Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-08-18
THE UTAH BUDGET

Inc county auditor reports the as
sessed valuation of property in Salt
Lake county as $236,S19,414.
Aid of the clergy and of the medical
profession in making state survey
of the feeble.minded may be invoked.
Although hay and grain in Utah
have suffered as a result of recent
rains, beets and alfalfa are growing
rapidly.
Mike Potato, wanted in Salt Lake
City on charge of having obtained
money under false pretenses, is under
arrest in Denver.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Bear
River Milling company located at Hon
eyville, causing a loss estimated at be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000
The Utah boys now serving on the
border are generally enjoying excel
lent health. 1t is reported that the
sick rate is .01S per 1000.
Oats and potatoes are the only crops
in Utah that show an increase over
last year in comparison with the esti-
mate for the month of August.
Wheat -four on the local markets is ?
due for a substantial increase in price
soon, because of the fact that the
wheat acreage is not as large as last
year.
Fright caused by the belief that
the police we're chasing him, killed
John Williams Gardner. a Denver
youth, at Ogden, the boy dropping
dead from heart failure.
Under the Walsh forest reserve sec
ton of the good roads law, recently
enacted by congress, $41,009 will he
allotted annually to Utah for construc-
ton of roads in forest reserves.
The postoffice at Goldstrike, Wash
ington county, has been discontinued
for lack of business. Mail for that
point will hereafter go to Enterprise.
twenty miles distant, in the same
county.
Preparations are being made by
Fairview for the BLACK Hawk Camp
fire" to be held August 10, 16 and IT..
An entire street will be closed to
traffic and used as a camp ground for
visitors.
=. C. Paxton, field agent for the bu-
reau of crop estimates. United States
department of agriculture, says Utah's
crops will probably show a low aver
age yield. Unfavorable weather is re-
garded as the cause.
Using small piece Of broken win
dow glass as a knife, Domonic Rad
Itch, about As years of age, believed to
be Syrian, attempted suicide in the
county Jail at Ogden by slashing his
throat. 1t is believed he will recover.
A huge rock which became loosened
and rolled down the hillside struck
Louie Popadrou, a Greek, on the head
while he was at work in the Utah, Cop
per mine at Bingham, and he died an
hour later as a result of fractured
skull.
The state veterinarian gives warn
ing that dairymen carefully inspect
baled hay before feeding. He says
| that two valuable cows died last week
as the result of having swallowed bal
ing wire. The animals were owned
| by local dairy.
| WI Oulpdulco VI NOhEt ohtiAiSAJ ~
companied by band from San Fran
cisco, have arrived at Salt Lake to
take part in the maneuvers at the citi-
zens' military training camp to be
held at Fort Douglas. August Il to
September 16.
Following assurances from the
Amalgamated Sugar company that q
sugar factory would be built in Iron
county when the company was as
sured of 5000 acres or more OF beets,
a committee is out signing up pledges
for the required acreage.
THAT the National Association or
Master Bakers, in convention assem-
bled, records it's fixed belief that the
uniform and minimum price of loaf
of bread shall be 10 cents" was the
resolution adopted unanimously by the
master bakers at Salt Lake. j,
Just as they we're about to be deliv-
cred on the market, eighteen cholera
infected hogs were discovered and
condemned by the board at Salt Lake;
and an investigation has been ordered
to see II there are any more cholera
infested hogs in that section.
Authorization from the headquarters
OF the western division of the United
States army has been requested by To-
cal recruiting officers OF the national
guard for an automobile recruiting
campaign to be conducted in Wasatch.
Summit and Morgan counties.
Jimmy" Johns, Ogden pugilist, who
vas shot at Lagoon several weeks ago
by Marshal Horance Van Fleet or
Pennington, has been discharged from
the ogden hospital as recovered. Al
though he was shot four times in the
legs and body, his ultimate complete
recovery is assured.
The discovery of several cliff dwell
lings, the largest of which are not I'M
like modern apartment houses and
some OF which contained ninety-eight
rooms, is reported by Ambrose Nc
Garry, former student of the Univer-
sity of Utah, who has been invest Jat-
ing ruins of cliff jewellers in south
ern Utah.