Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1903-05-01
UTAH STATE NEWS.

for Springville. The plant is being
put in by the city
John Alexander. a carpenter, is
dead from injuries sustained by fall
ing from a building on which he was
working in Salt Lake City.
Judah Howells of Salt Lake City,
is the owner of freak calf born last
week. The calf has FIVE legs and
three toes on some of its feet.
There is a strong probability that
the National Guard OF Utah will go
into camp this summer with the reg
ulars at some point in Wyoming.
President Roosevelt will not par.
ticipate in the proposed buffalo hunt
on Antelope island. owing to the lin
tied time he will remain In Salt Lake
City.
At the close Of last week twenty-six
cases of smallpox remained in quaran-
tine in Salt Lake City, sixteen new
cases having developed during the
week.
Government experts will probably
investigate the grasshopper pest in
Sanpete county with view to find.
ing some means to exterminate the
little pests
Diphtheria and membranous Group
have been very prevalent in Tropic
and vicinity this spring, claiming no
less than twenty-one victims, all under
- years of age. A rigid quarantine is
in force.
DR.. Washington Franklin Anderson,
who died in Salt Lake City last week
at the age of so, was the first presi-
dent of the Utah Medical society, and
attended President Brigham Young In
his last illness.
Clyde Ellison, who shot and killed
Undertaken A. S. Watson in Salt Lake
City, is on trial for his life. Ellison
will endeavor to prove that he was
justified in killing Watson on account
of family troubles.
The loss of sheep in this state dur
ing the past winter, according to a
report issued by the agricultural de-
partment, was rs per cent through
exposure and 81 per cent through
disease, or S53,4S6 sheep in all.
AS the result Of fall from a horse,
the i3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Don Davis. of Brooklyn, near Elsinore,
is lying at deaths door. AS the boy
was alone at the timh of the zccident,
IL Is not known how Il happened
ldttle Alada Ross, aged 3, OF Salt
Lake City, while playing in the yard
at her home, was struck by stray
bullet fired by small boys who were
using a target gun, the bullet enter
ing the thigh, inaicting a painful
wound.
Victor M. Clement, the we'll known
mining engineer of Salt Lake City,
died Sunday morning In Saltillo, Mex.
leo, as the result of an operation
which he had undergone a few days
previous. Mr.. Clement had world.
wide reputation as a mining engineer.
Three accidents occurred in the fam.
lily OF George Barney of Brooklyn with
In a week. A 7.year-old daughter was
run over by a roller and severely I'm
Jured, another child fell from the shcN
aud broke its collav howe While a
third iell Into canal and was hshed
out just in time to prevent its DEATH
Sheep Inspector Candand OF San
pete county, after visiting the east
and west deserts, estimates the loss
of sheep through the past winter and
spring at 20 per cent, The local flock
masters assert their loss will not
reach this figure.
Charles Christensen, a 16-year-old
Richfeld lad, has been convicted of
breaking into the tabernacle in that
city and stealing purse which had
been left on seat by the janitor The
lad has been sentenced to FIVE years
in the state industrial school.
The committee from the Agricul-
tural college of Utah, charged with
the selection of sites for the FIVE dry
land experiment farms in Utah, has
definitely settled upon two tracts of
land. One of the farms will be In
Juab county and one in Iron county.
The memorial adopted by the last
legislature asking that a portion Of
Utah's vast forest reserve be opened
to settlement will probably bear fruit
Secretary Hitchcock having stated
that much of the land in question will
be restored to the public domain at
an early date.
The work on the Lucin cutoff has
reached point three miles beyond
the Promontory point and work is
being rushed. The pile drivers are
being worked two shifts by the light
furnished from the electric plantA.
Piles are arriving every day
The wife OF District Attorney
Frank X. Nebeker OF Logan was seri.