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

Reports from orchard districts OF
Weber county are that the recent cold
snap caused no damage. The young
beet plants also escaped injury.
John A. Sharp, widely known
throughout this section of the west as
sheepman and ranch owner, died at
his home in Salt Lake, April q.
From injuries sustained when he
was run over by rear wheel of a
wagon loaded with flour, Willard
Tribe, aged 8, of Ogden, died April 20.
1t is estimated that 1000 farmers
and their wives visited the demonstra-
lion train of the Utah Agricultural
college extension department at Muir.
ray.
An official call has been issued by
the Congressional Union for Womens
Suffrage for the conference OF voting
women to be held in Salt Lake May IL
and IL.
Tentative decision to hold the for
NAL opening of the state capitol June
s, 9 or TO- was reached at a special
meeting of the capitol commission
last week.
The Utah-Idaho Sugar company an
nounces that 1t has contracted for
$4,000 acres of beets Iii Utah and
Idaho, an increase of 10000 acres
over last year.
Louis F. Moench aged SO years, the
first principal of the Weber academy
of Ogden, and one of the men actively
engaged in the establishment of other
Mormon church schools, died April 20
at his home in Ogden.
Judge Johnson of the United States
court holds that Salt Lake county has
| the right to examine the books of the
Utah Copper company to learn the
amount of property on which taxes
should be collected.
Sending to the University of Utah
the heads of all coyotes and dogs
killed under circumstances which lead
| to the belief that they were infected
| with rabies Is urged by Dr. T. b.
Beatty, secretary of the state board
of health.
After an unsuccessful attempt to
end his life by severing the radial ar
teries in his wrists, Henry w. Pin
kerton, 50 years of age, tore open the
wounds in his wrists at the county
| hospital at Salt Lake and died from
loss of blood.
A. Walter Koehler, cashier of the
Copperfeld bank at Bingham canyon,
who claimed that he had been over
powered and bound and gagged in the
bank Monday noon by robber who
took $500, is in Jail and may, be
charged with ENLIGHTENMENT.
Emil Olsen of Hyrum was drowned
in the little Bear (or Muddy river,
which runs through that place. Olsen
owned land lying along the stream
and was working at repairing the
bank when he drove his team so nea-
the water that the bank caved in.
A. P. Brown and E. F. Shupe, ar
rested in Pocatello, Idaho, for attempt
ing to jump their bail in grand lar
ceny case, confessed upon their ar
rival in Ogden that they entered the
Kern confectionery store Tuesday
night and stole about $40 in change.
Peter Williams, aged 80, a miner
from Promontory point, took drink
out of doped bottle with a stranger
behind a bill board in Ogden and
woke up minus 500 and with his
shoes filled with tacks, placed there,
apparently, to prevent rapid running
to the police.
More than $1,500,000 is to be ex-
pended this summer by the Denver &
Rio Grande in changing grades on the
main line west of Tennessee Pass,
lettering the roadbed, building spurs
in the Utah coal fields, and purchas-
ing motive power and equipment for
the Utah grand division.
Orville Eugene Hartwell, aged "a
years, contractor and builder, known
throughout the state. died at Salt
Lake of ptomaine poisoning contract
ed two days previous and attributed
to some oysters which he ate at rest
aurant.
Virtually all of the sugar beet acre
age for the Ogden factory has been
plowed and planted. More than 10000
acres of bee.s have been contracted
for the season and approximately two
thirds of this total has already been
planted.
Frederick w. Francis, secretary,
treasurer and general manager of the
Galway, Hook & Francis company,
died at Salt Lake following an opera
ton performed April Is for acute
stomach trouble. Mr.. Francis was 81
years of age.
Forty-hve prisoners from the Utah
state prison were taken to Ogden Mon
day morning to augment the force at
the road camp three miles south OF
Ogden, making a total of sixty men
who will push the work on the con-
crete highway.
On the thirty.one national forests Of
southern Idaho, southwestern Wyo-
ming, Nevada and Utah, the range is
used by nearly $4,000 stockmen, graz
ing a total of 456,450 cattle and
horses, and 2,25735O sheep.