiant has at no time since the Issuing of said check had In the said First National tmnk sufficient funds In or with the mid bank to pay the same. That your affiant now aake that the mid receipt heretofore Issued by K. 8. Koblnett, county treasurer of Carbon county, lie declared void and that all the property now owned by your affiant herein lie thrown Into tax mle and that the county treasurer of Carbon coun ty, Utah, be and Is hereby authorised to so throw all of said property Into tax sale that the said treasurer of Carbon county may realise the amount of 11141. OS. or the amount of the taxes due for the year 1820. on the property of your affiant herein. Signed l. Frrd Aulicrt. Having accepted the Aulicrt chock as eaih and considering it as such ltobinett turned over to various funds their share of the money, and when the cheek was finally voided it le-ranecessary to ask that these several amounts lie returned. This will explain Robinetta letter to the state auditor and in which he said: have also acknowledged receipt of your supplementary sheet of tax sales. Please le advised that these clalma will lie audited within the near future, and the amount forwarded to you. Your explanation as to how this occurred la perfectly satisfactory to thla office. 1 am. youra very truly. Signed ) , Mark Tuttle. In order to undo to such an extent as may lie the calumnious trend of the published version of the matter, the ruunty commissioners addressed a letter to the Tribune, which that jut-icarried Wednesday, and ia here er given : Tribune Called Down. Keferrlng to an article appearing in your iasiie of June 7th relative to conditions of affairs of Carlam County Treasurer H. 8. ltobinett, we, a a board of county commissioners of t'arlion county, wish to state, and have made a matter of record, that we are familiar with the method in which Mr. Knliinett was, and ia. conducting the office aa cuunty treasurer, and find he la conducting the aaine to our . entire The items referred to, aggregating 1561. 01, have been fully and satisfactorily explained and meet with our approval, aa well aa that of the state auditor, as per letter on file with the county treasurer. Very resiiectfully, (Signed). A. E. Gibson. E. Bantschi, satlMfai-tlon- William Kdmnn, Coni in las toners. II. C. Smith, County Auditor. All this explanation was laid the euditora, hut no inrt of it which would tend to exculpate the treasurer was included in their report. An out and out falsehood seldom does anyone daninge. The half truth tmncconqianied by its sister explanation ia the most Hiiaonous of weapons ready to the hand of the and this exposure Iinqiagandist, of a little jxilitirnl venom applied with a skill which might have been acquired by a chwe study of the methods of a lately conquered world jsvvrt-r- , whose notorious work iigs in (hia line are now being directskill as ever, ed with as and from whom the whole world seems to lie absorb! ig unctuous sdup-labilitlie-fo- re e y. IS CHARGEDW1TH George RAPE e. fr of Denver, Colo., newcomer to Dries for the Midwest. He this week informed The Sun that it is the intention of the people he represents to soon put in a rig above Sunnyside, where his associates have a considerable holding of promising ground. During the past ten days he lias visited the Basin country around Duchesne and on as far east as the Colorado line and is much impressed with those sections. The Ilill Creek country is also lieing feriouely considered. O. It. Jay cox, also of the Colorado capital city, is an arrival of the week in Drice. He has taken leases for his principals out in the Duchesne country and is oxn to consideration of anything good over that way or in tho country south or east. Briefly sileaking, Irice is filled up with oilmen from almost everywhere and they are going and coming in every direction. With the work now going on any day may bring (he news of a gusher somewhere in this big J. Hanna Complained Against is By Cameron Woman. George J. Hanna waa yesterday arrested hv a deputy from Sheriff office on a charge of attenqited rajie. A'he roiiiplainiiig witness is Mrs. Larina Hadden of Canitrun. He is now in jail awaiting a preliminary hearing. He waa brought back here from Suit Lake City a few daya ago on the chcarge of paxsing worthless checks, hut the evidence lieing faulty he was discharged. He then went to Hanna ia a former private watchman at I'rice and afterwards drove an automobile for hire locally. Still luter he conducted the Riverside lrice and llcljs-r- . Droplark went he to Docatcllo, Ida ping this after jiuxsing had pajx-- at Salt Lake City. It was the latter that causer hia bring brought back to Utah from the Gem State. Kel-te- rs Camr-ron- . r In the litigation of Lucas Bozicevieh against the Kenilworth Mercantile company in which Justice W. II. Dramel of the Third District court held in favor of the defendant in a Robinett to Tuttle. lllilMiK KETFKXK 1 GOOI) SKA-SO- X suit involving damages over the death hand I you herewith claim against AM) IX 11AI. of a minor ehild the state supreme state and state achool fund for $Z78.-0- 9. written divided court, in a opinion, by state road. $138.54 state bounty, Justice J. E. Frick, last Wednesday five cents, their proportion of taxea Your man who subscribes and 4 amounting to $1141.08 for 18Z0, upheld the trial court. pays for a newspaper and every- - 4 ported as collected, but later thrown The action was originally begun by Into tax aale. As a matter of explana body who pretends to be anybody 4 the plaintiff against the Independent tion In this matter. I might state that dors so these days spends more 4 man who one Coal and Coke comjiany, the Crescent this tax la all against money each year on that newsNopaper than a magaxine because 4 Ice Cream company and the Kenil- gave me s check aa payment ontaxes liefore last vember the it's worth more to him. If It cost 4 day 30th, As the to worth Mercantile comjiany. him ten times aa much he would 4 became delinquent, requesting that 1 first and second defendants the action hold It a few daya until he had suffietlll buy it, and If the price waa 4 placed tieyond his means he 4 was dismissed in the lower court. It cient funds In the hank to cover, which would find some excuse for tor- - 4 develoiied later was to recover damages for the death I agreed to do, but itcover aaid check, he waa unable to rowing It. He would have It. tie- - 4 of a minor ehild of Lucas Bozicevich, that cause without It he la at great 4 and requested that payment lie made it being alleged that death was caused void and throw property Into tax sale. disadvantage with hia neighbor 4 lie wouldn't and competitor. from eating unwholesome and poison- 1 have issued a supplement to my tax what waa going on If be which know 18Z0, the for year mle report in ous ice cream resulting ptomaine 1 am mailing under separate cover. didn't have It. and he would be left standing still while everyone poisoning. H. 8. Koblnett. Treasurer. (Signed), around him kept moving on. The trial before a jury resulted in That no censure attaches to Hobi-ne- tt When a medium like the homea verdict favoring the defendants. from the state auditors office town paper ia ao close to the The plaintiff appealed. Justices hearts of the people when It la in this affair may plainly be gatherGideon and A. J. Weber dis- ed from Tuttles ao vital to them ia It any wonin fact which reply, der that the columns of that pasent from the opinion written by Jusgives assurance of perfect satisfaction place per are auch an Important tice Frick. In which to ad vert la 7 la It any with the transaction. Witness: 4 advertla-that wonder newspaper 4 Tuttle to Robinett Never mind the sins of the other lug bring Mg? return in good fellow. He probably considers them 4 season or bad I have yours of the 11th Inst., claims against the state on ac- mild compared to yours. 44444444444444444 Vnl-enti- wny, caiue into I'rice yesterday evening from the Huntington well. II told The Sun that worknieu are still fishing fur the tools which were lost some ten days ago at a depth of alrjut hundred feet. With their twenty-tw- o recovery drilling ia to lie resumed. Owing to the danger in allowing via itura alxiut the workings a sign has ately been pul up near the Ohio that Not that visitors are not allowed. we are unfriendly or1 have anything to conceal, oays the gentlman, hut there is always more or less danger to crowds that gather. But a short time ago the calf wheel there broke and tuiv out one side of the derriek-uiuaHad there been a crowd around at that time no telling how many of them might have lieen hurt. Hurley will lie at Drive and at and around the Huntington property until the first of the week. S. W. Gilison of the Carter interests locally this week announces that the rig and moat of the machinery for that eoiuianya first well in the Sail Rafael Swell is now on the ground. Drilling ought to Ixv well under way by the middle of July. There is yet to Ins taken to flic site of the first well a gasoline engine of a hundred and twenty hnrsrtnwer and a large shipment of rasing. Some trouble has been experienced during the past week in moving machinery Ik use of the damage to the roads south from the lute rains. The bridge over the Kan Rafael has been on the verge of going weeks. Workmen have utreng out thened it the last few daya and are at this time guarding it. The one at Tidwell 'a crossing out of Green River on the road aouth went down a few days ago with the high water. K J. Kasjier of the Castle Dale Oil conqiany, ojwrating some six or seven miles east of the Emery county seat, came in from there thia morning and will leave thia afternoon for Salt Lake City. The Ixire there is down about a hundred and fifty feet and Kasper says there ia a possibility of oil within three hundred. He say leasee were thia past week given on privately owned laud around Huntington at eighty-fiv- e to five hundred dollara an acre and an eighth in royalties. Also that the Ohio has the second drilling outfit coming fur the Huntington fields. ne 44444444444444444 O. V. Southworth field. DOINGS OF THE OILMEN THROUGH EA8TERN UTAH Sixteen locations were filed in the recorder's office at Drice yesterday Oil and Gas by the Carbon-Emercompany. They are near Wellington. R. S. Collett of Roosevelt and Salt Lake City was out at Myton the other day. He is protesting the applications of E. It. Winstrom and F. A. Strain of Myton for permits to prospect for oil in certain Hill Creek territory. He claims the land in question under the placer law and aays he has complied with all the requirements. I have expended for the people I represent thousand dollars about twenty-fiv- e since last November in that terriAt one time I had tory, says he. about eighty men at work. In addition to doing assessment work I have y (Continued on Page Four) - |