Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1903-07-03
UTAH STATE NEWS.

for the year 1902 is placed at 5977, 6s4
A lodge OF the Independent Order o
Odd Fellows was instituted at Spring
vile last week.
Charles Schlicht. the circus EN-
ploye who was shot and seriously In
jured in Pocatello last week. was for
merly a resident OF Salt Lake City.
The floods OF the east have caused
n serious shortage In the tobacco mar
ket OF Salt Lake. Especially is this
so in regard to the supply OF plug to
bacco.
Santo Talarico, an Italian, fell under
n switch engine at the coke ovens al
Castle Gate, on Saturday, both OF his
feet and one arm being severed He
cannot survive.
At the Fourth OF July celebration In
Santaquin, Cuba, will be represented
by the most beautiful young lady OF
the town. Porto Rico and the Philip
pines will also be represented.
The management OF the Saltair re.
sort has reduced the fare from 80
cents TO 25 cents. the same as it has
been in years past. The public would
not stand for the increase in rates.
Florence Roper, 15-year-old boy,
while stealing ride on a street car
in Salt Lake City, was struck by a
pole and knocked under the wheels,
his body being badly crushed. death
being almost instantaneous.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
TO burglarlze the Oregon Short Line
depot at Eureka. one night last week
After gaining an entrance 10 the Office
however, the burglars were frightened
away. without securing any plumber
Seven new cases OF smallpox were
Quarantined in Salt Lake during the
week, and 10 were discharged as
cured, leaving 80 cases now in deten'
ton, as against AZ for the previous
week, when 10 new cases developed
The year book OF the department OF
agriculture estimates that on January
list last Utah had 3,570,0T0 head OF
sheep, worth an average OF s2.40
each, or total OF 1851, 1856. These
sheep produced in the previous year
&c QOn nnn ,o,,na. "a x,z.t
The state of Utah has added s27.SS2,
1899 to the value OF the visible sup
ply OF precious metals produced 10 the
Unhed States during the year 1902
The quantity OF gold. silver, copper
and lead mined during the year being
the largest In the history Of the state
The International League OF Press
clubs, In session at Atlanta City, N. j.
decided on Salt Lake City as the plac,
for holding the convention in 1904
The convention will bring to Salt LAX,
City the largest and most Influential
body of newspaper writer's II has eve
known.
A coroners jury has decided this
the death OF George H. Littlefield tn
soldier whose body was found In Sal
Lake City, was due to poisoning an
that the poison used was carbolic acid
thus proving 1t case OF suicide. |
was at first thought the man was mui
dered
Theodore ID. Boal, prominent cor
tractor Of Denver, was probably faia
ly injured in runaway accident 4
Salt Lake City, Sunday. He wa
thrown from the vehicle after maxim
game fight to stop the team, his lie
being broken and his head cut u
badly.
Alfred Pink OF Salt Lake was sc
upon by five footpads near the War;
Springs and beat into insensibility
the robbers securing all his cash and
gold watch. The men are believed I
have been hangers-on OF circu
which was passing through.
Max Blank and Edward Roy, OF Sal
Lake, quarreled one morning las
week, when Ray shot Blank, the bu
let striking him in the shoulder, II
flicting a slight wound. The men wer
neighbors and the shooting was tn
result OF a standing quarrel.
Thomas Fitzgerald, a section for,
man at Mounds, was brought to Pric,
Saturday, suffering from a sever
beating with clubs at the hands OF te
Jap section men, half OF whom wer
his gang. Fitzgerald had refused {
get Ice for the Japs after D. M.
The osmose plant at Lehl close
down last week. During its 1OO-da
run II converted the leftover syru
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