Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-05-12
THE UTAH BUDGET

IL Is announced that sugar factory
Is TO be built near Logan, in the Ben
son ward.
Two thousand dollars will be spent
upon the improvements OF the road
through Parley's canyon this year.
Formal opening of the new capitol
will take place Tuesday, June rs, the |
second day of the national conference |
Of governors, to be held in Salt Lake |
this year.
Thomas Il. Williams, q years OF
age. night car inspector for the Sal,
Lake Route at Lynndyl, was caught
and crushed to death between a switch
engine and a coach
To commemorate the completion OF
the Strawberry valley irrigation pro
| ject and the coming of the interurbap,
big Joint celebration will be held at
Payson May 26 and o.
William Mcguire, aged 50, was
choked to death by James Burke In
the city jail at Ogden, where the two
men had been placed in a cell. The
two men were intoxicated
Charles Keefe, veteran bartender
of Anaconda, is in padded cell in
Salt Lake, having become unmanage
able while stopping at a local hotei.
He will be sent back to Montana.
The mouth of Big Cottonwood can
yon has practically been decided
upon by Fred W. Chambers. state fish
and game commissioner, as the loca
ton for a Salt Lake county game sane
tuary.
The potash plant which is being
built at Grants for the Diamond Match
company is rapidly nearing compile
ton. The walls for the large build.
ings are up and the roofs are being
placed.
The assessed valuation OF Brigham
City, under the new method of full
valuation on property. is s2,222,49o
! This is aside from public utilities
which are taxed by the state board OF
4 equalization.
Nearly 10 per cent Of the lumber
\ used in Utah, southern Idaho and II
Lincoln and Uinta counties, Wyo., II
q 1915 was cut from timber growing 10
n oally, according to the Ogden brancl
Of the forest service.
Railroads centering Ina and arorn'
Salt Lake City are planning to expen'
81 $4,000, 900 in improvements this yea
Il 10 facilitate the handling of business
81 according to Ballard Dunn OF Chicago
Il IN expert on railroad problems.
B G. H. Jack, Utah artist. is undel
RI ,aking the modelling of statue
n Abraham Lincoln to be placed at tn
y ,apitol grounds. II is the hope OF M
lack to have the piece or sculptui
'eady for the dedication Of the stat
house.
A cave long and narrow. full
ashes in which were many bones. an
in the midst OF all a skeleton OF
child wrapped in cedar bark In a
- cient Indian fashion, are the finds
he farm of John w. Weist, eight mill
rom Vernal.
DIR. c. +. Ogood, aged 4S. one Of o
denis wealthy residents and we
,nown physician and surgeon, wi
W shot three times and killed as he 8
IA in his automobile. His murderer, II
81 Der Burch, aged A. farmer, Is B
<# ieved to be insane.
Within the next few weeks a 81
81 On the capitol grounds at Salt La
~ .or the monument to the Mormon bi
vi alton will be selected The selecti
q will be made jointly by the Norm
battalion monument committee a
n The capitol commission.
Embezzlement of 1881 OF {
4 funds of the Copper State bank Of CO
MI perfield is charged against A. Walt
81 Koehler, cashier of the bank, in
3 complaint issued a few days ago Ko'
ga Ter claims he was robbed OF
81 amount by lone bandit.
ga DIR. Charles Poplin Harvielle, asst
81 ant county physician OF Salt La
ID county, died May in Denver FRI
III an affection of the throat, after lo
illness, DR.. Harvielle was one OF
Who best known men in the west and
ac- been actively interested in outd'
ing sports
lral James Lynch, who on January '
gh paroled from the Utah state penit
larry after having served sevent'
years Tor the murder OF Colo
I George Prowse in 1899, has in the
timation of the police, broken his
role and is thereby a fugitive fl
justice.
comparatively low rate of
crease in the assessed valuation
Washington county for 1916 as C
pared with 1915 is shown by the
81 port of the assessor for that cou
= fled with the state board of equal
ton. The valuation for 1916 is
III OO6,915 as compared with $1,199
#yS for 1915.
q Plans are being made to covert
q, I've companies of infantry OF
&X Utah National Guard into cav
M roops, supplementing troop A, an
~ organize two more cavalry tro
: giving the state militia two CONT
\ 8 battalions of cavalry.
Antoine Leta, the Italian leper
fined at the Salt Lake county hosI
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