Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-02-10
UTAH STATE NEWS.

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Nevada.
Salt Lake seems to be suffering from
an influx of undesirable characters,
hold-ups and robberies being nightly
occurrence.
An epidemic of measles is raging in
Salt Lake City, twenty-three cases be-
ing reported in two days the latter
part of last week
A street car line is to be constructed
during this season by the ogden Rapid
Transit company to the sanitarium at
the mouth of Ogden canyon.
The artificial stone factory at Lehi
Junction is turning out an average or
1000 blocks per day These are
shipped south as fast as manufactured.
Lucy Bigelow Young, sixth wife of
the late President Brigham Young,
died at her home in Salt Lake City on
the 3rd. of pneumonia, after a two
weeks illness
resident agent of the Remington Type
writer company, is said to be short
over $1,000 in his accounts. Johnson
has disappeared.
In bidding for the construction of
the Ogden public building the Stand
ard Construction company of Chicago
was the lowest bidder It's proposal
was for 100000.
Lester Ogden and John Dali, two
Richfield youths, are serving out a ten
day sentence in the county Jail for en-
deavoring to purloin a large sack of
peanuts from a car at the depot.
Another spasm OF morality has
struck Salt Lake City. as a result OF
which several dancing halls are to be
closed, and girls are warned to keep
OF the streets after certain hours.
Mrs. G. ]. Edwards suicided at Park
City, taking carbolic acid. Mrs. Ed
wards was widow, with several chill
dren, and worry and constant strug-
gle for existence is said to have LED
to the deed.
The Utah County Black Hawk war
veterans met in American Fork last
week and elected officers and decided
upon Payson as the place for holding
their next encampment, which will be
h.II A..
Lee Cow, the Chinese gardener OF
Forest Dale. who was arrested q week
ago for a9lssts@pts assault upon
"A III -. s.a raafivee seSser, has be-
come a raying maniac. It is now be-
1ieved he was insane at the time of the
assault.
A. w. Mountney, we'll known in Salt
Lake City. and secretary of the Bam-
berger Exploration company, has dis
appeared, and it is charged he is short
in his accounts to the amount of ST.
500. A fondness for poker is given as
the reason for his downfall.
Advices from Beaver county are to
the effect that in the Wasatch King,
in the Beaver Lake district, a disclos-
ure OF highly oxidized iron, carrying
better than the usual gold values, has
been made in the vertical shaft which
the management is sinking.
Several Murray business men have
recently been the victims of an ancient
graft, worked by stranger. He rep
resented to them that he was in charge
OF railroad construction gang, or
dered bills OF goods, borrowed sums or
money and then disappeared.
Buried beneath a pile of rocks in a
secluded spot near Little mountain,
fourteen miles west of Ogden, with
the back of his head crushed and
otherwise mutilated, the body of a
man. supposed to be Enoch ID. Jenkins,
was found by hunting party on
Sunday.
A short-weight raid is to be insti-
tuted by the Grocers' and Butchers
association of Salt Lake. Such produce
as butter, cheese, canned goods and
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weighed, and If they fall short, the
dealers say they will not agree to sell
them.
William j. Pickett has brought suit
against a saloon in Ogden for the sum
of $4,000 as damages The suit is a
novel one, Plaintiff alleges that while
in the place he was stricken with apo
plexy and was thrown in back room
and allowed to remain there without
care or attention.
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