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Show GRAND VALLEY TIME :' LL VOLUME 33. MOAB, I SOMETHING DOING "EVERY MINUTE eens Rett tenet FRIDAY, commemoration «lebrations ever given in the town have provided more enjoyUtah's ment for everybody. natal day, the anniversary of the brought in the scalps 4 time for surcease of work exterminatsd 16,320 The and an occasion for thanksgiv- and unaided. took He grounds that Morgan had it for flies alone other five illegal purposes. The case will ing, and never.was there a more boys, who each received $1, and be tried in Justice Hammond's striking example of this spirit the amount of flies killed by each, than was manifested here during are: Alma Farnsworth, 15,520; Iven Hawks, 4,000; Fay Hamthe celebration. The program in the Star opera mond, 16,000; Alva Holyoak, the _ festivities 12,000; Carroll Meador. 800. house commenced The unusually small amount of | onthe 24th. Oscar W. McConkie, orator of the day, paid a the pests at present is thought glowing tribute to the pioneers to be directly due to the contest, who braved countless dangers the success of which exceeded and trials and made from a everybody's most:sanguine wilderness pectations. uninviting most + Lk what Utah is today. Mr. McConkie gave several instances of the bravery of the sturdy bands who first entered the state. Other well given numbers of the program, which followed the invocation by Frank M. Shafer, ~ were: Quartet, by Mr.‘and Mrs. | W.D. Hammond, Miss Cloe Larsnand C. A. Hammond; solo,Howard W. Balsley; recitation, Miss Cloe Larsen; ; piano solo, W. E. Tangreen; quartet, Mrs. HHH ¢.A. eH | FFF | ™ | | | | men, the being 20 to 18 in their favor. @ ‘he game belonged to either side - until the last inning, and it would LE : the game likely be repeated. will very e line-up was as follows: SINGLE MEN MARRIED MEN | ¥. 0. Empey | RC. Clark p ¢ ss 1 b. phases of the extension work that inhabited that section. On account of the high water of the San Juan river, the party al inspector has announced act as historian. that The immediate purpose of the peach crop this year will total 2,000 car loads, the largest pre- expedition is toexplore and vious crop. The apple crop cavate a large cliff dwelling the ex- in Segie canyon which Mr. Cum‘In preparation for the campaign tionally large, and the committee mings discovered on his last sum‘of the summer and next year. ‘will seek markets for apples as mer's trip and which from all ap‘The extension division ‘college which has of attracted the visiting county. especially San Juan He finds the agricultur- is also excep- pearances has never been diswell as peaches. It is proposed to advertise in turbed by man since its ancient ‘all parts of the United States inhabitants vacated it centuries the superiority of the Utah peach, | ago. The dwelling is of special and to create greater demand | interest in that its kiva, or cen- ‘for it. | tral ceremonial chamber, is of Mr. Taylor has recently visited| peculiar architecture, and differ- heretofore found. to exeavating this ‘night reported the fruit growers i| large dwelling which will take \everywhere as eager to co-oper-| | several weeks of hard work, the ‘ate and give Utah fruits a gen-' party also expects to explore eral boost: All express willing-| several large caves which were ness to support the movement! | discovered last year and, on the financially as well as otherwise. return trip, they will once more visit the gigantic natural bridge in San Juan county, the largest in the world, the various growing 'the state andon his sections return of | ent from any last: In addition ; HURT IN RACE AT PRICE. All of the historical material found on the expedition will be Price brought to the university and de- al conditions of the state in first class shape, there being in most A feature of the celebration was asun dance by some twenty or thirty northern Ute Indians, who had stopped here on. their way south. The dance took place in Main street, and was witnessed by a great crowd of peoThe Indians, gayly decked ple. ©. A. Johnson Albert Jacobs iin a very short Professor I time. Merrill finds the educational sen‘timent of the State more vigor- Wm. Brady Lee Elmer MAIDEN TRIP OF LAUNCH, | mesas in search of cliff dwellings and relics of the ancient people TO ADVERTISE THE PEACH, ten I + Ql Iter 3,000 DELEGATES TO ATTEND, ‘ous than ever before in the hisThere is a strong' ‘tory of Utah. Salt Lake City, J une 24,-Ap| | Jess Maxwell 2b. Knox Patterson ‘sentiment in favor of further in- | proximately 3,000 delegates are tank Sorensen 3 b. Robt. Armstrong study dustrializing our course of Arthur Loveridge r. f. expected to attend the coming Max Taylor in order to meet the necessities session of the Trans-Mississippi en Tomerlin ce. f. Harry Anderson Journal. as. Fish 1. f. Pete Schumway with feathers and bright clothes, of the time. -Logan /Commercial Congress in this city s 6P.G. Woods pitched several danced around ina ring as their 'Aug. 27-30. Many of the dele| ‘Mhings for the married men and musicians, in the center, beat gates will be accompanied by @ \.W. Crary for the single men. upon boxes and chanted, thus ‘members of their families and it ' +.B. Hammond, Jr. umpired the furnishing the music for the of the is safe to estimate on a crowd of The gasoline launch the _ Same, ! reason some ion 'more than 5,000 from all sections For Navigat River s. Green dancer Grand & i 2 lenty of excitement was pro- Indians did not enter into the | company was taken on its maiden _of the country. It may | Yided in the evening, when the spiritof the occasion. ‘excursion trip, Sunday, when a | Much good is certain to accrue - Moab and Monticello basket ball have been the unability of their ‘crowd went ‘to Utahasaresult of this conof young people @ ams played what was probably musicians to harmonize their This is guaranteed by the vention. on outing the enjoy to ‘down | We most bitterly contested game tunes properly, or 1£ may have ‘boat. The trip was made from the experience of Seattle in 1903 _ fver;seen in the Star opera masheen that these Utes are not ithe bridge to Millcreek and back when the first session of the Con7 house. Disagreement between ters of the artof sun dancing. land, save for the fact that a gress to be heldin the Northwest m the two teams over the decisions Anyway, their performance was ‘casting on one of the engines be- convened in that city. It is a a and broke, matter of record in the offices of "'the referee was the source of not what had been s ‘eame overheated Woods || %2G.A. Hammond Arizona, where for two months they will explore the canyons and posited in the state museum into the cliff-dweller country. of history and archaeology which is ‘to occupy the top floor of the central building now in course of construction. The party goes out under auspices of the Univerwire fence. It is reported he sity of Utah, but the actual exmatched heat. Albert Maxwell future as a wheat producing secd- received several cuts in the legs, pense of the trip is being dedefeated Albert Anderson an dj tion, remarking that undoubte who Ed Kerby ina relay race, which ly it will rival the best wheat none of which are necessarily frayed by Col. A. E. Wall, producing sections of the country serious. has financed so many expeditions was one of the best seen. the winners until the last play Considering the fact _Wasmade. | that neither bunch of players _ have had any practice, and that this is the first game of the sea| $0n, some very good playing was done,and Par-= Byron Cummings, left Salt Lake City Tuesday for San Juan county and the northern part of Brief word comes from that John E. Brown. who went sections bounteous crops which to that place last week to enter Taylor's sorrel mare, the latter promise a very prosperous season some of his horses in the 24th Especially races, was severely cut when one carried off the honors, and in for the Utah farmer. turn the buckskin outdistanced is Professor Merrill impressed of the horses he was riding left an outside brown mare in a with San Juan county, and its the race track and ran into a _ have been hard to have chosen -~ afternoon for Salt Lake City. While in town he was in consultation with President Widtsoe regarding some horse race, Albert Maxwe "‘Billy'' took first money, and in the pony race which followed, J. L. Taylor's brown won out. In a matched race between Hammonds' buckskin and Peck score Prof. Cummings and Grand UTAH IS PROSPERING, atTaylor, Mrs. Nora Loveridge and restoring order, and the game ‘tention throughout the entire Miss Cecelia Beyler; recitation, was completed. ‘country, due to the effectiveness A repreMrs. C. H. Ackerman. The score ended 24 to 18 in ofits work, isin the opinion of sentation of Utah in the early favor of Monticello. Professor Merrill better qualified days by several score of children Following are the players and ‘than ever before to carry on and under the direction of J. N. Rob- the positions taken by each: enlarge its activities. Miss Meerson, was given. MONTICELLO MOAB Cheyne, the new extension inAt two o'clock a dance was W. R. McConkie C Roy Wood structor in home economics has F Bert Adams after W. D. Hammond giveng:or the children, F John Redd ‘arrived and has already begun which the children's races were| L. L. Taylor The prebability of the Boyd Hammond 4G _ Leonard Perkins ‘work. held. At five o'clock the mar- Wm. Standifird G Elmer Decker 'passage of federai appropriation ried men and single men held the Horse racing was the chief ‘will largely increase the effectcenter of the stage with one of sport engaged in Thursday, and iveness of the college extension the most warmly contested base| some very good races were giv- ‘division. Professor Merril! has ball gomes ever played in Moab. | en. In the free-for-all saddle ‘just returned from a rather exThe game resulted in a victory ll's ‘tended trip throughout the state forthe married in the ty Off for Another Trip county oil fields by N. Levi, have to San Juan. installed a heavy standard rig to replace the small rig with which The Utah University archaeothey have been working for the logical party, in charge of Prof, past year. did not go by way of Moab and Bluff, the usual route, but continued on the railroad to Dole:es, Colorado, from which place they left on horses for San Juan. e party consists of Mr. Cummings, who has been chiefly instrumental in unearthing the e+ meet tomorrow night to launch ruins and discovering the natura vigorous campaign to give pub- al bridges in San Juan county; licity to Utah fruits. Stewart Young, an alumus of The particular aim of the meet- the eniversity who has made sevProfessor L. A. Merrill, director ing, and of the campaign, is to eral trips to the region and who of extension of the U. A. C. secure a market for this year's will act as official photographer, madea hurried visit of Logan unprecedented peach crop. J.;and Andrew Kerr, also an alumlast Thursday. Professor Mer- Edward Taylor, state horticultur- nus of the university, who will which continued throughout the game reached a climax, shortly was _ called, time before when two players-Decker of Monticello and Taylor of Moab- rill left Thursday Maggie Mrs. The British American Oil com- pany, represented 11. TO EXPLORE OLD CLIFF DWELLING Asa result of the mass meetSheriff Bliss and Marshal!; ing of fruit growers of the state Clark made another raid on the held Wednesday in the CommerRhodes building, last night, and cial club at Salt Lake City, a seized a small quantity of whisk- committee headed by Prest. John eyand various receptacles for A. Widtsoe of the Agricultural the handling of liquor, belonging college, and consisting of 11 men to Charles Grimes. This case representing nearly every fruit will also come up for trial. growing section in the state, will } FFF POSS FH OF FFF FFF Robertson, NUMBER court. ex- gave vent to their pent-up feelings and gavea miniature repitition of the Johnson-Flynn boxThe few blows that ing bout. were exchanged almost precipia free-for-all mix-up, tated but the cooler heads separated the contestants and succeeded in 26, 1912. The large machine was taken | to the well last week, and work The trial is to determine wheth- is being pushed by a good-sized er or not the state has the right crew. to destroy the liquor on the ee of some 24,300 flies. Kipling Wade entrance of the sturdy pioneers seco nd mone y, $5in cash. always is valley, Lake into Salt JULY at nace Sixty-four thousand, two hun- | The seizure of 75 quarts of dred and forty flies were exter- | Hayner whiskey, under the new minated as a result of the |Search and seizure law, was the flynet result of a raid by Sheriff, killing contest given by the town board and business men of Moab. Bliss and Marshal Clark on A. J. Morgan's camp near the river, Seven boys entered the contest, | N fonday morning . and each received a prize for his The whiskey is now in the poswork, session of the officers, and will Henry Goodman won the first remain sountil the trial of the prize, $10 in cash, having case, which takes place Monday. ‘7 Moab of Pioneer day, and few ® UTAH, OFFICERS MAKE RAID STANDARD RIG IN ~ AND SEIZE WHISKEY PLACE OF SMALLER IN BOYS' CONTEST Three days of enjoyable festivithe COUNTY, ance Te Celebration of Pioneer pay One of Moab's Best. | ties marked GRAND - "ntention. The Monticello playtoday, ‘everal races were given was 2 charged that the Moab team which of the best a _ Sayed unnecessarily roughly and _ t Alber which in race Wi it notobserve the rules of the stake won. The celebration sme, while the local players well with a dance at the Star Very emphatic in their de- close tonight. lons that the referee, who ‘om Monticello, acted more in Mr. and ' M i he M. Robertson, ve, capacity of coach for the se P. F. - team than of referee, and | Mrs to t wen n liva bred = showed decided parti- Rose the nd spe to the Monticello boys. Re Ae week, Quarre}j ng and altercations : retarding ‘the trip was i eS i IPR ne AX LEVY GUT HALF MILL, _ The state board of equalization ‘Monday determined that the tax ‘levy necessary to meet the generai expenses of the state gov‘ernment next year will be four ‘mills per dollar ad valorem on all itaxabie property in the state, thereby announcing a reduction of one-half mill from last year's ‘levy of 41-2 mills. This reducition will mean a saving of $100,000 to the taxpayers. The levy for the support of the high schools in the state is fixed at a one-half mill, the same amount as last year; and the public school levy will be three milis, also the same amount as the total the railroad companies that 7,000 last year, bringing tickets were sold to persons pre- of the state levy 7 1-2 mills. The total valuation of taxable the Congress. The broken part of the engine ‘sumably attending property in the state 1s now by anew Bgons ‘Only about half used their pass- placed at $200,000,000 is being - a great inpreferothers the wi coupons, age trips be ing, and regular crease over the estimates of a ing to remain in the Northwest. by the owners of the boat. new? -- ll The many attractions and ad- year ago. As fixed by the legislature, the estimate of the cost Miss Edith Corbin of Fruita, yantages of the state as a place of conducting the state affairs of residence will decide many of forCorbin, N. J. of daughter 1911-1912 is $950,000, and f Moab, arrived Friday the congress visitors to make during this figure was taken as the basis aS for a visit wi th Miss Melba Tay- their homes in Utah or to invest forthe board's assessment. = money here. ‘thereby as enna tor. the a success. speed, |