Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1903-06-19
UTAH STATE NEWS.

week convicted of stealing flowers and
fined 81 each.
John Lee, Jr., found guilty Of bur-
glary at Junction has been sentenced
70 six years in the state penitentiary.
Elaborate preparations are being
made by the citizens of Sandy to cele-
brate the Fourth of July on a grand
scale.
The storms of the past few weeks
have undoubtedly destroyed the major
portion of the grasshoppers in Sewer
county.
The Ephraim city council has APP
pointed a committee TO make arrange
ments for the celebration Of Independ-
ence day.
The attendance at the summer
school being held in Ephraim this
year is the largest in the history OF
the school.
An Italian miner by the name OF
Angelo Cisterio, was probably fatally
injured in the mines AT Castle Gate,
Saturday, by falling rock.
Eleven thousand acres of beets in
the vicinity OF Lehi are up and the
prospects for a prosperous season for
the beet raisers were never better.
Wallace Thurston, the 1S-year-old
boy of Kingston who borrowed horse
from neighbor and forgot TO return
It, has been convicted of embezzle-
ment.
The total assessment of Sewer
county this year will be $2,343,45S.
Richfield is the richest city in Sewer
county, her share of the above valua.
tion being $466,6S0
Elias Newhaus of Mercur is in a
Salt Lake hospital suffering from a
compound fracture of the leg. caused
by cavein in the Golden Gate mine,
where he is employed.
Gwin worthen, a 3-yearold child of
Salt Lake fell from a second-story
window to a pile of gravel thirty feet
below, one day last week, and escaped
without serious injury.
Mrs Karen Andreason, aged 49,
was struck by passenger train at
Lehi last week and killed. 1t is not
known how the accident occurred, as
no one was near at the time.
Two patents have recently been is
sued to citizens of Salt Lake City, one
being 70 Michael J.1Fitzgewid. ~
wrench, and the other to Charles ]
Gustayeson on bottle stopper.
George Elliott suicided in Salt LAX
City last week. taking laudanum. ID
lott was a stranger in the city, 9
painter by trade, and dependency Ii
supposed to have been the motive fol
the deed.
Last week f. C. Palmer and VIII
r. Anderson OF Manti encountered {
bear and two cubs on Twelve Mile
creek, south of the city, and secured
the two cubs, but failed to kill the
bear.
Mrs. Minnie Coursey suicided II
Salt Lake on the 9th, taking a dos
OF strychnine, She left letters TO
relatives stating that she died of |
broken heart. 1t is believed she wa
temporarily insane.
e. s. Lovesy, president of the Utal
Beekeepers' association, is making
tour of the state for the purpose o
collecting an assortment OF honey I
be used as an exhibit at the Louisian
Purchase exposition.
The water problem at Richheld
being solved by the sinking of we'll
A newly organized company has r,
Gently sunk thirteen wells near tn
CITY, most of them being between SCI
enty and eighty feet deep.
Bert Buchanan, a young man
years of age, was found dead in HI
bed at Venice, Saturday of last weel
He had retired seemingly in exceller
health, and IL is believed he was a
tackled with an epileptic fit during Il
night and died.
DIR. ]. w. Currle Of Salt Lake CT
attended church last Sunday nigh
and when he started home discovers
that some one had stolen his hor
and buggy. 1t is said the doctor is u
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church or walk to the services.
Mrs. Fanny Spillman, who came
Utah in 1850 and settled in Washin
ton county in 1862, died at Toquervil
on the 9th at the age of so years. 81
was a leader and member of the !