Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-08-04
THE UTAH BUDGET

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Negotiations are pending between
eastern capitalists and local men for
he establishment of packing house
| In Salt Lake.
Eugene Hall, aged 10, was shot in
| he leg when he attempted to escape
rom policeman at Salt Lake, alter
being arrested.
After considerable agitation and
| discussion the Salt Lake barb ~cs
| have decided not to raise the price
Of haircuts and shaves.
Branch recruiting offices for the
Utah contingent of the National Guard
Of the United States have been es-
tablished at ogden and Murray.
Utah troopers on the border cele-
brated Pioneer day with a series OF
athletic events and big eats" &C
cording to telegraphic advices from
Nogales.
The Utah Products week will be
held this year from November 10 to
%, according to a decision reached by
the manufacturers association at
meeting at Salt Lake.
The frequent thunder showers oc.
curing throughout the state during
the past two weeks have caused con-
siderable improvement in the condi-
ton Of crops and ranges.
After more than a quarter OF a CEN
fury of service as director of the Salt
Lake tabernacle choir, Professor Evan
| Stephens haS rendered his resignation
to the first presidency of the Mormon
church.
Willard county is asking the high
way commissioner to spend $4,000 on
road between Delta and Lynndyl.
which will shorten the distance be-
tween Delta and Salt Lake by about
fifty miles.
William Fairborn, 35 years of age.
miner, fell out of a second-story win
dow in rooming house at Salt Lake.
while walking in his sleep, and es-
capped uninjured save for slight
wrench to his back.
John Gosman, the irate parent who,
in fit of anger, struck his laughter
when she became tagged in the load.
ing of thirteenth wagonload of
gravel, has been sentenced to thirty
days in the Salt Lake county Jail
If the country districts are to re-
ceive benefit from the Ogden City fire
| department the county commissioners
must agree to pay the city $50 for
each call answered, the Ogden com.
mission decided at recent meeting.
The maximum state levy of "A mills
was authorized at the meeting of the
state board of equalization last week
1t is divided as follows: Two mills,
state general fund; 20 mills, state
school fund and 2 of a mill, state
| high school fund.
Receipts from National Forests for
the fiscal year 1916 reached the high
water marked of approximately ST..
| $4,000, according to figures just COM
| piled at Ogden. This Is $341 900 above
the 1915 total, which in turn exceed
ed any previous year.
Fall wheat and the first crop of
| alfalfa are now mostly cut, and the
second crop of alfalfa is growing rap
idly and is in excellent condition, ex-
cept that damage by grasshoppers is
reported from sections in Juab, Mil
lard and Uintah counties.
Work will be commenced at once on
the construction Of a gigantic reser.
| voir for the use of the Sunshine
ranch, near Jensen, so that the
crops can be irrigated during the lat.
ter part of the summer when the
water in the streams run low.
Struck by lightning on his right
side, his shirt and trousers torn TO
ribbons, his glove split in several
places and large hole cut in his
shoe as If 1t were the work of a razor.
Frank Fenstermaker, OF Sandy, still
lives to tell the tale Two horses
were killed at the time.
A. Walter Koehler, cashier OF the
Copperfield State bank at Copperfleld.
charged with embezzlement, was dis.
missed in the criminal division of the
court at Salt Lake last week Koch.
Ter claims he was held up by a lone
highwayman and $4,000 OF the banks
money taken from him.
So successful is proving the CON.
bination sprinkling and road dragg 2 z
work being done by the county com
missioners and state road commits.
sion In Utah county that the commits.
sioners of Salt Lake county are con.
templating inaugurating this work In
salt Lake county at once.
Levi Young, professor OF American
history and head of the department OF
archaeology at the University of Utah.
reports the discovery in a box con-
yon in San Juan county of a pueJ.o
containing seventeen rooms and nye
khivas, or ceremonial rooms, not pra-
viously visited, so far as is known.
by white men.
Preliminary work on the Brigham
City drainage district is progressing
as rapidly as the drainage law will.
! permit.
The twenty-thlrd annual reunion
and campfire of Utah county Indian
War Veterans will be held at the
Utah lake resort, August 8, 8, 10 and
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