Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-12-17
THE UTAH BUDGET


tens.
The 9-year-old son OF Mr. and Mrs,
Albert Kerr of Payson was severely
injured when he was kicked in the
breast by a horse.
Stimulated by the publication OF
scores in the clean town contest. Mon
ticello, San Juan county, is to install
new municipal water system.
Joe Mahor, charged with murder in
tho first degree in killing William
Kunchan at Bingham. was found
guilty of voluntary manslaughter.
Organization OF cadet corps In
every high school of the state boast
ing thirty or more Doy students will
be encouraged by the war depart
ment.
Out OF twenty-six cases considered.
twenty-five indictments were returned
by the federal grand jury, which com
pleted its deliberations at Salt Lake
few days ago.
Elmer Horton, who must face a
charge of murder for the killing OF
Alex Robertson, night marshal at Eu-
reka, has been taken to the peniten-
tiary for safekeeping.
John G. Ellis of Ogden, contractor,
lost one finger from his left hand,
and two others may be permanently
disabled as the result OF his hand
coming in contact with a circular
saw.
Elmer Horton, who shot and in
stantly killed Alex Robertson, night
policeman at Eureka, was given a
preliminary. hearing and held to the
district court on the charge of muir.
der in the first degree.
The number OF itinerapts who have
applied for lodging at the police sta
ton and the county jail in Salt Lake
so far during the present month
shows a slight increase over the
same month last year.
An unidentified man, thought to be
either Japanese or Korean, was shot
and killed at $3.50 in the morning by
Enos osa, Spaniard. living at Salt
Lake. Osa claims the man was try
ing to break into his home.
Former Governor John c. Cutler has
received a letter from former Presi-
dent William Howard Taft asking
him to act as temporary chairman Cor
Utah OF the League to Enforce Peace.
of which Mr.. Taft is the head.
The state now has stored at the
Piute reservoir 10000 acrefeet OF
water, according to w. d. Beers, state
engineer. Indications are that more
than $4,000 acre-feet will be stored in
the dam for next seasons, irrigating
A disease known as blackleg has
broken out among cattle south of Salt
Lake City. 1t has been prevalent
there the past two moths, and TWEEN
ty-fve head are reported to have
died, while there are now eight cases.
In existence.
Judge Tillman ID. johnson last week
pronounced his first sentence since
being elevated to the federal bench.
when he committed Leo Dautoff, alias
Danthoff, to four months in the coun-
ty Jail for having violated the Harri-
son narcotic law.
M'rgaret b. Keller, who came be-
fore the eyes of the Salt Lake public
last summer, when she represented
herself as 100000 heiress, and IL
said to have feeced number OF
prominent citizens, has been indicted
by the federal grand jury.
Four beavers have been trapped in
Pluto and Summit counties, according
to reports received by Fred w. Cham
bers, state fish and game commission
er. MI Chambers says his depart
| ment expects to trap this season be-
| tween thirty and forty in this locality.
A conference of the mayors OF
Utah municipalities to be held in Salt
Lake for the purpose of discussing
ways and means for building rail-
road futo the Uintah basin will be-
called Immediately after Janaury by
J. w. McHenry. mayor-elect of Muir
ray.
After raving incoherently for hours
about being wanted for a murder Of
which Re declared he was innocent.
Frank Lane, AZ years OF age, a de-
serter who surrendered himself TO the
Salt Lake police, hanged himself in
his cell at the guardhouse of Fort
Douglas.
Because the state law forbids the
marriage ~ whites and negroes, John
Halvorsen, county license clerk at
Salt Lake, refused marriage license
To man with three-quarters white
blood and one-quarter Indian blood in
his veins and a woman with half In
dian and half negro blood.
p. S. Wangsgard, 81 years of age.
was burned to death in a fire which
almost consumed the log cabin in
which he lived alone at Huntsville.
The fire was discovered before mid
night and 1t was not until an hour
later that the charred body of the
man was taken from the shoulder ing
ruins.
Albert Ekker. rancher near Eure-
"a, last week killed a mountain lion
which measured eight feet from tip to
tip, the lion being slain just after 1t
had killed colt.
The hOrticulturiatS of tho provo ale