Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-07-07
THE UTAH BUDGET

The state land board has announo
ed that It has 100000 available for
loans to Utah farmers on improved
farm property.
Robbers broke into the Boyd Park
! jewelry store at Salt Lake and stole
silverware. jewelry and watches val.
ued at $1,000.
orson Sahlberg, aged 20, son of the
night Waterman at the state capitol.
died June q from pistol wound be-
lieved TO have been self-inflicted with
suicidal intent.
The Utah Pharmaceutical associa.
ton concluded its sixteenth annual
convention in Logan on June 81 with
banquet at the Hotel Logan, Salt
Lake was chosen as the 1917 meeting
place.
Carbon county by Jesse ID. Jewkes,
state treasurer and 4. X. Morgan, state
road engineer, $4,000 has been appro-
priated by the state road commission
for work in that county.
Announcement is made that the 100
ton sulphuric acid plant at Garfield,
which is being constructed by the
American Smelling & Refining COM
pany, will be completed about July Is
and that 1t will be placed in operation
about August /.
The supreme court has decided that
there was not sufficient evidence for
the conviction of Richard w. Bird
well for the attempted robbery of "A
bank in Murray in 1914, and remand
ed the case to the Third district court
| for a new trial.
BY vote of 715 to 521 Murray de.
cided at the municipal election ON To-
cal option on June q to remain a dry
city The vets carried but one of the
five voting districts and this was by
majority of 81 votes, the drys carry
Ing four districts.
Officials of the United Commercial
clubs of Salt Lake county and of the
Mountain States Telephone G. Tele-
graph company have announced fin
Al settlement of the controversy over
telephone rates in the southern part
Of Salt Lake county.
Ogden is now classed by the govern
nent as one of the cities having
population over 10000 and is included
n the list of those cities of which
statistics are gathered annually by
he bureau of the census in the de-
1artment of commerce.
Because a hotel clerk had failed to
call him at 6 o'clock, John Fazzi at
lacked Louis Avondet, at ogden,
cutting him three times on the left
tide of the neck. inficting painful but
rot dangerous wounds. Fazzi escaped
md has not been arrested.
Arozio Rapole, the Italian known
rs Larry Paul, who shot and killed
Amos b. Neff, prominent sheepman.
IN the porch of his home in East
Mill Creek, was captured by Marshal
w. ID. Richardson of Park City as he
ilighted froIa freight train at that
| place.
Local option forces carried Myton
oy a majority of fourteen votes after
one of the hottest campaigns ever
waged in that part of the state. The
Try forces organized the town into dis
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house TO house canvass, taking
pledges from voters.
That they were being left without
means of support because of the call
ng of their sons to the colors as men,
oels of the national guard, was the
story told by three widowed mothers
who called on the chairman of the
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Salt Lake last week.
Field work in the survey to deter
mine the extent of tAe problem OF fec
olemindedness in Utah will commence
september l, according to ID. E. G..
dowans, one of the three members OF
The commission appointed by Gov. VIII.
liam Spry under authority OF the leg
stature to investigate this matter.
Tho Utah Association of Life I'm.
derwriters has received information
from national headquarters that so far
Utah leads all other associations in
the western division in the member
snip campaign now under way.
All sheep between Green River and
Cisco are to be dipped at once in
| '|SPohSo W al OTueT from the Utan
board of sheep commissioners This
Is to eradicate the ticks which have
become very prevalent of late.
Plans are being made at Ogden for
the celebration in 1919 to commem-
crate the fftieth anniversary OF the
driving of the last spike at Promon.
tory which completed the Central Pa
cific and Union Pacific railways.
With the announcement that the
Salt Lake Route is practically certain
to build into the Uinta basin within
the next two years, land values In
Vernal and the reservation country
have practically doubled over night.
Congressman Howell is looking for
a principal and two alternates to ap.
point TO the u. S. Naval academy at
Annapolis and requests that young
men OF high school training, between
the ages OF 16 and 20 years, apply inn