Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-06-16
THE UTAH BUDGET

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An Increase of from 10 to * per
cent in the salaries of the Western
Union Telegraph operators in Salt
Lake was announced last week.
Arrangements for the entertain
ment of about 225 business men from
northern Utah and southern Idaho In
Ogden on June 81 are practically com
plete.
II has been learned that the elderly
man who died of concussion OF tho
brain, after falling down stairway
at Salt Lake is Ransome Rose, car
penter from Lansing. MINI.
June was good roads day in Lo--
gan and Cache county. Hundreds OF
citizens turned out In Logan and as
sisted In grading and surfacing tho
state road leading to Logan canyon.
A new fve-passenger automobile.
owned and driven by A. G. Stratton OF
Logan, caught fire near Salt Lake and
was completely destroyed The fire
started in the tonneau from some I'M
known cause.
While cleaning pair OF gloves with
gasoline In the kitchen OF her home
in Salt Lake, hate Kraft, aged %, was
seriously burned on the face and arms
when the fumes became, ignited as n
result of friction.
Morphine, cocaine and heroin. val
ued at more than $4,000, and believed
to have been stolen from the Ogden
Wholesale Drug company, March 2e.
was recovered when officers arrested
three messengers at Salt Lake.
Word has been received OF the
death, at Bisbee, Ariz., of Oliver
Zane, for fifteen years a resident OF
Salt Lake City and prominent In min
Ing circles. Mr.. Zane was the son
Of the late Judge Charles S. Zane.
Reports of calf and colt gone mad
from the bites OF rabid coyotes reach
ed the state board OF health from
Tooele last week. The infested ami
mails have been killed. There is no
cure for animals when stricken with
aydrophobia.
Thomas McEvoy, 56 years OF age.
better known as Tom Mccoy" for
many years proprietor OF McCoy's
stables, at Salt Lake, we'll known
throughout the west as horseman,
died June 6, in Pasadena, Cal, after
long Illness.
More than 5000 channel catfish may
be expected from Kansas almost any
day for planting In Utah lake and the
Jordan river, according to letter
which was received by the state fish
and game commissioner from the Kan
sas commissioner.
The report of the state treasurer for
May shows that receipts from all
funds during the month we're $214s
476.9S, while the disbursements aggre
gated $219,940.71. Balance of cash ON
band at the end Of the month amount
ed to $1,354,5S9.2s.
Unless many enrollments can be 81
cured within the next three weeks fox
the citizens training camp at Fors
Douglas, Captain w. b. Wallace, OF
ficer in charge, will recommend that
1t be abandoned for some other city
In the intermountain region.
Six men we're killed and nine la
jured, and more than hundred pas
sengers tossed about and bruised
when a train on the Denver a. Rio
Grande left the track near the Cotton
station and crashed into freight
train standing on passing siding.
Walter Koehler, former cashier of
the Copperfeld bank, Copperfeld.
Bingham canyon, who is charged
with embezzlement OF 1881 of thu
banks funds. April "a Of this year, il
to be tned at Salt Lake. Koehler
claims he was robbed by lone high
wayman.
Miss Minnie Hatch, aged 2S, is dead
and William ii. Eastman was fatally
injured as the result OF an automobile
driven by Miss Hatrh being struck by
street car near Centerville. The
couple were returning to Miss Hatch's
home in Salt Lake and did not see the
approaching car.
Accepting a dare from a number OF
friends that he was not game to kill
himself after making several threats
to end his life, Ira Langford, 29 years
old, placed the muzzle OF a 32-caIibeT
revolver to his breast in a saloon III
Salt Lake and pulled the trigger. He
was slightly injured.
George w. Cockley, former secre'
tary, and Romulus Cortio, former
treasurer OF the Idaho Bonanza Min
ing company, will be returned to Salt
Lake City to face trial in the federal
court November 10, on the charge Ut
using the mails to defraud.
Blowing the safe OF W. II. Elmer'g
saloon in Mammoth and breaking into
the store OF the Silver City Mercantile
company at Silver City during the
night, burglars secured $1,000 in
money and negotiable checks and q
quantity Of plate and jewelry.
a little girls attempt to recover
from the street small Preparedness
day American flag which a compan-
ion had dropped led Marion Nelson,
aged 8, of Salt Lake, to be run down
by an automobile and almost instantly
killed.