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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1897
Page
4
A jumble of regional snippets covers market tips, weather, travel, and local happenings. References include Willamapilt Pennsylvania papers, a Dinnaylvanie Gut newspaper agency, a brick warehouse project, a Jubilee event, and a horse race outside town. Mentions of Vernal and Green River areas appear alongside buyer tips and public notices.
The excerpt details celebrations by Millward residents with Sunday school events, illness notes about Culdeen and others, and plans for a Grand Army Encampment in Buffalo. It also covers mining property sales near Lewis Dyer, prospecting updates on several claims, ore findings, and development work by multiple prospectors in the region.
In Ulster a tombstone bears a troubled inscription for Thomas Kelly allegedly killed by his brother. Nearby at Culmore near London lies an epitaph for Eomas Michella who died in Philadelphia on March 17.
A dated financial ledger details outstanding indebtedness July 1, 1896 and 1897, with notes drawn in favor of several individuals, interest, and total receipted amounts. It covers transferred funds from the contingent and county funds, apportionments, and payments to teachers. Also includes rail and travel rate notices for Salt Lake City trips and a legal summons section.
The Secretary of the Interior will soon decide whether the Uncompahgre Reservation lands will be allotted under general act provisions or a special treaty law. The issue covers acreage per person, family allocations, minor shares, and whether Indians must pay 2.25 per acre from proceeds of the sale of their lands in Colorado. The decision is expected within three to four days.
Reliable Associated Press report claims that eight men were brought by a social conveyance from Privo to work at the Castle Peak mining claim owned by Leseur & Co within a government reservation. The mine operations were described as contemptuous to a U S court order issued at Salt Lake City. Local Indian agent notes land allotments begin soon.
Fragmentary OCR notes show a probate style reference from the Swidlobs Intle Distil Court in the territorial state of Utah. The entry mentions 48 and a defendant named Terel LeTer with a statement directed to the state.
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