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Show DUCHESNE 20 YEARW ABD LAST AUGUST i The numerous friends of Bishop A. j M. Murdock will regret to learn that he has been compelled to go to Salt Lake to undergo an operation for serf-1 ous stomach trouble from which, he 1 has been a sufferer for several years. His early recovery Is earnestly hoped for by his legions of friends on the reservation. Wesley daysman has returned from several .weeks work at Eureka to his Strawberry river homestead. ', Miss Florence . Jepperson, 1 a graduate gradu-ate of the New England Conservatory ; of Music at Boston is visiting her parents par-ents Mr. and Mrs. Samuel. Jepperson. ( ou their Duchesne river homestead. She will give a concert at the town hall Sunday evening which will be a great-treat to-this community,' as she-Is she-Is one of the nao&t talented singers In Boston- . Quite a delegation of Theodore prlm-lnent prlm-lnent citizens are attending court . oa'' Heber this' week, among the number C. C. Clapper, M. M. Smith. J. A. Fortl, Eugene Hamilton and Enoch Brown. W. C, Perry left for a business trip to Salt Lake 'Saturday. - - Mrs.- W. S. Parsons, whose husband has a ranch down the river, was trading in town Tuesday. We regret to learn that Mr. Parsons Is threaten ed with almost total loss of sight. Arlington Snow and wife, the daughter of Mr. Thomas Firth, come from Provo Sunday to visit at the Arlington Arl-ington Hotel, which they will make their headquarters for fishing excursions excur-sions into the mountains. Surveyors Ed. F. Harmston . and Oraig Harmston of- Roosevelt, with T. H. Benson, C. H. Stepens, J. S. Michael, Ed. Hart, Byron 'Spratt and Earl Winslow, leave Monday to complete the survey and estimate of the 140 cubic second feet ditch that will water the lands Included in the upper Blue Bench Irrigation district. The survey will bee In the field three, or four weeks. , , Nine stockmen met at the Record office Saturday night and organized the Dnehne Cattle and Horse St ok association. William Barton was elected president, Victor Billings, vice-1 president and Barr Musser, secretary and treasurer of the association, which' Is the first ever organized in the reservation, reser-vation, if not in the state of Utah Every person owning stock n ,the Uinta Basin is eligible to qejnbepj ship. When the nientfjershlp is larger apl plication will be made to enter Nation ul Slock Association - - W. C. Perry returned Saturday from a week's visit in Salt Lake dun-lng dun-lng the G. A, R. celebration. Altho Salt Lake was quite busy Mr. Terry expres-ea expres-ea himself as very glad to return to Theodore which looks betterthan any place he saw on the trip. v.- The West Bench Irrigation district has received from Heber the-certificates of Its directors who were elected May 22. The ' directors have already sent away their oaths of office and bonds and propose to call a bond elc-tlon elc-tlon as soon as papers are filed with county clerk at Heber. John 11. Wilson, accompnnied by his sons, Wilford, Orson, Clarence and James, his daughter Mlxs Mnry;WiIson and Misses Delia Spratt -and Martha Partridge returned 'Saturday from a week's outing trout fishing at lted Creek, Mr. and Mrs, George Hemphill, Mr. and 'Mrs. Percy Gardner, Mrs, George. Mrs. JjoriiKon and Misses Alberta Bjornsim and Hazel Hemphill are members of a fishing party out near Moonlight lake on Lake Fork.. In the largest automobile jet seen in ' this section F. S. Cooper, Ted Cooper, Ray Carson and Walter Jenkinson, all of Aspeny.Colo., stopped over Friday night In town meeting many old friends. Next morning they continued in their trip to the exposition at Seattle Se-attle and a run down the Pa duo Coast rLoa Angeles. Clyde ,H.. Stephens, Eugene Iliamll- J (on, Ed Hart and Byron Spratt came ! In from the high line Blue 'Bench sur- j rey Saturday in quest of. mor' provisions. provi-sions. They expect "Surveyor Harmston jmaking good progress with the survey fnd that a director of the lower dia-rlct dia-rlct with a number of land owners there has arranged to go oyer the upper up-per district survey . at an early date. It Is to be hoped that the two districts 'Ire coming a. realize, that in uniou. there Is strength and will build a joint ditch from Rock creek to the edge of the. bench, thereJy not only saving $30,000 or $40,000 in initial, cost of construction but $1,000 or. more every year in maintaining expenses. Petitions for and against the open: ing of a saloon in Theodore are. being curculated and very few people are standing neutral in the contest. ? P. W. Fouce brings word from the government carpenter ditch camp that Supt. J, J. Atkinson . has carpenter crews ready to put In 18 bridges over canal and main laterals of the Indian ditch between Theodore and. Myton as soon as the new county road on the south side of the Duchesene river -is located by the deputy coutny surveyor. Besides being a mile shorter and much less hilly than the north bank .road the new highway will be of great Benefit Bene-fit to, the south bank settlers, who are now more numerous than those on the north bank of the Duchesne. . . |