Show j l r ( & mes-Ittiirppnitettt tin A 0XS0L1DATI0N 4G VOLUME MS ( MOAB LAPHAM O GRAND BUSY THE GRAND VALLEY COUNTY UTAH THURSDAY IT EDUCATION HAS O MEETINGS nrr-1 'he'll 0£ POWN TO KOSMAL JEfORt e ET THROCfeH WITH HIM I GHENT AT WILED he county board of education held meetings during the past Saturday and the other week TuesPi esent President C A SvSn' M were Millcr'IL W- Balsley anti Superintendent DI) ftq L McCorkle The janitor was instructed to keep the bd park and athletic field clear of weeds I two one on day MEETS VIL KNOW STOCKMAN DEATH UNDER terrible O SPEEDING WHEELS PASSENGER BODY IS MUTILATED The James Lapham known this pin AUGUST INDEPENDENT NUMBER 1920 5 AVORABLE - - - WZlKMMiy AT NvnAf? DEPORTED SHOWING OIL LOCAL Of WELL 35 h STRIKE RICH OBE j CARSES i (CM'MOR MUCH I While waiting for the arrival of a heavy string of tools which should be received this week the drillers of the well the on Big Six lense across the river are today casing off the small flow of surface water and getting the hold in shape for vigorous operations! The hole will be reamed out to a depth of 1Q4 feet where the casing will be set While the surface water is in no the indications during way serioU8t the past week are that the bit is sand and it is considered a best to drill in with dry hole During the past week drilling oper have ations proceeded steadily slow due progress was macle light to the hard formation and the tools The formation is a limestone with stringers of hard When pan drilling in the softer lime formation colors are in evidence gas and oil and this is believed to indicate that the drill is on ton of a sand The heavy stem which was sent away for repairs should arrive in a day or two and- will greatly facilitate the work Much better progress through the hard formation will then i I i ! 1 ( ! deed to the Dalton lot recentchased by the board and which furnishes room for the expansion of the playground facilities was ordered recorded The clerk was asked to secure on the repair work needed at the Central and High schools D A Johnson has declined the ap-' pointment as janitor for the ensuing and the year clerk was authorized to advertisefor bids for the position Petitions were received asking that schools be established at the pump house east of Cisco and at Gateway just over the border from Colorado he president was authorized to ad-i the vise vise pump house people that the board would consider with favor tho petitionto establish a school there if a suitable room can be secured but that the board could not favor a large investment in a building since the residence of half of tkQ k In people is temporary regard to petition" r'zx the Gateway (Ka It the judginent of the board that was the showing v stock-a THE ! t l well AND Reducing n i77T jbbf i TIMES i I BIG EXCITEMENT 8 CARRYING BODY O QUARTZ VALUES IN EXCESS O $2000 A TON ENCOUNTEREI) AT MINERS' BASIN ACCORDNIG TO REPORT approaching I ter-Crescounty met with man A rich strike of gold ore carrying miles west of rible death two has values in excess of $2000 per ton morning when he was cent Sunday been made at Miner's basin according by a over His run passenger train to a report received through body frightfully mangled both was Although sources this week and his bead being completely arms efforts it is said have been made to severed The body was not discovered keep the discovery a secret for the until nine o'clock Monday morning time being the story "leaked out" and although the accident occurred about as a result there is feverish excitement five o'clock in the basin Dozens of locations Just how the tragedy occurred has have been made there during not as yet been definitely determined thy Phst ten days and from present and will probably forever remain a indications there will be a revival of Lapham had been at of mystery Mr be possible the boom twenty years ago when Salt Lake visiting his family He Basin boosted a population of several INISHING arrived Saturday night at Green River UP hundred people The taxpayers of Grand county have issued bonds in the sum of over $60and as he The st rike is reported to have been where he had a horse B of Hyde 000 to complete the Moab-Thompsons pf the firm post made bv owler and Robert G road This money is to be turned & E Black Hyde M the was anxious to leave Thompsons for ebntiactors was in Moab mountain just south over o on state and will be expended by the state road commission The this morning en the Book mountains early Sunday he route to Salt Lake Bryant of the this Tornado property The vein people of decided county are entitled to know just how it is to be spent - whether lo meet with the state road commission to ride from Green River to is to be of declared sufficient thickness Just'Br the that his is (Tie they for their of it He the esare to get value received or whether it or any part reports crow to during night He money a heavy production and Thompsons assure SJ f00' good on the t° be wasted has been the in the past of the making headway the 's as unfortunate on gold quartz around $2000 left and T (Vi'r off case some assays Green River about midnight Goan Ottered to sell the lumber work They are working per ton work ln tms countJ'in finishing was good spirits and apparently in a number of small buildings used from Muleshoe toward Moab The strike according to the report road work for $200 and The Times-lndejiendent the the best of Trustees supported the bond proposal believing that the up work The Moab-Muleshoe in health This was the tor is fide one and Moab a bona project will be of him alive Miller were appointed as post road ready for surfacing reaching last seen He was struck Muller and work once under way should be completed and that the road offi-i the vein is believed to be the source a committee to examine the buildings c'als piofiting by the mistakes soon by the first section of of the past cf the rich float passenger would give an intelligentand carecommon in forthe foot long with authority to act train No just west of the cut hills of the mountains and which We The superitendent reported that the fn! adn imsuaticn of the work in the future now intend to keep the BUY SEVEN CLAIMS two miles west of Crescent Lapham high searching for prospectors have been people info: med to the best of our ability the track school teaching as to just how the funds which apparently lying on corps is now While the details of the was years N complete G Crandall of Provo Grand county mortgaged itself to raise are expended Under the aove head-ling The York Mining company today thirty when the train hit him discovery and tho plans for development Miss and Edna Penfield of purchased carnotite claims from R ruita seven Sheriff W J Bliss Coroner W we expect to make a weekly report to the eitLens of this county on the have not been given out it is having been added to the list John Hill The properties are located A and the that the Wheat and County Attorney 0 ymwI qiI Inn discoverers plan tentative appointments along Cane springs wash M were ratified work and that shipments of Tangren went to Green River ofMonday It is a fact no one by the would attempt to deny that there has been a deplorable the board There is- still one vacStephens superintendent of the com-pan to conduct an investigation the fabulously rich ore will commence the school of the road in the still of closed the deal with Hill Central funds past And more deplorable hundreds Mr Engineer Chadwick cancy m carps waste death of Lapham soon and It is ireman Qualls were summoned dollarsare still being frittered away each week and the people are not getting stated that prospectors are by the officers and told what MAKES BIG CHARGED WITH hurrying to the basin and within value received on all of the expenditures Some of the bridge projects on the they a few weeks the old camp will be knew of the' occurrence Moab-Thompsons road have been handled in a way that is little short of crimito their statements experiencing all the excitement and they saw nal Several months atro a substantial bridge in Moab canvon that had been of a'lmom town a saddled horse standing by the side activity IRST DHDI II ATIflM P A IM DEGREE of the track just as the at a cost of less than $500 owler and train emerged was torn out because it did not come Up Messrs Bryant have lUr ULnl IIJIl unlll in the basin from the long cut west of Crescent of the engineers A bridge started been persistently working specifications government new was for The twenty engine blew the whistle and the A years large crew was employed for several months The abutments were put in horse found them there jumped onto the track and ran summer has and then it was necessary to wait for the steel timbers The timbers arrived and the 'I'fae engineer pluck and optimism which ahead of the engine O 211 INCREASE OR NEARLY 40 MEXICAN WHO KILLED HIS WI the back the job It that the steel to stop the in and put on then found was they have manifested has been was unable train time crew was was PER CENT SHOWN DURING AND ALLEGED PARAMOUR and Salt to of the too Lake and instructions were received Their horse wa struck after he small Word was sent to success many WILL HAVE PRELIMIN will be had PAST DECADE PROBABLY of In the friends highly pleased with run about 400 yards The fireman hold the timbers meantime the up the work pending arrival new this 1200 ARY IN EW DAYS BE latest news emanating from the happened to look down about the PEOPLE RESIDE will It be several more months bridge crew has been drawing down pay that the time the basin and trust discovery horse was first seen and he IN JUDGE W IL VALLEY the ORE be the In the meantime be perhaps before work can resumed on bridge ns reported saw what appeared to be a bundle of proves to clothes road is practically blocked at this point and has been for several months Anunder the engine but owing to the to tell darkness unable Moab has a present population of other instance of this inefficiencyis found in the bridge across Klondike wash WALKS was whether or not it was the body of a 856 is A et shut and killed EASY 615 in 1910 This six months ago and a splendid structure Eutimio Buran who GAME people against bridge was completed man loy The engineer stopped the train AT GREEN RIVER to an announcement made it has been lying idle for half a year waiting for the construction of the ap- h's wife and Christino Jnrimjl If her at a short distance away and A a'ieged paramour nt Thompsons phoned to the dispatcher that he few days' work by a couple of men and teams would place the had yesterday by the census bureau The pro aches The Moab baseball team had easy is hit a all of the traffic Utah morning charged with mur-cet saddled horse and that a man gain is 241 people of nearly 40 per in use Meanwhile to and from southeastern bridge sailing at Green River Sunday when in the first might also have been killed The degree for both homicides cent muddy and at times impassable arroyo not-twenty it defeated tho team of the neighboring passes through a deep then sent orders to the second in the city by a of 18 to 12 complaint issued by The The per cent of increase made by feet from the big massive bridge which evidently was constructed for onia-I to stop at Cres-CPTlIsection of No targrcn tins game was so score slow to be uninteresting is O A as is of the that Court House wash another unty Attorney Tliolzn rrnUnri Moab one biggest has mental The submerged bridge over JAYAn purposes first 141 vo ugauun after the few innings inHuv xmo Tinfir the but the in The the lack oi that has been all too on the local road week dale preliminary done of this train been shown Utah population example of system common was when the local team ran up such a big crew only find has been set it will could th hearing not but lead horse They refigures for Moab include only the peo-‘ work that the result of the A concrete slab was built across the wash last year in accordance wnn be lated game was the hold facts to citizens of Green nip insidinrr within the incorporated within the next four or five certain IL Over The Moab team hammered r itiunrinnc Mnn YIOOH IODD oOUH LIIVIt r dim m na Al n engiiietia opwiAn-aviviio the ball jonn rsiacK ruray limits ot the town Sceiai hundred days according to County Attorney rAnctriirtinir over the lot and in one inning out to 4ui uil iVrtiiUH uui XX went make a careful nemde reside outside of the town lim ‘alter WOIK was suaiuu VC n Hitnew 10 made The Green River more Lx iirlx In and & runs team search Lu H Patterson Constan-l also batted fairly well but the Moab The found m jwt om Lapham's body its and the population of the valley one a crew nas neen enipwyuu uu uno -PT Tangren tine partially hidden in a ditch by the side will easily attorneys for the defendant reach 1200 the minable period because for three months the foreman was not supplied with team put up a good defense In ot nt the 400 east of the only will be held field track about yards is probably and he to mix by the cement went The hearing before W their Moab commoncompelled hand tnat Alter victory was certhe mixer was lnnf kno the local body of the horse The strange JLy 2- ckntvn a concrete Kill R the Lil 41 III aah tvuilbjf vncn 41 (Ima n D'l tf) Wheat justice of team did not show kJ Lr zixTz zi vnlvnr peace at Inin feature was the fact of Into the stiuctu au UK UIRCj that of the AflU Mint' mm deone increase with exception much enthusiasm and the in Moab game bur Moab canyon but for some reason was Lapham's boots was still in the saddle an nf inn ra"f the state was lying practicallyidle eh ped into ITU kVtai norm something of and OUkU MUMUH4VIVH which eonduct-' tlesque the other boot last week is inally the Couithouse The coroner's jury nor moved to the place where it was most needed The Green River team wan was found near county as announced th? ed man's body 1910 apa hearing at Thompsons riday handicappedby an injury to two of 1808 an increase of 213 over fnnman whs sunn ied with a small mixer and the woik is at last this The its players theory of the is is than that in that the Scott officers that This increase smaller HidJJt brought a verdict killing catcher and Norwood CHdbt nAivtnbfinn hut is bi'lIHT hindered by floods which are common Lapham having all ryinrlo in the town of Moab and s been up there pvavn f lx tli third baseman collided while Jaramillo and Mrs Duran was night had dozed while riding along evidently has been a marked falling time of the year trying for a high fowl and both were felonious The jury consisted of P A the has that is too and that the of the if people been there altogether track horse had off in some smaller communiMoab C injured necessitating their retire The observation o: Clark coroner and M W Morse either stumbled or jumped throwing lies The detailed population figures and dillv-dallving "soldiering" in connection with the local road work E Baldwin and M W Geer ment the rider onto the aT yet been n zxv The lineup was as follows: track and probably of the county have not riday no system no ellieiency rvxinis does not appiy io Duran was brought to Moab There seems to be no head stunning him of RIVER The fact that one made public by MOAB the foremen evening Sheriff W J Bliss and is GREEN all have done splendid work ip the lace of uapham's boots wa still in the stirScott c crews for some of Boyle being held at the county jail rpp lf the obstacles saddle indicates conclu-thrown unsurmountable It is that the will Tasker p Baird LIST probable sively that DRAWN case he in lb too much joy-riding state trucks burning trial in the district Thomson from the JURY has been altogether to nt Cheney horse was AUGUST There come court COURT the state's gasoline We do not believethe state sert those trucks down here the Amrust term 2b OR Woods Although the de Dufford The s Harris condition of the man's bodv if he desires fendant can await the Gilles Attorney for that 3b inriiAz4iii purpose Dalton County Clerk R J Thomson "ukchw mat the entire train ran session of court fu trial Norwood road started two weeks ago has not proceeded itNovember 0Ver hirnThe borlv 0 A and of surfacing the post rf al-1 Tangren Treasurer The work is that both the Thompson Bailey mutilated understood state was the rtost results and defense desire an early hearing Howland cf beyond ivVUlilllLlUIl and(I all of Kelley met Monday pursuant far enough to arrive at any definite conclusion as to what Baldwin recognition HI Charles n safe II If clothes were torn to the George Christensen mile of road has and it is a of and Tasker Reeves from it order of Judgejury be been shaled Burial Jaramillo About a Mrs Duran list for the are going to for Scott and J Riv-1 and the Green substituted taken to Green drew close the gets under place-at Saturday Was the cost has to $5000 After work ‘took Thompsons to sav been for the aT!° from there shipped to Cheney Norwood after third Grand August term of court which convenes is Christino One strong Jaramillo's correct hename better headway will be made u'kere burial took place rhe however it is probable that August 23 jurors nave ueen way Jiron although generally inning is at the was kns is that the shale not'leveled time Lapham was employed by the summoned to appear at p on ppn entered by the of in m known Jaramillo name Is fac t that this livestock outfit lust which consists ot it not a this section BIG OPERATIONS TO He is survives the 24th The "ri dumping leaving the road almost impassable T w'fe U START IN DRY VALLEY whom he married a 20 jurors follows: zx 18 It cue ivau u vuv xaa H shale hardens quickly and that it win be amicuii to eve ears a£°' T T Pete Shumway J drAd He has hun' arson n in ir iu rii ipu VOTERS' Will Jos Johnterial js al to rPlTlain ivr clliv two Hl nuos vvnaro ABSENT LAW Extensive operations on the camo‘rienis throughoutthis sec-rrio' Hammond Standifird AWOH IVBLUI VIV 11 IO UH'"'"tinn the oi ine in k ° has steadfastly upheld administration Y'EARitite properties valley are A Mei IN THIS Dry recently deeply shocked and son Manville oiewaic The Times-Independent Baldwin purchased is from the Thomas Kearns untimely Tom Taylor J N Corbin C E road hoping and believing that a system would eventually death news °f work in the past D A Oscar Stewart The absent voters' law passed by estate by the Tungsten Products cor Johnson And we are free to better results would be obtained T be devised whereby will Woods and J the last legislature will be in effect poration within a fewweeks Hudson P G commence Sam has done A lot of fine grade that in splendid work been the In to II K EXT Monday Carlos Wilcox most cases at coming election November according Thurber is admit first Duncan all of Moab still being made on Under the provisions of this law a superintendent of the M Waring Geo W Wisterof has been built But mistakes that no one can justify are company who Elgin J REGISTRATION DAY' the at Thompsons Sunday Mr IX M' McBride and John E Pace voter although not at home on election was We do not intend to remain passive any longer while some of the work day unsatisfactory cast his ballot In his Thurber was accompaniedby Jack M°nday the is dwindling dwindling with may 9 will be Cisco dwindling away will fim August people's money be local home district by applying to the Kern who manager for iCTstration day In Utah for the clerk of his for resultsto show for it an absent the Tungsten corporation The ore county county electioP this fall WORK thorand leaders voters' This will be sent both HOODLUMS AT ballot which had been stored at Thompsons kAAP that some member of the state road commissionwho is Parties are urging thmk McGonagle or to him by mail and he must return for several years will be shipped out iltat work say State Engineer Tho0Ut estate to register voters to the fact early called nmrhlv familiar with construction Attention isp r at Kern is now supervising -u a io me once and Mr e are aucu county ciera of the rieight registration davs come to the county and make a thorough carevne fn '" the loading of this ore uay4 fjunng piu wcck foaQ Ujiiguicei Inasmuch as absent eso "7 August xejsi&urttiiuri some 9 917 I? and 28 and oif the notices ot registration pusteu Iul investigation It is planned to commence shipments Oetoh r K Ro civ ivuuc voters' ballots mav not roach the 10 Off 12 26 have hpen oeen desuesO and 27 several of the throughoutthe town- ko-a - county clerk until days after ore stored in Dry valley These notices should the law the at Tf'TTLE RESIGNS troved by boys of election Mr Thurber declared exhibition vne new may have uie once SPEND aa number number of exhibition and and passenger eiauunof new iaw nave TO xrnen PEAPI MOAB EDI LU bi KAU nf th$ may the of the remain posted until the last of October MANY x xeffect IcPAninu keeping result Mining operations on the claims will e & Prnk and RIVER flight in for also be SEEK to destroy or mutilate them AT GREEN election doubt time after resumed on an extensive scale NOMINATION SUNDAY some strictlv in violation of the law ably 75 is people from Moab were m the election day or until all of the abSuperintendentThurber stated that putarha Tuttle who has been he have madeanda practice would Bovs of Moab and a arrive in Moab some time very enjoyable day sent voters' ballots are received notices A larce delegation of Moab people delegation ‘his He has state tinder Joseph of "tearing down it signs spent week been busy in the gran tea Green ecu River tain the' J B Lincoln G Kelley seeming to take for for £(Went ent to W err xwe oun aythe tknwascCaptain Walter Ainslee of Skews superintendent of the Gateway country for some time getting Mift4 yJunder that pday from office Mr Tutpurpose between Moab the tie they are put up Colorado Aviation corporation had his Keystone Metals company operating operations under on n game way will that an example incident-1 big to known in Moab will is stated Curtiss machine there and on Polar arrived yesterday Pickett property recently purchased many mesa a handdlte the offenders u rrpen River teams and bv his f°r people went up for flights spend a day here with his family state auditor at made of some of is stopped airplane which made company e of the hoodlumism Republicans the of ' a estimates although : 1 THE SO 1 i ' riftit i I i I MAY PEOPLE KNOW reliable j ! WORK i I I i I x ff I I l- construction i 1 I ' 1-al i 1 j extensive I 1 1 1 understood o 1 I I already MOAB DURAN According I MURDER ic'nst-ructed Practically‘very I I I I deserving ‘ WHEAT MOAB according WITH AWAY ‘ riday I dispatcher i 1 I 1 i ' 4 1 i a v I 1 x t-- x i j 1 (' i i 4 -nd --- I 4 c 1 -f J 1 1 t i -- zx-w u n j i t 1 -- w x- V - 1 i 1 i x 4 1 " i 1 I i i ' 1 L 4 J i k I l 1 t- t : 1 x 1 4 - -zx4- 1 J ' I l-x al-most ' " I I I assertion i ' ' L 1 1 ----- ‘ c j-5UP - 4 1- a - -x t t n-t 1 i ' 1 T S i - - - e - C 1 1 1 1 4 I J ----- EECT 1 j - I - ? -o- : e - 2 -- t - t ' i -effect - de-Kirie t : -rjtor t i : - j i i - i I I I ' H 1 |