Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1903-04-17
UTAH STATE NEWS.

last week let contracts for the sinking
of two oil wells near that town.
There are 1885 pupils in the Salt
Lake public schools according to the
report for March, of whom So are col
ored
Ephraim is to have baseball team
this season, II being the intention to
meet any and all amateur teams in the
state.
There were but thirty-three cases of
smallpox in Salt Lake City at the close
of the week, the disease being on the
decrease.
Hans Matthias Nilsson, aged 80, pio-
need of Utah, died at Ephraim last
week. He came to Utah with an OK
team in 1860.
A volunteer fire brigade is being or.
ganized at Richfield for the purpose of
handling the chemical engine and TAX.
ing charge at fires.
Last week $4,000 brook trout we're
planted in the streams near Mt. Pleas.
ant. and the streams are to be closed
to fishermen for two years.
The report of the secretary of state
for the first quarter of the year, 1908,
shows that the total amount of fees
taken in by that office to be 15,242.35
The records of the county clerks of
fee of Salt Lake county for the past
year show that for every six marriages
there has been one application for di.
vorce.
Private Louis Peterson suicided at
Fort Douglas Friday of last week by
slashing his throat from ear to ear
with razor. There was apparently
no cause for the dead.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. the gifted
writer, will be the guest of the Utah
State kindergarten association at its
annual meeting to be held in Salt Lake
City April 18th and 18th.
The price of salt took a jump last
week. For the past six months coarse
salt has been delivered to wholesale
dealers Of Salt Lake for $3.50 per ton,
but now they are compelled to pay So
A new lodge of Elks was instituted
mt Provo last week, fifty-one new men,
beers being admitted. Large numbers
from other towns attended, there be-
.Aae two bands and 22o fsiks In the herd
that attended.
The Utah commission of the COM
ing Lewis and Clarke exposition at
Portland last week decided that
fruit exhibit shall form an important
part of Utahs agricultural showing at
the exposition.
The Socialist party of Utah held
convention in Salt Lake City last week
and elected state officers. About
eighty members of the party were
present and every part of the state
was represented.
The members of the Utah Press as
sociation will be entertained by the
Provo pencil pushers on the goth. AT
the banquet Senator Smoot will re-
spond to the toast, Senators and
Newspaper Men"
1t is claimed that the Moffat road
now being constructed from Denver to
Salt Lake will be pushed through with.
out delay. There are 1000 men now
engaged in the work, and the company
has plenty of capital behind it.
Mayor Thompson of Salt Lake has
sent an invitation to President Roose-
welt and party to join in buffalo hunt
on Antelope island. The invitation
has been sent on behalf of John III.
White, who has placed the island and
the buffalo at the disposal of the pres
dental party for one day.
Thomas Barrett, Jr., of American
Fork, was driving a team attached to
a field roller when the horses became
frightened and ran away, Barrett fall
ing under the roller. which passed over
him, badly crushing the bones in one
leg.
Violet Padfeld, aged 8, while cross
ing the railroad track near American
Fork, was struck by an engine and in
stantly killed, her neck being broken
Three of the girls brothers were killed
in the Scofied mine disaster four years
ago.
Miss Bessie Knecht, the young Salt
Lake girl who has been asleep for over
forty-tive days, still sleeps. At times
she rallies slightly, but soon relapses
into an unconscious condition. The doc
tors are much puzzled over her condi-
ton.
John Minaci, an Italian, was thawing
out giant powder at Kyune when the
powder took fire and Minaci put one
OF his feet down ON the powder to put
out the fire. with the result that the
powder exploded and blew of one of
his feet.
Glass jars twelve feet high and cor
respondingly wide will be used to ex-
hibit Utah fruit, in preserved state,