Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1903-05-29
UTAH STATE NEWS.

Inc twenty nitn annual encampmeDL
OF the Utah G. A. r. was held in Salt
Lake City last week.
The teamsters in the employ Of the
city of Salt Lake have been granted
an increase in wages from $3.50 TO
81 for a days work
At the school election in American
Fork last week the people voted to
bond the district for $4,000 to buy a
site and build a school house.
At the G. A. II. encampment held in
Salt Lake City last week, Park City
was decided upon as the place for
holding the encampment next year.
An ordinance is before the Salt Lake
city council which compels the keep
ing of a register of guests In all hotels
boarding houses and rooming houses.
The State Beekeepers' association
proposed to make an exhibit Of honey
at the St Louis exposition which will
consist of between three and FIVE
tons.
At Manti last week Brigham Lyon, u
man who has wife and two small
children. was sentenced to ten years
in the state penltentiary for assaultlng
a fifteeny ear-old girl.
It is said the Utah building at the
Louisiana Purchase exposition Will
represent an expenditure of $500, OF
which amount 81 500 will be used in
furnishings and decorations.
The young men of the Salt Lake Y.
NJ. G. A. have undertaken to raise S..
900 of the fund to build new home
Tor the club, and will begin a personal
canvas OF the city for the funds.
The recent snowstorms in the noun
tains in the vicinity of Rlchheld has
occasioned a heavy loss Of sheep, 1t
being estimated that some sheepmen
will suffer a loss of 40 per cent.
The farmers of Ephralm are very
exultant over the good outlook for
water the coming season. while It is
believed the recent storm will help
to solve the grasshopper problem.
Samuel II. ellison, the discoverer of
the gilsonite fields, has carved a cane
of native wood, using a pocket knife,
and will present the same to President
Roosevelt during his visit to Salt Lake
City.
A two-story building collapsed in
Salt Lake City one day last week,
smashing IN another building and caus.
ing a loss Of over $4,000. A number
of people had narrow escapes from In
jury.
In Salt Lake City there we're three
cases of smallpox reported during the
past week, and nine we're discharged
as cured, leaving eighteen cases quar-.
antined in the city and the quarantine
hospital.
A miner by the name Of Murphy,
while working in the Annie Laurie
mine near Richheld struck a missed
shot, his face being badly cut up. while
1t is probable that he viii lose the
sight of one eye.
The library of the state Industrial
school is TO be enriched to the extent
of 500 volumes suitable for boys and
girls. This is the result of the ap-
preparation of $500 made for this pur.
pose by the last legislature.
Senator w. A. Clark was interview
ed in San Francisco last week, and
stated that work on his road is be-
ing rushed as fast as possible, and the
present calculations are to have 1t
completed inside of two years.
A woman who is believed to be in
sane last week informed number of
residents of Salt Lake that when
President Roosevelt comes to Salt
Lake he will be killed, and also that
the tabernacle will be destroyed by
fire.
A Salt Lake boy last week ran
against an electric wire carrying a
current OF 10000 voltage and got away
without serious injury. His escape
from death is unaccountable, as the
current was sufficient to kill regi-
ment of men.
The bid of the state land board for
the RichAeld city bonds, Issued to
raise money to inaugurate its system
Of waterworks. has been accepted. For
the $4,000 worth Of city bonds the
land board Will pay $l5,O9O.6O and &C.
crued interest
Walter the thirteeny ear.old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Drace Jensen OF Rich.
field. lies in a precarious condition at
the home OF his parents. as the result