Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1911-02-10
UTAH STATE NEWS

tul year In Lehi
The Weber club of ogden has gone
on record as favoring the commission
form of government for that city.
AS result of fan on a slippery
pavement. Samuel Horrocks, an Og.
den pioneer. ~ years of age. is con.
fined to his home with a fracture of
the hip bone.
Matthew Wilson, Is years of age,
for whom his parents have been
searching for over a year, has been
located in Ogden and is being held
pending the arrival of his father from
Seattle.
An amendment has been attached
to the rivers and harbors bill provid-
ing for a survey of the Jordan river
from Utah lake to Great Salt Lake,
to determine the navigability of the
stream.
A mass meeting of parents of stu
dents attending the Ogden high
school will be called In a few days
to discuss plans for the erection OF
an up-to-date and modernly equipped
gymnasium.
Attorneys for Thomas Vance, who
Is serving a twenty-year term in the
states prison for wife murder, are en-,
deavoring to secure their clients free
dom, and have made application for
a writ of habeas corpus.
The body OF John Berglund. an ex.
pressman of Salt Lake City. who dis
appeared from his home last Septem-
Der, has been found. by rabbit hun
ters west of Salt Lake. Berglund had
evidently persisted from exposure.
The Price Commercial club last
week took the initial step in a cam.
paign of publicity for Price and Car.
bon county, when It made arrange.
ments to have 5000 booklets descrip-
tive of this section of the state
printed.
Crawling through an unbarred win
dow which had never been repaired
since the last occupant of the cell
sawed through it, Bob Mcfarland,
serving three months for burglary,
escaped from the Davis county Jail
one night last week.
The Bountiful Cooperative Mercan.
tile institution. the largest business
establishment in Bountiful, was de-
stroyed by fire February /. The total
loss is estimated at $4,000, with in.
surance amounting to $4,000. The
fire fighters saved about $4,000 worth
of merchandise.
Stanley Crawford, aged thirty-two
years. one of the commercial mag
mates of Manti. who was chiefly in
strumental In the installation OF the
pisne-of the Mantf Light and Power
company died In Salt Lake hospi-
tai on February 2, following an opera
ton for appendicitis.
Ely Hansen, aged 25, is dead at
Brigham City as the result of an ac-
ciednt during game of basket ball.
One of Hansen's mates in the game,
while passing him the ball, slipped
and as he fell, struck Hansen on
the head, breaking a blood vessel and
causing hemorrhage of the brain,
Urging that the annual appropria-
ton of the legislature for the con-
struction of state roads be increased
from $4,000 to 100000, and that
funds be provided for paying the ex-
penses of its members and the EN-.
ployment of road expert. the state
road commission has filed it's first |
biennial report with the governor:
That AL Buckley, the train robber |
arrested at Pueblo. January 81, after
he had held up the Colorado & South
ern train and robbed passengers of |
5000 in cash, is the tall man who fig |
ured in the holdup of the Overland |
Limited at Reese, January 2, is be- |
lieved by the sheriff of Weber county. |
Mrs William Poulsen of Redmond |
Is dead from cancer of the stomach, |
with which she has suffered during
the last three months. Mrs. Poulsen
was a native of Denmark and was
about sixty years of age She leaves
a husband and six grown children.
The Pintsch gas works at ogden is
TO be enlarged and the capacity great
ly increased. The gas made at Og-
den has been used for years in light
Ing all the passenger coaches of the
Hartman and Gould lines.
Confidence in Salt Lake property
and in the material growth of the
city and state marked the sentiment
predominating the boosters ban
quet of the real estate dealers held
In Salt Lake last week
Mrs Lille Rogers, the Salt Lake
woman who, on Janaury II, shot
Bruce Tingey in the back. has been
dismissed from custody, Tingey refus.
Ing to prosecute. The shooting was
the outcome of lovers quarrel