Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-09-15
THE UTAH BUDGET

tional tax conference.
Box Elder county will have coun-
ty agent to look after the agricultural
interests of the county.
Leela Hyland, aged g. was killed by
q train on the Utah Copper company's
tracks at Bingham. Her body was
completely severed.
Crop and range conditions in the
southern and southeastern part ri the
state are in better condition than they
have been for number of years.
Three hundred men, women and
in working on the public swimming
pool, leveling and excavating for the
children spent Labor day at Richfield
pool
James H. Wallis OF Salt Lake City
has been employed by the state board
of health to score the clean town con-
test being conducted in Utah this
year.
Harvesting of Brigham City's peach
crop is now in full swing and every
available man and boy in the city is
engaged in the big task of gathering
the crop
The Iron county fair this year will
be held in Cedar City. An entirely
new race course has been constructed.
The fair will be held September IL,
13 and IA.
An increase of AL in registration
on the first day of school was record
ed in the public schools of Salt Lake,
ha nP
school year ago.
Charges that her husband made her
plow, pitch hay and do other manual
labor on the farm, contrary to her
wishes and desires, are made in di-
vorce suit filed by Salt Lake woman.
Mrs Bertha Rynders, Mrs. Verna
Love and Ernest Love, the three per-
sons shot by Tony De Bocco, an Ital-
ion, who ran amuck at Salt Lake, are
reported to be recovering from their
injuries.
Eric Carlson, SO years of age, is at
Salt Lake hospital suffering from
conclusion of the brain received when
the team which he was driving while
returning from a funeral in Bingham
ran away.
Lorenzo Hopla, of Mapleton. took
shotgun from the house and placed
the muZzle against his forehead and
pulled the trigger. Both barrels weres
discharged and the top of the mans
head blown completely off.
Upon being refused a drink Fred
Dalton, aged 30 years, son of Mrs.
Dell Dalton of Salt Lake, shot him
self In the Mushroom of a saloon at
| Ogden, death resulting before medical
attention could be summoned.
To reduce the running time of trains
an average of fifteen minutes between
Ogden and Preston, the Ogden, Logan
& Idaho interurban has constructed
cutoff between Hot Springs and Brig
ham City at a cost Of approximately
100000.
To assist in the development OF
southern Utah and in making Little
Zion valley accessible to tourists, the
federal government has appropriated
| $4,000 toward the construction of
highway through Mukuntuweap ma
tional monument of which Little Zion
valley is a part.
Holding certificates for discharge
under the dependent family act six
troopers of the Utah cavalry in serv-
ice on the Mexican border reported at
Fort Douglas last week to Lieut.. Eu-
gene Santschi chief mastering officer,
for formal releases.
Harry Allen, young car inspector
| for the Salt Lake Route. lost in
| thrilling race on a railway velocipede
with the Los Angeles limited train be,
tween Boulter and Lynndyl, and is
now reported in dying condition at
a Salt Lake hospital.
Young Peter Jackson, negro prize
fighter, and Il. j. Goodman, have been
released firm custody at Salt Lake, a
coroner's jury having decided that
Richard O'Donnell fell from a window
to his death, instead of being muir
dered by the two men.
Millers of Salt Lake and Utah are
facing a shortage of wheat and sharp
advances in the price of -four are pre-
dicted unless the market in Chicago
goes lower preventing the farmers
and the elevators in the intermountain
country from shipping to the east and
to seaports on the west.
A watermelon bust" was one of the
features of the Labor day celebration
held at the Hermitage in Ogden can
yon, under the auspices of the Og.
den Trades and Labor assembly.
Plans for opening far western head.
quarters at Salt Lake with Senator
Smoot in charge are now under con.
sideration by the Republican national
committee, according TO information
received at Salt Lake.
A veritable Wild man OF the hills
was taken into custody by deputies
from the sheriff's office when the
stranger was discovered by North
Ogden young men in the foothills
near that place. The man, who is be.
lieved to be insane, is about 80 years
of age and a foreigner, probably
Italian.