Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1914-04-10
UTAH STATE NEWS

The state of Utah will collect an in
herltance tax amounting to $Gi63i1z
from the estate Of the late Windsor
V. Rice.
Aquilla Nebcker became United
| States marshal for Utah on April l.,
succeeding James II. Anderson, who
has held the office for over four years
Saving deposits in the eightyeigh
state banks of Utah show an Increase
}? $jGS,415.35 during the period from
November q, 1913 t" February 2s
1914
A ladies' auxiliary to the Bountifnl
Commercial club has been formed
with view to getting the interest Of
the women in the community in pub
Tic movements.
d. Z Burley, general passenger
agent Of the oregon Short Line, IRE
diets that the Panama-Pacidc cXpGsi
ton in san Francisco will be entiTeiy
ready by October 1.
Lucrctia r Ross special govern
ment investigator of eye diseases
among the Indians OF Utah, Is IN
Deep Creek, where she will treat In
dams suffering from fractional
Richard snow. years old, son OF
Asfby Snow. was fatally injured in
fall from swing on the playground
1t the Lafayette school in Salt LAKE,
death occurring a few hours later.
Utah has six mountain peaks which
rise more than 1900 feet above sea
level and nearly sixty peaks which
are more than 12,0C0 feet above sea
level, according to the United States
geological survey.
Members of the Modern Wuodmen
OF America are making preparations
to attend the state encampment
which will be held in Price May 6 and
Z. Delegates are being elected by all
the camps in the state and each of the
twenty eight will be represented
Governor Spry has issued procla
nation fixing Wednesday. April 10, as
Arbor day throughout the state. He
calls upon the people of the state as
a whole to unite in adding to the
the planting of trees and shrubs.
Theodore Engstron, carpenter, 80
years old, committed suicide at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Mary Mulch.
,rt, in Ogden, by slashing his throat
with a razor. Engstron had been un.
lble to secure employment and this
fact Is believed to have prompted him
to kill himself
The first carload of the million and
half brick, which are 10 be used
in the construction of the factory of
the Utah Glass company, have been
shipped from Salt Lake to Moroni.
The balance of the bricks are to go
forward as quickly as they can be
loaded on the cars.
The construction OF silos and the
use of silage for feed in Utah. boosted
among farmers OF the state by the
federal dairy division, has so far been
complete success and even greater
things are predicted this year in the
silage line, according TO ]. A. Dorman
chief of the dairy division.
For the first time in the history OF
the l.. ID. S. L. department boy
has been chosen to represent the
school in the state high school deca'
nation and reading contest in the
person of Llewellyn Thomas, who in
the final contest of the school defeat.
ed four girls and one boy.
In order to aid fruit farmers, ar
rangements have been made by the
director of the weather bureau at salt
Lake TO give telegraphic predictions
of coming low temperatures, A sys.
tenn of daily reports from the -four
centers Of the fruit district Provo
Roy, Brigham city AID Tramonton-
will be instituted.
Believing that the proposed railroad
to tap the immense supply of timber
which the forest service intends ~
sell from the Kaibab national forest
will result in the construction of an
extensive system of feeders. John II.
| Clark, former supervisor of the Ka,.
! bah forest, contends that the building
of the road will be the making OF
! southern Utah
Convicted on a charge OF supplying
liquor to boys for a ST. Patrick's day
celebration, William Kappus, "A sa.
loon-keeper at Park City, was fined
500 and sent to jail for sixty days
| by Judge Alexander McMaster of the
| juvenile court.
A total of II births as against is
deaths, ratio OF more than four tC
one, was reported to the city board
of health of Salt Lake last week. OF
the births, 10 were boys and "a were
girls. OF the deaths, We're males
and Is females
Louis T. futile, n prominent citi
zen of Manti, died March 26, from the
effects of a wound inflicted accident
ally by the discharge Of gun which
he was cleaning.
John T.. Hin, - years of age, civil
war veterans, former state treasurer
of Nebraska and for thirteen years
a resident of Salt Lake, died March
q OF general debility,
The state FISH and game commits