OCR Text |
Show f PT.OVG FUELIC of Tot reading matter Its so easy you .1 not have any responsibility no troublesome better class, get The Post an(i the Pre' the Buums with it distributers and extra azines free. PROVOS POPULAR NEWSPAPER NO. 218 UTAH postage wiien you advertise in the newspaper. And you know its going into the home. mag- PRO 0 CITY, UTAH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1917 VOLUME VII. Buffalo Bills Horse in Funeral March ANDREW KNUDSEN HAS NAR- TROOPS ON BORDER GET FIRST TASTE OF BATTLE ROW ESCAPE WHEN BARN VHEN MEXICANS START FIGHT lieutenant Arns Leads Men In Counter At - tack to Save Ameri can Cowboys Who Ovqr Border For Cattle GOES DOWN; ELBERTA DISTRICT MAY BE FIELD FOR SHOWS SUGAR FACTORY IN Shall Elberta enter the augar beet iMme up last I When 'Mexicans attempted to pre- week when a Dentr man came to vent cowboys In the employ of the Provo and went oer the situation Arivaca Land and Cattle company wi'h a number of local men There from driving a bunch of cattle that are at least 6oo0 acres of land in the population was gtv Uncle Sara in his tensus report Today he estimate Provos population at 10,641 souls, an in less than six years of increase 172.) snd should the increase continue for the net four years at the same rate, Provos per centage will show the best it has for years. The outlook for Provos fciowth, however, is equal if not better than that of the larger cities of the state. The era of development which is coming to Utah county and to Provo especially should increase the population of this city during the period up to the next taking of the national lad strayed over the International Elberta, Goshen and Mosida disboundary ho back Into Arizona, the tricts that are adapted to the browth Utah Cavalry boys had their first of sugar beets Following the mans experience In standing up before a visit to the state, the Herald-Republica- tullets. The cowboys were attending Btrlctly to business at Ruby when Mexicans sneaking bushes opened fire on them. There were only six cowboys but it the boyh who Was not long before were doing duty in that section were in the thickest of the fray and" bulacross the border lets were flying of n of Saturday saia: Fertile tracts -- In 1910 Provos oil as 892.1 by industn? That quettion fasllade Wind and Snow Prove Too Much For Co- B 6 GAIN unty Infirmery Hay Barn; Loss Will Be POPULATION About $600.00 - PROVO CENSUS -j- -- IRAN SAVED extending through Late last Friday afterneon Super-mt-i ndciit Audiew Kuudsen of the Aountv infirmary and one of the Inmates had a vety narrow escape from being bulled under the big barn and Mr. Knudsen wa possible death. making Lis rounds for the afternoon when be noticed the big hay barn, width had a capacity of from sixty-tseventy tons of hay giving away under the pressure of the wind and the weight of snow. Fearing that eithen some of the inmates or stock might be in the way should the barn fall the superintendent ran around to the side to which It was tipping. There he saw one of the inmates and rushed forward to his rescue. He grabbed the man and drew him away Just in time. The barn lurched further to the side and fell to the earth with a terrific crash. The two mens hats were blown off and went flying through the alp for a distance of more than forty yards and the men were blown over. The barn waa a total wreck and the loss to the county wil be approximately $600. Mr. Knndsen Is . rejoicing over saving the man frona what might have been hla death. Just as luck woul have it the horses and cattle were all away from tbd barn when It went crashing to the - - , ., earth. The heavy snow fall haa caused a number of barna to cave In this winter and the losae amount to many Mosida and reaching far out over the gentle slopes on the west shore of Utah lake are reported to be included census. In a plan of Denver capitalists to enThe census of Salt Lake is estiin the raising of sugar beets gage mated at 117,399 up to July 1, 1916 on a' mammoth scale. It is reportSalt and that of Ogden at 31,404. ed that the American Sugar company Lake is claiming 10,000 more than the of Denver is behind the enterprise. thick and fast. , The most conspicuous figure in the led through the streets of Denver, estimate shows. The soil has already been declared The cowboys were first attacked With the rest of the country havsuperior to any in the state for sugar funeral procession of Buffalo Bill in where an enormous crowd turned out rnd when they found that the Mex-ean- s beet ing a normal increase the population Denver was his old horse, which he raising. d by one of the old friends TThe were after them they returned of Utah county will undoubtedly pa3s I ridden for several years, inis During an examination of the gcout and showmaa. the tire. Word was sent from across lands from the the 50,000 mark by the taking of the railstandpoint of photograph shows the horse being next census and it may reach very the line to Lieutenant Arns and to road of the proximity representatives Lieutenant Jensen and they were soon prospective Investors made a study close to 60,000 by the time the next on the Job with a small force of men. oL distances in CO-UNTgovernment census is taken. t, Y the Immediate Then the Mexicans , brought up reiacording to information receivnforcements snd the skirmish was ed last night The building of a railMOVIES"- TO BE -Sea la earnest The Utah boys took road from Mosida to th Alberta on , tharge of a stone house near the the Denver and Rio Grande, a disWm. M. Wilson of the Publicity. Department of the ComRuby nine and got extremely busy. tance of AT- - PROVO eight miles, is being con, Whenever one of the Mexicans would sidered In addition to the construcmercial Club is in receipt of an extensively signed petition show his head above the bushes he automobile truck tion of an from the people of Santaquin asking the County CommissionBy consistent corresponding. Mr. became & target for the men In the course. same over the roag Ashton, manager of the Columbia house. ers to take up the matter of a paved highway through the The revival of the old plan of theatre, has succeeded in bringing hundreds of dollars for this section While the skirmish raged. Captain of the signers are farma freight water route over percent Fully seventy-fiv- e county. nd Pritchard Motion Pic- alone. Gaines Bassett in command of Troop F rer- Utah lake to the nearest point of the of the fact that the people of the agwhich to Provo. The mois ers ture significant company eived word of the fight and with Rio Grande, which skirts the east vie men are here to proai. w one PAROWAN MAN DIED ricultural districts are prone to appreciate the Advantages the troop hurried to the front By shore line of the lake, is reported to IN LOCAL HOSPITAL, reel comedy for the Columbia theathat a highway of 'this nature will give them. This matter the time 'the reinforcements had arr- be under consideration. Engineers of tre. of bonding the county for sufficient funds to construct a ived, however, it to too late to the Utah-Idah- o Sugar company in the Frank L Bentley, the Mr. Jack Gains, formerly comedian take part, for Lieut. Arns had left course of road Of this nature with loops covering the territory coninvestigations of several comedies son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bentley of the of director and Vogue s guard at the atone house and had tiguous to the sugar factories, will very shortly be brought years ago concluded that the water remembered by the mo- Parowan, died at the Provo General will be ruihed across the border. When he route would not be profitable In the to the attention of the commissioners, with a request that an vie goers as a person who puts over hospital last Friday night, following reached the place where the Mexielecion for this purpose be called at once. an attack of pneumonia. He was hauling of beets since they would the goods. cans had been located they were gone have to he handled so many times lostricken with the disease while at Mr. Wilson informs us that estimates covering costof will of be The entirely picture but there were blood stains to show that it would render the water route with home and was brought here for treatr for on will be and tbe present comparison cal talent etaged etc., construction, maintenance, where they had been hidden. But these undertaking prohibitive. streets of Provo as well as on the ment. lie is survived by his parents, costs of maintenance will shortly be given to the public for In describing the battle Lieutenant obstacles may be overcome by the Columbia theatre stage. The staging three brothers and two sisters and their consideration, and he also says that the people will be Arns said' new water methods under considerawill be announced later as Movie the remains were shipped to Paroinexpensively they may "I was called greatly surprised to find out just howsmooth-surfacefrom Arivaca to tion. ' wan for burial. NIghL" permaRoby early enjoy tTie pleasure of travel over Friday morning to reinfHowever, it is admitted in finanwho may be interested In Those orce ten Utah Lon Atwood was sentenced to pay nently constructed, modern roads. In fact, everything points guardsmen and six cial circles that the new effort to the picture and all of the local mohave the that cowboys who had been attacked by make the Mosida tracts highly praf-abou-t may and that is, people batone conclusion, to the vie aspirants, please see Mr. Jack a fine of $20 for an "assault and to the over cost a say twenty armed Mexicans. whistle present, a took which no ltable in the raising of sugar beets at afthis privilege perceptible place tery Gaines at the Columbia theatre "My men had little difficulty In wil be undertaken this spring and trouble and of equipJustice of Former time short wonderful time, ago. saving ter ten o'clock Wednesday morning nothing of the teaching the harassed little band un- - that thousands pf acres of beets may complainthe Peace Voorhees was follows improvements of this nature. which ment naturally tar fire, hut I saw that it was sure be grown to be included in the LOCAL JUVENILE ing witness. taath if we stayed In the open while harvest. It is said also that the plan OFFICERS DISMISSED those Mexicans were so concealed. We includes speculation on the erection WITH MANY OTHERS LEWIS LARSON 8UES could only see COLORADO FOR DAMAGES little puffs of smoke of a sugar plant at lTosida. Were from w here neighbor-fire- d in that lands the of were We most they shooting. Juvenile Judge David T. Lewis and at these places and I am sure hood cultivated in sugar beets the The suit brought by Lewis Larson Probation Officers B. F. Roper were ome of our shots of Eureka against the Colorado Minfound their marks. production would be sufficient to were Juvenile the that pricers Ei Paso, Jan. 20. Fearing bandit among Chicago-Crescelow. we all made company for $10,000 damages for Juvenew the port one of the largest sugar beet The widely advertised of office out the ing swept bjr tone house, but basket1 ball team met with operations, more than 1500 refugees nile court commission that was too far factories in the state. The injuries to his right hand is being yesterday. wy from the Mexicans and a few I Promise of a railroad from Alberta an awful drubbing at the hands of are following in the wake of the officers have not yet been officially tried in court to lay. The plaintiff ttinutes later I led the men on a to Mosida was given by the Denver & the B. Y. U. boys last night. When American .expeditionary forces on Informed of their d'smisaal. but an- alleges that his right band was pertaick dash to a smart adobe house Rio Grande three years ago, If out of Mexico. An Am- ticipate It without delay. manently injured, it was advertised that tne Crescents their way twenty feet from the line, a inite steps were taken to bring about erican cattleman came who to the were fans ball were coming, basket RELIEF SOCIETY BALL Jlttle to the east of the Mexicans. jsuficient development for the support border- - at Columbus. N. M.. today, THREE COUPLES JOIN All day This IN 8ECOND WARD HALL development rejoicing "over the" prospect of seeing OF RANKS BENEDICTS Friday the Mexicans kept of a branch line. , the refugees were strung out lotting at our house. A few of their wil take place, it Is reported witn some real ball. The final score told along the communication trail for shots entered its own story when the points stood more than five miles behind ihe main The Relief society of the Second thewindows,. butourthe revival oflnterest in the Moslda Marriage licenses have been issued reaent-oundeYi-then were 9 to 51 in favor f the B. will give a dancing party In the- ward cautious and no one Z was landsTTand Improvements rep to Frank Jensen - of Mapieton - and column of General Pershings MI1H Davldson of The local team held the visitors to A We answered thlr fire all.ing more than $1,000,000 may he ward hall Thursday Wil evening, Springvllle; troops and were enveloped in a great tay, long until about 10 oclock e son Hanks nd-Mary A. Keele. and luncheon will be served. In the west shore district this but a , single field basket, scored In cloud of dust. tay night, when the Mexicans eas-a fash- the second half and to seven scatRoycie A. Mormons - were kling vin automo- - Ammon 011ver Stone year. Mosida already has tered free throws. The B. Y.-VERNAL MAN DIE8 of all Salem, ionable hotel- Dud,ey. covered wagons of the 'prairie team scored at will, chalking up 25 bile, ray an ocaslonal shot was fired LOCAL HOSPITAL schooner type and in farm wagons rm then until seven this in the first half and 26 In the points WEDDING BELL8 morning and onhorses and mules. They were n1 then last Louis L. Cook of Vernal, 41 years they opened up in earnest Mariage licenses have been issued their milk "cows ahead of driving was stated after the game that It ' 6 tad been awake all of the improve-er- e of- - age, died here today of cerebral interest to with we Natlaniel Pierce of Pleasant and learned night them, while behind tramped hun- - .Grove and Emma Katherine Sorren- - apoplexy. tired, . .Wq tried, to keep.up .the ments, which are on foot to TTtTei the visitor were somewhat crippled dreds of natives. The funeral services were to of their several recent Injuries V.e, but coming on to 11 o'clock, interest in the Moaida tracts. fry held Provo. in Snow F of the J. Salem Berg Undertaking par that couid be brought was Nothing . star - performers 0t P9$r ray men The, game,lnever- this afternoon at 3:30 and the inter- were exhausted and system of pumping water from-t- he Th Pa7"n brought7SiTotrHn,?railr-:rmt5--vlsi--1 JefrTehl5d,an4many taarit, g th eM exican s vo ul d to the higher"Tevei. of The land theless. demonstrated that the their woridy possessions with them frrsl "namedTcoupIe were marrfed by ttefit took piaee lflTthe Ctty remetery. mhus.lake outclassed the were by tors 'ok the only other course. So I which dip down to the lake shore completely, The man had relatives at Vernal but : Justice R. R. Thorne. in their flight I to lrriga-j- j the local shooters, Pratt,, rightfor- r'ifd them subject are directly lands they could not come to Provo, se 1 " scored tbe lone basket for the ward, G. Mr. to have him buried here. Glen wired White new the local tion. left forward, played the game 'for - manager Crescents, nd-Rurel Viliam fheY3olden Rule store, Violetf leaves for Call- BALL made their seven remaining points on the B. Y. U. These men also tontla today for W , C. Willis was sentenced - to jUBt returned 'from a weeks bust a three weeks trip PROVO BAND MASQUERADE scored th n he Crescents The tosses. Hale, who was foul cringjn Interests of the Knight Wool- -' npss trlp to Salt where he at- - serve ten days in the county Jail yes-- 8 . but three points in tbe first half. Cash pries. Jic .U e. . ..r ip ills. He will visit Sacramento,4 Feb. 6, a tended convention of the managers terday for failing to pay alimony to Tuesday, r rand of ball and 0f McDonald, right forward; Simmons, pay. a an Costumes t Cra ncisco and Los Angeles, and ets 25o-ea- pennpy chain of stores. jReba Williams. He was arreBted for t,e a,8 a left forward, and Riley, right guard, caged four field baskets. who were number of Nevada points. F3. assembled there from all contempt of court' fords. be-tli- d fa-ha- PEOPLE OF SOUTH END OF WANT PAVED HIGHWAY dis-tric- - TAGED aQ-ye- i o fc1 a t 'tt i St -- I' d, i te B. Y. U Quintet Give Colonists Fleeing Chicagoans Beating From Mexico to U.S. ' nt def-abo- d. U, Frt-mad- U. loni A - f. -- 'of most-eonciste- nt jke. I r j parts of the country. J - - I t |