Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-04-21
The UTAH BUDGET


widow at Payson, causing about
$500 loss.
Gideon Clark, while riding a bicycle
in Provo, was run down by an auto
mobile, his shoulder being disiocated
and his hip injured
Peter Frankos, charged with invol-
nptary manslaughter for the killing of
Willie Shapland at Garfield, was found
guilty by jury at Salt Lake.
Daily service on the Newhouse
branch of the Salt Lake Route has
been established and will be contin-
ued during the wool shearing season
Fruit in the Grand valley of Utah
was uninjured during the cold spell of
the past week. Local fruitgrowers
look forward to a large crop of all
kinds of fruits.
Lynn and Stanford Bobcock, IA and
16 years old, respectively, sons of Ru-
fus Babcock of Vineyard, were hurt
in runaway accident, being thrown
under q beet drill.
The call for the Republican state
convention at Provo May 1 to select
four delegates at large to the Repub.
lican national convention in Chicago
June has been issued.
Fire which originated In some un.
known manner destroyed a carload
of automobiles at Promontory, thirty
miles west of Ogden. The car was in
Southern Pacific freight train.
The state auditor has been advised
that the Kane county school district
teachers have refused to pay the l
per cent assessment on their salaries
into the state teachers retirement
fund.
New road work in Salt Lake county
for 1916 costing the county $96,644 is
recommended in communication
from George w. Holmberg, county
road commissioner to the county COM
mission.
Wallace Bushnell who has a store
on Provo bench, was sentenced to
serve thirty and sixty days in the
county jail and to pay two fines Of
$3.50 each for selling intoxicating
liquor.
Frank DePretto, convicted of
charge of first degree murder for COM
plicity in the killing of Eugene Allen
at the Highland Boy store in Bingham
canyon, on April 10, 1914, is to be exc
cuted June 8.
Carlo Anselnio, brother Of Giovanni
Anselmo, now in the penitentiary UNI
der life sentence for killing atrolman
Thomas Griffiths in June, 1913, at
tempted suicide at Salt Lake, taking
poison, but will recover.
Frank Legaver was arrested at Og-
den on a charge of having at the point
of a gun collected 81 from John Bor-
ger. Legaver says Berger owed him
the amount and he was unable to get
it in any other manner.
While taking Ray Powell, aged 81.
to the hospital in Salt Lake after he
had been run over by a loaded wagon
aged A. fell under the wagon and
WIS also seriously injured.
May 26 and 81 have been named by
the general committee as the days to
celebrate in Payson the completion OF
the great Strawberry project and in
terurban railway and the securing of
the $4,000 shops for Payson.
More snow was in the mountains of
| Utah at the end of the month of
March than there has been for a num-
Der of years, according to the last
snow bulletin of the season, just is
sued by the weather bureau.
The Salt Lake board of education
has gone on record as being opposed
TO the installation of telephones In the
public school buildings of the city on
the ground that the price asked by
the telephone company is excessive"
Country folks who own automobiles
must pay the state license tax the
same as city folks. David Mattson,
secretary OF state, is putting into oper.
alton the plan he announced last week
for rounding up the tardy autoists of
the rural communities.
Box Elder county officials will put
into effect dog muzzling ordinance
and will quarantine against the infect
ed Nevada and Idaho districts and
take other steps suggested by the
state board of health to ward off a
threatened spread of the rabies into
| Utah.
Walter Daley has confessed to We.
Der county officials that the stories he
has told to the effect he participated
in the Roy train robbery were all un,
true. Instead of beng one of a trio
of bold bandits, the youth admitted
with a grin that he better qualities
as the champion liar of the inter
mountain country.
Experiments conducted for more
than a month in Salt Lake laborator
les have proven that aluminium can
be extracted cheaply from the alunitc
oxide ores of Utah, and patents will
be applied for at once.
Health conditions and sanitation as
they relate to plumbing, drainage, ven
tilation and sewage disposal werG
principal topics discussed at the fourth
annual convention of the Utah State
Master Plumbers association, held In
Salt Lake last Waak