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Newspaper
Duchesne Courier
Location
Duchesne, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1922
Page
3
Duchesne residents report visits from friends and relatives across Utah and Colorado. Local officials, teachers, and families attend events, weddings, and a public road-appointment list expands district coverage. The fishing season opens amid license sales and travel to Yellowstone and Provo for schooling and medical care.
The Utah Coal and Coke company filed with the state engineer for two forty fifths of a second foot of water from a spring in Carbon county. Water will supply a new town and a nearby mine near Sunnyside for culinary steam and mine sprinkling. A collecting basin and pipeline to divert the flow are already built.
The Uintah Shale 611 company of Denver filed articles of incorporation with Utah Secretary H. S. Crockett. T. W. O'Donnell of Vernal represents the company. U. IL. Dines is president, O. K. Winnick secretary, and James Doyle an additional incorporator. Capital is $75,000 in $10 shares.
West bench dugway west of Duchesne advances, but needs more donations of money and labor. Lists cash gifts from multiple donors and names individuals contributing time, including Ed Hart overseeing most work.
Ed Harmeton county chairman calls Republican convention at Roosevelt on July 6 to select eleven delegates to the state convention in Salt Lake on July 14 and to handle other business as needed. The convention will consist of 78 delegates.
Basin streams fall after cool nights with old timers split on peak water. Some declare the peak is past while water stays above normal for weeks to come, others warn higher flows may still arrive.
Mrs T L Mack travels to Salt Lake to visit kin and friends while Mr and Mrs J M Mickelson and family enjoy a Boneta visit. Mrs W BE Wave of Provo plans two weeks in Duchesne then Fort Duchesne to see her daughter. Friday night dance draws a large crowd. A farewell honors Mrs Zipporah Westover and family as they move to Provo. Frank Melso hosts a card party with many attendees and prizes. Mrs A J Feller hosts a bridge luncheon with guests and yellow floral decor. Mrs Seaton wins the prize.
Utah Public Utilities Commission denies the James C Huey and Peter Catalina application to run a Price to Vernal stage line via Helper and Duchesne. Hearing held May 25 in Price. Commission notes Dodge Line made reasonable effort despite unusually deep snow and poor roads hindering traffic.
Representative Colton introduced a bill to open lands in the Uncompahgre Indian reservation containing gilsonite asphaltum elaterite and other hard substances reserved from location to sale in tracts up to forty acres under presidential terms. A separate bill would open lands reserved for future congressional action to settlement and entry under land laws.
Paul Brady of New York promoter for Yampa Valley Development forecasts a railroad from Craig to the Union Pacific at Wamsutter. About 18 visitors including B J Arnold of Arnold Engineering Chicago I B Perrine and Hf L Hollister of Chicago are in Craig this week. If local committees secure full acreage pledges, construction could begin at once and the line may operate within 18 months.
Former Governor Simon Bamberger left for New York City on business linked to proposed western Glorada and Uintah basin railways. He aims to consolidate two routes to ease construction of a direct line from Salt Lake City to Denver. Bamberger serves as president of the Salt Lake & Denver Railroad and of the Colorado-Uta Industrial Corporation.
Denver cattle receipts 740 steady market. Steers 7.50 to 9.00, cows 6.75 to 8.25, calved 8.50 to 11.50, bulls 3.00 to 5.00. Hoge receipts 400 up 16 cents. Top 10.10, bulk 9.76 to 46.00. Spring lambs 13.00 to 13.26, ewes 5.50 to 6.00.
Ed. Hateh, a state motor vehicle inspector, tours the basin to enforce license plate laws. Many owners lack proper plates. offenders will be penalized. Some vehicles had only one plate, requiring surrender of existing plates, payment for a new plate pair, and inspection. County clerk Rulon J. Larsen, the county auto inspector, is available to avoid penalties.
Eva Turnbow was granted an interlocutory divorce from A. P. Turnbow at the recent term of the District court. Clarence E. Johnson vs Dorothy Johnson was postponed. Joseph Christensen vs Owen Bennion and Sarah De Frees vs Homer Robb also postponed.
The Strawberry loringe bridge at the east end of Duchesne collapsed early Saturday, swept away by the river. The unsafe structure had been condemned over a year ago but remained open, endangering travelers until the fall. A temporary road is being built to reach the south side via Indian Canyon.
Reuben Layon Jolley, son of Mrs. Ethel B. Jolley of Duchesne, died of pneumonia on Wednesday June 7 at Riverton at his sister’s home, Mrs. Ernest V. Hardy. Survived by four brothers five sisters and three half sisters all of Duchesne. Funeral held in Manti tabernacle Friday June 9 with interment in Manti cemetery.
Mrs. R. H. Neilson, widow of Ras H. Neilson fatally injured in a cave in at the laterite mine above Duquesne on August 4, 1921, was awarded $5,000 compensation by the supreme court. The insurer had argued policy not issued at the time, but the court ordered payments of $16 weekly in installments.
Duchesne plans an up to date picture theatre in the Liberty theatre building with modern equipment, upholstered seats, and a fine projector. Electricity will enable clearer pictures and reduce old system troubles as promoters aim to show high class films.
A Chicago Journal excerpt recalls a three year old sleigh ride mishap. The narrator and brother rode in a dilapidated aleish and a broken sleigh caused a near mishap on a hill as a team nearly toppled. The other brother arrived safe, and the narrator suspects ridicule.
Newly elected bank president addresses employees and questions a cashier in detail about his work. The cashier boasts forty years of service with a single mistake, prompting the president to say he should be congratulated but urged to be more careful.
Enos A. Mills credits John Muir with shaping his career and focus on nature. A frail nineteen year old on a San Francisco beach questioned a stranger about a weed, who turned out to be Muir. Muir advised Mills to study nature, write, and systematize knowledge to share it publicly.
A Washington Star account describes a colored taxi driver recruited to drive Klan marchers into Virginia. He was approached by well dressed men who hired him to ferry them across borders, then found robes and white hoods aboard, leaving him reluctantly obliged to participate in the parade despite his protests.
An American schooner engineer recorded fourteen waterspouts offshore near New South Wales. He measured a largest spout with two cones connected by a pipe, the upper cone inverted and 5014 feet above the sea. Each cone began about 100 feet in diameter, tapering to merge with the spout, with about 250 feet per cone and 4500 feet of connecting length.
Dr Frederick I Hoffman of Newark, president of the AAAS, told the Toronto meeting that four early inventions driven by imagination rather than modern science altered world fortunes. He cited printing gunpowder steam and compass as pivotal agents compared with later advances like electricity wireless telegraphy and motion pictures.
David Clark, known as the sheep king, owns about 17.6 million sheep across Australia and 14 thousand cattle. He plans to ship 76 thousand bales of wool this year while touring Canada, noting urban life holds less appeal than his ranch work.
Milwaukee museum curator Alangon Skinner recounted grim reports from Hudson Bay country as famine struck northern Eskimo and Indian communities. Hunters and trappers spoke of hundreds starving, cannibalism, and the brutal survival of the fittest amid Moose Factory to Rupert's. A French guide described a starving killer obsessed with human flesh.
Miss Elizabeth Ilsley of Evanston Tr says Japanese girls are diligent students with little leisure. They study to return home to uplift women, and education does not halt marriage if arranged by parents. Tea is served constantly, and gossip is implicit in daily life.
A brawny Canadian bidder in tweeds swept the sale in New York that offered British household furniture and art. He bid the English refectory table to $500, claiming he as the youngest son once sat at it and intended to take it to Canada, where it would go to his family.
The article describes botanical ascents of Mount Katahdin as intellectual and recreational entertainment. It notes the mountain offers easy ascent and reveals varied natural life for botanists, geologists, entomologists, ornithologists, and nature students, highlighting diverse discoveries at different elevations.
A Milwaukee Sentinel excerpt details a newly patented aerated ice cream method. It explains vacuum pumping withdraws air from the mixture before forcing acid gas under pressure, then freezing the concoction to create a soda like bite.
The fragmentary text describes a couple debating morning beverages with one preferring breakfast, the other coffee, and a friend suggesting both. It hints at compromise and cultural phrasing but lacks a clear event or named entities. No dates, places, or organizations are evident.
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