Show UFE LIFE IN MOAB TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK A daughter was bon born to mr and mrs george hurley i II 11 clark left for denver on mining business busine gs the assay office of J IL jonea jones was ready re ady for business seth dunn had erected a cabin on the th e tithing lot mrs tom trout and family returned from their winters win tera visit to alpine anz A riz the family of lester T taylor aylor was cretu returning ing to moab from salt bait lake city A jolly crowd assembled at the H H day home where a party and dance were held samuel J scharf of dewey dew ey a vet eran of the war was in moab making application for a pen ion on A sudden rise in the dolores river caused an ice fee gorge and arid the ferry boat at dewey was completely wrecked jesse maxwell earnest camson and letter lester walker left this week for canada intending to ride the entire distance on oil horses A A neff county clerk left this week for an unknown point the tho supposition being that he waa was going to grand junction to be marT married frank hall had been appointed by the town board to the position of road overseer or in ot other her word words chief or the bureau of highway highways and sewers ewers harry montgomery and dr J W 1 williams were circulating a petition asking for the repair of the sand flata flats road david the eldest son of mr air and mrs john Tan grent died this week after an extended illness he was about twenty years of age and had been an invalid mos most t of his life W S mitchell representative of the order of washington who had been in moab for some time left this week the local order had been doubled in membership during his tay stay while walking alone along the bank of grand river near the mouth of mill creek R L ran across what later proved to be the skeleton of an indian the indian had evidently been burled buried about ten years previously along the bank of the river and a change in the bed of tho stream ha had d washed up the body hugh linn up who had been a prospector in the la sal district for tho the past six years died this week for some time past he be had made his home born at the burkholder ranch on the mesa he was 60 years of age and had served in the navy during the cival war eighteen years of his life had been spent in naval service by an act of congress the lands of the indian reservation in the uintah basin were to be thrown oiw to public settlement after the indians had been allotted their the manner of offering the lands to the public bublic was left to tho the dent angress congress also adopted a provision retaining the cliff dwellers ruins at mesa verde colo |