Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-05-26
UTAH STATE NEWS
Steps are being taken to organize a
Commercial club at Lehi

76,S17.
Salt Lake county is s657,396 richer
this year than a year ago. according
to the assessment just made.
Bostonia is the name of the newest
town In Utah. The site of the new
town is at Pelican Point, which has
always been regarded as a part of
Lehi.
While helping to drive piles at the
sugar factory at Lehi. Abe Gates met
with an accident, crushing the toes of
his right foot One toe was ampu-
tated.
Frank Murphy, well known in Og-
den as Silent" Murphy. was killed at
Promontory Point by Southern Pa
cinc train, while walking along the
track.
Il. W. Kennedy of ogden was Sc
verely injured In runaway accident
last week, the team behind watch he
was riding being frightened by an
automobile.
The wool clip at Price this spring
amounts to little over 635,0OO
pounds SO far shipped, but when all OF
1t is in the figures will go over the
million mark.
The action of the interior depart
ment in refusing to allow the Uintah
Railway company to enter the reser-
walton will result in Vernal being the
end Of the line.
Fred c. Fuchs, Sr., is at the Ogden
general hospital and cannot recover
from the effects of an accident, he
having fallen down the stairway, frac-
turing his skull.
The storm at Wellsville last week
did considerable damage, the town
being flooded. wires broken down and
trees uprooted. while much damage
was done to vegetation.
A number of farmers near American
Fork who have been holding their
wheat for 81 prices. were rather taken
back last week when the price at that
town dropped, to 80 cents a bushel.
bAth, the @now banked Pup in the
INNS to considerable depth for this
time Jayear. Where is every assurance
of prosperous season for the agricul-
tural and stock interests of eastern
Utah.
A Japanese laborer riding on the
pilot Of an engine was thrown against
a car standing on the switch leading
to the gravel pit below Black Rock
station OF the San Pelro railroad and
killed.
Thugs beat, gagged and robbed Mrs.
Louis Burza, at Sunnyside, during the
absence of her husband from home.
securing 500 in cash. Mrs Burza was
badly beaten, suffering severe internal
injuries
Emil Carson, convicted of holding
up LsqPoppo. in Salt Lake City. and
taking diamonds to the value of $3.50
and s65 in cash from him. has been
sentenced to three years in the peni-
Tertiary.
The class which graduates from
the University of Utah this year will
be the largest that has ever been
graduated in the history of the uni
versity, the number of graduates this
year being 1856.
American Fork will soon have a sill
yer band il present plans are favor
ably met by the citizens of this place.
Whooping cough is in almost every
family in American Fork, and in some
cases very severe
Price is now a wide-open town from
the gamblers point of view. The
town board, it is said wants the rev.
enue for building waterworks, which
are now being put in at cost of sew
eral thousand dollars.
Work has started at Helper on the
$4,000 Young Mems Christian asso-
citation building, which is to be COM
pleted and ready for use by early fall.
1t will be three stories high. with base
ment and of pressed brick.
Will Sommmerville, of American
Fork, while riding in a wagon through
American Fork canyon, got his leg
caught in the rear wheel, the member
being twisted in horrible condition,
1t is not expected he will lose his
limb. but he will be laid up for several
weeks.