Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-10-13
THE UTAH BUDGET

Lake City last week.
A balance of $SSS,621.22 In the treas.
ury of the state of Utah at the end
of September, 1916. is shown by the
report of the state treasurer.
Seventeen persons run down by au-
tomobiles were treated during the
month of September In the city
emergency hospital in Salt Lake City.
John w. King. a Black Hawk In.
dian war veteran and prominent
resident of Lehi. died suddenly while
sitting in an easy chair reading his
morning paper.
With the return of the First squad.
ron OF Utah cavalry from the Mex
lean border. approximately 12S horses,
brought to the state.
A remarkable decrease in drunken.
ness. gambling and vagrancy over the
previous month is shown by the Sep
TENDER report of the criminal division
of Salt Lake City court.
Two thousand dollars were set
aside by the capitol commission last
week to beautify the grounds behind
the statehouse. More money will be
devoted to the project later, according
to members of the commission.
Warren c. Mangum, paying teller
at the Continental National bank, Salt
Lake City, is missing and coincident
with his disappearance an investiga-
ton by the bank officials has devel.
oped that the institution is short
$4,000.
County prisoners may be employed
by the state and receive pay for their
labor, according to an opinion given
by A. r. Barnes, attorney general Of
Utah, in response to request for au-
thority by E. r. Morgan, state road
engineer.
Charles Stevens, aged go a ne
gro and former convict. who twelve
years ago is reported to have been i'm.
plicated in the robbery of large
quantity of jewelry from a Salt Lake
jeweler, was arrested by the Denver
police last week.
Henry Clay Brownlee, who was con-
nected with the Salt Lake newspapers
for a number of years, died in Toxic.
Japan. September IA, of apoplexy.
News of his death was received in
papers from the Japanese capital.
He was 6S years old.
The roaring cataracts Of the Grand
river in the Westwater canyon In
Utah and thirty miles west of Grand
hau hxy nart
Lopez of Torrey, Utah, and Ellsworth
L. Kolb Of Grand Canyon, Ariz., in a
seventeen-foot cedar freight canoe.
For some time 1t has been an unde
cided question whether the Ute In
dian school at Whiterocks was to re-
main, but the Indian commission has
sent the word that the school will re.
main and that new dormitory.
modern structure of the latest type,
will be built.
Salt Lake had no reason to com.
plain of its treatment at the hands of
the weather man during the month of
September. The monthly report Of
shows total of 329 hours of actual
and uninterrupted sunshine. out of
possible 374 hours.
At the age Of IS years. after long
illness, Mrs. Margaret w. Young. a
resident of Utah for about sixty years,
died October at her home in Salt
Lake City. She was the widow of
Joseph A. Young, the eldest son Of
Brigham Young. Her husband died
about forty years ago.
The Oregon Short Line board of in.
quiry has returned verdict relieving
the railroad company and its en-
ployees of all responsibility in con.
nection with the death of Alma John
son, who was struck on the highway
crossing by a train east of Dewey on
the night of September 10.
ii. J. Owen, aged 30 years, of Salt
Lake, was accidentally shot and pain.
fully, though not seriously, wounded
by his brother, II. owen, while they
were duck hunting on the shores OF
the lake near Ogden.
Members of the Citizens Military
Training association who attended
the training camp at Fort Douglas
are planning for reception Of the
first squadron of Utah cavalry when
It returns to Salt Lake.
Utah potato growers are annually
losing large sums of money through
the careless digging and storing OF
their crop, according to DR.. George
X. Hill, director of the school OF agri-
culture of the Utah Agricultural col
lege.
The recent rainstorm caused con-
siderable damage in the vicinity of
Kaysville, the water system intake
being choked up and residence lots
flooded, the highways being damaged,
concrete roads being undermined in
places and must be rebuilt.
The first squadron of the First cav
airy, Utah National Guard, is under
orders to leave Nogales for Salt
Lake on October IS.
After an Illness of nearly month
George Todd Is years of age, a pio-
neer harness maker OF Salt Lake, died
from kidney trouble.