Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-12-31
TEE UTAH BUDGET


Franklin ID. Steed, prominent
farmer and dairy man, of Pennington,
lied suddenly of apopexy.
Mrs. Bertha Davis, aged SS. a for
mer resident of Logan. suicided at
ogden, taking carbolic acid.
The total receipts from timberu
sales from the Wasatch national fofS
est this year will reach 100000, in the
| opinion of Supervisor Bruins
AS a safeguard against shoplifting
during the rush previous TO Christ
mas, several Ogden department stores
have employed special detectives.
Fifty more men are to be put to-
work on the beet sugar factory,
which is being built by the Utah
Idaho Sugar company at West Jordan.
At a municipal election held at
Kamas, the bond issue of $4,000 for
the construction of a modern, sani-
tary water plant was favorably voted,
SO to a.
Children playing with matches set
fire to the barn and warehouse of
BENJAMIN o. Carlston at Ephraim. The
fire completely destroyed the build
ing and contents.
With the reelection of ]. C.. Knud-
son of Brigham City as president for
another year. the annual convention
of the Utah State Horticultural So
ciety was concluded at Ogden.
There are fewer deaths in Utah in
proportion to the population than in
any other state in the Union except
Kansas, according to statistics compil-
ed by the United States census
bureau
The 6-week-old daughter of Mr.. and
MRS. George Boyns of Eureka was
found dead in her cradle Thursday
by the mother after she had nursed
the baby and had gone about her
work.
Thomas Garfield, % years OF age,
master mechanic of the Utah Cop
per company at Bingham, was brought
to st. Marks hospital suffering from
broken ankle, caused by an acct
dental fall.
]. Harvard OF Springville was ar
rested by Deputy Sheriff c. II. Clark
for Sheriff ]. S. Corless of Salt Lake,
who wants Harvard for passing
checks that were not paid because Of
no funds.
Experts for the Utah-Idaho Sugar
company are in the Uintah basin MAX
ing an examination and analyses OF
the soils of that part of the state to
dntorrninn .f
sugar beets there.
Samuel f. Diston, a coal miner,
was killed in the workings of the
Union Fuel company's mine at Grass
Creek when the roof of an under
ground chamber fell in and pile of
| rocks showered down.
Crosbie Pickering, 81 years Of age,
a lineman employed by the Mountain
States Telephone G. Telegraph COM
pany, sustained serious, but not fatal,
injuries when he fell twenty-five feet
from the top of pole.
John Hasalone, 81 years OF age, pro-
prietor of barber shop in Bingham,
died Monday of inhalation pneumonia,
induced by injury to his lungs when
he came near drowning in swim
ming pool at Salt Lake
On request of the Pocatello, Idaho,
authorities, Sheriff John S. Corless
has arrested w. NJ. Crowther, who Is
wanted in Pocatello on a grand lar
ceny charge. He is alleged to have
stolen team OF horses and brought
| 1t to Salt Lake.
Charging that in the past two years
| the Salt Lake & Ogden Railway coma
pany has killed two cows and several
pigs that strayed upon the right of
way, near Layton, A. j. Morgan of
Ogden brought suit against the COM
pany for the recovery Of about 1925.
| While all arrangements have been
made by the local committee which Is
raising money to keep open the Utah
building at the San Diego exposition
the coming year, the campaign for
funds will not be pushed until the
Utah expositions commission decides
what shall be done with the building
AS the law creating the commission
says that at the end of the exposition
year the building shall revert to the
state of Utah, the commission has
asked the advice of Attorney General
A. r. Barnes as to whether 1t is per-
missible to sell the building to the
local committee for nominal sum.
There were filed with the county
recorder of Provo, fifty applications
made to the United States recama-
ton commission for water from the
Strawberry valley reclamation pro-
ject The applications are from Lake
Shore farmers.
Henry Jones OF Provo got two falls
from Butch Atkin of Idaho In fast
mat bout Thursday night. Jones won
the first in "a minutes. Atkins the
second in Is minutes and Jones the
third in minutes. Goddard and
Spencer. both OF Provo, wrestled to
a drawk in a preliminary. Offert beat
Cliff in fourround boxing match.
Claude Murdoch was the referee in
wrestling and Mel Cox in boxing.
When II appeared that she would