Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1903-05-15
UTAH STATE NEWS.

The Oregon Short Line expects a
heavier summer travel than ever in its
history.
Beet planting was finished in the
Mt. Pleasant district last week. Fifty
two acres were planted this year, as
against los last year.
II is expected that not less than 500
cowboys will participate in the parade
in Salt Lake City when President
Roosevelt visits the capital city.
Prof. J. ]. Mcclellan, who presides
at the big organ in the tabernacle In
Salt Lake City, is to compose a comic
opera, entitled "a Romance Of Japan"
M. Howe, pioneer of American
Fork. is dead at the age of SO. He
came to Utah in the early days and
passed through all the early trials of
the Saints.
The merchants of American Fork,
Lehi, Pleasant Grove and Alpine
have decided to give their clerks a
half holiday each week during the
summer months.
The grading firm of Straw g. Storrs,
of Springville. has been awarded the
contract for all the grading repair
work on the line of the Rio Grande
Western this year.
The body of an infant was found
in the Jordan river at Salt Lake City
last week and coroner's jury has de-
cided that IL was murdered, but dis
covered no clue to its parents.
Clyde Ellison, on trial in Salt Lake
City for the murder of Undertaken A.
s. Watson was found not guilty by a
jury. Ellison accused Watson OF be-
ing unduly intimate with his wife and
shot him.
G. Scott, of Kimberley, employed at
the Annie Laurie mill, was caught Ia
the betting last week and sustained
two broken ribs and a number of
bruises, his escape from death being
n narrow one.
Miss Matilda Lund of Ephraim was
injured in an accident last week.
While riding in a buggy with three
others, the reach pole broke and Miss
Lund fell face downward upon the
dashboard, cutting her face badly.
Captain Andrew j. Burt, who went
Co the Philippines with the Utah boys
and remained to take a position in
the Manila police department, is back
Lake and reports that Utahns
lands generally are doing well.
Miller. aged 10, was
TO death by a horse at Paro-
the 9th. He was preparing to
lnot the horse out for the night
when 1t started to run and the boys
feet got fastened in the rope and he
was dragged over two miles before
the horse was caught.
Mrs. Clyde Ellison. wife of the man
acquitted of the charge of the muir
der Of Undertaken Watson of Salt
Lake, declares she will begin suit
for divorce, claiming non-support and
cruelty. She processes surprise at
the outcome of the trial and calls 1t a
case of attempted blackmail and muir
der.
Sam Newton, a blacksmith of Amer
lean Fork, tried to kill his wife Sun
day last while in a drunken rage, and
would have succeeded had II not been
for the nerve of the woman. VINO
knocked his shotgun out OF his hand
after he had struck her with It once
and made her escape. Newton ia now
in jail.
Prince Nanzeta Montezuma, exiled
ruler of the Aztecs and last of the
Montezumas, was visitor in Zion last
week. The prince is rs years OF age
but looks much younger, and wears
his hair hanging down over his shout
ders.
Red" Price, who was pardoned
from the Utah penitentiaIy on account
of falling health, has just been sen
fenced to life Imprisonment in the
Colorado penitentiary for a murder
committed in Denver a few months
ago.
The big pumps at the head OF Jor
dan river commenced sending water
to the Salt Lake valley farmers Mon
day. From now on each of the -four
big pumps will draw 100 cubic feet OF
water per second from the supply in
Utah lake
Shearlng at the various pens In
SEWER county is almost over and the