Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-03-02
THE UTAH BUDGET


Salt Lake last week.
Plans for $4,000 addition to the
Moab high school are being prepared.
Ogden now has a city Jail which,
for sanitation and cleanliness, will
compare with the best in the country.
Utah will spend 100000 on build
Ing roads within the next few years
II the dill which passed the senate
under a suspension of the rules be-
comes = law.
Earnings of the Oregon Short Line
for 1916 show material increase
over those Of the year previous, &C.
cording to information obtained from
the officials of the cmpany.
Rehearsals for the annual show Of
the Ogden lodge of Elks which is to
be given at the Alhambra theatre
March s and 6, have begun. More
than sixty people will take part.
Despite spirited protest on the part
Of score OF property owners of the
Twenty-eighth street district, the city
commission at Ogden has voted to go
ahead with the work OF paving the
district.
The residents of Goshen, liberia,
Mosida, Santaquin, Spring Lake and
Payson and the farming districts in
that part of Utah county are up in
arms over the danger of an outbreak
of rabies.
l. According to Bertha M. Gray, dep
uty of the county clerks office at
Salt Lake, 104 foreigners had applied
for citizenship papers between JAM
airy and February 20. A ma ior,ty
of these are Germans.
A Provo banker has offered ehree
prizes-irst prize, $685. second prize,
$751; third prize, $10-to be compe ed
for by Provo boys between the ages
of 10 and Is years in a potato-grow-
ing contest this summer.
Senator-elect w. H. King has been
recognized by the secretary Of the
United States senate as the senator
elect from this state and will be well
coined by the secretary and the Dem
ocratic side of the senate.
Mrs. Bessie Vanderschult, who shot
and fatally wounded her husband at
| Price February IL, was given a pre-
| liminary hearing last week and was
bound over to the district court on a
charge of first degree murder with
out bail.
In order to accept position with
| Salt Lake bank, Arnold G. Giauque,
Democratic member of the state
-
nounced last week that he had with
drawn his application for reappoint-
| ment as board member.
Officials of the Salt Lake post Of
fee have received bulletins that in
the event of war moneys Of alien
| Germans, held In postal savings
banks, will be SVEN Utmost protec-
ton and that the financial rights of
aliens will be respected.
Although the sheep owners Of the
| state may lose considerable by rea-
| son Of losses to their fiocks due Is
continued stormy weather and the
| cost of feed, the increased price of
wool and sheep will compensate them
| for their losses, local sheepmen say.
| After being exiled from his home
since the fall of 1915 and suffering
untold punishment In the winds Of
northern Arizona, j. b. Sorenson, for
mer postmaster of Redmond, has re-
turned to his home, it is said, and will
face trial for incorporation of
| funds.
1t is announced that the Utah coun-
| ty farm bureaus had saved for the
| bureau members of Utah county more
than $4,000 on the big shipment Of
sixty-five head OF Hereford. Durham
and dairy stock which has just
reached Provo.
Fire destroyed the residence of
David Fisher at Clearfield. 1t origi-
mated In the kitchen after Mr.. Fisher
had gone to bed. The smoke coming
into the bedroom awoke him, and, with
the help of neighbors, he endeavored
to extinguish the conflagration. II was
too late, however.
A coyote, apparently rabid, attacked
the horse ridden by Winifred Radon,
| 15-yearold son CT Frederick T. Rad
don OF East Union, but the horse
becoming frightened, ran so fast that
1t outdistanced the coyote. The coy
ote ran into a barbedwire fence.
which ended the pursuit.
II. T. Haines, state commissioner
OF labor. immigration and statistics,
states that the advance applications
for copies OF the biennial report on
the resources of the state indicate a
d.mand for at least 10000 copies,
whereas the law provides for the Is
suance of only 1000 copies.
What is believed to be the biggest
hog ever killed at Provo was slaugh.
tered last week by the Utah County
Wholesale Meat company and sold to
the Provo Meat & Packing company.
It was two years old and had been
raise by w. ID. Roberts OF the Rob-
erts house. 1t dressed 566 ponds.
Fire originating from defective wir-
ing damaged the machinery and con-
tents of the Salt Lake planning mill, at
Salt Lake, to the extent Of $2,5e0.