Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-06-04
THE UTAH BUDGET

convention IN Salt Lake CITY, June IA
and IL.
Farmers in Salt Lake county are ex-
periencing less trouble from the al
falfa weevil this year than in the past
two years.
Willard county is $1.439 richer in as
sessed property valuations than last
year, according to the report of the
county assessor.
Deaf people of Utah are to meet
June to ~ at the state school for
the deaf and the blind at Ogden for
the annual reunion.
Chris Pallos, aged &c years, smell
terman, was struck and instantly kill
ed by passenger train while he was
walking along the track in Murray.
Tse.Na-Gat, Piute Indian, who was
arrested in San Juan county by Briga-
der General Hugh L. Scott, is report
ed seriously i'll of tuberculosis in Dem
yer.
OF twenty-nine applicants for state
BARRIERS certificates in the examina-
ton held in Salt Lake last week by
the state board of barber examiners,
twenty-seven were successful.
Utah shows a notably low mortality
rate among children from measles for
last year, according to the 1914 NOR
tally bulletin given out by the secre-
tary of the state board OF health.
John James, state insurance COM
missioner, is planning a reunion of pas
sengers of the steamship Wisconsin"
which sailed from Liverpool June 20,
1885, to be held in Salt Lake July s.
Prohibition forces of Logan are get.
ting ready for the coming election.
Temporary organization of a better
ment league has been formed, and 1t is
intended to make this organization
permanent.
Fred Fostenan, farmer of Ber-
tram, Neb., complained to the police
at Salt Lake of having been mulcted
out of $145 and check for $1,000 by
confidence men operating on the state
capitol grounds.
One of the most enthusiastic civic
improvement days in the history of
Manti was held one day last week
when fully 700 shouldered picks, SHOW
els, rakes and hoes and made clean
sweep Of the streets.
Deserted by her husband, Mrs. Ethel
Cassidy, aged 10, attempted suicide at
Salt Lake by the asphyxiation route,
but was discovered in time, and has
penitently promised to not again at
tempt to end her life.
After he had refused to reinstate
Frank Bitraki, miner whom he had
discharged, John Seitz, aged Al years,
a shift foreman, was shot to death at
Bingham by Bitraki, who was captured
shortly after the shooting.
Twenty-nine and four-tenths acres OF
land located In West Jordan has been
purchased for a new factory site by
the Utah-Idaho Sugar company Work
on the new plant will begin in time to
take care OF the 1916 crop.
The farmers around American Fork
are beginning to complain of too much
rain, claiming that 1t is holding the
crops back, the soil becoming too wet
thereby causing the potatoes and
other root crops to rot in the ground
Peter Dupair, an Italian, 20 years OF
age, who says he Is graduate ply
stefan and SURGEON and lays claim to
royal lineage, was arrested at Salt
Lake on e charge of forgery, it being
charged tlat he had passed number
OF checks.
Owing to the increased contagion Of
| RnnxU mn n a in fnunr Inf NJ
which comes from bite of a tick ant
trachoma, disease of the eyes, state
health officials will take stringent
steps to minimize the possibility fol
spread of the diseases in the state.
Between 300 and 400 students of tn,
Brigham Young university at Provo
augmented by a large number of DO,
scouts. last week built the first lap o
the pony "Y" trail from the foot o
the mountain under the big "Y" to tn
cliffs under Maple fat, distance O
nearly two miles.
Financial worries of the Ogden TAI
ernacle choir were practically ende,
last week with the announcement o
the first presidency of the Mormon
church that contribution of $3.50
will be forthcoming to assist the cho.
in making a concert tour to the Cal
fornia expositions in July.
William Squires of Hyrum got SC
we're electrical shock which rendere
him unconscious for some time, nearl
resulting in his death. The cause wa
the falling of live wire with whic
calf became entangled. He went I
get 1t out, and as soon as he touche
the calf he was knocked down.
Salt Lake has been included in tn
nationwide search on the part {
European belligerents for ammunition
making machinery. The Gallagher MI
chinery company has received an u
gent telegram from a New York fri
of tool manufacturers requesting a r,
port on the available machinery in tn
Rocky mountain territory.
Having fashioned pair of suspen,
ers into a hangman's moose Geore
Moore, aged 30 years, attempted su
eide at his home In Salt Lake, bl
was rescued from his perllous pos
, ton by i3year-old boy.
} Upon the reuuest of prominent Ma