Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-08-27
THE UTAH BUDGET

Farmers in the Cache valley are
all astir over the prospect of discov
cry of oil in their lands.
The twenty.second annual encamp.
ment of the Utah and Wasatch Indian
War veterans opened at Spanish Fork
on the nth
Thomas Dunn, 12-year-old Sail
Lake boy. received a slight conCus
sion of the brain when he fell from a
tree near his home.
The Brigham federal building is
nearing completion and the contrac.
tors will have the building finished be
contract.
Peaches for distribution on Peach
day at Brigham City will be picked
when the Elberta harvest Is at its
best and placed in cold storage until
Peach day.
With 80 per cent of the water from
the new artesian wells at Huntsville
In use and the two city reservoirs al
most full, fears of water shortage in
ogden have been allaye1.
A grasshopper war with modern ap
pliances is being waged by the farm.
ers i'm the vicinity of Deseret, Willard
country. The pests are being killed
by thousands with poison.
William Doxy of Bountifui was
elected president of the Utah State
Flremen's association at the closing
session at Spanish Fork of the annu
al convention of the organization.
Weevil and signs of Mediterranean
moth have been observed in samples
of -four collected in Salt Lake gro.
ceries, declares Heber c. Smith, state
dairy and food commissioner.
Plans for an invasion on the Uintah
basin during the early part of Sep
TENDER by an army of Salt Lake bust.
ness men and boosters are being for
INFLATED by the Salt Lake CONNER
| cial club
Fred A. e. Meyer, one of Salt Lakes
veteran business men. who for thirty.
seven years was buyer for the cloth
ing department of Y. c. M. l., died Au-
gust 10 at the family residence in
Salt Lake.
Bankers in Utah and all parts Of
the west have been appealed to by
police authorities to assist ~ stamp
ing out the well-organized gang of
bunco men which has been reaping a
harvest during recen. months.
The establishment of more military
academies, including one in the far
west. was urged by former President
William Howard Taft, during his Salt
Lake visit, as one of the best methods
of strengthening our national defense.
Randolph Churchill, author, journal
list, lecturer and cousin of Winston
Churchill. noted author. who attended
he trial of Leo NJ. Frank, commenting
1t Salt Lake on the lynching OF
Frank, said that he thought Frank
without doubt was guilty of the muir
der of Mary Phagan.
Application has been filed with the
interstate commerce commission by
the American National Live Stock as
ISOLATION and the National Woolgrow-
ers' association for lower freight
rate on live stock, especially on sheep
and hogs, from points in Utah and
Idaho to California.
After evading arrest for three
weeks, during which time he Is said
to have spent $500 in riotous pleas
ure, Leonard Webster Asher. aged "a
years, until recently a trusted express
messenger for the American Express
company in the Salt Lake district, is
now in Jail in FL Centre, Cal.
Il .f,, 20
carry number of the members of the
American Bar association and
other distinguished visitors to Bling
ham on Thursday to see the mines
Of the Utah Copper company. On the
trip the smelter at Garfield and the
mills at Magma and Arthur were
visited.
Efforts are being made by the mem
bers of the Mormon Battalion Monu-
ment commission of Utah 10 gain the
consent of the family of the late Maj
Gen. st. George Cooke to have his
body brought west from its resting
place In Michigan and be placed I'M
der the proposed monument to the
Mormon battalion to be erected on the
capitol grounds.
It has been proposed recently to
bring several thousand head of first
class dairy COWS into Utah to foster
end at once encourage the dairy bust
ness. AS good dairy cows are worth
SIS TO $3.50 each, the promise of 10000
would mean a great thing for the
state, the ranchers feel.
With the signing up OF contracts
calling for the erection of two new
100000 sugar plants for Utah in
time for the 1916 beet season, not
able commercial event was consum-
mated last week One factory will
ne erected at Spanish Fork and the
other in the south end OF Salt Lake
county.
II Is estimated there are about
100000 cows now in Utah. but dairy.
men believe that the state might just
rs well have FIVE times that number
The 1914 production of dairy products
amounted TO close 10 S4,000O00.
Harry Brewer sentenced IN die nm