Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1914-05-01
UTAH STATE NEWS

rested in salt Lake.
One of the attractions at Liberty
park in salt Lake during the coming
summer season is to be motion pic
ture show of the open air variety.
About 600 acres of state land near
Minersville, Beaver county, will be
sold at auction by the state land
board on Saturday. April 20, at
Beaver.
BY re-enlisting the former members
of company b, the Ogden company OF
the national guard is to be brought
up to the full war strength of 10S men
Immediately.
If war ensues with Mexico, Salt
Lake will furnish more than 100 men
to the navy the first day. says Lieut. s.
w. Cake, in charge of the Salt Lake
naval recruiting station.
The excursions committee of the
Salt Lake Commercial club has an.
nounced a big trade extension excur.
sion to northern Utah and southern
Idaho to be run early in June.
At least 100 Utahns have agreed to
make and operate the King splitlog
road drags as a result of the recent
visit to- Utah of ID. Ward King, road
expert and inventor of the drag.
Governor Spry called upon President
Wilson on April 90 and assured him
the Utah militia was available for i'm
mediate service If 1t should be neces-
sary to utilize state troops in connec-
ton with the troubles with Mexico.
A report which has been compiled
at the board of education Offices in
ogden on the work done by the school
students on Arbor day shows that
more than 1900 trees. shrubs and
vines were planted throughout the
city.
Friday, May 10, has been selected
rs utah day by the board of govl
ernors of the Utah Development
league. Governor Spry will be asked
to issue a proclamation calling upon
the citizens of the state to properly
observe the day.
While watching the demonstration
of the working of an automatic pistol
in the hands of a countryman, George
Borocis, a Greek laborer, was acct
dentally shot In a grocery store in
Salt Lake, suffering severe wounds In
his right hand and arm.
A pair of brass candle shutters
used by Mrs. A. s. Gilbert in Kirkland,
Ohio, in 1880 and later brought to
Utah and presented to Mrs. G.. w.
Rollins of Minersville, Utah, niece of
of Mrs. Gilbert, has been presented to
the Deseret museum at Salt Lake.
A total of $1l3.75 was collected In
back pay for two girl employees in a
single store at Mt. Pleasant by A. L.
Toone, deputy state commissioners of
immigration, labor and statistics. who
made rigid investigation of viola
tions Of the minimum wage law.
George l. Reeves, United States en-.
.tomologist, believes he has a plan to
eradicate the alfalfa weevil. 1t is a
machine containing arsenical poisoning
which may be placed on wagon. the
wagon being driven over the field,
spraying the ground with the poison.
Investigation into the death at
Salt Lake, on April 8, of the infant
daughter of Lester and Florence
Athey resulted in coroner's jury rem
dering verdict of death by accident
from suffocation. II was at first
thought the child had been strangled.
A campaign of education for the
creamery and dairymen of Utah, in
which stereopticon views of actual
conditions, both good and bad, will
feature the lectures, Is planned by the
United States western dairy investiga-
ton division of the department of ag.
riculture.
Colonel r. w. Tatlock, veteran OF
the civil war, retired colonel of the
Utah national guard, and government
statistician for the last seven years,
with headquarters at Salt Lake, will
endeavor to secure commission as
officer of volunteers in case of war
with Mexico.
1t is predicted that the Piute dam,
south of Marysvale, will be completed
early In June. Good weather condi-
lions are enabling the working force
to proceed with the dam with unusual
rapidity. When 1t is completed the
Piute dam will store approximately
10000 acre feet of water.
The commissioners of Box Elder
county have decided to withdraw the
bounty on jack rabbits, which at pres
ent is cents for each rabbit killed.
This was made necessary on account
of the numerous demands on the
bounty funds. More than $21 900 has
been paid in bounty on rabbits alone
the past year.
Steve Christ, T. A. Gallagher and
Andrew Mophis, have been awarded
$4,000 damages. the result of an &C.
tion alleging that the Phoenix Con
struction company, w. G. Hibbard
and others, falsely effected their ar
rest at Grace. Idaho, October 10, 1918,
and held them prisoners more than
twenty-four hours without arraigning
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