Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1906-04-27
State News.

So far IL is not known that one
Utahn persisted in the San Francisco
disaster.
The Mormon church has donated
$40, 600 towards relieving the earth
quake sufferers.
Or. L. A. Clawson is made bishop
of the eighteenth ward of Salt Lake
to succeed Orson f. Whitney.
The school children of Ogden are
said to have sent out the first carload
of provisions for the relief OF the San
Francisco sufferers.
jain Kubelik, said to be the
greatest violinist in the world, will
appear at the Salt Lake Tabernacle
next Friday evening.
Hattie Lee of Salt Lake this week
won from the city a suit of $500 for
damages sustained in a fall on a de-
fective sidewalk.
The western trains coming into
Ogden and Salt Lake are every day
crowded with refugees hurrying away
from the scene of the great earth
quake.
Erik Backlund, prisoner who was
in for ninety days for assault, com
mItted suicide at the county Jail in
Salt Lake by hanging himself to the
bars by a necktie. Backlund's SEN
tence was nearly expired.
George II. Philips, a bridge fore
man on the Salt Lake route, was
killed at Meadow Valley wash on
Wednesday by falling from a trestle
on which he was at work and break
ing his neck.
The cid Margetts brewery on Sec
ond North and Second west streets,
Salt Lake. was almost totally des-
troyed by fire last Thursday. The
loss is estimated at from 49, to
$40, 600, but it is pretty we'll covered
by insurance.
@. l.. Miller of Salt Lake county
has lately CLOSED. a deal with Craven
-orSe Won for the purchase of
5000 head of sheep, the consideration
being something over $50, 600. The
average price paid for ewes was "a. %
apiece. The sheep are at present
near Milford, but will be transferred
to Utah County after sbearing time.
Three men we're killed and one
fatally injured last Thursday by an
explosion in the Pariette mine near
the Uintah reservation. The dead
are o. II. Forman, Otto Arnse and
Elmer Hopkins, while the injured is
r. Il. Rosdon. The blame Is attached
to the management and the state mine
inspector for Car elesness in examining
the workings of the property.
Father Byrne, catholic priest en-
route for Boston, became insane on
hearing of the San Francisco disaster,
and getting off the train at Thistle
wandered around the canyon all night.
He was taken in charge by a sheriff
and taken to a room in hotel.
Later he was found by another priest
lying on the floor in a pool of blood
with his throat cut. lie was taken
to the Provo hospital and stands a
fair chance for recovery. The unfor-
tunate man was a resident of San
Francisco.
There is a strong possibility that
the convention of the National Edu
cational Association which was
to have been held in San Francisco
next July will now convene in Salt
Lake. IL was a fight in the first
place between the two cities as to
which should win the meeting place,
and since San Francisco is entirely
out of the question now and Salt
Lake, according to precedent, will.
be entitled either to this or the next
it is probable that Salt Lake will
have the unexpected privilege o.
entertaining the N. e. A. this year.
A novel and somewhat amusing in
cident took place in the police cour
of Salt Lake the other day, when
patrolman brought in a we'll dressed
but somewhat suspicious looking in